That’s the very funny Wendy McLendon-Covey in Good Housekeeping’s September issue now on newsstands.
In the “Connected Women” issue, The Goldbergs star talks a bunch of things including 80’s fashion and wild outfits she wears on the TV show, the “smotherer” mom, being a crazy cat lady, genius shopping strategies, and more.
Here’s some:
Wendi on her genius shopping strategies: “My shopping strategies are as follows: Get online, buy stuff, try it on at home in my mirror – I don’t have a skinny mirror – and return what I don’t need.”
On the ‘80s trends she would revisit: “There aren’t any! That was an embarrassing decade fashion-wise. One thing that I can kind of get behind is the jumpsuit, except that the ‘80s jumpsuits were made out of fabrics that don’t give. It’s a weird nylon that rustles when you walk by or a denim that has no Lycra in it whatsoever. It makes it feel like you’re wearing a suit of armor. So, no, ‘80s, stay in the vintage stores. We’ll let someone else wear them, but I get my fill of shoulder pads from the show thank you very much.”
On her daily transformation into her The Goldbergs character, Beverly (a mom in the ‘80s with big hair and questionable style):
“Every time I open my closet in the morning and I see what wardrobe has put in there, I think, “There she is. There she is.” Is it a sweater that tells a story of Little Bo Peep? Of course it is. I’m ready to go. Bev has a very specific look.”
On her character on The Goldbergs compared to her own mother—both “smotherers”:
“My own mother was a smotherer. My mother would never storm down to the school and make principals cry. Bev did, but my mother was in my business a lot, and look, I wouldn’t be any different if I had kids. It’s called parenting, you know? And the more they pull away from you in their teenage years, the more you gotta get in there. At a certain age, embarrassment works better than any punishment, or it did for me! So, yeah. I was proudly raised by a smotherer and she’s unapologetic about it, so there you go. Don’t be afraid to love your children in front of other people.
On her most embarrassing fashion blunder:
“Gosh, I’ve got such a bucket full of fashion blunders, but the one I will admit to because it’s fresh in my memory. I was struggling with my zipper before a red carpet event, but I managed to yank it up. Then, at dinner, the thing just popped open. I could feel it traveling south, and I thought, I’ve got to leave right now or my whole ass is going to be out.”
On being a self-proclaimed ‘crazy cat lady’:
“I’m totally leaning into being a crazy cat lady. Maxine is the queen, Darla is the governess of all boxes, Hunter does no hunting whatsoever, Stewart keeps the possums away and Crash likes to drink out of faucets. He’s the reason we have a drought in California.”
On if she is a ‘gym rat’ or a ‘couch potato’:
“If they had a couch at the gym, I’d do that.”
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