Q 13

PLAYBOY: If filming My Name Is Earl didn't keep you so busy, on what other show would you like to moonlight?

Jaime Pressly: If only Cheers would come back. That was one of my favorites of all time, along with Designing Women. The writing was different on those older shows. Plus, I prefer working in an ensemble cast. It's more interesting to have somebody to bounce off. Also you get to split the workload.

Q 14

PLAYBOY: Does doing a hit network show ever become a grind?

Jaime Pressly: They have me on My Name Is Earl for as long as the show goes. The whole point is not to go through life doing a job that feels like a grind, because then you're not happy. When you play the same character over and over, people don't realize you're still an actor. They think you are that character and that's all you can do. Doing different things is what makes you stand out. I want to play different characters and show a different side. I didn't go into this business to find a character and stick to it.

Q 15

PLAYBOY: You're obviously good at multitasking--you're currently juggling acting, motherhood, your live-in relationship with DJ Eric Cubiche and your fashion line, J'aime.

Jaime Pressly: I'm better at doing 10 things at a time than I am at doing just one. But when you try to do 20 things at a time, you start to half-ass it and things fall apart. Luckily, at J'aime I have a great team that helps me get everything done; otherwise I'd be a mess. Because the company isn't licensed out--it's owned solely by me and financed by me--it's a lot different from other celebrity clothing lines. It's my money, so I worry about everything. We make everything in America, not overseas, so our cost is a little bit more, but then again, I can't watch everything if it's being made overseas.

Q 16

PLAYBOY: Do you worry that your fans will desert you now that you're a mother and settled down with one guy?

Jaime Pressly: Unavailable people are usually the ones others find most attractive. Even when you were single in high school or college, did you ever notice you couldn't get arrested? When you're with somebody and finally happy, everybody starts coming out of the woodwork and suddenly all these hot people want to date you. Besides, a lot of people think mothers are sexy, especially when you can hold a baby on your hip and your body is totally ripped.

Q 17

PLAYBOY: The nature of the business keeps you and your boyfriend frequently apart. How does that affect your relationship?

Jaime Pressly: Absence makes the heart grow fonder only at first. Then it makes the heart mad and it goes, "Fuck you," and walks off with somebody else. If you go on location when you have children, you have to make sure you're with a significant other who's as flexible scheduling-wise as you are, or it's never going to work.

Q 18

PLAYBOY: How big a struggle is fidelity, especially when you're constantly surrounded by other great-looking people on movie and TV sets?

Jaime Pressly: Any pussy can cheat. Any weak person can cheat. It takes a real man or a real adult or a real woman, a standup person, to realize what they have and not do that. The thing about the saying "Whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" is that it never does stay in Vegas. Everybody finds out.

Q 19

PLAYBOY: What famous woman would you like to make out with?

Jaime Pressly: I'd be lying through my teeth and trying to be sexy if I gave you an answer to that. Like, "Oooh, what would sound really sexy right now?" I have to say I would not make out with a woman. I can't even imagine it. Angelina Jolie is the all-purpose answer, but I don't want to make out with her. She's hot, and I'm definitely the chick who sees women and goes, "Look at her boobs!" or "What a great ass!" but I do not want to touch them or make out with them.

Q 20

PLAYBOY: Why do so many women like going to strip clubs?

Jaime Pressly: Because there's no competition or threat. I mean, I see a hot woman, and what is she going to do, rape me? My girlfriends and I love going to strip clubs where we sit down with drinks while hot chicks walk around and aren't bitchy. In a regular club, the women are assholes--everybody's in competition. You go into a strip club and it's like everybody's free-spirited, open-minded. It's safe.

Q 21

PLAYBOY: You were an ambitious girl from a small town. How did your friends and neighbors in Kinston, North Carolina react to your dreams and the success that followed?

Jaime Pressly: I had a lot of problems with the girls in general, and that's why I was friends with a lot of boys. Later, once my movie career got going and I was in Playboy--remember, North Carolina is part of the Bible Belt in some areas--plenty of people had stuff to say about that and thought it shed a bad light on this town. Other people were like, "Oh, yeah, that's great!" There's always going to be somebody that has something to say and when you're from a really small town, they love having something to talk about. Since then, though, the majority of people there turned around and I redeemed myself to the town, as well as the town has redeemed itself to me, I guess.