The contortionist turned fitness guru talks falling in love, life after children, and why movement is the key to inner and outer strength.

By Lindzi Scharf

“I’m a late bloomer,” contortionist turned fitness guru Emilie Goldblum says, sitting on a white couch in an art-filled living room of the 1930s Hollywood Hills home she shares with her actor-husband Jeff Goldblum.

It’s a surprising confession given Mrs. Goldblum started her professional journey when she was just a child. The then-aspiring Olympian left her hometown of Toronto to train in Russia as a rhythmic gymnast at eleven years old.

When she was seventeen, Goldblum represented Canada at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. By her twenties, she was a professional aerialist, contortionist, and dancer in Los Angeles with high-profile gigs as a body double for Emma Stone in the Academy Award-winning 2016 film “La La Land” and for Rihanna in 2017’s “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” Goldblum has also appeared in music videos and live performances alongside Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, and Cher.

During that time, she got married; had two children (Charlie and River); and founded Maison Goldblum Stretch, a fitness and wellness website that focuses on movement to improve one’s physical and mental health.

And yet – despite her many professional accomplishments and personal milestones – Goldblum insists she’s always felt late to the party and says it’s taken time for her to understand and recognize her path, which she readily admits is an ever-evolving concept.

“I grew up thinking, ‘You’re going to arrive at some destination, and everything will be figured out and you’ll feel great,’” Goldblum says. “But life is not like that; it’s more than that, which is worthy of striving for. Jeff and I talk about it. We’re slow learners and late bloomers and that’s okay, you know? Because it’s taken me exactly where I need to be. I try to impart [that onto] the boys.”

CONDITIONING & UN-CONDITIONING: THE EARLY YEARS

Like many toddlers, Goldblum began taking ballet classes by two and a half. “I think every person, every baby is born with a perspective,” she says. “Mine was that of wanting to play and be on stage. I fell in love with ballet and dance.”

Rhythmic gymnastics soon followed – and the trajectory of her life forever changed. After taking classes at ten, she was encouraged to pursue it professionally by training for the Olympics in Russia. However, upon arriving, Goldblum recalls feeling like she was already behind her peers despite being just eleven years old. “These girls had been training seriously since they were six,” she says. “I felt like I was always just a few steps behind. That [feeling] has stayed with me. Maybe this is my own narrative that I tell myself, but I feel like I’ve always been somewhat of an underdog. … Even as a senior, I was always just behind the top Canadian girl.”

Goldblum eventually fulfilled her dream by competing at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia when she was sixteen. She originally planned on returning, but changed course shortly after. “I stayed in the sport, trying to go to a second Olympics, but in a team with five girls,” she says, explaining she eventually realized it was time to part ways with the sport. “I still wanted to perform, but I didn’t want to compete. I didn’t think my body could do it anymore. And for what? It was time to move on.”

However, she remembers it being a tough transition and says that it took time for her to trust her instincts due to her time in Russia. “Although there were many positives that came out of my coach, there was a lot of negative conditioning,” Goldblum explains. “I had to undo a lot of that. My coach was a tough woman. She came from Bulgaria and the USSR. They had a different upbringing. She was tough on me. … I had to find my confidence and I had to find my self-assurance. I’d always looked to [my coach in Russia]: ‘Am I doing it right? Is that the right step to do? Should I be doing this?’ and then eventually, with boyfriends, I’d ask, ‘What do you think?’ It took about a decade to really feel like, ‘No! what do you want and how are you going to execute that and survive?’”

Due to her unconventional upbringing, she’s spent much of her adulthood working on better understanding herself. “I’m such a proponent of therapy,” she says, sharing she doesn’t believe there should be a stigma attached to mental health discussions. “I wouldn’t want to have a session in front of a public audience, but I don’t see why it would continue to be taboo if it’s so helpful? Whatever it is you’re holding onto—if it was some sort of resentment—[it helps to talk and say] it out loud to someone.”

After Russia, Goldblum returned to Toronto to attend Ryerson University where she realized she wanted to shift focus to theatre. “I love languages and the written word,” she says. “I thought, ‘Maybe I’d like to act.’ … I wanted to get away from my Toronto life, so L.A. felt like a good place to go. I didn’t know that L.A. is more [focused on] film and television.”

