' protagonist Sophia Marlowe (Britt Robertson) can barely stay in the saddle of her rapidly expanding vintage clothing business. Though Sophia had scoffed at her prior full-time jobs — one at a shoe store and the other as a security monitor — running Nasty Gal requires far more commitment than a conventional 9-to-5.
Presents us with a montage of our exhausted heroine flopping into bed, night after night. That capitalist spirit would be fine — encouraged, even — were Sophia not getting in bed next to her boyfriend, Shane (Johnny Simmons), disgruntled from evenings spent alone. As Sophia's intense schedule wears on, their intimacy stales and their warm banter stiffens. The relationship ends after Sophia catches Shane receiving a blowjob from his bandmate.
After all, Sophia’s not the only one in the relationship to struggle with work-life balance. As a music manager, Shane’s tied to his band’s demanding schedule. At one point, he hits the road for a number of months. When Sophia visits him in L.A. after a long stint apart, Shane’s bound to the whims and whimsies of the band’s petulant frontman, much to Sophia's disappointment.
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A 2015 film in which Anne Hathaway plays Jules Ostin, CEO of a successful fashion startup. While Jules struggles with the reins on her rapidly expanding fashion startup, her husband Matt raises their daughter. Jules’ long hours and hands-on approach to her career put extra pressure on their marriage. Eventually, it’s revealed that Matt is having an affair with another parent, a direct cause of Jules’ hours spent away.
, Jules decides to to give up her position at the helm of her own business in order to work on her marriage — until the heroic Matt steps in, and says he’s willing to find a solution, even if she stays on as CEO.
Seen a career man on film or TV consider leaving his job to spend more time with his family — except, perhaps, for Randall on NBC's This Is Us. In that case, Beth, who gave up her career as a lawyer to raise the couple’s daughters, is concerned about her husband’s demanding schedule, but accepts his long hours as a fact of their relationship. When Randall eventually quits, it’s his own choice – not because Beth cheated on him as a “wake-up call.”
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Refrains from contributing to the debate. Instead, Shane cheats, Sophia dumps him, and the simmering, disturbing implication that he cheated because of her ambition is left unsaid — much to the detriment of this show’s feminist message. Hopefully, being in relationships with disgruntled partners isn’t the price all #Girlbosses have to pay in order to achieve their #goals.
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Sophia Amoruso, the 35-year-old “#Girlboss” author and businesswoman, dabbed her eyes, which were covered in a glittery eye shadow. “I’m PMSing. I hope I’m not, ” she said, wiping away tears as she sat inside the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood on an early June afternoon, “because then I’d be pregnant.” (She punctuated her admission by saying, “You can write that.”)
Amoruso might be best remembered for the blunt dark bob and fierce no-nonsense look she sported on the cover of her bestselling book, “#Girlboss, ” but it’s her blunt, no-nonsense attitude that has kept her millennial fan base interested long after her previous company, Nasty Gal, a women’s clothing retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2016.
“I prefer not to be a poster child for failure, ” she said, “but if my story can make other people feel less alone and have conversations transparently about their struggles as well as their wins, I feel really good about everything that I’ve been through.” She paused. “I don’t really have a choice, so I better feel good about it.”
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Over coffee, Amoruso, founder of Silver Lake-based Girlboss, didn’t shy away from discussing her past and proved just as vulnerable when sharing a detail as innocuous as why she selected this meeting spot. “I have therapy in Beverly Hills, so I’ll come here after that midday and have meetings with people, ” she said, explaining it’s a convenient halfway point between her office and various work associates.
Amoruso has the rags-to-riches story of which aspiring entrepreneurs dream. The California native launched Nasty Gal from her bedroom in 2006 when she was just 22. The retailer went from an EBay store to a thriving company pulling in $100 million in revenue six years later. She once had 200 employees and bricks-and-mortar stores in Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Thanks to Nasty Gal’s initial success and Amoruso’s marketing prowess, the entrepreneur’s autobiography, “#Girlboss, ” was a hit, spending 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. The book’s title became a major part of the zeitgeist during the pre-Time’s Up era.
In 2016, Netflix announced that it had a series based on Amoruso’s life in the works. That year, Forbes called Amoruso one of America’s richest self-made women. However, sales at her former company had been steadily dropping: to $85 million in 2014 and $77 million in 2015, according to bankruptcy documents. Nasty Gal also faced lawsuits and turmoil within the company, including several rounds of layoffs. The retailer was sued by a handful of former employees who alleged discrimination and by designers claiming copyright infringement.
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Amoruso had stepped down as Nasty Gal’s chief executive officer in 2015 but stayed on for a time as executive chairwoman. When Nasty Gal filed for bankruptcy in 2016, she resigned. Also by then, her one-year marriage was over.
But the Los Angeles resident has since put one stiletto in front of the other and moved on with her new company (Girlboss) and her new boyfriend (longtime friend Galen Pehrson). Gone are the days of Amoruso’s infamous dark blunt bangs and bob. She now embraces a lighter, sunnier hue.
“It’s a different world, ” she said about how things have shifted since the release of “#Girlboss.” “I’ve been processing and learning from everything that I’ve experienced while at the same time being inspired by the girls who are experiencing the same thing.”
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In a file photo from Aug. 14, 2012, Sophia Amoruso, founder of women’s retailer Nasty Gal, is shown in a photo studio in downtown Los Angeles.
Amoruso is the first to admit that appearances can be deceiving. She pointed to her 2016 Forbes cover as an example. “In that moment, my company was struggling, ” she said. “So I looked like I was winning, but that was six months before Nasty Gal went [bankrupt and] exploded. It was a month before my husband left me, so that was what you didn’t
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