She got glammed up by drag queens
In 2010, Murphy appeared as a contestant on another reality TV show, this time RuPaul’s Drag U, an experience she said translated at least a bit into her own professional experience. “[You] go in there and it’s all for good fun, but I have to say a lot of the drag tricks translate well to the red carpet, so I kind of got some posing pointers,” she told Socialite Life. For Murphy, why the shift to reality TV? She went on to tell Socialite Life that it’s about her kids.
“I think the biggest influence having a big family has had on my career is that it’s made me rethink my job choices,” she said. “I can’t do a sitcom or an hour-long drama — which is something I would be typically drawn to — but I’m not willing to be away from the family 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. I’ve made different career choices because I’m a mom. I mean, I love the reality genre and I love hosting but I don’t know that I would do as much of it if I didn’t have kids. I think I’d be on a sitcom.”
She owns a company
With her children in school and doing a sitcom not really an option at the time, Murphy wasn’t content to just sit at home. According to the feature of Murphy in Life After 50 magazine, she filled this void by helping to start a company and is the co-owner of Slim Chillers, which makes low-calorie vodka popsicles. (Um, yum!)
“We started the company two years ago and are in many retailers including BevMo, and we also have an online store,” she said. “Our signature products are four frozen pops that are flavored as an Appletini, a Cosmopolitan, a Lemon Drop, and a watermelon lemonade Martini.” She’s also the spokesperson for the company, which makes a lot of sense given her celeb status. So if you ever think you see her face on a truck, you might not be wrong.
She does theater
If there’s one thing Murphy said she’d never ever do, it was theater. As the saying goes, never say never. In 2016 she told the Windy City Times, “In the last two years I decided to act again so I started doing local LA theater.” By her own accounts, she started her fourth play in 2016 called “Dead Pilots Society” about TV comedy pilots that “never got air.”
It may seem like Murphy will do just about anything, but does draw the line. She told the Windy City Times, “I say no to many things. I never did horror films or Playboy but was asked many times.”