The Bossticks - Chelsea Clinton On Growing Up In The White House, Thick Skin, & Carving Your Own Path Forward

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

#559: On today's episode we are joined by Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, advocate and public healthexpert. Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health fromColumbia's Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She joins the show to discuss what it was like at a young age to move into the white house and have her father as President Of The United States, we then discuss how she was able to carve her own path and create her own identity.   To connect with Chelsea Clinton click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To subscribe to our YouTube Channel click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential. The Skinny Confidential is 2 years old! Use code PINKBASH on April 7th to celebrate our Two Year Bash Sale.   This episode is brought to you by Ritual Ritual knows it's basically impossible to get all the nutrients you need from your diet 100% of the time, so they made a multivitamin that helps you focus on what's important. Like filling key nutrient gaps to support foundational health. Go to ritual.com/skinny to receive 10% off your first 3 months. This episode is brought to you by Zoc Doc Zocdoc is the only FREE app that lets you find AND book doctors who are patient-reviewed, take your insurance, are available when you need them and treat almost every condition under the sun. Go to zocdoc.com/skinny to download the app & book with a top-rated doctor today. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace From websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics, Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business. Go to squarespace.com/skinny for a free trial & use code SKINNY for 10% off your first purchase of a website domain. This episode is brought to you by Sundays for Dogs Sundays is air-dried dog food made from a short list of human-grade ingredients. Unlike other fresh dog food brands, Sundays is zero prep, zero mess, and zero stress. Get 35% off your first order by going to SundaysForDogs.com/SKINNY or use code SKINNY at checkout. This episode is brought to you by Living Proof Living Proof understands that there's no 'one-size-fits-all' solution for all hair types and textures. Visit livingproof.com/skinny and use code SKINNY for a free travel sized dry shampoo with a purchase of $45 or more Produced by Dear Media

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And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you alone for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. It is really important for all of us to really know who our friends are. Who will be there to help us celebrate our wins and to help us mourn our friends. our losses, but also pick ourselves up and go forward. Because I think there are a lot of people

in life who are there in the good times, but not in the bad times. A lot of people in life were there in the bad times, but not in the good times. And you want, or at least I want for myself, for my kids, to have friendships that are about us as whole people, that can support us when we need it and celebrate us when we've earned it, are there throughout every experience that life brings. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the skinny confidential him and her show. That clip was from our guest of the show today.

Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton's on the show. If I had told you in high school when we were going to high school together that you would be interviewing Chelsea Clinton, you would have laughed. I would have said for sure that makes sense. Absolutely. She, I do want to say, was absolutely lovely. She came in so cool, calm, collected.

didn't have a big to do around her. She didn't even have secret service. And she was very down to earth. I think, and I said this on the show to Chelsea when we were interviewing her, people will read a title and see Chelsea Clinton on the show and for how politicized and polarizing this country is now and for how divided we all are. Everyone's going to make instant assumptions right away just based on the person.

What Lauren and I try to do, what we continue to do, is have all walks of life on this show to share a different perspective. What we found personally fascinating, which I think anyone would find fascinating is what is it like to be a young girl and have your father become the president of the United States and move into the White House when you're a young child and have that kind of attention? That is the experience that Chelsea Clinton had and since many other wild experiences as well. So this episode isn't about politics. I know that that's a wild concept to have someone who is in politics or has been in politics and not actually go deep in politics. Like that's a,

it's a new, it's a new thing. Sorry for those of you that were hoping we were going that way. We're not going anyway. We're just having a conversation. With that, Chelsea Clinton is a number one New York Times bestselling author, advocate, mother, wife. And she also has a foundation. She's the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation. In addition to her foundation work, Chelsea teaches at Columbia University. She's an author of multiple children's books. Chelsea Clinton, welcome to the skinny confidential him and her show. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. It's funny you do this show and you meet all sorts of different walks of life.

And I was just thinking as you were telling this story about, you know, unfortunately seeing someone get hit by a car and then Chelsea Clinton picks up the phone and calls 911. And the person on the other ends, like on the line with Chelsea Clinton, that must be a trip not only for them but for you, right? No, I just was grateful that someone answered so quickly. And it was such an affirmative, like, moment for a city. They're like, you know, 911 New York City dispatch. like how can I help you and you know truly within minutes like the fire department was there and then

an ambulance was there and the police were there and the police called me later to take a statement and I just felt like oh gosh our city really worked today and more profoundly just how many people stopped we saw this happen and the driver stopped too and everyone was like oh my gosh what's happening how do we help this person who's just gotten hurt like oh wait like looking at me like you're already on the phone with 911 like we'll see does he need water what can we do I mean, we are a real community in New York. And I think so often if you live outside New York City and you just watch the way we're depicted, like even in the superhero movies, it's often like quite dystopian and dark. And nobody even looks up and looks anyone in the eye, much less like asks, how are you or can I help with anything big, like being hit by a car, unfortunately, or small, like help hold a door for you or give you a seat on the subway. But we're a real community here. Yeah, it seems like you rally. You're selling me on New York. I've been trying to sell her on New York for years.

So let me know how I can help because I really, I think you're helping. I love New York. I love New York. And I, you know, I've now, I've been lucky enough to run the New York City Marathon a couple of times and like running through the city and just seeing all of the different neighborhoods and the different neighborhood pride and the energy, which is so out in force, like on marathon day isn't just created on that day. It's maybe, you know, super amplified on that day.

