Ilana Glazer explains how their pregnancy journey helped them realise they’re non-binary

A Hollywood star has opened up about their gender journey, explaining how being pregnant with their daughter led to this realisation.

Ilana Glazer got candid about their gender, explaining how being pregnant with their daughter helped them realise they’re non-binary.

“Being pregnant on paper was the most female thing I could ever do, but it actually highlighted both the masculine and feminine inside of me,” the Babes star, who uses they/she pronouns, told the Independent.

“For so long, my masculinity felt like something I had to hide or make a joke of, and my femininity was something that felt like drag,” they said.

Ilana Glazer has come out as non-binary after realising her femininity “felt like drag” and Picture: Manoli Figetakis/Getty Images

Glazer came out as non-binary after her pregnancy in 2021.

The actress shares a daughter with her husband David Rooklin.

Glazer, 37, said there has always been an “element of comedy” to their gender, which limited their “genuine personal experience.”

“Then this gift of being pregnant made space for me to be real with myself,” they said.

When asked if identifying as non-binary changed their everyday life, Glazer said: “It’s more a point in the process of a long journey of self-actualisation. I’m moving through the world in a way that’s truer.”

Earlier this year, the Broad City star first addressed their gender, describing it as a “cool and hot” part of themselves during an interview with USA Today.

Glazer – who welcomed their daughter with husband David Rooklin, in 2021 – also learned pregnancy makes them “full-on horny.”

Glazer and Rooklin cradle her baby bump at the False Positive premiere in 2021 at the Tribeca Festival in New York City. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival

“I was so sick when I was pregnant for the first six months,” they told Page Six in May at the premiere of Babes.

“And sometimes sex would be the only context in which I wasn’t sick. Women tend to be horny through context, like dinner and candles, which is lit, but the spontaneous, animalistic horniness of pregnancy is nuts!”

Glazer and Rooklin secretly tied the knot in February 2017.

While the couple keep their romance under wraps, the mum of one told Harper’s Bazaar in June that they’re “grateful” to have decided “to have a kid” with Rooklin.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission

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