The Cost of Girl Power // Melanie Chisholm's "The Sporty One"
What did the Spice Girls teach you about being a girl, and what did it cost the women who taught it?
This week, Page joins me to talk about Melanie Chisholm's memoir The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl, a long, diary-like book that doubles as Mel C's thank-you to the people who carried her along the way and her chance to reclaim her own story. We start with why the group meant so much to us growing up, from our favorite songs and favorite Spice Girls to the way five distinct personalities showed a generation of girls they could be more than one thing.
From there, we follow Mel C from a…
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