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Mayim Bialik Never Fit Into Hollywood. She Made it Anyway.
Mayim Bialik tells all to Suzy Weiss in the latest episode of our Second Thought podcast. (Illustration by The Free Press, images via Getty and CBS)
The ‘Big Bang Theory’ star speaks on Zionism, being confronted in a parking lot, and falling out with the Democratic Party. Politically, she said, ‘I don’t even know what I am anymore.’
By Suzy Weiss
06.26.26 — Second Thought
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“I’m a workaholic,” said Mayim Bialik—who is 50 years old, and has been famous for about 40 of those—when we sat down to film an episode of my podcast in Los Angeles. “My grandparents were immigrants, so I have that thing of hustle, hustle, hustle.”

Bialik has been in not one, but two, massive sitcoms—Blossom in the ’90s, in which she played the teenage …

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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