--- title: Goldie Hawn Explains Why There Wasn't A First Wives Club Sequel description: "You don't own me..." canonical: https://time.com/3716681/goldie-hawn-first-wives-club/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-20T19:35:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:03.446Z og:title: Goldie Hawn on the Infuriating Reason There Wasn't a 'First Wives Club' Sequel og:description: "You don't own me..." og:url: https://time.com/3716681/goldie-hawn-first-wives-club/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdf10afa798b071/6987803f06f2c1502c334136/1101961007_400.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 1101961007_400 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Goldie Hawn on the Infuriating Reason There Wasn't a 'First Wives Club' Sequel twitter:description: "You don't own me..." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdf10afa798b071/6987803f06f2c1502c334136/1101961007_400.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Goldie Hawn on the Infuriating Reason There Wasn't a _First Wives Club_ Sequel by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 20, 2015 7:35 PM CUT  Greg Gorman by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 20, 2015 7:35 PM CUT Nineteen years ago, _The First Wives Club_ proved that a movie starring [self-proclaimed](https://hbr.org/2015/03/lifes-work-goldie-hawn "undefined") “women of a certain age” could not only become a [huge cultural phenomenon](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985269,00.html "undefined"), but could also be a box office success. So why didn’t the instant classic (which cost $30 million to make but grossed $181 million) get a sequel? In a recent interview with [_Harvard Business Review_](https://hbr.org/2015/03/lifes-work-goldie-hawn "undefined"), Goldie Hawn says that we can thank Hollywood’s notorious gender pay gap: --- > “” --- While it’s certainly disappointing that there was never a _Second Wives Club_, it’s good to know that Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Hawn took Lesley Gore’s mantra to heart: \[[_Harvard Business Review_\]](https://hbr.org/2015/03/lifes-work-goldie-hawn "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3716681/goldie-hawn-first-wives-club/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3716681/goldie-hawn-first-wives-club/"},"headline":"Goldie Hawn on the Infuriating Reason There Wasn't a First Wives Club Sequel","datePublished":"2015-02-20T19:35:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:03.446Z","description":"\"You don't own me...\"","url":"https://time.com/3716681/goldie-hawn-first-wives-club/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","movies","sexism"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdf10afa798b071/6987803f06f2c1502c334136/1101961007_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdf10afa798b071/6987803f06f2c1502c334136/1101961007_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"1101961007_400","caption":"","creditText":"Greg Gorman","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3716681/goldie-hawn-first-wives-club/","name":"Goldie Hawn on the Infuriating Reason There Wasn't a First Wives Club Sequel"}}]}] ```