The Importance of Being Peta

I'm I'm very honored right now to be speaking with you. Thank you. Oh no, I'm very excited to talk to you too. And I see I see at the bottom of your screen it says your husband's name. Could you just pronounce it for me, Chamikovsky Chamiakovsky. Yes, so that is that your name to now? Chamiakovsky legally yes, yes, but I'm on his computer today because mine was okay, well, um, I am also my grand My grandparents are from Ukraine. So yeah, so I watched you know, your husband when

he was over there. Yes, it was a time that I would love to forget about it. Was pretty bad and amongst other things like you know, struggling with infertility and stuff like that along the way as well. It was just like a culmination of terrible things happening, you know, in the last two years. But yeah, you know, we've got to be grateful that he's out of there and he's he's fine. Yeah, and and how are you doing. I'm I think that I'm doing really good right now.

I think I'm in a great place. I'm positive and hopeful and just um, it was just a little bit of a dark time to get out of, that's for sure. It was. We were really in it together, and you know, thank god, we do everything together. You know, it sounds corny and stupid, but we've got each other and that's kind of the main thing. So it does not sound corny and stupid. I am married for thirty four years and there's nothing I don't do with my husband and

vice versa. So no, it's not corny and stupid. It's the way it should be. Yeah, I mean, congrats on thirty four years. And yeah, yeah, thirty four years, three kids and a new grandchild of a week. So it's quite a quite a journey. But you know, nothing. Nothing's easy in life, as you know, you know, it's yeah, yeah, And how old is your You have a son, Yes, he's five and a half now. He just studied kindergarten

and he's happy and thriving. And this is one of the things that I've kind of come to terms with that I just have to be I have to look

around and be grateful for what I have. And again, that sounds so simple Lehman's terms, be grateful, but it's just something that I'm learning to do every morning, to wake up and look around and be be grateful, you know, because instead of more, instead of hoping for more babies, instead of hoping for a soccer team to come by, you know, it just is what it is and take

life as it comes, you know. Now, well, you've been very open about your fertility struggles and you know, your first child, did you have issues getting pregnant with him or no? He was surprised. I guess it was just, you know, we're happy and working and just living a great life. And yeah, and then the second time, which was my first miscarriage, it was the first time we tried as well, so we thought we were on top

of the world. Just you know, Oh my gosh, it's always the first time we try, you know, like, yeah, we were just thinking it was easy, and from then on it just when you know, but there's still hope. Are you still hopeful in trying or yeah? Absolutely? I mean we're always you know. I thought about completely not trying for like a good six months now, just to get my body a break. But you know, I've definitely given it a break from IVF. I've had a good

two months two months off now. Um, so I think I'm going to continue with that for like the rest of the year and then just kind of see what happens. But just sitting in a nice space of just positivity is just nice. Yeah, no, it is. It is really nice. And so so tell me, you know how it is

to be back on the show. I know you took a year off, Yeah I did, and again, amongst all the other stuff that happened, I I didn't go back to the show, which I thought was the right decision at the time, and then I realized how much I missed it. You know, dancing is you know, the passion that fuels me, It makes me happy, it makes me, um, you know, emoting all of those emotions through the dance.

It just it makes me feel good. And I realized how much I missed moving my body, especially during the ib F months, where you know, you're either bed ridden or you're on the couch, or you can't even you know, the most exercise that I could do was walking around the block. They said, so it's hard for when you're so active and when you're so physical with your body your entire life, and then you just have to sit

and wait. Um, so yeah, I was. I was really really happy to go back to the season this time. You know, it's on Disney. Plus, it's kind of refreshed, it's renewed um. And I think I made the right decision because mentally it put me in a good space too, after hearing that the IVF didn't work right, because I mean, from most people that don't have a regular walking or exercise program, I don't think they realized it's just not the physical that your body doesn't feel as good, but

it's really the mental. I mean, you know, the cobwebs. I clean the cobwebs of my brain when I moved my body, so I'm I'm sure it must have been It must have been difficult for sure. Yeah, but well, I mean I knew it was for you know, a great outcome. This is what I want to be pregnant again. But yeah, it's just like, oh my gosh, how much more sitting around? Can I can one possibly? Do? You know? It's like difficult. Well, you you've been an athlete your

whole life. I mean you were a ballerina right until you're sixteen, is that true? And and you had an injury, yes, ankle injury. I had uh, full blown ankle reconstruction at sixteen. Yeah, it was it was tough because that was what that was like my career trajectory. I was going to a prima ballerina either in Russia and Germany or London and that kind of just fell apart. So transitioned into boring dancing, found the local town hall down the road and signed

