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Gabby Egan
All right, gentlemen, coming to main stage next, this is Bunny. Get up there.
Bunny
She's got a tornado of titties coming your way. Get those dollar bills ready. She's got an ass that shakes like Michael J. Fox. So get up there and throw, throw, throw them dollars. Dude, that is fucking iconic. What's up, you sexy motherfuckers? Welcome to another episode of Dumb Blonde. The Internet spoke and I listened. Ms. Gabby Egan is in the motherfucking house. But, baby, what's up?
Gabby Egan
I'm here. I was late. I was 30 minutes late. And I'm glad that I'm here, though. Thank you for having me on.
Bunny
Dude, your hair looks so cute. I was just telling you that. It is so adorable.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Thank you. My hair girl kills it. Shout out, Meg. Yeah.
Bunny
And we just found out that Megan Mimi, who was my hairdresser turned manager, were friends.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Which is like a small world.
Bunny
So small, dude. Yeah.
Gabby Egan
That's crazy. Yeah. Well.
Bunny
So what's been going on with you? What are you guys doing out here in Nashville besides the podcast?
Gabby Egan
Last night we went to Broadway.
Bunny
Oh, shit.
Gabby Egan
It wasn't what I expected. I don't think that we really. I think it was because it was like a Monday night, though, and it was just like Everybody was like 45 plus and it was like, you know, like, it just like. We weren't just. We weren't vibing with everybody in there.
Bunny
So just.
Gabby Egan
We weren't fitting it.
Bunny
It was old people hour.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Nobody was getting down.
Bunny
Oh, damn it. Nobody was boot scooting boogie. And. You mean the fucking bachelor port parties that run around with dicks on their foreheads and white boots weren't fucking running around down there.
Gabby Egan
Know that happened to you?
Bunny
Oh, dude. Every day I thought, like, literally everybody's got a dick on their forehead.
Gabby Egan
How did I go on the one day where it's not, like, popping, like.
Bunny
I. Yeah, that is crazy. So what was it? It was Monday night. That's probably why. Yeah, it might be a little. Are you guys staying tonight? Are you guys.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, we're staying in tonight.
Bunny
Yeah, it'll probably be a little better tonight, but it gets better towards the weekend. I know, like, Kristen and Whitney and all them are out here right now. I don't know if you know who they are. They're other tick tockers. No.
Gabby Egan
My God.
Bunny
She's like, nope.
Gabby Egan
I know. Jacinda is always trying to, like, tell me. She's like, you know, this person. This person. And I'm like, no. I think I live under a rock sometimes, but I'm getting better, like, at trying to figure out who people are and, like, you know. Yeah.
Bunny
So who's Jacinda to you?
Gabby Egan
So Jacinda is someone who I met online and she also. She makes. I make T shirts and she makes T shirts.
Bunny
Yeah, we're going to talk about that. Yeah.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
So I have a little list of notes over here.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, we, like, connected over, like, her trying to, like, help me with my business because she's been doing it for five years, and she actually uprooted her whole life and, like, moved down to Kentucky, so now she lives five minutes away from me and we kind of help each other run our businesses. It's really cool.
Bunny
Oh, don't you love that? That's what Mimi did for me, man. She fucking owned a salon. And I literally, in 2018, I was like, I want to start this podcast. And fucking, you know, I can't pay you right now, but one of these days I will be able to pay you. And she's like, fuck it, let's go. And we've just been together ever since, so that's a beautiful friendship.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, that's awesome. That's actually, like, really beautiful.
Bunny
Yeah, no, but that's cool. That's what Jacinda did for you, too.
Gabby Egan
I know. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I know. It's kind of, like, hard to, like, sometimes when I really think about it, and I think, well, she has Kids, too. So, like, she uprooted, like, her husband, her kids, and, like. But I'm really excited because she lived in the middle of, like, butt fuck nowhere, Pennsylvania. Like, there was like a sheets and like a red light. Like there was nothing for miles. So now she gets, like, blowouts and like, has like, appointments and stuff. And I love, like, seeing her, like, grow and flourish.
Bunny
I love.
Gabby Egan
That's pretty awesome.
Bunny
That's a real friendship.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
You know, you guys lifting each other up. So let's just fucking dive in because I. I googled you last night and today a little bit and just to get some Cliff Notes and stuff. And you have lived a interesting life.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
I mean, it's fascinating.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, it's pretty insane.
Bunny
I love the way you carry yourself.
Gabby Egan
I don't even know how I carry myself sometimes. I don't know, like, I don't know, I feel like I still haven't found myself and like, I still don't know what I'm doing. And I, like, I feel like I'm a train wreck, but I feel like I'm on the right path. I just don't know what I'm doing.
Bunny
You're genuine, though.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
That shows through.
Gabby Egan
And I try, like, I try to be genuine and sometimes it's hard because I do try to, like, fall into, like, you know, I try to, like, be when I'm not supposed, like. Or I'm trying to, like, keep up with trends or, like, keep up with how I'm supposed to be acting relevant or whatever. Right, Right. But honestly, like, my content does the best when I yourself raw.
Bunny
Literally same. Yeah, no, I totally understand that. I do. I love the way you carry yourself. And I. I've watched a couple of your videos that you've made this past few weeks, and I was just like. I think what the Internet is missing these days is that genuineness that you have. Like, not everybody's always trying to, like you say, impress everybody. And with you, it's like this. What you see is what you get. If you don't like it, don't let the door hit you on the way out. So I love that about you.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. And it's. It's kind of been like a really hard journey of getting to this point in my life because I did, like, for a long time really care about what people thought about me.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
And, like, it just took me, like, it took me getting pushed to the point where I was like, fuck it. Like, I'm just going to be whoever the fuck I'm going to be. And everybody in my life who's, like, close to me all support me. Like, they're all, like, cheering me on and encouraging me and, like, wanting to see me do great things. So why the fuck do I care about these people who I don't even know fucking exist? Really? Because they're just watching me on the Internet. Like, you can block me, you can never see me again if you choose to, but you stay and you choose.
Bunny
To watch me and be toxic.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. No, it's like, obviously you like me a little bit. Stick around like you're coming here, bitch. You want a hug?
Bunny
I know you want to hug, bitch.
Gabby Egan
I know.
Bunny
Totally. Okay, so let's talk about it. So where did you grow up?
Gabby Egan
So I was actually born and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I lived there for 20 years.
Bunny
Okay. So, yeah, from North Carolina.
Gabby Egan
Awesome.
Bunny
And how was your childhood growing up? Talk to me about it, because you did get pregnant at 13, right? So let's talk about the childhood a little bit.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So my parents had me late in life. I was an only child, and my mom and dad were 40 when they had me, so. Well, my mom was 40, my dad was 41, and I was the one and only child growing up, so I was kind of like their spoiled little baby. My dad, he played, like, professional basketball whenever he was younger. So, like, he became a college coach. That was his job. And my mom was a real estate agent. So, like, we weren't really struggling. We were, like, middle class or lower middle class. And I had a nice life growing up. Yeah. But I definitely do think, like, when you're an only child, you get so bored. And I really didn't have, like, I did have a lot of attention from, like, my dad, but my mom was always busy working, and I was with my grandma a lot. And, like, I don't know, I feel like I was always kind of, like, lonely as a kid, and I don't know why. And so as soon as I started getting male attention, you know, when I was like, I had a great childhood, but as soon as I hit, like, you know, 12, 13, and I started getting, like, male attention, and these older boys were, like, starting to show interest to me. That was where I want, like, I wanted. I feel like I needed more affection or something. You know what I mean? I don't know how to. How to describe that.
Bunny
I get it. I totally understand it. You remind me a lot of Bailey. Doesn't she remind you of Bailey, our daughter? You remind me of. That's Jay and I's it's his daughter, but she's mine too. She works. She just. My little bonus baby. But you remind me a lot of her too.
Gabby Egan
I have bonus babies.
Bunny
I love that. So hearing that makes me think like, oh my God, is this what she's going through? Because she just turned 14 right now and she's starting to go through some shit and I'm just like, okay, this makes sense. So keep talking. You're helping me over here.
Gabby Egan
Well, no, yeah. Like, I feel like when I was younger, I was always taller than all the girls in school. And so I was also like a little bit chubbier and chunkier than all the other girls. And I definitely, I didn't fit in. Like, I was like the weirdo. Like I was the weird kid. Like, to be completely honest with you, I was the weird kid. And like, I really didn't fit into any like, of the girl groups or like make any girlfriends in school. Like, I was kind of like the weird kid out. And I got bullied a lot in school too. So as soon as I started to get a little pretty and lose a little bit of weight and these men, like these. Not men, boys. These boys started.
