Barbara Palvin Opens Up About Her Pregnancy and Struggles with Endometriosis
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Barbara and Dylan’s relationship is rooted in their shared early experiences in the modeling industry, beginning at age 13 when they were scouted and faced intense scrutiny. Their bond developed through mutual understanding of trauma and professionalism, and they maintain a strong, authentic connection despite never attending school together. Barbara’s journey with endometriosis—marked by chronic pain, delayed diagnosis, and a difficult surgical journey—has profoundly shaped her life, but pregnancy has brought relief and healing. They highlight the need for greater awareness and medical transparency around endometriosis, noting how it’s often dismissed or misdiagnosed. The couple openly discusses their marriage, pregnancy, and family life, emphasizing that motherhood is a natural progression from their shared work ethic and emotional support. Their humor is rooted in genuine connection, avoiding crude jokes and focusing on warmth and shared experiences. They are also excited about launching a Hungarian restaurant, inspired by their cultural heritage and love of traditional cuisine, including using every part of the animal. The pregnancy has brought both challenges and joy, especially as they navigate body image and societal expectations. As the first podcast episode featuring Barbara, the conversation blends personal storytelling, cultural insight, and heartfelt reflections on love, health, and family. Their openness about these experiences offers a rare and empowering glimpse into the realities of modern motherhood, industry trauma, and the importance of self-acceptance.
This is actually the easiest, I think, guest we could start with. - I think so too. - Yeah, I think so too. Also because she knows this post really well and she wrote us like we were as each other. Is there anything that you're particularly interested in asking-- - I Googled her last night. - She's like, "Why?" - I can't do it often, but last night for questions. I was like coming up with like hard-hitting questions. - And then you were like, "I should stop." - I was like, "Wait, we're just gonna talk." Yeah, yeah, yeah, what was the hard-hitting question? - My hardest-hitting question I came up with in my head. I was like, "Oh, Barbara, you were found at 14 as a model." Dylan was a child actor. Are you guys friends because you'd never developed outside of a job or a fame? - Say why you get along 'cause you never went to high school. - You know what, I wish you were like a little less right on the money. - I wish you were a little less right on the money. - It is actually a good question of Burton. - You just don't know how to ask him. - There's like dress pants that are jaggings. - I feel like if they're dress pants, they can't be jaggings, right? The cut's gotta be different. - No, no. - Jaggings, I wouldn't make something that says, "Go into work casual." And he's like, "Yeah, no one can tell a difference." Turns out everyone can tell a difference in terms of his pajamas. - Well, yeah, dude, you can't. Like, casual doesn't mean jaggings on a man. I don't think that that's like, casual Fridays does not mean jaggings. In the office setting, like we wouldn't know. - Fair, yeah. - Who knows who goes on there? - That's just scary, dude. - Cubical stuff. - Your dad, I feel like has a lot of embarrassing wardrobe malfunction. - I'm not gonna tell the story. - I get kicked off. He's not gonna come out as a guest. - I think it's funny. - The plane. - Oh, the plane is my favorite. The plane story for your dad is truly my favorite thing. - I'm getting trouble. - Not only that, but I think about it every time I'm on it. - Do you wanna say that we're kind of embarrassed, guys? Like that helps. Like me and my dad, like we're not big on, you know, we're not taking the shirts off all the time. We're hiding a lot. - Hiding a lot. - And my dad was out of planes flying back from Toronto and he wanted to get six hours of sleep. He always flew back every weekend to see the kids. Very nice. And so he takes, he takes like a half LPM and then halfway, like he, so he's like, oh, you know, I'm just gonna sleep and he wakes up. And he's like, oh, it's best sleep of my life. And there's a store that's tapping him and he goes, sir, sir, sir, sir. Sir, can you please put your shirt on? - And he lifts down. - Well, he was asleep. He's taking his shirt off in flight. And he's like, I might have been asleep for two to three hours. He's just with my shirt off. - And then I think about that. I have never taken a half LPM. I'll never will, 'cause I like, what if I take my shirt off? I don't take my shirt off at home. (laughing) - What about those four baths? - These four baths? - You sure don't? - He's got a white suit on. - A rash guard on in the bath. (laughing) - So what are we thinking of asking our first guest, tonight ever, which is Barbara, my wife, which is, - You texted me this morning, you go, oh my God, like this, I, you said, I'm really tired. And it texted you back, I was like, well, you're interviewing your wife. Like, this should be easy for you. - It's gonna be very easy for me. - Because you guys didn't go to high school. Didn't go to college. - No, I definitely think, well, I first off, we made a college. Fuck off. I, I do think, I was talking to my brother about this, actually, a little while ago. I do think that there, we have this definitive kinship about being like, young, working, and entertaining. There's definitely overlap there, because there's a shorthand, like, I think with, with people who are in the industry to date someone outside of the industry, and we're in two different industries, but to date someone outside of the industry, there's definitely a learning curve of explaining, like, hey, now I'm gone for three months. - Two months, yeah. - And, oh, I have to fly to this thing out there. - That is like short term more often, your long term less often, right? - Yeah, so she's like, every other weekend, she's flying out. - I mean, I think a lot of people talk shit about that industry, which I think is undeserved. But like, when I watch Barbara on set, - Mm-hmm. - She locks in. - She's so good at it. - Oh, that's why she could sleep on planes, right? Like, I think it's all the above. - She learned as a kid. - It's all the above. It's all the above, dude. I mean, also she's Hungarian, so I think like, they have like a sleep thing there where they can just sleep at any time. I've watched Hungarians like sleep on a staircase, like down a staircase once. - What's that? - Like back on the stone, down a staircase. - I also learned so much after the museum of terror. - That was awesome. - I know, I hear it's wonderful. - I'd have never actually been there. - It's awesome. - I feel it's amazing. - I feel it's awesome. - This place. - You're a museum guy in general. - They killed 14th? - No, no, I'm gonna say it. 1500 men were killed in the basement of that museum. They go into the execution room and I go, I could feel it. - I'm not sure if I actually did, but I told them I could just-- - I was just, I'll go for Tommy. - From your back. - From your back. - I was like, Tommy. - I feel weird and tired and upset about Flinco. (upbeat music) - Okay, so Babs. - What's our attack plan? - Babs hasn't talked much about the pregnancy. - She hasn't talked much about pregnancy. - Covered a bit of the wedding yesterday? - Yeah, but I think, I mean, you must have some questions about the wedding in general. - I wanna see how she dealt it with you. - I wanna see how she dealt it with you, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, and she handled like virtually everything. And also, I will say, we have a lot easier. - You plan the wedding? - I'm shocked. - I know, right? We had it a lot easier though, because like, her parents had the land have a wedding venue. Now that makes it, that takes a lot of way to land. - It's actually an official venue, right? - It is an official wedding venue in Hungary, so that definitely helped us. - Yeah. - You do not have that luxury. - Can we bring the dogs on? I wanted you to bring piggy today. - Oh, that would be great. - I wanna bring grandpa on. - She brought you guys. - She brings you guys. - Yeah, he's the oldest French bulldog of all time. - He is actually the oldest. - He's 15 right now, and I googled like how, like, there was a chart, like on Instagram and say, like, how old is your French bulldog in human years? It's different, and it's like, it stopped at 14. - Yeah, yeah. - Grandpa's 15. - I know, he's actually the oldest French. - No, no. - He's the oldest French-y. I think that's testament to how much man loves you. - It's a metal spine. - Five tumors have been removed. The most expensive free dog anyone's ever gotten. Someone just left it in my dormant college. We'll have to say that one, 'cause that's a long story. - Yeah, that's a long story. Maybe, you know, maybe in the future when he comes in, when grandpa, we can have him. It's guest. - And we have to have him. - You're being good. This is actually, I'm tired of him. - I think I'm not used to interviewing people. - Yeah. - And I know you're not. - No. - So this will definitely be our first big one. - Yeah, first big one. - I feel like-- - I got my questions ready. I'm ready to go hard, Hitting. - 'Cause when you're in a relationship with someone for so long-- - You don't get-- - Sometimes you forget to ask the things that are really from their past or from points like you might have asked it eight years ago. But then these are things that they find really, like people who don't know this about Barbara might find it really interesting. - That's what I was thinking. Bands doesn't, I don't remember her doing much interview work. - She kind of doesn't. - Right? Which is why-- - She's been on a podcast. I don't think she has. - No. - No, which is why I think we can kinda like-- - We can spend like, Call of Daddy? - No, no. - I think after-- - After a call on Call of Daddy? - Like this family's-- - The whole family was like, fuck, Daddy. - No, you guys spent Bands? - I know. - You know they asked me to come on a week later. - Did they? - Yeah, and I was like, I don't think it's a good time. - That would have been really funny. - I know, I was like, you know, also, I just don't think it's my vibe. - No. - I would hate. I think there's nothing that a fate worse than death would have in the answer questions by yourself. - God, who would hate it? - If anyone asked me, like anything, I'd just be like, no. (laughing) - Can I leave? - What are you doing, the bedroom brand is? - Yeah, I don't know. - I don't know, I'm hopefully sleeping. (laughing) - Oh yeah, that sounds awful to say on TV. - No, but you're a courtroom. - I feel like you do have like some deep-seated Irish Catholic guilt though about stuff. - Oh, everything. - Like the funny thing is, I've realized over the course of our friendship. - You brought a weed yesterday and I was up last night thinking about my family hearing about me trying. - Yeah, you've got some deep-seated chips. - Two milligrams of THC. - I, the one thing I find really funny about the Columbus's is that you guys have one of the, like, you collectively have an amazing sense of humor. Like all of your guys' humor is really good. But you do not-- - Absolutely, no thanks. Absolute hard-line in the sand is anything like poop humor. - Oh, poop humor, I don't know. - It's so, it just scusses out. - We don't like it now. - All of you. - Yeah, I know. - Which is so funny. - It's gonna be angry and sick. - Like the amount of times that I'd be around violet unless you'd be like, like, completely freak out. - Well, hi, Brow. Your family's more like three stugies. We're like the Marx brothers. - We're like, we're like, I am Fars. You guys are slapstick. - We're really funny and witty. