Lisa Rinna knows how to play the Hollywood game.
She’s be the first to tout the importance of working steady and staying in the public eye.
How did she get to this point?
Lisa Rinna came out a star
Lisa Rinna’s mom told her she was born to entertain.
“I had no choice (but) to go down this path,” Rinna said toShe Knows.
But it’s not that her parents were in theentertainmentindustry or that she grew up around it.
They weren’t, and she didn’t.
As such, she became accustomed to getting extra levels of attention, Rinna toldThe Oregonian.
Lisa Rinna was too fabulous for her small town
Small town living didn’t suit Lisa Rinna.
“I don’t think anybody else gotVoguein Medford.”
And why would they?
Rinna claimed in an interview withThe Seattle Timesthat her town had a Sears but no shopping mall.
But that also made her feel out of place.
“I was like, ‘Why am I here?
I’m more fabulous than this!'”
It was in LA that she ended her four-year hiatus from acting and signed up for acting classes.
“Things have worked out all right,” she said.
“I turned it around.
I always seem to take some lemons and turn them into lemonade.”
Yeah, you could say that.
Lisa Rinna made a big change
Did a breakup help Lisa Rinna land her breakout role?
She seems to think so.
Rinna toldOprah: Where Are They Now(viaHuffPost), “I had long hair.
And I had a break-up go on right between the audition and the call-back.
I had this really crazy idea to cut my hair off.”
And cut her hair off she did, opting for the short ‘do she would become known for.
“I really think that’s why I got the part.
I was feeling really full of myself and sassy!”
Rinna made her debut as Billie Reed onDays of Our Livesin 1992.
The balladeer unintentionally played a major role in her marriage toL.A.
LawandMad Menactor Harry Hamlin, with whom Rinna has been married for 20-plus years and shares two children.
“I just have to thank you from the bottom of my heart,” she recalled telling Bolton.
“I would not have my beautiful girls.
I would not have my husband.”
“You are so welcome.”
“I had my lips injected with silicone,” Rinna revealed to theTodayshow.
“Stupid thing to do (at) 24.”
Think Rinna regrets having her lips injected with silicone?
Nobody is saying there’s anything wrong with wearing diapers as an adult.
It’s a part of life for millions of people.
What possessed Rinna to put herself out there like that?
“I’ll do anything to make a buck.
I don’t say ‘no’ very much.
I say ‘yes,'” Rinna said onReal Housewives(viaBravo).
“That Depends job saved our bacon.
I got paid more money to do that than I got paid to do anything ever in my life.
And I was just winking all the way to the bank.”
Rinna claimed she wasn’t the only one who benefited financially, either.
you’re free to’t knock that.
The biggest moment of Lisa Rinna’s life happened on Real Housewives?
“I don’t think anything can prepare you for what ends up happening.
I would have never thought that would happen in a million years,” she said.
“I didn’t even know I had that in me.”
It’s as if Rinna never watchedReal Housewivesbefore signing on.
Those kinds of over-the-top meltdowns are the show’s bread and butter.
Honestly, we would have been more surprised if she didn’t react that way.
