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Parker: 'I welcome being objectified'
Published Saturday, Aug 28 2010, 22:33 BST | By Marcell Minaya
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The Weeds star added that when members of the public approach her, she is never sure that they know exactly who she is.
Parker told Vanity Fair: "Plenty of dumb people want to f**k me. Oh god, that’s not going to play well in print, is it?
"I think it’s great. What are you worried about, offending dumb people? Yeah, I could be alienating the dumb people who want to f**k me. I’m just happy that anybody considers me a sex symbol at all. It does not cause me any amount of grief to be objectified in any way. I welcome it."
She added: "I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognise me from TV but they don’t remember where. It’s not like they’re necessarily happy to see me, you know?"
The sixth season of Weeds is currently airing on Showtime.
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