This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross.

Like most of the underground stars who emerged from Ande Warhol's circle,

Viva was an unconventional personality.

Her oldest daughter, my guest Alexandra O'Dare, had a very unconventional upbringing.

Her mother appeared in several warhol films, including Lonson Cowboys and the Loves of Undine.

Alexandra's father, Michelle O'Dare, is a video artist and filmmaker.

When Alexandra was a child, she had a part in an underground film as the daughter of a dominatrix.

After her parents split up, when Alexandra was five, she went on the road with her mother

and a cat they picked up along the way, traveling cross-country in a beat-up car.

For several years, they lived in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, famous for having been home

to Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Virgil Thompson, Bob Dylan, Sid and Nancy, among others.

When Alexandra was eleven, her mother gave birth to another daughter, Gabby Hoffman.

Alexandra became a second mother to Gabby.

By the time Alexandra was eleven, she was carrying Gabby around in a snugly.

Alexandra became an actress. You might know her from the HBO series High Maintenance,

from an episode in season two, when she tries to break a dance marathon record.

But her career has largely been devoted to teaching yoga,

and using Instagram to satirize how yoga has been commercialized.

Her younger sister, Gabby Hoffman, is an actress whose co-starred in transparent and girls.

Alexandra O'Dare has written a new memoir called Don't Call Me Home.

Note to parents of young children, we're going to be having an adult conversation.

Alexandra O'Dare, welcome to Fresh Air. What a really interesting book you've written.

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