Tamara Yajia, CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA: My Life as a Failed Child Star

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Zibby chats with Argentine-American writer, comedian, and ex-child star Tamara Yajia about her wildly unhinged, hilarious, and vulnerable debut memoir, CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA: My Life as a Failed Child Star. They dive into Tamara’s raw, no-holds-barred memoir chronicling her tumultuous upbringing between Argentina and the U.S., her chaotic family dynamics, her early brushes with fame, and the emotional toll of codependency and abuse. She also reflects on her childhood, chosen family, shocking moments of isolation, therapy, how writing this book helped her process lifelong trauma, and even her surreal summer hanging out with Brad Pitt!

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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
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram
0:40.2	at Zibi Owens. Tomorrow, Yaja is the author of Cry for Me, Argentina. My Life is a Failed
0:49.5	Child Star. Tamara is an Argentine writer-comed musician, and ex-child star. She's written for
0:55.2	clickhole, funny or die, and several TV series, including Acapulco, This Fool, and the upcoming
1:00.7	Netflix series, Striplaw. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her dog, Odie.
1:05.3	Welcome to Mara. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zibby to talk about
1:09.7	cry for me, Argentina,
1:11.5	my life as a failed child star.
1:14.6	Thank you so much. I'm such a fan. I'm so excited to be here.
1:19.4	Oh, that's so sweet. Well, I'm a fan too with this book. Oh, my gosh. I read it every page.
1:25.0	I could not put it down. I was like at times pretty horrified and yet kept going.
1:31.7	But ultimately, it's such a great coming of age story and very funny to boot.
1:37.2	Thank you. It's a lot. I know. And I'm like, if I could go back and tone it down, would I? But then I wouldn't be honest, because that's how it went down.
1:48.9	You would not tone it down. You would be a different person. That's the thing. It's so funny. I got a review that was something like, it's so shocking.
2:02.1	Like, it's something like she confuses humor with shock.
2:07.0	And I'm like, sometimes I'm not trying to be funny.
2:10.9	It's just kind of the way my family is, which is, you know, no boundaries and a little
2:16.5	horrifying.
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