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, sure. - That's definitely the way I would explain you guys. But you're witty. - I'm the witty family. (laughing) - Well, I'm excited about today. - Well, let's bring it in. (upbeat music) - You ever feel like you have a podcast and maybe you're looking forward to having a few beers for it, but you don't want to feel kind of yucky the next day? - I'm flying to Albany tomorrow. And I hate flying even a little tired. So you know what we should do? - Crush some of these around. - We're gonna have a couple beers on the pod. We might just have one of these now. - This is Zbiotic's probiotic drink. It is the first genetically engineered probiotic. - Preel call. - Cheers. - Knock it back. - Oh, it tastes good. - Kind of lemony. - Yeah, I like it. - Yeah, that's nice. - Right. - I guess it was invented by a PhD scientist to tackle rough mornings after drinking. Here's how it works. When you drink, alcohol gets converted into a toxic byproduct in the gut. - I have a lot of toxic byproducts in my gut. - I hope you still. - These are gonna clear it right up. - What? - How? - It's a build up of this byproduct, not dehydration that's to blame for rough nights after drinking. pre-occurl produces an enzyme to
break this byproduct down. The byproduct apparently is called acetaldehyde. I was actually really intrigued with this because I like all of the alcohol science stuff. Acetaldehyde and it's the leading contributor to that bad feeling after a few drinks. Most people think it's dehydration. It's just not. It's just not. So you know what I do? These are small enough to carry around. Throw in in your pocket. Friday night gets a little wild. You have this before. One a little arm holster. You're like sideways. Yeah, sideways. Like a band of liars. I don't you say that? I'd be, you know, my bachelor party's coming up. We're going to need a lot of these. Great time to bring that. It'll be very fun. You don't have to refrigerate them. Just remember, like if you're at a bachelor party, just make sure that pre-alcohol is your first drink of the night drink responsibly and you'll feel your best tomorrow. Well thank you for coming Barbara. Thank you for coming. Our first guest. Now, hey, you better be cool. This is my wife. I know. And this is my first podcast. Okay, we were talking. We were wondering if this was actually your first podcast. And the thing that I had to try and get over was that like, I know everything about you, of course. I mean, you would think. But there's a lot of stuff that I feel like, what? There's a lot of stuff that I feel like people don't know about you that I know that I have to like think of and make sure because that's that's what part of and making an interesting podcast. But that's one of the reason why I never did a podcast because I people might think I'm hiding some things behind. She's so interesting. There's nothing. There's nothing to share. It's just this. Yeah, what you see is what you get. Well, you know, Brennan was talking a little bit before and I do agree with him on this. I think first off, like, it's phenomenal. The stuff that we get so serious. I didn't know we were sitting down for more. I mean, the more serious, I loved them. The more professional I look like. This is actually, this is me getting hype later. She's going to go, baby, you're so perfect. That's how you talk to me at home. He goes, hello, and I have to be yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's going to be bad. He goes, yes, man. You're like a tradwife at home. I don't think so. Yeah. I think it's the opposite. Yeah. The amount of sorries I say in my house is crazy, dude. As you should. So we're building up to this question. Oh, yeah. So sorry. I got derailed. No, I find that like your actual history of work as well as just life in general is incredibly interesting to people who don't know. I've known it for years. And that's why I love you so much. But I feel like you got scouted at 14. 13. 13? Maybe I'm crazy. But is there any part of like someone looking at a 13-year-old being like, she's going to be a famous model? That's a little weird. Am I crazy? I got a lot of compliments in like school. Also, okay, this, I thought this was weirder. Like someone who was like four years older than me and would come like, you're going to be so hot when you grow up. And that is weird, yeah, super weird. What's his name? Can we beat him up? Yeah, where is it? Where the fuck is that? But it's not as weird as like when once I booked the job I went to Japan and my one of my first shoot was shooting for a pregnancy catalog. We were at 13 years old at 13. Is that not crazy? Okay, you should have said my mom. I don't know what I'm doing. Did you wear a fake belly? Yeah, no. Just like today. Oh, yeah, just like today. I put it on today. It was method active. She wore a fake stomach at 13. Yes. And then you were in it for like pregnancy clothing? Yeah, it was like a pregnancy catalog. It wasn't like a, I thought you also said it was like a bridal shoot or something. I had a lot of bridal shoots at like 13. It was like baby. Obviously, I don't know if you can cut like pictures in here. I don't think I've changed that much. You kind of do what you haven't changed that much. I did lose the baby fat, but my features were kind of the same and they do like that. I don't think you could not look like a 13-year-old with a belly on at 13 years old. I think like anyone with eyes would be like, that's a 13-year-old. I'm sorry, but the kids nowadays they. I'm talking like I'm so. Like here's now, you know, this new generation. No, but I'm looking at their videos when they're 13, but they look sometimes they look older than me. I go to events and I talk to girls and I get so self-conscious and then I always think I'm the baby. Yeah, I don't know why. Yeah, so you just kind of feel like that all the time. Yeah, kind of troubled me, but then they give me they're like, oh yeah, I'm 17 and I'm like, oh my gosh. They're like in middle school. No, they older than me. I think they're older than me. I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but I remember when I was in middle school, I was seeing kids one year above me that had like, like, mustaches, like the kids in the 80s looked like, for example, like I was a pitcher. That's a very good kid. Yeah, still do. It took me until I was 28 to be able to grow a mustache. 27 for me. Yeah, it was a long time. One year earlier than you. That damn it. Sorry, mocked. But I remember looking at kids while I was in middle school and being like, that's a, that's a fucking man. No, like I saw a guy with a full mustache. Like he had back here in middle school. I was like, she's back because I was like, oh nice back. Show me your back. Please in P class. Please show me your back. Show me your back. Do you take your shirt off? For your shirt off. Show me your back. I came up with a great question. Do you think you and Dylan get along so well because child actor and you got found at 13 and you guys just stopped and your mentally kids still? I don't like the second part of the question, but we're definitely a little mentally kids for sure. We definitely bought it over the trauma of being. Yeah, because you had to work so much. In the industry, such a young age. Yeah, we did lose. I missed out on a lot of school activities in school. Yeah, I graduated. Yeah. But like I said, barely. I think, you know, we joke about like, oh, yeah, of course, we bond it over the trauma. But you know, recently, I've started to notice that like people like to really harp on the traumatic aspects of the thing, but we were also so blessed in that way too. Like you had an amazing bond on, to be honest. Yeah. I was just happy. I was 13 and I got to travel to Japan for a whole summer. You just pumped? Yeah. And your mom's really nice too. Yeah. Don't talk about my mom. I want your mom. Hey, man, lay off. That's my wife. That's my mother-in-law. Mother-in-law, there we go. Yeah, well, what do you mean? Your mom is a wife. Yeah, it's close to it. Let me sweet. Where are you going to buy it? So tell us, what do you think about me? I love you. Yes. You guys first met in China. We were learning about that yesterday. That's not true. It's not true. And wrong. He's already helpful. This is what Dylan told me yesterday. He goes, "You bonded over Mexican food in China." We did, but we met previously. This guy doesn't know anything. No. So where did we meet? On Raya. Nice question. Here's a question I have for you. I have for you. Okay, so this podcast is obviously called Wild Men. You've known the Wild Men. All of them for a very long time. Last. You have had historically said to me that if I were to perish in an untimely accident and I said one of the wild men has to step in and be your husband. This feels like this answer has changed over time. It was maybe over the course of time. You always said it was Brendan. Yeah, it was. Okay. I don't want to give him credit, but you're right. You're right. Very nice, but I got a high five. What do you think about the Wild Men in general? I don't like to be done, but in the spa. How much can you reveal? I know. No, I think. Who's your favorite? And you don't have to say him. I do not pick favorites. Yeah. You never does. No. It's like a mother picking their favorite kid. You guys all uniquely funny and weird and nice. You're like you born babies in the world. I don't know how you guys got here, but you're so excited about everything. I was excited to have you on until you said that. I love you. Yeah, thank