But that's who we are. Like, we are a city of more than eight million people and also a, the city of hundreds of different neighborhoods, but really, like, also a very real community. I think that's cool. Michael, take note, put it in your notes app to convince me later. I'm working on it. So what we like to do on this show is we both believe that our childhoods really kind of like shape a lot of who we are as adults. And I would argue that you have one of the more unique childhoods. How old were you when your father became president and you actually moved into the White House? And what was that experience like? I think it's so novel to so many

people that obviously have not had that experience. I was 12. I was 11 when my father announced his candidacy. Way back in the 90s, people ran for president over, you know, a year, maybe a little bit more. Now people seem to run for president over years or just perpetually for some people. You never know. It's a mixed back. But way back in the 90s, like I was 11 when my dad announced in October of 1991. And then the election, it was in November of the next year, 92. I was 12. when he won and then I was 12 when we moved into the White House. And I give my parents so much credit. I mean, Michael, we're kind of asking the question around trying to ensure that it was as normal as possible while also helping me be aware of like how extraordinary a privilege and a responsibility

it was, you know, to live in the White House. A few of my friends came with me, thankfully, and we're there during the inauguration and they're the first few nights that I was kind of sleeping in new room in this new home that also happened to be the White House. And I think thankfully kind of that that sensibility my parents gave me of like, this is your home. Like you also need to be respectful because like we are living in the White House. Also it is your home really helped me feel like I could bring my friends over. I mean, we weren't going to be wild and crazy.

We were going to be respectful. But it also was my home. They can come over for sleepovers or to watch movies or do our homework or study for exams. And so it very much was ordinary and also extraordinary. Before you moved into the White House, was your childhood fairly normal? My dad was governor of Arkansas. And so certainly in Arkansas, people knew who my parents were. And when we would go out to dinner or we'd go to church, be at my softball or soccer games or at a ballet recital, you know, people would come up to my parents and share what they were thinking about what was happening in the state.

offer suggestions, feedback, you know, across the whole range of positive to negative or nasty. When we left Arkansas, though, when we would go on family trips to see my grandparents when I was little who lived in Chicago, my mom's parents, or when we would take road trips elsewhere in the south or when my dad would go to governor's meetings and we'd then take a few days for a family vacation, you know, say in like the Mountain West, no one knew who we were. So if we were in Arkansas, everyone knew who we were. But if we weren't in Arkansas, no one knew who we were. And that dynamic, of course, changed. And did you like being an only child? I was going to ask you that off air, because we were talking about how your husband has 11 siblings? He's 10. He's 10 siblings. He's

one of 11. Got it. So did you like being an only child? I really wanted a sibling. I first really wanted an older brother or an older sister. I think partly, if I'm being totally honest, because I read the Sweet Valley Twins books as a child. And I love those books. And Elizabeth and Jessica have an older brother. And I was like, well, I want one of those. That seems kind of great. And then I realized that having an older brother and older sister was probably not in the

card. So then I really wanted a younger sibling. And my parents have spoken about this openly. They tried to have more children and were not able to have more children. And so I think at some point I didn't understand the biology of that. but I got the sense that it was, it was hard when I would ask for my mom to have to keep having the same conversation with me. And so at some point, I just thought, you know what, like, I love my parents, I'm close to my parents, I have great friends. Like, this is more than okay.

You do get all the attention. I got all of the attention. I mean, always, yes. Although not any longer. Now my kids get all the attention. Once you have kids, the grandparents, they don't care about what happens even more. I have this vivid memory of like a couple weeks after my first child, our daughter Charlotte, was born. I remembered I'd like hung up the phone. I talked to my mom and I'm very close to my mom, but I realized like she hadn't asked a single question about me. And they're also like when babies are two weeks old, you know, your parents. Like there's not much to say about them. Right. It was just like, but we had talked for like, you know, 15 minutes about this is like beautiful, precious, but still kind of like blob of a person. And she hadn't once been like, so how are you? Like what's, are you reading anything? Are you reading anything? or listening to anything while you're breastfeeding or like what's going on? Nothing. It was all just about it.

So what more can you tell me about her? I'm like, well, she's gained a little weight. In some ways I like it because I'm like, I got these two off my back of it. But in the other ways, I'm like,

hey, I'm still here. Like, you know, it's not just about them. Like, hello. Your parents just pushed you to the gutter. Listen, I might as well be, you know, a piece of paper on the wall.

You can't, they can't even see me anymore. You really fell down the leaderboard in the family. Oh, my God. I might be ahead of you too. She's for sure ahead of me. My dad calls like, hey, you know, how's the kids? Oh, Lauren's my favorite. Okay, got to go. I'm like, right, dad. I was thinking about our upbringing and my upbringing and, you know, the supervision that existed there. And as you become a teenager, obviously there's parental supervision. But for you, is there like a whole other level now where there's other people watching and you got to, like, everything you're doing is being scrutinized not only from the people in that circle, but also the public. Like, I imagine that somewhat challenging for a young kid to navigate because you have the world watching.

watching your behavior. You know, I think in some ways, Michael, I was really fortunate to have grown up, you know, as the daughter of the governor of Arkansas, because I grew up thinking, like, not even thinking, just being aware in a really kind of deep cellular level. Like, people are always watching me and not in a sense to be paranoid, just an awareness. And, you know, I have memories of being a kid and people commenting on, you know, what I was wearing or what I looked like and remember thinking like, that's so weird. Like, why are you commenting on like, what a six or seven year old is doing? I think, though, that that really did prepare me for just the huge onslaught of attention and scrutiny when I was living in the White House. When I first was in your question,

I thought you were going to ask about the Secret Service. Well, I was kind of like alluding to a little And it was, you know, an odd dynamic in some ways to always have people around. But of course, if I were in a friend's home, like, you know, they weren't in the home with me. Or if we were in the White House, like they weren't on the same floor as we were studying or talking about boys or whatever we were doing. So it's not like they're watching right there. And they're watching you go in the bathroom. No. It's not that.

