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photography and storytelling. “And the relationship between me and the lens. I have a love affair with the lens.” Her personal love life began young with an early failed 2-year marriage at 22. Garth married for the second time to Peter Facinelli, the father of her first daughter, Luca Bella who was born in 1997. Garth was 23 when Luca was born. She says motherhood changed her life profoundly. “Everything changes. You stop focusing on yourself and everything goes outwards. I think that happened at a very good time for me. I was young. That was the time I could have gotten really wrapped up in myself and started believing all the B.S. Instead I had kids and took care of them.” Garth says it’s been important to show her strength as a woman to her daughters, but she makes a point of saying she has shown her three girls, Luca, Lola and Fiona, all sides of herself. “They know I can be strong when I have to and I can be vulnerable, too,” Garth says. “Being a houseful of women now, it’s like we all take care of each other in whatever phase we’re in. They know their mom is not going to take anything from anyone and will take care of them. And I teach that to
them, too. I have really strong little girls. I want them to go out there and be strong, but still be feminine. There’s a balance.” Her marriage to Facinelli split in the Spring of 2012. Single motherhood changed the climate in the household. “I was already very hands-on before that, but now just being a house of girls, I realize even more how important it is to teach them about the strength of a woman. But it’s also important to show them that there will be times when you’re at your lowest. I’ve never hidden that from them either. They’ve seen me go through it all. I’m all about feelings like crying and all of that.” Garth has been showing them not only how to take care of a household, but definitely how to multi-task. During “The Jennie Garth Project,” the actress began work on ten episodes of a new sitcom called “Mystery Girls.” “I would go to work on the show with paint all over me and then leave and have to run up to the house and make a million decisions,” Garth says. “It was a challenge.” Garth describes the new show, which airs Tuesday nights on ABC Family, as fun, funny, silly and a “good escape show.” “It’s about two women who used to be stars in the ‘90s on a TV show like
“The crew guys taught me how to do that, but I could have figure it out on my own.”
“Charlie’s Angels.” They were like mystery-solving girls who dressed beautifully with pink guns. The show was over, they parted ways and then they ended up getting back together thinking they could use their TV crime solving skills to be real detectives. It’s about them building their new company, Mystery Girls.” The other “Mystery Girl” is Tori Spelling, one of her closest friends and the daughter of her old “Beverly Hills 90210” boss Aaron Spelling. “It’s the best,” Garth says. “I love her and being able to be with her every day is wonderful and a real gift.” Garth says next on her list of things to conquer is production. She has begun a production company because “I don’t want to be on-camera forever. I’d like to be behind the camera.” In the meantime, she’s relishing just being herself on the “Jennie Garth Project.” Her dad isn’t here to see it, but she says, “I’m sure he’s happy to see what he’s passed down.” And definitely having a chuckle. ❖
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