After last week’s interview mishap, we got hold of Lara to ask her some questions about the show, her life and what she thinks about modelling at a young age. Here’s how it went down.
Q: How did you first feel about the idea of a tv show about your life? How did it even come about?
LB: Well I’d been asked to do it over 2 years now, so I was very apprehensive at the start and I said no for quite some time. Eventually, we filmed a pilot about a year and a half ago. Everyone liked that and my friends and family were supportive to that so I guess we all made a massive decision together to go ahead with it.
Q: How do you decide what to keep private? IS there anything you’re able to keep private?
LB: I guess nothing. Everything is in good reason with the show, to be honest. As much as it’s not scripted, it is planned to a degree. We went skydiving yesterday and that was planned and we had to organise everything.
Things just happen and if we were really worried and, you know, aware of things that we weren’t wanting out there, then we’d get too confused. So we just live our lives and we aren’t worried about that. My boyfriend isn’t on the show and that’s something that I’d like to keep sacred.
Q: Was that his choice or yours?
LB: It was both of ours. He’s a private person in a sense, he was the founder of Ksubi and so he has his own thing going on – his own identity – in the same industry. He likes to keep his privacy.
Q: Do you feel embarrassed watching yourself on television?
LB: I guess the thing is it’s very confronting because when you hear your voice – no one likes to hear their own voice, let alone watching yourself on tv. I do watch it with my friends and family so it’s a lot easier to watch but I mean, I am more protective of my friends and family rather than how I come across. They are putting themselves out there for me.
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Q: You have received some harsh criticism from the media over the past few years, so how do you deal with it? And do you pay much attention to what’s being said about you and the show in the media?
LB: I mean, the weirdest thing is, everyone in the public and even people in the street, and my friends and family are all so supportive and they speak so highly and nice about it. It’s only really the media and newspapers and things like that that run with stories. I don’t read them, to be honest. I’m concentrating on what I’m trying to achieve and what I set out to do. Otherwise it does get to you, it’s not the easiest thing to have your own show and of course, there’s always going to be backlash and criticism but I don’t worry about it too much.
Q: You were very young when you first came into the media spotlight so do you ever feel you missed out on your chance for being young and making all those silly mistakes that all 20-something’s make when they are still figuring out their path in life?
Top Comments
I loved reading this, I`ve always thought Lara Bingle is a misunderstood, very nice girl. We`ve all been young, done some things, for most of us it`s forgotten because we aren`t in the limelight, I sigh a huge sigh of relief at that. I`m enjoying Being Lara Bingle, takes a lot of guts to do something like this, open up and let people in to your thoughts and private life. I wish her nothing but the very best for the future, she deserves it and so much more.
Is the instagram photo showing 'Lara' with a friend wearing hats actually her? It looks like another Aussie model called Cheyenne Tozzi.