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Recognize themselves in "90210" who felt like, "aha! now i recognize myself in 'my so-called life.'" - demarco asked me if you were getting a sex change. - exactly! i don't want to be a girl. i just wanna hang with girls. - rickie was out on the show, eventually, and that was a story line that was treated with great sensitivity. - that i belong nowhere. with no one. that i don't fit. - i mean, it was-- it was so deeply felt. it was saying to the viewer, "things that you have gone through, they matter." - "buffy the vampire slayer" depicted high school in a similar way to "my so-called life." e...

Is that it was one of the first dramas to really get into the teenager's point of view. - do you have protection? - of course. that's always been my problem. lots of protection but no one to protect. - i wanted to do a tv series that was going to be relevant to teenagers. [cheerleaders chanting] and it's not about the parents solving the kids' problems. it's about the kids basically solving their own problems. - what are we supposed to do, sit 'em down, have a kid-to-parent talk? - no, you can't talk to parents on that mature a level. tragic but true. - if the '60s had beatlemania, the '90s ha...

It didn't have easy answers. it showed teen heartbreak in a way that was staggeringly real for the time. - why are you like this? - like what? [dance music playing in background] - like how you are. - hey, jordan! you coming or not? - how am i? ♪ ♪ how--how am i? - "my so-called life" was your actual life and the idea that everyone in high school is a misfit, that you have this deep insecurity about who you're supposed to be. - you know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain, and it just keeps sounding stupider and you have to say something else just to make i...

The 90210 star has given fans some insight into her battle with cancer.

The deadly disease has a survival rate of less than five years.