myself up and kind of never looked back. And here I'm in Los Angeles. It's it's quite strange that you were this was this was in Australia that you did this. Yeah, this is all in Australia, right you were you were born in New Zealand, but you moved to Australia and you consider yourself from Australia, and yeah, I came to Australia when I was like eighteen months old, so I

considered myself Australian. Yeah. Yeah, And you wouldn't have met your husband if you had followed that original path, right, So that's true. I mean, we met each other on Broadway in New York in one of the shows that I was doing there, and yeah, it's it's quite surreal because we were both with other people at the time, so he came in with the fiance I had a long term boyfriend, and there was just nothing like we

never that about each other at all. Um. And then it was only when we came back to l A together for the season of Dancing with Stars and I had quit that ballt um that Broadway show, that we kind of just looked at each other in a different light and thought, oh, you were both single. Then when you went to l Yeah, yeah, And was it love

at first sight? I mean, come on, your husband is so gorgeous and hot and sexy and all those things, so you know, and no, it wasn't it truly wasn't we I Mean I thought he was a good looking guy, but I feel I'm so I'm so far removed when somebody comes with somebody else, I don't even like put him in my peripheral like or anything. He's he's out, like he's not even a you know, you're not even a thought in my mind. So not well, your other your other boyfriend us have been also good looking, so

you know, yeah, he's all right. Yeah? Uh and how many years you guys married? We have been marying five years now, but we've been together for about nine years. So yeah, it's I feel like it's a long time as in, like for Hollywood, that's quite a feat, you know it is. And you work together also, right, yes, so yeah, what is what are what are the pros and what are the cons um pros? Is that we get to share our love for dance and we get

to perform. You know, if we're on a tour together, we get to live that life every night and perform in front of a live audience. There is nothing more thrilling than hearing them clap for you and letting them feel your emotion. Um cons that if you're having an argument and you have to go out and dance, you know, you've got to put that face on. You've got to get through it, or you know, you don't agree on choreography, or you don't like this step, but he wants to

do this step. You know, those sorts of things come up all the time. How soon after you guys that, did you guys get engaged? Um, well, we dated for a year and then we broke up for a year, got back together, and then it was about a year and a half of us being back together that he proposed. So yeah, I think it was a good I think it was a good timeline. Really, we kind of figured out that no, we really want to be together, and then um kind of made it happen and solidified it.

And what was your first dance and your first dance song at the wedding? That must have been like unbreaking believable. To be honest, it was quite simple and we did nothing. My dress was so big that, um, we kind of left the performance to everybody else. We didn't do that whole look at me, look at me, I'm going to rip away my dress and a short dress underneath. Now. We didn't do anything. We just stood there and swayed and our song was from Brianna. Um, I literally can't

remember what our song is right now. I will not tell him. I will not tell him. I'm sure he's not. It was an acoustic version of one of Brianna's songs like my mine. I do remember mine was Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. I don't know why I walked down the aisle to that. It was our first song. I don't know. Oh my gosh, I love that. So tell me a little bit about your self care routines.

Like a lot of people listening, you know, I talk a lot about you know different you know, issues about how to eat and how to take care of yourself. What is your philosophy and is there anything you can struggle with? Mm hmmm, Um, well, I was taught from a very young age. My mother was always were big on skincare as in when I was very little, always moisturized in my face when I went to school. I went to school with a shiny face every day with

moisturizer on it. And people would always comment and say, you know, why do you have a shiny face? And I said, Well, because my mom put moisturize around me. She's making sure my skin is not dry. And um, I really thank her for that, because I feel like my skin has held up over all the years of makeup and crazy things would have to do with you being on Broadway and stuff like that. Um, But I always think less it's more. I think having good skin

is when you look the most beautiful. Um. Seeing the skin through a light foundation is what I love the best. I hate that caked on powdered um. What do you call it? The baked looks like? Yeah, I mean each of their own. Everybody can do their own thing. But I just don't think it brings out the beauty. I think it just dulls your face down and you can't see who you are. Um. But yeah, less is more in terms of makeup and skincare, I think is just

so important. A great I cream, a great hyrolymic acid serum, love that stuff. Vitamin c um and taking care of yourself on the inside. To M. Max and I are huge on vitamins, huge on collagen, huge on peptides. We're on a big pep type program for the last eight nine years where talk about peptides because I know a

lot about college and I don't know a lot about peptides. Well, we we have been injecting ourselves with pep pipes for years, um, you know, for anti aging benefits, for other health benefits like performance benefits with dancing and stuff like that, to keep our um muscles going, to keep us from fatiguing and stuff like that. Um it triggers the pecuitary gland to release um more of the hormone that keeps you young.

