– Earlier in your career, much earlier, you know, you, you were, on the cover of GQ, right? Like, posing in a swimsuit. – Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. – You were on, you know, Maxim’s — you’re No. 1 on their Hot 100 list. – So weird. – And I did wonder if — as someone who, like, clearly is an intellectual person, being just sort of in a position where you’re like, primarily being appreciated publicly for your appearance, like, I think — I would think that’d be a weird thing. – Yeah. I mean, maybe there’s some part of you that’s like, “No, that’s actually pretty cool.” But what — did you have ambivalance? What was that? – Yeah, I — I feel so relieved to no longer be — to feel pressure to be that, that it is now, so clear to me that I’m only here, I’m only still working because of my brain. Like, it’s so fun when you get past the point where you, your your physical self is the valuable thing or could even be misinterpreted to be the valuable thing. I mean, the Maxim thing is so insane. Can you imagine if they did that today? People would be like, what? Like ranking women based on looks and like having it be this, like, open thing that you participate in. I mean, but like, I hate to tell you. It’s like — – You’re like, “Have you seen the internet?”
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