A candid conversation. Aidy Bryant got honest about her relationship with the word “fat” and how her own journey shaped her show Shrill.“It is a descriptor and, like, I am fat,” Bryant, 33, told the Washington Post on Thursday, April 30. “To me, it’s like taking the power out of it.
It doesn’t have to be so loaded. It’s just true, and sitting with that, it makes it easier for me. It just feels a little less frightening.”Inspired by her own experiences with doctors, the Shrill writer and star included a similar scene in the opening of the show’s third season in which Bryant’s character, Annie Easton, sees a physician who recommends gastric bypass surgery to lose weight.“Their assumption is that I have that as a goal, and just by looking at
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