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At 16 she ran away from home.
I had no clue what I was getting into.
A woman recalls an unforgettable night . . . .
The next thing I know, they’re taking turns one after another on me.
. . . . and the years of shame that followed.
Five men couldn’t make a decision that this is a young girl. This could be your daughter.
Welcome to The 700 Club. Several years ago while gold prices were running about $600
an ounce, I predicted that gold would hit $1800 an ounce; and everybody kind of gasped
like, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Well, we’re $200 away from that
and on the way, moving fast. Why? The United States dollar is in the tank. We’ll tell
you more about it and what you can do to protect your wealth. But first, in the news, people
in Syria have been protesting against their rulers. And when the country is in turmoil,
the terrorist group Hezbollah is moving some of its key weapons out of Syria.
Well, that’s because Hezbollah seems to be getting ready for a future war against
Israel. Well, Chris Mitchell has that story from Jerusalem.
Experts say the Islamic terror group Hezbollah is moving it’s strategic weapons from Syria
to Lebanon.
Because they are fearful of what will happen if President Bashar Assad falls, whose hands
will everything fall into? The instability in Syria could threaten or endanger the assets
they've been holding there.
Military reporter Yaakov Katz said it could mean major weapons like Syrian scud missiles
seen in these exclusive satellite photos are closer to Israel.
What exactly those assets are, Israeli intelligence officials are not revealing. But we have heard
reports over the past couple of years about scud missiles, possibly scud D. Those are
the most advanced version of the ballistic missile that Syria had transferred to Hezbollah
but had not been actually moved into Lebanese territory.
In 2006, the Lebanese-Israeli border was the front lines of a 34-day war between Hezbollah
and Israel. It was the longest war in Israel's history. Now, five years later, Hezbollah
is a much stronger and better-equipped enemy.
Completely, completely, different. Hezbollah in 2006, almost five years ago exactly, had
about 15,000 rockets that were capable maybe of hitting Tel Aviv and none did during the
war in 2006. Today, we're talking about four times that number, three-and-a-half times
that number with the ability of striking anywhere inside Israel.
Add to that thousands more Hezbollah soldiers, command centers, and other weapons throughout
villages in south Lebanon.
They are continuing to build up a serious significant capability with no other purpose,
apparently, except to maybe one day attack the Jewish state.
While Katz doubts that will happen soon, it is clear that war with Hezbollah seems to
simply be just a matter of time. Chris Mitchell, CBN News, on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The whole focus of our United States these last several weeks has been on the debt crisis,
“Will we solve our debt problem?” And yet we have a military action in Libya that’s
building up. Hezbollah might strike while we’re not paying attention. Lots of things
can happen. Because it’s like the world has stopped, and all we’re focusing in on
is can we raise the debt ceiling. We’ll tell you more about that as we continue. Lee
Webb has the rest our top stories, Lee.
Pat, a federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”
policy that bans gays in the military. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had ordered the
policy be stopped. But the court reversed itself after a request from the Obama Administration.
The White House wants to get rid of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” but says it needs to
be done in a slow, orderly manner, and the court agreed.
A massive heat wave is tightening its control over the central U.S. Seventeen states under
now under heat advisories or warnings. The sweltering temperatures pose health concerns
for many and as Heather Sells reports, they could affect food prices.
The heat has killed this year’s wheat crop in Texas, and cattle across the high plains
are suffering because there's so little water for them to drink. That sparked a record sell-off
at a recent auction.
Normally, we sell 700-800 cows on a Friday, and we're selling 1,800 to 2000 cows and it's
strictly due to the drought.
Right now the price of cattle is high. But if ranchers are forced to continue selling,
it could flood the market, forcing beef prices down. Forecasters say the heat wave is here
to stay for now. The high pressure system should last another five days before heading
east.
Not moving at all, unpacking it’s bags. It looks like we'll be dealing with this high
pressure system for many days to come as it continues to intensify and grow in overall
size.
It's so hot in Omaha, Nebraska, that people are literally tossing ice into swimming pools.
