Name: Forbes Riley

Kids: 8 year old twins, Makenna & Ryker

Occupation: TV Host, Health & Fitness Expert, Product Developer, Mom-preneur

Hometown: Oceanside, New York


H&H Interview with Forbes:

1. What are the top 3 items in your grocery cart?

Juicable Vegetables (for my Jack Lalanne Juicer) including carrots, beets, celery, kale etc.

Almond Milk (a must for our daily protein drink)

Raw, organic peanut butter & Wasa Crackers (the ultimate snack)

2. What are you reading (honestly)?

Facebook, Dr.Victor Zeines book “Living a Longer Life”, and lots of bedtimes stories to the twins!

3. What is your guilty pleasure when you get a break from the kids?

1. I love a great massage, sauna and jacuzzi – Beverly Hot Springs when I’m in LA, Safety Harbor Health Spa when I’m in St. Pete and I just installed a sauna in my house when I can’t get to either – in fact I love the home sauna so much I am selling it on HSN!

2. The movies with just my husband (nothing animated!) and a large tub of popcorn

3. A stroll through the mall, I shop so much on line I miss the good ole days of window shopping and trying on clothes and shoes!

4. What is your favorite reality TV show?

Dancing with the Stars (have loved it since the beginning and funny story – the night before Jennifer Gray won this year, I sat with her in the jacuzzi at the Beverly Hot Springs). Also addicted to Keeping Up with the Kardashians (Kim, Kris & Bruce are old friends) and its just fun!

5. What is your cocktail of choice?

Unsweetened ice tea (not Long Island!) I don’t drink alcohol.

6. What is your favorite quotation?

Leap and the net will appear

Only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough!

7. What would we be surprised to find in your purse?

3-5 SpinGyms (no surprise), 2 pairs of readers (constantly misplacing them), and a 1/2 eaten protein bar!

8. What are you currently working out to on your iPod?

Love the Black Eyed Peas, anything vintage Billy Idol and the Rocky Theme — need to stay inspired and motivated — I like it loud and rockin’

9. What is the funniest thing your kids have said or done lately?

We bought my daughter a new style of underwear called “Wedgie Free” (the kind that claims not to ride up).  That night she stands at the top of the stairs crying, saying “We have to return the panties, because they don’t work!”.  I asked what she was talking about – she said her brother had given her a wedgie and they didn’t stop him!

10. Who is your favorite celebrity mom and why?

I really admire Reese Witherspoon – through a very public divorce and raising 2 children she always seems to be so bright and sunny and her career continues to sky rocket – just love her positive energy and the most recent photo of her getting her star on the walk of fame – she had her children right there!

11. What is something most people don’t know about you?

That I love acting on stage – I performed all 15 characters for 2 1/2 hours nightly for 6 months in Lily Tomlin’s one woman stage play “Search for Signs of Intelligent Live in the Universe” and that I got my private pilot’s license at 16 (my dad loved to fly)

12. What is your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?

Good food, good friends and family – great fun! Enjoying each day and taking a moment to be grateful for what I have rather complaining about what I don’t have.

A little exercise everyday from walking to pilates, playing ball with the kids to rollerskating and ALWAYS having a SpinGym with me for those down moments or frustrating times at my desk — I blow off steam and get fit doing it!

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Maggie Estes

Your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?

It’s a give and take. If I really want dessert, I trade off calories early in the day. I’m re-defining what healthy means to me & my family. Some health issues recently has opened my eyes, there is always room for improvement!

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Name: Wendy Buck-Hessinger

Kids: Quinn, Miles, Eden, Skylar and Evan my two foster children and Maria and Florencia my two foreign exchange students. That makes 7.

Occupation: I am a yoga instructor at the Don Cesar. I teach beach yoga and various other fitness classes. I am also a hair extension installer, I sell and install feather hair extensions.

Hometown: I am from Stroudsburg, PA, I currently reside in St. Petersburg, Florida

H&H Interview with Wendy:

1. What are the top 3 items in your grocery cart?

Cereal, milk and bread

2. What are you reading (honestly)?

Life by Keith Richards

3. What is your guilty pleasure when you get a break from the kids?

I love to go to see live music and of course yoga.

4. What would we be surprised to find in your purse?

Feathers and pliers!

5. What is your favorite reality TV show?

The Rachel Zoe Project and The Millionaire Matchmaker.

6. What is your cocktail of choice?

Flavored Vodka and Club soda or a cucumber gimlet from Ocean Prime

7. What is the funniest thing your kids have said or done lately?

We have a new baby kitten they find ways to entertain her and when we gave her catnip it was quite entertaining.

8. What is your favorite quotation?

To err is human to forgive, divine.

9. Where is your fantasy getaway?

I love Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and I am a huge fan of most countries in Europe. We explored Spain in August and we loved it!

10. What is top on your list for Santa this year?

Health, success and happiness to continue.

11. What is something most people don’t know about you?

I have seven kids that I care for. I am a huge music fan. I have seen every band that you can name with the exception of country artists.

12. What is your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?

Yoga of course!

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Name: Jennifer McClintic (It will be Jennifer Garbowicz as soon as we stop procrastinating and get married)

Kids: Justin Reilly Garbowicz, 5 months

Occupation: Wealth Manager and Principal at Sabal Trust

Hometown: Decatur, Illinois

H&H Interview with Jennifer:

1. What are the top 3 items in your grocery cart?

Fat-free milk, bananas, multi-seed crackers

2. What are you reading (honestly)?

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child—a must-read for any parent.  Justin sleeps from around 7pm until about 5:30 or 6am thanks to implementation of some tips from this book!

3. What is your guilty pleasure when you get a break from the kids?

Pedicures with one of my best girls

4. What would we be surprised to find in your purse?

One of those old school hair picks that we used to use for our permed hair in high school in the 80’s.  Fits in the in the purse far better than a brush.

5. What is your favorite reality TV show?

I don’t really have a favorite, but I have to admit to watching a few episodes of Hoarders and Supernanny.

6. What is your cocktail of choice?

It’s a tossup between red wine & grape vodka with soda.

7. What is the funniest thing your kids have said or done lately?

Justin doesn’t talk yet, but the faces & noises he made when trying his first “real” food (green beans) a few days ago were hilarious.

8. What is your favorite quotation?

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. -Maya Angelou

9. What are you currently working out to on your iPod?

A crazy mix of Usher, Gnarls Barkley, Kings of Leon, Blues Traveler, and Jason Mraz

10. Who is your favorite celebrity mom and why?

I know so many amazing everyday moms that it doesn’t seem fair to mention a celebrity. Celebrities already receive enough accolades, right? Everyday moms are chronically underappreciated.

11. What is something most people don’t know about you?

I absolutely despise talking on the phone.

12. What is your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?

Trying to eat healthy and working out regularly—being with a man almost 11 years younger certainly doesn’t hurt either!

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