After Jenny Slate wrapped shooting for Dying for Sex , in which she plays Nikki, a freewheeling thespian taking care of her best friend, who has terminal cancer, she cut her hair short. “Emotionally speaking,” she tells VF , “there’s just so much going on for me all the time, that I don’t like a lot of fuss anymore around my physicality.” At Sunday night’s Emmys 2025 ceremony , where she received her first nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series, her hairstylist Jordan M gave it a middle part and a face-framing bend. The new style is the kind of dramatic change one might expect of a classic breakup haircut—and in some ways, it is. The show, she says, helped her let go of some deep-seated self-criticism and emerge with a newfound self-understanding. “

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