“I Dream of Jeannie” alumna Barbara Eden is not one to bottle up her emotions. So for those interested in her advice to those trying to find their way in Hollywood, their wishes are her command.
In a June 2025 episode of Jennie Garth’s podcast “I Choose Me,” the 94-year-old stressed that he “doesn’t pay any attention to what anyone says.” “Because if you get a lot of criticism, or negative words, or too many things said, you get turned on. So be true to yourself.”
Considering how magical the world of Eden feels now, more than 50 years after her famed TV series went off the air, this tip is certainly worth a nod.
“I’m so lucky,” the two-time Golden Globe nominee told People in October 2021, crediting her “very supportive husband” John Eicholts and her dear friends. “I think everything in life works itself out. Most things happen for a reason, but you can’t hope for it.”
She spent five seasons as a 2,000-year-old genie, fulfilling every wish of her master, intrepid astronaut Major Anthony Nelson, played by Larry Hagman, but her greatest wish came true in 1991 when she met her third husband, a real estate developer and architect.
