Back to the Prairie! Little House star
Melissa Gilbert ditches Hollywood for
mountain life after giving up plastic
surgery and battles with drugs and alcohol:
'This is me now - no hair color, fillers,
implants, or Botox'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Alyssa Guzman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/11/2022 6:11:54 PM
Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert and her husband have ditched the dazzling lights of Hollywood for the tinkling stars of the New York Catskills. Gilbert, 58, is enjoying the simple life after escaping to a $98,000 14-acre property in the Catskill mountains - only 20 minutes away from the famed Woodstock location - where the star said she has ditched plastic surgery and Hollywood expectations for the freedom of being in her own skin, she told Fox News. 'This is me now - no hair color, no filler, no implants, no Botox. I just take care of myself. I try to eat as well as I can.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 5/11/2022 6:18:46 PM (No. 1152593)
She's turned into a hippie chick. Somehow I find her even cuter now.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/11/2022 6:44:41 PM (No. 1152601)
Good for her! I always loved that show and am glad that she got out of the cess pool that is Hollywood.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/11/2022 7:00:22 PM (No. 1152608)
Melissa, you go, girl.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/11/2022 7:05:37 PM (No. 1152613)
Ditch that Hollyweird BS - just a bunch of phonies that are always on the stage. And think they are way more relevant than they really are.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 5/11/2022 7:31:18 PM (No. 1152630)
That’s awesome for her. I’m jealous, but mine would be a house on the beach.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/11/2022 7:41:39 PM (No. 1152633)
FTA - "The home (pictured before they moved in) had a rustic feel and had near on the wall."
I wish I could decipher the sentence in the caption below one of the picts; I was very interested in what the writer was trying to say.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/11/2022 7:45:47 PM (No. 1152635)
Excellent timing, Hollywood is as good as dead anyway.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/11/2022 8:30:41 PM (No. 1152661)
Well, good for her. I admire her wanting a simpler life. I gotta say, though: with a net worth of several hundred million bucks, it seems as if they could have afforded a nicer house.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 5/11/2022 9:19:53 PM (No. 1152683)
It's easy to be simple with $500 million.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 5/11/2022 11:37:02 PM (No. 1152741)
strange no one mentioned that she was elected President of SAG twice...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/11/2022 11:42:40 PM (No. 1152742)
#6 - That caption puzzled me also. After noticing the hunting trophies I realized the sentence should have read, ""The home (pictured before they moved in) had a rustic feel and had DEER on the wall."
#8 - When you're escaping the phony life you want a real home; not a million dollar, high-upkeep house. I think their new home is charming and very inviting.
Congratulations to Melissa and Timothy, who I always liked, for fleeing Los Angeles and embracing the simple rural life. TK and I found our land in 1993, at the very end of a vacation. Forty acres nestled in a small mountain valley in the northern California coastal mountains. We saw it on Tuesday, bought it Wednesday and returned to L.A. on Thursday. A year later we returned and put up a 12x16 barn-roof storage shed. The following spring TK built two sets of bunk beds, a kitchen counter with simple cabinets, and a fold-against-the wall table, like a Murphy bed. For six years we made the 600-mile pilgrimage to our "Fort Serenity" (TK came up with the name) for a week at a time, three times a year.
In 1999 we had an opportunity to bail out of our San Pedro townhouse (for what we owed) that had plunged in value after the Feds closed the Long Beach Naval Base and shipyard. I walked away mid-career from the City of Los Angeles with 15 years in, and cashed out my retirement - although taking the penalty was a big hit, it paid off the land. Our only income for the first nine months was TK's LAPD retirement check, but living in a shed with no electricity, or running water, doesn't demand a lot of money. It was a wonderful experience to live like pioneers. We became very close and a finely tuned partnership.
Once the "big house" (26x40) was finished and the mortgage payments started, we both got local jobs. TK took phone orders for a lumberjack supply company, and I ended up back in civil diservice at the county's Socialist Services. (An enlightening experience.) After seven years TK's military pension started and we both quit. Over the last 22 years we have built our homestead infrastructure including a workshop/storage building. We have our own well, at 8 gallons a minute. Currently we are in the process of going totally off-grid. We have been inter-tie with PG&E; we send them power during the day and we use their power at night, and are billed $18 a month for "transmission fee". We've experienced some supply-chain problems, but the batteries have finally been installed in a new shed.
We live in a gated subdivision with really wonderful and helpful neighbors. We have a nice community of 15 full-time residents, out of 59 parcels - either 160 or 40 acres. Most of the parcels are investment properties and we never see the owners, but the summer people add to our numbers and are great fun. We live in heaven, surrounded by God's creation. We know how happy Melissa and Tim are in their forever home. God bless them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2022 1:20:29 AM (No. 1152774)
Nice to ditch the looney bin Communist crazies of Hollyweird.
Best wishes in having a normal life.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/12/2022 3:54:00 AM (No. 1152790)
She's a Democrat...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/12/2022 10:23:49 PM (No. 1153743)
Hollywood makes girls instant stars with gobs of money. Then these same girls have to audition for roles and are turned down. No wonder they end up with needles between their toes.
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