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TAKE CARE OF AND EMBRACE
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WATCH OUT FOR YOUR GIRLS
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How to Get
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ScandalELLEN
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Grey’s
AnatomySHONDA RHIMES WAS CHOPPING ONIONS with her sister on
Thanksgiving two years ago when it all changed. The
television producer says, “I was telling her about all these
fancy invites I’d turned down, hoping to impress her, when
she called me out. She said, ‘You don’t say yes to anything.’
First, I pushed back. ‘I can’t! I have kids! I have TV shows!’
Then I saw she was right. I was my heaviest ever, unhappy
and ready for a change.” Rhimes says she’d put so much of
herself into work and her family, she’d lost track of who she
was and what she wanted. And she needed to fi gure it out.DO WHAT SCARES YOU
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WORDS BY LAURA BROUNSTEIN. EDITED BY SARA AUSTIN. © 2014 AMERICAN BR is out now.
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