you, Barbara. But it's the amount you guys text. Well, you text Anita a fair amount. That's true. Are you siblings or lovers? Oh my god. You know, the siblings are lovers. Siblings are dating. Neither. People think about people think that we look alike all the time. And they're kind of weirded out by it online because they're like these guys. They look like brother and sister. When I do see it's the eyes. You guys get big eyes. My eyes go down. I am tired eyes. You have pretty bright. You guys go as a little low on this side. I do like that. Like Franklin the turtle. You tell me I'm a turtleneck and you look like Franklin. Well, the otters thing I wanted to bring up your favorite animal because you guys got engaged in front of otters. Yes. The best fact about otters. Well, it wasn't in front of them. It's close as you get to otters. They showed up after for approval. Were they not there before? No, the funny thing is that it was like a sign. So we go to we go to this national park in Big Sur and part of the whole thing was just like I really want to get a moment where she can see otters. We were driving into the national park and it's known for its ottersightings, right? The entire thing. And as soon as we get to the guard gate, the guard goes, well, I hope you're not looking to see otters today. They haven't been any for like five, six months. And long story short, I'm not going to tell the whole thing. You already did. But I get down on the knee. Long story short. Long story medium. Get down on the knee. Uh huh. She says yes. Did you know a spoiler alert? Yeah. How? You got to say well, we were packing our bags and he packed his bags and put it, I mean, he packed his clothes and he puts it on the
Bad but once me to put it in the bag. Okay. So I see everything he packs and we're going for camping and there's a white button down Yeah, that was a bad move. Yeah, this guy wears a tank top I'm like I've never seen a button. I bring both sandals to like a fancy restaurant So I'm pretty dressed up. You know guys you did you dressed up today, but no you're right He I've never seen it with more than three buttons. So I've been the morning off the hike He put on the white button down again Yeah, so I put on a white shirt too and then when we got the other side that regular way was when we got to the lookout He was like no shaking This is pretty no Did you get ready for it like Do the nails yeah hair stuff no no no even though our friend Alicia and Hart were there and Alicia was like We should go get her nails. So I'm like I never really do that. So it's like I'm going camping Why would I do my nails? I think that should have probably triggered a warning. So then you know, she says yes, and five seconds later We we hear like we hear some movement down below us and we look over the bluff and there's an otter on his on his back swimming Like patting his time and swimming by we're like oh the otters and then from the distance we can hear these kids like running up To try and they go the otters returned it was like I don't know Maybe I made that up, but no, it's probably it when I was just like but remember we walked down the way I was Well still I think my first question was are you sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you should you should are you sure yeah? You want this last name? Wasn't that like pitch picturesque picturesque? Yeah video that you always see on social media or it's like Yeah, and then you fall on your knees and you hug no, I was like are you sure? Like and then he stands up and I'm like do you like what right now? I think I grunted when I stood up - yeah, and then we talked a lot Okay, and I said yes like I've obviously wanted to but I so it took you until standing up to say yes Yeah, he stood up and that's what I yeah For me he had to ring for what seven months eight months. He had time to think about it. Yeah, that's true I was nervous. I didn't know you there has to be a right time. Dude the otters returned. Okay. Give me a break. Is that the ring? This is wait. Hold on. This is the engagement ring engagement ring remember and then you get another ring when you get married Yeah, but I get this one on the right side because in Hungary you wear your wedding band on the right side Cool, so you doubled up. Yeah, but because I I want to make sure that people know Yeah, yeah, he doesn't want it on the right. I don't want it in America I want to get a rubber one because that's what you have to do your dad. I'm with deep love himself or something Yeah, he got his he got his card in London He slammed it shut and he had to get it sawed off because it like grew into his finger You just come from a family with like weirdly big hands. What do you take it off? I'll have to take them off towards the end of the pregnancy Yeah, when you take a modeling shoot you take them off probably right? Yeah Yeah, if you're doing like jewelry you don't want like there is a lot of things about the pregnancy which while we've been doing this I've found very funny one of the things that I find funny is that everything is Normal online when you look it up like we've talked about this before like you could slam your toe in a door and Look it up like why does my toe hurt so bad and they're like in pregnancy It's normal to slam your toe in a door like everything is normal Like you know your feet grows can grow a couple sizes. You can grow like more nipples. Yeah Wait a second to see this so this is one of the things that she told me which I was like first off like they say that's normal to grow a nipple I'm still gonna argue that's not normal a third nipple just grows where that's the thing When I saw it was like on their dark it's here because you have your gland like milk glands and stuff and I don't want to talk Details about it because I'm not knowledgeable because it happened to you, but no No, but I saw video online and it was again like and you know when I googled it They said it's normal and his other girl was like she's getting a massage from her boyfriend and the boyfriend stopped because it was like babe What's that between you're like you know? Ashes you know bought crap and she's like what do you mean she like went to the bathroom? Maybe she didn't wipe enough and she wiped it and there was no poop and sorry I know no poop with the toilet paper and then she looked in the mirror and he literally looked like her Butthole was covered in poop because your skin darkens. Oh, wow The pig with it like your armpit your nipple Okay, so everything dark so that's by the way normal. Okay, it's completely normal. Yeah Go both completely normal. You're losing hair. Yeah, that's postpartum Have you lose hair postpartum? Yeah any food cravings so far like pickle you're As a hungarian you're already eating. I eat every sour cream Babs came to my house my mom made sour cream fish And it was the weird my mom makes it's once a year is like a weird dish for my birthday because no one likes it in my family But me I love I know and she made it and then she put it out so excited Like because I get the dish to myself every year because everyone thinks it's weird. It's paprika sour cream lemon And for the first time ever I just split it babs. I walk over it's halfway gone. I was like what the hell Maybe we have more income under my thought well, I'm outside of Budapest my 23 and me guys. I know is it happened? My no no good my dad's side is a lot of Budapest DNA. Yeah, I think there's a lot of people The thing that I with the teeth still is trying to get it. It's a Budapest. I press the audio button on Google Budapest There's a lot of people. I mean, I think we also see a lot of it because she's kind of such a Hungarian icon But there's a lot of people who are like oh, I have a lot of Hungarian in me or I like my family on my mom's side was Hungarian my dad's side was Hungarian There's a lot more Hungarians around than we think like actually Los Angeles Had a ton of Hungarians at some point during for the film in television industry Which sadly changed I think in like the last 40 years, but like the there are a lot of San Fernando Valley used to be filled with Hungarian food places and like it's kind of there's a lot of quarter and half Hungarians because you know Because of the war everyone like yeah left my grade it this way. Yeah, is there any good Hungarian restaurants in Los Angeles? We haven't found that be a good little venture. I know you should open a Hungarian restaurant I go because I went to hungry when I went to your place there you went to hungry You went to do for any reason or why did you go for your guys waiting? Yeah, and I made my friend fill there too Oh, so very yeah, sure you've got to just have to be there for that once actually mainly for your wedding 90% Um, but those you just can't give it to me. Yeah, you just can't be there for the food and hungry shocked me how good it was Brutapest was awesome That was good. Yeah, it was awesome It was like it looked like frog mixed with manhanna bit It was really really good the food and then on your your family's farm The pigs you guys slaughtered and prepared were fantastic. We do But the screams were not the nicest to hear in the morning. You were not there I heard him and he was I was like Clarice Starwell hearing the lambs get slaughtered He just said say a name right to the lands, but it was silence of the hogs and hungry But I wake up in the morning. I hear screaming and then that lunch We go over and there's two pigs hanging dead. They had our they like carved our names into the side of it too Which I thought was kind of early Yeah, one thing to like two things with the red There's two pigs with torch names For the symbolizing Dylan and I Yeah But then you guys whipped it up and made 17 different dishes out of these pigs For fun you they take the hoof and part of like part of the ritual of it is you take the hoof and then you pour Polynka in it and you have to take actually yeah, he had it but they makes you Take a bite of the wrong ear because the colleges the toes know they could do like Oh, yeah, I could toes. Yeah, that is one thing I will say about your family and like hungarian cuisine And in general is that they use every part of the animal and it's like it's very cool to see From start to finish because we have I think in the states we have so much waste like there's parts where we just go That doesn't look tasty or so tasty But the Hungarians are like yep use the guts use the blood use the toes use the ears They just use everything and every dish tastes amazing So like I think we could definitely learn from your guys's cuisine a bit. Yeah Definitely when you guys open the Hungarian restaurant. I'll be the one of the servers I'm good at that. Yeah, you'll be able to say everyone's name correct That'll be great. Put a patch put a patch put a patch. There we go. So my wedding's coming up. Yes. You're wedding my wedding Which neither of you guys are gonna intend it turns out because this girl there's a world there's a world where both you miss it Yeah, there's a world of both of us because you'll be having the child. Yeah, I mean I after a while you can't fly So that's that's fine. But anyway, don't just call the child The baby do you want to share? Yeah, so I mean we've been calling her Princi Pessa. Princi Pessa. I don't know why that's been our like
