This is a vivid portrayal of life, love, friendships, and a time struggle.
You will laugh, cry, and even ask the question why.
Four extraordinary women will take you on a journey like one you have never experienced before.
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My name is Gina Giannelli Goldenbaum.
The three things I love the most in this world are in this water,
Long Island, diamonds, and my husband.
What?
Oh, I can't be doing this shit in the interviews?
All right.
Hold up.
Sorry!
I'm sorry!
I don't know what's going on sometimes.
I don't know if you roll it.
Cut!
Namaste.
Hi, I'm Alexis Goldenbaum.
I am from Great Neck, Long Island.
My brother is Mikey Goldenbaum, and he is married to Gina, who's not your wish.
Hi, I'm Paulette McGee.
My brother's Bruce McGee, married to Ladasha.
She's spicy.
I really like her.
I'm from Hong Kong.
I'm up, born and raised in Long Island.
Woo-hoo!
I really enjoy it out here.
I don't ever plan on leaving the island.
Oh, hell no.
Don't make me get up in this chair.
It's Ladasha.
What is it?
La-ah.
L-A-dash-a.
Well, you don't know how to spell?
What are you, stupid?
Yeah.
I called you stupid.
You got a problem with that?
Oh, um, oh, God, I still get, uh, I still get confused.
I swear to God, old habits die hard when you want me to tell you.
Like, can we, um, can we cut?
Well, you know, I'm working on, like, accepting all types of people.
You know, that's where I am now in my life.
And I just have to say, I'm really happy to be here.
You know, it's a lot better than where I was.
Yes, I mean, I believe in all of that, self-stuff, self-awareness.
But I'm a little self-conscious because, I mean, my mom says I'm unique, but I have these
sideburns that are hereditary.
Let's see.
Don't zoom.
I'm from the Bronx.
Proud of it.
Boogie down.
Boo-boo.
That's right.
I got the street smarts.
I'm like these bitches.
I don't know what kind of smarts they got.
They don't even got sidewalks over this place sometimes.
You walk into the middle of the street, somebody gonna hit your ass.
And I'm standing on the street one day and this guy walks past me.
And I was like, whoa, who is that?
I need to know him.
I told a little fib.
I said I was Jewish.
But after like nine attempts of me trying to contact Mikey, he finally accepts a date
with me and we go on a date.
And it was love at first sight.
He fell in love with me right away.
I was addicted to St. John's Watt.
And it sounds like something, you know, everyone takes it.
You know, you can go into a store and buy it, which to me is like, it's crack.
You know.
I am in recovery and I breathe every day and I just accept people for who they are, you
know.
And yeah, sometimes I'll be in like a whole foods and I'll see St. John's Watt.
Or I'll meet someone named John or someone has a ward.
And I feel like I need to take it, you know, like I'm not shaking.
Zumba's changed my life.
I found it on a trip to Nassau.
I mean, Nassau, the Bahamas, not Nassau County.
And some girlfriends and I went down there to do some, you know, some relaxing.
And I was looking to tone instead of bulk up.
It's kind of my specialty.
And I discovered Zumba brought it back to the island and now I have a cold following basically.
I have all these girls come in once a week and I teach them certain moves.
I built my own business.
I mean, it's just so easy for me to do that.
I mean, I know a lot of people have trouble, but I work so hard at Zumba.
You know, I mean, I'm hoping you can come to one of my classes and see how hard I work.
And everyone really enjoys it.
I mean, it's just wonderful.
All right, what do you want to talk about now?
Oh, how I met Bruce.
Oh, this is actually a cute story.
He said he thought I was J-Lo.
Now, he didn't say, he didn't just say that he thought I looked like J-Lo.
He said he thought I was J-Lo.
I was on stage and shit, so I get it.
I get the confusion, but it was kind of cute, you know, like he was with his other cop friends, you know, like,
I was really turned on by that, like, a man with power.
You know, a man I can, like, really take over me and shit.
I love that shit.
So, anyway...
So, what sets me apart from the other girls, I would say the first and foremost thing
is the fact that I've got a lot more money than them.
I mean, it's just a fact.
And, you know, I got a lot of class.
You know, I met my husband, bless his soul, and he brought me into this world
that, you know, the other girls, if they have been brought into that world,
they might not fit into it so well, but I fit right in.
It was like a glove.
I walked in, I knew what I was talking about, I knew what I was doing.
I, you know what, I felt like I had arrived.
I know every single type and brand of white Zimmeldel there is now.
I compare it with, like, American cheese, you know, Alexis likes her soy cheese.
I mean, as long as you respect me and my home, that's all I'm asking for.
And, Jane has really welcomed me with open arms, except at the times where she wears animal skin and fur,
which means that an animal had died, which means that there's a dead caucus somewhere.
And we don't know where that spirit is, but we know where the skin is.
It's on our human body.
So that really, so anytime I'm feeling like this, right, you feel that anxiety filling up.
What I do is I shake my magic ball.
This is my best friend, and I'll say to myself, is that spirit okay?
That animal first spirit.
And it says, I better not tell you now.
I like to find things in life, and guess what? Fuh is one of them.
And I'm not asking you to wear it, but don't cry when I come out of my room in one of my beautiful main coats.
What do I do?
I work in a doctor's office.
I work in computers, and I do a lot of medical stuff.
A lot of things gotta go together.
You gotta make sure people don't get the wrong medicine.
There's a lot of motherfuckers up in that office, prescription with the wrong name and shit.
Like, come on.
They ain't smart either.
Like, I told them about my shit, like what I do for work.
They ain't got no computer skills.
I got computer skills.
Actually, Alexis, I don't really know so well, so I offered her a private lesson.
We're gonna go to my studio.
I'm gonna help her out with some of the moves and stuff.
When I get to know her better, she seems like a really interesting person.
I'm a people person.
I can zoom in on people kind of like the medium.
You know, you've seen Long Island medium.
I'm kind of like bigger than a medium, but not a large.
I'm starting to show them some Zumba moves because I just get help out all the time.
And Alexis is even going to take a private studio with me.
I told her anytime, day or night, late at night if she wants.
I don't care, I'll do Zumba anytime.
They don't even know what I've been through in the broths.
Like, if these girls went up to the broths, they wouldn't even laugh.
I'll sack it.
Like, I used to carry around boss cutters.
I still do.
Actually, I still carry around boss cutters.
So these bitches better watch out because if I got a problem with them, they're gonna get sliced.
There's something about her that gets on my damn nerves.
Like, I feel like she's reading my mind and shit.
Like, she knows what I'm saying.
Like, she doesn't know what I'm gonna say like any second.
I fucking hate it.
It creeps me out.
It creeps me the fuck, bugs me the fuck out.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, nightmare shit.
Okay.
Do you know someone by the name of P?
Or D?
Is it NS?
A Scott?
A Sarah?
Oh.
Like, she thinks she miss clear what she's like.
Call me now.
Like, remember that fucking commercial that I had?
I don't know.
The girls are just amazing.
They're amazeballs.
I coined that phrase.
And I think they're jealous.
I don't think it makes them love me less.
I mean, more like family.
But I do think that they're jealous.
I mean, I'd be jealous of me, too.
You'd probably jealous of me a little bit.
Next time among our own divas,
the glimpse into Paulette's past.
Hi, sir.
Yuck!
Ha, ha, ha.
