Heather McMahan on her Netflix Special, Hollywood's Ozempic Obsession, and Finding Humor in the Gross Parts of Womanhood

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By Even if you’re unfamiliar with the name Heather McMahan, you’ll probably recognize her face. That’s because there’s a high likelihood that, at some point, a friend has sent you one of her comedy videos on Instagram—maybe the one about her undying love for or about that (fake) debate you do at dinner before spinach dip—with the message, “omg, this is so us.”McMahan, 36, spent years grinding away trying to make it as a comedian and actor in Hollywood before taking a break following her father’s sudden passing from Home in Atlanta, she started posting quippy musings on life, funny stories, and highly entertaining observations on pop culture to Instagram.She soon attracted a following of mostly millennial women who found, in McMahan, an over-the-top hilarious bestie who always has the right thing to say about the mundane, weird, or most tragic parts of being a woman.

McMahan has never shied away from making jokes out of her personal experiences, from her fertility struggles and experience with IVF (you won’t be able to stop laughing listening to her describe being on testosterone) to her tongue-in-cheek indignation when other “full-figured women” like Rebel Wilson and Adele get suddenly snatched (“hey, nobody called me, I’m part of that same club,” she says, “next time, just let me know when we're all getting thin.”)McMahan now has more than 750,000 followers on Instagram, a hit podcast Absolutely Not!, and is .

Now, she’s preparing for her biggest stage yet: Netflix. Her first comedy special, Son I Never Had!, premieres on the platform Tuesday.

The special, whose title is an ode to her father and his pride in his daughter’s toughness as a youth, is a raucous introduction to McMahan’s ability to find humor in her life,.