Making a Miracle

Review Monterey County Post (CA) Tylo's autobiography has as many twists and turns as the script for any of the "soaps" she has starred in.... Making A Miracle provides an intimate and interesting look at a woman who has experienced the up and down sides of fame. -- Review Product Description The popular actress describes her successful battle against the producers of Melrose Place, who fired her because of her pregnancy, and the role of her Christian faith in helping her and her family cope with her infant daughter Katya's battle with a rare form of eye cancer. Reprint. About the Author Hunter Tylo is one of the most popular daytime television actresses of all time. Currently portraying Dr. Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful, she has also appeared on programs including All My Children and Days of Our Lives, and hosts a syndicated parenting talk show, First Priority. She starred with Paul Sorvino in the film The Jack of All Trades and guest starred on numerous prime-time programs. Married for eleven years to actor Michael Tylo, she is the mother of four children: Chris, Mickey, Izabella Gabrielle, and Katya Ariel. An accomplished horseback rider and lifelong animal lover, Hunter lives in California's San Fernando Valley. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One My husband, Michael, and I were asked by our friends Gigi and Bill Smith to present the annual award for best sleight-of-hand magician at the Magic Castle Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 23, 1996. Bill Smith builds many of the magic props for David Copperfield, Lance Burton, and other international magic acts. So I flew into Los Angeles from our home in Las Vegas early on Friday to pick up a gown from CBS wardrobe. For the past six years, I had played a lead character, the psychiatrist Taylor Hayes, on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The producers were always kind enough to help out with dresses for public appearances. I got up about 4:30 a.m. for my early flight and I remember feeling not quite right. The cup of coffee I had on the plane upset my stomach and the short flight seemed much longer. I took a taxi to the one-bedroom apartment that Michael and I maintained close to the CBS studios for those weeks when our shooting schedules spanned several days, as they often did. When I entered the apartment, I couldn't help but notice the rank smell. I love reptiles and have kept everything from chameleons to snakes as pets. At the time, I had a tegu, which is a fantastic black-and-white speckled lizard that looks like a baby Komodo dragon or alligator. They are gorgeous and they need minimal attention -- a reptile mostly takes care of itself. But I knew I had to clean this tegu's filthy cage pronto. His food -- Japanese hooded rats -- made for furry droppings with a smell that would turn up a skunk's nose. For years, I thought I was going to be a veterinarian, and when I was in high school I assisted at a clinic. I've cleaned up after a lot of animals and none of it has ever bothered me. But that day, the cage stunk worse than I could remember. I went to get the pooper scooper and started shoveling, but before I knew it, I was running to the toilet to throw up. At that moment, my only thought was, I've never had a tegu before and I didn't know they became that gross as they matured -- he was about three feet long then. (I had raised this lizard from a baby.) In a little while, I started feeling better. I even went down to the pet shop to replenish the tegu's food supply. I went to CBS studios soon after the building opened and picked out a green velvet gown with rhinestones across the bodice. The fabric was stretchy and clingy and flattering. The seamstress in wardrobe needed to make a few adjustments, and we agreed that I'd return that afternoon to pick it up. Then I went over to the Beverly Center. One of the stores had in new waist-length necklaces with silver cross pendants
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