Marie Osmond

welcome to season two of Hyper Caroline Hobby Podcast. Oh my gosh, I cannot believe we're on season two. Thank you so much for loving this podcast, for tuning in each week, for growing it. It has been such a blast in y'all. This season is already often epic start. My first guest is Marie Osmond, the Marie Osmond of Donnie and Marie, the Marie Osmond who had her first hit Paper Roses at h thirdeen. Her career is insane. We talked all about it. We talked about her show

in Vegas with her brother Donnie. We talked about her books that she's written. How she has remarried her first husband almost thirty years later. In two thousand eleven, they remarried and she's she wore the same wedding dress. This interview is incredible and so much fun. She's the most personal person I've ever met. Makes you feel like I've been friends forever and she's a superstar, but she's just talking to you like she's a regular person. It's unbelievable.

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you are You're really cute. You're making me very excited, say next to you, and I'm so excited for your husband and his success and everything. And and I got to record one of her songs and it's just so cool. Girl. I'm the one that is like flabbergassid that this even happened. Oh no, the song is phenomenal. Jason, Jason Darry your producer way, Taylor Lynn. Yeah, we were writing and then that song made its way to you and your story. If it's perfectly it's your single. So it's our new single.

But how what what made you come up with that idea? You know, I think I have to give the full credit to Jason. Really, Jason Dear is one of the most talented songwriters. He's in this room right over there. Yeah he's hiding, he's hiding. But we were writing for our band at the time, and I think he had the idea and it fit perfectly with our lives because we were all kind of in love. Well, it fit perfectly with my life. Your story brought it to a

whole another level. Isn't that crazy? So talk about crazy, baby, you're crazy. After twenty five years of never seeing my first husband never, I mean that happened. Well, you know, your kid gets to a certain age and they set up their own visitation and everything else, and it was just we never saw I never saw him. You are married like three years and I was married to my second husband for twenty years and I know, and so, uh boy, you know that's there's a song right there

to be right now. I'm kidding, truly, your life is incredible. But after twenty five years of not seeing him, we ran into each other where and in Vegas just random. Well, I was moving in the house. He was with my oldest son, our our child together and I needed some things lifted and I said, Stephen, can you come over? And he says, well, dad's with me. So he came over helped, and we uh we said, well, let's just go catch up. It's been a long time, so you

haven't seen each other in twenty five years. No, you never like thought about reconciling or anything now And I had pretty much decided I was never getting married again, right yeah, And it was just led to dinner and another dinner and boom, I married him. Again no, not quite that fast. So how is the first marriage wedding dress? I know, well, I mean your body is banging, no

obviously up in that second. But I wore that dress for the point and you looked amazing, in incredible, but it was it was just one of those crazy That's another weird story is I had designed a wedding dress us in five days before the wedding. The lady had a meltdown and the dress showed up in like three

something pieces and I had no dress. And you know, when you're married twenty years to someone and you've moved, you know what you have, right, you know the boxes, whatever you start and I do all that, so I knew everything. That dress was nowhere in my house. I had never seen that dress for twenty five years. And when I was kind of in in tear mode five and I'm like, God, really, I can't do this. And I had to go to work at the filmy that night. I walked out and there was a box leaning against

my car door and it was my wedding dress. And nobody knows where that thing came from. It was well, I think it was my mother on the other side, because she really liked him. She did. She did so Compare the first time he married him to the second time, it was so incredible. We were surrounded by just family and very very few friends, and and it was so sweet because it was like, I'm home. He never remarried. He was in loving you the whole time married. Well, I told him I'm a hard habit to break. I

could see that. I could totally say that we're hard to let you go. But it was. It was the most wonderful God's miracles. You know. That's why if you think I'll ever walk away, you're crazy. You're You're absolutely crazy. And I love the beginning where you know, I hated meeting this and I don't want to admit that. Okay, fine, I will, but it's just a great song and it's perfect for your story. So that's that country radio right now. Yeah,

and that's your single. This is the first so in the past five years, this is your first album in the past twenty years. This is the first You've only done two albums, so this is kind of thing I've done more than that, but but it's been a while since since like meet me in Montana, Okay, I no stopping your heart read my lips. You're still new to me those hits, because I mean, I've had wonderful success.

I mean I was twelve when I had my first time never read, and then I had hits with my brother, and then I had other hits through the years, and I just thought, well, you know, when we got a CMA Duo of the Year with Montana, I thought, okay, thank you. God has been really good. Really had no intention of recording again, and then Jason came saw the show and he said, your voice sounds radio and I was like, nah, no, really, you know that is so weird.

