But every once in a while it does come out, and it comes out at strange times. You can kind of relegate it to the back shelf near your field hockey equipment and hope that it just stays quiet. you fight against that voice and you have to find a way to live with it, because it will not go away.

And then when I started liking boys, it moved into the top bunk and stayed there for a while. The demon voice was around, but it didn't really live in my room. On body image and the 'demon voice in her head' Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Poehler tells this story and others in her new memoir Yes Please.Īlthough she's known for the many characters she has played - including on Saturday Night Live and the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation - she takes off the wigs and the costumes and steps out of character for her new book.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Yes Please Author Amy Poehler 'Once I decided that, then it was freeing - not only for my work, because vanity is a tough thing to have in comedy - but I didn't care as much if people thought I was pretty or not pretty,' she says. For Poehler, that meant not leaning on her looks to be successful. Poehler says it taught her that the earlier you figure out your 'currency,' the happier you'll be. my ego was bruised,' Poehler tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. And then it was followed by a real crash because. 'It was almost like an itch being scratched, which was, 'Aha! I knew that you didn't think I was pretty!'. When comedian Amy Poehler was in her 20s, she read her boyfriend's journal and found out that he didn't think she was pretty. Poehler says, 'It's a privilege in television to be able to have a proper goodbye.'

Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation, which will air its final season next year.

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