She moved to Los Angeles at twenty-three to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but, because she’s a Canadian citizen, after graduation, she had one year to land work in the industry she’d studied or else she would have to return to Toronto. “I couldn’t bartend; I couldn’t cocktail waitress; I couldn’t work in a clothing store,” she says, explaining she scrambled to come up with a plan to stay put. “I had to have a job in the field of performing. I needed to find a reason why the U.S. government would keep me here. …. I quickly realized, ‘Acting is new to me and I’m twenty-four now. It’s kind of late. The government isn’t going to look at your case and think, Yeah, she’s an expert at this. We need to keep her here because she brings so much to this industry.’”

Instead Goldblum looked for work as a rhythmic gymnast and contortionist since both were unique specialties. She also became trained in circus arts and as an aerialist, an extension of her rare skillset, which helped her land commercial work with brands like Shiseido.

“When they needed a performer, a contortionist, an aerialist, or an acrobat who could also act that was my niche, up until having kids,” she says, explaining that she also often performed as a stunt double or back-up dancer, which led to her touring with Cher and performing in a Bieber music video. Reflecting on her decision to forgo a more traditional acting career, she says, “There are a million actors and I’m glad that I was practical enough to realize, ‘You’re twenty-four, dude. Most girls that are acting and succeeding started when they were twelve.’”

Despite carving out her own unique path and finding a way to stay put, things weren’t always easy. “I learned to live off of a small budget,” Goldblum explains. “At times, it would be hard. I remember being hungry. [A friend] worked at Starbucks and at the end of his shift, he was going to be throwing out all these sandwiches. I was like, ‘What? I could use that.’ He would let me know when he was closing and then I would come and get day old sandwiches. …. There were times where I had little funds to support [myself] because I was paying lawyer fees to get my green card. I would do a commercial for Fruit of the Loom, but then the money would go [quickly] because you’re living paycheck to paycheck.”

She remembers buying a 1969 Volvo – the only car she could afford at the time. “It had no air conditioning, so I’d show up to auditions drenched,” she says. “I remember seeing girls roll up in a car and they would look so fancy – they had air conditioning! I was like, ‘Their make-up isn’t melting on their face like me.’”

She also remembers struggling to understand where she fit in stylistically as a result of more formal training in Russia. “Early on, when I moved to L.A. and was trying to be a dancer that would be good to go on tour with Katy Perry, [I felt like I] wasn’t edgy enough,” she remembers. “I didn’t move that way. I would take classes, but it’s hard to take that [training] out of you. I know girls do it and that’s amazing that they can do both. Maybe in another lifetime I’ll be able to accomplish both, but right now it’s nice to accept where you came from and then go along with it. Ballet [and my training in Russia are] very much a part of who I am whether I like it or not. Earlier on, I was trying to fight those things.”

Once Goldblum leaned into who she is and where she came from, she found that things started clicking personally and professionally. In addition to performing, she launched her own company in which she would send out fellow circus performers, aerialists, and contortionists. “I was performing and hiring dancers at this nightclub,” she says, referencing Playhouse Nightclub in Hollywood. “In order to have a steady paycheck, I worked at this nightclub. They would have dancers on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and for special events. I would dance and do aerial, but I was also the head coordinator.”

Through her position with the nightclub, Goldblum realized it was an untapped market. “Eventually, people [approached me and said,] ‘My daughter is turning sixteen. We want aerialists and the theme is Alice in Wonderland,’” she explains. “And we would do it.”

Then, a chance encounter – that coincided with her gig at Playhouse – changed the course of her personal life.

THE MEET CUTE

“I had this friend who knew somebody [at Equinox] and if we performed at one of their events, then we would get three months free and you’d pay for the other remaining months,” she says, explaining she saved up for the admittedly expensive gym membership. “I told myself, ‘Working out is your job. You have to be strong. You have to be flexible and you have to balance those two.’ I thought, ‘That’s worth it. I can get the funds for this. It’s part of my work.’”

A year into her Equinox membership, she met her husband at their West Hollywood location. “It was August 26th and I went to the gym early that morning because my sister lives in Norway and she called me to say she’d given birth to my nephew,” she remembers. “I was all jazzed up and bubbly. I thought, ‘I can’t go back to sleep. I’m going to go to the gym.’ Because I was working at the nightclub, I worked late hours, so I wouldn’t go to bed until three, four [in the morning]. So seven or six was early for me.” She pauses. “Not anymore.” She laughs, then continues, “But going to the gym that early was odd for me.”

As she reminisces about how they met, Goldblum expertly sets the scene, which sounds like something out of a romantic comedy.

