Julia Louis-Dreyfus

But I do remember that the whole building smelled like chlorine.

You know that smell.

And that I really did love to swim from the very start.

When I was pregnant, and I was absolutely enormous with my first son, Henry, I turned to swimming for relief.

Oh, boy.

And it was a relief.

Wading into a pool was just magical because it made me cool.

and comfortable.

I was so uncomfortable and weightless.

And I remember wondering if the strokes, going back and forth, you know, doing laps, if the strokes were soothing to the baby inside of me.

And I have a feeling that they were because now, 30 years later, that baby, he's a surfer, and he's in the ocean almost every single day, which is so funny.

So when the boys were little, I really wanted them to learn how to swim.

And they learned how to swim at a very young age.

They had a teacher who was very strict.

She was really kind of mean sometimes.

But she was a great swim teacher because she was so tough.

And there was no negotiation, no nothing.

She didn't baby them.

And I was all down for that because I lived in fear of the kids not knowing how to swim and being near a pool at a friend's house or whatever.

So that's why I endured her toughness.