“It’s the worst thing ever.
It was so bad for me.
Because my character, I came on to play the ugly wallflower best friend ofEmily VanCamp.
Sarah Drew in 2024.Paul Archuleta/Getty
I had glasses and frizzy hair and not a stitch of makeup.
I was the ugly one, the ugly duckling.”
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Drew’s first main role was a voice role, as Stacy in the MTV animated seriesDaria.
Sarah Drew on ‘Everwood’.Warner Bros
But the sudden thrust into the spotlight was jarring, especially considering Drew’s background.
“I grew up never considering whether I was pretty or not.
It just wasn’t a thing we talked about,” she told Bilson and Allen.
“My mom is a scientist and, just, makeup wasn’t worn.
Hair, nobody cared about it, nobody cared about fashion.”
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“We are not built for this feedback.
Our nervous systems are not built to take in all of this feedback,” she theorized.
Drew starred onGrey’s across eleven seasons, finally hanging up her scrubs in 2022.