“I was on the monkey bars,” she says. “All of a sudden, this tall guy comes up and he’s looking up at me because I was doing these ‘skin the cats’ and these ‘meat-hooks’ [exercises, which are] conditioning for aerial.”

She then does her best Jeff Goldblum impression. “He was like, ‘What? What? What? What do you do? You must be so good at what you do. Do you perform? Are you performing somewhere that I could see you?’” she says, mimicking his distinct voice and unique delivery. “I remember looking down [at him since I was on the monkey bars above him]. We started chatting and right away, once I jumped down, I was looking up at him.”

She says the connection was immediate. “I felt safe,” she says. “It felt like this rose bubble, like a safe love right away. …. He was asking me, ‘Are you married? Do you have children? Do you have a boyfriend?’ All these personal questions—and that’s just kind of who he is. He loves people and I didn’t know that at the time because I didn’t know who he was.”

She remembers answering his questions with, “No, no, no, and it’s all by choice.” 

Goldblum says that – even then – she was surprised by her own confidence. “I usually am a little bit shy when I don’t know somebody,” she says, “but I was going to be performing at the club. I was like, ‘Here’s my number. Here’s where I’m performing,’ and he came to the club that night.”

But she still didn’t know anything about him.

“I was dancing in this oval shaped cage above the bar and then I scurried away because I was like, ‘Oh my God. He came. I think he might like me,’” she says, giggling like a school girl as she remembers the moment. “I scurried up to where the DJ was and my girlfriend, who I’m still friends with to this day, she was there. I told her, ‘The guy that I met at Equinox is here.’ She looked out. …. She said, ‘Dude, that’s Jeff Goldblum,’ and I was like, ‘I know. That’s what he told his name was,’ and she said, ‘No, you don’t know,’ and she pulled up his IMDB.”

At the end of the night, he sought her out to say goodbye. “He was so sweet,” she says. “He was trying to hold and kiss my hand. I was like, ‘Not here in front of all these people.’ He went home and then that Sunday, we made plans.”

A few days later, Mr. Goldblum invited Mrs. Goldblum to see him perform piano with his jazz band at the since closed Café Was, formerly on Vine Street in Hollywood. She brought along two friends, circus artists, who were in town from Berlin. Next thing she knew, she found herself on stage performing with Mr. Goldblum. “I ended up doing contortion on his piano at his gig,” she says with a laugh. “He plays a lot of games with the crowd and he sang this song...”

“Emilie, Emilie, Emilie—Has the murmuring sound of may; all silver bells, coral shells…” she croons, referencing the 1964 Johnny Mandel-penned song “Emily, Emily, Emily,” made popular by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Barbara Streisand. “Jeff was singing it to me; so the crowd knew of me a little bit because of that. Then he said, ‘True or false: Emilie is a contortionist. Clap for false.’”

Everyone clapped. “I was like, ‘I’ll show you who’s not a contortionist,’” she says, explaining she jumped on stage to prove the crowd wrong. “I already had something to drink, so I was way more courageous. Jeff started playing ‘Makin’ Whoopee’ from ‘The Fabulous Baker Boys,’ and I did a whole thing on the piano.”

After their playful, impromptu routine, the two became inseparable. 

LOVE, MARRIAGE, & KIDS

Eventually, the couple moved in together – and began planning for the future. “When we started to get serious and talk about marriage and children, we did all those talks with our therapist,” she says. “I always pictured myself having children and then at twenty-eight, I met Jeff and I started to think, ‘Will I have children?’ I know twenty-eight is not that old, but you start to wonder. That’s kind of the age when you start to have a stronger desire and then meeting somebody at twenty-eight – it could go great or it could not. There’s so much unknown.”

The couple dated for three years before getting married and having children. “We’re so open with communication,” she says. “We really talked about having children because I don’t think he ever saw that before me as something that he yearned and longed for. When I started to have that urge to tell him, ‘I want children,’ I envisioned what we have now. It’s weird. I just thought, ‘It would be so nice to have little kids running around and doing what we’re doing.’ We’re playful. We’re like adult children. If you’re spending the rest of your life with somebody, you want playfulness and jokes and he definitely brings that.”

Goldblum says the last ten years together as a couple have also been an important time for her personal growth. “Becoming a mom and also a wife and homeowner with Jeff, you learn a lot about yourself and what you’re capable of and what you need to work on and how to be more resilient,” she says. “In my twenties, [I thought I was] a little invincible. I was living with roommates, so now it’s nice to have that peace.”

