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Kelly Bishop Opens Up About 'Very Private' Abortion, Says She Always Knew She Didn't Want Kids

'Gilmore Girls' actress Kelly Bishop is opening up about her acclaimed stage and screen career, as well as her personal life and abortion, in her new memoir 'The Third Gilmore Girl,' out Sept. 17.

The Tony-winning actress is looking back on her stage and screen career in her new memoir The Third Gilmore Girl, out Sept. 17 from Gallery Books — from her groundbreaking role in the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line, which was based upon tapes that Bishop recorded about her life as a chorus dancer, to her part as Jennifer Grey’s mother in the ‘80s classic Dirty Dancing, to her beloved role as the stern Gilmore matriarch Emily on the 2000-2007 family drama Gilmore Girls. Bishop says that she wasn’t originally planning on including her abortion story in the memoir, though not for “any feeling of shame and wrongdoing.” This issue became an important one for Bishop, despite describing herself as “not really political.” She recalls attending a 2004 pro-choice rally in Washington, DC with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and producer Helen Pai, and says that sharing her own abortion experience was a way to reach out to younger readers.

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