Renee "Ren" Stevens

But it's I can't wait to watch it with you.

well that would be fantastic and uh hey we have an amazing guest uh today on the show christy carlson romano you know her from being wren stevens on the on the disney channel and and kim possible and uh she wrote a book she wrote a memoir about how life was not as rosy as it looked to tv viewers um we're going to talk to christy about her book once upon a train train wreck after the break stay with us we'll be right back on lyft

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As a child actress, Christy Carlson Romano brought joy to us as Wren Stevens on Even Stevens and then as the voice of Kim Possible and then on Broadway as Belle in Beauty and the Beast.

Christy is still very with us today on social media where she has built a community of more than 3.2 million followers.

Now, In her new memoir, Once Upon a Trainwreck, Christy bravely shares her full story about growing up with the pressures of being a child star, supporting her family, hitting bottom, and finding her way to a healthy life.

seeing the complexities of a person that they saw which i'm sure you can relate to as like the perfect girl and you you we are all very um three-dimensional people so when when you start having an opinion as a woman i am finding that it makes people very uncomfortable

I'm curious, when did you start to figure out who Christy was outside of being these big infamous Ren Stevens and Kim Possible characters that people grew up with?

I have to say it was motherhood.

I think it baptized me into a whole new self.

She's in her early 40s now.

You may remember her, listeners, as Ren Stevens in Even Stevens on the Disney Channel, and she was the youngest Belle ever in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway.

She was the voice of Kim Cos- Kim Possible.

She's going to be with us next week talking about her new memoir out next week called Once Upon a Train Wreck.

Now, if you grew up watching Disney Channel in the early 2000s like I did, you definitely know my guest today.

Christy Carlson Romano starred as Ren Stevens on Even Stevens.

She voiced the one and only Kim Possible, and went head-to-head with Hilary Duff in Cadet Kelly.

But while her career looked pretty damn perfect from the outside, her memoir tells a very different story.

It is, um, relatable to many people, even if they didn't experience what you've experienced because you're very vulnerable and open and honest in the book, which I appreciate.

Thank you.

And I think people remember you as, you know, the responsible Disney girl 'cause Ren Stevens was the overachiever, Kim Possible could do literally anything.

But behind the scenes, your life was not as put together as people probably assumed, which isn't that for everybody that's a figure online or on TV-

You know what I mean? Like, I was being raised and brought up to be, like, this, like, y- type A.

I mean, exactly like Ren Stevens.

Like, you know your lines.

You hit your marks.