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Photographed by Elizabeth Weinberg, Hair by Bobby Eliot, Make Up by Bethany Brill.





Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that you’re an actress? The fact that you’re in front of people like that?

JM: "No. I think it had something to do with the relationship that I was in. It’s about acceptance of your body, its beauty and its love. The reality of it and its lines and shapes. It’s all beautiful and it isn’t about dressing it up to make it something else. Just letting it be and celebrating what it is, instead of what it should look like. But, then the analogy in the [“Dead Rabbits Hope"] video is a sort of funeral parlor kind of thing. It is a woman on her deathbed rejoicing in her own beauty."



So, what’s it like going from a high-profile acting career to music?

JM: "It’s all the same. With acting, I have a set of heart parameters. Like this feels good or this doesn’t feel good. This feels sacred or this doesn’t feel sacred. I would do this for no money or I would only do this for a lot of money. I feel like there are all of those heart boundaries you just create as a human. It is the same set of parameters with music. You create something that needs to be shown and you decide in what way. It’s storytelling, and I get to be characters in each. The only difference is, with music, we get to do everything ourselves. I get to be the boss."