Welcome to Unstyled. I'm your host, Christine Barberick, co-founder and global editor-in-chief of Refinery 29.

Each week, I invite a notable person to come in and talk with us as we explore the funny, inspiring,

sometimes heartbreaking tales of life, work, and love, as told through the things that we wear.

There's something unpredictable in just about everything comedian Jenny Slate does.

Case in point, you may have spotted her 10 years ago when, as a brand new Saturday Night Live cast member,

she accidentally dropped an F-bomb on air.

Jenny was publicly fired following the gaff, leaving her with stage fright so severe it took a hypnotist to banish it.

But as things often go, that history-making snafu ended up working out for the best. Jenny's next project was a series of low-fi YouTube shorts about the

cotidian life of Marcel the Shell, a tiny anthropomorphic seashell, a concept that could have easily been tweaked,

but instead yielded a little slice of oddball cinematic heaven, absurd and melancholy in all the best

ways.

The videos went viral, but better than Marcel's immediate infamy, it was Jenny herself

who emerged a thrilling and fresh comedic voice and filmmaker, willing to follow her weirdness

wherever it took her.

A weirdness that led to a host of voiceover roles, most notably as Gidget, a pampered

Pomeranian, a role she's reprising in this summer's The Secret Life of Pets 2.

But let's not forget she gave us the unabashedly vain, money-hungry, Mona Lisa Saperstein

on Parks and Recreation.

And an obvious child, she played a stand-up comedian who has an

abortion after a one-night stand. It was an honest, unapologetic, a nuanced exploration of a topic

we never get to see in Hollywood movies, where unwanted pregnancy plot lines usually end up with a

harried but happy couple making it work.

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