Jensen McRae on chronic illness, lessons of her 20s and how to be vulnerable in your art
Grownkid
Grownkid & Joy Coalition
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I found my first gray hair the other day. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah, my hairstylist was like, oh, first gray. |
| 0:18.7 | But I was like, don't, don't burst. |
| 0:20.6 | I think she pulled it out, yeah, so she could show it to me. |
| 0:23.1 | No, I plucked mine out. |
| 0:24.2 | I found two last week. |
| 0:26.2 | So this is the thing. |
| 0:27.2 | I was so stressed out about it for like 10 seconds. |
| 0:29.8 | And then I was, because I called my mom and I was like, does that mean I'm going to like start going gray? |
| 0:33.1 | And she was like, no. like no all of a sudden just like no you don't get your first gray hair and then you just have gray hair |
| 0:39.4 | it's like you've got like 10 to 15 years until it fully yeah before it even starts getting multiple |
| 0:44.9 | like when you get one gray that's just like that's just we had a stressful day that day you got |
| 0:49.5 | one gray hair dear were you like going back like when to you when you, can you just tell us, like, you're working in the entertainment industry, right? |
| 0:58.9 | You're getting totally mature for your age. |
| 1:00.8 | Did you have any sort of interesting transition into your 20s? |
| 1:04.6 | Because I feel like that's when you can finally start saying, like, okay, well, now I'm actually an an adult which people have been telling me I |
| 1:11.1 | kind of look and feel like well so I've always had a baby face and so I've always felt like I've |
| 1:16.6 | always looked really young I feel like again this is another thing that people say and then everyone |
| 1:21.1 | else is like girl no you don't but like I had a baby face when I was younger and I also had like a |
| 1:25.5 | pretty sheltered childhood so even for me like into college like I was younger and I also had like a pretty sheltered childhood. So even for me like into college, like I was still, I was still very much a kid. |
| 1:31.9 | Like even at like 19, 20. |
| 1:33.0 | It wasn't until I graduated college that I started to kind of, I joke that I like speed ran coming of age because like so much stuff happened to me when I was like between the ages of 23 and 25. |
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