What Would You Do If You Woke Up Tomorrow and You Were Beautiful?
Due to the crash diet she had undertaken, she developed kidney failure. The irony was that in order to play the role of herself, Cho had to morph into a different individual.
“All American Girl” was replaced in the line-up with “The Drew Carey Show.” Cho pointed out that a double standard was at play. Why wasn’t Carey, also a comedian, judged by his looks?
Cho qualified “eating disorders as a terminal disease.” “Women don’t live their lives fully because they are always concerned about if they are thin enough to be attractive, instead of accepting their weight.” For her, the struggle began at an early age; she had been dieting since the age of five. “I got it from my Mother,” she said, referencing the stereotypical Asian female body type as “birdlike.”
Growing up, she felt out of place. When Hollywood came calling, it reactivated all of her childhood fears and insecurities. Not eating for a month to prepare herself for the debut episode of her show, Cho created health complications that still linger. Looking back, she depicts the experience as “very hard,” but something that she learned from. “I didn’t have to participate,” she stated, “but I survived.”
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What Would You Do If You Woke Up Tomorrow and You Were Beautiful?
Answer: Anything I like.
Tomorrow would look like today and yesterday and every day since I was born. I am beautiful.