Here are some cool tidbits from the Vogue article:
**Fey, who is half Greek, grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a very Greek suburb of Philly. Though her mother favored comfort and natural fibers in the seventies, most of the women in the neighborhood preferred a zestier presentation: Candie's, red nail polish, dark eyeliner, maybe a tight-fitting animal print, décolletage, hair piled up. "I still kind of like all that stuff," says Fey. "It's certainly not my day-to-day thing, but it does appeal to me every now and then. Part of it is what works with your body. I don't have a WASP body. Preppy doesn't work on me at all. There's something about the Greek thing where there's only, like, two speeds. If you put me in something conservative, it looks matronly. And if you cut it down to here"—she gestures to her navel—"it looks slutty." For example, the character Fey played in Baby Mama, a film set in Philadelphia, was meant to be a WASP. "The woman who did the costumes tried to put me in these Waspy clothes, and it just didn't work. I feel like ethnicity and fashion go together. So, yeah, knockers up and tight skirts. Somehow it's better."
**"I don't weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake." Since the day Fey went in front of the camera, she has kept the weight off. "I've never gone back up," she says. "Well…I have had a baby. I gained 35 pounds." She laughs. "And had a five-pound baby.
"People will say, 'Oh, fashion magazines are so bad, they're giving girls a negative message'—but we're also the fattest country in the world, so it's not like we're all looking at fashion magazines and not eating. Maybe it just starts a shame cycle: I'm never going to look like that model, so…Chicken McNuggets it is! And conversely, I don't look at models who are crazy skinny and think I want to look like that, because a lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and feet. Also, my dad is an artist—a painter by hobby—and I constantly would see realistic nudes. Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy…there wasn't this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don't want her to waste her time on all of that."
**Of all the crazy, pinch-me-I'm-dreaming things that have happened to Tina Fey in the last year, by far the best was the day she was interviewed for O magazine. "Oprah came to my apartment," she says. "Oprah and Gayle were in my apartment, and they stayed for hours. It's like the most amazing thing that can happen to a white woman in the twenty-first century."
**Of the cleavage-baring Prada dress on the cover? "I am a fan of the deep V. These are the things I learned from my friends who are cutter/drapers: I have an hourglass figure; I do have a waist, but I have full hips and I have decent shoulders. So that V is good for me. I have learned enough that I can go to a rack and say, 'That's not going to work. That's going to work.' So at awards shows, I wear a deep V. Because it makes the triangles go the right way. Not good on me? Spaghetti straps. It looks like when you tie up a roast before you put it in the oven."
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