25 famous women including — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cardi B, Victoria Beckham, and more — break down their nonlinear career trajectories
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Megan Park On directing: “Immediately it clicked for me in a way that acting truthfully never had, and it all made sense. I realized that this education I had in front of the camera, this is what it was for, to do this.” — Teen Vogue, February 2022 Chloe Cherry On being an example of why we should normalize adult actresses venturing into mainstream TV: “It feels necessary. I just think it should have always been a thing. Why not? Let’s just see actors as actors. Porn is actually shot very professionally, with big cameras and marks. So there are a lot of things professionally and technically that are very similar. All of the technical things I already knew before going on the set, but the subject matter is very different.
Michelle Obama “I was sitting in a sky-rise office, doing legal work that wasn’t fulfilling to me, and I couldn’t help but ask — what’s it all for?…If there’s some part of you that’s questioning your career, it’s important to listen to that. Our hearts sometimes know ourselves better than our minds do. For me, that meant pursuing a life of public service — a path I’ve been able to maintain since that major swerve.
Padma Lakshmi “I started modeling my last semester in college when I was studying abroad in Madrid . Then I started acting — a lot of costume dramas and foreign productions. For one movie I shot in Cuba, the director wanted me to be a bit rounder. So I gained 20 pounds. After that, I wanted to continue to model — and to lose the weight. But I had never really tried to lose weight, so I had to think about how.
Celeste Ng “[For] a lot of my early years, I didn’t think that writer was something you could do as a job. I always thought I was going to do something else and write on the side. It wasn’t until I started working in publishing and I realized that really wasn’t the job for me that a mentor said, ‘You keep saying that writing is going to be on the side. Why don’t you try and switch it?’ I looked at my savings and I went, ‘Okay, I need to try this.
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