The Unstoppable Adrienne Bailon & Julissa Bermudez

“I always knew I wanted to be in entertainment,” reveals Adrienne Bailon. “After booking my first commercial, I never looked back,” states Julissa Bermudez. Bailon and Bermudez are best friends and the Style Network’s Empire Girls.

While most may still remember Bailon as one of the popular Cheetah Girls, she is no longer a teenage starlet but a stunning woman with a burning passion for music, acting and producing. Bailon is keeping very busy these days with the X-Factor’s preshow, her new album with Neo, and launching a NewYork inspired nail polish line, Fingertip Fetish.

Bermudez, on the other hand, is a natural born television presenter and crowd-pleaser. After becoming the first Latina host on BET, Bermudez is travelling the nation with Steve Madden, showcasing his newest collections. The girls take a break in their busy schedule to share some insight on what they are doing now and their plans for the future.

RAINE: When The Style Network took on the project of your own reality show with Bailon, what was the first thing that ran through your mind?

BERMUDEZ: At first it was exciting, to be able to work with one of my best friends, but it was also intimidating based on what I saw with other reality shows. I was a little hesitant because I never had a full camera crew in my personal space and life. That’s when I had a mini breakdown, because I was so brand new to realityTV.Then I calmed down and thought: Hmmm...maybe my reality would hit a cord with a lot of the audience watching. That’s when I decided to go full on.

RAINE: Any regrets?
BERMUDEZ: I don’t have any because they taught me a lot. Other people can learn from my experiences.

RAINE: Are we going to see another season?
BERMUDEZ: We are still in creative talks. We want to maintain the integrity of the show and do certain things creatively.We are on the West Coast working on different things. It would depend on our schedules, our creative control and maintaining a certain aspect of the show.We’re still figuring things out.

RAINE: On the show you talked about being the next Latin Tyra Banks.Are you any closer to accomplishing that?

BERMUDEZ: I mean, in the sense of having people look at me as more than one thing. Women like her inspire me; ones who have been able to hone their craft and turn it into a big movement. She has become this big brand.