Welcome to Mouthing Off with Olivia. Hey guys, it's Olivia Cariti from the Bachelor

of the Girl with probably the biggest mouth you've ever seen. But now I'm using my huge

mouth to talk really smart things with my favorite reality stars, influencers, YouTubers,

you name it, they're gonna mouth off to. Boom! This is Mouthing Off with Olivia.

Guys, I haven't had a housewife on in a while, so this is really exciting. I have Deandra

Simmons here from Real Housewives of Dallas. Hey, I live there, how are you today?

I'm so good. I'm just so excited to chat with you. We have a lot to discuss. So let's get

to it. Before we talk about the show though, I want to learn more about you before the show,

right? Like I know your your family history is a bit complicated. Do you mind just kind of,

I don't know, trying to put that into maybe a minute or two of your history before the show?

What's career, family, anything like that? Well, my mother divorced my biological father

when I was four and then she married Glen Simmons, which is what my last name is, which

is a big part of the show this year. When I was six years old and Glen pretty much raised

me, my mother, my father, you know, had an off and on kind of good bad, you know, divorced

relationship, pair of relationship. I am graduate of my school, went to college at a women's

college called Sweet Breyer in Virginia. Very small liberal women's college. And then after

that I went to Chicago, went to Chicago, moved to New York, Los Angeles, Washington, T.C.

before coming home when I was 30, I believe 36 back to Dallas. So I left Dallas at 18 and

came back at 36. Okay. I mean, that's great. And then I had read like, obviously there's

so many people, trolls, trolls, trolls that are like, she hasn't worked today or she had

jobs like you worked in politics, you, you were legit. I've worked since I was, well, 12

or 14, whatever, you weren't really allowed to work. I was folding sweaters and express

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