No. And many of the agents that I was really privileged to grow up around, you were parents themselves, were kind of, you were parents themselves, were kind of, you. deeply not just, I think, sympathetic, but empathetic to, you know, kind of this, this dynamic. And I always understood that they had a job to do. And I never ran away from them. I did, I lost them once inadvertently. I was in a friend's car and we went through a light and they didn't make it through the light. And we pulled over even just like that brief period of time. I was like, oh, no, I'm so sorry. I was like, shag it out and like walk back. And my friend was like, we're in the middle of traffic. No, like that's definitely not a safe choice.

That's someone's job on the line, right? Well, also just like, it was not purpose. Yeah, it was their job on line. It was before I had a cell phone. I didn't get a cell phone until I was, gosh, I think 20. So I couldn't even call anyone to be like, I'm so sorry. I promise I'm still here. Pager.

Was there a pager? Oh, pageer. My friends had pagers. Yeah, we had pagers. You had pagers. I didn't have to get a pager and then you'd have to get on the pay phone. Oh my gosh. Not to date ourselves too much.

No, no. But I remember thinking my friends who had pagers were like the cool. list. And there was a pay phone outside our school, our high school. And I remember, like, after school when, like, everybody's pagers were going off, like, the line outside the payphone to, like, call back whomever had paged them to, like, make plans. And I was like, I'm just not the school. In some ways, I kind of missed those days. In high school, what is that like to go to school? Are you amongst, like, a bunch of different celebrities, politicians, kids? So it's not weird? Or was it, is people, like, coming up to you and giving you their opinion? I went to a public school.

in Little Rock, I went to maybe the strangest school experience I actually had was in kindergarten where I went to, I think there was only one, maybe there were two, but I think there was one kindergarten class in a high school because the school district had grown so much that they were like finding just spaces and places for particularly like the youngest kids in the district. And I remember thinking how how strange it was to be like this very little kid with like all these very big people in high school. But when we moved to D.C., I went to a wonderful school called said well friends to private Quaker school. And, you know, I think, Lauren, the oddest answer is, like, with like the first week, there was lots of curiosity. But after that, in the best sense,

most kids are focused on their own lives. And so people got back to their kind of, you know, regularly scheduled programming, as it were. You know, it's interesting when you tell me that that people were commenting on the way you look or what you're wearing when you're so young, because now that's what this generation is getting through social media, right? They can post a picture and they get all these opinions. Whether you're a celebrity or in high school. Well, Lauren, I think, like, you know, kids these days in many ways, their experiences far more like my experience as a kid

than like my peers' experiences were when we were kids. And I think that is because, you know, for so many young people who are on social media, they're all effectively celebrities, right, to one another. And they're connected to not only the people they go to school with, but like they're friends, friends, friends, friends, friends. And so maybe it's not the hundreds of millions of people who at some time, you know, were aware of me or watching me or had opinions on me as a kid.

But it's thousands of people that feel just as weighty, maybe even more weighty than, you know, all the people who were watching me as a child because they can see the real-time comments. So I was aware that other people had, you know, lots of opinions about my family or even me as a kid, even though I don't think adults really should have opinions on kids, but they did. But I didn't have to see them or hear them except when someone would come up to me. And I think what's different now for kids, for adolescents, is unless they put their phone down, right, they're seeing all of these. Often people, they're only remotely like seven degrees separated from pontificating about what they did or espousing kind of why they think they made a mistake or

putting them down or even giving them a compliment is still just an odd, I think, psychological dynamic for kids if it's not like your friend or your parent or your teacher, your coach. That's kind of what I was saying is there's a lot of parallels between what you went through and what kids are going through now. Obviously, your experience was way bigger. But if you had to give advice to someone who's listening, who maybe has a following on social media and is getting a lot of negative comments and positive comments, what would that advice be? Like say, say even your child came to you and said, I'm getting feedback. What is your advice? I think that it is really important for all of us, whatever age, particularly for kids and adolescents, to really know who our friends are. Like,

who will be there to help us celebrate our wins and to help us mourn our losses, but also pick ourselves up and go forward. Because I think there are a lot of people in life who are there in the good times, but not in the bad times. A lot of people in life were there in the bad times, but not in the good times. And you want, or at least I want for myself for my kids, to have friendships that are about us as whole people that can support us when we need it and celebrate us when we've earned it and are there throughout kind of every experience that life brings. And I think what is, is hard with social media is like everything is so kind of Polaroid moment. It's like just a snapshot of life. And I think it's hard to build relationships over snapchats or snapshots or

kind of these bite-sized moments. And so I would just urge young people to spend more time with the people they hope to be their friends and then nurturing those friendships over time. because for me certainly it's always been my friends who've helped keep me grounded when I needed it, like give me hugs when I've needed them and celebrated me when something great has happened. You mentioned off air about you don't want to live in a bubble. Can you elaborate on what you meant? Yeah, I don't want to live in a bubble. I want to live in this amazing city that I'm lucky enough to call home. I want to, I'm really kind of be in places when I'm lucky enough to visit them. I run outside.

