Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

Today on American Glutton podcast, I talk to Alexandra Gray. I had the pleasure of working

with her on a movie called Gossam or Folds, which has not come out yet. She is an actress

musician, writer, and you can find her at Alexandra Gray official on Instagram.

Alexandra Gray, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thank you for having me.

A lot of what I talk about and I talk to people about is dealing with their body, dealing

with their association with their mind with their body. Something that I have experienced

so much is having an idea of needing to change something with my body, changing it and

not being happy with it. I'm certainly not equating what I've gone through to what

you've gone through because I think they're completely different, but I do see some similarities

there in from five years old on, my body was wrong. I didn't understand that, but it just

wasn't right. I still struggle with that and I'm just really interested in hearing your

perspective on this.

Yeah, I think for me, I'm a trans woman, so for me, I think I knew as early as five that

something was different. This wasn't the body that I was supposed to be in.

When growing up in the way that I grew up in the projects, Southside of Chicago, you don't

have the language to really express what's going on. It took me up until I was in my senior

of high school before I actually realized what a trans person was and that, oh, maybe this

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