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INTERNATIONAL RAW FOOD RECIPES FOR
GOOD HEALTH AND TIMELESS BEAUTY
Mimi Kirk
Photography by
Mike Mendell
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did
do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I’m a septuagenarian born in 1938. I am grateful for my outlook on life today. I
like sharing what I’ve experienced to help others recognize that age is not a
barrier to enjoying life. Anything can happen. A surprise turn in one’s life can
take place at any age.
For example, I completely changed to a raw vegan diet at the age of sixty-
nine, and in September 2009, one week before my seventy-first birthday, I won
the title “Sexiest Vegetarian over 50” in a nationwide contest conducted by
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
This title put me in the public eye and on the covers of magazines around the
world, including Bulgaria, Portugal, Australia, Germany, and the U.K. I’ve
appeared numerous times on national television in the United States and have
been interviewed by major television and radio stations, newspapers, webinars,
and Internet blogs. I was featured on Bulgarian and German television and
appear in an Australian documentary titled Eternal Youth, to be released this
year.
MY HOLLYWOOD DAYS
I was born in Hollywood, California, the youngest of seven children. I was
married at seventeen and widowed at twenty-nine; I am the mother of two girls
and two boys and a grandmother of seven grandchildren. After being a stay-at-
home mother, I immediately had to find a job to support my family as there was
no insurance or bank account after my husband’s death. Fortunately, I was lucky
enough to find a job as a screen extra in the film industry.
I worked in numerous television shows and movies. You might have seen me
offering Captain Kirk a tray of fruit in an episode of the original Star Trek, in
which I played an Indian handmaiden, or walking an ape on a leash in Planet of
the Apes, or if you didn’t blink, you might have seen me sitting at a table with
Red Buttons and Shelley Winters in the original Poseidon Adventure, where I
eventually jumped (or supposedly was tossed) over a railing as the boat was
sinking.
In 1970, Mary Tyler Moore hired me to be her stand-in on her new sitcom,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I also worked with Valerie Harper, designing and
creating a good deal of her wardrobe, including the famous headscarf she wore
in Rhoda. Throughout my entertainment career of eighteen years, I appeared in
front of the camera as well as behind the scenes.
FINDING MY SPIRITUAL PATH
In 1968, shortly after my husband’s death, I found my spiritual path. Meditation
gave me strength and knowledge and taught me about the ebb and flow of life. It
inspired me to live more in the moment and enjoy everything that each day had
to offer. I was blessed to study with two living gurus: Swami Prabhavananda of
the Vedanta Society and, later, after Swami Prabhavananda’s death in 1976,
Swami Muktananda of Siddah Yoga.
In 1983, shortly after Swami Muktananda’s passing, I traveled to
Ganeshpuri, India, and studied in my guru’s ashram with his successor, a woman
known as Gurumayi, or Swami Chidvilasananda.
In her 2006 book Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert mentions she lived in an
ashram for a short time. It was the same ashram I studied in years before, and
just reading her words took me back to my own life-changing experiences. I also
reminisce every time I see the movie.
CAREER MOVES
A short time after returning from India, I decided to leave the film industry and
try my hand at being entrepreneurial. I started a jewelry company and designed
and manufactured costume jewelry sold to stores around the country.
After selling my company, I took a job in a private home in Beverly Hills as
majordomo for a wealthy family. I oversaw all aspects of their estate and helped
to create and implement charitable events. My environmental concerns became
very strong, and after three years I left my job to create, publish, and edit The
City Planet, an environmental newspaper in Los Angeles. I later moved to Taos,
New Mexico, to find the “simple life,” and while there, I helped start the city’s
first film festival.
In 1998, I created the first board game specifically geared toward women,
titled Cowgirls Ride the Trail of Truth, and in 2000, I authored my first book,
Cowgirl Spirit.
This is only a small part of my many incarnations, including a short stint as a
Las Vegas showgirl at the Flamingo Hotel in 1957.
CURRENTLY
I manage my social networks and make YouTube videos on how to prepare raw
foods. I write, research, and wander around my tiny kitchen creating new raw
food recipes.
I walk almost every day, do some yoga, tend my garden, travel with my
boyfriend, and spend time with my family. I give plant-based food
demonstrations, coach clients, and consult. All this activity is something I would
have never expected to be part of my life in my seventies, and this experience
has taught me that anything is possible at any age.
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