I run in new neighborhoods. I run at different times of the day because I love seeing the different rhythms of the city. I ride on the subway. I'm about to say I walk my dog outside, but our dog just fast away. Oh, it's a worse. It has been a terrible week. I'm so sorry. Thank you.

And I just, and I keep forgetting, like it almost just rolled off my tongue. I'm like, and I walk my dog in different places in the city. Like, I would take sometimes my dog on the subway so we could go for like a walk in a different part of the city together. And I don't want to live in a hermetically sealed, you know, bubble when I could live in New York City. Like, how great is it that I get to live here? For me, I thought that you would have come here with Secret Service.

So, and Michael's going to make fun of me. I'm asking a question, I'll make myself look stupid. It's just your spouse is supposed to make fun of you. Yeah. I'll look stupid here. I didn't know. It sounds like the Secret Service stops when you're out of the White House. Is that right?

So it is different. You probably can't stop for your parents, right? So it's different based on like, yeah, who you're asking the question about. Got it. My parents and all former presidents and first ladies, or hopefully at some point presidents and first gentlemen, will have secret service forever. And I so forever, like for their lives. I so strongly support that. I think it would be a national tragedy, if anything, were to have happened to anyone who had served as president. Even people that I vehemently disagree with,

I think it is important that we provide protection to our former presidents and their spouses. Often their spouses have similarly served, not always, but often similarly served. certainly have been quite visible. And then we just have to be honest about kind of what that visibility and that service often leads to. I was about to say invites, but there service certain invites something, but leads to you. Have signed up for that for your life and your family. It's like it's basically a contract to say for the rest of my life, I'm going to be a very known public person with scrutiny and attention and not just in this country, but other countries.

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across the country, you strongly support that this is, you know, the right thing to do to continue to, you know, support and provide secret service protection, former presidents and their spouses. You know, for children, it is somewhat situational. So for younger children, when their fathers have left the White House, you, Secret Service protection, you know, sometimes has continued for longer duration. For much older children, it generally ends. as soon as the next president is inaugurated. For me, I had Secret Service through just past my graduation from Stanford because I was so associated with Stanford. And so well known and I had had, you know, a number of different characters show up at different times to Stanford campus

looking for me. And so that kind of led the Secret Service and thankfully something that President Bush supported them to extend my Secret Service, which I very much have always had this view of like whatever the Secret Service thinks, like they're the experts. Like it is not for me to candidly really have an opinion here. It's for me to listen to them when they, you know, tell me or tell our family kind of what they're concerned about or hopefully what they're not concerned about. When you say characters, do you mean people stalking you, like trying to date you, people coming to give their opinion, people dangerous? All sorts of things. Like people showing up to give me things, people showing up to share their opinions, people, white plazas of the big central

area of Stanford. I remember there was this one gentleman who would truly come with like an old fashion crate, like soapbox and like stand on it and, you know, shout all sorts of things at me. And so just different, different characters. Do you just ignore it? Generally. Yeah, that's what I would just, I would just act like it's not there. Generally, the people that, you know, are nice and want to share even their opinions, but often stories about a time they met one of my parents or how the Family Medical Leave Act changed their lives or my father, kind of leading NATO's effort to help protect Kosovo Albanians, like saved their family and enabled them to, you know, immigrate to the United States or, you know, how my mom's work on kind of protecting and elevating women's

voices around the world, you know, inspired them to become a playwright in Japan. I mean, like all sorts of stories have been shared with me over, you know, the course of my life. And those I always, you know, want to hear and want to listen to you. But when people, you know, are just wanting to talk to me because they want to say something like mean or nasty or when people say, you know, actually quite horrific things, I try to have a spitey sense, as my husband would call it, to hopefully avoid those conversations in the first place, if possible, or to just extract myself as quickly as I can. You almost have to like dissociate from it and just act like it's not like in your ether. Or when people, you know, say things to me like, oh, like don't you wish your mother would have aborted you? And I'm like, no, I don't. Oh my gosh. Jesus Christ. Or like, you know. People say that to your face. Oh, sure. Or like, you should have died in Benghazi. I'm like, actually the tragedy is that anyone

died in Benghazi. Or, you know, I hope that your children die so that like your family's evil, like isn't perpetuated. I'm like, I'm so sorry. I hope my children all live to be 100 and have healthy, happy, thriving lives. It's like, what do you say when people say things that you like that? You're like, oh, I'm so sorry you have that much like pain and anger inside you, but I'm not going to dwell in that. And if you're standing right in front of me, I can't quite ignore you. So I'm just going to actually share what I authentically feel, which is like, I don't agree with that. And like, have a nice day. It's, it is projection. Oh, completely. Yeah. And I think this actually goes back in some ways to the earlier conversation in that I

actually think as perverse and absurd and even bonkers as it sounds that I was lucky as a kid to have to navigate this stuff because as a kid it was thankfully easy for me to think like why are these adults saying these like wakadoodle things to me as a kid like this is just so wacky like why do you think you can have an opinion on like my hairstyle when I'm like to your point that was that that didn't happen to like to I guess civilians that does not have. happen. Like I don't remember any of my parents friends or any parents or strangers. Some of them might have thought it, Michael. Yeah. I mean, listen. Who knows? But we didn't deal with that level of scrutiny or criticism as a child. And also without the context of like, I mean, I'm sure you were

aware of some of the things going on, but you're sitting there as a child being like, what is all this? Yeah. No. And then when my dad ran and then after he was inaugurated, you know, Rush Limbaugh and others, but notably Rush Limbaugh, and I think this is now somewhat well-known, like, was quite vicious to me. Said terrible things about my parents and called me the White House dog repeatedly. And how old were you at this point? I was 12, 13. And I remember thinking, like, this is just so at best odd and at worst, just wrong.

