- Are you ready to do this? - You don't think
it'll be stressful?
Doing four shoots?
Like, what?
♪ Deck the halls with hairballs of holly ♪
♪ Meow meow meow meow ♪
- Wait, what?
(classical music)
- In case that didn't make sense
- Which I'm sure it didn't
- It's Ladylike.
- It's Ladylike,
and we're making holiday cards with our cats.
- Because meow not.
- I have never taken a family holiday photo before.
My family's just never really been
the professional photo taking type.
- My family and I never did the holiday card thing.
- No, we never...
My family, we didn't send out a family holiday photo.
What would happen is my mom would slave away
in the living room on the Gateway computer
for about three weeks trying to write the family newsletter.
- I have never taken a professional photoshoot
with my pet before, so this is a double whammy,
a first for both.
Merging the two, very excited.
Roberta is my cat.
She's almost a year...
She is a year.
I'm in LA with no family, a few friends,
and Roberta is truly the closest to family that I have.
And so, I just wanna do something
that truly represents our relationship
and how both of us are just extra princesses
who deserve the world.
- Let's talk about Mars and Bones.
My boys are very social cats.
They, like, once you come into the house,
they wanna know who you are, they wanna know your story,
they wanna talk to you, they wanna be pet by you.
I hesitate to say they're like dog cats
'cause they're definitely cats,
but they're very social cats.
This photoshoot is so important to me because, you know...
God, I said I wasn't gonna get emotional.
As an unmarried woman in a city,
when I think about my family, my closest family members,
I think about Mars and Bones.
They've been with me as I kind of developed
into the adult human that I am today,
and I wanna have a family picture.
I want a picture that I can look back at and be like,
those are my sons.
- I think James is so handsome,
he's got such good colors, he's snow white.
Literally, one of the biggest compliments you can give me
is to tell me that my cat is pretty.
(laughing)
I think our pets are family.
James really does feel like my little son, you know?
He used to be this wiry little boy
and then he turned out to be this fluffy, beautiful cat.
It feels like our little souls are intertwined.
So, that's me and James.
So, I'm excited to do it 'cause I want people to see that.
- [Freddie] So, Devin, you're doing...
- I'm doing Vanity Fair.
I'm keeping it kind of just glamour.
(laughing)
- Just simple glamour.
Just magazine spread. - Glamour, chill.
- Yeah, I'm gonna do a floor length gown.
The boys are in bow ties.
This is a black tie photoshoot.
- Affair, okay? - It's an affair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2018 has been a very dramatic year.
It's been volatile.
And so, I kind of want to match the level of drama
with my photos with my cats.
You know (bleep) Karen's gonna send you a picture
of her in a field with her baby
and then you're gonna get a picture of me
in (bleep) diamonds with my cats.
It's gonna take you to a place.
- How many...
You're brining... - Both of 'em.
(record scratching) They're both my sons.
They're both my sons.
- You thought. - You told me it was one
and I was like...
- Yeah, you were like, is she bringing Mars and Bones?
How is she gonna choose?
And I was like, I don't know, probably Mars.
He has an Instagram.
- Yeah, that's literally what we thought.
- Chantel, you're doing holiday steampunk.
- Steampunk, where did that come from?
- When I was trying to pick my theme,
I was like, hmmm, what do I think of when I think of James?
He always loves inspecting new things.
Well, he's like a little detective,
he's like Sherlock Holmes,
maybe we'll do a Sherlock Holmes theme.
And then I was like, let me take that a step further,
and that was steampunk.
- So, the theme of my photoshoot...
Hear me out.
If you've ever seen the Destiny's Child Say My Name video
with the different colored rooms, like super monochromatic,
that's what me and Berty are doing.
We're gonna have a white room,
an orange room, a red room, a blue room.
She's gonna have accessories,
white, orange, red, blue, decked out.
We're doin' it.
- It's gonna be incredible.
I'm seeing it in my head, and it's amazing.
I just worry about the road there.
- I'm not, I think with Berta by your side,
- We can do anything. - Exactly.
- Are y'all ready?
- Yeah, we're ready. - I'm ready.
- It's shooting day.
You excited?
