Jenette Goldstein Nude

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This '80s actress finds her financial cups runneth over
Published Wed, Jun 29 2016 7:00 AM EDT Updated Wed, Jul 6 2016 1:14 PM EDT
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This 80s actress finds her financial cups runneth over
"I'm a 32G, GG, H, depending," said Jenette Goldstein. "I could not find a bra that would fit me."
Goldstein is not some plasticized, silicone-filled Playboy bunny. She's a 50-something character actress who happens to have a large bust with a small rib cage. "You know, nice Jewish girl," she laughed.
The actress is most famous for playing the role of Vasquez, a take-no-prisoners Marine in the 1986 movie, "Aliens." Vasquez was buxom and bad, and in real life, Goldstein's own toughness and outrage turned her into an entrepreneur. "It starts with me, it's all about me," she said.
Goldstein said the traditional way of buying women's undergarments has disappeared. "I remember going to the bra lady as a 12-year-old who developed early, and the bra lady was an institution in every community," she said. The "bra lady" concept faded with the rise of department stores.
These days it's difficult in the U.S. to find bras engineered for women outside the norm, even at Victoria's Secret. Most of the time, bras are crafted so that smaller chest bands are matched with smaller cups, and vice versa.
"I would either wear a D cup, and be falling out of it, or if I went to go find a double D, it was a 38, 40-inch band, more of a plus-size woman," she said. The dilemma made her feel like "there's something wrong with my body."
She discovered better-fitting bras in Europe, where generations have maintained the craftsmanship and engineering necessary for well-made undergarments that also have lace and color.
These bras exist. Why aren't they being sold in the United States? Goldstein asked herself. She turned to her husband, artist Aaron Noble, to complain, Why doesn't someone open a store like this? he replied. Why don't we do it?
Goldstein then wrote up what she calls her manifesto for a new company, Jenette Bras. "It was from a feeling of anger and righting a wrong," she said. Part of the manifesto read: "We are the girls who skipped the training bra and went straight to the major leagues. We are the girls who had wolf whistles."
She had one problem. It was 2009, in the middle of the recession. "No one would lend us money." However, Goldstein had earlier opened a line of credit "when they were giving lines of credit to anyone," and she tapped into it. She began researching where to find bras in Europe to import, spending $10,000 to buy her first shipment. She found retail space on the cheap in Los Angeles and set up shop. "We offered personal service."
There were challenges. Neither Goldstein nor her husband knew anything about business. Selling online was a bust (;-), because the business model really required in-store service. She fired herself as bookkeeper when she overpaid the IRS. But the couple also realized they had one unfair advantage.
"We were artists, and what we were good at was visual." They created a store experience that is both old school and modern, and they came up with creative slogans like "The Alphabet Starts at D."
Seven years later, Jenette Bras has three locations, and the company is on track to do $1.7 million in sales this year. Celebrities like Katherine Heigl shop there, as well as many who prefer to remain anonymous. "A lot of actresses don't want their size known, because there is that feeling that if you're over a D, you're fat, you're fake, you're a circus freak," said Goldstein. "There's a weird conception of what that means."
The bras are not cheap, and Goldstein discovered the more expensive bras sold fastest. "Our best-selling bra is $126, $130," she said. "You put it on, and you just say, 'This is worth it.'"
Jenette Goldstein is now rarely recognized as an actress. But she's still recognized, now as the local high-end bra lady. Women around Los Angeles see her and begin "flashing me their underwear," she laughed. "I still can't believe I'm a businesswoman, and I own three stores, and I'm the boss. It feels great to be a master of your own destiny, which, as an actor, you are not in control."
There's a famous scene in the movie, "Aliens," where a fellow Marine asks Goldstein's character, "Have you ever been mistaken for a man?" Goldstein recalls telling director James Cameron at the time given the way she filled out a T-shirt, "This line is not going to work. I don't think anyone would ever mistake me for a man."
