“ Please know it it’s one of the best things about me. “That’s not the thing I’m afraid of, that people know this,” she said about the media response that followed her coming out.

But it also wasn’t part of her public persona after Broad City made her famous in an April profile she told Vanity Fair, she said, “I kind of go both ways I date men and women.” By then, the book, and all its honest essays, were written, and Jacobson was glad she had shared that part of herself with her readers. She says she never struggled with coming out as a kid, and that as an adult it was certainly never a secret. As she notes, there really isn’t a ton of honest queer memoir material for anyone, much less younger people, to identify with. “But I have a weird job where I’m like, ‘Someone let me do this, so I guess I’ll do it?’”īut it’s through writing about this past relationship, and the insecurities involved, that Jacobson hopes she can help her fans. “Part of me is like, ‘Wow, what a narcissistic thing to embark on,’ and I thought this is such a selfish thing to undertake,” she admitted (remember, “vulnerabilities” is in the book’s title). But her book, her first of essays, was born from a very uncharacteristic time off-a three-week road trip she took in the summer of 2017, both self-conscious about the indulgence and eager for some time to process the end of her first relationship with a woman, and her first love. Finally, it was time for a touch-up.īetween the end of Broad City, the next season of her Netflix series Disenchantment, and the release of her new book, I Might Regret This (Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff), this week, Jacobson and her nails have very little downtime.

For the final season of Broad City, she said, “somehow my character needed to wear nail polish,” so for two months, she’d been layering different shades of red and orange on her nails. She walked into a nail salon in Park Slope on Wednesday, October 24, after just a few hours of sleep. But she still had to squeeze in time for a manicure.

Abbi Jacobson was between two major moments in her life-the last day of filming Broad City, the Comedy Central series she created with Ilana Glazer, and the wrap party.

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