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Mara Wilson: My Diagnosis Saved Me

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

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I Love Jewish Girls. I Love Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson

I love Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. But when I was a teenager, when I was 12, 13, I was starting to think, Oh, I'm ugly. I'm hideous. And so it was just like, this is notSomething that I can keep doing. This is not something that I'm going to be able to do. I can't play the younger roles. In a way, I would almost rebel against it where they would say, we want a flat chested girl for this. We want there to be a line in the script saying like there was a line where somebody said I don't have any boobs. That always really surprised me.

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