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Tina Fey Perfectly Explains How "Having a Teenage Daughter Is Like Having an Office Crush"

Tina Fey [1] isn't allowed to say much about her two daughters, but what she does reveal is perfect.

While visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon [2], Tina lamented that she can't give too many details about her kids, 15-year-old Alice and 9-year-old Penelope [3].

"It's tricky to do your show anymore because all I want to do is talk about my daughters and that is, like, the one thing that I am absolutely forbidden from talking about — is your teenager," Tina said. "They're like: 'Absolutely not. Do not talk about me, do not show your friends a picture of me, nothing.'"

The most she can divulge, however, is a spot-on comparison between teen children and your typical unrequited love.

"Having a teenage daughter is like having an office crush, because you're thinking about them a lot more than they're thinking about you," she said. "And you just go up to their door and you're like, 'A bunch of us are going to eat dinner — you're probably busy.' Or, 'Some of us thought it'd be cool, like, to put a movie . . . uh, never mind, never mind.'"

What followed, an impression of her daughter staring ahead blankly with a coffee cup in place of a cell phone, is so good that we're certain she's going to hear about it from Alice when she gets home.


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