Was that her name? Well, it's Italian for princess. Oh, it's that could be an ancient piece. Such a precious press, PPS. Well, you already can't say that, so we got to cut that out. Preciprecipreciprecipreci. Preciprecipreci. Preciprecipreci. It's like Sean Connery. He became Sean Connery, announcing the name. Precipreci. But no, we are having a baby girl, which I'm very excited about. That's awesome. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. My sister, I have a niece. Oh, that's awesome. I don't mean my niece are like best buds. We watch Scooby Doo Doo together. And your sister's soul, the name I really really love. You want to Dorothy? I love Dorothy. Really? It is a good name. It's classic. It's classic. It's a good name. I'm excited to be a girl dad, actually. I think he needs it. He needs it. Send them down to that. Yeah, exactly. I feel like, I grew up with all women, so it's like -- With girls, you know, it will -- It'll melamine out. Melamine out. Yeah. You're going to be so stressed about the princess. The princess. It's going to be back. Yeah, she's going through the princess. She's going through the princess. I just also -- She's going through the princess. I just also -- - We don't know, so I'm like we can't reveal it. - Brenda? - Yeah. - Brenda Sprouse? - Ew. - BS in the building. - That's me. - Yeah. - Barbara Sprouse. (laughing) - BS, damn. I already took my initials. - He took my initials. - He wanted to live. We had an initials, so it was between you and me. - If we got married, would you change your last name? For me? - Undoubtedly. - Thank you. - Would you change yours? Well, do a swap. - D.C., B.S. and D.C. - That would be cool. - Yeah, that would be sweet as hell. - That would be kind of cool. - That would be cool if you could both trade. - I feel like you have like a lot more value in your last name than that. - I think you do. - I really feel like I'm serving me a little here. (upbeat music) - Barbara, welcome back. - That was really cool. - Was that cool? - Yeah. - No, so we got-- - We established it 'em back. - Yeah, we're part of your deck. I brought my dog in. - You got, yeah, if you can. - For baby tips, once the time changed, then something's wrong with your eyes. I feel like I've aged in this time. How long has it been? A month and a half to the day. - A month. - Three months for Dylan. (laughing) - Feels like three months. So we were talking at home because we're currently in the edit of the first part. And as we were kind of getting into it, you suggested a few things that you wanted to talk about. More so in the second part of this, which I think was actually a really good idea. So I'm glad that you came back in. I'm glad you gave me the time to come back in and have me interview you. - Yeah, you got it. (laughing) I don't know why I was so nervous. - This is the thing. - You could've hold the grandpa. - We touched the kind of base of that the last time that I never do in deep interuse or like podcasts. - Yeah. - But I-- - Your first long form. - Yeah, so I don't really know. It takes time for me to open up in general as a person with like friendships and stuff too. So, but I thought maybe you could-- - All lead us in. - Yeah. - Also for the record, even in the time difference between then and now, we've also done probably what? - Ten episodes? - Yeah, a lot more episodes since then. - Woo! - I know, no, I'm a little bit relaxed. - I know, Brennan's not wiggling around as much. So we ended off last time on us talking about the gender of our baby girl. - We talked about Princhipassa. We talked about Brennan's wedding. Now it's like even closer. - And the baby's even closer. - I don't think so. - How are you feeling? What symptoms have popped up? - Uh, just yesterday. I think I like hit that wall of like, "Oh, it's third time trimester." - Yeah. - Is that the hardest one? - For some. I do feel similarities from the first trimester 'cause my hunger is getting crazy. If I don't eat, I'm nauseous. I have a lot of stomach acid. - What do you eat for breakfast? - Yogurt and granola, which was not enough. So then I started to feel sick. - Did you turn in bananas or anything weird? - No, no, no. But I should be eating more protein. That was my mistake the first trimester, too, that I wasn't eating. But those are the moments where I was opening up to Dylan about that sometimes I feel guilty because I'm not enjoying pregnancy as much as like, a lot of women out there and I know it's a gift. - My sister hated it. - Yeah. - She was meeting me the entire time and she was like, she yelled at me and my mom constantly. - I also like, first off, you've got a new body in the title. - But you're like, you're good. - He's personal, he have enough room for six. - Listen, listen, you've got a new body, essentially. Your back hurts all the time. It's hard to sleep, you're hungry, you're hungry. - I don't know if some Mike is picking it up, but I just thought that I'm like, - We'll just leave it on grandpa's snores. - I'm losing him. - Dylan's surrounded by snoring and everything. - Someone's breathing heavy around me right now. - Me included. - I mean, I think it's fair to say, you know, I think the people who are online 'cause that's another thing I've noticed is that as soon as we got pregnant, which is crazy to say, 'cause that still feels weird, it's way more you- - Well, she got pregnant. - Yeah. - But they'll say we. - No, but that's the thing. Couples online are like, we're pregnant. - Yeah, I know, it's great. - It's weird. - But as soon as we got pregnant. - Where do you say we're expecting? - Yes. - And that I am pregnant. - Okay, okay. - We are expecting change. - That's insane. - Yeah. - Well, hold on. Okay, that's another one of these things, right? So we were talking about this recently, which I find really interesting. Okay, when you start out in your relationship, there's the imminent goal in the future, if you guys are really into each other to get married. - Yeah. - Okay, next big step. - Then you reach that break point, and there's a change. Then when you're married, if you're thinking about it, and that's something you want, your next break point is kids. - Normally, yeah. - And then that's a change. - I mean, not normally. That's the worst. - Or maybe you buy. - I'm sure, maybe you do have these things. - You move in to get you by house, you get it. I do have them live together. - Being Hungarian, was there a lot of family pressure, immediately after the wedding? - Family pressure. - For a washer. (laughing) - It's a pressure. - For a washer. - But if you're going to correct this, - You're going to do it in two episodes. - I know the day after my wedding, my mom is going to be calling me like, "Do you want me to buy a test?" Like, "Are you pregnant right now?" - I mean, sure. - We also Irish cat. - I thought of my cross over the Hungarians. - They weren't pushy about it. They kept asking and then I like, "When are we getting a goddaughter?" Like, "A god, something grand." - Grand. - You can correct me, guys. - Did you always want kids? - The brain is shrinked. - The pregnancy brain is happening. It's so small. - Yeah, apparently that's a thing, right? - Yeah, but it doesn't shrink as much as I thought. And then I was like, "Oh, and it shrinks like 16th percent." - 16th percent? - No, I was like, "Are you calling me, Murray?" - Yeah. (laughing) - So it's 5% of-- - It'd be very dangerous. - It's so like-- - I was like, "That's insane." - You're still losing weight. - So, tomorrow is Dylan, if you lost 60%. - Yeah. - No, it's like a selective shrinking, like all the extra information it just sheds. It's like 5%. - It's kind of nice. - Kind of relaxed, yeah. - Yeah, so you can focus more on like, I'm guessing, interesting. - Didn't you say it was like, it's a biological adaptation to allow for the restructuring of your brain to get ready for it? - I'm trying to show I never said that. (laughing) - My fuck. - You said it, it just shrank the memory away. - I'm afraid I'm out of your mouth, yeah. - I, well, I sound smart. - You're so smart. - Dude, I'm hyping you up all around. - That's like a Sprouse blow hard. - Was I very like, "Ghost"? - Yeah. - Like, I don't know. - Was it cold? (laughing) - No, I'm pretty sure I didn't say that. - But it prepares you to get ready for mother. - I think so, it just takes us like extra information you don't need, just sheds in. And then it grows back, I think six months after giving birth to you. (laughing) - It's not a bad deal. - Do you always wanna have a kid? - Yeah, that's the thing, like I always knew I was, oh, my parents, yeah, so they were in pursuit. They obviously wanted their grandkids. I was sent the picture of Piggy and Kyle. - Yeah. - Yeah, I thought you already have two, yeah. - And that's the thing, I think Dylan and I are both very work oriented. - Yeah, yeah. - You guys work non-stop. - We're perfectionists, we've been working since we weren't kids. - By the bus, yeah. - And so it was weird to, I know they always say there's never a good time to get pregnant, but it was weird, 'cause I was like, oh no, but now I'm doing the Victoria Secret Show and now I've got this job and I just got this new contract. Like I can't, like for watches and I can't get pregnant and we kept pushing it out and then it was like, I mean, for reference, we've taken one vacation in eight years of being together. - Yeah, I mean, yeah. - We were like, can I say. - We went to Japan. - Japan. - On our first year runnyver. - First year runnyver. - Okay, yeah, 'cause I remember when you went, I was very jealous. - No, mind you. - But we do travel to cool locations, which is a benefit of our job. - I know he's always worth it. - There is always that. - Is that the only, that's truly the only, with no work that I've told time? That's why our baby-- - We would build a campaign. But yeah, we knew we wanted to get pregnant, but we also knew like we have like, because I have endometriosis. We knew we wanted to get that surgery done before we start trying. - Because-- - My wife's my war-shaking. - Yeah. - I got a good room. - I got you doing all of the-- - And part of the reason-- - That it's why