Bunny
Be careful, the Internet will come for you.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, let me chill out on that one. Yeah. When these boys would start giving me ATT and like thought that I was pretty, it's something that I had never had before, you know. And so like I really like fell right into that trap. And so when I was 13, like on the weekends, it was like starting in sixth grade. I don't know what my parents were thinking or any of these people's parents were thinking. They used to drop like sixth graders off at the skating rink and leave them from 7pm till 11pm to go like roller skating around. And that's where I met my son's dad. He was 16 and I was 12 at the time, about to be 13, and I got pregnant.
Bunny
It's a little different. I think a 16 year old knows what's going on too.
Gabby Egan
I think so too, now that I'm older.
Bunny
Okay. I didn't, I didn't know if that has been an issue with you guys because I don't really know that whole story.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, I don't like looking back, it definitely wasn't like it was consensual, right?
Bunny
Absolutely.
Gabby Egan
Like, because I wasn't.
Bunny
But you're 12 and what do you know? You know, like I feel like 16. You're a little bit smarter.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Like I was in seventh grade and he was like a sophomore in High school.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
You know, when I was a sophomore in high school, I knew what was.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
You know, like I knew what happened. Like I, I knew. Like I knew. Yeah, like more than like a 12 year old.
Bunny
He kind of took advantage of your innocence. I don't know him. I don't know the situation. But from an outsider, just hearing that like 16 and 12 is kind of.
Gabby Egan
Thick a little bit. It's kind of gross. And it wasn't like illegal like there was nothing. But the state did look into it, like when my son was born. Yeah, the state did actually look into it and like CPS got involved. I actually just did a story time on tech talk about it.
Bunny
Did see that. We'll get into that real quick. So let's rewind. Let's go back to the skating rink you met.
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah.
Bunny
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Gabby Egan
Well, I mean he exists and he's alive and living and breathing.
Bunny
Okay.
Gabby Egan
But yeah, so yeah, we'll just call him baby daddy. So yeah, I met baby daddy at the skating rink and she's like, I.
Bunny
Don'T even want to give him that title.
Gabby Egan
Want to give him that title?
Bunny
Really?
Gabby Egan
Like, all right.
Bunny
Sperm donor.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, sperm donor. Sperm donor. I like that. So yeah, I met him at the skating rink and we started kick. Do you know what kick is? The messenger.
Bunny
Yes, the old school messenger.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So like that was what we started talking on back in the day and it was like going back and forth and I would only get to see him at the skating rinks. Well then my dad, he was a basketball coach and his team would travel like around and he would be gone for weekends and stuff. And I had convinced my mom to let us start like hanging out outside of the skating rink. And my mom was like, no, like, he's older. Like, you know, like, no. And she did know that he was older, but, like, I don't know. Like, I don't think. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But, you know, she. She said, yeah. And, you know, we started hanging out outside, and then we ended up hooking up. One of the times that we were hanging out when my dad was gone, you know, and it really sucks because I was really like a daddy's girl growing up. Like, my dad was my. That sucks because, like, I never really thought about it that way. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to get emotional, but.
Bunny
No, you're okay. Breathe.
Gabby Egan
I was like, really? I know.
Bunny
It's okay to feel that, though. Like, I'm learning that with my therapist. You don't cut off emotions because that hurts you more. Just let it flow.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Like, I. I was really a daddy's girl growing up. And, like, when I got pregnant, it was almost like my dad didn't even, like, know. He couldn't even, like, believe it. Like, it was almost like a thing where it was like he thought I was on drugs. Like, when I sat him down to tell him, he was like, what? Did you get caught with drugs? Like, did you get caught with, like, you know, are you in trouble? And I was like, no, like, I'm pregnant. And he was like, oh, is this like a joke? Like, oh, you trying to mess with me? You know? And it was like, no. Like, this is, like, literally going on. And it was almost like a. He had almost like, no reaction to it because it was like, not even the truth. Yeah. And I just remember it was like the awkwardest time of my life because my mom, she. She was trying to, like, you know, console everybody and, like, make everything okay and which obviously nothing was okay, but she wanted to go on a walk outside, like, the three of us. So we went on this long ass walk and walked around the neighborhood in silence. And it was like, that's how it went. Telling my parents that I was pregnant at 13. And honestly, like, my dad didn't talk to me, I don't think for like a month after that, unless it was, like, mandatory. Like, I would go up and talk to him and he just had nothing to say to me.
Bunny
It's. I think it was probably, you're his baby. And he just. He probably internalized that and was like, what did I do wrong? Yeah, like, and I think he probably took that really hard. I don't Think it had anything to do with you?
Gabby Egan
Yeah. And I think a lot of people do, like, blame my parents, but I really don't think my parents. I know to this. Like, I know my parents love me more than anything. Like, and they did the best that they could. This is their first time doing life too, just like me. Like, they are not perfect by any means at all. Like, my parents both get on my nerves still to this day. Like, but like, they're human and like, I don't blame them for what happened. It's just kind of something that happened and I made the best out of it. Yeah, I did the best that I could with what the cards that I was dealt.
Bunny
So let's talk about it. So you're 13, you're going into labor. Take me into that day.
Gabby Egan
Well, how was the first of all?
Bunny
How was the pregnancy? Did sperm donor stick around? Did he make it?
Gabby Egan
Hell no, dude. Literally, like, so it's crazy because. Sperm donor. So he. As soon as I found out that I was pregnant, he was like, relatively like, okay about it. And I thought, okay, well, this is going to be like. Well, that. That was another thing. I didn't at the time, I didn't know whether or not I was going to keep the baby, really, because my mom had given me both options. So I obviously, like, at the time, I'm very pro choice. I'm pro do whatever the fuck you want. But I chose, like, I could not get rid of my son. Like, I was like, it just feels like I need to have him. Like, for me in my head, like, there. It just wasn't an option. So I decided to move forward. And when I told him, like, hey, I'm having this baby, like, my parents know, like, I'm probably never gonna see you again because my dad's probably gonna murder you. But he decided to stick around. And, like, my mom still snuck us around to see each other. He just wasn't allowed at the house. And like, my mom still, like, let us like, go eat and like, go have like, dinner together so we could see each other. But then he started, like, went off with his life kind of, you know, started dating girls at his school and dating girls that were easier to date, you know, and, well, he didn't want.
Bunny
To have the responsibility.
Gabby Egan
Right. So the whole pregnancy, I was literally, like having a mental breakdown. I went into preterm labor when I was 33 weeks. I think because of how stressed out I was. I was. Yeah, no, that was like the most traumatic time of my life. And I blocked A lot of it out. Because it was, it was rough. It was rough. So he came back, he, like, he left me and, like, didn't talk to me. Blocked me on everything for majority of the pregnancy. And then. Right.
Bunny
Fucking douchebag.
Gabby Egan
Uh huh. Yeah. And then right before I had my son, and I was like, you know, his due date's approaching, he hits me up and he's like, I really fucked up. Like, I want to get back with you. And of course me, I'm like, I've been waiting, bitch. You know I've been waiting for you.
Bunny
So baby having a baby.
Gabby Egan
I know, and it's embarrassing, but I mean, it's the truth.
Bunny
You were so young and you didn't know. It is not your fault.
Gabby Egan
Right. I literally, like, wanted him more than anything, which is, like, looking back, like, I was so desperate for him, like, because I wanted my son to have some sort of, like, normality. And like, I just was desperate for it. And so whenever he came back, I was like, oh, yeah, come back. Like, you know, like, yeah, we can make this work. Like, we can try to see what we can do or whatever. Like, this is when the C section is going to be. Because I had to get a planned C section because at the time I was only 13. I wasn't really done growing yet.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
So I had a contracted pelvis and my son couldn't, like, fit through my birth canal. So they're like, we're gonna go ahead and like, schedule you for a C section because we don't want to risk him getting stuck and then either something happening to the E, like, yo, it's just a high risk case. So we're just going to do the C section.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
So it was a lot of.
Bunny
That is a lot girl to go through at such a young age, baby.
Gabby Egan
Like, yeah.
Bunny
How were you feeling mentally? Like, just like, how did you process it? Did you have anybody that you could talk to? Did your mom help you? Like, did you go to therapy? Did anybody help you work through all that?
