On the cover of this week’s Page Six Magazine, actress Molly Shannon has bounced from childhood tragedy to Saturday Night Live fame, to motherhood to a new TV show. But no matter what, she’s got her killer sense of humor (and a great set of gams) to carry her through.
She worked hard to attain success: starting out at NYU in 1983 as a serious actress, moving to L.A. after graduating and scraping by as a waitress and a fragrance lady. In 1995, SNL producer Marci Klein saw Molly’s show and asked her to fly to New York to audition – and the rest is history.
Molly opens up about her artist husband, Fritz Chesnut and children – 5-year-old daughter, Stella and son, Nolan, 3½—whom she recently uprooted from downtown New York to move to L.A., where her new show, “Kath & Kim,” films. “All the years I was on SNL, I didn’t think about kids. I was focused on work. But toward the end, I was looking for a serious boyfriend who could turn into a husband that I could have children with. I was very clear about what I wanted.”
She also took a humorous approach to giving birth: “I called my doctor and said, ‘I think labor is starting,’ and she said I should go about my day. So I went to Starbucks. I went to a street fair. I got a super-straight blow-dry so I could look nice while pushing,” she laughs.
Molly lost her mother in a car accident when she was just four years old. “It pulls the rug from under you, but it also gives you compassion for other people and a deep understanding of loss, suffering and abandonment.”
For more on Molly Shannon, check out this week’s issue of Page Six Magazine, free inside the Sunday edition of the New York Post and online on Monday at www.pagesixmag.com. For a preview of this week’s magazine, click on http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/upcoming.
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