I do the whole time, I got to chance. - I mean, part of the endometriosis thing too, was that when you were being advised about the surgery, which, like in itself, There's. Very little information on endometriosis in general. There's not enough study done about it, but part of what they were saying is that post-surgery would be your most fertile time. Because after that, correct me if I'm wrong, but after that, it will steadily grow back. - 'Cause you're my fertility, 'cause it doesn't change that sense. - But it's mostly likely to get pregnant. - Yeah, they kind of cleared out everything in the surgery. - Okay, so it's like, let's go. - And there's an easier chance to get back now because it gives a clear shot for a baby deal. - Which was sick as well. (laughing) - High five, you can get sick as well. - Okay, so when did you get the surgery? That was pre-wedding though, correct? - No, no, no, it was post-work. - It was just June, last year in June. - You guys got married, I forget it's like this. - We're married three years. - Three years, right? Coming up on July. - July 15th. - July 15th? - Yeah, we had to fly the fourth of July. - I know. - And our this podcast is releasing the date before our anniversary. - Oh wow. - Ooh. (laughing) - Surgery was pretty soon before the last VS fashion show, right? - So okay, June 3rd, I had my surgery. Let's first talk about that. How so many women are suffering from endometriosis? So I wish people would pay a little more attention to that. Period, cramps are not that normal. It doesn't have to be normal. I was always suffering during the nights. Stillin' nose, sleepless nights, suffering on the floor, dying from pain and no medication would work. And I would go to gynecologists and try to get diagnosed and they would always say, oh, no, you're fine, you're fine. It's just period. You have to go to a specialist. Luckily, there's more attention now around it. So like when we did the VS show, the alarm was wearing the little end open. - I love that, yeah. - So we are just trying to, you know. What pushed you to go to the specialist? - The pain. - Just the pain and just constant nonst, every single month. - I'll just use a few memories that I've had. And correct me if I'm wrong again. But there were, it fluctuated. Sometimes you'd have a month where you, it was okay, the symptoms seemed okay. - The medicine was able, like I would always have to take like six pills a day. - Jesus. - And then it was managing it. - Next month it was like, like the worst thing ever. - The new, over screaming pain. - Oh my god. - To the point of her feeling nauseous, wanting to throw up like really gnarly. - I would throw up from the moment. And I would be like drenched in sweat. I would have to change shirts because-- - I think just keep telling you this is normal, this is really normal. - No, I think it's for your cramps. - You just chugging to have that. - They were like, "Oh, change your lifestyle." That lifestyle, you know, work out more. Strengths in the muscle. - The truth is, is that like again, because of the lack of study that this endometriosis has in general, there's so much medical, there's so many-- - Like you have to have a surgery normally to get diagnosed with endometriosis. - Oh, so that's the only way. - You have to have it off a roscopic surgery already to just so they can tell you. It takes also five to eight years here in the US, I think, to get diagnosed. - Jesus. - See, like-- - So that's, yeah. - And when Endo is, and when Endo is bad, when Endo is bad, it's always bad. But when Endo gets to, necessarily, it's worse point, it's actually spreading to your other organs. - Yeah, you spread your organs. It can, the worse, you know, like, it can spread to your ovaries, and then your ovaries can, like, grow together. And then you, you can have babies. - You can never have babies. - That's awful. - So they, I was lucky enough that it wasn't in my ovaries, but I also had autonomiosis, which is a different type. That's more on the stomach, wall, and muscles. So they just, you know, the wound inside was the size of my two palms. - Jesus. - So they, when we finished, luckily, they were scared it was touching my intestines. - Yeah. - It was, like, this was my intestines. So, like, before the surgery, like, I wasn't allowed to eat for, like, two, three days, 'cause they didn't know if they'll have to touch my intestines. - It doesn't exist. - That's the thing, like-- - That was for some of the impetus for getting the surgery when you did, right? - Yeah, because it was timely. Like, if it grows, 'cause every time I, like, know these little-- - Yeah, worse and worse and worse. - And then it touches my intestines and then, you know, it's a more complicated surgery and a bigger surgery. - And there's still no easy test for this? - No, I mean, now I saw some news, I don't know how much, true it is, that maybe from your period to blood, I don't know if that's too much. I feel like we're not, we're not talking openly enough about these things, like, oh, it's such a taboo to talk about women's periods. But it's like, we're bleeding. - Yeah, yeah, I was just there, okay? - Well, first off, I think that any conscious adult gets to a point where that just doesn't gross them out anymore. Maybe it's a gross out thing. Maybe people are like, ooh, it's taboo, you know what I mean? - Never grossed me out. - 'Cause it has to be, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I couldn't have been like, oh! - Get this outta here. - Any guy who's weirded out by that, I'm like, you're a baby, you just grow up. At some point or another, but-- - This creepy guy. - Yeah, she's a creepy guy. - I think it too much too. - Yeah, just don't wait. - You're straight. - You just learn about it and then try to help your partner. And Dylan was really great at this. - He was actually very supportive. - Yeah, especially when I would be in pain. He knew, 'cause the thing is, when you're in that pain, it's like any noise, any sound, any noise, man, just, you can't have it, you just can't have it. - I would be yelling at Dylan. - I'd be like, 'cause I know you make a little bit of noise. - My mom also said because of-- - You're a muscular, yeah. And daddy's always moving around. I'm like, you're driving crazy. - Why do you know that? - We did the bachelor party, it doesn't matter. - Oh yeah, yeah. - Okay. - No, I'm so sorry. - No, no. - No, I was feeling, Dylan, he didn't get down your nerves, I'm shocked. - No, no, I mean I always get out of my nerves. I mean, that's just being in a relationship. - But he was just trying to be helpful. I remember one time I was in so much pain and you brought me a plate of blueberries because you went to Google and you saw that blueberries helped with period cramps. And I was like, throwing it up into my mouth. - Really, I don't know, I don't know. - He sort of played it wouldn't like it. - I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. - It's probably preventative too. - He was like, running around, but I had no big like, do you want this? - The first thing he did is, it's a very nice gesture, but it's like, maybe there'll be a thing you want when you're throwing it up. He's like, I use a pile of blueberries, little whorbs. - Oh, thank you. - But the surgery, I will say, is night and day difference. - For me, yeah, I was lucky. - Immediately? - Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah. Even my first period right after the surgery. - You got it there month after? - Yeah, actually two weeks after. 'Cause it does just because he had a surgery. - It does it slow stuff down. - I can tell you that there was, I mean, during the worst times of your endo, during your lady times, there were months where we were like, we got to shut this whole thing down. Travel's gone. I'm worried, I'm gonna get my head cut off. You're gonna be in so much pain. Like, it was bad to the point, and since the surgery, there hasn't been a single thought like that. - Well, I've been pregnant like half six months. - Which also happened. - Which apparently is also, then she's a preventative or something. - Apparently it helps. Like we'd endow if you get pregnant. It helps your endometriosis. - Apparently it doesn't grow during that time. - Well, it doesn't grow during that time, 'cause there's no blood. - Yeah, exactly, it's not bound to. It's like on to. - Yeah, so weirdly, the more I've read into it, and you probably know way more about this than I do, but it reads, it reads like cancer. It does. - It sounds like it's growing, it's moving, it's taking things over. - It has something to do with cell spray. - It has to do with cell spray. - Regenerative tissue, and it reads like cancer, 'cause really, you can't get rid of it the way that most people are talking about it, right? It's kind of, as of now, as we know, there's no cure for it, as of now. You have a surgery that can help, and helps a lot of people, but like we have a mutual friend who has endometriosis, and she had two surgeries already, and she's in so much pain all the time. - So sometimes it just doesn't take. - Yeah, so. - And that was the thing, too, is that when you started talking about it, the amount of people we found out, who even in our immediate friend group, the amount of women who reached out to Barbara, and me after the VS show. - Yeah, 'cause that was big news. - I saw it. - Word like, I'm not joking. 70% of our friend group, dude. Like, it is a very, very cool. - How many people have it and don't know? - Probably a lot. - A lot. - Yeah, this is a lot. - So a lot of people probably have this. Don't know they have it, and you only find out if you either are dying of pain, or you try to get pregnant, it's not taken. - Or you have the laparoscopy surgery, to get diagnosed for it. - If you didn't even know you, yeah, if people were pushed into it. - But that's the thing, I didn't hear about, and until like a couple of years back. Like that wasn't even an option. - I don't think I heard it until you gave me an answer. - Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, people just don't talk about it enough. - Well, a lot of the times, it's 'cause doctors are also, they seem to just be like, oh, your periods are really painful, tough enough, or they recommend taking birth control to regulate it. - Exactly. - That could also make things a lot of fun. - That could fuck it up to you. - It's after the surgery, that was the two option that my doctor said, like, you could either go and like, birth control to manage it, or start trying. - How much do you think that endo has affected you and your body throughout your life? I mean, on top of modeling, which in and of itself comes with packed house full of body dysmorphia and issues of that sort.
