'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star Lisa Barlow details how being a 'Housewife' has changed her, how she's coping with her son, Jack, being away on his Mission and whether we'll see her on the cast of 'The Traitors' in the future.
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00:00I feel like being a housewife is like being on an NBA team.
00:03Very few are picked and so many people wish it were their job
00:07and, you know, something they got to do and showcase their lives.
00:11So I think it's crazy that I'm an O.G.
00:13now. It's been five years. We're going into year six.
00:16They go to bed counting Lisa Barlows in their sleep.
00:18Like instead of counting sheep, it's Lisa Barlows.
00:20I do clean. I do love to clean for me.
00:23Like cleaning is so therapeutic.
00:25I can think of a million things I'd rather be doing than cooking,
00:28like clipping my toenails,
00:31picking up dog poop or like scrubbing the toilets.
00:34You know, Clorox did a study.
00:35They were like, what feels better, cleaning or petting puppies
00:38or cleaning and getting a massage?
00:40And definitely cleanings right out there.
00:43I love that. He left on his mission two years ago.
00:46We get to pick him up and like just under two and a half months.
00:49And we're going to go to Columbia.
00:51We're going to go to Bogota, grab him and bring him home.
00:54But we get to talk to him every Monday on a FaceTime, which is great.
00:58Oh, she declined it.
00:59And like if there's a big moment happening or a holiday or something special,
01:03he gets to call home.
01:05But we can't wait to see him.
01:06I need him home.
01:07The first week he left, I would go in his bedroom and like lay on his bed and cry.
01:11I just felt for you.
01:12And I just I feel like I feel for me too.
01:15And make him videos about like how much I missed him
01:18and how bad I wanted to come home already.
01:20And I think as time goes on, you like acclimate to your new normal.
01:23Henry loves being an only child.
01:26He loves being with me and John.
01:27He could hang out with us like all day.
01:29He loves going on trips with us to dinner with us.
01:31So I think it's been like really special to have that alone time with Henry.
01:35The first seven years of Jack's life, he had us all to himself.
01:38And now like the seven last years before Henry turns 18 and goes into the world,
01:43like we have him alone.
01:44So it's been kind of fun.
01:46I would do it.
01:47But based on the conditions, I'd need to definitely bring
01:50all of the clerks disinfecting wipes, like toilet brushes, like all the things.
01:55I think it's so different than housewives.
01:57You know, you're playing a game.
01:58And I think I'm a very straightforward person.
02:00Mary can go f**k herself.
02:01I'm done with her because I'm not a f**king whore.
02:03And I don't cheat on my husband.
02:04We're in a dumb f**king family that poses.
02:07Why don't you own a house when you can't?
02:09I would hope I would do well.
02:10I don't know. I wouldn't be a traitor.
02:11I don't think.
02:12You're in a glass box.
02:13So you like give up your privacy when you become a housewife.
02:16So I think it makes you resilient.
02:18I think that there's lessons to be learned from everything you do.
02:21And, um, I think it makes you stronger, probably a little more
02:26closed off than I used to be.
02:28I still talk to everyone, like in the grocery store, you know, what I really
02:31want to learn how to make is eggs.
02:33Like when I'm shopping, if I'm like getting, you know, my Wendy's, I still
02:37talk to like everybody when I'm out.
02:39But what I share is probably very different.
02:42And I just think that I have good intentions in my relationships and it's
02:46different because not everybody does.
02:48Well, I'm a big supporter of women.
02:50So I would keep everyone, but the one that's the nastiest to women.
02:54So Monica, you would have to go.
02:56I just got sent and like tagged in a real someone made.
02:59And there's some, I forgot about, but probably I deserve presents for
03:03breathing.
03:04Like I deserve presents for nothing.
03:07Just for breathing.
03:08I don't even think they're iconic or one-liners when I'm saying I'm like baby
03:12gorgeous.
03:13Like, that's just what I call Henry.
03:17You know, and I'm like angel baby, baby gorgeous.
03:19And it was like crazy that people gravitated to that.
03:22I just am being me.
03:24And I think when you're just being yourself, that's probably the easiest
03:28way to do anything.
03:29I don't ever talk about my age.
03:31My birthday, my birthday, my birthday.
03:35It's so weird that my kids keep getting older and I don't, but I will tell you
03:39this, Andy Cohen, season two reunion.
03:42I walked out.
03:42I was like first chair and I was going to get annihilated and he asked my age and I
03:47always make myself older when I'm doing stuff, because then people will be like,
03:51Oh, you look so good for your age.
03:53And so I did that and I was expecting her to be like, wow, you look so good for your
03:56age.
03:56And then he was like, yeah, she's this age.
03:58And I was like, holy crap.
03:59He's sending that to the press.
04:01But nobody knows my real age.
04:03I'll tell you when it's an important birthday, you will see a huge party.
04:07To me.