Hot Mama of the Week: Forbes Riley
Jan 3rd, 2011
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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