It is because no one liked or trusted the offspring then or now.

Conspicuously absent from a recent celebrity documentary is the offspring of a permanent A+ list producer/showrunner.

It is because no one liked or trusted the offspring then or now.

Soleil Moon Frye
Kid 90

Aaron Spelling

Tori Spelling

Soleil Moon Frye “Opened Pandora’s Box” by Creating Kid 90

If given the opportunity, many of us probably wouldn’t even consider revisiting footage of ourselves as adolescents (just imagine the angst, the awkwardness, the foolishness). That’s especially so if you grew up before social media, when there wasn’t a rolling account of every single misguided thing you said and did that could quickly be subjected to the court of public opinion. But that’s what is so remarkable about Soleil Moon Frye’s documentary, Kid 90. She dares to look at her past through the lens of who she’s become today.

About four years ago, Frye, who rose to fame as the star of Punky Brewster, began reflecting on her formative years in the ’90s, opening, as she tells BAZAAR.com, a “Pandora’s box” by revisiting the myriad home videos she’d filmed herself, as well as her audio and physical diaries, all of which ultimately became Kid 90. In the documentary, she asks, “Are memories real, or are they the stories we want to tell ourselves?” What she discovered throughout this process was a sense of duality that was indicative of the time period and relatable for many teens still today. On one end, she was living a dream: partying with famous friends like Heather McComb and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, losing her virginity to her longtime crush (Charlie Sheen, as a matter of fact), and tripping out on mushrooms somewhere in the Los Angeles desert. But on the other, there was a dark side: Frye recollects her breast reduction surgery at age 15 following years of suffering from gigantomastia and being hypersexualized on-screen, blaming herself for her own rape, and failing to notice the pain friends like Shannon Wilsey and Jonathan Brandis were going through back then. “I don’t think I’ve been living a lie all this time, but I certainly don’t think I’ve been listening,” she says in Kid 90.

Now as a mother of four (with producer Jason Goldberg), Frye—who invites pals like McComb, David Arquette, and Brian Austin Green on this emotional journey captured in the film—looks back at “that pain, the trauma, the light, the love, the joy,” adding that, “every moment of it brought me to now.” Over Zoom from the place where it all started, L.A., she talks about working through her guilt and pain, the power of memory, the lessons she passes on to her children growing up in the social media era, and reclaiming her sense of self at age 44. – Source