do you think that Endo affected you in that way as well? 'Cause I remember there was some time-- - Endo affected my body, not my mentality of how I look at my body. - You don't think that they're linked in some way, like the feeling of pain and like food. 'Cause I remember sometimes-- - No, you get bloated like from Endo, you could, like that's the thing when some pictures came out when I was already pregnant and I had like a small tummy, people were saying also like she could just having a flare up from Endo mattress. - Oh, really, okay, gotcha. - 'Cause you get like, you get really bloated and like really huge. It's also PCOS, that's the other one. - Yeah, PCOS is huge, yeah. - Has the same effect. So, yeah, in that regard, I was fluctuating a lot. So a lot of people saw that it gives them a right to come into my body. But you know, it comes with modeling obviously and it's not like traumatic, but it is definitely scarring and it's been pretty hard during this pregnancy to just let that mindset go, that I'm not gaining weight. - Yeah, like I'm creating life and it's okay to gain weight. - I mean, and that's been a packed, like that's been just a bag full of bullshit since the moment you started in the industry. You started again, like we mentioned, I think in part one. - Is it pregnancy model? - Pregnancy model, but also when you were 14. - You got a full circle now. - Well, I made it. - You're buying back to Japan. But you started modeling again when you were like 14 or 15. - 13. - 13, but like that is not a time by the way. Like people are already commenting on your body when you're 13, 14, 15. It's like that's a really rude age to comment about. - And I think it's just. - On top of it already being rude. - And it's a very dangerous age. - Yeah, for sure. - I think, like there's so many. That's why I think there's so many women are struggling with eating disorders and all that sort of things. Like, I know, I was, yeah, I started when I was 13 by 17. Every single time I would go into the agency, they would tell me I have to lose weight. My hips are too big. - It's 17? - At 17. - I didn't have hips yet. - I want to frame this question delicately, because when we first started dating, we were a year in to us dating. When you got the casting for the VS fashion show in 2018 or 19, right? - 2018. - 2018. So maybe less than a year into dating. But we started dating. Then your announcement video came out and I remember you were elated when you found out you got the show because you had had a hiatus being away from VS. And so this was kind of like a return to the stage for the first time in a really cool way. - 2012, so six years. - Six years, okay. - A long time. - Everybody who had watched VS previously was pumped the fuck up for your return. - See. - However, the media took that-- - I imagine just tiny little people on my shirt shoulder. Bye for now. - Bye for now. - Everyone was so excited. - Everyone was pumped up. - That was back. But the media took that and spun it in a way that felt really strange. They framed it like you were the first plus size model in VS. Which is-- - They just threw a label on it. - An unnecessary label on it. - Yes, but tell us a little bit about that because as someone, I felt like you thought that was unfair to put a label on it at all. But also furthermore, because you weren't viewing yourself as that, it also made it into this thing that was necessarily, it seemed like a marketing ploy or something like, I don't know what it was. - Yeah, so like I said, I've been already scarred for constantly getting commented on my body from my agency, from just the industry in general to lose weight, lose weight, be skinny or do this to that. And I was trying to do all that and I was dieting and I was eating unhealthy, I was going crazy. 'Cause I would think like, oh my God, I'm in such a good shape. And then I got VS and I'm like, fuck yeah, it's working out. And then they put the label on me and like, oh, she's the first plus size model. And like, there's nothing hurtful in general in that. - Of course. - But when you don't consider yourself that and you're really been torturing yourself to fit into this other category, which was you having the 1960, 90, whatever measurements, it really fucks you up. And the support where I wanted to have, I didn't get, which was my agency, my debt time agency. They respond to invite me to their camp where you should talk to these other models, how it feels to be a plus size model in industry. And I was like, but I'm not. - Yeah, yeah. - Like I never, I never represented that. And I'm like, I would love to obviously represent that too, but I don't think I want to be forced into a role that's not me. - They might not, the plus size model fans might not want you over there anyway. - It's just phone representation. - Yeah, that's what I'm saying, like it's, yeah. - Well, it's also attributed to you from outside of you, which is the core of the issue here, right? Which is that you're fine to identify as whatever you like, but that's when you're giving it to yourself, if someone's putting a label onto you and it affects your job and it's your work, suddenly you go, what the hell? I mean, if everyone, this is a bad analogy, but if people were reading your scripts and you've been writing dramas, but people are like, he's the best comedy writer ever. - It's just the weird story. - Who are you today? - You're like, what the fuck? - Yeah, but that was, I think that was the moment where my mentality, like shift to the load. I'm like, I have to stop trying to fit in and police people and just, just be me. - Yeah. - And after 25 years old? - Yeah. - That's what they say, your brain fully develops too. So you like locked it all in. - A couple more years for you, but. - I don't know, I own that. - I like, my life's nice. Don't think too much. - It's nice to be a little bit chill. - Yeah, we're just a loof. - Dude, if your brain shrunk a little bit during pregnancy, you, I think you do this at all. - It didn't with him. - No. - He is actually a baby. - So tell us more about this. - Can't full of models. (laughing) - I'm just teasing you. (laughing) So this. (laughing) - So then though, what was interesting is that you were like, fuck it. - Yeah, and I didn't put any stress on how I look and what my body should look and all that. And weirdly, without doing any diets, just eating whatever I wanted and all that, I started dropping away. - Really? - Yeah. - 'Cause you weren't hyperfixated. - I wasn't hyperfixated. - I was in hyperfixated. - Exactly. This and you hold back and loosing it. It's just a chemical something that. - Some people are gonna see this, not believe you, Bams. I can. - It was you and COVID. - I can as a fact say, I've seen you eat. And she's a lot. (laughing) - Almost a story. - At a steering moment. - By the way, it is part of. And I really do mean this. It is part of what initially has made me so attracted to you. - I think we talked about that in the other podcast. - Because food is a big part of your guys life. A huge part of my love life, it's not like you just have one meal. It's like, yeah, you did a good amount for. - No, we didn't have a gate through a day by what sounds yummy. - Yeah, so like, we do that quite frequently. And it is such a part of our love language. And so like. - So you're just happier. You're feeling better. You dropped it. - It's not like COVID happened and I didn't have to. - Yeah, and during COVID, I didn't have to pay attention. But I was like, it's just fun to get. I'm just. I don't care anymore. - Did you feel so much better? - I felt so much better. I felt I was at ease. I didn't care about what people think about my body. So I started posting pictures and then I started getting a comments that, oh my God, why is she so skinny? - No, you went the other way. - And I was like, what is. I just don't know why people think that. I mean, I get in a sense like I'm a public figure and I'm a model, so I am working with my body so that should give them the right to comment on my body. But it's like, I never felt the need to comment on anyone's body or if I had nothing nice to say, I did it, say, I just kept it to myself. - Yeah, yeah. And I think in that way, too, transitioning into pregnancy, this has been a thing. - A little bit of my fuck. - Yeah, so this way, that way, and now we're going back. - No, now it was a scramble and I would, like especially the first trimester where you don't really have a bomb. - Did people comment and kinda, do they know what was coming, do you think? - Just because of the way I was styled for like, fashion weekend stuff. - People were kinda, it was more my head. - That's where that scar came back. - Yeah. - I was like, all the number on the scale, like really going up super quick and my arms are getting bigger and my, you don't have a bump, but you're so much bigger and you know, you're pants don't fit and I was like, I started spiraling. - Yeah, and you ever felt that way in five years or something? - Yeah, it was weird, but this is when it's important that you have a good partner who's like, you know, Dylan was there reminding me every single time that we're creating life 'cause we are pregnant. - We all of us, all three of us are pregnant. - We know, yeah. - 'Cause I've been supportive. No, no, I'm not actually. - I got pronged. - I'm not, I was saying that one, not. - He was in the room when it happened. - Yeah. - Just in the corner. - Like Aaron Burr. - Oh. (upbeat music) - When you went and announced the pregnancy, or you're just like, well first of all, you didn't tell anyone. You can. announcement of pregnancy it's one of the only things you can announce by walking out of a room yeah you know you walked out and your belly was just out and if I remember it was a bear belly right wait on the plan announcement no you just love this bear belly you just did one for this was the first time I did bear belly if I was pregnant I would only have my belly you know it got again again it got mixed wrist violence yeah why really why yeah it's controversial I guess like some people are saying why put out your their career someone compared it to like a beer belly it's like so if I put up my career belly it's the same I remember when I was in China one of the things I thought was really sick is a lot of the Chinese guys in the summer just hold their shirt up over the tummy and they just hang it out to cool off and I'm like that's tight as hell that's tight as hell and let them do it also there are so many girls when they're not pregnant they're wearing crop tops is that not a that's not a problem I think the problem I'd have is a sunburn if you're pregnant with a belly that's all sunburned out that's like hell that would sell yeah I burnt my tummy I don't know my I don't I don't know my right now what it lengths with length length with is this way's length as long yeah you can't okay so you wait explain it because this this may be left the other day oh if we're going that way yeah this is with this is length I get I was thinking this the belly itself yeah yeah we're thinking of it like a cube yeah we're doing we're all doing two it's a ball we have to do two three it's a ball okay all right we'll explain what happens the width of the ball okay it's a width of it's not at the length of the ball well the balls are equal on each side but it's a perfect ball guys it's not a geometry podcast no no no I was just okay so you don't know that anniversary so I was making breakfast for Dylan before he woke up and oh so you're making breakfast at 11 30 a.m. I mean I was making pancakes and eggs and bacon and all the first like the bacon felt