Rita Wilson

What's the most annoying label that people have given you that you are delighted to have shared?

You know, it's a series of labels because I grew up in a generation where I was very much influenced by my mom's generation.

My mom and dad were, I'm a first generation American, so my mom and dad were immigrants.

And dad was from Bulgaria, as you mentioned, and my mom was from Greece.

And then, so I had values that were very, very traditional.

And then I'm in this little middle section and ahead of me were already these women like Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and feminists who were fighting for women's rights.

And I knew that that was incredible.

Like I thought, wow, this is very different than what I'm growing up with.

But I was a little too young to sort of go off and burn my bra or go to Woodstock.

But...

But I was very keenly aware of the strides that they were making for financial equality, job equality, glass ceilings that we all know about, women's rights.

And so I've always been straddling those two generations.

So the labels, I can say, are...

I always wanted to do the right thing by my parents because they were the greatest people and I loved them.

So I was not much of a rebel.

So I think my rebel phase is coming much later in my life.

I think shedding...

putting good in front of anything.

You know, we're always a good daughter, a good wife, a good girl, a good worker, a good student, you know.

And so I'm enjoying discovering, you know, like shaking it up a little bit.