September 17, 2020

EP. 24 — Law Roach

Stylist, host, and icon Law Roach joins Jameela this week to discuss growing up gay in the southside of Chicago, going from stealing clothes to attend balls to judging HBOMax’s ballroom competition show Legendary, how dressing Celine Dion in a Titanic sweatshirt went viral, how he became Zendaya’s stylist, and his passion for giving black people opportunities in the fashion world. 

Transcript

IWEIGH-024-20200917-RoachLaw-ACv01-DYN.mp3   JAMEELA JAMIL [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of “I Weigh” with Jameela Jamil. You’re alright? I’m fine. I have been overwhelmed by the amount of wonderful, wonderful DMs and messages and comments from all of you about in particular last week’s episode with Katherine Ryan. She is a fabulous comedian and writer and actress. And she was on the show talking to me about many things to do with feminism and, and surviving comedy as a woman. But also she came on and talked to me in depth about a miscarriage that she went through this year. And she was so, so open and vulnerable and informative about it. And it was really in the thousands and thousands of messages that I got from all of you that I realized how little that subject is spoken about. And I so appreciate your support. I also got a text from Katherine yesterday who told me that she has never had a response like that from a podcast where a

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