Selling Sunset's Christine Quinn On Motherhood, Feminism & Playing A Villain | GLAMOUR UK

I am taking the term bitch and turning it around.

It is not a derogatory term.

It is something that I'm proud of and it means

that I've done something right because I'm memorable.

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Hi, I'm Christine Quinn and this is Glamour Unfiltered.

I wish I could say that confidence was something

that I was born with.

It's something that I've acquired over the years

and really learned along the way.

I came from a very small town and I was told no.

And I was told that things weren't possible,

but I knew inside that I had fire and ambition,

so I used people's doubt as power and fire and intuition.

So every time I was told, No,

it made me push harder and harder.

I think we are only in competition with ourselves.

The thing that we don't realize is, as human beings,

we're capable of everything and anything.

It's really important to never compare yourself

to other people because you're so special

and you're so individual.

And I know it's so hard, you know?

I live in a city of beautiful women walking down the street

every day and it's so hard.

I see them and I'm like,

Gosh, why don't I look like this? Why?

But then what I do is I turn my brain and I say,

You know what?

I'm so grateful that I'm so intelligent,

I have a loving family, I have a beautiful son.

And I think about all the things that I'm grateful for.

And I think it's really important to retrain your brain.

I came out probably a year and a half ago

and I said that I suffered from anxiety and depression

and it was something that I was ashamed of for years.

I never wanted to tell anyone.

But I got help and I worked with a therapist

and it changed my life.

It's one of those things that, as long as you recognize it,

then you're able to help yourself.

And since then, I found really great tricks.

Journaling for me is something I do every night

and it's very meditative and refreshing.

I will write a list of 10 things a day, minimum,

that I'm grateful for because I think it's really important

to stay grounded and realize how special you really are

when we're in a whole entire world of people

that sometimes try to bring you down.

I signed up for social media when I was 29 years old.

The show just came out and I never had Facebook,

I never had Twitter, I never had Instagram,

I never had any social platform.

So for me, I went into it with a really positive attitude.

However, that was the first time I experienced hate,

and hateful comments from people that didn't even know me.

And it was a shock at first.

It was really, really difficult.

I remember many nights crying, just wishing I was dead

from all these horrible comments and letters and threats,

death threats, on me and my family.

Then I realized this is my chance to let people in,

to have them know me for the real me.

So I started building my social media and I started engaging

with fans and people I'd never met before

and doing videos and stories and showing off my goofy self.

And through that, I have created an incredible fan base

of people that are like-minded,

people that are on my same level,

people that are supportive of other women.

It's just a great place for women to lift each other up.

I feel most empowered when I'm around like-minded women.

And I think that's the most important thing is women have

to stick together.

And I just, I think it's my life mantra.

I would say I'm absolutely a feminist.

It's something that has been important to me from day one.

And I grew up in Dallas, Texas, and where I grew up,

chivalry was, you know, the women would stay at home

and the men would work.

And I knew I wasn't cut out for that.

So I'm really happy to be a woman in the workforce.

And all the people that work with me are all women,

from my literary agents, to my publicists,

to people I employ and I love that.

I am taking the term bitch and turning it around.

It is not a derogatory term,

it is something that I'm proud of.

And it means that I've done something right

because I'm memorable.

Well behaved women never make history.

And for me, when the show came out, people were like,

Oh, you're such a bitch, you're such a bitch,

you're such a bitch.

You're talking about me. You remember me.

I caused a kerfuffle and I think that's the one thing

that is important, especially in business.

You wanna be remembered.

So I've reclaimed that word.

It's the name of my book, How to Be a Boss Bitch.

So it's something that's near and dear to my heart.

Women, we have many different sides.

For the collection, we decided to do a sweet and sassy,

and with that came a lip cream that is a patented formula

that transforms with heat and changes colors

from hot to cold.

So you're really able to achieve a beautiful,

glam daytime look or amp it up for a nighttime look.

I never knew what I wanted to do when I was a little girl.

I didn't know I wanted to be an actress or a model,

but I always knew I wanted to entertain

and I always wanted to make people feel something.

So that was my goal with the show.

And I wouldn't necessarily say I play a character,

but, like many women, I'm very versatile.

But, yes, there is two sides because, yes,

I am the villain and I'm really strong,

I'm really powerful, I'm really outspoken.

I'm known for my honesty, but also I have a really kind,

sweet, loving, generous side.

Appearing on television didn't really alter the way

that I perceived myself.

The hardest part was people giving advice,

and they always do, and they say,

Oh, well, don't dress this way, don't wear that,

don't be so loud, don't have so many opinions.

It was other people trying to tell me who to be,

trying to fit me in a box, in a mold.

And I'm meant to be an out-of-the-box thinker.

Oh my gosh, Christine at home, I wear baggy sweats

and disheveled hair.

I never wear makeup when I'm not working,

ever, ever, ever, ever.

I actually enjoy the time that I'm not glam.

I like to give my skin a break and I actually,

I'm quite a tomboy, believe it or not.

Motherhood has been fantastic.

I never thought that I could love someone

as much as I love myself, but I do.

I have a four month old boy and he is just beautiful,

he's the love of my life.

There's a point where I was like,

I don't know if I can do this,

I don't know if I can do it all.

But I learned to alter my schedule

and it's the best thing ever.

I love being able to do it all.

And he really, really changed my life.

He was a miracle baby and I had a really,

really traumatic birth and you'll see that play out

on season four.

But I immediately went into surgery.

I was, it was insane.

I was flat lining, my baby was flat lining.

They kept coming up to my husband and asking,

You need to choose one right now.

'Cause the baby was stable, I wasn't stable,

it was going back and forth.

And he said, I'm not choosing one.

I need you to have both.

Eventually, 22 minutes later, from the time I walked

in the hospital to the time I had the baby,

my baby was born and we were both okay,

but it was a really traumatic experience.

And that taught me that time is all we have

and time is so precious.

And at 33 years old, I almost died. [laughs]

So when they were closing me up, they were in such a hurry

because I was losing so much blood,

they had to just sew me up and they were afraid

that they left tools in me.

So they had to put me through an x-ray machine.

It was very traumatic.

So now I don't sweat the small things anymore,

because I realized that every day is something

that we should be grateful for, you know?

And I never would have thought at 33

that I would go through something like that.

It's just something you don't think about.

But it really changed me and it taught me to value,

not only time, but the people that are around you.