Sneak Peek - Reality TV Duo Tiny & Shekinah Visit THE REAL Today

"THE REAL" hosts tell touching stories of personal baggage they are carrying and reality TV duo Tiny & Shekinah visit today, Thursday, October 30th. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS

GIRL CHAT: Dealing With Your Personal Baggage.
During a very emotional truth session, the hosts reveal personal struggles and insecurities they have been carrying internally. Tamar admits to suffering from vitiligo and hiding her disease for several years. Tamera reveals that she's tired of being compared to her sister and not being seen as sexy woman. Loni shares that a professor made her feel inferior to another woman because of her lack of wearing high-end fashions. Jeannie divulges that a family member told her she would need to have cosmetic surgery in order to become a successful TV personality. Adrienne admits that she equates relationships to being successful; she felt people would only want to be around her if she was making money. The ladies encourage all viewers to deal with their personal baggage because doing so makes you better and more prepared to tackle the world.

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"GIRL CHAT" TRANSCRIPT:
Loni's baggage...
Loni Love: Baggage is insecurities that we carry with us from the past. Let me tell you mine. When I was a young engineer, I had to do an internship in order to get my engineering degree. It was me and another young lady and I will never forget. At the exit interview my boss gave her an interview, and she was always dressed to the nines 'cause she had money, things like that. Me, I'm you know, broke Loni, but I was doing my thing. At the exit interview, I will never forget, he told me, he said, "You know what? You are excellent. You are going to go all the way, but I just want to give you one suggestion. You should dress like her. She dresses so nice and she dresses professional." And I looked at him, 'cause I'm like, I didn't have the money to dress like her. Well, I always carried that baggage with me. And I'm always particular about how I dress. So when I came to this show and I see how you ladies dress, I get on our stylists and I have to commend them, because even though I'm a plus size person, they make sure I dress just as good as y'all.

Jeannie's baggage...
Jeannie Mai: When I was maybe about 16 I told my family that I wanted to become a television host. And... I remember my aunt. I can't believe she said this to me. She said, "Oh well then you probably should go get your eyes fixed pretty soon, because you can heal and by the time you're 18 you'll get more jobs." And I was like, "What do you mean my eyes fixed? What does that mean?" She said, "Look on TV. Do you see any Asian people or anybody with small eyes on TV?" And I was like, "My eyes are small?" I never really thought about it, but it got in my head. I did look on TV and everybody on every morning show and everybody that was famous and pretty on the news were models with beautiful big eyes. And it's a very famous surgical procedure in Asia to just get a double lid, where your eyes look really wide and big. So I thought about it and it bothered me. Then I started thinking about other things. My skin color is not as white as a lot of the women that I saw on TV, I wasn't as tall... all these other things and then it got so bad that I got angry at my aunt. And I decided I got to go make this on my own and prove that I didn't need any of those things to make it.

Tamera's baggage...
Tamera Mowry-Housley: Umm, well... I'm a twin, duh. Umm and a lot of the times, being a twin, you can have... God, I'm about to cry. I don't want to cry. Dang it. Well, okay. I didn't want to cry. I haven't cried at all in a very long time and that was something I didn't want to do. It does. I've never actually told you guys this. Um, being a twin people compare and they compare a lot, by default. It's not their fault but sometimes, you know, they see two people and they either say, "Oh... She's the sexy one or she's the cute one. She's the goofy one, she's the sassy one." Well, I was known as the goofy cute one. And I used to read our fan mail all the time and that's what I used to get all the time when I was 16 years old and I kept it. Are y'all crying now too, Jesus. Well I kept it. So going to college, I carried that. I was like "Oh, the goofy cute one. I'm not the sexy one." And guys would literally go, "Oh, you're so goofy, you're so goofy!" And I always thought it was a negative term cause all I wanted to be was sexy. I didn't want to just be cute. So now, to this day, honestly, when people say, "Oh you're so cute," there's a part of me that goes "ugh." I'm 36 years old, I'm a grown woman, and I have to own that I can be sexy and not only that... Honestly, I wake up every single day and I question that and it doesn't matter. My husband can be like, "Oh my God, you look so sexy," and I hate that I always say, "Really? Really?" So I'm going to work through that...

Tamar's baggage...
Tamar Braxton: It's so hard for me to talk about my insecurities so I always talk about "Oh I'm beat, I'm done." And, you know, I talk about myself and I say it out loud so I can start to believe it. And I just carry that with me only because I have a skin disease called vitiligo and it's so crazy that nobody believes it. Oh my God. And the reason why I won't work with a whole bunch of makeup artists is because I don't want other people to see it. And so I used to sit on my hands, 'cause it's really bad on my hands, and it's so funny that people think I bleach my skin because bleaching won't take all my pigment. It's so crazy. And I tan to try to hide it. And it's so funny because I, just backstage, just today, and that's why I'm so emotional, because I'm talking about it. Just today, somebody I haven't seen in a while was like, "Oh my God, I was thinking... who is that white woman over there in the white? Oh that's Tamar." And I find myself always defending that I am who I am. And so for me, I just decided, you know what Tamar? You are going to accept yourself for who you are because either you're going to like me for me or you're not going to like me for me.

Adrienne's baggage:
Adrienne Bailon: For me I have a lot of relationship baggage, feeling like people either did me wrong or didn't want me. And for some reason, I always validated myself with being successful or working. And then there was a period of time between Cheetah Girls and a lot of things that I've done now, that I didn't work. And I felt like men wouldn't want me 'cause I wasn't where I was at that time. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not... I validated. People wanted to date me 'cause I'm a Cheetah Girl or you know like, I'm successful and guys would want to date me because of that. And then when you find yourself at home and your man is getting up going to work and you don't have a job and you're sitting there watching morning talk shows. You're just like, "Why would somebody want to date me?" You feel like you're not worth... like, "What do I have going on for myself?" That's something I've always carried with myself. I've always been very ambitious and I was successful at a young age and I hated the idea of maybe it's going to be over and that'll be the end, "She gonna go back to the projects."

Also on "The Real"...

TINY & SHEKINAH visits "The Real" to talk about their new spinoff reality show, "Tiny & Shekinah's Weave Trip." This dynamic duo is full of energy as they talk about traveling across the nation in a mobile hair salon to beautify people on the go. Their friendship and uncanny method of communication is put to the test during a silly game of "Attached at the Hip."

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