my first love was john travolta

PUBLISHED 4 March 2009 00:04

My first love, it’s interesting, it’s not who you would think it would be, like, you know, a boy next door or somebody in school. It’s actually a celebrity, this guy behind me, John Travolta.

But I was in first grade, I think, at the time and I remember, like, as soon as I saw him I thought “ding.” Like there was click within me, like, “he’s cute”. He was my first, like, interested-in-boy type thing. This was obviously, you know, before puberty. So you wouldn’t think that would happen but as soon as I saw him I knew. Like, “oh he’s gorgeous, he’s good looking, I love him, he’s my new favorite, I like him, I want to see more of him.”

[Dances] He just does it so smoothly. [Sings] “You should be dancing.” And then he does this thing or something. I can’t do it as smoothly as he can.

I got called weird a lot, I think. And I said, “Well, you know, if you think I’m weird why don’t you look back at Grease, okay he’s gorgeous. You can’t deny that.” I probably didn’t say the word “gorgeous” when I was 6 or 7 but, I mean, he’s a very good looking guy.

I was still obsessed with John Travolta in junior high. I was a little older, 13. When I was 13-years-old I had my Bat Mitzvah, which is, you know, I don’t know if you guys know, Bat Mitzvah is Bar Mitzvah’s big milestone for any Jewish teen when you’re 13 typically. After my service that Saturday night, it was February 26, 2000, was the date of it, I had a big party at a country club. For most of these parties what happens is the kid, you know, talks over with their parents, they pick a theme for the party and it could be anything. Anything you can think of. Well, obviously, because of my obsession with John Travolta and because my party was on a Saturday night I chose to do “Lauren’s Saturday Night Fever.”

The whole theme of my party was clearly based on John Travolta. In fact when I walked into the party for everybody to applaud and see me and congratulate me, I had a choreographed dance done that I’d already arranged and practiced with one of the guys in the D.J. company. It was to the song More than a Woman in Saturday Night Fever during that scene when John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney, that was the actress’s name, did their famous dance in front of everybody at the discotech. We based our dance on that and I actually still have footage of that. It’s really funny and cute to watch — a little embarrassing — but that’s how much I loved it.

…and if I met him I would probably be speechless. I might faint. I don’t know if I’d faint, I’d get star struck easily. I’d probably be like; you know getting down and kissing his feet. I don’t know but yeah.