[sound of someone biting and chewing an apple]
When I was little I had three younger brothers that I would babysit a lot
and when my parents were away if we'd sneak back in the cupboard
and take a bite out of a candy bar or any other forbidden cookies, or cakes,
or whatever, my parents always knew when I had done it.
And I had thought they were so magic and all-knowing until I caught on
that they were recognizing my signature which was my teeth marks on the food, you know.
[laughs]
[harp music]
Your mom was saying you're the third generation with a gap.
I guess so. I think her mother had it.
And she had it and she had braces when she was younger.
My father has a gap about as wide as mine is.
My mom has a gap– it's a littler smaller.
Everybody in my family has it– the women in my family.
People think somehow that there's a mystique about Asian women, Hawaiian women,
Korean women, Japanese women, and I'm just wondering
if people don't think there's some mystique about gap-teeth women.
I read somewhere in a folklore book and I really reel stupid saying this
that gap-teeth women are supposed to be sexier.
It's like this mound of Venus stuff.
If you have a big, thick mound of Venus you're supposed to be real hot stuff
or something and I guess it's the same thing with gap teeth.
[singing]
How do you feel about your daughter having a gap?
MOM: I think it's great.
I didn't used to think it was great when I was a child
because I was always compared to monkeys, howdy-doody and everything like that.
But after Lauren Hutton, she's just been a big inspiration
just for her gaps in her teeth.
To me she's changed my way of thinking in the way I feel about myself.
I feel a lot better.
My girlfriend one day came up and she goes look at this in Vogue magazine.
Here's Lauren Hutton.
She's got this big gap in her teeth.
You don't have to get yours fixed anymore.
LAUREN HUTTON: Hi, we're looking for gaps.
Anybody have one?
No, see, everybody is straight here.
No gaps.
It is, it's a sex picture.
MALE: Take care.
LAUREN: Bye.
Yes, thank you, I'm smitten. Good, boy, you watch.
Thanks.
Watch it. Thanks.
MALE: We wouldn't run you over.
LAUREN: You guys got gap teeth? Anybody? No? Gaps?
MALE: I do.
LAUREN: Hey, a gap toothed. Show 'em.
MALE: Not a gap, a cap. I had to have them fixed.
LAUREN: [laughs] A cap, not a gap.