Ilona Maher

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738 appearances 9 recordings 8 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard 4 Jul

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House of Maher · Our Teen Years, Ilona’s Rugby Journey & Sex Ed Lessons From Mom · 25 Mar 2025 podcast

heterosexual debut sorry my sexual you didn't lose anything i first off wrong you up with the girls oh yeah i told you the story i was in a parking lot and then i remember it vividly and then mom was at we had family over i was like mom i gotta talk to you she's like all right i'll go upstairs she goes upstairs to the bathroom and i'm like mom i lost my virginity and she was like okay oh Wow!

Mind you, she's an adult woman. Yeah, yeah. This was in my 20s. And I was like, so you're probably going to need to schedule a gyno for me right now. I imagine I'll be pretty busy from now on.

Motel is open. Hotel is open. I'm changing the sheets.

You know, like...

i just think that's probably the way it is so we'll get that in get some stuff you know i'm gonna be busy so she she accepted the news was like of okay you know be safe and blah blah blah and i'll get that scheduled for you i guess i don't know she goes back down to sit at the date table with like the family friends there and she's silent she's silent like just like catatonic she's like catatonic doesn't sleep a wink that night whereas i'm like that dead look at wild

Legs first.

Legs first. I am here. But yeah, she's always been that. We can talk to her about pretty much anything to the point where I'm like, I probably shouldn't have shared that. No, that's good. I would continue to. But then she did. She stepped up and helped and she got you the appointment. I got the gyno. Got the birth control.

Yeah. Yeah. It's special to have that sort of relationship with your mom. But I think, yeah, she was very comfortable talking to us about it. And she was also, I mean, people, your whole thing is body positivity, body appreciation and living in the body that you're in. And you're always, you know, pushing that messaging, which is so important.

But it's like we also did, we were raised with a naked mom. She was naked around us, right? Like she would get changed in front of us. We would see what a woman's body looks like.

in all of its forms and you know having being pregnant and then giving birth and moles and and stretch marks and to us that was so beautiful and we got to experience like what a woman's body is and now being in a woman's body I love and appreciate it because I saw it in all of its forms whereas I have friends who you can sometimes just tell they weren't raised with a naked mom.

They are not comfortable in their skin. They're not comfortable with other women in that way at all. So I think we're very lucky to have been raised with a mom who, even if maybe she wasn't feeling as, like, You can't be body positive all the time. But she didn't ever put that on us. And she still, like, just was. She just existed. And she never, never talked about our bodies in any type of way.

She never talked about her body in any type of way when we were growing up. And I think that sticks with you. Absolutely. All of our features were made to feel the most beautiful. Our height, our shoulders, our athleticism was always spotlighted as this amazing trait that we have.

And I remember, you know, obviously I have fairer skin and freckles. Well, you have freckles too, but mom and dad would always be like, and those are so beautiful. You really shine. And I always felt so beautiful. And I'm so glad I had that basis because I know other people who have freckles that constantly cover them with foundation. For me, that is a wild sentiment.

I'm like, why are you covering them up? That's your face. It's beautiful. So they really made me appreciate who I was at a young age. I saw this thing online where it's like start to compliment girls more about like their smarts and whatnot instead of how they look.

I think there's a balance there like because I see so many girls and I also like, oh, you're so pretty and whatnot. But I started to say like, oh, you look so strong or you look so...

you know you look so smart or something like that so i've seen that that that's like kind of a change that can be done because we focus so much on beauty at times there's so much more to to person but it's so simple yeah simple i think mom did a good job was like well your your shoulders are doing so well like you get to you're doing amazing sports because of these big shoulders or oh you're so smart you should do this so i think there's like a a balance and i'm learning every day too how to like handle you know young fans how to talk to myself and whatnot

I think you do a great job with your young fans. Thank you. You love seeking them out. No matter how tired you are, you're there. You're crouching down with them, telling them how cool they look and how strong they look and what they can do, asking if they play sports. That's got to be so... But I think that's how mom would have acted.

That's how mom, if she was like that, she would have said all those things as well. So for all our listeners, you are strong. You are smart. You are important. You are beautiful. I don't know if we can use that.

That's a house of more original. And her thing for us the past couple of years, which I love, and it connects all of us, is we are adult women. And I think she started to be like, what do I get them for Christmas? What do I get? I got pots and pans from Costco at 22 years old. I was like, well, that's our wrap on fun birthdays, huh? OK. So it was adulthood from here on out. Great pots and pans.

I have them to this day. I was like, you'd actually be really excited to get that, wouldn't you?

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