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Gina Gershon has spent over four decades navigating Hollywood, Broadway, music stages, and cultural mythmaking without ever fitting neatly into a box. You know her from Showgirls, Bound, The Insider, Face/Off, and a long list of roles that challenged power, sexuality, and perception. But in this episode of Up+Adam, we go deeper than film credits.

Her new memoir, AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs, is funny, wild, self-aware, and unexpectedly profound. It is not a gossip book. It is a survival manual. Gina opens up about growing up in the porn-saturated San Fernando Valley, navigating predators and power dynamics, trusting her gut over career advice, and what it truly costs to hold your autonomy in rooms that expect you to give it away.

This conversation moves beyond the “sex symbol” narrative and into something far more interesting. Identity. Instinct. Self-trust. And the discipline of not blinking first.

If you care about women owning their narrative, Hollywood behind the curtain, or what it means to survive without becoming bitter, this one is for you.

What we cover:

• Growing up in a hypersexualized culture and finding agency

• The real story behind Showgirls and the male gaze

• Why trusting your gut can cost you work but save your soul

• The misconception about Gina she never bothered correcting

• What becoming an “AlphaPussy” actually requires

• And the question that stopped her cold at the end

Buy the book:

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/AlphaPussy-Survived-Valley-Learned-Boobs/dp/1636142818/

Publisher

https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/alphapussy/

Follow Gina Gershon:

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ginagershon

IMDb

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