![]() ![]() I was just thinking, did I want to do this? And I just didn't want to do it. KELLY: Did you think we wouldn't be interested, or.īLUME: No, I didn't think at all about an audience. Why were you reluctant to tell your story?īLUME: I - because it's about me. KELLY: Judy, I am told that you were initially hesitant about making this documentary, which kind of surprises me because you're so candid and so open and so out there in your fiction. Now Blume's own story, how she came to write "Margaret" and 23 other books, is front and center in the new documentary "Judy Blume Forever." Judy Blume herself and one of the directors of that film, Davina Pardo, join me now from our New York offices. ![]() Writing honestly for adolescent readers about puberty and sex is not unusual today in 2023, but in the '80s, when I read "Margaret," and in 1970, when it was first published, it was revolutionary. Through the story of 11-year-old Margaret Simon, we learned about getting our periods, about bras, about friendships, about sex and so much more. It was digging into "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" by Judy Blume. For girls coming of age in the '70s and '80s, girls like me - and to be clear, I came of age at the later end of that timeline - there was a rite of passage. ![]()
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