from Soaps in Depth, June 15, 1999
Jennifer Hammon, Lisa Ann Hadley, and Julie Pinson get wound up sitting down for a little good, old-fashioned girl talk about clothes, make-up and…the making of a soap opera diva.
Put three of daytime’s most beautiful and talented rising stars together in a room with a camera, and what develops is, in essence, a grown-up slumber party: laughs, inside jokes, true confessions… everything but a pillow fight! Such was the case when Soaps In Depth gathered PC’s leading ladies, Julie Pinson (Eve), Jennifer Hammon (Karen) and Lisa Ann Hadley (Julie), to take some full-on glamour shots. Care to listen in?
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Soaps In Depth: How would you define "diva"?
Jennifer Hammon: A diva is anybody who has confidence, poise, and a point of view.
Lisa Ann Hadley: Confidence in themselves, yes. Usually, there’s a lot of fun added in with it, though. There’s also a sense of style, beauty, and being in-the-know.
Julie Pinson: It’s a woman who has had enough experience to talk about the trials and tribulations of life… someone who has been through the good and the bad and has gotten through it.
SID: Are you a diva?
Pinson: No! Someone like Susan Lucci (Erica, ALL MY CHILDREN) is a diva. I don’t think any of us have gone through enough in our lives to be divas.
Hadley: Everybody has a little diva in them - including myself.
Hammon: I’m growing into one, but I’m not one quite yet.
SID: How do you like to pamper yourself?
Hadley: My bathroom cupboard at home is filled! You know when you go to somebody’s house and want to snoop in their cupboards? I want to give somebody a reason to go snoop. I love pampering myself with beauty products.
Hammon: I don’t pamper myself. Honestly, I’m one of those women that doesn’t find time. I think I have [issues] about it - like it’s bad to pamper yourself.
Pinson: When you pay somebody else to do it and you can do it yourself, don’t you feel a little bit guilty? I do. You can do manicures and pedicures at home yourself. The difference between doing it at home and paying someone else is a diva-esque thing.
SID: If money were no object, would you pamper yourself the same way?
Hadley: I might go a little bigger, a little bolder. A week or two in a nice spa where you could have a massage every day.
Hammon: I’d be constantly at the salon.
Pinson: It’s not a money thing with me. I’ve always grown up doing things myself. Even though my parents had money, they just always instilled in me the values of things that you should spend money on and things that you shouldn’t spend money on because you can do them yourself.
SID:Would you consider yourself a girlie-girl or a tomboy?
Hadley: I walk the line. I love make-up, shoes and fashion. But on the flip side, I have days where I want to keep it low-key.
Pinson: A lot of my best friends tell me that I’m a girlie-girl because my favorite color is pink, and I still collect Barbies. Even though I grew up with older brothers and I can climb a tree better than any girl I know, I still have saved the girl in me.
Hammon: I am definitely a tomboy. In fact, I need a lot of help. I’m handicapped in the sense of being a girlie-girl.
SID: Since you’ve joined the show and people get to fuss over you in hair and make-up, have you learned to enjoy that?
Pinson: Oh no. I do my own hair.
Hammon: That’s my pampering. It’s a total luxury. It becomes a habit to have someone come over when you say, "Make-up!"
Hadley: It feels pretty great. But I have to tell you, the first thing I do when I’m done with work is wash off my make-up.
SID: What is your fashion style?
Hadley: I love dressing up, but more often than not, you’ll catch me in black military pants and a tank top.
Hammon: My style is as simple as possible, but with a touch of elegance.
Pinson: Natural. When I go to the mall, I wear sweats, no make-up, and a baseball cap.
SID: When you were a kid, did you ever play dress-up?
Pinson: Oh, sure! My mom had this gold A-line dress that came to the knees. Every time I put it on, I felt like Elizabeth Taylor. She’ll always be my favorite movie star.
Hadley: It was scary when I played dress-up because I’d mix and match things that maybe wouldn’t have been mixed to match. I remember one day coming out in one of those string, crocheted bikinis in the middle of the winter. "This is what I’m wearing today!" It would usually be in the mind-set of playing a character. I’d have a whole story behind it.
Hammon: Really? I totally agree. I would want to be the pirate or the cowboy or something crazy.
SID: What do you do that keeps you young at heart?
Hadley: It’s more of a mind-set. I don’t care if you’re 80 or 22 or 13, life is still there. Go for your dreams.
Hammon: I have a strong sense of play.
Pinson: Well, I don’t feel like I’m old! I don’t ever want to let go of that. I still feel like a teenager in every aspect of the word.