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"   Photo: Getty Images  Jaime Pressly&amp;#039;s been out and about in LA this month to build anticipation for her new show, I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Despite the title, it&amp;#039;s quite funny\u2014at least to anyone who&amp;#039;s ever spent time around (or been) a 14-year-old girl. In honor of tomorrow&amp;#039;s premiere, we asked Pressly about her new character, and some old ones. ELLE: So what&amp;#039;s the central idea in your new show, I Hate My Teenage Daughter?JP: It&amp;#039;s a lot about the relationship between my character, Annie, and Katie Finneran&amp;#039;s character, Nikki. The two women didn&amp;#039;t have great experiences in high school and so, we want our kids\u2014we&amp;#039;re both single moms on the show\u2014we want our girls to have everything we didn&amp;#039;t have. In the end, trying to give them everything we didn&amp;#039;t have backfires on us, as it does for most parents, and their fourteen-year-old hormonehell puts us through it. ELLE: What stood out most about this role?JP: Annie comes from a religious background. Her mother made all of her clothes and her dad was in the military. She was never allowed to go to dances or listen to music, she has no clue about pop culture, she&amp;#039;s really goofy and wasn&amp;#039;t cool in high school\u2014the complete opposite of anything I&amp;#039;ve ever played. And I like playing this because everybody&amp;#039;s expecting me to play a Joy character again and I want to get away from that. I&amp;#039;ve done it. I&amp;#039;m an actress. I didn&amp;#039;t get into the business to play the same thing over and over.  ELLE: When did you first realize you were funny?JP: When I was three. I was on stage doing a dance recital. We did a Kermit the Frog routine. Immediately following, they had us all come out individually and do a little trick on the mat. I came out and put my legs around my head and walked on my hands, like a crab. My teacher, Ms. Jody, said, &amp;quot;OK, Jaime, you can take them down now.&amp;quot; And I said, &amp;quot;Ms. Jody, my tights are stuck in my hair.&amp;quot; My hairpiece had sequins on it, so my tights got stuck. She tried to get it out but couldn&amp;#039;t. Everybody started laughing and instead of being embarrassed, I was like, &amp;quot;What! They are laughing at me! I am funny!&amp;quot; When I got off stage, my mom cut the thing out of my hair and I said, &amp;quot;Mom, did you see that? I made them laugh. I&amp;#039;m famous.&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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