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So at the time, my cousin Corrine, she's 10 years older than me, so she lived right down the street. And she was going through, like, she wasn't pregnant, but she was going through, like, really hard times with her boyfriend who she had been with for a while, and she was like, madly in love with and he was like, cheating on her and, like, being a complete douchebag. So I'm 13 and pregnant. I'm her cousin. I'm like, you know, available all the time. She, like, leaned in on me. I leaned in on her. She took me on so many adventures when I was pregnant to keep my mind. Like, taking me to, like, the mall and like, to get pedicures and, like, shopping. Like, she.
Bunny
She was your angel.
Gabby Egan
I don't think I would have been able to get through it without her, genuinely. And I don't talk to her that much anymore, and that makes me emotional too.
Bunny
But you're carrying a lot.
Gabby Egan
I know. I need to go back to therapy again. Another therapist. I'm already.
Bunny
Listen, baby, I'm going to a therapy camp in March, so don't even play. Doesn't end. Oh, yeah, for sure. They have them out here in Nashville. I'll tell you about it if you ever want to go. It's like, it's a week long trauma thing where you go for six days, you turn your phone off and you just work on yourself. Because I'm telling you, baby, that is. It's priceless to be able to work through all the you've been through. And I can tell you're still hurting really bad.
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. Look at me.
Bunny
And if we had a napkin, I would give you one, but we don't. I'm so sorry. I got chachi. You want to wipe. You want to wipe your tears with chachi?
Gabby Egan
This is washable and reusable and recyclable. So.
Bunny
Yeah, we got toilet paper. That's what we're working with.
Gabby Egan
There we are.
Bunny
Trailer park around here.
Gabby Egan
Okay. Oh, me too. So it's cool.
Bunny
I just want to hug you, baby. Gosh. Here's some. Some stuff for your tears.
Gabby Egan
I really didn't think I was gonna cry or I wouldn't have paid to get my hair and makeup done today.
Bunny
Genuinely. And, you know, listen, that's just part of your genuineness, this. And I think that's why people love you so much, because you're not fucking here to just be this Billy Badass. Like, you have pain that you're still working through.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
And I think that's so admirable that you can wear your heart on your sleeve like that.
Gabby Egan
So I think that people think that, like, I am faking it or like that's the majority. Like, people think that I'm putting on a Persona or whatever. But I think that a lot of people think that is because I don't really talk about how much I'm hurting online.
Bunny
Yeah, well, you can't. Yeah, people eat that up. They fucking use it against you.
Gabby Egan
Yes.
Bunny
It's, you know.
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah.
Bunny
And also who wants to cry on a camera? No, I. I understand there's. Every now and then you need to have a good cry, which I never have yet. But if there's some people who like to cry on the camera a lot, and I just don't understand it, you know? Like.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, like, when I'm crying, that's, like, the last time I want to post a video. Like.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
Genuinely, like, honestly, I think that's more.
Bunny
Real than anything, you know?
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So I'm just doing my best.
Bunny
So let's take me to your. Your delivery. You're going in for delivery. Baby daddy called, said he wants to get back together.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So my son's dad, like, a week before my son was supposed to be born, comes swoops back in, and he wants to be in the room for the C section. And there's only one person allowed in the room because it's like, an operating room or whatever. And my dad was the one who wanted to be back there. And I chose.
Bunny
Dad warmed up to you during the pregnancy?
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Yeah, he was really supportive. Yeah. My dad was really supporting.
Bunny
Go. Dad got over it.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. He used to take me to ultrasound appointments and buy me snacks and food. And, like, he was honestly great.
Bunny
Like, we love dad.
Gabby Egan
Once he actually, like, got over it, like, it was great, but good. I could only pick one person to go in the C section room with me, and it was between baby daddy and my dad, and I picked my baby daddy like an idiot. So he went back there with me and, like, was able to, like, watch, you know, my son be born and all that stuff. I wish I would have picked my dad.
Bunny
That's okay, though.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. And I know that my dad doesn't, like, resent me for that or anything like that, but I do wish that I would have picked my dad or, like, my mom or somebody else, because I think they deserve that. Yeah, I don't think that he did deserve that. Yeah, I don't think that he did. And my son, like, literally is one of the best kids in the entire world. Like, and I know that's biased, like every mom says, but, like, my son is, like, so sensitive, and he has emotions, and he's in. I'm sorry.
Bunny
You're okay. You don't have to apologize.
Gabby Egan
He's just, like, such an asshole for, like, not getting his shit together. Still, nine years later, even after me allowing him to be around, still, even after everything that he's done to me, there's an open. An open line of communication. Like, my son has his Own phone still doesn't call. Still doesn't pick up the damn phone. And it's like, what are you doing, dude? Like, this is the best kid ever. He's smart, kind, sweet, caring. He's in touch with his emotions. He's, like, awesome, you know, and he just doesn't care. He just had a new baby, you know, got married, has a new family, and it's like, hey, yeah, just forget.
Bunny
About the one that you started with.
Gabby Egan
Right? I know. I keep getting off track.
Bunny
No, you're fine. You're totally. That's what the podcast is all about. And that's why I always try to rope you back in. You know, some men just don't get it, and they're never gonna get it, and you're never gonna get the apology or the person that you want. So it's like, you know, your baby boy has you, and that's all that fucking matters. He's got Mama Bear who loves the fuck out of him. And, you know, I know it sucks not having dad around, but it's probably for the best because he might hurt him more just being around. He doesn't seem like the type of human that can, you know, keep a relationship going.
Gabby Egan
So the consistency. Yeah, and that's what is the consistency. And it's like, either, like, be involved or don't be involved, but, like, you being in and out is kind of a problem because then it's like, when is my dad going to call? Like, where is my dad? Like, what's going on? When can I see him? And it's like, I don't have these answers, dude. Like, he doesn't talk to me. Like, I don't know what to say.
Bunny
How old is he now?
Gabby Egan
He's nine.
Bunny
Oh.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So he's like. He's so smart. It's crazy. He's like his whole own human with his whole own personality. And it's crazy how fast kids just grow up.
Bunny
Yeah. So you're what? Hold on, I'm trying to do the Math here. You're 20.
Gabby Egan
I'm 22.
Bunny
22? Yeah. You're still a baby yourself, too. You have so much life to live, girl. It's crazy.
Gabby Egan
It's insane.
Bunny
And you've already lived, like, a full fucking life.
Gabby Egan
I know.
Bunny
Amazing.
Gabby Egan
Right now with these braces, like, I get them off in two weeks, and I'm honestly, I cannot be happier because I look like a child sometimes. And I'm going through life with four kids and married and all that stuff. And, like, people do not take me Seriously. And I think it's the rainbows too, though. Like I do it it to my damn self, you know, like.
Bunny
No, just always be you. Who gives a fuck. They'll take you serious. Just let your. Let whatever it is you're doing speak for itself. People will respect you no matter what. They'll have to respect you. So let's take it back. So you just gave birth. You're in the hospital bed. Take me from there.
Gabby Egan
So, yeah, they. The first thing that they do when you go in to get a C section is they make you sign all the paperwork and then they bring you back like to this like prepping thing where you put like this like shower cap on and lay you down. And then they shaved my coochie for me.
Bunny
Wow.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, I never had bathroom before.
Bunny
I need to go have a kid then get my coochie shaved.
Gabby Egan
It's way cheaper to do it at a salon or something. But yeah, so they, they did that and then they wheeled me back to like the actual like operating room or. No, they wheeled me to another room to get my spinal tab. And those scare me. God, no, dude. It made my whole leg go numb. I was freaking out, literally, it was so bad. Then I started going numb. And once I started going numb, they put the catheter in and all of a sudden the doctor had said that I was going to feel like an elephant, like sitting on my chest or something. And I did. And that was them like pushing my son out of the incision. And then he was born and I heard him start crying and he was into the world. I was a mom.
Bunny
And how did you. Did you feel like everything was worth it at that moment that you had gone through?
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was kind of like a surreal moment for me. And I don't really know why. Like I have blocked some of that out. Like when I. Yeah, I don't know why. And that bothers me too. But like when I think back to that, like I blocked so much of that out. And I think that it was because, like I was in. I was in like in that moment, like fight or flight, like, but I had to go, you know, and it's like I'm one of those people who I'm very good at like masking my emotions. Like, so my parents were already so freaked out about me going in to have a C section. My mom was like, you know, having a panic attack. Like her 13 year old daughter's going in to have a major surgery.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
You know, so I had. I felt like I feel like my whole life, I've always had to put, like, a poker face on to make everybody else around me happy, you know, or make comfort everybody. So I felt like I was the one trying to comfort my parents in that moment. Be like, everything's gonna be okay. Like, see, I'm not even worried, but inside I was, like, scared. Yeah. I was scared.