But the scorching temperatures are a serious safety concern for many, including the elderly.
They'll complain of dizziness, weakness, being light headed, and they may even start to exhibit
some signs of confusion.
Experts advise those affected by the heat to drink lots of water, stay out of the sun,
and avoid major activity outside. Most of the country will be forced to deal with the
heat this week. A total of 40 states will see temperatures of 90 degrees or more. Heather
Sells, CBN News.
Pat, it’s been a year of strange weather hasn’t it?
It really has. We don’t know what prophetic significance it has, but it certainly is weird,
isn't it? Global warming, the worst snowstorms in records, and hurricanes, and drought. But
I have been for a couple of weeks in the mountains of Virginia. Cool, delightful.
Well I have been for the past couple of weeks here in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Because
I'm on vacation, too, and enjoying every minute of it. But you know, I was watching that story.
Did you know that I just got my electric bill?
No.
And it was almost $150 above the normal amount.
Are you running so much air conditioning?
Well, I'm trying to think. Like, my air conditioning is normal, but remember I did my garden not
too long ago and my landscaping?
Yes.
So I've been running my in-ground sprinklers constantly. And then, you know, you've got
the air-conditioning and just more power to just kind of keep everything without burning
up.
My place up on the mountain doesn't have air conditioning. It has breezes that come in.
It was so cool one night that I had to have two blankets on the bed, and then I got up
and put on a jogging suit, because I was so cold.
Well, maybe we just all need to move up to the mountains with you Pat. I'm thinking that's
the solution.
Well that may be the answer. All right. Well, the governor of Oklahoma is urging people
to pray for rain. Gov. Mary Fallin says the drought has contributed to more than 140 wildfires
in Oklahoma this year. She asked residents to set aside a time of prayer on Sunday. The
governor says the power of prayer is a wonderful thing. God bless her, she's right. Lee.
Pat, in other news, the White House and congressional leaders talked through the weekend about a
plan to keep the government from defaulting on its bills. But they failed to reach a deal.
Many predict America's fragile economy will be rocked if lawmakers cannot agree on a plan
to raise the debt ceiling. One Senate plan, though, would give President Obama greater
power to raise the debt ceiling while moving toward federal spending cuts. But the House
is unlikely to go along with that idea. House Republicans believe it would take away their
ability to keep the president from raising taxes.
We've already made many, many deep cuts in spending. There is more restraint that we
think is in order. He has made it clear that for a big deal there will have to be balance
between revenue and spending.
So where's the president's plan? I’ve never seen a piece of paper with the president's
name on it that's his plan to solve this problem. I’ve seen Press conferences. I've seen lectures
that he's given to the Congress. I've seen these press avails, or the camera comes in
and takes a bunch of pictures. I haven't seen a plan. Where is the president's plan?
Meanwhile, the House is set to pass a Tea Party plan to "cut, cap, and balance" the
budget. Both sides appear to be heading in opposite directions as the August 2nd deadline
approaches. Pat, what do you think about that “cut, cap, and balance” program?
Well, the Republicans are the only ones who are putting out some kind of a plan. The president
hasn't done it. His attempt at a budget earlier this year was just an absolute joke. It was
a joke. You know, Lee, the thing that shocks me is, we are borrowing 40 percent or 40 cents
of every dollar we spend. It's all borrowed. We're borrowing from the Chinese, the Japanese,
and out in the credit markets wherever they are. Well, that defund grants of $300 million
to Planned Parenthood, to fund a bloated Department of Education that has a budget now of $60,
$70 billion a year, to fund all kinds of wasteful expenses, to fund pet Democrat projects, we
need to take an ax to these things. We should probably abolish the Department of Education.
Abolish the Department of Energy. Cut way back on regulations. It's going to take major
surgery. But we're doing it all on borrowed money. That's the thing that people don't
seem to be aware of. It's like in your household, you take a salary and you spend it on certain
essentials, and after that you think you ought to buy 100 hula hoops for your kids, so they'll
have plenty in reserve and you fill up your garage with hula hoops on borrowed money.
