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From 1990 to 1995, Mayim Bialik Played in the sitcom To bloom As an adolescent girl who deals with problems typical of adolescents while living with her father and two older brothers. The show was a success, which meant that he received attention outside his fans, and in 1994, he was parodied Saturday Night Live . In a new test for Variety , Bialik opened to see the sketch in adolescence and why an aspect of the way she was represented made it feel shameful and confused. Read the rest to see what the actor and Danger! The host had to say.

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THE 1994 Saturday Night Live sketch imitates an episode of To bloom , from the intro with Bialik and his co-stars dancing to the theme song to the kind of scenarios that the show presented. In the sketch, Blossom speaks to his friend Six to worry about having sex with his boyfriend for the fourth time. She also has a conversation with her father too favorable to the transport of condoms and stamps in her bag.

In the sketch, Blossom is played by Melanie Hutesell , who played on Snl from 1991 to 1994. Guest host Sara Gilbert Play six, Kevin Nealon plays Blossom's father, and Mike Myers Play Blossom's brother Joey.

Hetsell not only dresses like a flower in the sketch, but also has a big prosthetic nose. This is what upset Bialik in adolescence and has stayed with her for almost 30 years. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"The actress representing me dancing and acting for the camera and she was hilarious," Bialik wrote in his test For Variety . "But. She wore a prosthetic nose. In order to really transmit that she was" flowery ", she wore a false nose. I don't know if he was much larger than my real nose and I don't remember. I remember that it seemed strange to me. And that confused me. No one in the series was parodied for their features. "

Bialik stressed that in the parody of the program Mad Magazine - which was released shortly before - "Everyone is caricatured." But, in the Snl Parody, she said: "[I] was just me who was distinguished. More specifically, it was my nose."

Bialik wrote that she had tried to stop thinking Snl Sketch but knew that the classmates of his school would see him. As the sketch was broadcast, she was 18 years old.

"I never thought of talking about it and above all I tried to forget it," wrote Bialik. "I hoped that nobody had noticed it. All my friends from high school watched Snl . It was not subtle. They would see it all and I was ashamed. ""

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In the Variety Essay, Bialik wrote that she began to understand the perception of others of her "undeniably Jewish" nose when she was in fourth year. As a young actor full of hope, she was not initially thrown into leading roles or in advertisements "because what they wanted in advertisements were" all-American "children." I do not ' Did not capture this vision, "she added.

Bialik's big break came when she played the youngest version of Midler's beet character in Beaches. After that, she was thrown away To bloom , who created at the age of 14.

For Variety , she recalled a first review of To bloom In which the critic said that his face did not make sense "for him." He said that my features did not seem to associate each other, "wrote the 47 -year -old." I was Mainly described as a Frankenstein of a teenager. At the time, I'm not going to tell you that it didn't hurt. "

Bialik said Jewish viewers told him that they were grateful to the representation that family sitcom offered. "Girls around the world told me that they had never seen a Jewish girl like me on television before seeing me To bloom "She wrote." Many said they knew that I was Jewish and that it made them proud to be. It was so touching for me, and it is always the case. Asks me what these girls felt when they saw an actress playing me with a comic nose. "

She continued saying that she remembered the answer she obtained for her features in the light of Bradley Cooper , who is not Jewish, playing the Jewish composer Leonard BERNSTEIN In the next film Maestro . In the film, which Cooper also directs, he has a prosthetic nose. "I started examining the photos of Bradley and Leonard and I was wondering if it was necessary," wrote Bialik. "I don't know what I feel. I don't know if it matters what I feel. I suppose that is what his family feels. But maybe that is not the case?"

As reported by NBC News, The children of Bernstein published a declaration After the trailer for Maestro led to the buttress. "It is true that Leonard Bernstein had a good nose," said the declaration. "Bradley has chosen to use makeup to amplify its resemblance, and we perfectly agree with that. We are also sure that our father would also have agreed with that."

In an interview in 2022 on the podcast Life is short , Bialik said that if social media was there when she was a teenager, she would have felt forced to get a job.

"I would probably have asked for plastic surgery," she said ( via Yahoo! ). "Many girls would get a nose job at 16 social media had existed, I do not know if this pressure would not have reached me in a way I would have said:" I can do it different. Look at this one- Ci who made it different. Look at this one. "

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In the Variety Piece, Bialik wrote that she had "had many conversations with [herself] on [her] nose in the past 40 years". She added: "I didn't always like it, but I never wanted to change it."

"I came to see my face so clearly mine that I gave myself a good girl," concluded Bialik. "My genetic composition is mine alone, and also, it is the combination of cultures assembled after the Holocaust has spread so many of us on the banks of the island of Ellis. My nose is undeniably Jewish, and I am too."

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