Monica Lewinsky has a podcast: Reclaiming. In a vast sea of them, hers stood out at the right time as she and the political world hit on the same general topic: women’s fertility.
The White House press secretary just happened to be on her podcast. Well, sort of. Allison Janney was the one who played that role on The West Wing a few moons ago in the Aaron Sorkin series. Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s press secretary in the real world (or the neverending reality-TV show we call that) announced she is stepping down to spend more time with her two young children. And, at the same time, a certain 36-year-old congressman, who may have presidential dreams for herself, was injecting herself with hormones in the green room of one of the Sunday shows to hyper-stimulate her egg production to freeze them. Many cynically assumed it all had to do with politics and invited all kinds of unsolicited advice. Where Lewinsky and Janney went was actually a helpful addition to what the news would cover this week: Because as the podcast hit on, for a people who have an amazing amount of information at our fingertips, we often don’t know as much as we should about the most fundamental, intimate things that impact us the most. And that’s not all fertility-related, of course. Janney seems an actress deeply devoted to her craft, extremely grateful for the opportunities she’s been afforded. And in search of something.
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