They spent their summers going to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where family time set against the tranquility of the beach would become a grounding element for Jen. (Pictured above: O’Connell with her son and parents.) Work hard and do your part for the family that will never stop doing for you. Her parents were real estate appraisers and they gave her love, structure and clear expectations of what it meant to be an O’Connell. O’Connell grew up in East Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of a strict Irish Catholic father and an Italian mother with Sicilian roots. It’s all-day meetings, taking pitches, it’s social and I like it,” she tells me. “In this job you have to be an extrovert. How can so many people see the same thing so clearly and distinctly in two totally different ways? That’s what I’m trying to figure out about the self-described extrovert/introvert Jen O’Connell, as I sit down to discuss her road to becoming the executive vice president of non-fiction and kids programming at HBO Max. No one could agree if it was black and blue or white and gold. A few years ago, the Internet melted down when a picture of a dress set off a global debate.
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