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On Wild Card this week, Michelle Buteau opens up advice she was smart to ignore and why getting married is the biggest risk she's ever taken
Question 1: What's a piece of advice you were smart to ignore?
Michelle Buteau: Oh my god, "Lose weight." Shut up. People that tell you to lose weight are never a doctor. They never look happy. It doesn't look like they enjoy good food and or have sex or have had an orgasm without a mirror.
Like, what are you talking about? Not only am I gonna keep my weight, I might gain some weight. I'm gonna gain some weight, and I'm gonna create jobs, and I'm not gonna give you one of them. I'm just gonna show you what it looks like to love my body.
Michelle Buteau And Amy Aniobi Reflect On The Final Season Of ‘Survival Of The Thickest’
"I thought it was so important to have a plus size woman of color in her late 30s make decisions for herself against not only the odds, but what her family is saying, what her friends are saying, and what society’s telling her. She’s still choosing herself, self-love, and being perseverant."
Have you seen Survival of the Thickest (2023-present)?
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Just found out comedian / actress Michelle Buteau made zines in her youth! Listen to her full interview with journalist Kara Swisher here. “I was seven or eight and I lived in a cul-de-sac in [New] Jersey and instead of just drawing I made a little magazine, because I found the stapler and thought “oh, I can put it together!”. “I decided to make a bunch of magazines and called it ‘Head Over Heels’. It had a severed head in a shoe (I was very literal). I would write stories about all the happenings on the cul-de-sac; “so-and-so’s dog pooped” and “so-and-so’s doing their pool over” and I would put it in everyone’s mailbox." “I just remember thinking “this is so fun... I was like “I’m going to bring everyone together and this is going to be really fun and I get to be artistic.” "At one point the neighbours asked my parents for me to stop putting stuff in their mailbox.” [laughs]
. How are we not talking about this all the time? We grow bodies inside of our bodies. What the fuck? This person just came out of my vagina. This is all the hot news anchors should be covering twenty-four seven. People coming out of pussies. Every day for thousands and thousands of years. What the fuck?
Babes, Pamela Adlon (2024)