ennifer Tilly is sharing new details on her past romances.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills friend opened up about a former relationship in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show, explaining that she didn't feel confident in herself while dating a particular ex-boyfriend.
“I was so insecure... I would wake up in the morning at five in the morning—and this is after being together for a couple of years,” she said. “I’d put on makeup, like all-natural makeup. I’d brush my teeth. Gargle. Then go back to bed, so he would wake up and go, ‘Look, Jennifer’s so beautiful when she wakes up. So natural. And she smells so good.’”
“I can’t even believe I did that,” she said. “I have very few years left on this Earth, and I do not want to waste it putting on makeup at five in the morning.”
While she was dating this now-ex, she was performing on Broadway in her role on stage as Crystal, the “other woman” in 2001’s The Women, and one particular scene of that show ultimately led to an awkward moment in her relationship.
“I had a scene on Broadway where I stood up in a bathtub, and I was full-frontal nude,” she told the other ‘Wives in Season 14, Episode 16 of RHOBH. “He had never seen me standing up, walking around naked before!”
Jennifer shared more details about her boyfriend's reaction during the After Show. “First of all, he said to me, ‘Are you really going to be naked?’ Because I had to stand up in the bathtub,” she told Sutton and Garcelle Beauvais in the video above. “We were doing The Women, and why do you do The Women in the 20th Century unless you actually stand up naked in the bathtub? Joan Crawford couldn’t do it. I could do it. I just wanted to shock and terrify Broadway theatergoers everywhere.”
Her boyfriend at the time was among those shocked.
“I said, very flippantly, ‘Don’t be silly. I’m going to be covered with soap suds,’” Jennifer shared. “So then he came backstage—his face was white—he goes, ‘Jennifer! When you stood up, all the soap suds slid off! Everybody could see everything!’”
Jennifer added that her pubic hair, which she grew out for the role, was visible.
“The costume designer goes, ‘Jennifer, you’ve got to do something about your pubic hair. Brazilians are so not 1930s,’” she stated before joking, “I said, ‘Don’t you have somewhere to go? I think that’s the hair department. That’s not the costume department.’”
Jennifer Tilly explains how she's grown more confident in her body over the years
Jennifer shed more light to Garcelle and Sutton on why it was such a big deal for her boyfriend to have seen her standing up naked on Broadway.
“I realized, [it was] because I was so insecure about my fabulous body,” she revealed. “I put on my sexy outfit. I turned the lights down low. I’d lie down on the bed in an attractive position. I’m like, ‘I’m ready!’ And then he would come in. I never walked around naked around him. I mean, that’s very undignified.”
Who is Jennifer Tilly dating now?
Jennifer has been with her current boyfriend, professional poker player Phil Laak, for more than two decades, and she seems to have let go of those past insecurities.
“But, you know, now I’m older,” she said. “And I’ve got all kinds of wibbly, wobbly things going on, and I’m just walking around. Phil’s like, ‘That’s the greatest outfit ever!’ I’m like, ‘Honey, you haven’t seen nothing yet, wait till I take this part off.’ He’s like looking up from his book like, ‘That’s nice, dear.’”
“And your man loves you,” Garcelle added, to which Jennifer agreed, “He loves me however I am.”
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