Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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I think I was three or four when I learned how to swim in New York City.

I remember my mom would sit on the edge of the pool with her legs dangling into the water from her knees down, and I would sit on my mom's feet, and her legs were a little prickly because she shaved them.

I remember that vividly, and that I couldn't wait to grow up to shave my legs and have them be all prickly.

Which is a funny thing to think when you are three or four years old.

I mean, but that's how much I wanted to grow up.

Anyway, she'd bounce me up and down in the water while I waited for my lesson to start.

My mom can't remember, and I was really tiny, so I can't remember.

But I think it might have been at the 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association pool.

Not really sure.

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.