Shady Highlight: Are Those Your Real Eyes?

honestly had no idea what they were talking about. I I did not know that my eyes were green and that my eyes look different from anyone else's. So I literally be like, like, are they talking about the shape of my eyes? You'll not have a mirror in the house. No, we did, But I didn't know that I look different, you know what I'm saying, Like, I had no idea that because maybe because my brother has like eyes, my mom has, my grandmother has blue eyes, my cousin has

blue eyes. So maybe for me, it's like, okay, everybody got light eyes, like you know, so so for me, like light eyes, green eyes was nothing special, And I never noticed that I was different because I had green eyes and it's so and it's so funny. One day I was like, I was like, let me look in the mirror. Figure out what these people are talking about.

This is probably last year. Okay, Robin's hilarious. So I literally stood in the mirror and was like and I looked, and I was like, oh, okay, it's the color of my eye. I can't y'all. Robin Dixon is a mass Okay, I'm so dumb, y'all. I'm so dingy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so so. I'm glad you figured out. How old were you? When you figured it out? I said you had green eyes? We I mean, dingy is just for life. So um, I don't really know how old I was. I can't remember. I can't put like a number on that,

but I just remember being so confused. I feel like I probably was like a little girl, like five years old or something, you know what I mean. Like and I would just be like, thank you, Like what are you talking about? Like, no idea, Well you know, did you know when you were five? Did you did you know you had green ups? I knew that people people

cut the same thing. People come to my mom and they would they asked because I had like a dark rim around my eyes, especially at the bottom, and they would ask my mom why did she put makeup on me? And she would get mad, like, who are these white ladies talking to me about my child and thinking that I put makeup on a five year old like I did not, and that's ridiculous and why can't my child just be pretty? Right? So I knew it was something

different because it was all this discussion. But it was like my sister was always like if I have an older sister who is um, always keeps it real and was always like, yeah, you're pretty, but you had nothing to do with that. That was mommy and daddy and that was their genes and UM had nothing to do with you. So, um, you know, you need to be smart and that's what you can control, but your face and you had nothing to do with that. It's gonna even get too excited, I said, we God, damn no,

that was Mama and Papa Graves. Ship. Well, let me just stay in the bed today. Good God. Anyway, thank god I have thick skin. All right, So we're gonna take one more of what you guys asked before we wrap up. Okay, so how do your boys handle filming now that they have done it for a while and they're getting older. Good ask a good question. So I have to pay my children to go to work. Okay, okay, So okay, I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. So Robert and I had this discussion prior to us filming.

I think see this past season season six, and I was like, oh my god, the girls have given me a hard time about filming, and Robin was saying the same thing about her kids. So she was like, Giselle, I'm gonna pay them, and I was like, what, Oh my god. That's a good idea. And in that way, they'll feel a sense of ownership they have a job. Yeah. I'm literally like, all y'all, you'll have to work today. It's time to go to work. And so now like when they aren't going to work, they're like, when do

I go to work next? Because they want you pay them like an hourly rate. I pay them and this is the other thing I pay them according to the scene and how well they did my god, Robert producer, Now what I mean by like how well they like DoD they behave or where they like being difficult? Or because that's the other thing. They get in front of the camera and they act like they have no sense and they want to give me the hardest time, and they like, you know, they just they roll along the floor.

When I'm trying to have a conversation. I'm like, y'all are killing me right now. And I'm like, okay, I don't want to look crazy and where I'm like yelling at my kids and stuff, so I'm just gonna let you all just do whatever. But they'll literally be like, you know, hiding under a blanket and and I'm like, okay, like y'all cut it out. So they get paid based on you know, how long of a period of time and how well they performed. Wow, Wow, that that's okay.

So it's this like ten dollars an hour, twenty dollars an hour, So I've paid them anywhere between, like so it's per scene, right, So I paid them, I want to say, anywhere between like ten to thirty dollars. It's nice depending on like what it was, like how how much they did or like what you know what I mean. Okay, I like that. Yes, I actually told my girls, um the same thing. I was like, I'm gonna give you

guys an hourly rate. Right. So we had our first scene season six and we were done with it and I was like at the end of it, I was like, all right, guys, I'm gonna give you y'all y'all's earnings and they were like, no, Mom, it's fine, we just want like they literally would not take money. They were like, it's fine, you know, we're here for you, like they were. They shocked me, And I think it's a difference between girls and boys. They shocked me. They were just we're

just here for you, like whatever, it's fine. And I think it's also like they're teenagers, so they're probably actually enjoying like the show now, you know what I'm saying, Like now it's like, okay, we're actually a little popular. People know who we are. My kids are boys and like their friends, like they get sick of their friends because their friends. Mom was watched the show to come, you know, come telling them about themselves and showed it like oh my god. So that that really shocked me.

And because they that was so sweet at themselves and you never paid them, no, I mean, I've given them whatever they want. Of course, they get paid in other ways. Yes, all right, so this is my last one. So because this is really sweet, So Kelly says to me, I love your spirit. How do you keep it up when things get tough? Because you know, things always get tough, and my mom always told me that when that, when things get tough, make sure you wear your lipstick. They

keep your lips popping. So I always live g loss with me. As long as my lips are popping, I feel good about myself. Okay, yeah, alright, well I love that. I mean that's not my solution. I don't think, yes that it just makes you know, if your lips are popping and you feel good and and you know you got a little yellow shine on the lips, there's no way you can have a bad day. Right, That's that's

very true. And to piggyback off of that in closing, um, I want to leave you know everyone, I think we wanna we gotta start giving some motivational Yes, we do kind of messages we do, so we want to motivate people. Yes, yes, yes, so I actually shared this on my Instagram story. But I want to reiterate two traps you need to avoid because I'm very good at this. Avoid caring what they

think and avoid thinking that they care. So I feel like that's the solution to, like, Okay, when things are going wrong or when we gotta read the second one again. I was confused on the second Okay, thinking that they care. Okay, like that so avoid stops like, don't even think that

they care that they care. Okay, I got it right, because because I find a lot of times when you're like beefing with someone or like you have a you know, falling out with someone and you're sitting at home and you're like thinking about it all the time and you're mad and angry that person ain't think about you. They're going about you. They're going to live their life, they you know. So it's like you're sitting here giving them all of your energy and they over there you know,

yeah the cheesecake factory eating exactly exactly. So so yeah, so so let's let's stop caring what people think or thinking that anyone cares. And that's like I feel like that's a solution to, like when you do have issues and problems, like just you know, face some head on, like don't be embarrassed, no, you know, just go through your struggles and and do what's best for you, and don't worry about what anybody thinks. No, because guess what, it don't matter. It don't matter. We hope you enjoyed

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