like kind of just well my tummy and I was like oh that hurts but then I was like I bent over to like twist turn a pancake and I forgot my tummy and I I touched a the pan I have a pan line I know that's your belly burns are like the biggest pain in the world because they throb for ow you know I don't like that my mom's reaction was immediately like oh now the baby's going to have that mark like I like that logic that's Hungarian witchcraft that's when I got stung by a B on my feet he's like now the baby's going to have that mark yeah probably okay fine can you explain that a little bit I can't and I told you I was like stop saying that like I'm I am burned the baby's face where's the girl comes out with a burnt face sick you ski but if it's like Frenchy passes free ski this is where do you even get these I forgot can you say I know me tree else is for me end of me tree else is so you fucking prepare I'm yours is anybody else is I don't know all the stuff I'm three sisters so I'm no all women's health wow yeah um so she could go I would like a sick anyway cool I mean we scar down the cool I knew guys watch who who had that scar and I was like how did you get it and he goes I ran into a door I was like that's not cool it needs to be by a slash that hurt though running to a door but anyway what's the most surprising thing you've discovered during the pregnancy that's been like either hard you're all right that I'm all right yeah you do she does seem like she loves me were you shocked that he was good at it now here's the thing like pregnancy can either make your husband partner really just like you you hate you hate them yeah that their smell changes they're you're deodorant you have to do yeah yeah we're kind old spice tiger no what kind of are you are you are you like old spice and the crack and now or like when I used to have crack and you know yeah yeah yeah yeah people probably on the street or because everyone knows you pretty well on the streets on the streets and the streets but a lot of people think they know you as anyone grabbed grabbed your belly that like like a stranger like old women I'm sure big belly grammars I think people are more inclined to touch your belly when it's something skin tight when your belly is out you're actually don't oh when it's skin out when it's skin they don't want to do skin to do people give you a white like do people get you like birth when walking like they're like oh they're kind of getting out of your way if I see a lady I give her touchy yeah yeah whoa moto moto come look at my move I like a big I like a chunky no they love that song love that song they do not give me a way I know I don't because you know like right now the way I'm dressed you can't really tell I'm not so good but you're not intentionally trying to hide it are you is there a part of you that feels like you want to hide it we're back to the scar yeah that's what I mean yeah I'm still trying to dress up so I look skinny yeah yeah yeah yeah by the way that's the funny thing too that while in the industry I would be called plus size and too big and all that I would go back to hungry where everyone around it would like oh you gotta put something now you gotta eat you're so skinny and it's like just stop and in between you just want to not be nervous yeah just don't come into my body like even when I went home my mom was like oh yeah you can see you're starting to gain weight now I know like moms do that with I know there's no malicious intent yeah yeah yeah mom I love you I didn't mean anything but we do you guys like me breaking a 4th wall every now I know I like it I look in the actual bed thank you yeah something I've found interesting as the as we got pregnant was that for I always thought just the bigger the baby the better yeah right like as a guy you go like babe I'm gonna I'm gonna we're gonna create a 10 pound baby by like eating all the right things yeah you're like Lenny not George yeah I thought you just wanted a big baby which maybe it's just like man brain going like big baby healthy baby that makes sense yeah but you actually there's like for most pregnant ladies there's a window straight up baby it's totally monkey brain like but there's a there's a window there which is like the exact size of the baby that you want yes right cuz you've been very conscious about being like whoa whoa whoa I don't want to have well I just felt like for example when yeah you don't want to have a 12 pound baby because they have to push yeah like in your third trimester when you're eating a lot of sugar that goes directly to baby and they like gain weight you know so yeah I was more I was more thinking I scream or yeah same thing my mom my mom always reminds me that my head was abnormally large for a baby yeah now two but I still don't fit but yeah that's it that you don't want that big of a baby I think a seven eight seven pound baby it's like the whole and I were each eight and a half pounds yeah I think it was eight I can tell seven would be great cuz tonight less chance of tearing yeah exactly you can push out baby maybe a little easier that's gotta mean so if it's like bigger have your your stretching bigger yeah well there's a few things that we've learned like about the delayed cord clamping oh what is that right that's one that well why don't you explain that a little bit to him since I don't know how do you sound like you know better explaining than I am okay wait so I'll I'll check the case so delayed cord clamping is this process so when the baby comes out yeah umbilical cords obviously still attached now previously they'd want to just cut the cord tie it off get the baby out but inside of the cord is a lot of like a very high stem cell count blood nice and so nowadays the practice is you want to wait until the cord turns white oh so it's all pushed out yeah into the baby and helps with the health so you get a little skin to skin while you're waiting yeah but and so you're trying to wait but some people delay the cord clamping too because you can save the blood yeah that's inside which sounds like oh grow organs or maybe not grow organs but maybe you save the cells yeah the stem cells for the future you can maybe grow really helpful for both the mother and the baby and they're siblings and baby siblings you turn them into pills really the placenta you turn to pills and you actually eat them the blood cord that I think they dehydrated and they put it in yeah it's probably just like the like the powder and the thing in could it be like coffee cream or coffee cream or yeah you're probably putting anything it's like metabolic Hollywood I was joking about the placenta but that there's health benefits I suppose for sure a lot of health and health benefits you think cavemen were even placenta I think they were we are the only like species that has placenta that don't eat their placenta if you see the like a do you have you seen a deer video giving birth or anything like that yet no any video where I saw live once an anal open a game preserve give birth and that thing why immediately eight the placenta that's the first thing they they go and eat the placenta yeah because you need a little nutrition after you're pushing I watched a giraffe give birth and that same preserve like it seems yeah we're getting so far as you're going on they just he's got a bucket that's in a creepy safari for creeps yeah it's another birth by the way the giraffe giving birth that thing felt like yeah
- Yeah, 10 feet out of the air and just plapped. - Yeah. - And they only shed like it was a splash zone, dude. - Well, that's an idea. Are you gonna do a water berth at home berth? Or anything? - No. - Nothing kooky? - It's not kooky, it's a choice. - What if their baby can't swim? The water berth? - They definitely can't swim. - Or can they breed water for a couple of months? - You're not in a big pool, you know that, right? - Which is crazy thing. I thought about this the other day. The baby's vocal cords are already developed. What if she's just screaming in there? - Oh, that's scary. - Oh, the ball! (laughing) - Oh, the ball! (laughing) - Are you playing music for her? - Oh, sorry. - We did a Lord of the Rings soundtrack. - Oh, good. - So you're trying to raise a dork. - You'd be like gladiator or Braveheart. - That's also, I'm willing to throw forward dork. We're kinda dorking at that, sorry, dude. - Come on, I heard you were big on grocery store ruffles, so let's not call each other dorks. - Is the chips at the grocery store? - Ruffles? - Yeah, I like the chips. - What's dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks? - What's dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks, dorks? - Wait, I love the sour cream and onion. - The thing, it's not ruffles, ruffles. - The chips that you dip into the sour cream and onion? - The game. - Ruffles, ruffles, ruffles, ruffles, ruffles, ruffles. - We've not sure we store ruffles. (laughing) - That's the good one, too. - I'm sure we store ruffles, ruffles, ruffles. - Yeah, I was great at that. Yes, we just dorked it. - You can't even burn you. - It's the word. - The word. - I love it. - Do you know what it killed you before you were wearing your pants? - You chose my favorite chips. - I didn't spit. - I didn't spit. That might be great if I sneaked for something. - It was right here. - No, that doesn't happen with him. You saw that, right? (laughing) (upbeat music) - So we've been trying to find, like, obviously the foods that she likes the most during this entire thing. - Nothing that weird though. - She had a weird observation the other day, and the more I think about it, the more it makes sense it, which is that the closest thing she's found to eat to Hungarian food out here is Mexican cuisine. - It's sour cream. - Because it has a lot of sour cream. It's very, like, meat and pepper-oriented. - It has, there's a lot of overlap with Mexican food and Hungarian food. - What are you chowing down on? Burritos, quesadillas. - Quesadillas. - Oh, it's the quesadilla bowl. - I like the Turchesu. - Oh, Turchesu's job. - There's a really good one, and quesadillas, and I had something else the last time. - You had angelada? - It was the heart shell. - Oh, oh yeah, you had a tequito. - Tequitoes. - And like a tequitoes. - Is that, is that, is that, is that, is it, is it? - I can't see this guy. - No, I got this one. - Or a lotus. - A lotus. - It's a lotus. - It's a lotus. - I can't eat corn anymore. - It's 'cause I'm so, I dry, I don't wanna hear. - No, you don't wanna hear. - Okay, I will assume, I eat a lot of corn. I love corn. - I love corn. I can't do it. (laughs) Not in the third trimester. - Yeah. - If you know, you know. (laughs) - You're the poster boy for just chomping on corn. 