That Barbara Corcoran likes to sit on an airplane might come as a surprise to fans Aquarium for sharks star.
The 75-year-old multi-millionaire real estate mogul revealed she always flies in economy class despite being able to afford first class during a Dec. 10 appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast.
“Do you know how much a first class ticket costs?” she asks Kern Lim, who is an entrepreneur and writer, and was a guest on Shark in season 16. “Look, as far as I’m concerned, a coach ticket costs about 25% of a first class ticket. I get free miles and can give them away. Everyone in my family flies on my free miles.”
Corcoran continues: “What’s more important — that everyone gets a free vacation or that I’m comfortable in first class? I guess I could afford both, but I won’t because I’ll be on the bus feeling smug knowing I have three plane tickets that could take someone somewhere. It accumulates, you know?”
Barbara Corcoran shows off her mobile home in LA where “everything is small”
Barbara Corcoran on ‘The Jamie Kern Lima Show’ podcast.
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In addition to offering all her miles to her loved ones, Corcoran is generous when it comes to sharing multiple homes.
During the episode, host Jamie Kern Lima asks her about the “scheduling system” she has for her various properties so that “they’re all in use all the time.”
Corcoran replies, “There is not a single empty bed in my homes. What’s more satisfying than having someone say, ‘Thank you, we had a great time.’ Extended family, they’re family, whatever. ‘We had fun'”
The real estate mogul and her husband Bill Higgins, to whom she has been married for 35 years, have two children, son Tom and daughter Kate.
Barbara Corcoran shows off the New York penthouse she first saw 25 years ago: ‘It was meant to be’
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Barbara Corcoran and Jamie Kern Lima.
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She then goes into detail about how each of her homes serve a purpose, even if she herself isn’t there to enjoy them.
“People enjoy my ski hut — it’s big, fits a lot of people. They’re going to my beach house, I don’t want to brag. . . They are coming to New York City. Where I live, never an empty bed and a boy, is that a pleasure.”
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She concludes: “I mean what really happens is that the more money you have, the less you use your homes. That’s true. You sleep very few nights there and they go to waste. What a pity.”
Parts 1 and 2 of Barbara Corcoran’s interview with Jamie Kern Lima are out now.
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