And it's natural. Um It's it's nothing that can hurt you in the long run, but um it definitely has made a huge impact on my dance career. Um. You know, I'm thirty six right now, and I feel like I've come back to the show after it was four days between my phone call of you're not pregnant to being back on the show. Hey, you've got a partner. You've got to be here to rehearse for eight hours a day, blah blah blah. And I'm like, oh my gosh, can I do it? You know, getting back into the routine.

I feel like my body is so um like I've really done well with my upkeep, with the years of training and stuff like that, with the peptides that has helped me. I danced with twin year old you know last night. I'm dancing right next to twenty year old girls. Women. I feel like I keep up, I hold my own still, and I don't look like the old woman off the bunch. Thirty six is a very young woman. So let me just tell you thirty six is still very are young.

But so you don't just go into the health food store or Sephora and say, can I have some peptides? So what do you get? Where do you get them? What kind of a doctor? Um? Special doctors one that specializes in um, you know, microbiome that you know, our our doctor who has done you know, our surgeries. I had another ankle surgery, Max that's had knee surgery, tote surgeries. UM, he's also a molecular biologist, so he specializes in peptides. And so yeah, we've we've been on that road and

that train with him for many years now. And you know, I've got to say it is the fountain of youth because my husband, he literally he looks the same as when he did when he was there and he's now forty two. So, UM, I really do credit everything to peptides. No, I must, I must get this doctor's name one day. It's very I'm someone that is very interested in you know, things that make you feel better, look better without you know, doing any harm. So yes, it's without all of the

nasty stuff. It's you know, it's not engecting botox and fillers in to make you look more plump. It's just peptides. Yeah, you don't do botox or fillers or anything. I do botox, I do. I started when I was thirty four. Um, I hesitated telling people that because you know of the stigma of you know, oh you do botox because you're in Hollywood and stuff like that. But I found that with HDTV UM being on camera. I felt that by the age of thirty four, I was like, come on, Peter,

bite the bullet, do it type of thing. So I do do botox. Yeah, no fillers though, so do you. I mean it doesn't by looking at you, I can't imagine that you struggle seeing yourself on TV and you know, not liking what you see. Is that something you've experienced. I mean in terms of face and embody. Absolutely, um more, I would say more so with my the way I have looked at my body over the years. I have just tried not to criticize myself as much. Coming from

a ballet background. It was ingrained in me with how thin that I needed to be. At the age of ten, they would tell me that I put on weight. Um. I remember the day that I came back from a holiday and my teeth. My Russian ballet teacher said to me, oh, Peter, you know kind of pinched my side. And I was ten years you know, those things kind of stay with you for the rest of your life. And I didn't even remember those things until I I had moments with my body where I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm verging

on an eating disorder right now. Like I need to stop, you know, I need to stop having these thoughts. I either have body dysmorphia or you know, I'm becoming anorexic or believe me or whatever you to call it. It all stemmed from chime with stuff. And yes, I have had many moments because my weight for weights all the time, you know, because you're a human. Yeah, because you're a human. Okay, it's hard, you know when you're on the show, Like right now, I feel really good about myself, you know,

I'm I'm fit, I'm lean. Um, But as soon as the show ends, I within a month, I put on five to seven pounds, probably more to the seven pounds and it's fine, but it's like keeping keeping yourself looking nice in between the seasons of Dancing with the Stars, you know, is difficult too, because you just don't get the cardio that you get whilst you're on the show. Yeah, so what is the cardio like, what's your what are the trainings like on the show? Well, the show is

just strictly dancing. But you know, right right now, I don't need to go to the gym as much because I'm doing so much cardio and dancing and I don't want to lose any more weight. Um. But in the offseason, and I definitely have to get that gym membership, go boxing, go to pilates, you know, keep the strength training. I do everything to try to keep my weight att Yeah.

So when so, when you're doing Dancing with the Stars, how many months does it take out of the ear h It's about three and a half three and a half months solidly, no days off. It's full on the rest of your besides your son. I know you have a little makeup line or a start of a makeup line, so yeah, beauty brand, So tell me about that. So I wanted to create a tanning line that um was good for the stage and also good for everyday life because as you know, like you've seen the orange people

walk outside really bad. UM. And I could never find something on the market that looks amazing on the stage that didn't look horrible and like an umpa lumper on you know. Three. So I created my own, which they're there brown, they don't go orange, they drive super um. This is the three tanning mooses, the light medium of the dark. They go on with my my mit. It's like a velveting mit and it has like a plastic inside so it doesn't go through your hands, and it

