How "am" I?
Ilana Glazer thinks motherhood is fun and hot.
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Getting Sticky With Ilana Glazer
Most of us know Glazer from Broad City, the hit comedy series she created alongside comedian and actress Abbi Jacobson. It keenly portrays a kind of female friendship that’s rarely reflected on screen: complicated, nurturing, occasionally co-dependent, but inherently deep and capable of growth. Unsurprisingly, many of those same themes extend to parenting today.
Glazer says she always knew motherhood was something she desired. Her body began to want a child when she was in her late twenties, but she chose to wait, partly due to the demands of Broad City—eventually giving birth to her daughter at the age of 34. “I know I couldn’t have created the art I have and also had a child,” she explains. But like any true artist, her life remains the best fodder for her work, and this new chapter is no different.
It’s worth stating that I feel sexier than I ever have. The whole experience has helped me feel myself in my body. I was so surprised to learn how horny pregnant people are. It is not something we talk about, and it’s absolutely hilarious… and fun. I love experiences that remind me that humans are animals.
Pregnancy unlocked a more spontaneous version of me. Spontaneous sexuality, spontaneous arousal, to feel my feelings and my body, to really know them. I was always told through television and film that becoming a mother desexualizes you. But I’ve become more in touch with that part of me; more sensual, more able to take and hold pleasure and joy.
Sticky Notes from Jellyworld:
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Getting Sticky With Erica Chidi “Being a childless doula has been a really interesting and, honestly, important part of my career. I have a term I use: biological empathy. It’s the idea of: What would it be like if everyone had enough sexual and reproductive health information to cultivate empathy for the biological events women go through?”
BTS from our shoot with Ilana Glazer. Have we mentioned that motherhood is fun and hot?
“And yet... boy mom? It felt creepy. It didn’t fit. I had been raised in a house full of girls. It was Little Women minus the idyllic cottage. I hated Laurie. I can’t stand Timotheé Chalamet, either. What was I supposed to do with a boy? I was already mourning the loss of girlhood, the realization that my home might never be filled with its presence.” Off the Record: Mourning the Loss of Girlhood
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