If you’re a fan of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you might be in for a deal with. Supermodel and entrepreneur Cynthia Bailey, who made her first look on the present in season 3, is often the one individual on the collection who tries to maintain the peace amongst the ladies and is never on the middle of drama.

Maybe that’s as a result of when she’s not taping, the 54-year outdated mannequin turned entrepreneur is pursuing a number of companies and partnerships together with her modeling company, her line of eyewear, turning into a model ambassador with Seagram’s Escapes and her newest enterprise, the Bailey Wine Cellar

In an interview with BET.com, Bailey talks about how she’s in a position to stability all of it. Along with being a brilliant concerned mother to her 21-year outdated daughter, Noelle Robinson, and newly married to tv persona, Mike Hill

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BET.com: You appear busy with the present and all of your different ventures. How do you navigate all of it?

Cynthia Bailey: We often movie for six months after which additionally put it up for sale. So it may be onerous as a result of after I give attention to one thing, I like to offer it my full consideration—being a perfectionist, I wish to guarantee that I’m invested in each minute. So, after we’re filming Actual Housewives, it is my primary precedence, and as quickly as we’re executed, I leap into checking on all my different companies and new initiatives. Nevertheless it’s a blessing to have this job as a result of it has afforded me different alternatives. 

BET.com: How do you then stability all of these alternatives along with your private life?

Bailey: I can converse for myself and likewise my castmates; that’s one in all our greatest struggles looking for stability. What’s useful for me is simply having an understanding youngster. Her dad is actor Leon [Leon Robinson, The Five Heartbeats and Cool Runnings], who has been within the leisure trade his entire life. I used to be a mannequin earlier than the present, we’ve at all times been within the enterprise indirectly since she was born, and she or he’s come on the present with me when she was eight years outdated, and now she’s 21. So, she will get it. It doesn’t suggest that Leon and I do not dwell in a ball of guilt at occasions. However although we weren’t at all times there, we at all times made positive she was taken care of. I’m doing this for her and my household. However in fact, there are occasions when I’m exhausted, and I’m newly married, however my household is knowing. We make it work. 

BET.com: Like many working mothers, you will have quite a bit happening, and you might be used to doing a lot; what do you do particularly for your self?

Bailey: I deal with myself alongside the way in which as a lot as I can. I actually take pleasure in a superb mani and pedi. I find time for that after per week, and I get the works. I ask for the recent stones, a leg therapeutic massage. I like getting massages. It is essential to reset and reboot as a result of you’ll burn out. And I am unable to present as much as work and inform them, ‘hey, I am sorry, I do not really feel like working.’ I’ve to point out up and on this present, present out, more often than not. I additionally get facials. I like yoga, meditating, taking walks, and generally it is nearly being alone. That might imply watching back-to-back films on Netflix and simply ordering from DoorDash. There may be a lot energy in being nonetheless. 

BET.com: Inform me a bit about your collaboration with Seagram’s Escapes? Why this partnership?

Bailey: The partnership with Seagram’s Escapes began in 2018. It’s actually a blessing. Seagram’s, and I didn’t solely wish to create my unbelievable Peach Bellini, which is likely one of the prime sellers you guys noticed play out within the launch on The Actual Housewives of Atlanta, however we needed to assist to empower ladies, one thing that’s essential to me. 

After we began this partnership, we instantly connected a girl empowerment portion to every little thing we do. As a Black girl, I perceive the worth of different Black ladies empowering me, so I wish to guarantee that I do the identical for others, and Seagram’s has been superb in supporting my efforts.

As an entrepreneur and a enterprise proprietor of a number of companies, all of us wrestle, even earlier than the pandemic. So many are struggling now. I like that I can have a dialog with Seagram’s and we will work out a solution to do our half. That is how the Seagram’s Escapes market was created. We have been in a position to give $10,000 grants to a few Black-owned companies. I care about individuals, I care in regards to the world, and I care about empowering different ladies.

BET.com: Can we stay up for some other partnerships?

Bailey: I’ve some issues popping out, however I am unable to discuss them proper now. Plus, I’m specializing in my marriage. My wine cellar is again open although we struggled by means of the pandemic like everybody else, however it’s open and doing properly. And relating to partnerships, I like working with my husband, we’ve plenty of issues that we plan on working collectively, and I am enthusiastic about that.

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The factor that folks do not understand, as somebody who’s been working since I used to be 17 years outdated, I’ve at all times needed to achieve success, and I’ve at all times been ready to do the work to remain profitable, however there’s one thing nice about having your finest buddy, and your husband and create some nice issues collectively. I wish to do some issues with Mike, the person who, you understand, I plan on spending the remainder of my life with.

BET.com: How have you ever advanced because you began on the present?

Bailey: I believe one of many issues which have saved me on the present which explains why I have been in a position to be on the present for over a decade at this level is that  I by no means overlooked who I’m as an individual. I did not attempt to be one thing else. I got here on the present, and I gave you guys me, no matter that appeared appreciated: profitable at occasions or going by means of monetary points, damaged marriage, friendships, damaged friendships, motherhood, and every little thing that goes with that. I at all times attempt to stand in my fact of who I’m, even when it is not as entertaining. I’m on a platform the place drama can work. Every thing I’ve executed on the present is how I’d have dealt with them have been I not on the present. I do me. I’ve at all times been true to myself. 

Final 12 months, Seagram’s Escapes and Cynthia Bailey started a nationwide empowerment tour to host ladies leaders at schools and universities. There’s a digital tour coming this 12 months. 

This interview has been edited for readability.

The Momosa for Mom’s Day

4 components Seagram’s Escapes Peach Bellini

2 components Glowing Wine

Mix and serve in a champagne flute

Recipe courtesy of Seagram’s Escapes.