Kelsey Anderson: Carving Her Own Path
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Tay returns for another girl-talk episode, this time featuring Kelsey Anderson! Kelsey opens up about her upbringing and shares her journey of losing her mom to breast cancer, including the tools that have helped her navigate grief and how her mom’s passing reshaped her perspective on life. She delves into the challenges of transitioning from The Bachelor to life in the public eye, revealing how she and fiancé Joey Graziadei support each other through all of the ups and downs. Kelsey also talks about her close friendship with fellow contestant Daisy Kent, her approach to rising above comparisons, and how she’s building her own identity beyond the show. Wrapping up, Kelsey reflects on her experiences during Joey’s Dancing with the Stars journey, her most surreal “pinch me” moment, and the accomplishments she’s most proud of this year!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Whenever Joey and I are talking about, like, the wedding or, like, things like that, it makes me sad to know that, like, she's... |
| 0:12.0 | Take her time, make it. |
| 0:13.8 | My mom was just, like, the kindest person. |
| 0:16.1 | She took anybody in. |
| 0:17.5 | We had foster kids growing up. |
| 0:19.0 | My mom just had the biggest heart and always took care of everyone around her. |
| 0:21.6 | When was she diagnosed? |
| 0:23.6 | She had like radiation like pills that she would take, but she was having to take like morphine every day. |
| 0:28.6 | Like her bones were breaking in her sleep. |
| 0:30.6 | And she like, after a month, she had a stroke. |
| 0:35.6 | She didn't really know who anyone was and she was really scared. |
| 0:38.5 | Or like my dad would try and like bathe her or something and she was like terrified. |
| 0:42.8 | I guess what did those first few months look like and how do you feel it's evolved? |
| 0:47.7 | Like at the beginning, I just wanted to push it all the way. I didn't want to think about it. I was just going out all the time. I was eating terrible. I was drinking a lot. |
| 0:55.8 | Towards the end. |
| 0:57.7 | My mom wouldn't want me to be like this. |
| 1:01.2 | I think I want to emulate my mom and bring her joy and reminds me that the wedding is about him and I. |
| 1:08.9 | And like the people that we love most being there. And it's not about like all of the extra, but I'm excited that we finally... because I've been wanting to do this for like a really long time. And we're finally making work. |
| 1:44.4 | I know. |
| 1:44.7 | I feel like my schedule's been all over the place, but I'm excited that we finally got to do this. |
| 1:49.2 | I know. |
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