Marilyn Funt: What about sexuality, affection — what types are you?
Kari Clark: There, too, it is somewhat strange. Our love comes from friendship, our sex is sex. Plain old sex. Our sex doesn’t involve love and that’s how we like it.
Marilyn Funt: You will have to help me understand that.
Kari Clark: We are affectionate. For example, when we are driving in the car, we always have our hands touching. We are touchers, that’s out of bed. As far as sex goes, it is not coupled with deep feelings or heavy love, it’s more like a porno movie — sex without love. We are both very sexual and that’s always been very important. Obviously, when you are having an affair, that’s most significant or you wouldn’t bother having an affair. It was the key to our relationship, and eight years later, it still is very intense. But as far as I am concerned, that’s not love. It is not the kind of romantic loving that often goes with sex. Our affection is separate, our work, our sex, are all separate. I don’t know how to explain it — everything is extreme. Our work is all work, our love all love, our sex, all sex.
Marilyn Funt: Do you kind of wish the sex and love happened together?
Kari Clark: No, I like it this way. It is fine with both of us. We even laugh about it. We are very much in love, but we understand the distinction. You must really love each other to have good sex, but it doesn’t have to enter into the picture when you are actually performing. We feel most people confuse the issue. We are very open about sex. No fantasies. We know it’s each other. I think this is new for him. If there is anything amusing we want to try, we just do it. No hesitation. We are creative and inventive.
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Marilyn Funt: How have you dealt with jealousy?
Kari Clark: I am not sure. If I saw someone who was around him that I thought would attract him, perhaps I would be jealous. But so far I have not felt anything to suggest any jealous feelings. Also, up until this year, I was the girlfriend. You might cheat on your wife, but not on your girl. Now that I am the wife, I better watch out so that history does not repeat itself. Trust, which is something that a very good relationship is supposed to have, is what we do not have. We do not trust each other at all. It doesn’t seem to matter, but we really don’t trust each other. If there was a situation and a girl, I think he would get together with her, and he thinks the same of me. He is not very considerate, not very thoughtful — and it still works. He is interesting, exciting, full of adventure and the love of life. These things are important to me. Since we don’t trust each other, we have to be with each other all of the time.
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Marilyn Funt: The pressure of being a celebrity’s wife, having to look good all the time — how do you feel about that?
Kari Clark: I like it, and he encourages me to do many things because he is very particular. Not too many men would push you to have pedicures. He likes gold and bronze on nails, hates the colors red and pink. It is an easy way to please him. When my roots begin to show, he is the first to say get it done. He watches my weight as well as his. I like having a husband that notices.
— Kari Clark, in Are You Anybody? Conversations with Wives of Celebrities by Marilyn Funt
