Shonda Rhimes is opening up about her love life.
The 55-year-old Shondaland producer got candid in an interview on Call Her Daddy, where host Alex Cooper addressed her stance on the idea of marriage.
Previously, Shonda has said she’s not interested in getting married, which Alex asked about.
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“I don’t know if that’s true anymore. Isn’t that interesting? I don’t know if that’s true anymore,” Shonda admitted.
“So, I’ve never been a person who thought about getting married. I was a person who, like I always knew I was gonna be a mom. I’ve always known that. That was always part of my plan. Marriage never really entered into it and my parents have this amazing romantic, beautiful marriage and they’ve been married forever, and so I have this great example of what a great marriage is, but I was always like, ‘Eh, eh.’ I really value being independent. I really value being on my own. I tried the whole getting engaged thing and almost killed myself trying to pretend that I was somebody who wanted to get married and it just wasn’t me. I was like, ‘This is not, I feel suffocated.’”
“Now I feel like, you know, I have these girls who are much older, you know, like my youngest daughter’s 12 at this point. You know, so what really got me the first time was so you get engaged and everybody is so happy for you. People were more happy for me that I had a man who wanted to marry me than they were about my career, my shows, my children combined. I was like, I have a freaking Peabody Award. Nobody cared,” Shonda said.
“They’re like, ‘You have a man who wants to marry you.’ It felt really threatening. I think about this now. It felt really threatening to my whole identity that that’s where people were gonna see my value and now like I think that’s because I wasn’t necessarily comfortable in my own skin probably. I very much know who I am now. I know who I am. I’m very comfortable in my skin. I’m very comfortable with what I accomplished, what I haven’t accomplished, who I am as a woman. Now, I’m completely comfortable with the idea that like I can meet somebody and spend the rest of my life and somebody marry them because I’m not worried that who I am is gonna be taken away from me or that I’m gonna have to compromise pieces of my career or what I’ve accomplished or what I wanted to be.”
“I’m not saying like, ‘Oh, I want to get married,’ but I’m no longer saying, ‘I never want to get married.’ I’m open,” she concluded. Watch above.
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