'Cause I've seen you just rip down on a cob. - But it's been really difficult to figure out. - I like the little holders. - Yeah, the ones that, she ever had those in Hungary. - What do you say? - Corn holders, so when it's hot, you can still eat 'em. You put like two in on the side. - You mean just the wooden stick? - No, no. - No, no. - Like they're too little plastic. - They're shaped like corn. - Metal tines. - No. - I'll get you something for your, maybe a little baby shower. - We held the corn in our hands. - Thanks man. - We were okay with that. - You're the only thing you're getting this for the baby shower. - I don't know. - I don't hold it. - I don't think I got your wedding gift. - We're not doing it baby shower. - What? - Okay, when you have the baby, I'll get you corn. - I feel like you eat. - I don't want it. - We gotta do a baby shower for you baby. - Baby showers is before you even have the baby though. So you would have already had to plan it. - I just don't like the, I don't like the attention. It's the same like birthdays. I don't like the attention. - I feel like you get a pass on this one now baby. - But I don't like it. It's, I wouldn't have fun. - That would stress me out. There's also like I said, there are times when some people are more excited, sound more excited than I am. And I don't know how to react because I'm not a, yeah. - Squeaker? - A squeaker. - Squeaker? - Oh. - Oh. - I like that term. - Yeah, I don't go for a squeaker. - No, no offense. Like I wish I was that excited about it. - You're excited but you're a, you're a, you're a, you're a story woman. - What I was gonna say is that not like we, we're trying to cook more at home. - Yes. - To also just get used to that when baby comes. - Yeah. - We can cook all, all these meals and that's been a challenge because I know my Hungarian dishes. But like I, I don't know how, it's like, I feel like my life is now just a round. What are we gonna eat? - Yes. - What are we cooking? - Oh. - When you take out of the freezer and where was I going with that? - Well, I was gonna say for me at least, like, I've had to understand a lot more of the role around the house and how it's gonna be even when we get into the baby being born. - For sure, yeah. - Because the funny thing is pregnancy naturally seems like it's the translation into having a kid. - Transition. - Transition, yeah. - Transition. - But it's the transition, obviously, into the time of having a child. But because of the symptoms of pregnancy, too, it's already kind of forcing you to get more of a caretaker. - We will have to get more of a caretaker, Dylan. - Precisely. Also, it's kind of sick because- - We all just have to slow down. - Slow down. - We really have to learn. - Make the house a home. - Give grace to each other. Be patient with each other, which I'm really not a, I don't think I'm a, I'm not a patient person. - Not all the time. Yeah. Sometimes I've seen that. - Yeah. - It's very, just the voice goes a little louder, and it isn't, and he hates that. - I mean, it sucks. - Dylan still has that- - But you- - No. - But it's Dylan not a snapper, he's more of like a sad, sad man. - No, he holds in a lot of things for like months. - Yeah. - Yeah, exactly. - That's his new thing. - When she, when she snaps, I'm gonna go- - That's a good little skill, yeah, I like that. - He's been doing well. - I mean, a little bit, he's picking up the snappiness, which I'm like, don't give me any- - Oh, he don't want to join the snapp- - I absolutely like- - Just because there's been a lot less sleep recently, and I will say that's also part of like the transition period, is because like- - You gotta be so sleep- - Oh, and it's gonna get worse, but the, but the truth is, is like, at least in my head, I go, I want her to eat as much as she wants, sleep as much as she wants, and just to do kind of whatever she wants. - Can you just not sleep through the night? Or what? - No, you can't. Like, you, you have to pee like four or five times to get out, also like, now, you know, you can't just sit up. You have to- - We have to- - Everything's from the side. - That'd be crazy. - Yeah. - I really don't want to get to the bed pants. - I can't start wearing diapers. - I just want to be- - I'm not gonna- - Five times a night. - Why not? - I just think it's not- - It's not. - It's hygienic. - Maybe that's why. - Yeah, maybe I don't. - I just, you're getting up to pee five times and- - And then just turn- Every time you just turn, you're like, you go out there and then go this way, then a pillow goes behind the back, pillow under the tummy, otherwise your hip hurts because the weight schooling on the ligaments here, and yeah, it's, and then Piggy's in the bed, do you know this? - Yeah, of course. - Which is gotta change pretty soon. - It's not gonna change. - Oh shoot. Yeah, 'cause grandpa, I mean, only sleeps in bed. - I don't, it's gonna be already so much change for Piggy, like having another less screaming baby there. I don't want her to be thrown out of the routine. - She's not gonna get thrown out of the routine. I just think that like it's something- - Well, you don't put the infinite in the bed immediately, right? - No. - Yeah. - No, no, it's the best in it. - Yeah, so there's sleep, Piggy in the bed. - But the Piggy just defines the worst places to sleep all the time. - No, she gets so bad. - Hey, say it to his face. You're gonna move him out of the bed? - Absolutely not. You're still cheating. - Don't move me out of the bed. - Does he sleep between your legs? - Oh, yeah, it goes between my legs. - You don't feel stiff in the morning every day, baby? - But who cares, it's-- (laughs) - I just sat down on the fuck up so long. - Grav, now Grav, now Grav moves from my legs and my pillow to out of the cupboard. - He just got it. - I just got it. - He was up twice. - Sorry. - To take him out. - He goes to the bathroom a lot. - So you're kinda training. - I'm gonna help you guys out. Yeah. - A few tips. - Oh, you wanna come here, Grandpa? - No, you'll get you all dirty. - I don't mind. - You don't mind. - He's a little baby. - I just-- - This is literally-- - Oh my god. Hi. Oh, he's sweaty. - I know, he's kinda sweaty. - I took him to a vet one time and I was like, "Yeah, it's weird, you know, we're out in a long island or something." And the vet was like, "Yeah, I'm like, it's hot." So he's always sweating. He goes, "Dogs can't sweat." And he picked him up. He goes, "Your dog is sweaty." It's a weird guy. - You're related to the horse. - He wants to go back. - He loves his daddy. - He wants to look around. - Um. - Anyway, you know, I'll say that like, in general, it seems like there's been a lot of changes, all like I'm saying, have been trans-- like this transition period into having a kid. - It's easy way. - It's almost as if this process is biologically designed for that purpose. - Yeah, exactly. - Slow down, learn patience, give grace to each other, respect each other. - I'm allowed over maybe once a week. - Yeah. - And you can be as prepared as you do all your research. Find like, "Okay, now's the time." If you ever actually can't think that way. Have a strong foundation and a relationship. It's going to test you. We had, not because of me. Can't blame me. The only thing that changed me is his DNA. - Yeah. - So if I seem off-- - You've become a little more sparse, which is not a good thing. - I was going to say you seem chill as hell lately. It's like a super soldier, but they just get dumber. So if Captain Rogers got skinnier. - As your husband and I think
I think that what I would hope to see in the future is that coinciding with what you said earlier about the kind of dysmorphia behind the growing and this is that first off a 12-pound baby is sick. Second off, you've been gorgeous from the moment I met you. You're just as gorgeous now if not even more pretty. And I think nothing's going to change that avenue of it and now it's too hard for me. Normally we're silly but I don't think it's something like I hope that in your head you're able to get past some of those like fears of the body stuff, especially when you're in this like beautiful natural phase of your life is what I'll say and I'll keep feeding you to kiddos in Mexican food. I think the second the kid pops out, it's just going to be all about her and it's going to be awesome. For sure. You guys will team up to help her out.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Barbara and Dylan met through work and share a strong bond rooted in their early experiences in the industry, including being young models at age 13.
Their relationship is built on mutual understanding, shared trauma from early industry exposure, and a deep sense of kinship despite never attending school together.
Barbara’s endometriosis significantly impacted her life, leading to chronic pain and delayed diagnosis, but surgery and pregnancy have greatly improved her well-being.
They emphasize the importance of open conversations about women’s health, especially endometriosis, which is often misdiagnosed or ignored in the medical system.
Their wedding and pregnancy were planned with family support, and they openly discuss the challenges and joys of motherhood, including body image and changing roles.
The couple shares a unique, humorous dynamic, avoiding typical humor (like poop jokes), and values authenticity and deep emotional connection.
They are excited about opening a Hungarian restaurant and share a fascination with Hungarian traditions, cuisine, and cultural pride.
Their upcoming baby is named Princi Pessa (princess), and they consider the pregnancy a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing.
Summary:
Barbara and Dylan’s relationship is rooted in their shared early experiences in the modeling industry, beginning at age 13 when they were scouted and faced intense scrutiny. Their bond developed through mutual understanding of trauma and professionalism, and they maintain a strong, authentic connection despite never attending school together. Barbara’s journey with endometriosis—marked by chronic pain, delayed diagnosis, and a difficult surgical journey—has profoundly shaped her life, but pregnancy has brought relief and healing.
They highlight the need for greater awareness and medical transparency around endometriosis, noting how it’s often dismissed or misdiagnosed. The couple openly discusses their marriage, pregnancy, and family life, emphasizing that motherhood is a natural progression from their shared work ethic and emotional support. Their humor is rooted in genuine connection, avoiding crude jokes and focusing on warmth and shared experiences.
They are also excited about launching a Hungarian restaurant, inspired by their cultural heritage and love of traditional cuisine, including using every part of the animal. The pregnancy has brought both challenges and joy, especially as they navigate body image and societal expectations. As the first podcast episode featuring Barbara, the conversation blends personal storytelling, cultural insight, and heartfelt reflections on love, health, and family.
Their openness about these experiences offers a rare and empowering glimpse into the realities of modern motherhood, industry trauma, and the importance of self-acceptance.
FAQs
You met in China, and initially bonded over Mexican food. Despite some confusion about the exact details, you both agree that your connection formed early on through shared experiences and mutual respect.
I started modeling at 13, which exposed me to early industry scrutiny and body image issues. These experiences helped shape my resilience and perspective, which I believe influenced how I relate to Dylan—both emotionally and mentally.
We planned to start a family after years of being in the industry and working nonstop. I had endometriosis, and after surgery, we felt more confident in our fertility. We eventually welcomed our daughter, whom we named Princhipassa.
Endometriosis caused severe pain and delayed my ability to conceive. After surgery, my symptoms improved dramatically, and I was able to conceive and carry a healthy pregnancy with fewer complications.
The media labeled me as the first plus-size model, which felt like an unnecessary and inaccurate framing. I never saw myself that way, and it felt like a marketing tactic rather than a reflection of my identity or experience.
I’ve struggled with body image since modeling at a young age. Now, during pregnancy, I focus on the joy of creating life and accept that gaining weight is natural and healthy.
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