No household would do something like that. It would be crazy to go into debt on nonessentials,
and that's what’s happening, nonessentials. It's not essential. We don't have to do it.
The time has come when we say “no more.” Well, I told you. I told you. Were you listening?
About gold?
I told you, I've told you for years and years gold was going to hit $1800. Didn't I say
that?
You told me, Pat.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
Did you buy gold?
I keep waiting for you to give me a bar.
No, I don't give bars. I tell people to buy bars. I am not a giver of bars.
Yes, but didn't Jesus talk about giving?
He did and I give, but to the poor. All right. Anyhow. Well, Lee’s got the word on gold,
Lee.
That's right Pat, gold hit another record high today, over $1,600 an ounce. Silver also
heading higher, crossing $40 an ounce. Investors say the metals' are rising because of the
failure to reach an agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling and the ongoing debt crisis in
Europe. Analysts say the financial markets are worried that the U.S. could face a downgrade
in its credit rating if it can't resolve the stalemate. Many investors are also worried
that the U.S. is just spending too much and won't be able to get it under control any
time soon. Pat.
Well, thank you Lee. And just remember ladies and gentlemen, certain things we don't have
to spend. And it's time that somebody come out and not say, “Well, let’s take away
corporate jets.” I mean, as was pointed out in one program, if we had taken the money
of the corporate jets, that amount, since the time of Judas Iscariot and run it all
the way to the present, it wouldn't take care of one year’s spending on the deficit of
the Obama Administration. It's just crazy. It's not going to work. We have major, major
issues that have to be solved, and intelligent adults have got to deal with it. Well, some
people say enough is enough. We'll be back with more of The 700 Club right after this.
Some people think that Uncle Sam is getting too old and tired. They want to change America
and the values that made this country great. They don't mind that almost half the population
doesn't pay a dime in income taxes to Uncle Sam yet still feel entitled to all these wonderful
government programs. And they hope you won't notice some big changes coming, that Uncle
Sam won't be able to afford a military or that the US dollar won't be the world's currency.
But there are some things that they don't want to change, things like increasing regulations,
special interest group influence, spending much more than they earn, and greater entitlements.
Right now Uncle Sam is losing $3.9 billion a day. It's time to stand up before it's too
late, America. We're still the land of the free and the home of the brave. Call Congress
and tell them to stop spending your future over a cliff.
Coming up later . . . .
. . . . at 16 she ran away from home.
I had no clue what I was getting into.
A woman recalls an unforgettable night.
The next thing I know, they’re taking turns one after another on me.
And the years of shame that followed.
Five men couldn’t make a decision that this is a young girl. This could be your daughter.
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Tomorrow:
I didn’t want anybody to get hurt.
One rebel’s tale.
I had to rob another drug warehouse.
He ran from the long arm of the law, but there was one thing he couldn’t escape.
I knew that it was going to come to a bad end.
And later . . . .
. . . . how you can help stop prescription drug abuse. Learn why your medicine cabinet
is key to winning the war on drugs. Tomorrow on The 700 Club.
Well right after the war, we had a big boom of babies. People came back from the war;
they started families. And this group was called the “Baby Boomers.” Well, they're
now starting to hit retirement age some 50, 60 years later. Some studies show that over
25 percent of these baby boomers will be able to quit working at age 65. Paul Strand talked
to a leading financial advisor about what couples can do to ensure they are able to
retire whenever the time comes.
Rick Rodgers sends a major signal by helping his customers from this humble abode. People
need to live and buy under their means. From these unimpressive digs, Rodgers and his fellow
counselors handle more than $800 million of their clients' assets. Their message, “Most
every couple could live and retire well by following just a few simple rules.”
Here is the secret to becoming financially independent: spend less than what you make.
It's never how much money that you make. And if you're still thinking that, “If I just
made more money, it would solve my financial problems,” you are on the wrong track.
