Jennie Garth | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

You were gonna bring Monica something.

>> Well, and you. Wow. You can be all It's

all right if it's Monica.

>> Some merch.

>> Oh, I do love merch.

>> Yeah.

>> You're a slave to merch.

>> I really am. I really am.

>> Where were you coming from?

>> Pasadena.

>> Is that where you live?

>> Yeah.

>> I like Pasadena.

>> I love Pasadena.

>> Have you gotten interested in the

history of Pasadena since moving there?

>> I mean, it there are so many historical

amazing

>> estates. states and buildings.

>> Yeah. And Houston's historical.

>> Oh, yeah. I've never been there.

>> You haven't?

>> What is wrong with you? Why are you

boycott in Houston?

>> I don't eat meat.

>> It's okay.

>> Well, but my husband really wants to go

there, so I think maybe he's got to go.

>> No,

>> it's okay. They have great salads. They

have

>> I was just thinking the sushi's great.

You wouldn't think it, but the sushi's

outrageous.

>> It's so good.

>> Houston's

right. You're giggling. It's

counterintuitive. I mean, I don't eat

sushi either, but I'm sure I can find

something.

>> You're going to find something. You're

going to love it.

>> Um I do have a How strict are you on

your um vegetarianism because I went I

go with two of my friends and one of

them is a vegetarian. We would always

get the um spinach artichoke dip. She

could have that and it's the best thing

on the planet.

>> And then one day she she came and she

said, "I think there's chicken stock in

this." And then she asked and there was

and now she can't eat it. have stock.

>> It really stinks when you find foods

that you love so much you're like,

"Wait, this has some hidden dairy in it

or something." Yeah.

>> So stock we don't mess with.

>> We draw the line.

>> I don't eat hardly anything, you guys.

>> You know, you're done. You're post

eating as

>> I'm done with it. Yeah. Like I'm over it

from it.

>> Yeah. It's too It's too much work.

>> A lot of energy.

>> I've never been a foodie. So that's I

mean helpful.

>> Are you vegetarian or vegan?

>> Vegan.

>> Oh my god. All the way. Definitely. For

how long?

>> If you're going to do something, do it.

How long have you been doing it?

>> Uh, on and off for years and years, but

um I went off of it when I had kids, so

I was eating like for them,

>> eating chicken and stuff.

>> That was Kristen's first meat. She was

pregnant and she called me. I was at the

restaurant and she said, "Order me the

bison meatloaf sandwich." I was like,

"You haven't eaten meat in 32 years."

She goes, "Delta wants a bison meatloaf

sandwich."

>> You know, you got to give them what they

want.

>> Um, I wanted chicken McNuggets.

>> Yeah. out of health or or concern for

animals?

>> Both really. Combo. Yeah. I grew up on a

farm in Illinois where my dad would kill

our pigs for the dinner table, you know.

And um I just never loved that. But I

ate pork chops because I was told to.

>> Yeah.

>> And then I just got to the place where

I'm like, nobody's telling me what to

eat anymore. So when I was off like away

from the home, I would eat like Lucky

Charms and Taco Bell constantly because

then I was just like, "Woohoo, freedom

from my mom who only let us eat healthy

things."

>> Um, and then now just as an adult, I

>> I feel like at this phase in my life, I

just want to take the best possible care

I can of myself.

>> I'm so scared of dying. So, not like I

just, you know, when you have sudden

loss around you, an unexpected out of

nowhere loss.

>> It just happened again this last week

and you you really go, "Whoa." Okay.

Priorities like I want to take the best

care of myself. I can. And I love it. I

love feeling clean and healthy and

waking up clear.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Back to Illinois.

Yeah. You're on like a 25 acre farm.

>> Yeah. And you're the youngest of seven.

>> Yes. But you're the only child of your

dad and your mom. Yeah.

>> Very Brady Bunch. Well, without and then

I was like Oliver.

>> Oh, you were Oliver. Okay.

>> He wasn't even theirs. But yeah. No. Uh

I was the only one by both my parents.

So I was the baby.

>> What was the relationship with the

siblings?

>> They loved my their new dad so much. My

father.

>> Yeah.

>> And they were very happy, you know, and

they were excited to have a little baby.

>> Okay. Good.

>> Yeah. They I was everybody's little

baby.

>> You are.

>> Mhm.

>> And what what was the like the oldest

one was what 20ome years older than you

or something?

>> Yeah.

>> And dad didn't have custody of those six

kids or did he?

>> He had his own children. He had two sons

and a daughter. And he ended up adopting

my mom's kids.

>> Oh. So your I got it. So your mom had

kids as well. It was pretty bunch.

>> Yeah. She had three girls and he had two

sons and a girl.

>> Oh wow. So, you had a mix of step. No,

they're all half. They're all half.

>> They're all half, but two different

sets. Well, this is this is some

permutation.

>> Yeah.

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to Glendale.

>> What prompted that move?

>> The weather in Illinois is really harsh,

very hard winters. Uh, and my father had

developed heart disease, cardiovascular

disease. So, they determined that that

was too hard on his heart, the cold

weather, and um,

>> you know, he liked to work outside and

it was just too much for him.

>> What did he do for a living? He was an

educator. Both my parents were teachers.

>> Okay.

>> Yes. He taught um adult education. He

actually started adult education in the

state of Illinois in the 70s. And um he

loved what he did. He loved teaching

adults who had never had the opportunity

or the privilege of learning how to

read.

>> These people like getting their GED. Is

that what that is?

>> They're people that just want to learn

how to read. Okay.

>> Wow.

>> Okay. Not even any necessary goal in

mind?

>> No, I just think to have a better life

probably.

>> Yeah. So, when you guys moved to