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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Jennie and her girls may live miles apart, but they always find each other watching “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Watching Belly’s story unfold has become a little tradition ... a way to laugh, cry and text furiously about love triangles. Beyond the drama, it reminds them all of something deeper: that no matter where life takes you, choosing yourself is always the most important storyline of all.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. |
| 0:12.4 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to I Choose Me. |
| 0:15.3 | This podcast is all about the choices we make. |
| 0:18.5 | And today, my badass oldest daughter, Luca, is joining me from |
| 0:24.8 | NYC because we are all obsessed with a little show called The Summer I Turn Pretty. And yes, |
| 0:33.6 | she's 3,000 miles away. Fiona's at college. Lola's here with me. |
| 0:38.7 | And the show and Belly's big choice has made me feel like we're all in one room. |
| 0:45.9 | So this is going to be a great episode to talk about this. |
| 0:49.2 | The summer I turn pretty, if you don't know a teenager or if you aren't a teenager, you probably don't know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:55.8 | But the summer I turn pretty follows teenage Isabel Belly Conklin as her life is transformed |
| 1:03.1 | during the summers at Cousins Beach with her family and their longtime friends, the fishers, |
| 1:09.6 | who happen to be cutie patoototies, it's a very complicated |
| 1:14.9 | love triangle that forms between Belly and the sons of Susanna, Conrad, and Jeremiah. |
| 1:22.8 | The series explores the themes of first love, the heartbreak, the growing up, while also |
| 1:29.0 | highlighting the strong bonds between mothers and children and lifelong female friendships. |
| 1:35.8 | Let's go to one of my lifelong female friendships. My beautiful daughter, Luca. Hi. Hi, Mom. Thanks |
| 1:43.9 | for having me. Oh, I'm so glad you're here. Okay, we're just going to jump into this because we're so excited. We haven't seen the finale yet. So if you have, don't tell us anything. But we are going to talk about what we think should happen. What do you think is going to happen, Luca? I feel a little pessimistic. I don't think |
| 2:04.2 | we're going to get the ending that we want. Wait, what's the ending you want? Well, I think you and I agree |
| 2:09.6 | that we're both Team Conrad. Listen, I've rethought that. Team Conrad for sure in my heart. But then I thought back to the times when I was in the |
| 2:20.4 | triangle and I was one of the teams back in the day, a long time ago. And I thought, oh, that |
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