The Keeners and Krushinskys attended Rodgers’ seminars on financial planning and came away
ready to tell the world.
You should be living under your means so that if something happens, you have some savings,
and you can just really flow through life more easily.
One saying is "don't buy a house you can't afford." Clint's wife, Emily, goes even further
saying, “Buy a house that's definitely less than what you can afford.”
And don't feel like you have to keep up with your friends. You don't have to start out
with a gigantic house. You don't need to have two really nice new cars and car payments.
We bought a house that we could afford on my income, not on the combined incomes, because
we both wanted Emily to be a stay-at-home mom, which she is.
That was the same goal of Kathy and Ken Keener.
We did everything to get that mortgage paid off and that was a priority for us, because
of family. We wanted our kids in a Christian school. We wanted to do that, and we wanted
her to be a stay-at-home mom.
They lived super-frugally and in seven years were debt free.
We didn't need new things. We drove old cars. We walked everywhere we went. We vacationed
by going downtown and doing window shopping. We did lots of casseroles.
But Kathy says it was still a rich life.
What's there for eternity? The material stuff will not be. We live in a consumer society.
You don't have to buy into that. If you buy into it, then you work to have the stuff.
Rodgers said living this way can relieve so much stress that it can literally save your
marriage.
Of people that get divorced, 57 percent say that it is because of money was the major
reason they got divorced.
Everyone has the potential to live better if you don't have that debt load along with
you. I don't believe that the Lord wants you to have that burden.
One of the main goals of this philosophy is so you can save, first for an emergency fund
so that you don’t go into debt if an unexpected expense comes along.
That’s generally three months of your budgeted expenses.
Then to work towards that golden retirement. You can start small if you start early, but
if you wait, watch out.
If you save $100 a month at age 20, you'll have a million dollars by the time you're
age 65. But if you wait until you're age 30, now you've got to save $300 a month. If you
procrastinate until you're 40, now you've got to save $800 month to get to a million
by age 65. And if you wait till you're age 50, now you've got to save $2,500 a month.
How much do you need? Say you wanted to live on $40,000 a year in retirement. Social Security
will likely give you $20,000, so you'll need $20,000 more from your investments. So Rodgers
says:
You need to have $500,000 to produce $20,000 worth of income, forever, increasing with
inflation every year.
If you want $40,000 a year from your investments, you'll need a million dollars. For $80,000,
you'll need $2 million. The Keeners point out that doesn't happen by accident.
The future is coming, and you need to prepare for it. You need to get your house in order.
You need a guide. You need an able counselor.
A financial counselor can point you to smart investments and make sure your savings don't
all get eaten up by taxes. And when it comes to investments, Rodgers prefers stocks and
bonds. He especially likes investing in companies, because they can grow in value.
They're going to come up with products that they haven't invented yet. They're going to
find new markets. They are going to get more efficient at what they do.
Now along with a financial counselor, you need each other and much communication.
You both should be aware about what's happening with your kids. You both should be communicating
about work. And you should be communicating about your finances.
Rodgers says realize God puts opposites together. One of you is likely a spender and one a saver.
So you have to have a budget and talk and compromise about it all the time.
We need to work this out, and it starts with communication.
Couples even the youngest ones, have to realize someday they’re going to reach their retirement
years, and they have to prepare for them. Things aren’t going to come together all
on their own. Paul Strand, CBN News, reporting from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Thanks Paul. I’m not sure about retirement. I don’t know how you handle it.
Well, you know what, I’ve actually been thinking about it. Even when I saw this story
I thought, “Hmm, am I doing that?” I wish at 20 years old I had put $100 in, what I
didn’t do, but I’ve invested since I was 20 years old and invested very well, which
I will not speak further on.
Good for you!
Yeah, I don’t play, brother. And the other thing, too, is I do take a certain amount
out each pay check and put it into a little something-something so that when I ‘m older,
I have a little something so that I don’t have to knock on your door to say, “Pat,
can I have a room.”
