Celebrity Spotlight: Gina Gershon
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Actress Gina Gershon takes us through the unexpected, entertaining steps to becoming a star and the attitude it takes to do so in her memoir Alphapussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:44.6 | Gina Gershahn is the author of Alpha Pussy, How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love |
| 0:50.6 | My Boobes. Okay, I get uncomfortable saying curse words of any kind, but I'm making an |
| 0:58.4 | exception for this title because I've been following Gina Gershahn's career for many, many years. |
| 1:04.7 | She actually at one point went to a spa when a girlfriend of mine was there years ago and she couldn't stop talking |
| 1:12.8 | about Gina. This was, oh my gosh, maybe when I was in high school or something. Well, it couldn't |
| 1:16.2 | have been that long ago. Anyway, I've been following Gina's career and was so excited to see the |
| 1:20.6 | launch of this book. She posted about signing books at Zibby's Bookshop, which was amazing and so |
| 1:25.9 | nice. And I had to have her on. If you don't |
| 1:29.0 | know her, she has been starring on stage, screen, and television for over 40 years. She has |
| 1:34.2 | recorded albums and toured across America, performed at Carnegie Hall three times, playing |
| 1:39.3 | her Jews harp with Sting, Lori Anderson, Joan Baez, and Gogol Bordello. |
| 1:45.2 | She's the author of In Search of Cleo, and she performed that as a one-woman show with an accompanying album. |
| 1:52.4 | She's just basically pretty awesome. |
| 1:54.6 | Her film credits include Bound Showgirls, The Insider, Face Off, and The Player, among others, and on TV. They include the assassin, |
| 2:02.7 | Elspeth, Kirby, Enthusiasm, Riverdale, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, just to name a few. On Broadway, |
| 2:09.0 | she was in Sam Mendez's Cabaret, the Tony Award-winning Boeing, Boeing, and more. Enjoy. |
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