Welcome everyone to dolls of our lives. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm Allison.

And on the Patreon today, we're going to be talking about a book called Toxic Women Fame in the tabloid 2000s, which sounds scary but it will be it'll be a fun

conversation but before we get into that how are doing, Allison? I'm doing great.

This book is about nine women who really went through it

in the early 2000s, and my experience in high school and college

is extremely tame. Like my whole life is very uninteresting

compared to these nine women. Okay wow that's a big swing that's a big it's good in a

good way I mean the things these women have been through are absolutely I mean this was a tough

read in a sense because it was just like every chapter you're like oh my god like I can't

believe this happened to them like this is terrible I also didn't think there were this many single name

Stars that you could write about from the early 2000s. To me there's not that many kind of

one name one note people but she takes us through Brittany

Paris, Lindsay, Alia, Janet, Amy, Kim, China and Jen. A few of those you could think of multiple people but when you know it's the

early 2000s you know the Lindsay we're talking about. Right. Yeah I mean I think the

only ones where I was like who is I guess Amy but I mean I guess if you know it's early 2000s that kind of clarifies it but yeah it was a truly wild ride I know you've taken in another, I don't know if

doctored is the word, but you know, creative work by one of the stars of this

book. Yeah, Our People's Princess, Lindsay Lohan, plays a character called Maddie Kelly in the book Irish Wish,

and this film has gotten a lot of, I would say, hyper critical feedback, people really kind of making fun of this movie. I thought it was delightful. I really liked it. I think in a pre, you know, big Netflix world, this would have been in theaters and people would have made it a night to go out and see it.

I believe that. I mean, I've seen the preview. I still haven't watched it yet. I'm, you know, working my way up to it, but it looks like something

I would have gone to see in the 2000s in the theater like I used to go to the movies all the time on a Friday night. I mean my life feels so removed from that I don't know if it's the pandemic that changed that or what but I definitely would have gone to see

something like this I probably have seen like five things like this. There's a sense

you know that people don't want to be forced to go to the movie theater but I

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