On drinking:  “I stopped drinking on December 1st. It has not been easy…On November 29th, I was with my son, who is now 13, and I said to him, ‘Park, can you get me a beer?’ And he said, ‘No I don’t want to.’ And I said, ‘Really why not?’ And he says, ‘Because you know what, I think you drink too much beer…Lately I think it’s too much.’ I said, ‘You know when I was a kid, when I was 22, I stopped drinking for like eight years.’  He goes, ‘Well maybe you should do that again.’ I go, ‘Well honey what happens if I can’t do that?’ He say, ‘There’s a drunk club, I forget what it’s called, but you have to like be really drunk to get in, I don’t know if they’d let you in, but you could ask them for tips.’”

On Madonna: “Madonna. She’s the most famous person period, I think. She’s just moved back to New York with her kids so that’s great. So well get to be able to hang out more. We have kids the same age.”

“I had just seen “Truth or Dare” and she was the first woman that I met who had a similar situation to me. My mom died when I was a kid as did hers and I’m named after my mom as is she and I don’t know anyone else who has gone to their mothers grave and seen their own name.”

“She’s [Madonna] great, she’s a lot like a big sister. When I started having my hormone things, I’m like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ send, she’s like, ‘Get the cream’ send.”

On menopause:  “Well let me tell you one thing Tyra, I am about to be 47 next month and Aunt Flow has not shown up for nine months.  The worst thing is I am like ending that whole cycle and my daughter who is 11, is beginning the cycle. So the two hormones in the house, it’s a lot going on.”

“It started for me at 41…I would be in the bed and I would wake up and the sheets would be soaking wet, not damp, soaking wet… I thought, ‘Oh Vivi crawled in here last night and maybe she wet.’ So I would throw the covers off and turn to look and there’s no Vivi, it’s just Kelli and then I’m like, ‘Kelli is incontinent!’ And then I realized, no it’s me.”

“I would literally stand naked in the winter on my balcony in December in the middle of the night just to get cool.”

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