Bunny
You didn't have anybody to kind of comfort the little girl in you.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. And I feel like I don't ever. I never even allowed that little girl to even come out because she was always, like, so pushed down by other people, like, always hurting me my whole life almost. And I don't even know if that's the right way to describe it, but that's just, you know, what's coming, like, coming out of my head.
Bunny
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Gabby Egan
Yeah. So after I had my son, we were in the hospital for like, literally, like almost five days. Wow. I don't know why they kept us so long because with my daughter, they didn't keep us that long, but they kept me for quite a while. And then they got us. Once we. Once we got discharged from the hospital, I went back and lived with my parents. So we were living like in a two bedroom, like, townhouse type of thing. And me and my son had our room and my parents had theirs, and that's just how we lived. Yeah.
Bunny
Did you keep going to school and stuff?
Gabby Egan
So I got pregnant at the end of my seventh grade year and I finished the school year out at the school I was attending and then eighth grade. My dad, he was already like a. He has his master's degree, so he pulled me out and started homeschooling me with a Christian. Christian, Christian, Christian curriculum. And I took Bible class and stuff. It was really fun.
Bunny
Was it though?
Gabby Egan
Yeah, it was like.
Bunny
So on top of all the other trauma you have, you have religious trauma?
Gabby Egan
Fuck yeah. I have religious trauma out the ass.
Bunny
Really?
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah. My parents were pretty Bible belt. I grew up in the church. Lafayette Baptist Church.
Bunny
Wow.
Gabby Egan
That's what it's called. And every single, like, you know, Wednesday, Sunday, we would go out with, like, church friends. That's where I met. My best friend of 20 years, was in church. So. Yeah. So when I got pregnant at 13, you better believe everybody in that church had something to say about it.
Bunny
So it's like you had to. Not only did you have to deal with feeling like you let your parents down and your dad down, you had to deal with everybody else having a opinion about you, too. Kind of like how it is on the Internet now too for you. Yeah.
Gabby Egan
But I think that's why I'm like, so okay with it.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
And that's why I do so well with it. It's because my whole life everybody's been talking shit about me.
Bunny
Yeah. So you might as well just fucking yeah. Get into gold.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. I've literally made it this far. I can keep going, you know, so it was hard. It was hard.
Bunny
Did you graduate from the Christian school or how did that go?
Gabby Egan
Sixth grade was my last year. I did go to Christian school. Sixth grade is my last year attending the Christian school. I got kicked out for getting a belly button piercing. My mom let me get my belly button pierced in six. You know what's so funny?
Bunny
Seems to be the common denominator in some of your bad decisions. We love mom, but. Come on, Mom.
Gabby Egan
We do love mom. Love Mom. I'm looking at you if you can see this, but, yeah, we do love mom, but, yeah, she did allow me to get my belly button pierced and I went to school.
Bunny
I can't believe they kicked you out for that, though.
Gabby Egan
No.
Bunny
Well, I got kicked out of my Christian school for spray painting my name on the back wall. But it wasn't real spray paint. It was snow. The fake snow. I thought it would disappear. It doesn't. So don't ever fucking spray paint a brick wall with snow, because it'll be there. And don't do it in your name.
Gabby Egan
Oh, my gosh. I didn't know you could do that.
Bunny
Yeah, no, me either. I did it, though.
Gabby Egan
Holy crap. But yeah, they. They. What was I gonna say?
Bunny
They kicked you out for your belly button being pierced.
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah. So the. I had posted a picture after I got my belly button pierced on Facebook. Why did I have a Facebook in sixth grade? I don't know. But I posted a picture of it on Facebook. And my principal, like, one of the teachers had seen it, or one of the kids was a snitch and someone snitched on me, right? So I go back to school, and the principal calls me into her office and she's like, lift up your shirt. And I'm like, what? And so I did. And she was like, that needs to come out now. That's not appropriate. Like, all this, this. And the third calls my mom. We have to set up, like, a meeting at the school about it. My mom tells me, take it out. Like, I'm not dealing with this. I kept putting it back in. And, like, they would do random belly button checks at school. Like, they would literally, like, pull me out of class.
Bunny
I feel like that would never fly nowadays.
Gabby Egan
I think that's illegal.
Bunny
Yeah, I feel like that would never fly.
Gabby Egan
They would, like, call me out of class and take me to the principal's office to check on my belly button.
Bunny
Yeah, that's weird.
Gabby Egan
That's Kind of freaky.
Bunny
Yeah. And this was. This wasn't junior high. This was high school.
Gabby Egan
Oh, sixth grade.
Bunny
Okay. This was sixth grade. And then your dad pulled you out in eighth grade?
Gabby Egan
Yeah, so sixth grade was my last year. Got kicked out of Christian school, went to public school, seventh grade, got pregnant.
Bunny
Oh, gotcha. Okay, gotcha.
Gabby Egan
When my Christian school principal kicked me out of school, she said, you're gonna end up pregnant or something. Literally. Yeah, yeah, rub that in my face, Tammy. But, yeah, dude, it was. It was. So I went to seventh grade, was public school, and then that's when I got pregnant. And then eighth grade, my dad pulled me out and homeschooled me.
Bunny
Okay, so did you homeschool all through high school?
Gabby Egan
No, I homeschooled for eighth grade. Had my son. He was, like, six months old, and I had, like, six. Yeah, he was six months old whenever I went to, like, public high school.
Bunny
Okay.
Gabby Egan
When I started.
Bunny
So you did go back to public school. Okay, gotcha.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. And then I finished high school, like, homeschool, community college type of thing, like, online program. And I finished my last two years of school in one, and I graduated a year early.
Bunny
Yay. Congratulations.
Gabby Egan
You. Yeah.
Bunny
So when did you have your daughter? Was that recently or so?
Gabby Egan
After I graduated high school When I was 17, I went into the military, so I went active duty.
Bunny
That's all my notes right here.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, I went active duty. I was a mechanic in the army for a couple years, and that's when I met my husband, and I was in the army for about two years, and then I got pregnant with my daughter.
Bunny
That's amazing that you went off to the army. You were just like, fuck it. I'm going to go to the army and be a badass bitch.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, well, it was mainly about health insurance.
Bunny
Yeah. Honestly, she's like, I did have an agenda.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, it was, like, mainly about health insurance. Like, I really, like, health insurance is really not affordable, and I'm really, like, thankful that I can afford it now.
Bunny
But, like, most people wouldn't think to go into the fucking army, you know? Like, that's crazy. Is that something that you did want to do, like, or do you really feel like you were forced into doing it?
Gabby Egan
I was sleeping with a lot of army men at the time in my teenage years.
Bunny
And so, yeah, she's like, fuck it. If can't beat him, might as well join them.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, fuck it, I'll join the army.
Bunny
I was already in Fayetteville, too, for sure. Yeah, dude.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. I was honestly, like, that's what I'm saying. I had a kid at 13 and then have been on a path of, like, I feel, like, unstable relationships since then. And, like, literally, like, I don't know what my problem is, but.
Bunny
Yeah, well, maybe childhood trauma, you know, that you got to work through.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. And you know what's crazy is, like, whenever I say, like, oh, I have childhood trauma, my parents are like, there's no. You can't have trauma.
Bunny
You can have the most perfect life, and you're still gonna have some sort of trauma. Everybody has it. If, you know, we're not minimizing maximizing anybody's trauma, it doesn't matter where you came from. Shit's fucked up. The world's fucked up. Yeah, shit happens. So, you know, it's not a bad thing. It's just. You got to work through.
Gabby Egan
It's just, like, stuff that happened. And. Yeah, it's. That's why, like, you know, when I talk about my issues and stuff, it. Like, with my parents, I feel like when I'm talking about things or, like, feelings that I'm having, they always think that I'm trying to, like, blame them for something. And it's like, no, I'm not trying to blame you. I'm just, like, reflecting on this because, like, for some reason, it's a thought that keeps coming up, you know? Like. And for me, like, I like to talk about, like, if something's in my head, like, I gotta get it out, or else I'm gonna go crazy. Yeah. So, yeah, I do think that, like, if you're not in therapy, everybody should go to therapy, you know? Totally. Everyone should go. Even if you don't have issues.
Bunny
Absolutely. I agree. So you went into the army. You meet your second baby daddy, who take me on that journey.