Like, why is this old man, like, obsessed with me? Like, this is so weird and creepy and inappropriate. you're, I guess like you go to your parents for this and like, are they giving you the context and like trying to explain? I mean, my parents were just like furious and wanted to protect me. Sure. I think thankfully my friends, like had no idea who Rush Limbaugh was. So I had to explain who he was. 13 year old girls aren't listening to Rush Limbaugh. And then thankfully, like there was no, there was no dissidence in opinion. Everyone was like, that's weird. Yeah. That's just so weird. It doesn't play on any political spectrum. No. Right? You're like, that's just weird. When you're making friends at any age and you're you, do you feel like you have a guard up and you're able to open up easy? Or do you feel like you have a guard up or are you able to open up easy? And what is that like? Like you mentioned a spidey sense. Do you have that about friends? I do. You know, I of course haven't always been right. There's,

you know, I think for me, like for any of us, there are a couple of people I've trusted that I certainly wish that I had. Right. But overall, thankfully, you know, I have very good friends from every phase of life. And I don't, I don't want to live behind walls. And I have truly friends from, you know, like the parents of my kids' friends who are now good friends that I've only met in the last few years to my oldest friend in the world whose mother was with my mother in La Ma's class. Wow. And she's six weeks older than I am. We've been friends my entire life. And so I think Lauren, like, I don't want to live behind walls. I don't open myself up to everyone I meet because who does? Even last night I was at a reception for my son's three-year-old class and one of the

moms is quite pregnant and has been told that she might have to have a C-section. She didn't have a C-section with her first. She was like, I don't know anyone inside a C-section. I was like, I had a C-section. like, what do you want to know? Truly, I'm like, what do you want to know? Like, there shouldn't be, like, stigma or shadows around something as fundamental as, like, bringing a child into the world and whatever the kind of health way to do that is. Like, we don't know each other that well, but, like, our kids really like each other. Like, we have this, like, circle of trust and community because we've now

been in the same preschool class for the last couple years. I'm like, what, I truly? She's like, really? I was like, yeah, what do you want to know? I have a question in a different realm. when you have parents that are this accomplished in life and you're the child and you're looking at that as an example, I think for many children that have accomplished parents, it can be extremely overwhelming. You're overwhelming. You yourself have done so many different things. You've gone to great schools. You're an author. You've been part of charities. How do you find the drive and how did you how did you think about kind of stepping out of what I would say is that shadow in order to find kind of your own identity and your own success? I think, Michael, in some ways again, since I know you're both so interested in how our childhoods have shaped us, I think that's even how you started the conversation. I think, again, I am lucky in some ways because some of my earliest memories are people asking me, like, so are you going to grow up and run for governor of Arkansas one day? Or like, do you want to go into politics? And I remember being like, three, four or five, being like, I don't think so. Maybe. Who knows? I'm like, I haven't even gone

to kindergarten yet. I don't know how to read. Like, I don't know. I thought I was going to be like an astronaut or a superhero. So I thankfully had many dreams as a kid. Like I was interested in being like an aerospace engineer for a while because I was obsessed with satellites or I wanted to be a research scientist because I wanted to understand cancer or I wanted to be a teacher because I loved my teachers. I had great teachers as a kid. I'm still in touch with my first grade teacher.

Like shout out to Mrs. Mitchell if you're listening right now. Like I. Yeah, Dr. Mitchell. I should get Dr. Mitchell. She got her PhD later in life.

So I think, thankfully, I had many different dreams as a kid. I never felt like I had to go into politics or that only through politics could one make a difference. Although, of course, I think, like, who runs poor office and hold office has enormous importance and kind of everything I do care about. And so then when I decided I might want to be a doctor and then I realized, no, I was more interested in public health. And I was more interested in kind of health systems and trying to work, you know, in nonprofits or as an advocate. It just felt great. Like I was like, my parents just want me to always work as hard as I can. Like, you know, what I was aware of as a kid, Michael, was like, if, if I, you know, got a B in a subject that my parents knew I could have gotten an A and, like, that's what disappointed them.

Or they're like, you didn't work hard enough. You weren't focused enough. You weren't sufficiently curious to ask the questions to help you learn what you needed to learn to be able to get that A. Who's more strict? Oh, my mom for sure. Your mom? For sure. So your dad's more laid back.

For sure. I feel like as a grandpa too, I could see him just being like really laid back and cool and chill. I also loathe ever like having to candidly like recognize gender dynamics. But I see this in our, I don't know what it's like in your house, but like in my house and so many of my friends homes where it's the mom who's like, all right, no, we do have to go to bed. It's bedtime now. And the kids like look at their dad and they're like, four more stories. And he's like, okay, three more stories. I'm like, that's not a compromise.

What? No. My kid's bedtime. They need to press their teeth. They need to go to bed. Especially with little girl. And again, not getting to gender diverse. I would say that you're more like that than me.

