nprfreshair:Aidy Bryant On ‘Shrill,’ ‘SNL’ Thrills, And Not Feeling Bad About Her BodyAidy Bry

nprfreshair:Aidy Bryant On ‘Shrill,’ ‘SNL’ Thrills, And Not Feeling Bad About Her BodyAidy Bryant mourns the time she lost in her teens and early 20s feeling self-conscious about her body. The Emmy-nominated comic and actor says she lived in fear of judgments about her weight.“I felt like the worst possible thing that anyone could ever do would be to think that I was fat, to call me fat,” she says.Bryant began to direct her energy into her writing and comedy career. She moved to Chicago to pursue comedy at Second City, and in 2012, became a cast member on Saturday Night Live.Bryant is still on SNL, and now also stars in the Hulu comedy series Shrill, based on Lindy West’s 2016 memoir. The series centers on a young writer named Annie who is described as a “woman who wants to change her life — but not her body.”It’s a perspective that strikes a chord with Bryant. Looking back now, she says, “the second I stopped being afraid of someone calling me fat, I was able to start to focus on my goals and my dreams.”“Comedian and actress Aidy Bryant is one of the youngest people ever hired on Saturday Night Live. She is a fan favorite and plays a wide range of hilarious roles (our favorite is “Lil Baby Aidy”). She gets asked regularly about how her size affects her career and her life (and occasionally openly ridiculed for it), and she is consistently positive. In an interview for Bust magazine in Oct. 2015, she said, “I had a sense that I was different. I felt like what made me different is what made me prom queen. I’ve been lucky to, thus far in my life, feel like my size or my personality are assets to me that made me unique from the pack. And so far it’s been pretty easy for me to keep that perspective as opposed to being ashamed of those parts of myself.” We love this perspective. While Aidy isn’t defined by her size or shape, she owns it as one of her characteristics that has made her who she is.” Graphic source -- source link

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