Courtney Stodden (FBF)

This week, Alex breaks down why we take criticism so personally, and how to stop letting other people’s opinions dictate how we feel about ourselves. She explores how to tell the difference between constructive feedback and someone else’s projected insecurities, and why people-pl ...  عرض المزيد

Join Alex in the studio for an interview with Zooey Deschanel. Zooey talks all about her approach to the holidays and her experience on Elf. She also opens up about her engagement, navigating past divorce, overcoming bullying in her childhood, and why she isn’t a manic pixie drea ...  عرض المزيد

In the early 2000s, an Appalachian-born sex worker named JT Leroy becomes a literary wunderkind. His gritty, buzzed-about novels and tragic backstory earn him celebrity fans like Courtney Love, Carrie Fisher, and Billy Corgan, and interest from filmmakers like Gus Van Sant and As ...  عرض المزيد

The sleeper hit of late 1979 was Blake Edwards’s sex farce 10, a comedic vivisection of a male midlife crisis, which turned 23 year-old California girl Bo Derek into a controversial cultural phenomenon. Derek’s early fame was framed in the media through the lens of her marriage t ...  عرض المزيد

New Guest Expert! On this week’s Aftermath, Rebecca speaks with Dr. Arjune Rama about the untimely death of music legend Kurt Cobain. Arjune Rama, MD is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. ...  عرض المزيد

Grunge, grief, the Grateful Dead and a “teenage whore.” Part 2 of the Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love story picks up with Courtney’s ascent and the couple’s heroin-hazed pregnancy. An escape from rehab and a punk as f*ck group hug for Gen X. This episode contains themes that may be ...  عرض المزيد