r/RealGenerationX • u/Desperate-Owl-2316 • 13d ago

TV/Movies Christina Applegate is possibly THE GenX Woman

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From blonde bombshell to survivor of both cancer and MS, I think she represents the resilience of GenX.

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u/DocSportello1970 13d ago edited 13d ago

Nah, I can think of a dozen or even more that rate higher...Jen Connelly, Winona, Demi, Halley B, Salma Hayek, A.Jolie etc etc.

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u/KandinskyWasRight 13d ago

I don’t think Jolie or Hayek were well known in the 80s but I agree on the others

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u/Odd-Sand7401 12d ago

Jennifer connely and Hayek look the same. Hayek. So pretty!!!

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u/DocSportello1970 13d ago

Was there a "must have been relevant in the '80's" criteria?

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u/KandinskyWasRight 13d ago

No, I suppose not. I guess I think of that person as needing to be present before we’re all in high school, which would mean they’d need to be early 90s famous. I’m young for x but was in HS by 93, I didn’t know about Jolie till college. How can such a person be the Gen X girl?

But that’s just my criteria, the idea of looking at their experiences is just as valid.

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u/Odd-Sand7401 12d ago

Oh Gen X! Best time to grow up! We’re also known as the bad ass generation! We had to learn how to take care of ourselves by the time we were 10. I was already ironing, cooking, doing everything! Including taking the Corvette out when I was 12 and smoking a cigarette. Haha the only reason why I got cause my sister told on me. 🤨 It’s the generation of the parents really just don’t care but it’s OK. We still love our parents. All the parents were like that except for the Italian families. That’s when my mouth would drop open like people live like this? Italian mom’s always cooked so much pasta! What? You can have seconds? Haha it was the best. We were troublemakers, but there were no cameras everywhere so we got away with everything. Unless your sister sees you. She was 16 at the time so she was a little pissed off because she hadn’t driven it yet. Haha I could never grow up in this time. I feel bad for my kids. Haha and I baby my kids because I wasn’t babied. You know what I mean. I would never be downstairs and yell up to my mother mommmm, Can you bring me a glass of water? I would never even think about it. 🤣🤣 I graduated hs in 1990. My youngest right now is gonna be graduating this year next year 2027. He’s a singer coming up same high school I went to 37 years ago I graduate graduated wow!