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah. So I was. I was 18 when I met my husband, and he was 25, and he was in the process of getting a divorce. We met. We met on Tinder. We were both, like, swiping on Tinder. You know, we matched. And whenever I first met my husband, like, I honestly thought that we were just gonna, like, hook up because he really wasn't my type. Well, I hate to say that, because he is, like, he is my type, you know, but he wasn't really. I was going for people who were, like, you know, just, like, casual. And he was kind of looked like he was looking for something more serious. And we hooked up. I tried to ghost him, and he had texted me, like, trying to hang out. I ghosted him again, like, didn't Want to hang out with him. Then he texted me. He was like, asking me for car wash recommendations because I'm from Fayetteville, right? And I know all the good car washes. So I sent him one to one that was closed down. Like that down. Like closed down, not in business. And he like called me and he was like, what the fuck is wrong with you, dude? And I was like, you can't like, take a hint, bro. Like, I'm not interested. Like, stop hitting me up. Well then from that, did you send.
Bunny
Him to one that was closed down on purpose?
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
Oh, yeah. I don't know why I thought it was an accident.
Gabby Egan
I was kind of a bitch back then. Like When I was 18, I was hell on wheels.
Bunny
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Gabby Egan
He called me, he was like, what the fuck? Like, you sent me to like a abandoned car wash on purpose? I was like, yeah, like, whatever.
Bunny
So we saw Go fuck yourself.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, go fuck yourself. But after that, we like kind of started vibing because he thought it was kind of funny. And like, you know, he thought I was just fucking with him. He like, he thought it was cute. And I was like, okay, like, you think my crazy's cute?
Bunny
Like, whatever.
Gabby Egan
So we went to Target together. And ever since then, we've kind of been like inseparable. We were both really into, like, going to the gym and we were both in the army and we kind of just like started coexisting together. And that's just how it's been since then. Like literally.
Bunny
Cody.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, it's Cody.
Bunny
Awesome. Yeah, I did my research a little bit. That's amazing. So he's like your bff. You guys have one daughter together?
Gabby Egan
Yeah, we have one daughter together. And then he has two kids with his ex wife.
Bunny
Okay, gotcha.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, I love that.
Bunny
That's how it happens though. Like when you don't plan on being with somebody, you always fucking end up with them. That's how it was with my husband. I tried to one night stand him and it fucking here we are seven years later and he's my best fucking friend. Like, love him to the moon.
Gabby Egan
And that's the thing is, like, people have seen like, ups and downs of me and Cody online. And like, I wish I would have never talked about on the Internet why.
Bunny
Did I do that?
Gabby Egan
But it's like now it's out there and I can't take it back. And they're like, oh. Like, nobody knows what the fuck is going on behind the scene.
Bunny
They only know what you show them.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, like, you don't fucking know. Like, Cody cheated on her. He cheated, she cheated on him. Who fucking cares? Like, we both did. We both done cheated. Like, what do you want us to do now? Like, we're choosing to try to make things work. We're choosing to try to. Like, we're both like, kind of up. He has a lot of trauma he hasn't worked on. I have a lot of trauma I haven't worked on.
Bunny
That's probably why you guys mesh. Trauma bonding too.
Gabby Egan
Genuinely, I think that and we're both at the point in our lives where we're both in therapy, like actively in therapy. And my husband is 30 years old, never been to therapy, never wanted to talk about his feelings. I have heard this man talk about his feelings more in the past month and then in the past five years I've been married.
Bunny
Are you guys doing like marriage counseling?
Gabby Egan
Not together yet. He's like, kind of like start like because he was really uncomfortable about even talking to a therapist in the first place. So he's kind of doing his own thing and like first and I'm doing my own thing and then hopefully a little bit down the line we can kind of do something together.
Bunny
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Gabby Egan
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Bunny
Church.
Gabby Egan
Okay. I got out of the army end of 2019.
Bunny
Okay.
Gabby Egan
Yes.
Bunny
And then. So you and Cody both got out and kept moving forward?
Gabby Egan
Yeah, he got out a little bit before me, and then he continued. Well, he was trying to get out of the army and move back to where we live now, which is like the Cincinnati, Ohio area, because that's where his ex wife and his kids were living. And he was trying to move back home because he wanted to be with his kids. But he got out, and there was a couple more months until I was getting out because I was getting out on a pregnancy chapter. And so he waited until I, you know, got out and had the baby and stuff. And then my daughter was like a month old, and we made the move up to Northern Kentucky, and that's where we've been for the past three years.
Bunny
Yay. And what are you guys doing out there? Just living life. She's like, where do I start?
Gabby Egan
I mean, holy crap. I feel like I'm running a circus out there. Honestly, like, genuinely, like, running the circus.
Bunny
What's going on?
Gabby Egan
So we've, like, moved three times in the past year. My dad moved up from North Carolina. He, like, retired. So he's living.
Bunny
Where's mom?
Gabby Egan
My mom's still in north. My parents are nuts, dude.
Bunny
That's what I'm saying.
Gabby Egan
Like, at this point in my life, I feel like I'm raising my damn parents, like, right. My dad retired early, and he's living in my condo that I have. He's rent free. He's living the life after retired. Okay.
Bunny
He's like, yeah. He's like, it's your turn to take care of me now.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So he's like, you know, my dad, he's going and getting bourbon at all these. Bourbon. Bourbon. Because we're in Kentucky, right? Yeah. And bourbon's Good, I guess. He's getting bourbon everywhere. My mom's in North Carolina still doing real estate. My mom just on a Tuesday, sells her house and gets an apartment. My dad has to go down there and help her move. Like, I'm running a tie dye studio.
Bunny
Are they split or.
Gabby Egan
No, they're not split.
Bunny
They're just.
Gabby Egan
They're just insane.
Bunny
Okay.
Gabby Egan
They're just crazy. Like, I don't even.
Bunny
I'm not even gonna ask.
Gabby Egan
Well, it's. So my dad, he retired early because ever since COVID happened and all the colleges and sports, like, had to put all the regulations on everything, my dad got so depressed. And my dad and my mom, you have to remember, they helped me raise my kid.
Bunny
Right?
Gabby Egan
So my dad and my son. My dad is practically my son's dad. I mean, like, literally has helped me raise him through and through. Like both of my parents have.
Bunny
You know, he's so close with him.
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah. So my dad, after we moved up here, my dad got really depressed and like, he didn't have me or my son anymore. Basketball. Yeah. Yeah, we do. We genuinely do.
Bunny
He needs to feel like he's needed.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So he decided, you know, after Covid kind of ruined everything for basketball and he was depressed. He was like, I'm gonna retire early and I'm gonna move up there. So I started moving all over the place, trying to find a different house for us to live in. That was a nightmare. And then my dad went and lived in our condo that we had, so.
Bunny
Love it. They sound like my kind of people. So let's talk about this T shirt business that you have.
Gabby Egan
So. T shirts. Yeah, I started like drawing these stickers with one of my friends like back in the beginning of 2021 or 2020. I don't remember when it was, but the stickers turned into me making tie dye T shirts. But we're actually about to open up a storefront now too, so, like, we're gonna have an in person experience anyways.
Bunny
Oh, you're gonna have so many people going through there because you have so many people who love you.
Gabby Egan
I'm having a panic attack.
Bunny
It's gonna be like a meet and greet every day for you.
Gabby Egan
I know. I'm kind of excited about it. Yeah, I know.
Bunny
That would be awesome.
Gabby Egan
I'm having a panic attack about it, so. Good.
Bunny
You're good.
Gabby Egan
I know.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
So we, my mother in law and I, we started tie dying T shirts in the garage. Just like we wanted to make like these buddy shirts. It was like a stony, like Marijuana leaf. And we wanted to put it on a shirt. And so we came up, we drew the design on our iPad and like we were so proud of this like shirt we created and we were gonna hand tie dye all of them and they sold out like wow, so fast.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
And so me and my mother in law were like, well, that was fun as like, let's keep doing it. So we kept doing it and people really like tie dye. Like people talk so much. Like tie dye is out of style. I don't think tie dye will ever.
Bunny
People. Everybody wears tie dye. Yeah.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
It could be like dark colors, neutral, 70s.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Literally like, and even if you don't like it, like you could have like a tie dye something or a jammy shirt or whatever the, you know, tie dye is. It's happy. Okay. I like colors. So we just started selling T shirts and it's turned into now I have like the back of one of my friends nail salons. I rent the back of that out in like an alley. And that's our tie dye shop. So we have like, we spent like 15 grand like renovating this like literal, literal hole in the wall and turned it into like this. Yeah.
Bunny
That's amazing.
Gabby Egan
It was pretty crazy.
