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" Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get. "
You
Day
Better
" After having a real baby, I was sitting on a doughnut for a month. "
Sitting
Real
Baby
" A lot of times, I put my own personal health to the side, focusing on work or family or getting ahead. At the end of the day, you're just exhausted on your couch and haven't made that doctor's appointment, didn't make that phone call, and feel terrible. "
Health
Family
Work
" As somebody who has psoriasis, it's your job to constantly stay on top of these things: talking to your doctor and talking to your doctor and just being proactive about your specific case. "
Talking
Proactive
Doctor
" Being a new mommy really is the best. "
New
Being
Best
" Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people. "
People
You
Real
" For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.' Kerry Washington is one of my best friends, and I've gotten to watch her go through motherhood. I also have the greatest female boss in Shonda Rhimes, who is a mother of three and a huge advocate for women. "
Boss
Best
Mother
" I am a type-A planner. That's just how I roll. "
Just
Planner
Roll
" I can't even remember anything before Albee. There is this bursting love you feel, but it's so intense and so all-consuming. I've become one of those psychopath mothers who loves looking at my kid and being with my kid, and then, when he takes a nap, I'm just looking at videos and pictures of him on my phone. I'm obnoxious. "
Nap
Remember
Love
" I do Hatha yoga at Yogaworks three times a week and do two hikes a week. "
Yoga
Week
Two
" I don't know if it's because of 'Scandal,' but I am a huge wine and popcorn fan. "
I Am
Fan
Wine
" I feel so honored to be a mom and get to do something that women have done for thousands of years. "
Women
Years
Mom
" If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them. "
Me
You
Women
" I got 'Scandal,' and that was, far and away, the biggest deal that had happened in my career. Simultaneously, the stress from planning my wedding and being in the public eye for the first time, combined with genetics - I got the diagnosis that I had psoriasis, and I was completely embarrassed and ashamed. I felt like a lesser person. "
Eye
Planning
Wedding
" I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster. "
World
Life
Time
" I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama. "
School
Singing
Community
" I love to walk in the door of my home and love what I see. "
Home
I See
See
" I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally. "
Fast
Naturally
New
" I'm big on yoga and of taking care of my mental health. "
Mental
Big
Care
" In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease. "
Friend
High School
School
" I run into so many people who also have psoriasis and share the same feelings as I had. I tell them that it's about being your own boss and of not settling until they find whatever it is that works for them and they have their life look the way they want it to. "
Look
People
Run
" I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good. "
Moments
Life
Humor
" I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point. "
Movies
Point
Think
" I think that there is something truly beautiful in everybody you meet. "
Something
Meet
Beautiful
" It's just heaven to be a mom, and a working mom, and a pregnant person in Shondaland. "
Working
Mom
Person
" I wanted a doula because it's my first baby, and I want to be able to call her when I'm going into labor so she can come over and help us go through the early stage. "
Baby
She
Want
" I was a wedding planner's assistant for years. And I knew I did not want to have a traditional wedding because I had worked a million of them. So my husband and I got married at a sleepaway camp in the Berkshires. "
Years
Wedding
Want
" I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day. "
Life
My Life
Day
" Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive. "
Mentor
Strong
Smart
" My husband and I are both actors; we're obviously dramatic. "
Dramatic
Husband
Both
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