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Jeezy Speaks Out connected “Heavy” Divorce From Jeannie Mai
Potty grooming toddlers is nary casual feat, and sometimes parents consciousness similar their efforts conscionable spell down the drain.
And portion it tin beryllium among the No.1 (or No. 2) stressors for moms and dads of toddler-aged kids, Jeannie Mai is sharing the unexpected outing that helped her thatch 2-year-old girl Monaco how to usage the potty.
"Not lone was the zoo adjuvant for her to larn astir existent animals and to spot them successful action, but she besides got to witnesser firsthand what it looks similar erstwhile these animals that don't person flushing potties spell usage the potty," The Real alum told E! News successful an exclusive interview. “So aft being determination and watching the existent hippo doing his happening close determination adjacent to his small bay of h2o oregon the giraffe dumping successful different country wherever helium conscionable ran done it with his feet, she was like, 'Ew! Oh my god! Gross!'"And it looks similar it got the occupation done.
"Watching the zookeeper person to hurry aft these animals and cleaning it up aft everybody has smelled it—like these hundreds of radical that person seen it—she instantly learned time 1 however to potty train," she continued. "I was capable to enactment trainers connected her, similar underwear, the precise adjacent day.”
Needless to say, Jeannie—who welcomed Monaco with ex-husband Jeezy successful 2022—was thrilled it was a roaring success.
"I was truthful excited astir that," she added. "So I ne'er knew a travel to the zoo could really cement Monaco's knowing of potty training."
But earlier you unreserved disconnected to cheque retired immoderate animals successful their exhibits doing their thing, cognize that this wasn’t the lone happening Jeannie did to assistance Monaco learn. The 45-year-old said she besides had the small 1 travel the three-day potty grooming method.
"Monaco went to the zoo connected the 4th time wherever she was really capable to enactment connected the panties and past spell out," she explained. "But it's each astir encouragement and astir celebrating and ne'er shaming—never, ne'er shaming the body, ne'er making them consciousness similar they're doing bad. Always making definite that they cognize however good they did and however arrogant we are of them, and the assemblage conscionable people takes spot arsenic they emotion the solemnisation for themselves.”
Indeed, Jeannie advises parents to flush distant immoderate disapproval during the process.
"They’re already doing the champion occupation they tin by trying to potty bid their toddler. That's a large feat," the Raid the Cage cohost continued. "But making definite to conscionable beryllium truthful encouraging successful the process truthful that we retrieve that they're expected to marque messes—that's their job. So nary of it feels like, 'Ugh! Why did you bash this? Another load of laundry.’ No, we get to bash their laundry due to the fact that we get to instrumentality them done this milestone. So that’s the biggest flip of the caput to remember.”
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Another milestone Jeannie sees Monaco going done is simply a stronger enactment of memories and quality to connect meaning to them. So portion "kids usually unrecorded infinitesimal to moment," she added, she’s trying to thatch her toddler however to beryllium grateful for past and aboriginal ones too.
"I emotion astatine the extremity of the time I'm going done my phone, and I'm looking astatine each the pictures of everything we did from the infinitesimal she ate breakfast, to the dessert we made aft it, oregon the parkland that we stopped at, oregon the mode she yet learned to get some legs up connected her skateboard," Jeannie shared. “We instrumentality pictures of everything. And erstwhile I bespeak implicit my telephone to amusement her my pictures afterwards, we get into these small communicative times of however she felt astatine that moment—how she was possibly tense oregon frightened oregon however possibly she showed it disconnected to my mom.”
And arsenic they signifier gratitude, the TV prima is adding these cherished mother-daughter moments to her list.
"That is truthful chill to maine to spot her caput and her encephalon rotation arsenic she remembers specified meaningful moments passim the time alternatively than 'Mommy, what are we doing next? What bash we get to bash now?'" she said. "She utilized to beryllium truthful into now, and I'm like, 'Well wait, let's not hide astir everything that happened, however chill that was.' Or the adjacent day, reflecting forward—that’s a large 1 for her and for maine due to the fact that I privation her to conscionable beryllium truthful thankful of what to look guardant to and besides what has conscionable happened."
In addition, Jeannie is teaching Monaco much astir her heritage—teaching her however to talk Vietnamese the aforesaid mode she learned.
"I lone knew however to talk Vietnamese astatine location and that's the aforesaid regularisation I use to Monaco. She's lone allowed to talk Vietnamese astatine home," she continued. "So betwixt my household and her, she understands 100 percent everything. And she speaks English due to the fact that she's learned it from her friends and from school, but she exercises Vietnamese with us. And that close there, I'm conscionable truthful thankful for."
Jeannie says they’ll besides observe the holidays by doing “a spot of a Vietnamese fusion Thanksgiving.” As for what they person planned for Christmas, the America’s Test Kitchen big said they’ll beryllium enjoying the time astatine Disney World.
But first, they person thing other to celebrate—the merchandise of Jeannie’s caller movie Christmas successful the Spotlight.
"To enactment is thing that I bask having amusive with,” she said. "And I've ne'er truly thrown myself into it due to the fact that I've ever had jobs that kept maine connected acceptable for specified a agelong clip that I couldn't measurement distant for a film, and this is the archetypal clip I'm capable to bash that—especially since my girl is astatine an older property present wherever I tin either instrumentality her connected acceptable with maine oregon person her successful unchangeable attraction truthful I tin truly propulsion myself into acting. So erstwhile I got this opportunity, I was like, 'Oh my god, it's virtually the champion of my favourite worlds coming together—Christmas, my favourite holiday, and thing that I conscionable emotion dabbling successful and having amusive with.' So it's a imagination travel true, honestly."
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The Lifetime film—which premieres Nov. 23 astatine 8 p.m.—follows a popular prima who connects with a shot subordinate aft helium attends 1 of her shows and they navigate dating successful the nationalist eye. (Sound familiar?)
And portion Jeannie—who plays manager Mira—suggested she knows Taylor Swift’s euphony each excessively well, she admitted she had to brushwood up connected Travis Kelce’s sport.
"When I took connected the role, archetypal off, I had to larn astir football—just a mates things due to the fact that I don't ticker football," she said. "I emotion Taylor, but I'm like, 'What's Travis up to? What's that communicative about?' Because I cognize that this benignant of highlights that emotion a bit. But I was like, good archetypal off, I gotta cognize what a linebacker is. I cognize you gotta get to the extremity of the tract to get a touchdown, but what other tin I propulsion retired of this? Because Mira, my character, has to beryllium a superfan."
Luckily, Jeannie had her MVP Monaco to assistance her hole for the part.
"She was watching maine work my lines, she was determination with maine erstwhile I was getting coached," the histrion added. "She besides was with maine erstwhile I was going done immoderate of my cuts and studying my football. She's learned decidedly a mates shot dances too."
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