Well, I’m so proud of you. So when you get old and broken down. I can see we’re wheel
Kristi in a wheelchair to do The 700 Club, and she’ll be old and faltering. But you
know, we live longer, let’s face it. We’re all healthier. The medical technology is so
much better. I don't know about retirement. What about retirement?
You're not going to retire.
Well, I guess. I don't know. You just keep on going.
That's what I'm talking about. You just keep on going, chugging along.
Yeah.
Do you have your little finances in order, Pat?
Yes, I've got my little finances in order, thank you very much. I've got a lot in my
retirement IRA. I loaded up with gold and silver, and it's the gift that keeps on giving.
It really is. The SLV for silver, the GLD for gold and some of the Fidelity funds. They've
done very, very well. They just keep on growing. That's nice.
Well, good to know.
Okay, Kristi, let's go to the ***. Are you ready? ***.
***. This is what Pat’s talking about. Up next, she was known as “the madam of
Mustang.” A multimillion dollar brothel right outside of Las Vegas.
I was all about the money, the power. I figured anyone could be bought. So if I waved $100
bill, then you would do as I say.
To see what drove this madam to quit, coming up. Plus, guess what, our chat room is open.
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Well, the Mustang Ranch outside of Vegas was legendary. And as the Madam to 500 prostitutes,
Sharnell Silvey was the Heidi Fleiss of Nevada in the 1990s. For years she lived in an extravagant
lifestyle, then suddenly it was all stripped away. And Sharnell was left with nothing.
Tucked away on the outskirts of Las Vegas is this multimillion dollar brothel. Its first
owner, Joe, was instrumental in legalizing prostitution in the 70s. Sharnell Silvey was
the Madam of the ranch and ran the estate with 500 prostitutes. She was also Joe's mistress
and lived extravagantly. Together they ran the most profitable brothel in Nevada.
I was all about the money, the power. I figured anyone could be bought. So if I waved $100
bill, then you would do as I say.
Sharnell’s journey to this powerful position in the sex industry started as a young girl.
Her mother was a blackjack dealer, leaving Sharnell and her older brother alone daily.
Her brother had parties often, and Sharnell was intrigued by the older boys until the
day they *** her.
I couldn't believe that it happened. I personally felt foul. I felt filthy. I felt shameful.
I felt guilty. I felt like, “I did this.”
At 16 Sharnell decided to run away and hitched a ride with a trucker, not caring where she
would end up.
I had no clue what I was getting into. When I went to the truck stop, knocked on the door,
got in with him, I didn't have a plan. I didn't know what would be the ultimate result of
what I had just chosen.
What Sharnell didn't know was that the trucker expected her to sleep with him and his friends.
They had this party, and they all came into the room; and the next thing I know they're
taking turns, one after another on me. Till this day, that's just really ripped my heart
out, to think that men, even though I could look at my past and know that I looked older
and whatever, I was more mature. But to know that not just one man, but five men couldn't
make a decision that this is a young girl. This could be your daughter.
Several years later, Sharnell met Joe, the brothel owner. When he offered her a position
at the brothel, she jumped at the chance. Sharnell became the madam of Mustang. Yet,
behind the money and power, Sharnell suppressed a huge amount of shame.
I felt a lot of disgust. I hated myself.
In 1999 Joe was convicted of tax evasion and fled the country. The IRS closed the ranch,
and Sharnell lost everything.
I was at the end of my rope. Tired of fighting all my life and everything being so bad all
my life. I couldn't see why. What is the purpose for me to be alive? What is the purpose for
me to continue living in this world if I constantly have to battle? So what I did was I took a
brand-new prescription bottle of 100 mg Elavil. I slit my wrists and was hoping to call it
quits.
The suicide attempt put Sharnell in a coma for eight days. When she awoke, she had one
thought.
I was so mad that I had to stay on this planet and continue feeling pain and people hurting
me.
Doctors sent her home to recover on bed rest. One day while watching TV, she stumbled on
a man telling how he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. His story intrigued Sharnell.