Well, the thing is, in this, I will, like, I can do no wrong in my three-year-old daughter's eyes where, like, she will get sassy with her, right? And I think that, you know. Yeah, the girl dad thing. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real.

I know aware of it, like reflecting back on my childhood with my parents. And I am, again, like, really close with both my parents. And, but I see it also with my daughter and my husband. and then I see admittedly how my son's like ride in her wake because like it's so hard for Mark to say no to Charlotte and then Aiden and Jasper are like well I'm I'm getting on that train I'm getting on that train to stay up a little bit later it is true about sons and moms though that is true too my son looks at me like I'm the best thing to ever happen on the planet earth no that's you are so you never felt compelled to kind of walk the same path I mean because I always go back and

forth on this. You know, you hear stories of people that struggle and come up the hard way and under difficult circumstances and they have this kind of drive to kind of like pull themselves up and really go far in life. And then on the flip side is sometimes you hear about kids that grew up with like either maybe a little more privilege or more accomplished parents and they really struggle because they're following in such huge footsteps. You never kind of felt that pressure. I felt enormous pressure to, again, work hard. And I felt enormous pressure to like make a contribution to the world. I think there, I'm sure there are things that I could have chosen to do with my life that my parents would have loved me no less for, but would have kind of raised their

eyebrows at. I think because in my 20s, I was so focused on just trying to get like bluntly smarter. I worked in consulting. I then worked in finance. I then got my PhD. And so then like in my 30s when I was really oriented on, you know, here's the nonprofit work I want to do. Here's I want to, here's I want to redirect the inevitable attention that comes my way into highlighting, you know, people and organizations that I think are really important. Like, I am going to be an active citizen. You know, I campaign for my mom. I campaigned for President Obama. I've campaigned now for lots of people. And so I think, Michael, thankfully, for me, I probably was always going to wind up here of trying to think, like, how many different ways can I make a difference with the privilege I

absolutely have also with the education and the experience that I've earned and how can I be in service to others. But I never felt like the answer to that question had to look like what my parents have chosen to do. What was the difference between when your father was running and your mother was running? Obviously, you were older and campaigning. But what was the, when your mother was running, there was a little bit more contention in the, in the country, a little bit more. It was maybe, social media. Maybe not as a polite political spectrum. You know,

Lauren, it's probably not like the sexiest answer, but I think the biggest and like difference really was just my age. Like I was so, I was a kid, right? And when my mom ran for the first time, I was 28 and applying to PhD programs, right? It's like a very different, just like I was at a wildly different place in life.

Do you like campaigning? It seems like a lot of work. I love campaigning because, since I'm a terrible actress, like I don't campaign for candidates or causes that I don't like deeply, passionately believe in. I love sharing why I so strongly support my mom or why I so strongly support ending child marriage, which is one of the causes I am determined that we will see through in my lifetime. Ending child marriage like under 18 years. Oh yes. Child marriage is legal in 43 states in the United States. How young.

So in some states there's actually no age limit, but we most recently got child marriage banned in Massachusetts, and it was effectively 12 was the minimum age. How is this not like, I mean, I guess you're talking about it, how is this not a more known issue? I think because it makes people really uncomfortable. Yes. Makes people really uncomfortable. I mean, in-

Why does that law even exist? So since 2000, we've had more than 200,000 kids married in our country. And this is often framed by the people who don't think the law should change. It's like, well, most of them are 16 and 17-year-olds. But 16 and 17-year-olds should not be getting married. Like they should be in school. And overwhelmingly, it's girls who are effectively being trafficked into marriage, either by their parents for religious reasons or cultural reasons or their daughter got pregnant

and they don't think. Or maybe money. Sometimes money, sometimes immigration. I mean, there's a whole host of reasons. And I imagine this is what you're depicting is not like a 16-year-old marrying a 16-year-old sweetheart. Every once in a while, but frequently not. More frequently, it's underage girls married.

older men. Hold on. So you're telling me that you can't have, like a 35 year old man can't have sex with a 12 year old, let's say, unless you're married. Legally. Unless you're married. But if you're married, you can't. Yes. Oh my God. And also, and also, and

part of what's so pernicious about this is if you're say you're 16, you get married, you realize you don't want to be married or more often is the case, like you were being abused. And you leave your home, most shelters won't take you because you're not old enough to be in an adult

shelter where you have to be over 18. And you're considered a runaway. And so most family shelters won't take you. So you get reported to social services or the police or both and often taken back to your abusive household or taken back to your parents who then take you often back to your abusive household. You also can't enter into a contract under 18, so you can't legally hire a lawyer to help try to extract you from marriage. I don't get how some of these things are even possible. So until less than a decade ago, child marriage was legal in every state. And now thankfully, due to this amazing woman, Frady Rice, who I just think the world of and would like run through fire for her. She was forced into marriage. She got herself out. And now she's dedicated her life

to ending child marriage across the United States. So essentially a 35-year-old can sleep with a 12-year-old if they're married. Yes, in some states. In some states, the minimum age is 15. In some states, it's 16. You often, in many states, you do often have to have the parents' consent and a local judge consent. But often the local judges are from the same culture, the same kind of religious group,

the same kind of zeitgeist as the parents. And so often, very rarely do judges turn down an application. for a child marriage. If someone's listening and they want to support this because I'm sure a lot of people are passionate about what you're talking about

