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2 weeks ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. Having once been the EP of a show that got axed during my blink-and-you'll-miss-it disastrous few months as a TV executive back in the early 2000s (RIP, The Catchup), I would never feel smug about a program getting cancelled.
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2 months ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman
Is it a co-incidence that Outloud merch dropped on the same calendar day as Meghan's jam and also April Fools' Day? (yes). Was it deliberate that there was a typo in one of the designs? (no). But while Meghan's jam may have no typos, it has already sold out, whereas we still have some stock left and are insisting that the typo (which we will fix in the next batch) makes this first run of misprinted tees, basically a collector's edition. OH HAPPY DAY.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. Do you know what the world needs? Yet another hot take on a TV show based almost entirely on the sprinkling of flowers on food. All types of food. Am I up to the task? I am.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. Are they jeans or are they tracksuit pants? This is the most urgent question of our time and so it came to be this week when my whimsical 'jeans' delighted and upset people in equal measure. Sometimes I think I get dressed just to troll Jessie and Holly.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. At the start of 2024, I began taking outfit selfies to try and keep track of looks I liked so I could remember them and revisit. Somehow, the act of documenting my outfits feels very soothing to me. I have no idea why. Vanity? The illusion of control at a time when every damn thing feels utterly out of control?
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
Now though, it's finally time. And a big part of the reason why it's time is because I've needed to find the right hands to take the wheel of this show that means so so much to me. You can also listen to my announcement in full below… Post continues after audio. I've found those hands, in our executive producer Naima Brown who I've been working with for a while now, and — of course, No Filter's new host, Kate Langbroek.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. Well hey. Welcome to a new yearwhere nobody's hair is on fire and the world has commenced 2025 at a leisurely pace with almost no news and nothing to talk about. Personally, I would have appreciated a slightly slower start but here we are. OK, so let me tell you how it's going to go for Babble this year.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman
What do you do when you receive a phone call saying that your daughter has murdered someone? Mary Pershall spent 28 years trying to shield her youngest daughter Anna from her demons. First, it was anorexia, then other mental health issues and later drug use including marijuana and ice. But one act of rage in 2015 changed the course of Anna and her mother's life forever. So how do you deal with the fact your daughter is a murderer?
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. This week, I delivered the most challenging speech I've ever had to write. This was a plot twist because I am usually very comfortable with public speaking and I love a stage and a mic. So why did I totally psych myself out?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
mamamia.com.au | Mia Freedman Co-Founder |Mia Freedman
This article originally appeared on Mia Freedman's Babble, a newsletter delivering content on pop culture, modern life and being a Gen Xer in a Gen Z world. Sign up here. Usually, when a woman says she has nothing to wear, it means she has nothing that fits with the person she wants to be on that day or for that occasion. Nothing that looks like the blurry image of herself she has in her mind. Or perhaps nothing that fits because her body has changed.