And we start talking. I said I have been feeling this feeling to record again, and I was like no, and and things anyway just started falling into place, and I just I fell in love with him and the passion that he had, and I thought, man, I haven't seen that kind of passion in a while. And so we went in the studio and then it debuted ten on bill Billboard, which was crazy, and and then Blake Shelton said it was his favorite download on iTunes and I was like, shut up, not bad for twenty nine. Yeah,

and so but that's that's what amazing about music. Is that why you titled a music is medicine. Well, it has been through my entire life. You know. Other people got high on other things, right, and I got high in music. And I have a weird voice. I sing many different styles of music. And you know I went to Broadway and you were in two you started two

Broadway shows. The well what you have done is insane. Well, uh, you know, Rogers and Hammerstein came to me to do Maria and they said, well, you can't sing it the way you say sound of music. Yeah, you can't sing it like you. So he hooked me up with this lady who taught Mary Martin and all these people, and I learned to sing uh legit soprano. And then they took it in a notch up there and I did a legit soprano with a British accent. And I had

three weeks to learn how to do that. And then from there, the lady who taught me, she goes, you know you can sing opera. So in the show in Vegas, now I singing NESSU norma And are you kidding me? Oh no, it's really fun. Do been blasting your Vegas show? I you know it's It's fun because it's a little bit of everything. It's kind of like variety comes back to Vegas a little bit. But it's just but my love, my passion, what I would like to leave on an album.

I'm country, yes, And it's like I said, I was country. I'm in a little bit country and I was country before. You've always a little made it cool. You've always been a little bit country always. So your family was the Osmond's. It started with the Osmond's, and that was your mother, Tito brother's band, Jermaine, Tito, Marlin, Michael, and there was

OsmAnd get it, but it was what's the Jackson? Now, there's so many I really remember young you have so you have nine sidlings though in years and nine eight brothers, the only girl. And I'm giving you a guess. I know a lot of your family. I just don't know all their names. It's that was funny, Okay, it really was funny. It wasn't like Michael in there just kidding, okay, Okay, yeah, a thriller. It wasn't that a big one for he played football with Michael and Janet and all those guys

in hotels and that's crazy. Well, I mean what other families were there. You know, Michael was was an interesting kid and German. I mean I d up together. Oh yeah, and uh, it's funny because their father used to make them sit and watch my brothers and Andy Williams and and they followed all their moves and everything else and dancing. So yeah, we have a long history together. So the mothers have the same birthday of our that's ironic. That's a good day. Your mothers are important. Your mother is

an important part of your life. You wrote your third book kind of based on your mom. Like it really, I didn't even know. I'm bested. Yeah, like it like it's all about of and what she taught you. Well that it is true. You know, we are in a society that is so competitive and wanting to be seen and to you know, it's so important. And she's like, you know, really the key to life is love. I agree. You got to love yourself. Yes, you've got to love others. You know, you have to know who you are at

the core of what your existence is. And as you get older too, boy, if you don't love yourself, agings rough. But if you like who you are, it's kind of a really neat experience. How did you get to that place? I don't know. I'm twenty nine. I know you're super young. You're ahead of the game here. How how have you figured out how to fully love yourself? Because you radiate love and you radiate authenticity, do you know? I think it's one of the hardest things that we have to do.

And I think the first thing is to not not compete with each other. It's better to complete each other and to you know, to really support this experience of life that we're going through, especially as women, and and and try to understand somebody else's shoes and what they're in, and and to really be compassionate. But I think the world tries to get us to remove that and to try to make us men. You know, I have eight brothers.

I don't want to be a guy. I love being a woman and and I like I like the respect that my brothers always gave me. They did, yeah, they always treated me as an equal, but but it was but I was I was treated nicely. Like my mother or my father would kill them. How did your mother and your father keep hold of all of your siblings and when you are taking off and all becoming superstars? Pretty much. How did that? How is your childhood? Bizarre? Bizarre, bizarre? You know, I it wasn't to me. It was a

lot of pressure. I mean just the Donnie and Richos as fourteen when we started those, and I had to memorize like three fifty pages of script in two and a half days. And so and that was you know, dan answer tins and sketches and costume fittings and everything, and and I went and I was going to school at the same time, and so it was you know, some day Sundays, eighteen hour days a lot of the time, and it was it was very overwhelming, and I knew

