It was so well-received that we kept bringing her back," she explained.
Both my parents were born there but we were considered outsiders."
And my dad, he worked as a donut deliveryman," she toldInStyle.
Eventually, Vayntrub’s parents split and her dad returned to Uzbekistan to start his own company.
From there, she caught the acting bug and began appearing in Barbie commercials.
“I was on the first season of ‘ER.’
I played Tatiana, a little Russian girl with AIDS who Julianna Margulies tried to adopt.
It was also Season 1 with George Clooney and he was amazing,” Vayntrub shared.
“I just kind of stopped for a while because I didn’t think I wanted to do it.
Instead, the young actor set her sights on a career as an artist.
“I didn’t like it that much,” she added.
I feel like Squirrel Girl is not just my spirit animal, she is like my spirit.”
Vayntrub explained that there was never a question in her mind about what to do.
“I immediately knew the right thing to do was to have an abortion,” she wrote.
“There was no handwringing, no confusion, no sleepless nights.”
