Vanessa Bayer Reveals How Her Own Cancer Battle Inspired I Love That for You

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Glamour. Though Bayer has never faked her diagnosis, she was inspired by her own experience with a less explored side of sickness. “I used to take full advantage of the perks of it,” Bayer explains. “I would come in late to school all the time, and our attendance woman was really strict.

A lot of times it was just because I was a teenager and I didn't want to get out of bed and I wanted to watch TV or whatever.

But she would think it was because I was sick, no questions asked.”Not that Bayer's saying there's anything wrong with taking advantage. “I just feel like, you’re going through enough hard stuff, you deserve whatever positive that you can get.”Vanessa Bayer co-created I Love That for You to explore what happens when those supposed “perks” go away. “Whenever you go through any kind of trauma, you get treated so nicely,” Bayer says. “But once you're sort of done with that thing, or people have forgotten about it, you go back to being treated like a normal person.

And that, in some ways, is not as fun.”Though Joanna initially lies to keep her job (she’s fired after a disastrous first time on-air), the earnest try-hard is wracked with guilt and considers coming clean almost immediately.