In January 2000, Patti Stanger founded the Millionaire’s Club International after working as the director of marketing for Great Expectations, a large and well-known dating service in the U.S. In 2008 she signed a deal with Bravo to star and produce a reality show centered on her business called “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” and now, Stanger is working on the fourth season of the hit series.
The ‘Matchmaker’ Hits NYC
With the business based in Los Angeles, the show was filmed in the Golden State, but this year, the team has moved to the bustling city of New York to help the rich find true love. The main point of the show has not changed in the Big Apple though.
“I had been begging for [Bravo] to get us out of LA. The men in LA are not indigenous to the men in all of America,” Stanger told LA’s The Place.
Stanger filmed 12 episodes in seven weeks for the fourth season (a grueling schedule compared to many similar reality shows) and will feature some high profile clients.
“We have major game coming to the party,” she said, adding. “This year, it’s about the women.”
Being a third generation matchmaker, Stanger has been in the romance and relationship business for some time and really only wants those serious in their quest to ask for her help.
“I’m about honesty, integrity and really coming to me for true love,” she explained, also saying that she’s no Heidi Fleiss or Madame. “I believe in sex but monogamy first.”
With other reality shows featuring romance growing in popularity like ABC’s “The Bachelor” series, Stanger maintains that her approach to love is completely different and un-fabricated vs. the “pre-orchestrated” ways of “The Bachelor.”
“To be on ‘The Bachelor,’ you have an agenda to be famous,” Stanger said. “There is no music, no TV—they are cramped and winging it…my girls are in their 30s and want to get married and have babies by Tuesday.”
She even watched the tabloid rumors of one of the latest Bachelorettes, Jillian Harris, when it was reported that her then-fiancée, Ed Swiderski, was cheating on her with various women.
“He’s got the Tiger Woods bakers’ dozen over there,” she quipped.
Stanger Finds Weight-Loss Success
After the season in New York wraps, Stanger would like to take the show to Miami where her mom lives, as well as college friends, and she has hookups at the “hootie tootie restaurants.”
Now, with her latest weight-loss secret, Stanger can partake in these delectable dishes and not feel so bad.
When watching ShopNBC, Stanger discovered Sensa Weight-Loss System®, which involves the senses of taste and smell. She immediately ordered the product that Dr. Alan Hirsch was touting.
While on the show, Stanger had noticed she was gaining weight and had tried several diets with none of them working. Low-carb tries gave her headaches; on Jenny Craig, she always felt hungry; diets like Weight Watchers with calorie-counting confused Stanger more than helped.
With Sensa, Stanger found that she could still eat what she wanted, just a lesser amount, with the product’s special patent-pending Tastants used to sprinkle on food which trigger an olfactory nerve creating the sense of fullness before the feeling would typically occur.
When Stanger tried the System, she realized she was eating half of her food portions and almost instantly lost three pounds. The company soon called and named her the official spokesperson and brand ambassador.
“I just need to stop eating so much…bread is my crack,” she revealed. “[With Sensa] I can eat anything I want, and that’s major for me.”
Stanger explained that with matchmaking and romantic trials, weight loss can play a crucial role, but more so for the confidence it creates.
“It’s not about getting skinny. It’s about getting fit to make you feel sexy. After I lost weight, I felt really light and sexy,” Stanger explained. She also learned how to pose in photographs and felt better about herself. “I saw pictures and thought, I can do this…I may not be Demi Moore, but I can pull this off, make this work.”
Advice for the Ladies and Celebrities
Currently the television star is developing a cookbook for aphrodisiac-filled recipes, perfect for dates and romance, with special dishes and tips, like eating dairy makes a woman more “kissable.”
She also explained the “scent of attraction” method in “catching a man” with the tip to don “pumpkin spice and vanilla spice” when going out, two scents that “men gravitate to.”
“It’s definitely a way to enhance your vibe,” she said, revealing that, “men only gravitate to you if you have the scent to procreate a healthy race,” though sometimes these instinctual urges are avoided.
With all of the matchmaking expertise under her belt, Stanger answered the question as to which celebrity she would most like to help in the romance department.
“Sandra Bullock. She got the shaft. I used to say Jennifer Aniston, but Sandra took the cake on this one. She’s drop dead gorgeous, smart as hell and she does not need to settle for trash. She needs a man that makes her the frontrunner in her life, and I don’t think she’s gonna find it in Hollywood…unless Keanu Reeves comes out of nowhere, but I don’t think it will be in Hollywood.”
And as for the upcoming fourth season of “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” Stanger promises the same aspects to the show that everyone loves about the series.
“People are always like, ‘Did you kick anyone out [of the Club] this year,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, tons.”
For more information, visit www.trysensa.com and www.pattistanger.net.
