This week we welcome the writer Marisa Meltzer back to STARGIRL to discuss her new book It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin (out this week!). We discuss the myth of Jane Birkin and Marisa’s project to animate her beyond a 2D moodboard figure, and use Jane as a vessel to revisit classic STARGIRL conversations such as Artist vs. Muse, Narrative Control, and Nature vs. Artifice. We discuss Jane’s lifelong Lolita energy, character as a mother, natural aging process, and comfortability as a vessel for others’ creative and sexual projections.Plus, I reflect on seeing Addison live after 5+ years of indulging my fixation in my imagination, give my take on the various Showgirl vibes in culture right now, and answer the elephant in the room: Is Jane Birkin a Stargirl or an It Girl?Discussed:<ul><li><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/It-Girl/Marisa-Meltzer/9781668060285">It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin</a>, Marisa Meltzer (2025)</li><li><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Glossy/Marisa-Meltzer/9781982190613">Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Life of Emily Weiss’s Glossier, Marisa Meltzer</a> (2023)</li><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HIZT7KbVxdoHyhARaH0O3?si=2e518e64fa4c4649">STARGIRL episode on Emily Weiss with Marisa</a> (2023)</li><li><a href="https://x.com/_artsartsarts/status/1972822183446736967">“Do the right thing Addison Rae…” @_artsartsarts on X</a></li><li><a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/addison-rae-cover-interview-photos-2025">“Addison Rae Wants More Than Virality”</a> Alex Hawgood, W Mag (2025)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pelaWk-lU">Alix Earle on DWTS</a> (so good!)</li><li><a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a65531408/margaret-qualley-interview-2025/">“Margaret Qualley Manifested This Cover Story”</a> Willa Bennett Cosmopolitan (2025)</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Notebooks-Katie-Roiphe/dp/1982128011">The Power Notebooks</a>, Katie Roiphe (2020)</li></ul><li><ul><li><a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/sofie-pavitt-i-got-a-neck-lift-at-41-years-old-review.html">“Why I Got a Neck Lift at 41 Years Old”</a> Sophie Pavitt in The Cut (2025)</li><li><a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/jane-b-par-agnes-v">Jane B. par Agnes V.</a> (1988)</li></ul></li>

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