Margaret Cho’s got a new role in Lifetime’s new show “Drop Dead Diva”. On her blog, Margaret sheds a little light on why she took the role “because it dealt with issues of body image with such respect and grace.” She’s been affected negatively by ‘fat jokes’ and the status quo of women’s bodies for as long as she can remember. In her first TV sitcom “All American Girl“, Margaet Cho was told by network executives that her “face was too full” to play herself. She states, “I never lived up to the thin, blonde beauty queen ideal – the image I saw in magazines and movies and television. Because of this, I always felt invisible.” You can read her full blog post here. Here’s more about Drop Dead Diva:

“Drop Dead Diva” tells the story of a beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe, Deb, who has a fatal car accident and suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven’s gatekeeper, Fred, who declares her a self-centered “zero.” Outraged, Deb attempts to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence but is accidentally relegated to the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott). A brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney with a loyal assistant (Margaret Cho), Jane has always lived in the shadow of her more comely colleagues, whereas Deb has always relied on her external beauty. Now, by a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb must come to terms with inhabiting Jane’s plus-size frame in the ultimate showdown between brains and beauty.

“Drop Dead Diva” premieres on Lifetime Sunday, July 12 at 9 pm et/pt. Marget Cho seems to be doing a lot of TV these days with Beautiful on Showtime and The Cho Show on VH1.

Go behind the scenes with actress and comedienne, Margaret Cho, who plays Jane’s assistant Teri, and hear what she has to say about her role in the Lifetime series “Drop Dead Diva.”

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