I was giving up a childhood. But at the same time, I knew that I was working with, you know, all these iconic people, and you know, from Fred Astaire to uh Bob Hope, who was like a second father to me. Oh yeah, I mean I did his I did many shows with him, but he asked me to do his last USO tour over to Saudi Arabia. It was really just awesome, incredible experience. And you know, from John Wayne to ethel Mermon to you know, all these people. And so I always was brought back from by my parents

to say, counter blessings. You're having experiences. Maybe you're not having these kinds of experiences, but you're having these kinds. So just love the life God gave you and work hard. Don't ever get caught up in it because it's a job and God doesn't care what we do. He doesn't care. There's no difference in what we all do here. It's just He cares how we do it, if we have passion for it, and if we love those people along the way that we work with. But you walk that

walk to you don't just talk. Even when you walked in this room. You are a superstar, even a seperstar since you're years old. But you walk in here and you make everyone feel like you're just like their friends. You know. I flew in here last night late, and I was like, wow, I feel so blessed honestly to be especially a female in this business who has been around for five decades and but you're only twenty nine. I know, amazing. I was a fetus when I started,

but um, just just to enjoy it at this point. Really, I feel so blessed and and uh lucky that people are still wanting to see our shows and that we're able to do the things and to do things I love to do. I really do. And it's not like a rig or a schedule in Vegas because I only worked twenty six weeks, I think it is a year. But you know, I do the Neutral System things and all that other and it's just, you know, I stayed

very busy. I'm one of the founders of Children's Miracle Network, so I do a lot of things to help the kids, and we help about eleven million kids a year, so they're just I just and then I get to record again and here we are talking about it, and I've seen one of your songs, so see, God is amazing. I've almost ordered Neutral System, like you don't need five times based on your commercial though, because you look so fantastic. I'm not to tell you. Okay, So you know music

is medicine. If you have you seen the video. Okay, So I go into these children's hospitals and they don't even know I've seen, you know, these these you know, six and five and eight year olds, and I went, okay, this is we've got to do something. They and so they just think I'm this Neutral System chick, right, did they know what it is. So I did Music is medicine, and I did it in a children's hospital. And I'm an alien because I didn't want to be. You're dancing too,

which is incredible. We do that. We dance in the show too. It's really fun. But I love it so fun because now they know me as the alien. I'm I'm the alien chick. That music is awesome and it's spreading love and music and healing. Yeah, and the kids are precious, and um, it's unique. John is John is one of the founders of Children's Miracle Network with me, and he'll be here tomorrow at the Opry. And you know we dated what I dated John, Yeah, back in the day and it was going really well and we

were getting serious. And what happened when he was sending flowers to Donnie, he was just using Johnny. That's where that was the golden ticket right there the whole time. It's just a user rude. Oh my gosh, kill didn't iye it and say it was for tom But no, it's so bad. I love you. Gonna call me out? That's amazing. Are you excited about the Opery? I am so excited. It's just going to be played before, not

on this stage. You've never played on this stage, on this stage, so this is a bit okay for you, Marie Osmond. It would be hard to do something that you haven't done yet, because you literally accomplished pretty much every career goal that anyone could dream of. Seriously, is there anything left on the bucket list? Is this a bucket list item? Oh? This is definitely Are you kidding? Loving country music because I mean pop music wasn't was a definite easy direction for me to go because of

my family and the connections. But I chose country. You know. I loved Loretta, I loved I loved her. She was my hero, and I made that choice to come here, and Sunny James believed in me and and opted to take me and record. You know, back then it was all live sixties something plus people. Jordan ears right here singing live you know, and I'm like, shut up. They stay with ohs and and I stood there as this

twelve year old girl fulfilling this incredible dream. And now to go onto this stage with all that history, and I know they have even parts of the original that I did. Yeah, I was on the original, But to be there at this and the history and and to still be singing and to have an album that's doing radio is playing even though I'm twenty nine. Uh, it's really it really is very humbling and and one of those experiences. I mean, I don't know how much longer I'll do what I do. You have to know your

fans would die. If they would, they wouldn't know me. They just know me as the neutral system lady. But I love I love this experience, and um just it's just gonna be really fun tomorrow. If you had to pinpoint three highlights from your career, is it even possible to say, like, these are moments that have marked time for me or your life in general. Because you have the children. I was in a beautiful love story with her husband. Know I have had you know, highs and lows.

I mean, and that was one of your books you wrote about. Why did you feel the need to express that to get that out? Well, the first book I wrote was on postpartum depression, much appreciated with many women. Well, it had never been talked about, I think, I really yeah, I was the first celebrity to talk about it. And you just felt called to be authentic and expressed that I felt it was such a lonely feeling and depression.