I've tried everything else. Nothing has worked. And there's nothing out there that I want;
because I don't want to be here, because I've tried it all. So I've got to try this one
last thing. I've got to try.
Sharnell asked for forgiveness and invited Jesus Christ into her life.
I felt renewed, refreshed, hopeful, free. Everything from my past that was foul, that
was painful, that was death, that was humiliating, that was shame, that was guilt, He wiped it
all away. He washed it away by that prayer of me asking Him into my heart.
Sharnell found a church home and surrounded herself with Christian friends. Grateful to
be delivered from the pain and shame connected with the sex industry, she was inspired to
start her own ministry. Sharnell now reaches out to others in the industry sharing her
story.
Nothing that they have done is too big for God to handle. Nothing that they have done
is so shameful that God won’t forgive them. There is nothing that can give me what Christ
gave me when I asked Him into my heart.
Isn’t that amazing? She tried everything. And people do that. They’ve tried everything,
and then they come to God. And you think God would say, “Look, I’m the Lord of the
universe, and you've made Me last. And I’m not going to be somebody's toy and plaything.”
But yet He humbles Himself to say, “Yes, child, I’m last on the list, but if you
want Me, I’ll come in and take you, and I’ll remake you after My own image.” And
as Sharnell said, there is nothing that He won't forgive. Now, these were prostitutes
in the sex industry servicing men for money. And who knows what all else they did as far
as drugs and wild living. But God forgave her, and He forgave some of the others who
associated with her. And He'll forgive you. There are no depths that you may have fallen
from which God can't rescue you. He loves you. We say it over and over again. God loves
you. You say, “Well, He can't forgive me.” Yes, He can. If He can forgive a famous madam
of the Mustang Ranch in Vegas, the Heidi Fleiss of Nevada, if He can forgive her, He sure
can forgive you. Now, do you want it? Things are happening in our world, all kinds of weather,
all kinds of strange things financially. It looks like our whole world may be coming closer
and closer to some kind of a collapse. But what about the Kingdom of God? That goes on
forever. It rises above all this. And you want to be part of the Kingdom of God. You
want to be part of God's eternal plan. And if you want to be part of something wonderful,
if you want to have peace in your mind, if you want to have salvation, if you want to
know that you are born again and you are saved, I want you to pray with me. Jesus Christ right
now says, “Yes, I know you've tried this, and you've tried this, and you've tried this,
and they've all failed. Now call upon Me, and I’ll answer you.” So bow your head
right now, wherever you are. Do it now. Don't wait. Now. And pray these words, “Jesus.”
That's right. Pray with me. “Jesus, Lord, you know the life I’ve lived. You know what
I’ve done that is wrong. And, Lord, right now, I turn away from that life, and I turn
to you. And I ask humbly, Lord, that you would take me, that you would forgive me, that you
would make me part of your Heavenly Kingdom. Come into my life, Lord. Live in me, and I
will live for you, and I will serve you all the days of my life. Thank you, Lord, that
you've heard my prayer. And thank you that you've come into my heart.” Now, for those
of you who prayed with me, I want to pray for you right now. Just bow your head. “Father,
in the name of Jesus, I pray for those who prayed with me. May the power of the Holy
Spirit come upon them right now. Fill them, in Jesus' name. Amen.” Amen!
It's the greatest prayer you ever prayed. I'll tell you what I want to do. I want to
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Well, many a young girl has dreamed of being a princess. Well, Jennifer Beckham actually
became one. I know. She did. Take a look.
I saw Cinderella go by in her stagecoach. She looked out the right side of her window,
and she waved. And when she did, I snapped a picture. I looked up at my mom, and I said,
“Mom, that’s what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be a princess.” During
my college years I auditioned for Disney, and I was hired on to be the princess characters
of Cinderella, Snow White, Mary Poppins, Bella, and Sleeping Beauty. And while all of that
was a wonderful dream come true, it spiraled out of control into my worse nightmare. I
had suicidal thoughts, and I was in complete depression, with an eating disorder that nearly
took my life.
