{"id":3352,"date":"2025-10-26T19:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/stars-come-out-to-support-all-the-cool-girls-get-fired\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:49:33","slug":"stars-come-out-to-support-all-the-cool-girls-get-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/stars-come-out-to-support-all-the-cool-girls-get-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Come Out to Support ‘All the Cool Girls Get Fired’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe Tory Burch<\/a> store on Rodeo Drive was packed to the well-heeled gills on Thursday to celebrate the launch of fashion editors Laura Brown and Kristina O\u2019Neill\u2019s new book All the Cool Girls Get Fired: How to Let Go of Being Let Go and Come Back on Top<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\n\tCindy Crawford, Laura Dern<\/a>, Rebecca Gayheart-Dane, Tory Burch, Kieran Shipka, Jurnee Smollett, Carolyn Murphy, Monica Lewinsky<\/a>, Lake Bell, Santigold, Janicza Bravo, Zoey Deutch, Bella Heathcote and Uzo Aduba were among those in attendance to fete Brown and O\u2019Neill, and many participated in a reading from the book, which features stories from Oprah, Lisa Kudrow, Carol Burnette, Jamie Lee Curtis and Katie Couric.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019m sure everyone in this room either has been fired, was almost fired, or should have been fired,\u201d Burch joked in her welcome speech. \u201cI\u2019ll say thank you to Kristina and Laura for this fabulous book on the art of getting fired and for showing us it isn\u2019t the end. In fact, it\u2019s just the beginning of something smarter, cooler and much, much bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrown and O\u2019Neill rose in the ranks over their 20-year friendship, both becoming editor-in-chief at prestigious publications \u2014 Brown at InStyle<\/em> and O\u2019Neill at WSJ Magazine<\/em>. In early 2022, Brown was let go, followed by O\u2019Neill in the spring of 2023. At drinks to commiserate over their respective firings, Brown had an idea. \u201cI was like, \u2018I know what we\u2019re going to do.\u2019 Kristina said, \u2018What?\u2019 I said, \u2018We\u2019re going to take a picture for Instagram, and we\u2019re going to caption it, \u2018All the cool girls get fired.\u2019’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJanicza Bravo, Monica Lewinsky, Kiernan Shipka, Lake Bell, Laura Brown, Zoey Deutch, Jurnee Smollett, Bella Heathcote, Tory Burch, Uzo Aduba, Santigold and Kristina O\u2019Neill.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Instagram post blew up, with women including Monica Lewinsky commenting under the post, sharing their own experiences; in her comment, Lewinsky<\/a> joked, \u201cIf I hadn\u2019t been fired from the White House, I would never have met Linda Tripp\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe knew the next morning, that we\u2019d sort of opened some sort of psychological doorway,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe post has evolved into All the Cool Girls Get Fired<\/em>, a rollicking, joyful self-help book and how-to guide, that aims to empower and inform women amidst the turbulent job market of the 2020s. \u201cI was on the back foot, and there was so much information in so many different places,\u201d O\u2019Neill recalled of the weeks after she was let go. \u201cYou\u2019re on a health care website, you\u2019re over here. I was like, \u2018If everything was just in one damn place, this would be so much easier.\u2019 So it was really like a book that we wish existed and didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs some of the duo\u2019s famous friends read excerpts from the resulting book, everyone from Bravo to Bell proudly admitted to having been fired in their careers. But it was Lewinsky who again brought the house down, quipping \u201cI don\u2019t want to show anyone up, but I was fired from the White House,\u201d eliciting a high-five from Brown.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tZoey Deutch, Jurnee Smollett and Monica Lewinsky<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tAnd the conversation is spreading across the country. \u201cNow that the book is out,\u201d Brown said, \u201cwomen are writing us on LinkedIn and saying, \u2018This happened to me.\u2019 It\u2019s opening people\u2019s hearts, and it\u2019s helping people uncork this thing. We want the shame to be gone \u2026 our worth doesn\u2019t go away if our job does.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Neill concurred: \u201cI think it is really important that people understand that their value lies within them, and that carries forward, and those skills are transferable,\u201d she said. \u201cIf Laura and I didn\u2019t stay at it and had not persevered, we wouldn\u2019t be here today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGlancing around the standing-room-only party, filled with joyful hugs and happy chatter as guests drank spicy margaritas and nibbled on fries in paper cones printed with quotes from the book, a dazed Brown smiled. \u201cIf you lose your job, and you\u2019ve been good and you\u2019ve worked hard, people show up for you,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it may not be a fancy party on Rodeo Drive, but your friends will show up for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTess Sanchez, Laura Brown and Max Greenfield<\/span><\/p>\n

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