Outsider
“Despite all their love and hard work, as a kid, I remember feeling as though I couldn’t culturally catch up to my peers. Especially when it came to beach towels—these really stupid, but really cool, but actually really stupid towels. All my classmates owned these colorful beach towels with Disney characters on them.
Outsider
I desperately wanted one, but instead, I had this orange and white patterned thing, a glorified Slavic doily—that my parents brought with them from Uzbekistan. To me, it was a smoke signal alerting all potential friends that I was NOT. FROM. HERE.”
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No Doubt
In that very same interview, Milana said that she knows without a shadow of a doubt that she is most famous for: “Usually my AT&T commercials or my YouTube videos.
No Doubt
Sometimes they’ll get introduced to me from the commercials and they’ll go look me up and find my YouTube videos. Or they’ve been a fan for a while and they’re really supportive of the commercials.”
