This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross.

When my guest Jesse Klein won an Emmy for her role as head writer of the Comedy Central

series Inside Amy Schumer, it was just three months after she'd given birth.

As the ceremony was ending, instead of heading right to the party with her friends and colleagues,

she had to go to a dressing room set aside for her, where she could pump.

That entailed figuring out how to unzip her fancy dress, by herself, and put on her nursing

bra.

Emmy didn't negate that she was still exhausted, uncomfortable in her post-childbirth body,

and about to return to the daily struggles of her new life.

She told that story in her 2016 book of personal essays.

Her new book picks up the story from there, and is all about the anxieties, the joys,

and hard work of being a new mother.

And the difficulty of figuring out who her new, unrecognizable self was.

When the book concludes, she's in her mid-40s, and her son Asher is approaching his fifth

birthday.

The essays are funny, serious, or serious funny.

The book is called I'll Show Myself Out, essays on midlife and motherhood.

Jesse Klein is now the showrunner and an executive producer of the new Showtime Comedy series.

I love that for you, about a group of people working at a home shopping network.

And stars SNL Alums, Vanessa Baer, and Molly Shannon.

Jesse Klein is also an actor on the Netflix animated series Big Mouth, and is also written

for the series Dead To Me, Transparent, and Saturday Night Live.

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