Jennie Garth
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 24K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Sophia Bush and Jennie Garth compare notes on what it’s like to find fame on hit teen television, growing up on screen and why they were both discouraged from bonding with their female co-stars.
Plus, Jennie reveals what it felt like to meet her "Beverly Hills, 90210" castmates for the first time, the reason she spent countless afternoons alone in a cemetery and what unexpected development at age 24 may have saved her life.
Her grace is something Sophia is in awe of. You will be too.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome back to Work in Progress, friends. |
| 0:21.7 | Today we are joined by a television icon that I have literally loved for my entire life. |
| 0:27.1 | Don't worry, I'm going to play it cool. |
| 0:28.7 | Everything's going to be fine. |
| 0:30.3 | Our guest today is none other than the iconic Jenny Garth. |
| 0:34.9 | For decades, she was frozen in time in all of our minds as Kelly Taylor, the |
| 0:39.7 | confident, complicated icon at the center of the 90s coming of age series, Beverly Hills |
| 0:46.2 | 902 and L. Behind the camera, Jenny really struggled to navigate sudden fame and complicated |
| 0:53.2 | love and devastating loss and has really |
| 0:57.0 | reflected on years of quietly losing herself in roles she played on screen and how that |
| 1:04.7 | continued off screen. I really know a thing or two about that. Today we're going to talk about |
| 1:10.7 | how you start to find yourself again, |
| 1:13.3 | especially when you're 10 years behind because you've been in high school for longer than any other adult on earth. |
| 1:19.8 | I am thrilled that we are now sisters in the IHeart podcast family. |
| 1:25.0 | You can listen to her rewatch pod, 90211 OMG that she does with Tori Spelling, |
| 1:31.4 | or her incredibly empowering podcast that I know work in progress listeners will love, |
| 1:37.0 | called I Choose Me podcast. It's also the name of her revealing new memoir, where she revisits the moments that she once avoided |
| 1:48.3 | and she does it with striking honesty and a willingness to self-reflect and inspect in order to grow. |
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