honestly makes it streak free. It's so easy, it's you can't score for it, you can't go. And then we have the tanning mist and that is like a professional grade tanning nozzle. It's honestly like you're at the spray tanning booth, um and you can. I love this for the face because I think it's better than using the mooses for the face. Yeah, but you don't just spray it on your face. Yeah, yeah, spray to close your eyes. How do you do that? Yeah? Your roll your lips

in Yeah, and then just do that all over. Yeah, and then don't you have to blend it in? No? No, I mean if you've held it too long in one spot. Yeah, but I mean you've got to keep it moving around and down your neck area. And it looks so natural. And then we did an extended met for the back, so you know, there were so many people that couldn't get their back and they're like Peter making that. So

where do you sell it? We sell it online in selected beauty stores, spas retailers America and in Canada right now, so h and how how big is your team? Um? Well, we're restructuring right now, so um, it's it's about five to seven people west. But yeah, we're just about to make like a move with partnerships and stuff like that. So yeah, it's interesting. It's going to be cool. Oh cool. I would love to check it out to find to find self tanners that aren't orange would be a game changer.

Oh yeah, I'll send you some. Just let me know where to send. I will and I'll send you some Jones Road because I don't know if you've tried. I have not, yea, So I will send you you know, the some of the Jones Road and UM, you know, I'm happy to help if there's any any advice since this is my second my second beauty yes please, I mean you're the mogul like when I you know, I obviously know who you are. Um, and I love that tape of your products. But I couldn't believe I was

doing a podcast with you. I'm like, I'm doing it

with Bobby Brown, the makeup artists I said. I was like, yes, I've had I've had a lot of different like you know pieces, and right now, I think what I find so interesting and why this podcast really resonates with me is because like, for example, you're a dancer, you're you're on the show, but now you're a beauty entrepreneur and you know, you're a spokesperson for you know whatever, And so I just find that right now, you're allowed to be many different things and you don't have to just

fit into a hole. So, you know, I think it's it's neat man, And I think it's amazing for people out there to realize there's nothing you can't do, no matter what your age or what your ability is. If there's only one way to do it, which is just to try it. Absolutely, I fully agree, and I wish I had done this sooner and listen to my gut. That's like my number one piece of advice is that I was I was nervous. I was scared to have

my own line, and I don't know why. I was just you know, doubting myself, you know, in my younger years, thinking oh, how am I going to do that? Nobody's gonna want to do that with me? You know who am I? And then when I kind of bit the bullet and I thought, no, I actually know what I'm doing with tenny of us have done them for so long. I've used everything on the market, so I should know

a thing too. And when I finally started to believe that, then like I made my vision look, which is like amazing. You know, that's what you got to do to get and you've got to, you know, many times, shift and shake the tree and get rid of you know, some people and add more people and you know, figure it out. I mean it's you're you're never exactly where you should where you have to be, if that makes any sense.

Mm hmm. That's a good point. Yeah, Yeah, it's always evolving. Yeah, you are, you are and you know, I think it's really neat. So for everyone listening here today. If I always like to ask my guests, if there's one piece of advice that you could give people that are listening that they say, okay, that could change the course of my life, for the course of my day, what would

you tell them? Well, just a sort of piggy back off what I just said, UM, I would say to block out the noise, to listen to yourself more than other people around you, because other people will absolutely try to interject their opinions above yours and try to sway you from your track. If you know what you want to do, if you have a clear vision for for your for your business, UM, I say, just go with it, just run with it. Because I had a clear vision in the beginning and I didn't run with it, and

I should have. This would have been out ten years ago if I had done that, And I truly believe that if I had believed in myself a little bit more and thought that no, I can do this, um, you know, I would have been way further along than I am right now. All right, awesome, And do you do you have ideas for other products? Yeah? You know, I think the makeup industry right now is super saturated with celebrity brands coming out, so I I would love to all be into it, just just a little bit,

just to like finish off the line. I would love to have a bronzer that would match the tan, so they could bronze up the face a little bit more. And then like a line of nude lip glosses and lipsticks. That would be my goal, just to like finish that off, to have the whole complete body done. Um, and then bodycare you know, exfoliators, tan extenders, body wash that would accompany the tan. Well, um, those types of things will come next hopefully yeah, no, not hopefully. I see it.

I see it. Well. I just have to say it was really a pleasure speaking to you. You're you're awesome, and yeah, yeah, I wish you were a lot of lock and everything. And We'll have our people exchange our addresses and I'd love to I'll let you know what I think and vice versa. I would love that. Thank you so much for your time now my pleasure. Thank you, Okay, bye, Hi, thanks for listening. Follow us on social apt The Important Things podcast on Instagram, and just Bobby brown on TikTok.

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