Bunny
I love that. I love what you're doing. I think, I think the energy that you're putting out in the world is coming back to you, you know, like you're just trying to do right and it's coming back tenfold.
Gabby Egan
I'm trying.
Bunny
You're doing good. Thank you. Okay, so when did you get on tick tock?
Gabby Egan
20. 20. 2020.
Bunny
I feel like everybody and their mom got on TikTok in 2020.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
Yeah. Okay, so you got take me on that journey with TikTok.
Gabby Egan
Well, I mean like I, I mean I messed around with Tick tock in like 2018. Like I, you know, whatever. But I didn't start like actually like posting consistently until I was, I moved up to Kentucky and I was staying at home through Covid with four kids at 19. And I was so bored and like depressed and like I was breastfeeding my daughter. She breastfed for like two years. So that really like literally sucked the life out of me. But yeah, so what was I gonna say?
Bunny
Tick Tock?
Gabby Egan
Oh yeah.
Bunny
She's like squirrel.
Gabby Egan
So I, I started making Tick Tock videos with my kids like throughout Covid because I was stuck at like my husband was working at the time, like full time and his. So was his ex wife. So the kids would be with me because I was a stay at home. Mom home with the baby already.
Bunny
Do you get along with his ex wife?
Gabby Egan
Yeah, for the most part. Like, me and her, like, we're good. Like, sometimes she'd be coming at me crazy, but for the most part, we're good.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
There's no issues. I'm definitely never going to cause an issue with her. And she doesn't want. She doesn't want issues either. So we're, you know, baseline.
Bunny
I love that.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, me too. It's good for the kids.
Bunny
Absolutely.
Gabby Egan
They deserve to see, like, I always, like, that's what I always tell her is that, like, I want the kids to see us be happy.
Bunny
Yes.
Gabby Egan
Like, you know, I want them to be happy.
Bunny
Important thing. Yeah, absolutely. So, Squirrel, we were talking about you were at home getting the life sucked out of your titties and you hopped on Tick Tock.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, so I hopped on Tick Tock and my kids liked making Tick Tock videos with me. And so we would make, like, dance videos and, like, my stepdaughter and I would make, like, these skits of us, like, doing all sorts of things. And my video started getting, like, tractions, and my videos started getting traction, and I just kept posting, like. And then I started, like, talking, and as soon as I started talking and not using sounds anymore, that's when I just blew up. Like, it was like almost overnight. I went from having like, 10k to like, 600k. Yeah. And then it went from me having 600k to me getting banned on Tick Tock entirely.
Bunny
They fucking do that all the time, man.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. So I just restarted a new account, and within literally two days, that account that I started got a million followers.
Bunny
Wow.
Gabby Egan
In two days.
Bunny
Wow.
Gabby Egan
I don't even know how that's possible. And I still, like, have the screenshots of it.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
And everything. Because I remember, like, taking screenshots throughout the night of being like, this isn't even possible.
Bunny
You have a crazy cult following. Like, when I get on my lives and just say, well, who should I bring on the podcast? I mean, I'm talking like, Gabby. Gabby. Gabby. Gabby. I didn't even know who you were. I know, but, like, we had never crossed, you know?
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
TikTok FYPs. So I'm like, who is Gabby? And then they started tagging me and that one video that you made, and they were like, she needs to come on the podcast. And then I kind of went down the wormhole and I was like, I like this chick. I like her vibes, you know?
Gabby Egan
Well, please don't hate me. But before I got invited on this podcast, I really didn't know who you were. And then you invited me on and I was like, okay, buddy, I'm going to go down this rabbit hole. And so, dude, you can totally edit this out if you want, but I thought that you were 28 years old.
Bunny
Oh, I love that. No, keep it in.
Gabby Egan
No, do not edit that. I thought that you were like 28, 29. And I was like, oh, I'm so excited. And my husband was asking me questions like, oh, jelly rolls, wife or whatever. Like, that's so cool. Like, you know, and he was like, how the fuck you don't know who these people are? Like, what the fuck is living under a fucking rock?
Bunny
Well, you know, it's so weird how tick tock is that? We just never crossed fyps. Now you're all over it. Now you're all over mine. So it's.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, you know, now you're all over mine too. I think it's ever since I followed you. Yeah, now you're all. But yeah, it's pretty insane.
Bunny
Yeah, but no, I'm not. I'm 43. So.
Gabby Egan
No, dude, I Googled like, how old is? Or. No, I didn't Google that. I said bunny xo. I was googling you. Yeah, I was doing sneaky, but I was googling you and it said all your facts about you. And I was like, which aren't facts.
Bunny
I don't know who makes those pages.
Gabby Egan
You're not five nine.
Bunny
No.
Gabby Egan
How tall are you?
Bunny
I'm five, five, five six.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, because like, like I said five nine, and I was like, she's five nine. Yeah, that's my eye, you know?
Bunny
Yeah. No, and I mean, I wouldn't mind being 5 9, but like, I don't know who does the online or where they get it from. They said my dad's name is like Bill spills. And I'm like, that is really cool. But no, that's not his name. Like, there's so many things I think we need to do a tick tock of like, things that are online that. Yes, you know, like, we should do that today after we, we get done just like squashing rumors. You know, there's one page that says I've had a facelift, cheek implants, a blepharoplasty. And I'm like, not yet, but I will. Where you get like the skin above your eyes cut, like just crazy. And I'm like, dude, I've had lip filler, eye filler, and Botox. Like, it's just crazy the. That people come up with, you know?
Gabby Egan
Yeah. They will make up anything that they can.
Bunny
Yeah. No, it's nuts. Okay, so we got off track, but. Okay, so you got on tick tock in 2020. You gained 2 million. A million followers in two days. And then you just took it from there, like, because you do have this crazy fucking cult following. Like, it's nuts. Like, you could post anything and it's a million views.
Gabby Egan
I didn't realize I had a cult following, honestly, until recently. And I know that the views and stuff have been there and stuff. And like, the followers have been there, but also, like, like a lot of other creators talk about. I do get stagnant. So, like, I'll start losing followers and like, all that stuff. But, like, I didn't realize how cult my following was until recently where I've noticed that I have to really start watching what I say.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
And really make sure that I'm not talking about people. Really make sure that I'm not talking about people in any, like, negative light. Because people can take that.
Bunny
So, I mean, even if you say something positive about somebody, they'll still fucking twist it and be like, she was being. What's the word? Snarky.
Gabby Egan
Right.
Bunny
And you know, like all that shit. And I just. I can't.
Gabby Egan
It.
Bunny
They've done that to me. And I. The Internet, like, love you, but hate you at the same time. It's like there's just those people on there who nitpick everything you do. And, you know, it's like, it gets to a point where you're like, in a glass, you know? And you don't know which direction to go because people are always going to twist whatever you say. Yeah.
Gabby Egan
You don't know what to do. You're like, yeah, should I do this? Should I post this? Should I not post this? And it's like, no matter what I do, I'm fucked. So I'm just going to do whatever the hell I want to do. Exactly.
Bunny
Did something recently happen that I don't even know?
Gabby Egan
Well, I mean, like, recently, like, I've had, like, a lot of, like, friend drama that hasn't been online. Like, I've just had, like, a lot of, like, of my friends be just like, really shitty recently. And that's nothing that I'm, like, gonna go into real depth about. But I have, like, people, dude, people do not know what the fuck is going on behind the scenes. Okay? People don't. And I. People love to say that I'm the drama and that I love drama, but I really am the quietest person. Like, I have some, like, really shady shit going on in my life right now, and I don't even know how to deal with it. And, like, people online are, like, nitpicking at things and, like, trying to, like, bring things up. And it's like filtering comments does that.
Bunny
Oh, yes. Can we please talk about this? Every fucking creator filters their comments. Every big creator filters their comments because I had to turn my filters on for the first time ever fucking and delete comments. When I was going through the drama this last week and people were like, oh, she's filtering her comments. She's deleting her comments. Damn straight I am.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
I don't want to deal with your weird toxicity energy. Like, it's weird.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. You have to go through and read that. It's not good for you. Yeah. If you don't.
Bunny
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Gabby Egan
I think that. Okay. I also just like you said, I haven't started, like, filtering comments until recently.
Bunny
But it's gotten worse. Like, for in the last fucking, like, like month or two. Like. Yeah, it's crazy how bad Tick Tock's gotten, dude.
Gabby Egan
But it's just because it's. It's honestly just because it's annoying. Yeah, it's like, why? Like, if you don't want to, like, just don't comment. Like, don't leave this here for everybody else to read. Like, I think I saw a video.
