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Mayim Bialikis reflecting on a questionableSaturday Night Livesketch that mocked her nose with a prosthetic.
She wore a prosthetic nose.
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so that truly convey that she was ‘Blossom,’ she wore a fake, big nose."
I remember that it struck me as odd.
And it confused me.
No one else on the show was parodied for their features.
More specifically, it was my nose."
Bialik goes on to explain why she didn’t publicly address the sketch until now.
“I never thought to talk about it and mostly I tried to forget it,” she writes.
“I hoped no one noticed.
All of my friends at high school watchedSNL.
It wasn’t subtle.
They would all see it and I felt ashamed.”
“And I started scrutinizing the photos of Bradley and Leonard and wondering if it was necessary.
I don’t know how I feel.
I don’t know if it matters how I feel.
I assume it matters how his family feels.
But maybe it doesn’t?”
(Bernstein’s family hasdefended Cooper’s portrayal.)
“Many said they knew I was Jewish and it made them proud to be.
That was so touching to me, and it still is…
I wonder how those girls felt when they saw an actress playing me with a comically prosthetic nose.
I wonder if that’s different from Bradley Cooper playing a famous person.
Does it matter?”
Bialik concludes with multifaceted, honest reflections.
“I’ve had many conversations with myself about my nose in the past 40 years.
“My nose is undeniably Jewish, and I am as well.
Is it because of my nose?
But I don’t have to know because we will always be one and the same.”
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