(upbeat music)
Today's the day.
I'm about to start my first setup
for my Say My Name Destiny's Child 2000s themed,
music video themed photoshoot.
That was so many adjectives and descriptive words,
but that's what this is because I'm extra.
Roberta has been...
She's had a morning.
When she first got in here,
she sort of scurried behind some items, some structures.
- She ran right underneath everything.
- She's safe, she's sound, she's relaxing in her carrier.
I think she's ready for her debut.
Hey, Google, take a selfie.
- Hey, Roberta, (kissing teeth).
Over here.
Try to get her so she's sittin' on your lap.
Embody Destiny's Child.
Yes. - Hey, hey.
Hey. - Hey, Roberta.
- Hey.
- Hey, Robbie, over here.
Oh, so cute.
- In my head,
the way I operate is I just have
a vision of the final product,
not how difficult the process is gonna be.
Yeah, my New Years resolution
is to think it all the way through.
She was a little antsy, but actually,
I'm pretty impressed that we even got one shot.
- [Photographer] Okay, one more shot.
One, two, three, cool.
Perfect. - Three more to go.
(intense music)
- [Photographer] Sassy.
Yeah, do you want her to chill for a minute?
She's getting mad.
- Setup number two was a bit of a struggle.
Roberta is over it, she's ready to go home.
- [Photographer] Hey, Roberta!
Okay, bye.
- So, we gave her a little bit of a break
because she kind of lashed out at me mid-photoshoot.
She walked around,
she ended up walking back into her carrier
to basically avoid me,
and my feelings were hurt.
Hey, real quick, real quick.
Luckily, she was okay.
We got a decent shot maybe two or three frames
into the second half of the blue setup shoot
after the break.
I'm hot, I'm sweating, there's cat hair all over my outfit.
(squeaking)
- Okay, I got it. - This is the thing,
I hope she's just gotten used to it
so she's a little bit more calm for the rest of it
or she could just be really (beep) over it
and bite my head off.
Who knows?
(intense music)
(kissing teeth) - Roberta!
Hey, over here.
Perfect.
- For the red setup, Roberta was very well-behaved,
and I think it's because Devin brought pheromone spray
and sprayed it around her to calm her down.
She was an angel.
I didn't wanna get up.
We were just hangin' out.
Oh, now she's sittin.
- [Photographer] Hey, Roberta.
(kissing teeth).
Perfect.
Got it. - I think I have faith.
I think for the last setup
she'll maintain the good behavior.
One look left.
(70s music)
- [Photographer] Yup.
Aw, good job.
(kissing teeth)
Perfect.
Good job.
Have her sitting on the top of the couch.
Uh oh, never mind.
- The white setup, she's just done.
She did not like this jacket.
She didn't like the texture of it, it makes weird sounds,
it's plasticy, it's hard. She wasn't here for it.
(kissing teeth)
- [Photographer] Just try to have her on your leg.
Do more with your hands.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Okay, I think we got it.
- There's cat hair everywhere (laughs).
That's a wrap on Freddie and Birdie's
Destiny's Child Say My Name video remake photoshoot,
holiday edition.
We'll call it Freddie's Child.
I'm really proud of her.
She really did her best for four different shoot setups
and four different little bandanas,
and I commend her for being relatively well-behaved.
She did a decent job.
So, now we're gonna move on
to Chantel and Devin's photoshoots.
Chantel's next.
She's gonna be doing her steampunk holiday shoot.
Now I can change back into comfy clothes
and take my girl home.
(coughing)
(renaissance music)
- So, today's the day.
I'm shotting my steampunk holiday photoshoot
with my baby boy, James.
I love my look.
I wanted to do something that was just entirely different
'cause its like, we're doing a whole thing,
why not go big with it?
Why not do something that you would never do before?
It's an aesthetic that I always really
loved and respected a lot, and so I was like,
let's see how I can pull this off.
He loves his carrier,
and so I just kinda brought him into the room
maybe a half hour ago and just left him in his carrier,
and he's very settled.
So, he's still pretty young,
he's only a year and three months old,
and he's a very energetic little boy.
