Terry Gross (Fresh Air, WHYY/NPR, 4/27); Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| White has its privileges for baby and mom. Life will be easier from here on in, Son, believe it. |
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| Amy Schumer, left, creator, executive producer and star of Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, comedian Bridget Everett, center, and author and comedian Jessi Klein attend the show's 3rd season premiere party in New York City in April 2015 (Brad Barket/Getty for Comedy Central). |
Comedy writer Jessi Klein reflects on the disorienting experience of new motherhood
(Fresh Air, April 27, 2022) Before she became a mom, comic, writer and actor, Jessi Klein remembers hearing people say how completely motherhood would change her life.
She listened, but she didn't really fully understand what they meant until her son was born.
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| You little sh*t, listen to me when I scream! |
"There's just no way to comprehend how completely your old identity vanishes," Klein says.
"All of the things you do on a daily or minute-to-minute basis — the clothes you wear, the way you think of yourself — it just all kind of has to explode away, because the baby/child [is] so all-encompassing."
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| What would I rather be doing? |
In her new collection of personal essays, I'll Show Myself Out, she writes about the joys and struggles of motherhood.
Klein says that she loves her son, now 6, beyond anything else in the world — and yet, she also acknowledges how tough being a mom is.
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| It's nice if the mountain is already climbed. |
"It feels like one of the biggest cultural taboos is to say that you've had a second thought about being a mother, or honestly, even to just to talk about the hard stuff," she says.
"But yeah, of course, there are those moments where you're like, 'I can't believe I've gotten myself into this.'" More
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