Despite having a prosperous career as an acclaimed actress, Cristina Ricci admits that she has faced financial difficulties and negative feelings about her appearance over the years.
In the last episode of Let’s be clear with Shannen Doherty podcast, the 44-year-old actress talks about what it’s been like having to support her family over the years. O Yellow jackets the star shares daughter Cleo, 15 months, with husband Mark Hampton, and is also mom to son Freddie, 8, whom she shares with ex-husband James Heerdegen.
“As an adult, I went through periods where we were very, very broke,” Ricci told the host Shannen Doherty. “You just think, ‘I don’t want to feel like this anymore.’ It’s like a visceral feeling. I never want to feel so helpless, because I think that’s what makes you feel like you don’t have a lot of money. You feel very helpless.”
In a 2022 interview with Sunday Times StyleRicci said she sold some of her Chanel bags and parts of her jewelry collection to help finance her divorce from Heerdegen in 2020. She told the publication that “certain traumas in life accompany financial traumas, protracted court situations, custody situations ( e) fight against restraining orders”.
In his recent interview with Doherty, the Wednesday the actress notes: “There’s a lot of pressure and it’s difficult. You have to work to support your family, but at the same time working takes time away from your family. now. Once again, I have a husband who really supports me.”
When the conversation turns to how social media can affect a person’s self-esteem, Ricci confides that it “can just put you in a really vulnerable position.”
“You hear the negative things louder and it’s hard,” she shares. “I have experience with a person whose whole thing is posting horrible, nasty things about me. It’s like all the made-up things – horrible things about my kids, my family. It’s that high school mentality…but on such a big level and on such a public platform.”
Ricci also talks about how she became insecure about her appearance while doing press for her Showtime series, Yellow jackets.
“When I started doing press for Yellow jackets and having to post images of myself on social media, even though I was over 40, I had a lot of difficulty,” she admits. “I had a lot of difficulty seeing these images. I had a lot of difficulty publishing them again. I really couldn’t reconcile worrying so much about my appearance. … It was so hard for me.”
Ricci adds, “But we have to find ways to navigate where it doesn’t drag us down emotionally.”
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