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" Genital augmentation? Pastie scars? Dwarfs? Margaret Cho, star of a new VH-1 reality series, The Cho Show, and a touring burlesque act, gets intimate with us. Q: What makes your series unique? A: My life is anything but typical. My show features my very Korean parents, my very gay friends, and my wonderful assistant\u2014who also happens to be a little person. So it&amp;#039;s like a cross between my stand-up specials and Madonna&amp;#039;s Truth or Dare, with a bit of Little People, Big World mixed in.  Q: How did your family react to the show&amp;#039;s cringe-worthy fare\u2014like when you injected collagen into your G-spot? A: My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don&amp;#039;t speak English. Q: What should women know about your burlesque show, Beautiful? A: I&amp;#039;m exploring how we feel about our bodies through laughter. It&amp;#039;s important to feel beautiful; it&amp;#039;s political to feel beautiful. All my life I felt awkward, insecure, and chubby. Q: Now you strip onstage. And once you started dancing, you shed pounds. What happened? A: It&amp;#039;s weird. Discovering burlesque led me to take up belly dancing, and a lot of my weight came off. It&amp;#039;s a pleasurable movement that has positively increased my body awareness. It&amp;#039;s so unlike going to the gym and hating it. Q: How long do you plan to shimmy? A: Burlesque is fun, but now I have big circular scars on my breasts from wearing pasties every night, so soon I&amp;#039;m going to have to take a semi-retirement. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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