*Tracee Ellis Ross has this to say to fans and journalists curious about when she’s going to start a family: “Get out of my uterus.”
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Black-ish actress opened up about constantly being asked when she’s going to have children.
“Last year I was pregnant all season,” she said. “That brought on a lot of comments and questions and pontifications from people with no invitation.”
Ross told the magazine that she isn’t afraid to shut down the questions.
“I literally have said to people, for real, no joke, ‘Why don’t you just get out of my womb? Like, get out of my uterus. What are you doing in there? And why are you asking those questions? And what makes you think you can ask that?’”
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According to the actress, patriarchy has created a “siloed-off experience” for women—not just actresses—”with one answer for what a good life looks like.”
Ross, whose mother is music icon Diana Ross, said this about growing up with her famous mother:
“I saw a woman who just was making a path and doing it on her own. She didn’t have hundreds of people doing everything for her—my mom always packed her own bags and cooked our food. She was doing it all and never had the response to me… where she was like, ‘Not now, I don’t have time.’ It was very capable, incredibly capable and present at the same time.”
“My mother is a woman who completely possessed her own agency and embodied a sense of her own power, unapologetically. I think that lends itself to directing. I don’t have a fear in making a choice or expressing my opinion even if no one else likes it—or not even expressing it, but owning it for myself.”
Earlier this year, news broke that Ross earned less money than her male co-star, Anthony Anderson.
Of the news going public, Ross told Variety, “That was really f–king awkward. I don’t know how that information got out. But I understand the interest because there is a larger, deeper, more important conversation going on that is not about me, but is about people being paid appropriately for their contribution and the work that they do, not because of their gender, race, or anything. And it is a valid, real, important, past-due conversation that should no longer be a conversation, that should just be handled…across all industries.”
