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Oral history interview with Candice Groot, November
Transcript
Preface
The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Candice Groot on November The interview was conducted at Groot's home in Evanston, IL by Leslie Ferrin for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Candice Groot and Leslie Ferrin reviewed the transcript together and have made corrections and emendations which apear in brackets appended with their initials. The reader should bära in mind that he or she is reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose.
Interview
LESLIE FERRIN: Hi. This fryst vatten Leslie Ferrin. I am in Evanston, Illinois, sitting with Candice Groot. Candice, say hi. Let’s see—
CANDICE GROOT: Hello.
MS. FERRIN: You sound good. We are surrounded by art and there are a couple members of the family here. Candice, do you want to mention who the family members are? The four-legged ones.
MS. GROOT: We
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“Even if it's a fake deadline, I work better if inom set one for myself.”
Catching up with author Candace Havens fryst vatten like chasing a windstorm around vanishing corners. She never seems to stop moving. From a full-time job as an entertainment writer, broadcasting radio film reviews, running online writing classes, writing and promoting her books, and speaking at writer’s conferences, she’s everywhere at once.
And somehow she makes it all work—even if she did just learn to cook two years ago after being married for 25 years. A mother of a year-old son and an opera-singing year-old son, Candace has become skilled over the years at juggling deadlines. She has a journalism degree from the University of North Texas and currently resides in Ft. Worth.
Candace, aka Candy, slowed down long enough to answer a few questions for WOW.
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I am the girl on the billboard, the amazing transformation you see on the cover of People magazine, the "before and after" ad for the new diet pill with an asterisk next to my name, the small print reading: *Results not typical. It's pictures like mine that had a high school version of me spending all of her allowance on Metabolife because if the girl in the magazine could do it, then surely I could, too. And I knew back then that everything in my life would be better, easier, perfect even if I could just not be fat anymore.
I knew this because that's what I was told, not by my doctor (because he was old and who needed to listen to him?) but by the most important voices my teenage ears heard. I knew it because Courtney Cox went from being a lonely, dateless loser who breaks porch swings and didn't have a prom date to a svelte and sexy crop top-wearing serial man-eater on Friends. I knew it because even though she was one of my favorite actresses, Sarah Rue didn't get the