We'll cut to you're an author now.
So tell me about this, My Wish for You.
What inspired this book?
Oh, you guys.
I am so excited about this.
I wrote a piece for the Lenny Letter,
which is a website started by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.
And it was kind of inspired-- it was
called How I Learned to Be a Woman
from My Six-Year-Old Daughter.
I wrote it like three years ago.
And Scholastic reached out and was like,
would you ever consider turning--
it was not for children, the piece--
and said, would you ever consider turning this
into a children's book?
And it was such a beautiful, natural, organic--
I never, ever in a million years would have thought
of writing a book for kids.
No!
But I hooked up with this incredible illustrator,
Brigette Barrager.
And it's basically, I was with my daughter in bed one night,
and she was kind of monologuing to me about being a--
just monologuing, you know, as they do.
And I just was like, gosh, if I could just
take this little time in her life, this period that's
so pure, and she's so herself, and just bottle it up.
Because I was thinking, as a 45-year-old woman
and mother of two, and just how much
we can lose from that time.
Yes, goes like this.
It goes like that.
And what we have, in terms of just identity so early on,
that we just start to lose.
And so, it's such an awesome--
I'm so proud of it.
It's such a personal thing, writing a book.
And to see it come to fruition must be so special.
That's-- oh, congrats.
That's awesome.
Yeah, it'll be in bookstores on September 25--
Awesome.
Well, congrats on that, Kathryn.
--but you can preorder it now.
Yeah!
I'm so excited.
Well, this is very cool.
Thank you.
Makes me cry.
It's really sweet.
I'm taking this for my seven-year-old, Gia, if I may.
Please, please.
Thank you.
Ellen's 16th season is next week, as we all know.
I know.
Sweet 16!
So Ellen has been asking a lot of people for pics of them
at age 16.
And I know you brought one, right?
Yes, willingly.
What's wrong with me?
Let's see.
Yup, there she is, guys.
There she is.
Exact same.
I love the caption too.
"Kathryn Hahn loves dancing to 'Vogue,' darling."
So what were you like at 16?
I mean, this was at--
yup, there she is.
Oh my gosh, you guys.
How pretentious is that quote?
They'd love to have--
That was my senior yearbook.
Oh, it's so embarrassing.
I went to Beaumont School for Girls.
It was a Catholic high school.
Ooo, OK.
Nice Catholic girl.
Yeah, Catholic school my whole life.
I was the girl that always got straight As.
The nuns didn't know what to do with me because I
was a really good student, but I was always in trouble.
Always getting in trouble all around it,
but I was always the straight A student.
Like we were constantly idiots, my friends and I.
The nuns were like, what is--
like just constantly.
Like there was not a locker without a cut-out phallus
in it.
Like we were just idiots.
I'mma pray for you.
Now your picture at 16 was a little different than mine.
I believe we have a photo of me at 16.
Oh my goodness, I'm really excited.
Let's see.
Aw.
[GASP], Mario Lopez.
Now I clearly had a really bad itch that day,
because I kept going back to-- there it is.
Or you wanted to show off that amazing watch.
I know!
What is that watch?
That is that watch.
And see, I had an aggressive, curly mullet back then.
And that was in the Saved by the Bell time, right there.
Look at your confident pose.
Yeah, 16 years old.
And by the way, I went to a regular public high school too.
I was one of the few former child
actors that actually got to go to graduate and play
sports and the whole thing.
So it's cool.
That is really impressive.
And I was just listening to photographers.
I didn't actually pose like that, just on my own.
That was your yearbook photograph.
Yeah, that's my senior photo, right there.
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