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It's not a federal authority. It's a state authority going state by state. And I do want to give credit to the media broadly because while this I think so often has been ignored because it is shameful and people are uncomfortable with collective shame, certainly, is that even like earlier this week I saw a story on CNN about a woman who'd been married at 13 in Florida and like married because she'd been groomed and seems as if probably this older man had paid her parents for her. You know, she had two children by the time she was 16 and then she escaped and now also is trying to raise awareness about the human rights violation

that child marriage is. And so I hope that this is. is becoming more well-known because I think hopefully the more we bring this out of the shadows, the more girls and women in particular whose lives we can quite literally save. I think one of the frustrating things for many civilians in this country is that, like, to me, I hear this. I'm like, this is a real issue. This is serious. This is affecting kids. And we get distracted by so many things that are not as consequential or maybe don't have as much of an impact on, you know, the citizens of this country. And not to point blame on it, but I think you look at something like this and this is shameful and everyone knows and most people listening are like,

hey, this is effed up. But then we get distracted by some headline about like what's going on in the banking sector or what's going on, you know, with this celebrity or this. And I imagine for someone like you that's trying to bring away, that's got to be somewhat frustrating because this is an issue everybody should be paying attention to. Yeah. And it also, you know, you asked earlier about like how divided we are. You truly like this is an issue where we have some incredible, you know, supporters and champions who are. quite on the right and some who were, you know, quite on the left. Sure.

I did an event last year with a very Republican. This is not about a fiscal policy. No, no, like a very conservative Republican state senator from South Carolina, someone who's a Democratic socialist like here in New York State. And, you know, these two women could not have been clearer. Like, if we can't come together on this issue, what hope do we have? And also, how can we not come together on this issue to try to help protect girls everywhere, whether they're going to grow up and be one political party or the other?

or even political at all. Like everyone deserves the chance to be a kid and not a bride. Yeah, and not to be, I mean, we typically don't get so into politics or just because we're not the best people to speak to it. But I feel like, this shouldn't be political. No, sure. But I also feel like, let's talk about your father and Bush and Obama, I feel like there is a shared kind of respect and camaraderie and willing to kind of come to the table and work together. And I feel like what I think concerns a lot of people now is we're getting further away from that. Like, your father and Bush may disagree on certain policies, but there's a mutual understanding that

they're working together to, you know, enhance the same country. I feel like we're getting to a place where that's getting further and further apart. I think that, you know, Michael, I share those concerns. And certainly, you know, I think about, you know, my father and President Bush, you actually, you know, work together, you know, now year-round through something called the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, where they bring people They seem like they're buddies. Yeah, they're friends. And my father had a very warm, deep relationship with President Bush's father, President Bush

Sr. And they do a lot of work not only with, you know, President Obama, but many of the kind of presidential libraries for, you know, people who are no longer with us, but who steward those legacies, whether for, you know, President Johnson or President Ford. And I think what has shifted now, I mean, we've always had nasty people who have platforms, you know, in, in politics or kind of in media or kind of in culture that are kind of weighing in on and trying to shape, you know, political discourse and debate. I do think, though, what is different about social media is, you know, that the extremes are so often the

most rewarded, rewarded by the algorithms, which then, you know, put kind of that content and those voices higher up in people's feed. And so people then get acculturated to kind of that anger and that venom and that vitriol. And I am very concerned about that because, you know, I do think about, you know, that great quote from, you know, President John Adams, that, you know, we're all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own set of facts, which then the great Daniel Patrick Moynihan here in New York, our senator, you know, over decades here, you know, really spoke a lot about and always tried to help, you know, not only his colleagues, but the public understand, like, here is what is actually true.

And then here are all the things that you can have different opinions on. And I think we've lost that. We've lost that partly because the social media companies, but also many of the people who are newly in politics don't want us to gain it back because they have built kind of enormous profits or kind of profitable careers

off of being able to optimize around the algorithms. You know what I think just as I'm not, I don't know. a ton about politics. But this is just seeing the whole picture, I think more people like you and politicians need to come on outlets similar to this, like podcasts, where it's just a conversation and it's not so politically charged. It's like, I'm scared to turn on the news because everyone has an agenda. But if you just listen to people talk in a neutral atmosphere like this, and when I hear what you're telling me about about child brides in a way that's like this. It's so much more digestible

than some of these outlets screaming extremes. I think if more politicians came on like, and I'm not saying, I'm not saying this podcast. I'm just saying it was more, it was a different atmosphere of, for me, this is like, this is making sense to me very easily as opposed to being yelled at or screamed at or trolls on social media or even Foxx. news, CNN, whatever it is, it's become too much. We're taking very complex issues that require real thought and dialogue and condensing them down into a five-minute bite or 180 characters and then letting people form their opinion off of whatever that bite looks like, right?

Like there's things you could pull out of this, you know, hour or so long conversation. That would be 30 seconds that could maybe completely actually warp what you're actually saying, right? And I think why we're attracted to this is we've had all sorts of different people. different backgrounds, different beliefs, you know, whatever. And the end of day, people are people. And I believe the majority of people have good intentions and are just trying to do their best in life. Of course, you have some bad actors here and there. But Lauren and I really try to bring this audience along to understand why someone comes to the beliefs that they come to or why they have the perspective.