And even if I'm holding him at home,
I usually only really hold him for 15 seconds
before he's like, okay, mom, I gotta go run,
and then I'll let him fly off
and then he goes and looks at birds and stuff.
(kissing teeth)
- Perfect.
Hey there.
(meowing) (laughing)
- I'm just lettin' him look for a second,
then I'll flip him.
Yeah. - Oh, there he goes.
- He did great.
I thought that he was gonna run around everywhere,
but he didn't, he just let me hold him.
We had a little bit of difficulty capturing his attention,
but aside from that, he was perfect.
(kissing teeth) - Hey, good.
James, James.
He's like, wait, what?
- The only thing is that he is a little bit large.
I can't really hold him with one hand,
it kinda has to be two hands.
So, I had to figure out ways to hold him
while still showcase the entire outfit
because I wanted this whole thing to be on display.
(mumbling) Okay.
Look up at, yup.
Look at me. (kissing teeth)
Hey, James.
Hey, good boy.
Come here. - At one point,
we decided to switch up the poses a little bit to see
just how well-behaved he would be,
and he sat on the table and I think we got
some little fun pictures there.
I think for most of 'em he's probably lookin' that way,
but for maybe one he was lookin' that way.
- [Photographer] Look up at me.
Okay, yeah, I think we got it.
- [Woman] Oh, yeah!
- I'm done.
James did great.
He's a pro, he's a pro model.
Came in, did his job, and now he's leaving.
This'll be my first holiday card to date,
but I know that it'll be my best holiday card ever.
So, I'm very excited to see what it looks like
and I think that he's gonna look so handsome.
- Hi.
I'm a little worried, Fred,
that this cute gate that worked for Bertie and James
is not gonna work for my cats 'cause Mars,
the first thing he did when he got in this room
is stuck his paw in it and then was like...
- [Freddie] Literally knows how to break through.
- Just testing.
- [Freddie] What kinda mood are they in right now?
- Oh, they're in a complaining kinda mood.
You should've heard them in the car.
- Oh. - Okay,
now you're eating your brother's food.
(meowing)
(upbeat music)
Woo, the (bleep) are in the house.
All of 'em.
Yeah, we're here.
The boys aren't happy with me, but they'll be fine.
So, this is a Vogue slash Vanity Fair theme.
I'm in this dress, the boys are in bow ties.
We are bringing you drama for the new year.
I have my hair slicked back,
they have their hairs combed-ish.
I have this nice pheromone spray
that the vet gave me yesterday.
It's supposed to be the same pheromones
that momma cats elicit when they just give birth,
it's the bonding pheromone.
It's been working sort of.
We're gonna try to do both cats at once.
We may have to get creative
with someone handing me one, we'll see.
Oh my god, that is so funny.
- Could we possibly get him to sit up?
This is a little difficult.
(meowing)
Hey, look over at me, please.
(mumbling)
He's a squirmy boy.
- So, first I tried to hold Bones and put Mars on the table
'cause Mars can sit still, and then that wasn't working.
There was a lot of wiggling going on,
no one was looking at the camera.
And so, then we decided to switch them.
That did not work at all.
- [Photographer] Never mind.
Okay, go it.
(meowing)
Yeah.
(laughing)
- Bones didn't like the table.
Oh my god, they're such divas.
- If you could get him sitting on the table
and then what you just did with the carrying him.
Oh, good boy.
Hey, Mars, look over here.
Good boy, wow.
- Usually, when I work with Jade and Macy
I try to pose really well and hold my body in different ways
and give them options, but there was none of that today.
It was all about Mars and Bones.
And finally we got them both on the table
and they started kissing each other.
- Oh, that's cute.
Okay, yeah.
Okay, I think we got it.
That was good.
That was really cute.
- Wow (laughs).
That was five minutes of intense stress.
I've never modeled with cats before.
Uta Hagen who is a very famous acting coach
says that you need to be like a cat on stage,
just so natural,
and at the end of the day when people look at these photos,
they're not gonna be looking at me,
they're gonna be looking at these damn cats
'cause cats just pull attention.
So, if there's a picture of them both kissing,
then that's great.
I'm just an accessory.
So, from our family to yours, happy holidays.
Right?
Can you meow?
Seriously?
