She shot to fame as a teenager, but always felt like an outsider in Hollywood. Now she has started a podcast and written a memoir for women who find themselves at a standstill<\/p>\n
A few years ago, Jennie Garth was feeling lost. Her three daughters were growing up \u2013 her eldest had already left home \u2013 and Garth was bored and unfulfilled. In March 2023, she noted in her diary that potential acting jobs were \u201cfew and far between, if at all really\u201d. She rarely heard from her agent, and she didn\u2019t want to get in touch with him \u201cjust to hear how different the business has become, how they just aren\u2019t looking for a woman my age, with my stereotyped abilities\u201d. As an actor, and one who had been particularly typecast, she was used to rejection, she wrote, \u201cbut this is getting a little scary\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the 90s, Garth had been a TV superstar. She was 18 when the teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 came out, in which she played Kelly Taylor \u2013 rich and spoilt on the surface, traumatised underneath. Although she continued to work after it came to an end in 2000, not least on the show\u2019s spin-offs, it must be hard to have hit your career high in your first job. More fulfilment came from other areas in Garth\u2019s life \u2013 she loved motherhood \u2013 although she found the end of her marriage to her daughters\u2019 father, the actor Peter Facinelli, so traumatic that she ended up in hospital after an accidental overdose and had a spell in rehab.<\/p>\n
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