Wow, what an interesting lead-in. So please welcome to The 700 Club Jennifer Beckham.
Jennifer, it’s so good to see you.
Thanks for having me.
Listen, I was going to tease you when we first started to say, okay, if you were Snow White
and Cinderella, what are the different waves?
Snow White?
Yes.
Snow White played with wharfs, so, of course, she was just fun all the time. And sorry to
disappoint, but the whole Cinderella thing was not the Princess Di. It was just the excited
to be there, kind of washing a window, maybe. I don’t know.
Yes. Well, you know what was so fun is we were in the back talking, and I was kind of
joking with you about the different characters and about the different waves, and I thought
it was so neat that you had to play these different characters, but actually, there
was some pressure associated with it. Before we even get to the pressure, let's talk about
how you became Cinderella.
Well, I was hired. I was hired during my college years, and I was hired to be Cinderella, Snow
White, Mary Poppins, Bella, and Sleeping Beauty. And I always kind of make the joke. The joke
of the day was that I was the Puerto Rican Cinderella, because honestly, you don’t
put blond hair on top of this brown skin. There was never a point honestly that I can
say that I stepped into that costume and looked in the mirror and went, “Oh, yes, I belong
here.” I didn’t. I didn't belong here. So I was hired by Disney. I was working at
MGM studios, which is Hollywood Studios in Orlando. And then they hired me to play the
princess characters over there in Japan. So it was an opportunity of a lifetime, but God
had something else in mind, other than just to be this little Disney princess.
Well, I think that's something a lot of girls look at. We’ve all seen the fairytale, and
we always say, “I would love to be like Cinderella or Snow White or this or that.”
You had that opportunity, but it wasn't what you thought it was going to be like.
No, it wasn’t. I was expecting that as my destiny to fulfill me. When I got up on top
of that float, I thought it would all come together. I thought that I would feel like
the person and the people I was portraying every day, all the princess characters, but
my life had actually gone down into the pit and was just awful in that moment. So I was
literally living what I felt to be a double life. I would dress up like this Disney princess
during the way, and the costume would come off, the makeup would come off, and I would
look in the mirror. And at night, I was a bulimic looking for love in all of the wrong
places. So it wasn’t as wonderful and magical, but it’s because really life had happened.
From the time that I had that dream when I was seven until the time that I was hired
by Disney, life had happened. Family illnesses, father dying of cancer for two and a half
years, a lot of mental illness within our family. So life had happened, and as a result,
I was kind of always chasing that next thing, that if I could just get there, then I would
be happy. And I did that from the age of 14, after my dad passed away, up until the time
that I got up on top of that float. And I remember standing up there for the first time,
and I remember looking around and thinking, “I don't feel any different. I don’t feel
any different. My life is the same. When is it all going to just change me?” And that's
when the reality check hit. And thankfully I had two little girls that were on cast with
me that invited me to a Billy Graham crusade, and that's where my life completely turned
around.
Wow. Before we get to that, that change, how did you feel about yourself? Hear you are,
you’ve got this persona, you’ve got the waves, you’ve got the beauty, obviously.
Thank you.
But how did you feel about yourself?
No. Empty, alone, like everybody was talking about me, like nobody liked me. And I know
that the women even watching the show today listening to that, sometimes we look at somebody
that we think shouldn't have any issues, and we almost roll our eyes and go, “You have
nothing to worry about.” But we all have our own insecurities, our own problems, our
own issues. And depending on what you’ve walked through already through life, you've
got some holes in your heart. And that’s what I felt like. I just felt empty. I felt
alone. I could be standing in a room full of a thousand people and still feel completely
alone. That’s how I felt.
What was the root issue? What was the root issue that brought about those feelings and
those emotions and insecurity?
Yes. Well, there is always a lie behind the what. And mine, I can see in school having
a lot of issues with girls. I don’t know any woman that hasn’t had problems with
women, with girls. So I think it started way back then. And then watching my father die.
Because you were bullied.