It gives context. Yeah. And I think people may read a headline Chelsea Clinton on the show and they're immediately going to be having a bias just from your name in a title, right? They're going to come and think, oh, she only thinks this certain way. This is, I can predict everything she's going to say. I really think it's important for people in any media landscape to try to, you know, really share a greater picture and a greater understanding and a greater perspective because it helps people be like, oh, okay, like, I get that. Maybe I disagree with this a little bit, but like I understand the perspective and I can respect it. And you're right. The issue that you just brought up isn't political. So why can't you have just a conversation like this? Well, you know, Michael, what you're saying,

too, I so agree with that, yes, I do believe there are there are bad actors. who are trying to do bad things. I also so fundamentally that most people, most Americans are decent, good people who want to do the right thing, who want to be, you know, supporting kind of good things to happen and to stop bad things from happening. And I do like so deeply believe that's true. I also, though, think about one of your earlier comments around how the stories are always shifting. So, Lauren, to your point, like, they're so explosive. They're often being treated with, like, everything is treated as like existential. And whatever that existential, thing is shifting every day. And so then it, I think, also is hard for people to understand

kind of the long-haul issues like tackling child marriage or the long-haul issues also like tackling climate change. Whatever it is you think we all should do and everyone I know has different views about what we should do. But it's hard to hold those threads together when you're like, oh my gosh, now I'm worried about kind of this financial issue or now I'm worried about this thing in my neighborhood or now I'm worried about something happening around the world. Or now I'm worried about what type of stove I have in my apartment or my home. I get why it's hard to hold attention that we need to hold. It's a lot of content.

Like for these longer haul issues that do deserve our attention. You wrote a book. You wrote a lot of books. I have written a lot of books. Tell us about why you decided to do this and who needs these books. I'm going to give them to my kids. Oh gosh. Thank you.

I want to read them. A bedtime story. So I see on top we actually have the welcome to the Big Kids Club, which hopefully will be great for your three-year-old. It's something I wrote really in response to the questions that Charlotte and Aiden were asking when I was pregnant with and then after their baby brother Jasper arrived in the world. Give us an example of a question. Like, you know, why do babies poop so much? Oh, right? Or, or when, like, when will my baby talk to me? And actually, there's a whole range of times, right? Or

why does my baby need to burp? Like, I don't need to burp. Like, why does my baby need to burp? And I framed it as my baby because that's how Charlotte really spoke about Jasper, which I was really struck by. And initially, I was like, it's my baby. Like, you didn't give birth to this baby. But then I thought, how wonderful and loving is that? It's really loving because Zaza doesn't look at my son. That's really loving. She just started giving him a little finger touch at month eight. Just a finger touch.

So that's really, we all start somewhere. We all start somewhere. But all of my books have stories that are candidly out of my experience in some ways. I wrote, don't let them disappear, which I see down there because we were talking about what we wanted to be when we grew up, when we were. little. And while I never kind of saw myself as the next Jane Goodall, maybe because I was just so in awe of her as a kid and still am as an adult, I've always loved animals. Like, I've always wanted to know as much as I can about the animals that I feel connected to elephants, giraffes, dogs. Like, I've loved learning about them. I've loved being able to be around them. And being around lots of

kids, my nieces and nephews, I have 20 nieces and nephews and their friends and, like, my kids and their friends, I realized, I'm sure not totally universal, but fairly universal. it is for kids to love animals and to want to know more about them, whether their own pets or animals around the world. So I wrote, don't let them disappear to help kids know that some of these animals are really in danger, but they can help save them. Really cute. And she persisted. Yes, she persisted. Thank you, Lauren. It's now a series really about first women who inspired me. So the first books are very personal. And now is a chapter book series where I've been really lucky to work with dozens of women authors and illustrators as they're telling stories of women who inspire them for young readers

because still the vast majority of books published any given year, picture book or chapter books have main characters that are boys. And while that's important, look at you, Michael, we need to do a better job of telling more stories about women, by women, and for girls and boys. Where can everyone find your books support you? Do you have an Instagram account? Don't have an Instagram account. I'm happy to talk about why I don't have an Instagram account if that's interesting to you. I would love to know. Yes. So my kids are the most important part of my life. And I do not show their images on social media. And I actually try really hard to protect them. And we go through lots of links to protect them at their schools and kind of other places where they do

activities so that their images hopefully don't show up on social media. Because while I do I believe overwhelmingly people are good and want good for all kids everywhere. I also know that there's some people who really hate my family, including the youngest members of it. And so that is important to us. And it would just feel disingenuous to me. And Lauren, I may make a different choice at some point and all the people I work with would of course love for me to make a different choice.

But for me right now, it just would feel disingenuous to have like a visual look into things that I care about and find compelling and to not include the most important. part of my life that I care about and find compelling, which are my kids. Yeah, I don't think any parent listening would fault you, especially you for that decision, right? Like, that makes complete sense to me. So how do we support what you're doing and find everything? So thank you. So I do, I have a Twitter account and a Facebook account because those are generally words. Okay. You can always find out kind of substantively what we're up to through the Clinton Foundation. And for my books, you can find them hopefully in your local bookstore, but certainly I have a

wonderful, you know, long partnership with Barnes & Noble. And so my books are, Thankfully always there and on Amazon and wherever you get your books. We will link your books. I can't wait to read these to my kids. Chelsea, thank you so much for coming on. I have to say you're such a breath of fresh air. And I want to say this because I think it's important. You didn't come with like all these things we couldn't talk about. You were an open book.

There's a red dot on my shirt. It's refreshing. It's refreshing. So thank you very much for coming. Lauren and Michael, thank you so much having me. This episode was brought to you by the Skinny Confidential. Today is the last day to shop our sale. We rarely do sales.

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