'Who was I trying to make him fall in love with? My strategy was to just be agreeable.'
When it comes to relationships, movie star Anna Kendrick shows she’s just like the rest of us. In a story from her memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, published on Glamour, Kendrick discusses the cardinal sin that she and so many other young women commit: Changing your personality in order to appeal to a boy.
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“He was 28 and something of an introvert,” Kendrick writes of ‘Connor,’ a boy she started seeing when she was 20. “I took this to mean that he was deep and artistic and probably judged me for talking as much as I do. Once we broke up, I realized it just meant that he was kind of boring—and probably judged me for talking as much as I do.”
She admits to falling for him because he was the cool, mysterious older guy. “We would have made a terrible couple, but his indifference blinded me to all the red flags,” she writes. “He drove a BMW but slept on a futon. He watched the History Channel like it was a reliable source of information.”
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Kendrick is known for her outgoing personality, but she says she stifled that to make Connor like her: “If I could see tape of us interacting, I doubt I would recognize myself. Who was I trying to make him fall in love with? My strategy was to just be agreeable.”
Eventually, Connor broke up with her, and she spent years holding a grudge against the girl she thought stole his heart. Sound familiar? Let she who hasn’t sacrificed personality for someone dull be the first to cast a stone.
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