So she had an idea. "I said, 'I am actually very strong, and I can do these really difficult pull-ups.'" Goldstein suggested they rig up a pullup bar and the line could be asked sarcastically as her voluptuous character exercised like a man. "And that's how they did the line."
After the movie came out, she was inundated with fan mail from gay and straight fans, men and women, even Marines. However, when it came to merchandising, there was no Vasquez action figure. "The powers-that-be who made the toys said, 'Meh, who wants to play with a girl action figure?'"
This summer, however, that omission will be remedied. To help mark the film's 30th anniversary, NECA Toys is coming out with a Vasquez action figure . "It looks fantastic," Goldstein laughed.
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In 1986, "Aliens" made "Get away from her, you bitch" a catch phrase to remember.
With Sigourney Weaver at the forefront of the sci-fi sequel, James Cameron crafted an action film that not only crushed it at the box office, but also gave audiences a trio of tough women to cheer for ... something we still don't get enough of on the big screen.
The other fierce females flanking Ripley: Jenette Goldstein as Private First Class Vasquez and Carrie Henn , who played the young (but incredibly resourceful) Newt.
Jenette and Carrie will reunite on Tuesday night to celebrate "Alien Day," a celebration taking place on April 26 (4.26) in tribute to the LV-426 planet featured in the first two films. Both Goldstein and Henn will attend a special screening of their flick hosted by the Alamo Drafthouse at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, while Weaver will pop up at The Town Hall event in NYC. For a full rundown of Drafthouse's Alien Day events planned around the country, click here!
To promote the special occasion, toofab had a chat with Goldstein about her best memories from the set, working with director James Cameron on flicks like "Aliens," "T-2" and "Titanic" and the controversy over casting a Jewish actress from Russian, Moroccan and Brazilian descent as an Hispanic soldier.
toofab: I'm a huge fan of the "Alien" franchise in general, but especially this film. Can you believe that it's been thirty years? Does it feel like it's been that long for you?
Jenette: It's kinda crazy. But when I sort of look at myself, I look like, "Oh, my God, I'm a baby." You know, I'm twenty-five, or whatever years old.
toofab: Is it surprising to you that the film has had such long legs, that decades later people are still loving it?
Jenette: Yeah. I am. I mean, I was a huge fan of the first one, but I am. Yeah, I am surprised.
toofab: It's one of the greats, especially coming out of the eighties.
Jenette: The special effects really hold up, don't they? That's - to me, that's unbelievable, 'cause technology moves at such an incredible pace.
toofab: Do you find that fans still recognize you out in public?
Jenette: You know, people say they recognize me, but they cannot recognize me -- when they do, I think they must have seen me doing something else, and then put it together. Because I really don't look like her. I think they've seen me in other films, and they'll kind of know what I look like.
toofab: I know you've done a couple reunions in the past, is there anyone you haven't seen as much as everyone else from the film?
Jenette: Well, last year, we did the reunion in Calgary, and I think it was the first time Sigourney [Weaver] had done this. And so, I hadn't seen Sigourney since I did [the film], nor had I seen Paul Reiser. And that was amazing. It was great, you know. We were all like, showing pictures of our kids, and a couple with our husbands, and spouses.
toofab: What sticks out most about this movie is how much of a badass you and Sigourney's characters are. James Cameron loves putting strong women in his films. Can you believe that now, even thirty years later, we're still talking about the lack of strong female characters in films?
Jenette: Yeah, I guess whatever powers that be that are out there are you know, afraid. You know, it's, "If she's not pretty, no one's gonna [see the film]" and "Oh, if someone doesn't like her, they're not gonna" … you know, that never just seems to go away.
I just think it comes from someone writing a great character. James Cameron wrote these badass women. He didn't comment on it. Nobody was like, "Ooh, look at you! You're a woman" you know, he didn't comment on it, didn't patronize them. And he was able to get the film made because he's a badass, and has steel cajones. And when you think about it, what age he was when he went back to them and said, "This is who I want to cast. This is the script. This is how I think - " you know. He gets a reputation for good and for bad, because he doesn't take...you know?
