Tamara Yajia

Tamara Yajia’s family immigrated to America from Argentina twice before she became a teenager, and the second time prevented her from becoming potentially Argentina’s version of Britney Spears, for better or for worse. Yajia documents it all in her new memoir, CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA: My Life as a Failed Child Star, and she sat down with me to talk about how she dealt with the pangs of life not meeting the expectations her family had given her growing up, how she strayed from performing for more than a decade and what drew her back to show business, where she has worked in the writers rooms of Apple TV’s Acapulco, Hulu’s This Fool, and Netflix’s upcoming show Strip Low. Her own script was picked up for development by an actual former child star in Selena Gomez, but I’ll let Tam tell you all about the importance of having celebrity mentors and surviving mishaps and family embarrassments. There’s a lot to get to, so let’s get to it!