I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.
Margaret ChoMy former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.
Margaret ChoI was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?
Margaret ChoI've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, โIโm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. Iโm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And Iโm beautiful because I say I am. Iโve earned it, and Iโm gonna be it.
Margaret Cho