Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Yes.

And ever since I heard you say that I've been rethinking everything.

And I wanted to know how your parents talked to you.

Yeah, I'm working through a lot of that in therapy actually right now.

Uh I love my parents and

I can't imagine

uh their young adulthood moving to a foreign country.

Uh immigrants, right?

Immigrants, not really knowing the language.

Um, you know, my dad went to grad school at uh University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and I I moved here when I was nine months old, um, with my mom and dad and slept in the dorm.

You know, it was a dorm room that we all lived in.

And um

I think that a lot of immigrant parents and it's not just mine, um

in i i their parenting in that era, the eighties, was like

uh to provide to to help your child assimilate and um to

to really make sure that this move was w was worth it.

That that that you're trying to give your child a better life than the one that you had.

And so I think, you know, there

It it's I think it's a different love language than maybe what like

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