Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Podcast Appearances
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.