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Florence Talks Sex, Drugs and Bad Hairdos

November 3rd, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

On Monday’s Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, TV’s most famous mom, Florence Henderson,  got down and dirty about some issues close to her heart.

Of her ever-changing hairdo on The Brady Bunch, Florence says "I don’t know what I was thinking…I don’t know what was wrong with me and I never did drugs!"

Henderson, who currently stars in a one-woman show called All The Lives of Me, talked about her Brady Bunch co-star Maureen McCormick’s new book, which details the actress’s drug abuse.

 
"We all knew, Henderson said. "Especially during the Brady Bunch Variety Hour…She wouldn’t show up, or she’d be late. You know that there are problems…and my heart always went out to Maureen, because it took her a long time."

Florence says that when McCormick finally did get clean, Henderson was the first person to take her under her wing.

"When she finally kicked it [cocaine] I took her to lunch and I said, ‘Maureen, tear up your address book. Those people are no good in your life. Get rid of them!’"

Mike & Juliet also read a passage from McCormick’s book where she refers to Henderson as a "closeted sex pot" who liked to parade around topless.

"Well I was never a closeted sex pot!" Henderson joked. "I’ve always been a sex pot!"

McCormick Talks Cocaine, Abortions & Syphilis

October 16th, 2008

In an interview set to air Friday on The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, former Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick pulls some pretty heavy duty skeletons out of her closet when she talks about her new tell-all memoir, Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice.

Turns out Maureen not only had a nasty addiction to cocaine but a family history of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis.

"My grandmother died in a mental institution, she had contracted syphilis from her husband…he committed suicide a week after. My mother contracted the disease from my grandmother," Maureen tells hosts Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy. "Writing the book was really cathartic. I feel like I don’t have to hide anymore."

CLICK HERE to see OK!’s Exclusive Photoshoot with Maureen!

Maureen admits to loving cocaine the first time she tried it — so much so that "I became totally addicted for five years. It was awful. They would call me "The Hoover" because of how much cocaine I would do," she says.

At one point, Maureen says her addiction was so all-consuming that she became unaware of what she was doing, including getting pregnant.

"I was 18, 19 and 20 when I had each abortion," she recalls. It shows how careless I was. It shows what drugs did to me and how far I went. I was not aware of the things going on in my life. Playing Marcia, I always had to be perfect… but I had so much going on underneath. I always felt I had to be perfect for the public. Now I know I don’t — I can just be me."

Maureen says she hit rock bottom shortly after auditioning for Steven Spielberg for his then-film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. "It was one of the worst auditions of my life," she says. "I was asked to meet Steven Spielberg. I was high and I had missed my meeting with him. I was totally spaced out… been up for days. He offered me an orange…he probably thought I was sick."

For the entire interview, check out Friday’s Morning Show with Mike & Juliet — CLICK HERE or check local listings for time and station.

Maureen McCormick’s Skinny New Look

July 11th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Brady Bunch icon Maureen McCormick is still fighting the battle of the bulge as she promotes her new TV show and upcoming autobiography, she admitted to OK!.

She’s turned to a new weight loss method that helps curb her appetite.

"I’m using this product called Slim Shot and it reduces your appetite by like 30 percent," she says. "And why I love it so much is that it tastes like rice milk, which is one of my favorite things. I always like to have rice milk on my cereal with my husband."

Maureen,51, recently put back on ten pounds but, lately, she lost half of the weight. Her reason to look fit? She’s appearing on the new CMT reality show Outsiders’ Inn, a sequel to her last show, Gone Country. The new program films Maureen in a country-style living experience with such stars as Carnie Wilson and Bobby Brown.

 

And Maureen’s tell-all biography, Here’s the Story, comes out October 15. Although the actress, who played America’s most memorable TV teen, Marcia Brady, is tight lipped about the contents, she’s sure to share her recent weight struggle with OK!, who has followed her since last year.

After doing Celebrity Fit Club in Spring of 2007, Maureen lost 38 lbs., going from 154 to 116, and her amazing weight loss was featured in an OK! cover story. But when OK! visited her again in November 2007, she had regained ten pounds.

"I’m 5′3, I’m always up and down," Maureen says. "I love to eat but I just feel best when I’m at a thin weight. I get to a place in my life sometimes where I don’t excercise. I’m an all or nothing girl. I give in to something all the way or I back off and so I backed off–but now I’m back on!"

Having won the Celebrity Fit Club reality show in 2007 has helped Maureen keep off most of the weight. "That’s a good thing, because I’d probably weigh 500 pounds otherwise!" she laughes. "I think it’s part of everybody’s life–gaining weight, losing weight,excercise–it’s just one of those things."

Florence Henderson Rips on Brady Son’s Marriage

July 8th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

For several generations of TV viewers, Brady Bunch star Florence Henderson was the ideal suburban mom, never saying anything that wasn’t cheery and uplifting to her brood of six TV children. Well, it wasn’t the Carol Brady we all know and love who startled reported at a Television Critics Association event in L.A. today when she ripped into TV son Christopher Knight’s reality show marriage.

While promoting her upcoming Hallmark Channel movie Ladies of the House, Florence made it pretty clear that Christopher’s foray into reality TV, which includes stints on The Surreal Life and two seasons of My Fair Brady, which saw the actor tie the knot to fellow reality star alum, America’s Next Top Model champ Adrianne Curry, didn’t exactly do wonders for his personal life.

While Florence admitted that she offered her advice to Chris and Adrianne before their 2006 marriage, she then sighed, adding, "Maybe [now] I’ll come and counsel the divorce."

Florence Henderson Still a Brady Mom

July 7th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Once a Brady, always a Brady.

Florence Henderson played mom Carol Brady on the hit show from 1969-1974, and lives by that motto 34 years after going off the air.

“They are like my second family, the Brady kids,” Florence tells OK! at the American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Awards. “We’ve remained close all these years, and probably always will be close.

How close? The 74-year-old honoree, who has four children of her own with ex-husband Ira Bernstein, still keeps tabs on her on-screen children.

“I just saw Susan Olsen,” she tells OK! “We christened the new Emerald Princess ship. We got to go to Greece. It was very exciting. And I saw Sherwood Schwartz, who created the Brady Bunch, getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As soon as I get home, I’m having dinner with Eve [Plumb]. We all keep in touch.”

Don’t think the tight-knight relationships formed after the show though. Florence says the gang were hardly separable during the comedy’s run, often going away on vacation together.

“We became a family,” she says. “I loved when we got out of the studio. I loved going to Hawaii and the Grand Canyon and Kings Island. I loved going to work every day and being with a second family.”

By Valerie Nome

Maureen McCormick: “It’s Hard Keeping the Pounds Off”

April 21st, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Keeping the weight off is a challenge for Maureen McCormick.

After she dropped down to 116 lbs. on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, the former Brady Bunch star appeared on the cover of OK! in Nov. 2007.

CLICK HERE for OK!’s exclusive photoshoot with Maureen.

“I’ve gained ten of it back, but I just try to watch it,” she tells OK!  at a CMT party in Nashville. “It’s really hard because I’m 5′3" and I’m little. It’s really difficult. You have to really watch it and you have to really exercise. Especially when you’re 51 years old.”

The actress kickboxes, swims and jogs under the guidance of a trainer. But keeping the weight off has become more difficult than losing it in the first place.

“I love to eat, I love food and I’m short, so five pounds makes a huge difference. My biggest fault is that I love sweets. I love chocolate and sugar. I have to really watch that. I love Baskin Robbins chocolate mint ice cream and See’s candy. That’s my biggest downfall.”

By Valerie Nome

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