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The early 2000s show captured the hearts of millions and made Graham a household name.
But, of course, she is her own person.
Want to learn more about the real Lauren Graham?
Here are some things you never knew about the woman behind Lorelai Gilmore.
To pay her bills, Graham took on quite a few strange side jobs along the way.
As she toldKelly Clarkson, “I had a million different jobs.”
Her first acting job was actually a Planned Parenthood commercial in which she played a pregnant teen.
Fortunately, they both found themselves on “Parenthood.”
In fact, she’d been avoiding romantic relationships with other actors.
But her connection with her co-star was too strong to ignore.
“We couldn’t stop talking.
Not about ourselves, but about the world and books and family.”
Soon, the pair began dating, and it was clear that it was meant to be.
“Once we got together, there was no game play,” she said.
“It was like, ‘You like me, and I like you,'” Graham said.
As of 2021, the couple is still together and going strong!
She’s even written several best-selling fiction and non-fictionbooksof her own (more on that soon).
Of course, she also loves to use cookbooks for actual cooking.
Apparently, one of her favorite cookbook recipes is a relish from the “Momofuku” cookbook.
Her other favorite cookbooks include the “Donabe” cookbook by Naoko Takei Moore and cookbooks byChrissy Teigen.
It sounds like Graham loves to mix her two hobbies of reading and cooking!
“I was looking for something that had more depth,” she said.
“Gilmore Girls” seemed like the perfect option to Graham.
However, as she was around 30, a lot of people advised her against taking the role.
“All the advice was, ‘Don’t play a mom.
That’s not a smart thing,'” Graham recalled.
Luckily, she ignored the advice and took the part.
“It felt like what I had been looking for,” she said.
And of course, the rest is history clearly, Graham has some pretty good instincts.
So, it’s no surprise that her neighbor is also pretty famous.
Apparently, Shepard has a huge bus that looks like a “band tour bus.”
“They’re never getting rid of it, Jimmy!”
“You have to just love him,” she said.
Shepard even goes on hikes with Graham’s boyfriend!
In 2009, Graham made her Broadwaydebutas Adelaide in the musical “Guys and Dolls.”
Making the transition from screen to stage was what Graham called “hugely intimidating.”
“It was the most scary thing I’ve ever done,” she went on.
Despite being terrified by the job, Graham ended up loving the experience.
In fact, her only regret was her fear in the first place.
“That was kind of the path I was on,” she said.
Lauren Graham is obsessed with shows about cults
Lauren Graham is definitely full of surprises.
Wow, she definitely has a point!
Graham elaborated on her conversation with Clarkson in atweet, clarifying.
“Not cults themselves!
Just TV shows about them, yikes!”
She once had a scary travel experience in Vietnam
Lauren Graham loves to travel.
In fact, she once got lost in Vietnam while on a bike trip.
She and a friend couldn’t even remember where they were meant to be meeting the group.
“All we could remember is that we were going to a monastery,” she said.
She also texted her boyfriend back in Los Angeles, simply writing, “Lost in Vietnam.”
Apparently, some of her cousins even went on “The Sound of Music” tour in Austria.
One day, Graham started thinking about her past experiences.
And, then suddenly, in her trailer, she realized that she had done it.
It’s pretty clear that the actress is super fit and healthy.
But, as she explained to Health.com, her focus has never been on her looks.
Instead, she focuses on feeling good and accepting that there’s no such thing as perfection.
So, she tries not to think too much about food and aims for balance.
As for exercise, that’s where she thinks she really excels.
“I’ve always really liked being active.
So, it came as no great surprise when a reboot was announced in 2016.
However, it turns out, Graham almost chose not to return to play the beloved Lorelai.
As Graham explained toIndieWire, she actually always loved the uncertainty of the possibility of a future revival.
“I put that window into all my new jobs, just in case,” she said.
And because we could never have predicted that in the past,” she said.
Apparently, the clause was important because many TV contracts are pretty “restrictive.”
“So we’re trying to just carve out some pockets, just in case,” Graham explained.
For Lauren Graham, her life changed in a pretty unexpected way.
When she returned, things had changed.
“When I came home, the house was a little different,” she said.
The other big change?
She explained that she simply let Krause keep his COVID corner.
It sounds like Graham was pretty understanding when it comes to her boyfriend’s COVID hoarding habits!
