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Since I have landed in a place that I am pretty comfortable with career wise, I have decided to share a few unconventional tips that have contributed to my success as an actress/model. While I am sure many people would disagree, and that each person is different, these tips have helped with everything from free head shots, free promo, networking, and even a book deal.  So you can continue to drop wads of cash on headshots, postage and send out 100’s of packets alone or you can incorporate a few of these tried and true Lorelei tips and not send quite so many out. What can it hurt, right?

“Lorelei, Lorelei how do I get free head shots?”- Well the answer is simple. (more…)

Today has turned out to be yet another exciting birthday… but not the usual tipsy partying with friends exciting. Oh no, my loveles, this birthday was something of a mixture between Jerry Springer and Groundhog Day (the movie, of course). Keeping it interesting, I suppose. Obviously many of my friends are still a bit miffed over me forgetting my early birthday party, so there wasn’t really a big celebration. Understandable. The day started out blah, I actually had forgotten it was in fact my birthday until about an hour or so after I woke up. My brother had given me a homemade blanket for my chronically freezing ass and a homemade red velevet cake with peanut butter icing. Yum! My absolute favorite cake in the entire world and in my opinion the only cake worthy of the celebratory birthday cake status.

After that I figured it out and was pretty excited to start the day off right… that was until 2 ginormous troll looking women decided to bang on my door and demand that I give them $700. Ummm… haha yeah I’ll get right on that bitches, which of course I said to them in those exact words. Hold on, let me back that up, because that is a big jump from cake to crackwhore, so I’ll start at the beginning. My brother sold her a broken down car AS IS listing it was jacked up, she jacked it up, probably from being high, so she assumed I who was not involved in the sale at all, would pay her for being a dumbass.  She knows I am the actress (which for some reason people assume means you are ballin) and not my brother and so her and a car full of people ride up to my place and two chicks get out trying to bully this birthday gal out of some cash. Hahaha the one girl is oh.. what’s the phrase… buckin up? and of course I am literally laughing at her. When it comes to intimidation, you need to (more…)

Well now, I have joked about getting old for awhile now but I think karma has caught up with me. In response to my kidding about 25 being old, I actually forgot my own birthday party. That’s right, forgot it completely. It was 11/13 at Barnaby’s in West Chester PA and I just completely spaced out on it. People from North Carolina, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Jersey were all there just waiting on me.

I am so sorry. I swear I am not that inconsiderate. The party was planned for me by some friends, about an hour from my place and I was told about it once on Nov. 3rd. I wrote it down and spilled tea all over my calendar so it just appeared to be a blurb. I couldn’t for the life of me make it out, and just forgot all about it. I know, I know I officially suck. Bad, Bad Lorelei Bad!

For the record ya’ll, my birthday is actually this Monday, the 17th but they set up the party early for me…

Ah yes, I will be turning the big 2-5 on the 17th. I must say that I am not very excited about this, after all it is the quarter of a century mark, and for some reason, despite my accomplishments, I don’t really feel as though I have done enough in my life. So I have decided on the idea of a pre-mid life crisis, thought it would be a good idea to have one every 25 years so there is no big gigantic one. If all goes according to planned, at age 25 I will be probably dying my hair some obnoxious color, picking up a strange accent and writing sappy love stories. See that? Start small.

When I turn 50 though, watch out. It is sooo cougar time haha. I debated that for the 1/4 century crisis, however seeing as I resemble a 15 year old and am barely out of college, I would have to date borderline jail bait and that is just creepy and gross. So alas, my cougar status will have to be pushed back 2 1/2 decades. No biggie, I intend on a 1/2 century crisis as well as a 3/4 century crisis, so there is plenty of time. I also intend to buy a ridiculously over priced car, move to some random ass Caribbean island and maybe make a run for local office in said random location.

At 75, well… dude I have like 50 years to plan for that so shut up and buy me presents

I have been selected for 2 national print ad campaigns, one for Coca Cola and one for Verizon Wireless. Both are pretty cool deal, and both have a decent amount of exposure. Though I am not really a print model, in this economy most agents are pushing any type of work available. I think that it couldn’t hurt, and everyone loves to have a good bit of extra cash around the holidays.

I would love to do both, however 2 filming locations on opposite coasts,  same two days span, same compensation.  In a situation like this, it is a toss up. Only one can be done. I am leaning towards Coke, because in the event I ever do decide to put 100% into acting, many professionals have Soda endorsements. Wouldn’t want to tick off any future employers. However, Verizon has continous add circulation in the world wide market. I am completely deadlocked on this one, so you vote. Which one do I choose?

In the comment section of ‘You Asked I Answered’, I received a few more questions. True to my word, I will now answer those additional questions.

Q. I read somewhere on here that you are obsessed with Tivo, what is on your Tivo list? Why did you choose those shows? Was it to further your creative abilities, professional research, extraordinary programming or other

A. Oh lordy, there are dozens of shows and all for different reasons. My absolute favorite show is ‘Skins’ on BBC America. It is the single BEST television series that I have ever seen. It is addictive, engaging, realistic, humorous, unpredictable and absolutely delicious on every level. I guess that falls under extraordinary programming. Other shows include: America’s Next Top Model- Army Wives- Bones- Cheaters- Cops- Cow & Chicken- Criminal Minds- CSI- CSI Miami- CSI New York- Desperate Housewives- Drawn Together- Fairly Odd Parents- Family Guy- Flavor of Love Girl’s Charm School- Forensic Files- Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends- Grey’s Anatomy- I Love New York- Inked- Lil’ Bush- London Ink- Miami Ink- Mind Freak- Mind of Mencia- My War Diary- Nip/Tuck- Oz- Prison Break- Private Practice- Rescue Me- Rock Of Love- Six Feet Under- South Park- The Grim Adventure’s of Billy and Mandy- The Hills haha- The Job- The Shot- The Starter Wife- Ugly Betty- VH1’s I Love the ___ series- Without a Trace- some are for learning, some are just that damn good. As for Skins? Well here is an old trailer for the series premiere. You can see for yourself how provocative and entertaining it is.

Q. You say being a parent is your number one priority, yet you have a demanding job. How is parenting number one in such a fast paced industry?

A.   Actually since I am not a Hollywood actress, my career is not so cut throat that I need to constantly compete. I will work for about two weeks give or take, then spend a few months as a stay at home mom. Given those statistics on my average workload, I am working fill time for roughly 8-12 weeks per year and relaxing on that pay (with a few modeling gigs in between) and spending time with my family during the remaining weeks. I am at a point where I don’t really have to work all that hard to have a solid bank account.

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