I don't know, I don't I don't care who you are, but that loneliness and that lonely feeling depression is depression no matter how you get it. And nobody was talking about it, and so I really wanted to well, yes, actually yeah, And was that a time when people are trying to act like everything was perfect. Well, I was doing a talk show at the time, and I didn't know what was wrong with me, and uh, And there are a lot of interesting things in the back of

the book. There's like fourteen or so signals that if these things are going on in your life, you probably are going to get postpartum depression. I think I had all but one. What are some of them? A life, brand, new move, a new child, you know, a new job, blah blah blah. It just goes on and on and on. But I was doing a signing in New York after I wrote that book, and this couple a lot of beautiful stories. But this couple came up to me and she was crying and she said, thank you for making

people aware that these people that struggle, it's real. And I said, we are very kind. She goes, No, I wish you would have written this a year ago because I would still have my daughter. And it was one of those things that it's real and depression is dark, and I had a son who struggled from it and I told him, I said, baby, if I had never gone through postpartum, I don't think I ever would have understood what he lived continually in um. He passed away.

But it's it's something that I have great empathy for people. That's where I get into that place that we should judge, we should know, we we need understanding and compassion. Love is the key. It is the key. It's what heals the world. Well, thank you for sharing those books with the world and your music. Okay, so I have a few fine question. Okay, if you were going to be dog to a celebrity, hey, would you pick and whine

a dog a pet dog to celebrity? You know, just the lap dog that gets like loved on all the time headed around which celebrity. But I love dogs like big dogs. You mean I have to pick a celebrity owner, a celebrity owner, an owner? Yeah, I think you were gonna be the dog to celebrity Which dog would you want to belong to? Who would you want your owner to be? Blake Se He's so cute. He is so cute. Paisley is kind of cute too. Okay, do you like those country boys? I do. I am a little bit country.

Hugh Jackman's cute too. I know. Here is he's my celebrity dead is his wife is darling? Oh? Hugh? Yeah? And oh I know he came to the show a few times. He did. Did you make him take a shirt off? Well? No, but I didn't agree with him? And he is pretty cute. Yeah, he's pretty I like to I think I'll say, Hugh Jackman, and I'll be a wolf. I'll join you in the wolf pack. So, after all of your life, all of your career, what is some inspiration you can leave us, like leave your light?

How would you like to inspire people with your entire beautiful life and career and family? I know, can you sum it up? What is some inspiration that you want your message to be for people? Two? I know fear is a tough thing. Um. I think because I started so young and I was just told, Okay, this week you're going to do that, and this week you're going to do that this week. You're going to do that? Do you were? Like you started off just in it, Oh, absolutely big time, And I just didn't have time to

fear it, and I just did it. And I think that's the biggest thing if you can conquer that fear and just get out there and start and and work work hard, because you're not going to accomplish anything unless you work hard. And that's the I think the greatest gift I got was I was taught that by Milton Borrow. I was taught that by uh, you know all these incredible lucial ball Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. She taught me lighting and work ethic and comedic timing and you know,

brilliant boy, that's it. She was tough. She was, oh yeah, very very smart. How awesome to have her as a teacher. But just you know, learn, learn, but and then and then to step back, once you work really hard to be prepared, then step away and enjoy and that that would be and to remember that you meet the same people going up as you do going down that and to just love everybody along the way. And you know, my dad, you'd always see him out with the truck driver,

the bus driver. You'd always see him with the catering people. He loved all people. And as a little girl, that was so cool to watch because everybody has a story and everybody makes it all work. Everyone's valuable everybody, and it's not just about you. It's everybody has to hope, you know, pay their dues. Every You need everybody to make it work. You can't have a few, you know, it's got to be everybody. Can I call you Saint Marie? Did you say Satan Marie? St? St Marie? You're an

angel on her? No, I'm not really hard, but I feel like I've been very blessed and I have kind of a unique perspective that you fought for your blessings too. It's a choice you've made. Yeah, it hasn't always been easy, but um, and follow this. That's real important. It's like I was talking to a little Gallia other day shows I really want to sing, and I said, why why do you want to sing? Is it you know, to

be a store or whatever? She does? Because I feel it here and I went, okay, Dan, you're ready to sing because you've got to follow this, even this album. If I hadn't followed this, I wouldn't be here right now, so have the courage to follow. Even if you fail, there's no failure. The only failure is by not doing it. Yeah, I love it. Marie Osmond, You're the best. No, You're so sweet, you are you are so cute. Thank you

so much for joining you cute. I love you, I love you care she's thank you all so much for tuning into my very first episode of season two. I hope you love hearing from Marie Osmond. She's incredible. Next week, I have Tye Hernon. I love ty hern And. He's one of my favorite singers of all times. He has an incredible voice. He's sold over five million albums. His debut single, What Mattered Most is still one of my favorite songs to date. New album out called House on Fire.

He co wrote tons of the songs. It's the most personal album. He also talks about what it's like coming out as a gay man and country music. It's a big deal and this interview is so personal and heartfelt. I cannot wait for you to hear it, So tune in next week. Ty Herndon too joining me and please subscribe on iTunes and like it and leave comments. You guys are the best bike