Celebrity Book Club: Ginger Rogers’ memoir My Story (with Karen Chee)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Chelsea and Karen Chee (Late Night with Seth Meyers, Pachinko) waltz through Ginger Rogers’ 1991 memoir, My Story. From being stolen on a train as a baby, to power playing Fred Astaire with a blue feathered dress, to a truly wild lack of awareness about world events, this book had some gems! Where to find our Guest: Karen Chee Website Instagram For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club Patreon! _____ Glamorous Trash: Where we make treasure out of pop culture garbage. Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Thank you to our sponsors: Tanteo Tequila -- @tanteotequila Natalie's Juice Company -- @nataliesoj Pattern Brands - @patternbrands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.5	Celebrity Memoirs. We pontificate about pop culture and sometimes if it's a real doozy we cry. If you have ever referenced
1:15.4	more I carry in therapy then this is probably the podcast for you. I'm your host Chelsea
1:20.1	de Vantes. I'm a TV writer comedian filmmaker, and sometimes I'm in stuff too.
1:25.0	Now today we are book clubbing the memoir of Ginger Rogers titled My Story, as all memoirs written
1:32.0	before 2000 seemed to be.
1:34.4	This one was published in 1991,
1:37.0	which is just four years before Ginger died
1:39.9	at the age of 83.
1:41.6	Now, I assume you know Ginger Rogers but just in case she is a film
1:46.0	legend from the 1930s there's that famous quote, Ginger Rogers could do
1:50.4	everything Fred Astaire could only backwards and in high heels.
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