Sarah Shahi: Sex/Life Taught Me That Desire Isn't a Dirty Word
Actor bared all to play stay-at-home wife Billie Mann in Netflix's steamy relationship drama But what few knew was how closely Billie's life resembled Shahi's own—and that just as Billie embarked on a journey of sexual reawakening, so did she. Here, in a new essay for Glamour, Shahi reveals her own wake-up call and how she rediscovered sex, desire, and pleasure.“Now, fuck me.” In the season one finale of Sex/Life, Billie, the character I play, declares these words as she is standing in front of her ex-boyfriend Brad, feeling nothing but the exhilaration of her own heart and releasing the desires she had been denying for so long. After a season of feeling unappreciated by her perfect-on-paper husband, Cooper, she believed the parts of herself that were unseen—her desire and her sexuality—would continue unseen forever.