00:08Oh my God, I'm so nervous.
00:15Reuniting is what the people want, you know?
00:21I'm usually in my sweatpants laying on my couch with my cats on top of me.
00:27It's like an out-of-body nostalgia meets nervousness.
00:32Oh, I'm on the set all the time, honey. I'm the fabulous Takara.
00:39Oh my God, we're gonna have so much fun and we've grown so much so we get to show out.
00:47Coming through.
00:50I think you're doing pretty well.
00:52I wish you did.
00:53The same is Takara.
01:01I'm all over you.
01:03Oh, you made me so happy.
01:09I'm good.
01:10Yes, you are.
01:15Miss J, it was so great to see Miss J just because it's been so long and what he went
01:22through
01:22and what he's going through is very challenging.
01:24I mean, epitome of strength.
01:27I'm so happy.
01:28It just warmed my heart.
01:30I love Nigel.
01:31I heard his voice before I seen his face.
01:33I said, that's Nigel.
01:35And then Mrs. J just rolled up on me.
01:38I heard sassy stuff.
01:40I'm so happy.
01:44Beautiful.
01:45When I thought of the right people to shoot for this shoot, you guys were the first people
01:50on the list and they managed to get you.
01:51It wasn't easy.
01:52I had to hunt high and low.
01:54It wasn't easy.
01:54No.
01:55I was even reaching out on social media.
01:57I'm like, wait a second.
01:57It's been a minute since I spoke to these girls.
01:59Like, where are they?
02:00And you guys, you're here.
02:02So fantastic.
02:07Nigel is so great to work with.
02:09He's so easy.
02:10He's a great photographer.
02:12He shoots really quick.
02:13We've been in touch over the years, so it's like shooting with your best friend.
02:17I am so excited to shoot with them.
02:20It is so nostalgic.
02:21We've just stayed in touch for years and we've been talking about wanting to do a photo shoot
02:27together and it just never ended up working out until now.
02:30I'm so excited.
02:32It's really, really fun.
02:33It feels like no time has passed.
02:35And he doesn't look like any time has passed.
02:37He still looks the same.
02:38He looks amazing.
02:38Don't make me come in here.
02:41Don't start, Nigel.
02:42Don't start.
02:43Don't start.
02:44It's nice to be back.
02:45I love it.
02:46I love it.
02:46I feel at home.
02:47The forever muse.
02:49Yes.
02:49We haven't shot together since.
02:52Don't say.
02:52Don't tell anybody.
02:54Don't age me.
02:55How you doing?
02:55You good?
02:56I'm good.
02:56Are you excited?
02:57I'm good.
02:57I'm nervous.
02:58Of course you are.
02:59I am.
03:00You should be.
03:03Harness the nerves.
03:05Play with the nerves.
03:06I get nervous every time I go on set.
03:08I get that in my stomach.
03:10Yeah.
03:11But I love that.
03:12Yeah.
03:12Because it means I'm alive.
03:13I'm excited.
03:14I'm not jaded.
03:16I'm still here.
03:17Right?
03:18Totally.
03:19I'm a little jaded.
03:19Go somewhere.
03:20He's taking all my camera time.
03:23It's been crazy returning to reality TV after 12, 13 years.
03:29And it's been a completely different experience.
03:32Maybe more drama in different ways.
03:35I mean, we're currently filming Southern Charm.
03:38This was me three days ago.
03:40So I'm used to the cameras in my face at this point.
03:42I don't know.
03:42It's been crazy.
03:43It's been fun.
03:45Tiring.
03:53This table is my dream.
03:55Isn't she fun?
03:56This whole theme about like being the star of your own summer.
04:00All of your beauty products really are main character energy.
04:03Like the glowing skin.
04:04I love that.
04:04The color on the eye.
04:06You know, I'm a photographer.
04:07So I test everything on camera.
04:09Oh my God.
04:09This looks so great as a metallic lip too.
04:12Oh, you can put this on your lip?
04:13Oh yeah.
04:14Oh, I had no idea.
04:15It's all over face.
04:15The multi-chromes are my obsession.
04:18This is so transformative.
04:19I mean, you can look at my finger.
04:21Oh my gosh.
04:21It's crazy.
04:22It's like it has green.
04:23It has purple.
04:24Yes.
04:24Foils.
04:25I love like.
04:26Everybody looks so good with a little bit of illumination.
04:30That shine.
04:31What does it mean to be the star of the summer to me?
04:34I think just like really feeling confident and feeling good in your skin, comfortable in
04:41your own skin and beautiful and whatever that means to you.
04:45I've been saying I'm going to have a hot girl summer this year.
04:48I didn't feel good about myself last year.
04:51And so I'm feeling pretty again.
04:53I'm feeling hot.
04:54I'm feeling.
04:55Beautiful.
04:56You know, more in shape and I love my hair.
05:00My extensions are nice and soft and long.
05:03And so I think it's just feeling good and comfortable in your own skin and confident.
05:09And I'm, I'm definitely feeling that.
05:12You know, like glamour is a part of my everyday life.
05:16I spend a lot of time studying myself in the mirror as I'm aging.
05:23I'm just learning to like just fully embrace like this new structured bone woman.
05:30I think like right now, like we are being reminded just how precious life is.
05:36And I have a really good friend who's always like, this is my movie moment.
05:39And it really got me thinking about how everyone is the like main character of their own movie.
05:44And being your own star is like really just that living every day to the fullest.
05:49Just being your own movie star.
05:50Star of my summer is a lot of me time because I don't get a lot.
05:55So a lot of spas, a lot of, you know, massages, anything that is just downtime.
06:02Downtime is like the star of my summer.
06:04But I do have a full time job as well.
06:07I'm a procurement agent for interior designers.
06:11I balance the two on top of motherhood, which is so much fun.
06:15As a busy mother, all I want to do is just like relax and hang out with my family.
06:21So quiet time is very inspiring.
06:28What does it mean to be the star of your summer?
06:31It's so important to be the star of your life, honey, because you only got one life to live.
06:35And if you don't live it, who will?
06:37Every single day when I wake up, I feel so blessed.
06:40I feel so grateful.
06:41I am so thankful that I get to be me and that when people see me, they're like,
06:46Oh my God, you look like Takara, you act like Takara, you sound like Takara.
06:51And that is like the biggest compliment I could ever have.
06:55And I'm so grateful.
06:56Life is but a dream.
06:57You know, in society, so many people are always going to try to tear you down.
07:02No matter what you do, you ain't going to never be able to do anything right.
07:05If you think you look good, oh, she thinks she all that.
07:08If you don't think you look good, oh, she's low self-esteem.
07:13You need to get it together.
07:14Somebody always going to have something to say if you don't like it.
07:17So you better love it.
07:18You better love it to be the star of your life at all times.
07:32You better love it to be the star of your summer, star of your life, honey.
07:49Come on.
07:50Come on.
07:52Come on.
07:54Come on.
07:55Come on.
07:55Come on.
07:56Come on.
07:56Come on.
07:57Come on.
07:59Come on.
08:00Come on.
08:00Come on.
08:00Come on.
08:01Come on.
08:01Come on.
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