Bunny
That you posted the other day and you were talking about, like, you. Your friend hasn't been in your videos or something like that, and they're like, coming for you. Is that what you're talking about? The drama in your life?
Gabby Egan
Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. So, like, there we've had, like, a bunch of, like, shady shit gone, like, with between me, Olivia and Jacinda and like, other couple of people who have been involved with it too. But it's like, obviously, like, you know, people go through rough patches and friendships and stuff like that, but it's like, people will, like, connect me to somebody and if they're not in my video anymore or like, it's like, where is this person? And it's like they have a whole nother Tick Tock account. Like.
Bunny
Yeah, yeah.
Gabby Egan
If you're worried about Olivia, go ask her. She just posted like two hours ago. Right. You know what I mean? So it's like, I don't know, I feel like. I feel like it's just because I need to start, like, focusing a lot more energy, like, towards myself and, like, my small Circle, like. Which is like, what's in my house? Like, the people that are in my house.
Bunny
That's your family.
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Those are the people who. As long as the people who are. That are in my house and then the people who are in my circle, like my small circle right outside of my house are good, I don't need to fucking give a fuck about everybody else.
Bunny
Amen, sister.
Gabby Egan
And I think that's where, like, a lot of my issues are coming from, are from taking these outside voices from other people and, like, letting it fuck up, you know, my. My personal life.
Bunny
Which is easy to do.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
Because people will make you start thinking shit. And you're just like, what Is this real? Who am I? You know?
Gabby Egan
Yeah. Literally, I have. I've been. I've been going through kind of like, an existential. Not existential. I always say that. Like, existential. What does that even mean?
Bunny
Don't put me on the spot like that. I think it's like. So it's like something like. Like big. Like, life changing right now. I gotta Google it. Hold on.
Gabby Egan
I'm sorry.
Bunny
Hold on.
Gabby Egan
You're good.
Bunny
I'm like. God damn it, hold on. Define X. How do you even spell. Here we go. Define existential. The climate crisis and an existential threat to the world. Concerned with existence.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
Me affirming or implying the existence of a thing. Yeah. Okay, so another word for existential is verifiable. So if that helps anything. But, yeah, everybody, that's a. Welcome to your English class today.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, I still don't know what this.
Bunny
Me either. I still didn't understand it. I'm just gonna go with what I said, and I think it's, like, life changing and big. Okay.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
You're going through some sort of crisis that's making you want to change. Speaking of crisis, can we talk about your arrest in Vegas? What happened?
Gabby Egan
Girl? I still wish I knew. So, yeah, I mean, like, I'm open to talking about it now that I'm not getting charged with two felonies. Like, I was really.
Bunny
I wanted to tell you. Bucky. Bucky Buchanan and fucking Jack Buchanan. That they used to be my lawyers. They're amazing in.
Gabby Egan
Dude, honestly, so good. Jack Buchanan, he was my attorney in my case.
Bunny
Bucky's his dad. I think his dad passed away.
Gabby Egan
Huh.
Bunny
Yeah.
Gabby Egan
Well, Jack, whoever. He literally was a killer attorney.
Bunny
No, he's amazing. Shout out Jack Buchanan, man.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, he's amazing.
Bunny
If you ever need a really good lawyer in Vegas, go to Jack Buchanan, because that got me out of a.
Gabby Egan
Lot of yeah, same.
Bunny
But I was in and James Lovett. I've had a few lawyers out there.
Gabby Egan
But because you live in Vegas part time, right?
Bunny
Yeah, I'm, I'm from Vegas. I actually grew up there. So.
Gabby Egan
Okay, cool, cool. So yeah, I never have been to Vegas before that. My first time ever going to Vegas was my husband and I's three year wedding or I don't remember what year it was but it was in 2021. And so we go out to Vegas for our anniversary and we stayed at the Cosmopolitan and it was so nice and we got a nice room and we started drinking like immediately when we got there like 9am and drank all day and I mean I drank so much that day and I was fine. Went to bed at like 10pm because we had been up early drinking and woke up the next day, ate a big breakfast, like huge breakfast at this buffet, the Wicked Spoon. And then after that we started going to like put our bathing suits on to go to like this pool club called. Called the Marquee Pool Club. And anyways, so we go in there, I had two drinks, two sex on the beaches. Okay. I didn't. I don't even think I finished the second one. I In the pool somewhere black out and wake up in a straight jacket in jail and intake.
Bunny
Oh no.
Gabby Egan
And I genuinely. People think that I'm lying whenever I say I don't remember that I'm not getting charged with anything. Like yeah, I could literally be like I lied. Like it doesn't matter. They can't like re. Pull it up or anything. Like yeah, the case like it's dismissed. I don't.
Bunny
What did they take you to jail for? Did they tell you so?
Gabby Egan
No, like yeah, I mean they told me after obviously but they told me that I was initially. I've seen the security footage from the Cosmopolitan. Not good. Definitely should have been taken to jail. I agree with him. But yeah, I've seen.
Bunny
What were you doing?
Gabby Egan
I was running from them.
Bunny
Oh, faster. But why were you running? You just. Oh nice. I would pay to see that footage.
Gabby Egan
I could. Honestly I'm so glad that I don't even have a copy of that footage.
Bunny
But what were you running for? You just fucking. Did you do something?
Gabby Egan
I don't know. Well, so they, they said that they initially security called the police because I was trespassing and I had gotten into an altercation with somebody at the pool and then they kicked me out. Apparently I was screaming and being disorderly at the pool and then they kicked me out. So after Security.
Bunny
Like, who was with you? Nobody saw.
Gabby Egan
My husband was with me.
Bunny
Cody, what the fuck happened?
Gabby Egan
I know he. He still feel so bad about this. Like, he honestly has never forgiven himself. But. So we had. We were having drinks, and there was this group of guys and group of girls, and there was a couple guys, Couple girls. And, like, the girls had, like, kind of made friends with me, and, like, we went to the bathroom together, and we're, like, joking around and stuff. And they were trying to make plans with me to do something later that evening because they had, like, tickets to something. And during that same time that all that had happened, my husband was, like, caught up in a group of guys that were talking to him. And then I, like, went back to the pool area and got in the pool, and that's the last thing that I remember.
Bunny
You just probably got lit. They might have that. Or somebody might have put something in your drink.
Gabby Egan
That's what I'm saying. Like, I only had two drinks, and I don't remember anything. And I was fighting people. And, like, I. My.
Bunny
Like, this is why I don't drink anymore, ladies and gentlemen. Especially from bars, you can't trust anybody. Bartenders, fucking roofy people.
Gabby Egan
Now, I think that it was because I have never, like, blacked out like that from alcohol before. Like, I've gotten, like, really drunk, but, like, I remember what I do. Like, I can be crazy, and I don't know, like, what happened, but that was crazy. They tried to book me, or they booked. They said that they were initially gonna just book me on trespassing, but they booked me on felony battery on police officer. Two charges of that. Two counts of felony battery on a police officer for making sound like a thug. And I was like, bad. I was crying in their.
Bunny
Girl, we all cry when we go to jail. We all cry when we get caught.
Gabby Egan
They didn't give me a phone call at all.
Bunny
Oh, they were trying to teach you a lesson.
Gabby Egan
They did. They taught me a good one. I'm never going back to Vegas.
Bunny
Well, you gotta come back. Come back with me.
Gabby Egan
I know. Yeah, I need to go back to Vegas for sure. My husband and I have been talking about it just because I had one bad experience.
Bunny
Yeah, you got to go experience it again. Because we. We love Vegas. We fall in love with Vegas each time. Every time we go back, you know, Like, I don't want to live there ever again. But visiting, I'm just like, oh, but.
Gabby Egan
What if they banned me from the Strip for life?
Bunny
They won't. That's called being blackballed. And it's very rare. The only people that they do that to are people who are scamming the casinos.
Gabby Egan
Oh. So the paper that they gave me with a map that said you are banned from the Strip is kind of a bunch of baloney.
Bunny
Well, so if they did 86 you.
Gabby Egan
Buddy said, I'm gonna refer this in my court case. I'm gonna put it.
Bunny
Certain casinos that they banned you from. Or was it like they said, the.
Gabby Egan
Strip, like, they have a map. The map, right. And the cosmos here. And they put a red or not a red, it was a yellow box around a whole area that I am not ever allowed to go back.
Bunny
Normally, they ban you from, like, the sister properties, so.
Gabby Egan
Ban me from the Cosmo? Yeah, I barely made it out of the building when I was running. You know what I mean? Like, just ban me from that property.
