“I gave up diamonds for dirt, and I have a big ranch that I have horses and cattle and dogs<\/a> and chickens, and I take care of it myself… I have one man, one day a week that comes and helps,” the actress, who also appeared in The Woman in Red with Gene Wilder, shared.<\/p>\n Photo by Amanda Edwards on Getty Images<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfac\u00a0SIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/a>\u00a0\ud83c\udfac\u00a0<\/p>\n Ditching Hollywood for Ranch Life<\/p>\n In a revealing interview with\u00a0Fox News Digital<\/a> this past summer, LeBrock explained that she \u201cran away\u201d from Hollywood after her divorce from\u00a0Steven Seagal\u00a0in 1996.<\/p>\n \u201cI was never impressed with myself or Hollywood. I never really cared about it. And I did the right thing,\u201d LeBrock shared.<\/p>\n Instead, LeBrock ditched Los Angeles for a ranch in rural southern California, where she raised her three children, Annaliza, 38, Dominic, 35, and Arissa, 32. She\u2019s surrounded by animals, ranging from chickens and sheep to goats and horses. She\u2019s also a\u00a0grandmother<\/a>\u00a0of three.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, I could always go back to a career, but I couldn\u2019t go back to my children,\u201d she explained. \u201cAnd that was the most important thing to me, raising my children, because I grew up in boarding school. At five years old, I was sent away. And I didn\u2019t want to have that story for my children.\u201d<\/p>\n LeBrock didn\u2019t feel like she was the right fit in Hollywood, either.<\/p>\n \u201cThe crowd is very ugly, and I didn\u2019t want any part of that,\u201d she told Fox. \u201cI\u2019m really quite shy, and I\u2019m a homebody. I spent the two years of COVID completely by myself, pretty much in the wilderness. And you learn a lot\u00a0about yourself<\/a>\u00a0when you\u2019re not in the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n Weird Science’s 40th Anniversary<\/p>\n 2025 was\u00a0Weird Science\u2018s 40th\u00a0anniversary<\/a>. Looking back on the iconic film, in which she played Lisa, the dream girl of Wyatt and Gary (played by\u00a0Anthony Michael Hall\u00a0and\u00a0Ilan Mitchell-Smith), LeBrock noted she had no idea the\u00a0John Hughes-directed flick would become so legendary.<\/p>\n \u201cYou never think about when you\u2019re doing something, what\u2019s gonna happen,\u201d LeBrock recalled. \u201cYou just wanna do a good job and go home. No, you never know. And then sometimes you think something\u2019s gonna be great, and it falls flat on its butt. So yeah, chance is a fine thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Related: Iconic ’80s ‘Weird Science’ Stars Commemorate 40th Anniversary of Beloved Hit Film<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Dec 29, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weird Science star Kelly LeBrock rose to fame as one of the biggest stars of the \u201980s. LeBrock,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,48173,153861],"class_list":{"0":"post-379371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kelly-lebrock","13":"tag-weird-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c1838afc8c6b9973dee26b81383c79c9.jpeg\"\/)
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