You meow from five in the morning until 10:30 at night,
and when I need you to meow you're not gonna do it?
Oh, he's pissed. (laughing)
Oh, he mad.
Happy holidays from Bones and I and Mars wherever he is.
He's somewhere around here. (meowing)
(holiday music)
- Yay! - Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
- How are we feeling?
- I'm a little bit worried about me
just having the same face no matter what
and not moving my body and him just being like...
(laughing)
- It was a lot of multitasking.
- It really was.
- I don't know, it was a difficult day to pose.
So, I feel like the cats are gonna look amazing,
I'm gonna look stressed.
You know what I mean? - Really?
Well, I've seen all the photos.
- You have?
Fredericka.
- This is my video, so I've seen them.
(laughing)
- I'm the boss, so I did it.
- I will tell you that that is incorrect.
- Oh, okay, can't wait.
I feel like I'm in America's Next Top Model
every time I do this.
Every time we do this. - Tyra, Tyra.
- Where is she?
- Tell me you're proud of me, or ashamed.
Just tell me anything.
I'm blown away.
- Bertie was actually pretty okay for this setup.
(gasping) - Oh, god.
- Blue. - What?
- Blue's great.
- I love this. - Yeah.
Bertie, this was a difficult setup for Bertie.
She didn't love it, we had to stop and take a break.
- Oh my god.
I'm starting to see her getting a little angry.
- [Chantel] Oh, I love it.
- Thanks, lades.
- The last one. - Oh, what?
- [Chantel] What?
- [Devin] Oh my god.
- [Freddie] Look at her.
She was mad.
She was done here.
- [Devin] Yeah, look at her.
- But it's like she's in her own white palace.
She should be mad.
I feel like if you're in a white palace,
that's when everyone just like, yeah, whatever.
- Next, we're gonna look at Chanti's.
- What?
- So good.
- Oh my god.
- [Freddie] And I love that you guys
are looking in opposite directions.
That is so cute. - Wow, what a dynamic duo.
- Yeah. - Are you gonna cry?
- I don't know what to say.
I love it. - Yeah.
- We're getting a 360 view.
He's taking the right, I'm takin' the left.
We're just...
- He's got your back.
Oh, wow.
- Full frontal. - Full body.
Just look at James.
- Oh my god. - I can't.
- [Devin] He looks like a little sidekick.
- [Freddie] Yeah.
- He's a star. - He's such a star.
- Oh, what? - Oh my goodness.
Look at my little gents. - Devin,
look at your face.
Oh my god.
- [Freddie] Can you...
You just serve face always. - Yes.
- Oh my god. - So good.
- What party am I at though?
(laughing)
The level of intensity
that we're both serving right here is matched.
You know what I mean?
- I mean, you are truly their mother.
- Yes, yes.
I can't wait to put this on everything.
I can't wait to make this into a stamp.
Aw.
Oh my god, they're kissing.
- They're kissing. - Kiss.
- [Chantel] And you can see both of their bow ties.
They're so handsome!
- That's my sons.
- Are you gonna cry?
- Yeah, look at them.
I am so pleased.
- Surprise for you, ladies.
- I am going to cry.
Shut up.
And Roberta Sinclaire. (laughing)
- [Chantel] Freddie, this is exquisite.
- This is just too much. - So good.
- My baby, my son.
This is the most cat lady thing I will ever say,
but don't you feel our two little souls
just doing the same thing? - I really do.
- He's like, oh, we're doing resting bitch face?
Got it. - Got it, on it.
- This looks like a cover of a cookbook.
- [Chantel] I love it.
- Yeah, look at them and their little kisses.
I just cannot.
Oh, goodness, goodness.
- Oh, we're not playing any more.
This is serious.
- I mean, we did the thing, we showed up,
but the real showstoppers are our kitties.
- You know what I'm realizing?
I haven't felt joy in a while,
(laughing)
but this right here today is joy.
- This is what the holidays are about.
- This is what the holidays need.
- Holiday cards with our cats.
- [All] Lady tested, lady found purpose again.
- We did. - Yeah.
- That's it. - We found purpose.
- It was under our noses the entire time, you guys.
(upbeat music)