Jeannie Mai
Technology's role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher's app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.Collection: Technology
She's there for life, but even though it's hard to date with my mom around, I'm so thankful for it because the person who can't take Mama Mai is not the person to take me.Collection: Thankful
Now that I think about it, my 40th birthday was the most anxiety I've ever had, and my wedding was also the second time I've had that much anxiety. So I'm starting to realize that I can't be throwing these big bash parties because I need to own that I get anxiety with a lot of people diverting their attention to me.Collection: Birthday
In L.A. there's diet trends, there's the new nip and tuck people are doing, the new person who is in town you never saw before.Collection: Diet
Everywhere you go somebody is on a diet. Everywhere you go in L.A. there is a no-carb option.Collection: Diet
It's horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: 'Hello? Who you call for? Huh?'Collection: Dating
I learned that you can never ever have enough quality time with Mom.Collection: Mom
Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.Collection: Independence
I have a childlike spirit.
One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, 'You don't truly know a person until they don't get what they want. That's when they show you who they are.' You wouldn't think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it.
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.
I was a cardio bunny and spent hours in the gym a day working up a sweat.
I recently learned that Lake Como is one of the most romantic places two people could go. That beautiful great lake is a majestic reminder that love is unconditional when you flow and nourish one another, constantly and unconditionally, like water.
I always say, men's ankles are kind of like men's version of cleavage. That's what I think, because it's sexy. It shows, like, you dare to go there.
I'm a sapiosexual, you know.
I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.
If you don't know where to find self-love, you're going to spend the rest of your life trying to find it somewhere else.
Holey Moley' is the funnest, craziest, most extreme miniature golf series you will ever experience. It was insane. If you've ever played miniature golf, this is unlike everything you've experienced.
So my mom really taught me to be fearless and I love her! She's just so much fun! She is completely the reason why I am a personality and a success to myself today.
Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.
I was 103 pounds for 12 years, and what's crazy is that I actually wanted to weigh 100. Honestly, it was for no other reason than the fact that I thought it would be cool to say that I weighed 100 pounds.
Feeling good about your body and feeling sexy comes from within, not from a number on the scale.
On my show 'The Real,' we often encourage women to fight against body-shaming and own the skin that they're in.
People say money changes people. So does ego and so does social media. And so does the press. I think that all of that mixed in between - you really gotta keep yourself grounded.
I embrace both my Vietnamese and American sides, 100 percent.
There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.
Embracing my origin has made me the confident and grateful person I am.
There's a difference between a job and purpose. If I did my job without purpose, I wouldn't have the intention to put things out there that should be heard. But I have a purpose.
You hear all the time that money can change people. Well, divorce can really change people.
I was married to someone who had more money than me, but because I was the stronger earner and we lived in California - a shocking thing slapped me in the face when we divorced and I had to end up paying him my earnings.
My family would try and trick us and I would come to a party and she would be there. When I tell you the 'Love & Hip Hop' scene is nothing compared to what was happening with me and mom... throwing things at each other, the cursing, the words.
Selling the commodity of humans has to be the biggest business out there, as it is the most lucrative. I cannot go to sleep at night, unless I know that I am using all of my platforms to fight human trafficking.
For those of us that wake up every day and go to our jobs, we know our worth because we know the value we add to the world.
We all have experiences and memories from miniature golf. I had my first kiss at hole nine at Golfland.
I think when people let their inhibitions go, they're so fun and so free. I think we all have it within us, but the world, your job, responsibilities, stupid stuff you have to do as a grownup, Instagram, makes you feel like you always have to be cool, and I like any opportunity where you don't have to always be cool.
I think when you get to that point in your life where you're the first to laugh at yourself, you're at the best place of your life.
I'm a Capricorn and I'm mad loyal - mad loyal! - and I will always look for the good in people.
I used to be a not-healthy 130 lb. girl, all in my stomach, all in my arms so I lost the weight and I stayed there then I became a control freak about the way I was eating and it just became the norm.
My goal is to develop curves on my body.
I know one of the blessings of being a mother is getting hips and I'm not going to have that because I chose not to have kids, so I believe God is going to give me some hips if I work for it.
Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.
I like talking about it, I like talking about world change. I like talking about things that you want to do in your community.
There's a tiny vial of turmeric I like to add to my tea and my facial cleanser. It revitalizes and detoxifies - it does everything.
I love the Duo strip-lash eyelash glue. For all my ladies who love a pair of falsies, if you're using the glue in a tube, you're so 2000.
Sometimes I carry a Green Marble SeLr setting spray. It's the one drag queens use. That is bomb.
I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.
However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.
I learned watching Sesame Street how to speak English, and Bert and Ernie were my best friends. I believed in them and I learned from them, how to have a healthy and happy relationship.
My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life purpose of empowering women.
I definitely watch reality shows where I'm not learning something better in the end.