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Hello, my name is Laverne Cox, and welcome to the Laverne Cox Show.

Okay.

This is going to be weird and hard to talk about today.

But I think it's important.

And I've been thinking a lot about how I want to approach these diary entries, and I want it to be vulnerable. And vulnerability is still really hard for me.

Renee Brown defines vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. And I want to challenge

myself to talk about things that I don't talk

about publicly a lot. As much as I've shared, I think there's some things that should be

private, particularly as a trans woman, because my humanity as a trans woman and the humanity of my

trans siblings is always sort of called into

question. And so I feel like I have to be really careful as a public figure who's trans

to not overshare and to not put things into public discourse that I don't want in public discourse and that I think will undermine

my humanity and the humanity of my community. With all of that in mind, I'm going to attempt to

talk about my body. I mean, there's so many reasons why I want to do this, but earlier, I was working out.

Working out is like so fraught for me. I hate working out. There's a fitness room in my

building here in New York. And during the pandemic, the fitness room was closed because,

you know, pandemic. And so I started working out in my apartment. I got some

free weights and I started working out at home. And I have continued that. And at this point,

working out for me as a 51 year old woman is really about mobility, mental health. I find I have more energy

when I work out. So working out is like about overall health, well-being, and endorphin release,

all that good stuff. So I'm trying to work out more consistently, but it's, you know,

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