She recalled one instance when a woman, Ginny Limer, mourned the death of her child. This experience has introduced Lila to stories that will stay with her forever. “I’ve gotten a bunch of nos, but out of the nos, you get some yeses,” she said.
Lila said she’s been able to leverage connections to get access to these women, mainly writing letters to them directly. She features fellow high school students, athletes, journalists, activists, lawyers, and more to shed a little light on their authentic selves. Her impressive roster so far includes Gloria Estefan, Billie Jean King, Jazz Jennings, and Sheryl Sandberg, to name just a few. The account becomes an exercise in vulnerability, as Lila has recruited other women to join her in revealing what they really deal with beneath the surface. “I feel like I’m overlooked or judged by others,” she explained. “People think I have it all together” shields what’s going on behind the scenes: “I really struggle.” Lila already feels the weight of society’s expectations on her own life. When Lila started the account back in January, she put her own identity first. Women share what people think they are versus what their “secret identity” truly is. That’s why 15-year-old Lila created the Instagram account to look past the stereotypes and let women talk about their true experiences in their own words. Women are often judged for their age, their career choices, their education, their parenting, their style - the list goes on.
#My secret identity series
The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People.Lila Meltzer wants to push back on society’s assumptions of women and let them reveal their true selves. It debuted on CTV on Fridays at 7:30pm in September 1988, went to Thursdays at 7:30pm the following year, and had its final year at 7:30pm on Saturdays, eventually ending its run in the fall of 1990, by which time a now-18-year-old Jerry O’Connell was looking little too large for his role! He later appeared in episodes of Sliders and Crossing Jordan. Jeffcoate’s mysterious photon beam that zapped Andrew took them and the series to very gratifying rating heights both for CTV and for the US stations who carried the show in syndication. Christopher Bolton became a regular in the show’s second season as Kirk, Andrew’s best pal, and other cast members included Wanda Cannon and Marsha Moreau.ĭr. Jeffcoate, and 15-year-old New Yorker Jerry O’Connell (from the Rob Reiner film Stand By Me) as the suddenly supertalented boy next door. It starred well-known Canadian actor Derek McGrath (previously a semi-regular on U.S.
Toronto’s Sunrise Films developed the concept for CTV, MCA-TV and Scholastic Productions.
Jeffcoate and his 15-year- old neighbour Andrew Clements, to whom the doctor accidentally gave superhuman powers and then spent 72 half-hour episodes trying not to let the world know what he’d done, while Andrew was trying to deal with all the problems of teenage living without resorting to the powers he sometimes wished he didn’t have. “Television’s newest odd couple” was how one journalist described madcap inventor Dr.