She says her family bonds over a love of exercise. “We work out together,” she says. “I was working out this morning and [my son] Charlie came up and asked, ‘Am I strong?’ He was doing some stuff with the weights and then he would look at himself in the mirror. He was like, ‘Is this helping my abs?’ He’s six. Sometimes I’m blown away, but then I think, ‘Can you really be surprised? You’re in there every morning.’”

Meanwhile, her four-year-old son River inherited his parents’ sense of humor. “He loves Charlie Chaplin,” she shares. “He’s always doing funny things with his body. He’s very comedic.” But Goldblum insists that her kids are free to be whoever they’re meant to be. “I just want them to have something that they’re passionate about – truly and dearly,” she says. “Passion is all I want.”

It’s also a theme she’s personally explored since having her sons. “After Charlie, I was still going to work here and there,” she says. “I performed at the Oscars one weekend and then did this film in Paris for [director] Luc Besson – a movie called ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,’ but I found that my priorities shifted. I wanted to be at-home more with the boys. I didn’t want them to be brought up with nannies and people that [we hire] to help us. I don’t have family here, so if I were to go to work, it would be somebody else taking care of our babies. I thought, ‘Why am I doing this?’”

Goldblum knew something needed to change, but eventually, those changes led to a slight loss of identity – as many mothers experience. “Being a mom and then having had this life before where you were good at something and that people looked to you…” She cuts herself off. “But all of that is fleeting…”

She then finishes her original thought. “Once I had the kids, I started to doubt [myself] a little bit [and debated], ‘What else am I going to have to offer other than just being a wonderful mom?’” she says. “Being a mom is a wonderful thing and I don’t want to stop doing that, but I think you feel like you have to and you want to keep up with the other things that helped either A) define you and B) bring you happiness.”

HER PASSION FOR MOVEMENT

Goldblum briefly dabbled with the idea of teaching classes at Yogaworks and trained to become a teacher before realizing she wanted to bring her own unique perspective to the fitness world. While she’s always been passionate about movement as underscored by her multifaceted career, she decided she wanted to explore fitness in a new way as impacted by her own experiences with aerial, gymnastics, contortion, and – to some extent – therapy and self-discovery.

“I find that when you take the time to stretch and expand your body, you start to learn a bit about yourself and what’s at the core of you,” she says.

As a result, she created Maison Goldblum Stretch Fit, a program intended to help strengthen and tone muscles while improving one’s mood and mental health. All virtual classes are available free of charge through her website and on her Instagram account.

“Maison Goldblum is an opportunity to share and make accessible to the world things that have helped me and changed my life in impactful, positive ways,” she says. “I am flexible now, but I wasn’t always and I struggled to be at the level I needed to be flexible in order to go to the Olympics. I wanted to be able to give to society things that have helped me and changed my life.”

She launched the platform mid-pandemic to help support people who might be struggling. “When the pandemic hit, I realized, ‘Wow, this is really helping me. It would be nice if I could set this in motion and make this accessible for anybody,’” Goldblum says. “I’ve gotten feedback from people and they’ll say, ‘I have so much less pain.’ That’s always motivating and inspiring to keep doing it.”

She continues, “I wanted to change the way we look at working out. I want it to feel more like this exploratory [experience navigating] the map of who you are. For some people, it’s music or it’s acting, but for me, it’s movement. I’ve found that it helps people so much and not just in creating strong muscles. I want people to have a strong core – both metaphorically as well as physically.”

Goldblum says her program differs from others in that it’s focused on “what’s going on in your body and how you can shape not just your physique, but shape how you feel, how you wake up in the morning.” She adds, “There’s something about working out, testing your body, and seeing where it is in tune with your emotional self. The body is so representative of who you are or who you want to be. Like if you want to be confident, just stand with a stronger stance. You can effect change if you consciously think about it.”

THE NEXT CHAPTER

For now, Goldblum is mostly focused on spreading the word about Maison Goldblum. “[Exploring movement] is what I always loved to do – whether it brought me notoriety or money or any of that,” she says. “It was for passion. It’s been a journey and becoming a mom has made that more possible in a way. Otherwise, I would still be chasing [jobs] and auditioning.”

While she does have a high-profile film on the horizon, she declines to share details for the time being. “I don’t think I can say publicly,” she says. “But it’ll be a good one.” She solely mentions the job to make the point that she’ll make time for projects that matter; however, her days at cattle calls are done. “I’m not going to huge auditions to dance and wait in line for hours.”

