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our next guest is a world-famous
burlesque dancer and a beauty icon she's
got a brand new book it's called your
beauty mark the ultimate guide to
eccentric glam whore please welcome back
to our show
the fabulous Dita Von Teese
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you know I love a present I and from a
glamorous icon like you I could only
imagine that it's going to be too small
for me
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Saturday will be here before you know it
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beautiful oh my gosh good karva booty in
the back oh yes I love that and this
super sheer yes all right wait hold on
one there's my leg what else wait Dida
so I take it you have a new lingerie
line I sign in my book in the lingerie
depart so you'll be in the lingerie
department where your stuff is available
yes why is my mouth watering already
this is all way too generous thank you
oh do you wear garter belts happy
birthday I wear stuff I do stuff and
then here it's tough and then I wonder
why what stuff Xena you were so
glamorous your I mean this is our you
know umpteenth time having conversation
so we all know this I'll just clear it
up for you she is not from Europe or
someplace far off she's from the Midwest
yeah I should get in Caracas again small
farming town in Michigan and you've
always had the desire to be this woman
that you've made yourself into which is
a blonde from their little small town
and I always wanted to be like my icons
of glamour from the 40s and 50s my
mother loved to watch old movies so I
became obsessed with that like
Technicolor red lipstick and just
glamour in general like the art of
creation yeah instead of what you're
born with you know so I was reading an
article on you the other day and you
were saying in the article that you only
use the smallest rollers to roll your
hair so it stays tight I have super
straight hair yeah really straight and
really blond yeah it's good do you do
you ever have a down day like where you
put on sweatpants and Uggs and go to the
grocery store no I mean I like to be
comfortable
I don't like Trotter on high heels and
like we're like you know figure
eyelashes every day
but I love like loungewear I have a
loungewear collection to save lots of
like long robes and thing I heard do you
like to be glamorous I am the wrong
woman oh yes sweatpants
I own two pairs I barely wear them so
many things to put on first of all I
think like put on a robe tie it you're
good to go robes are so good negligees
yes do you ever put on flats and and
yeah I love to wear like my my fairly
casual uniform is like a 50s dress with
the ballet flats or capri pants and a
slim fit t-shirt and little ballet flats
like simple you know it is simple it
really is now I saw a picture of you in
the woods and clearly you don't have
hiking attire you and I have something
in common in our opinions and we've
talked about this before on the show I
don't feel like sleeping with a guy on a
first date is the deal-breaker yeah I
don't I don't think it makes you
I think it makes you know what you're
looking to know what you're getting into
I don't want to be like courted and
wooed for weeks and weeks and then find
out like whoa
you know I want to know what I'm working
with I'm not done for sorry I'm a little
bit of a size too but
you know if there's chemistry yes but
like you want to know what you're
dealing and if you're dealing with the
mature kind of guy he's not looking at
you like you're you know some he's
looking at you like okay you're a woman
you make your decisions what does your
family say about your whole teeth my um
well I mean I started creating burlesque
shows and posing for pinups and like you
know fetish photos in the early 90s so
it wasn't always easy to explain what I
was doing cuz I was like oh I'm gonna be
the bottom Bettie Page but it wasn't
always easy to like people are like
who's that it wasn't always easy to
describe what I was trying to do but you
know after all this time I think now I'm
here and I'm validated yeah in my mind I
always picture women like you to be
dating and in love with a count you know
you said that last time
listen I didn't account once actually
yes a long time and he was much older
than you know he was younger than me was
the problem yeah like type of years
younger Oh
had a little thing for a little while I
was like well you're 40
yeah I'm 43 I don't picture a young man
especially 12 years younger being able
to deal with this for more than one
night like you you're like a lot of
maintenance no I'm high maintenance for
me right but maybe not for other people
I don't think I mean but it's a lot to
deal with like what I you know showbiz
yeah it's a lot to deal with when you're
running your business and you're you
know you know how it is it's it's not
always easy to deal with women like us
but we have to find strong men to be
around yeah experience
so you are not without a suitor now tell
us about him about that I have a nice
non showbiz boyfriend who's very like oh
you found a picture oh my gosh so
unexpected I mean he's really cute but
he's young
no he's the same age as me we're the
same age I can't how does he deal with
the Von Teese you know well I mean he
has like the best and the worst of both
have they're sweet from Michigan and
Dita Von Teese it's like the best and
worst of both you know he could deal
with this do you want to get married and
have children one day or I mean I don't
know I mean that Sandra Bullock story I
was like maybe that's yeah I got time
let's look congratulations on your new
coffee table book it's really nice and I
perused it while I was getting my hair
and makeup done tell everybody what the
book is about
it's a beauty book I do my own glam I
don't have a glam squad or team of hair
and makeup people so I wanted to do a
beauty book that kind of is about the
creation of glamour because I love
glamour because it's not about what
you're born with it's not about your age
it's not about your ethnicity it's
really about creating mystique and I
love hair and makeup and drama so the
book is as a beauty book that's an
antidote to conventional beauty books
you know it's not about the rules of
beauty it's about breaking the rules so
it's very it's my story it's um you know
a lot of I talk to a lot of other people
that I really admire that have unique
stories about their their you know it's
their eccentric beauty's eccentric
people eccentric thank you for all this
deliciousness right here Peter Von Teese
everyone Xena will be launching her new
lingerie collection and signing copies
of her book tonight at Bloomingdale's
here in New York City
audience is going home with a copy of
this glamorous book
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