The Private World Of Kerry Washington

“BN — Before Nnamdi — I was in a very public relationship and engagement, like I was on the cover of a bridal magazine. When that relationship ended, I thought,Going forward, I need to have a different kind of boundary, so that my relationships can belong to me.So even in the years of dating after that, I was very private, which was good, because those were my wild years.

When I met my husband, he was also very private. It was a shared value. We started dating right beforeScandal, and he had been on the cover ofSports Illustrated. We both wanted to protect our relationship. By the time people started talking trash, we were happily married and pregnant. He was massaging my feet while we were laughing about some story on the internet about him partying at the Super Bowl without me. We’d built so much trust that those attacks didn’t put a dent in what we’d created together.”

“In town, nobody wanted to be Wonder Woman. She was tacky. She was not attracting people. Catwoman was more feral, sexy. The girls in Hollywood were really after Catwoman.”

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