Instead, by focusing on her kids and fitness followers, Goldblum says she’s ultimately bettering herself. “Helping others helps me because in the end it feels good,” she says. “I get that as a mom with children— like teaching my son how to tie his shoelaces and then seeing his little face light up. That’s the thing that comes with maturity as I age that I didn’t realize earlier on. Helping others helps you and it helps me.”

Goldblum also hopes to, one day, create her own line of fitness attire. “I like clothes and bodysuits and the way they make you feel,” she says, explaining she would love to bring a unique take to her old training uniform from Russia. “It was this USSR look, but I’d love to expand on that and make it more girly and French. This is nowhere in the works of happening. It’s just a thought and a dream.”

HOW SHE LIVES…

“Jeff has been in this home for thirty years; I’ve been here for ten,” Emilie Goldblum explains of her three-bedroom Hollywood Hills home, which also has a two-bedroom guest house and a breathtaking view of the city. “We created all these [memories here] together. It had only been three years before we ended up getting married, but still – three years isn’t nothing. I enjoyed those years. [It was a time] without kids and just living an amazing, happy life together. [I remember feeling like], ‘We’re so in love that we want to take that next step.’ I wouldn’t want to erase that because I wasn’t here for the last twenty years.”

Mrs. Goldblum has added her own little touches to the home over the years – including a blue door that leads to their bathroom and bedroom. “I wanted to make it ours; so that there are more elements of Emilie and Jeff in the house,” she explains. “We’ve made little renovations here and there. The doors used to be this dark, woodsy green, a little more masculine and they needed a paint job, so we talked about colors. I like having little pops of color.”

THE DETAILS

She also redid the floors in the living room and the bedrooms to reflect her upbringing. “They’re French floors from 150 years ago,” she says. “That was a little bit of my French background being able to be here. One of my earliest childhood memories is the sound of creaky hardwood floors. I’ve always loved it. I like the smell and the way it feels on your feet.”

THE TREES

“These are two crape myrtles,” she says, looking out at two trees she planted in the backyard. “I planted the first one with Charlie’s umbilical chord when it came off and part of my placenta because I got those encapsulated. I had read online about this Chinese philosophy that it keeps them grounded and close to home. I like those little symbolic things. Eventually, with River, I did the same thing. It’s funny because their trees are sort of like them; the way they’ve blossomed. Like Charlie’s is so strong and he’s got this force. Then River’s tree is a little bit thinner and it just feels a little bit more artsy – like him.”

THE BALLET SLIPPERS

“These are my very first ballet slippers,” Goldblum says, recalling how she first discovered dance. “My sister, who is three and a half years older than I am, was taking ballet. My mom would get her ready and I would take off and jump into any class because she was preoccupied. She would be scrambling [to find me], ‘Where’s Emilie? Where’s Emilie?’ After a couple weeks of that, the people [at the dance studio] were like, ‘Is she potty-trained?’ Because I was too young for class, but I was potty-trained, so they put me in a four-year-old class – and I loved it. Eventually, I went to the Olympics in my sport for gymnastics and I feel like it’s all due to first stepping in those ballet slippers.”

THE MEDAL

“This is an Olympic medal,” she says, before clarifying what it represents. “I didn’t medal at the Olympics; I want to be very clear because that would be misleading, but they give you a participation medal for every Olympian.” Beyond representing an important moment in her gymnastics career, Goldblum says the medal reminds her of being in Sydney, Australia for a trial event during Y2K hysteria in 2000. “When I think back to [that time] – in 1999, it felt like the end of the world. Everyone thought computer systems were going to crash. I remember my family in Toronto was like, ‘How’s everything over there? You guys okay?’”

THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES

“I ended up qualifying and winning this competition,” Goldblum says, referencing a gold medal from the 1999 Pan American Games, which she won for individual all-around. “[Another girl] was favored to win. My coach wasn’t there because the Canadian Federation would only take the number one girl’s coach; so I was being coached by my competitor’s coach, but I didn’t trust her. I’d call and talk with my coach to get support from her. So this represents the idea that there’s always hope.” Her medals have also brought her kids joy. “[Our family has] this joke with medals,” she says, explaining she and her husband have accumulated more than a few awards throughout their athletic and acting careers, respectively. “Jeff jokes that he has invisible medals. We had this joke and now it’s gone to the kids. He’ll protect them. I’ll say, ‘Give me your medal,’ and then he’ll give me his invisible medal and I would throw it on the ground and stomp on it. The kids love that.”

