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“Joanne does not have to have the same journey that I had,” Foster tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I intentionally made season one so different from our real life and our real story. [My husband’s] parents watched the show, and they didn’t see much of themselves in the characters. You have to take creative license. Not only because it’s a TV show, but to pull away from the real characters. Also, there’s not enough conflict in my real life. My in-laws, unfortunately, are very nice to me, so there’s no fun material to mine from that.”