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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\n As you are probably aware, whether she's rubbing Hidden Valley Ranch dressing all over herself on Saturday Night Live or sitting on Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids, sparkplug and current A-Lister Melissa McCarthy is funny as sh*t. But she subverts the typical sad clown \"delicate genius comedian\" type by being indestructible \u2014 both on and offscreen \u2014 as demonstrated in this New York Times profile. Here are some lessons \u2014 think half Sheryl Sandberg, half Three Stooges \u2014 that we could all take to work with us.1. Don't be afraid to go all in. In this case, to push America's Sweetheart Sandra Bullock really, really hard in The Heat (but you should probs just do it, uh, metaphorically). McCarthy, who's known for her rough-and-tumble performances, talks about going for it in her Bullock buddy-cop flick: \"I thought, I may just have one shot at this. I'm going to push Sandy Bullock as hard as I can. I'm, like, really, really shoving her.\" 2. Be aware that haters are just insecure bullies: Grown-Up Edition. When the infamously brutal Observer review of Identity Thief came out, its writer Rex Reed called McCarthy a \"female hippo\" and \"a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.\" McCarthy gracefully responds: \"I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.\" 3. And know that every positive choice you make can trickle down to the Youngs who look up to you. The Times goes on to explain: \"Had  occurred when she was 20, Ms. McCarthy said, \"it may have crushed me.\" But now, as a mother raising two young daughters in \"a strange epidemic of body image and body dysmorphia,\" she said articles like that \"just add to all those younger girls, that are not in a place in their life where they can say, 'That doesn't reflect on me.'\" \n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nShe's also spoken before about not wanting to pass fat-shame \u2014 and instead, promote healthy body image \u2014 onto her daughters. Props.4. Subvert male expectations at every turn. It goes without saying that many workplaces \u2014 and Hollywood's a major offender \u2014 expects all women to fit into a certain category, and are scared or hostile towards anyone who's outside the feminine norm. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig originally explained that McCarthy's character was supposed to be \"very nervous and high strung, that friend who's always falling apart, or at least just high maintenance.\" But McCarthy rolled up wearing \"Guy Fieri-style bowling shirts\" and played it the way we see it on screen today \u2014 overconfident to the point of delusion. To his credit, Feig readily admitted: \"It's the funniest take on it I've ever seen.\" 5. Being A) pragmatic and B) not shallow: Two hallmarks of a long career. McCarthy's hot now, but she's aware (in the words of Casino's Sharon Stone) that the bottom might drop out at any time, and this \"might be the only time to really pick things  can 100 percent connect with.\" But she expects to be around and enjoying herself in Hollywood for a long time, vanity be damned. \"I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s... so I look forward to all of that.\" She's got none of the typical limiting vanity of the Hollywood actress.Follow Anna on Twitter.Image via Getty"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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