THE SCULPTURE

“Jeff gave this to me on my first Mother’s Day,” she says, referencing a bronze sculpture by artist Anne Ricketts from OK The Store off Third Street in Los Angeles. “Becoming a mother was another first step into – not just adulthood – but into my dreams. …. So this means a lot to me because he helped make that dream come true.”

THE GIFT FROM MOM

“This is special,” Goldblum says. “My mom gave me this. She lives in Toronto and it’s hard being so far away and with the kids. I’m always like, ‘I just wish you could be here on the weekend.’”

THE GIFT TO HER HUSBAND

“I had this made for a birthday,” she says of a framed advertisement that once appeared in Vanity Fair, known as Falling in Love in Six Acts: A passion play. “This was a vintage Nike ad from the [nineties]. A friend had given it to me. I kept it and thought that I would use this as a gift for ‘the one.’ With all the moves [I’ve done over the years], I can’t believe that I didn’t lose it. I love this because this so is representative of – not just falling love but – athletics. It’s about running. First, it’s lust; then euphoria; then fear—also known as ‘uh oh.’”

She reads a portion of Act III aloud.

“This is where the doubt begins, where the mind comes back from shopping, yells at the heart, binds and gags it to a nice lounge chair and allows guilt, failure, and remembrances of things past to sit in for a nice game of bridge. This is where you fear what you need most. If it’s a person you love, you fear appearing foolish in front of them. If it’s a sport, you fear being foolish in front of many, many people at the same time. And you begin to think: oh, no. What if I’m wrong? What if this stinks? What if my heart has blinders on, it’s had blinders on before, in fact it had dark heavy patches taped all over it. How can anyone love me if I don’t love myself?”

The final acts include Disgust, The Truth, and the Finale, the latter of which includes the final line, “You do the tango. Just do it.” She says the imagery resonated with her just as much as the words do: “I love that her eyes are open in the beginning and then they’re closed at the end. It’s just a little bit more of acceptance of who she is, who we are, what life is.”

THE POEM

“This is a gift I also made for Jeff,” she says. “It’s a poem called “Your Laughter” [by Pablo Neruda]. Sometimes it’s hard finding good gifts for Jeff because he has stylists and he’ll only wear what he’s meant to wear. So you can’t buy clothes. I obviously have bought clothes and shoes, but I always ask before and sometimes you want to do something completely on your own.”

THE ARTWORK

“This is all by Pam [Goldblum], Jeff’s sister,” she says pointing to artwork that lines the walls. “She has an Instagram account. I’m so proud of her and her husband [Jeff Kaisershot]. They did all of the art in the house. They’re very talented.”

THE PIANO WITH A VIEW

“Jeff is a jazz pianist,” she says, pointing to a piano in the living room. “I wish I played.” She sits down and hits a few keys. “Do you know that movie ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ with Catherine Deneuve? This is kind of the theme song. I wish I had taken music, but you can’t do everything.”

THE WALL (AND ROLE) OF SPIRITUALITY, VISUALIZATION, AND MEDITATION

“These are all spiritual beings,” she says, looking at various pieces of artwork that line the walls of her living room. “It’s a very human trait to constantly be curious or want more, which is something that a little bit of meditation [can help with]. Jeff opened my eyes to that. Swami Chidananda [has] an Eastern philosophy where it’s trying to train our minds to want exactly what we have.” She laughs. “So that’s ongoing; but it’s nice to know, ‘This is totally normal. I’m not selfish. I’m just human.’ I have to remind myself. I don’t have any particular meditation [practice]. I just have this mantra that I say to myself internally and breathe. I always visualize. Through sports, I had a psychologist/visualization coach early on. So, visualizing has always been so impactful and helped me to calm down and breathe.”

HER STYLE

“I like getting a good deal,” she says, clad in Gucci jacket, Versace top, and Saint Laurent pants that she found at the Cabazon Outlets in Cabazon, California. “I know there are trends for a reason and yes, I partake and I play the part, but I try to remain somewhat true to whatever it is that I like and feel comfortable in.”

THE FIRST KISS WITH A VIEW

On her first official date with Mr. Goldblum, the actor showed her around their now-shared home. “We went up to the bench on our hill and he showed me all of L.A.,” she reminisces. “I remember very distinctly [seeing] the Capitol Record building. He always knows a little bit of history, which I love, and he was telling me that Frank Sinatra and all these people recorded there. That was where we shared our first kiss. He was showing me Capitol Records, and somehow I turned and he was right there. It was natural and sweet.” She adds, “We still go up there a lot with the kids and we’ll still have a kiss.”