Vanessa Minillo on Female Role Models
Although she’s happy to be back together with longtime love, Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo had other relationships on the brain in at the DSW Presents: Step Up & Step Out event to benefit female empowerment.
During the event, the former TRL hostess talked about the importance of having women role models in her life, reports In Touch Weekly.
“I didn’t have my real mother growing up. My dad was always there, but there is something about a woman’s touch,” Vanessa, who was raised by her father from a young age explained. “So I’ve literally drawn from so many women in my life, and I was fortunate enough to be able to have that.”
And although she’s grown up to be a happy and succesful adult, Vanessa confessed that she still feels the need for guidance and support from other women.
“I’m still like a little girl who cries at night and has a fork in the road and says — does she go left? Does she go right? I need someone’s guidance and yet, I have also helped guide others,” she added.
And while she spoke quite passionately about women’s issues, she turned surprisingly bashful when asked about her recent reunion with Nick. “Thank you” she simply laughed when congratulated on her on-again relationship.
Despite her lack of a mother-daughter relationship, it seems to us that Vanessa has it all pretty much figured out. Great man, good career, what more can a girl ask for?!