![]() ![]() The book Legally Blonde features a Chihuahua named Underdog, although Brown’s own Underdog was a Bichon. ![]() Soon she created a world full of Star Trek fans, prep school snobs, and angry feminists that form the hilarious background of Elle’s adventure. She began keeping a journal and writing letters chronicling her own experiences. ![]() Brown says she found this funny but felt that if she told people her Stanford stories, no one would believe her. She recalls attending a meeting for a woman law students club only to discover that the leader’s biggest aspiration was to change to word “semester” to the word “overster.” The leader disliked the word “semester” because she felt it was too masculine. Amanda says that she started writing after being struck by just how strange the other students were – how different they were from her. Legally Blonde, the story of Elle Wood’s experience at law school, closely resembles Brown’s own experience. Her only comfort was during those terrible years was her dog Underdog and the story she was beginning to write about a perky blonde law student much like herself named Elle Wood. After college, she decided to attend Stanford Law School, but once there, she was miserable. The daughter of two law school graduates, Amanda Brown had always assumed that she, too, would be a lawyer. ![]()
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