Yes, I was very bullied. And I think we all are, to a certain extent. But I remember one
specific instance when my father was dying of cancer, after I was gone for that week
for the funeral and whatnot, I came back to school, and I remember nobody speaking with
me. Nobody spoke to me in the halls. Nobody talked to me. Nobody spoke to me at softball
practice. And I come to find out that a lot of the girls had decided that I was getting
way too much attention with my dad having died, that they all decided that I didn’t
need any more attention, that nobody should speak with me and speak to me at all. And
so just those things, those things that kind of just rip open your heart and just make
you feel like you’re kind of that outcast. And when I got to Disney, I really felt the
same way. And I was very hurting with my father, but I didn’t like how I was feeling. I was
14. I didn’t have anybody to speak with about that. And so I did was what we all do.
I just ran to anything to self medicate, to take away the pain just for a moment.
Yes.
And for me that was a lot of hurtful things, bad relationships.
Let’s turn that corner. Take me from the challenging time to really you coming into
the heart and mind and soul of Jesus Christ and receiving Him as your Savior, and how
that started to change your path. Tell me about that.
Well, I was initially saved there at a Billy Graham crusade in Japan, while I was being
those princess characters. And then when that euphoric high went away, and it wasn’t the
quick fix that I was looking for, I didn’t realize that what was done on the inside of
me had to work itself out to the outside of me, that I had issues that I still needed
to be delivered from, that I had insecurities, that I had belief systems that were completely
tweaked, and that I needed to turn God, with the word of God, to actually replace those
old mindsets with some new ones. So as I began to do that, and God began to work on those
areas of me that needed to change, which is what “get over yourself” really is about.
It’s the heartbeat of my life, is when God spoke to me and said, “It’s time to get
over yourself. It’s time to get over your pain, your past, your insecurities, all of
those things that keep you so stuck in life, because I need to use you, but I can't use
you like this.”
Yes. Yes. You have a couple principles, and we only have a couple minutes left. What are
maybe one or two principles that you learned that the Lord taught you that really broke
out that old shell to help you walk into that new man?
Well, it actually happened there at Disney. It was a moment where my supervisor had come
to me, saw that my life behind the scenes was very different than the life that I was
portraying on the stage. And he came to me at one moment, and we had this exchange. And
it's in the book. And he looked at me, and he said, “What's going on with you?” And
I exploded on him. And I said, “I don't feel like being here today, Tommy. I don't
feel like I’m pretty. I don’t feel like a princess.” And he spoke these words, and
God used them and showed me how to walk out of my issues, and that was this: he said,
“Whoever asked you to feel? You were chosen to be a princess. Now, go, wash your face,
get a new attitude, go put on your clothes, and go be Cinderella, because nobody ever
asked you to feel anything.” And that was the exchange from my boss there at Disney,
but come to find out 14 years later, when I was crying out to God saying, “God, I
can’t stand me. Help me. Deliver me. Whatever it is you need to do in me, do it.” And
He brought those words back to me, and He said, “Walk those out. Walk those seven
principles out. Find out how to walk by faith instead of by feelings. What does it mean
to be chosen? Go back to your past and use those things. Get beyond those things, so
you can move on and do some great things for Me.”
Well, I tell you what, you're doing some great things right now. You're speaking all over.
And you talk about the seven principles. You hit one. So if you want to know these other
six principles, you've got to get Jennifer’s book. It's called Get Over Yourself. And you
can find it wherever books are sold. It’s a great title. And I tell you what, I think
every woman, every girl, every person who has some issues, and they want to tear those
issues off and walk into that new man, this is the book to get. So thank you so much.
Absolutely. Thank you so much.
And there is a website?
The website, getoveryourselfnow.com. It’s as easy as it comes.
Fantastic. Thank you, Jennifer.
Thanks for having me.
Absolutely. All right, Pat.
Thanks. Well, she’s a lovely girl, but I guess the issues were there. The Lord has
taken care of them. Well, still ahead, we've got your questions from our chat room. Lori
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