Jennie Garth

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Prufrock LLC

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Actress, entrepreneur, and 90s icon Jennie Garth joins Monica this week on Reclaiming for a conversation about surviving global fame, reclaiming your purpose, and the profound power of choosing yourself. Jennie retraces her path from a quiet horse ranch in Illinois to the center of a cultural phenomenon as Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210. She opens up about the personal cost of that fame—developing crippling anxiety and agoraphobia at the height of her success—and how she has since reclaimed the toxic “rivalry” narrative with and her 90210 female co-stars Jennie reveals how a single line from a 90210 script became the mantra for her second act, and how a pivot at 50 offered a different kind of healing than her acting career ever could. Expect a conversation brimming with surprising vulnerability, hard-won wisdom, and a roadmap for how to reclaim your own story, no matter how the world has tried to write it for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	People love to see that love triangle, those, the friction. And so then the media picked up on it,
0:05.9	the world picked up on it and became the truth. So it was very difficult for our young girl
0:11.6	friendships. And for me, and not just with Shannon, it was very hard because we as women were all
0:18.9	pitted against one another. And it was the like pick me mentality of like,
0:23.6	if I, I've got to be the best so that I get picked
0:27.6	so that I can, you know, keep doing what I'm doing
0:29.6	because I love it. Hi, Jenny.
0:45.8	Welcome to Reclaiming.
0:47.7	Thank you for having me.
0:49.0	I'm so happy to be here.
0:50.0	Yeah, I'm happy to have you.
0:51.6	It's like a fellow Gen Xer.
0:53.6	I mean, you and Beverly Hills 90210, but as Kelly Taylor, like this cultural phenomenon,
1:00.2	I was a junior in high school, I think, when the show launched.
1:03.4	And so we're kind of almost the same age.
1:05.5	Yeah, we grew up together.
1:06.5	Yeah, basically.
1:08.7	It was just so interesting to me because I was raised in Beverly Hills and went to
1:14.9	Beverly High for a couple years. Wow. Okay. So not only was it the cultural phenomenon of
1:21.2	the country in the world, really, but particularly where I was raised, I think there was,
1:27.4	there was an additional conversation. How do we do? I mean, yeah. Oh, really. But particularly where I was raised, I think there was, there was an additional
1:28.5	conversation. How do we do? I mean, yeah. Oh, really well. You would know if it was accurate.
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