American - Actress | July 21, 1986 -
I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.
Betty Gilpin
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I think I did four 'Law & Order' episodes. I did two 'Criminal Intent,' one mothership, and one 'SVU.'
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When you're an actress - or just a woman - a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so sort of male gaze-skewed. It's all working out for the beach and not for function at all.
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I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.
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Wrestling introduced me to the idea that my body has a purpose besides trying to look five years younger for the first time.
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I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
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I try to cheat up. If I'm going to have something that's 'off the plan,' then I want it to be the best piece of bread or the most amazing ice cream.
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I find myself on Yelp typing in 'the best 'blank'' all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.
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My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.
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I do Bar Method - it's, like, you're there for an hour, and you get everything, and you're done.
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I think that it's our job to sort of band together and say, 'OK, what are the ways the male gaze has seeped into your brain and is affecting the way you treat yourself? Let's work together to eliminate that.'
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My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn't understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of silly and ridiculous. But as I got to know it, it was sort of like how people used to talk about musicals, to me, when I was younger.
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