And there's not that many people that can get out there and that's what you gotta do. And yeah. It is kinda rough. It is kind of shocking that, you know, this hasn't changed enormously, but that's the way it is.
toofab: You've worked with James on some incredible films. Do you have any particular set memory that stands out above the rest?
Jenette: A great memory from one of them was the "Titanic." The little boy who played my son, he'd never - I think he'd been in, maybe, a background in a McDonald's commercial or something. And when we did the first shot of us - of all of the immigrants trying to push out and the gates are closing, we did it in one take. And then, James was like, "Okay, we're gonna go again." And the little boy goes, "Oh, why? Wasn't I good?"
Jenette: And he stopped the whole crew, everything, all the extras, everything, and just sat with this little boy, really close, and goes like, "Let me explain it to you, what's gonna happen is, we'll do it once, and then we're gonna do it again, and then we might do a close-up of you. And you might have to do it, like, eight or ten times - is that okay? He just stops everything, tells this little boy how it's gonna work, and then makes sure that he felt comfortable. It was amazing.
toofab: Now that there's all this talk about diversity in film - do you think you would be cast as Vasquez today?
Jenette: Hmm. No. I mean, people with Jewish last names are Latino, like my son is Pablo. Pablo Goldstein. He's Mexican-Jewish. So you don't want to stereotype what Hollywood thinks is Latino.
But there should be, obviously, roles available in a wide range of ethnicities, I think. You know, at the time, they were looking for an actress who was big and muscular, and they were wanting to cast a bodybuilder because they didn't think there were any actresses who had, you know, a physique that they wanted.
And so that was a big part of what they were looking for, and they were kind of shocked that there was a trained actress who actually had the physique.
You know what? I tell you the truth: I have never been cast, or given the opportunity to audition for a short, freckle-faced Jewish girl who is half-Russian and half-Moroccan and Brazilian. So, I don't think I would work very much if that's all I was able to read for.
toofab: And for you and your family, when they did see your transformation for the first time in the film, what was that like for them?
Jenette: My family? Oh, my God. Well, I think they were just glad that I had a paying job before I was thirty. They were very excited.
toofab: Now, have you watched any of the other sequels and prequels?
Jenette: You know, I haven't. I've only seen the first one and the second one. So, I haven't seen Three and Four or "Prometheus," still.
toofab: I think fans would be surprised to hear what you're up to now -- you have your own bra boutique!
Jenette: I do! I have actually three stores in Los Angeles called Jenette Bras .
Jenette: You know, seven years ago, I could not find a bra that fit me that was beautiful, and a nice place to go shop for women who are above a D-cup, and so I just started my own store. Kind of crazy, it just took off, and it's great. It's very creative, and it's very surprising.
toofab: The fashion world, in general, is starting to realize that this is a whole market that people are just ignoring.
Jenette: Yeah, absolutely. There's definitely a market that was ignored. I know that I wanted to buy something that was worth spending your money and go to a place where people are telling you the truth and have some pride in what they're doing. And great, customer service. It's sort of the old way of doing business.

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I was neck deep into my forties when I got my first proper bra-fitting. I had mixed feelings. My band size went down. That was great. But my cup… holy crap. I didn’t know they even used that part of the alphabet. My husband’s eyes kind of glazed over when I told him my new size. A sense of deep contentment seemed to settle over him, like he had won some kind of lottery. So that was good. Also good: my back stopped hurting. My straps stopped digging into me. I stopped adjusting myself all the time. It was easy to stand up straight. I looked good in clothes that didn’t used to fit right. And I wondered: I’ve been a working actress in Hollywood for 20 years. How come nobody told me about this before?
Oh wait, they did. But who listens to the old Jewish lady in the therapeutic girdle wrapping a measuring tape around your embarrassingly voluptuous 12-year-old chest? Not me, not then. Yet here I am, rocking my Rago shapewear, and ready to impart a little old school wisdom. The only sure way to get a bra that fits is to get fitted. Preferably by a straight-talking professional with a sense of humor. Your mother knew this, and so did your
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