Tracee Ellis Ross reflected on her Black-ish role during a February 2018 Glamour interview, admitting, "It is fun, and sometimes it feels like it steals certain experiences from me. I've never been pregnant." She added, "On the other hand, it feels very natural: I am very mothering. Whether I end up having children or not, I will always be a very mothering person."
Ross revealed, "The key is you ask yourself, What do I need right now? I've cultivated a relationship with myself where I know I have choices... I have a toolbox of ways I can find support; journaling is helpful, or meditation." She even coined her own terminology to describe her life: "choice-ful solitude." She told Glamour, "I have had to really make friends with loneliness. And know the difference between choice-ful solitude and lonely. [I find comfort in] being able to name it, to say I'm feeling lonely, then to have a tribe of people I feel safe enough with to share: This is how I feel."
Ross's 2017 speech at Glamour's Women of the Year summit was so profound that she was still talking about it during a May 2020 Porter interview. She admitted that she was nervous that the speech would be seen as "frivolous." But looking back on her "my life is mine" statement, Ross said, "I realized there was a lot of identification with that sentiment. We are told that our lives are not ours. We are taught and cultured in that way."
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