Bunny
I think you'll be fine. If you go back in there, just don't cause a fucking ruckus, you know, like, just kind of lay low. If you ever do go back in any place.
Gabby Egan
Could you imagine next time? No, something else happened.
Bunny
Listen, I'm not going to give you advice, okay? You do what you want to do. Don't go back to those casinos. So let's touch on your podcast. You have a podcast, right, Called the Don't Be Rude podcast.
Gabby Egan
That was, like, years ago.
Bunny
Was it? Okay, why don't you do it? I think you would be a great fucking podcast host.
Gabby Egan
Because I'm, like, slammed and.
Bunny
Because.
Gabby Egan
Well, I mean, maybe like. Because I feel like, you know, you're set up. Like I say, oh, yeah, I could do it too. But also, like, it's hard, people.
Bunny
It's time. It takes up a lot of money, and you don't make money unless you really work your ass off and know how to turn that into money. Like pot. They don't realize that podcasting is a black hole.
Gabby Egan
Yeah.
Bunny
Like, literally everybody who's podcasting is either paying for it out of pocket or they have sponsors. I don't have sponsors, so I'm doing the other. You know, and just. I've been doing this five years, and I'm just now, last year and this year making really good money off of it.
Gabby Egan
That's. See, that's what I'm saying. You have to have the time to invest into, like, just like TikTok for me, you know, I had to invest that time in the beginning. I didn't make a penny off of TikTok for the first year that I was doing it, you know, Then I started making a little bit of money.
Bunny
But what does 2023 hold for you? What are you going to do this year? What do you want to do this year? If you could manifest anything to happen this year, what would you want to manifest?
Gabby Egan
She's like, what do I want to do? I want, I want peace. No, I need to really start prioritizing peace in my life and I'm really like getting to that point. Like I want things that are gonna bring me peace at the end of the day. I like, I know that I'm a chaotic person and that'll probably never change.
Bunny
When's your birthday?
Gabby Egan
March 7th.
Bunny
Pisces.
Gabby Egan
Yeah, I know that I'm chaotic, but I do really like enjoy being at peace like with myself and like my emotions and stuff. It's okay, I'll be all over the place still. But like I really do want to be like at peace with myself and like with those around me and like just I want to be in a peaceful place for sure.
Bunny
You are learning, you know, I mean you're, you said you're what, 21, 22. 22. I mean you've got, the road is so vast and so long of like how many people that you're gonna become. You know what I'm saying? You're gonna, you're in your peace era right now. Next, you know, six months from now you're going to be in another era. Like you're just going to keep discovering who you are and I think that you're really self aware for a 22 year old. Like you, you're very mature.
Gabby Egan
I try and I like one of my biggest things is like I really try to like self accountability. Like I always like to kind of like call myself out on the spot on things just because like I don't have time to like keep up in life, right? So I just like, I don't know, dude. Like, I don't even know what I was talking about.
Bunny
I just want to say meeting you is just so. I love your vibe. I love everything, everything about you and I hope that you'll come back like once a year and check in on podcast with me.
Gabby Egan
For sure.
Bunny
Thank you for coming on the podcast even despite all the crazy I was going through this week.
Gabby Egan
Hopefully you don't get hated on for having me on the podcast.
Bunny
You know what they could hate? I don't care anymore. Like Jesus Christ.
Gabby Egan
I don't think I did anything too bad.
Bunny
No, you're amazing and I think you have a really amazing story, but also just the way that you like. I. I said you're just very authentic and endearing, and I think that, you know, people need to hear that side of you. I think people needed to see that you actually have emotions and you're not a robot that just fucking makes tiktoks.
Gabby Egan
I forgot that I was crying. Oh, okay. The trauma. But, yeah, no, I am. I'm glad that I came to you because this definitely. This is better than I expected. So, yeah, I really appreciate you for having me on.
Bunny
You better come back.
Gabby Egan
I will.
Bunny
All right. And thank you. All right, shout out where everybody can find you.
Gabby Egan
Oh, all your socials. You can find me on Tick Tock and Instagram @babyegan, or you can just literally Google search my name, Gabby Egan and all my show follow. Yeah, it's right there.
Bunny
You guys go follow her. You will not be disappointed. She's a sweetheart. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye. What's up, guys? Don't forget to sub to Patreon so that you can see the visuals because not only do we have episodes of the podcast, we have exclusive content that nobody else sees on any other apps, behind the scenes photo shoots, and we're dropping a whole bunch of surprising stuff this year. So if you guys don't want to miss out and you want to be the first to know, go over to our patreon wwond unrated.com love.
Title: Throwback Thursday: Gabbie Egan - A Trainwreck on the Right Path
Host: Bunnie XO
Guest: Gabby Egan
Date: [Exact date not provided]
In this poignant episode of the Dumb Blonde podcast, host Bunnie XO welcomes Gabby Egan to share her tumultuous yet inspiring life journey. Titled "Throwback Thursday: Gabbie Egan - A Trainwreck on the Right Path," the episode delves deep into themes of resilience, trauma, motherhood, and personal growth.
Gabby opens up about her upbringing in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she was an only child raised by parents in their forties. Despite a middle-class lifestyle, Gabby often felt isolated and struggled to fit in during her school years.
Gabby Egan (09:16): "I feel like I was always kind of, like, lonely as a kid, and I don't know why."
At the tender age of 13, Gabby became pregnant by a 16-year-old. She describes this period as the most traumatic time of her life, grappling with the complexities of teenage pregnancy without adequate support.
Gabby Egan (12:20): "It was a lot. That is a lot girl to go through at such a young age, baby."
Despite the initial shock, Gabby's father eventually became a pillar of support during her pregnancy, accompanying her to ultrasound appointments and providing emotional backing.
Gabby Egan (13:05): "He used to take me to ultrasound appointments and buy me snacks and food. And, like, he was honestly great."
Her older cousin, Corrine, also played a crucial role, offering companionship and emotional support to help Gabby navigate her challenges.
Gabby Egan (24:14): "She was your angel."
After graduating high school, Gabby enlisted in the military primarily for the health insurance benefits it offered. It was during her military service that she met her husband, Cody, leading to their marriage and the birth of their daughter.
Gabby Egan (40:24): "After I graduated high school at 17, I went into the military, so I went active duty."
Gabby's foray into TikTok began as a way to cope with the isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her authentic and relatable content quickly resonated with a vast audience, leading to explosive growth in her follower count.
Gabby Egan (55:47): "Within literally two days, that account that I started got a million followers."
However, her rapid rise was not without challenges. Gabby faced account bans and the pressures of managing a "cult-like" following, which often led to negative interactions and drama online.
Gabby Egan (59:48): "You do whatever the hell I want to do."
Now residing in Northern Kentucky, Gabby juggles her roles as a mother, entrepreneur, and content creator. She runs a successful tie-dye studio with her mother-in-law, turning her passion into a thriving business despite the chaos it often entails.
Gabby Egan (51:46): "We're gonna have this tie dye shop. We spent like 15 grand renovating this hole in the wall."
Throughout the episode, Gabby candidly discusses her ongoing struggles with trauma and the importance of mental health. She emphasizes the need for therapy and self-accountability as tools for personal growth and healing.
Gabby Egan (42:38): "I think if you're not in therapy, everybody should go to therapy."
Gabby reflects on her relationship with Cody, highlighting both the strengths and challenges they face. Their bond is fortified by mutual support and a shared commitment to personal development, despite past issues with infidelity and trauma.
Gabby Egan (45:59): "We're both at the point in our lives where we're both in therapy, like actively in therapy."
The conversation takes a dramatic turn as Gabby recounts an incident in Las Vegas where she experienced significant turmoil, leading to her arrest. Although the details remain somewhat vague, Gabby expresses relief that the charges were ultimately dismissed.
Gabby Egan (65:48): "I was running from them. I have never blacked out like that from alcohol before."
As the episode wraps up, Gabby expresses her desire for peace and continued personal growth. Both she and Bunnie acknowledge the importance of support systems and the ongoing journey toward self-improvement.
Gabby Egan (71:10): "I want peace. I need to really start prioritizing peace in my life."
Bunnie encourages listeners to follow Gabby on her social media platforms, praising her authenticity and resilience.
Bunnie XO (73:31): "You are amazing and I think you have a really amazing story, but also just the way that you like. I. I said you're just very authentic and endearing, and I think that, you know, people need to hear that side of you."
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This episode serves as an inspiring testament to Gabby Egan's ability to navigate life's adversities with honesty and strength, providing listeners with valuable insights into overcoming personal struggles and embracing one's true self.