Whateverland by Alexis Stewart & Jennifer Koppelman Hutt

Author:Alexis Stewart & Jennifer Koppelman Hutt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118101957
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2011-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Wrapping Your Own Christmas Presents

Alexis and Jennifer on Growing Up Dysfunctional

The party was always at my house.

Jennifer Koppelman Hutt

The party was never at my house.

Alexis Stewart

Oy, family and childhood. Where to begin? How about with this obvious fact: Alexis and Jennifer both had completely abnormal childhoods.

Everyone’s family is crazy is in its own way; no one has perfect parents or grows up unscathed and not needing intensive psychotherapy. But our families and childhoods were particularly crazy and imperfect. Jennifer’s parents smothered her to the point of making her phobic about everything and needing to have human contact—by phone, by text, by e-mail, in person—every minute of every day. Alexis’s parents left her alone so much that she basically hates to be around people. She needs tons of space. But we do have one thing in common in the way we were raised: we both grew up in situations where we didn’t have to kiss anybody’s ass.

Everybody knows Alexis’s background, but Alexis doesn’t think that everyone knows the level of privilege and fanciness Jennifer was raised with. When Jennifer was younger, her father was in the music business. She went on vacation with people like Barbra Streisand, and Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys performed at her sweet sixteen party. (Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimp, was also in attendance.) She lived in a house designed by the same architect who designed the Boston Public Library, the second Madison Square Garden, and one of the Newport mansions, and she never went anywhere without a limousine because her parents were afraid she’d be kidnapped. So even though our stories are so opposite it sounds like we came from different planets, the result is the same: we’re both freaks!

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