Judy Blume for Variety’s PowerOfWomen, photographed by Celeste Sloman.
She hadn’t inherited her Aunt Gert’s large breasts. discovered the joys of self-stimulation, but she was suffering from a lack of privacy.
Judy gushes about what a wonderful mentor Mitchell has been in the art of bookselling, and Mitchell returns the favor: “Theirs is the first bookstore that really made it in Key West,” he says. “They have completely changed the literary community there.” She waves off the praise: “It’s all tourists!”George is Judy’s third husband, and proud of it. Having laughed through his jovial appearances in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video documentary “,” I feel like I’ve already met him, and I tell him so.
Since 1970, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” has taught generations of girls, myself included, about the menstrual cycle before they ever heard their mothers breathe those words. Gleeful preteens giggled and right-wing parents’ groups protested as 11-year-old Margaret and her friends exercised their chests, chanting, “We must! We must! We must increase our bust!”
Judy rolls her eyes now. “It was that she had the first banana of her life on the boat. She came from a shtetl in Ukraine. Why would she be on a banana boat? But when it’s been your story all your life …” There was a period in Judy’s adolescence when she was separated from her father: Her brother had a serious kidney infection that necessitated a warmer climate, so the family moved to Miami, leaving Rudy behind in New Jersey to maintain his dental practice.
There were moments of relief, however. “I always felt my mother was more relaxed in Miami Beach,” Judy recalls. “And maybe that’s not a good sign, because why would that be? My father wasn’t there …” She told her agent that she was finally ready to sell the rights to some of her books, but that “Margaret” was off the table. “And then I got this letter from Kelly,” Judy says, smiling.
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