Lisa Rinna knows how to play the Hollywood game.
And the Days of Our Lives and Melrose Place actress is constantly reinventing herself.
Here's a closer look at her journey from smalltown girl to one of the Real Housewives of Beverly
Hills.
Lisa Rinna's mom claims Lisa came out of the womb basically born to entertain.
And Rinna told She Knows,
"I had no choice (but) to go down this path."
According to The Oregonian, her earliest roles were in school productions, including one
where she sang "I'm Just Wild About Harry" on stage.
The performance later had added significance for her because she went from singing about
a Harry to eventually marrying one.
"Awwww!
Look at how young we are, oh my lord."
Not everyone was as convinced as Rinna's mom that Lisa would become a big star.
Rinna's freshman year acting teachers at the University of Oregon weren't exactly fond
of her.
She told The Oregonian,
"Whether they had it out for me or not, they didn't love me and wouldn't put me in Acting
2."
Rather than keep plugging away, she dropped out of college after her freshman year and
pursued a career in modeling.
Rinna worked in San Francisco and Japan before landing in Los Angeles, where she signed up
for acting classes.
She said,
"Things have worked out all right.
I turned it around.
I always seem to take some lemons and turn them into lemonade."
Rinna showed up to her second audition for Days of Our Lives, the eighth soap opera she
had reportedly auditioned for, looking different than she did at her first meeting.
She told Oprah,
"I had a break-up go on right between the audition and the call-back.
And I had this really crazy idea to cut my hair off."
And cut her hair off she did, opting for the short 'do she would become known for.
"I really think that that's why I got the part because, like, I was feeling really full
of myself and sassy!"
Rinna made her debut as Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives in 1992, and reprised the role
with a triumphant return in 2018.
"My God."
"No it's just me.
Hi Mom."
You can't talk about Rinna's transformation without talking about her famous lips.
And in case it wasn't obvious, they've been surgically enhanced.
She told the Today show,
"25 years ago I had my lips injected…"
"Right."
"...with silicone."
"Oh."
"Stupid thing to do."
"Right."
"24."
But over the years, Rinna's top lip became swollen due to the scar tissue that formed
around the silicone, and her lips became hard.
So back to the operating table she went, this time to have some of the silicone removed.
People magazine reported that the 2010 surgery decreased the volume in her lips by at least
30 percent.
"That you can do something about it when I didn't ever think you could."
But after all that, if you think Rinna regrets having her lips injected with silicone, you're
wrong.
She told Today,
"I would do it again."
"You would?"
"I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career."
For someone so concerned about their appearance, Rinna sure left herself open to ridicule when
she infamously agreed to become a spokesperson for adult diapers in 2012.
"Lisa has tried on and is currently wearing the new Depends silhouette for women.
The women's briefs that look, fit and feel just like underwear."
But the actress admitted on Real Housewives,
"I'll do anything to make a buck…That Depends job saved our bacon.
I got paid more money to do that than I got paid to do anything ever in my life.
And I was just winking all the way to the bank."
"Do you know how much I made on those dusters and diapers?
A lot more than your restaurant I'm sure."
Rinna claimed she wasn't the only one who benefited financially, either.
She blogged for Bravo that $250,000 went towards Dress For Success.
"I'm doing it for Dress for Success which is an amazing charity that helps women get
their confidence back, so that they can go back out into the workplace and get their
lives back together."
No longer is Rinna simply juggling her own career.
She now serves as "momager" for model-daughters Delilah Belle and Amelia Gray Hamlin.
"The girls have started modeling.
I'm like a teenage-wrangling momager now.
Look at you, you're on the flipping building."
Rinna books gigs for her daughters and accompanies them to appearances and photo shoots, something
that's even become a Real Housewives storyline.
"So the girls are gonna walk in a ready-to-wear show for Dolce.
Yay!
Okay, confirm, confirm, confirm."
Managing her daughters' careers is apparently more difficult than her own job, but when
Rinna has questions about the modeling industry, she turns to her famous friends Kris Jenner
and Cindy Crawford for advice.
She told Entertainment Tonight,
"Cindy Crawford's a friend of mine, so that's pretty handy.
I mean, y'know, she's kind of an expert, I'd say."
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