Nate Berkus Talks to Elizabeth Edwards about Life and Design.
On the Friday, September 17th edition of the 'The Nate Berkus Show' (check your local listings or visit www.TheNateShow.com) Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, speaks candidly with Nate for a daytime exclusive about reclaiming her life, her battle with cancer, and how becoming a recent furniture shop owner is a tie to her past and a bridge to her future. During the exclusive interview at Red Window, her Chapel Hill-based home furnishings business, Edwards shares with Nate her story of survival and her hopes for the future
Elizabeth Edwards speaks out like more candidly with Nate Berkus who traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for an exclusive interview. Edwards opens her home and opens up her heart . She talks about reclaiming her life through her passion for design. Edwards offers a revealing look at the life she is recreating from the shattered pieces of her marriage, a candid conversation about how she gets out of bed each morning, and an inside look at the Red Window furniture store she's designed to capture the joy of her passion. Then, Edwards and Nate team up to pay it forward to another woman, Karen Hawks from Winston-Salem, NC, inspired by Edwards' story
Elizabeth Edwards On Reclaiming Her Story:
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NB: What does reclaiming your life mean to you right now?
EE: Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, whom have to live with whoever their mother is. Part of the reason originally why I wrote the book was to give my children a different perspective on it. I knew I was going to die at some point before I wanted to and I wanted them to not think of me as a victim. I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way. When John and I were trying to make it work, I was actually sort of looking forward to my role as step mom. It's hard for me to think of a child as anything but a wonderful gift. I love children; love spending time with them; I love getting things for them...but it didn't change what happened between John and me. For me, it was just another part of the breach. I look at a picture that was taken at particular time, it was a picture that was taken in October of 2006, and he's just looking at me with such affection.
NB: And you're thinking, what's really going on?
EE: That is right. The picture now means, maybe he is feeling that, but is there something else happening because that wasn't the total of his life.
On How Edwards Finds Her Strength to Persevere:
NB: Your life seems to have been this series of challenges and setbacks and tragedies, and then this resilience. Where does your strength come from?
EE: I think natural resilience (is something) we all have. Some of it, I learned after Wade died. That was my really long period of having to readjust to a new reality. Then you incorporate the person who was with you still into your life in a positive way, and manage to live happily and laugh again when you thought you never would.
On Her Estranged Husband, John Edwards:
NB: When you look at John today, what do you see?
EE: I see the father of my children, and that's very important to me. Particularly since I have a terminal disease, this is the person who at some point will take over the primary parenting, and it's important to me that he heals if he needs too.
NB: Have you forgiven him?
EE: Forgiveness is a hard word because I don't know that I know everything yet...I may never know what really happened in my life, so it's really hard to use a word like forgiveness but we found a new of interacting with one another that is healthy - healthy for the kids - and really easy for us.
On Becoming a Furniture Shop Owner:
NB: Elizabeth Edwards furniture shop owner. How did it come about?
EE: Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea and it also played into my personal history. My mother had had a charity store...
NB: I had read that - that she had an antique shop, selling Japanese antiques on the base.
EE: Right, she would go shopping out in the countryside, in southern Japan in the 1950s, and you could really get some fabulous stuff, and she named it Red Door. Well, you know, Red Door is pretty well taken, so I thought, what's the next best thing? The store Red Window.
NB: So this a true tie to your past?
EE: A true tie to my past.
NB: And yet it also completely represents your future.
EE: That's right. It does, but this a different life. It's unlike anything I've lived before. I was first going to teach literature and didn't do that. Became a lawyer and did that for 17 years. Then I was sort of an at-home mother for awhile, and then a political wife. So now, this is the next phase and it belongs to me. It doesn't belong to any of those things in the past.
This is an episode/interview not to be missed today!!
Stevie Wilson, LA-Story.com
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