DAYS OF OUR LIVES Feature
Forever 21
Getting Ready
"It was a half-surprise party, if you will, because I knew I was having a party, I just didn't know of the details, like where it was going to be, who was coming, how extravagant Martha made it ... I had no idea about anything. I had a relaxing day: I got my hair done, got a manicure and a pedicure and then I got ready at home."
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Farah and her birthday presents
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Getting There
"A limo picked my boyfriend [Oli, a singer from England] and I up. As we were getting in the limo, he started showering me with diamonds — a ring, necklace and bracelet. I was floored because he had already given me a bunch of presents, so I thought I was done. I'm a really lucky girl. Then, I got to the party and there was a huge poster of me outside on Hollywood Boulevard. I was so embarrassed. It said: 'Farah Fath is 21.' All of these tourists were walking by oohing and aahing. It was so sweet of Martha to go all out."
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Farah meets the reporters
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The Guest List
"Pretty much everyone from work was there, 'cause that's pretty much the only people I know! It was just rip-roaring fun, the best night of my life. It seriously was. Everyone that I love was there except, obviously, my family. A news crew from [homestate] Kentucky found out about the party and flew out there. They have a talk show that airs in Kentucky called ALL FOR YOU. It's on the NBC affiliate and comes on late at night. It's really well-known. I got out of the limo and saw them and I had to stop and think, 'What state am I in right now?' because I couldn't remember if I was in Kentucky for a second. I was like, 'Why are they here?' I had to do a double take and kind of get my bearings. I was really flattered."
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Farah and her birthday poster
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Fab Photos
"Martha totally has a future in party planning," praises Fath. "She had been in cahoots with my mom and gotten all these old pictures of me, ones I had never even seen before. On the invitation, there was a picture of me wearing dress-up clothes and holding these pearls, and I've never seen that picture in my life. I was looking at all these pictures that Martha had gotten and seriously, I was stunned; she made two huge collages on poster boards."
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Farah and Martha with her birthday cake.
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The Cake
"Martha got a huge cake that said, 'Happy Birthday Sarah.' Every birthday cake that has ever been ordered for me has had Sarah on it. No one can understand or comprehend the letter F and every year, my mom would be like, 'F as in Frank, Fred, Fish,' but it would still say Sarah. Maybe it's a good-luck thing, I don't know. So, Martha said she changed the S to an F with her finger."
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Farah and her boyfriend, Oli
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Good Night
"I'm kind of known for wearing a lot of lip-gloss on the show, so Martha got little ChapSticks for everyone as party favors, but then a huge tub of Vaseline for me because that was funny to her. A couple of the crew guys filmed the whole night for me, so I have this great little documentation from when I got out of the limo to the very end, which is great. It was a phenomenal evening."
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