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Love & Passion Quote by Laura Prepon

"I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep"

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Prepon turns a mundane bedtime detail into a miniature origin story about autonomy: the body as a place you can renegotiate, not just inhabit. The headline is nudity, but the real pivot is habit. She’s describing a rewiring of comfort, the way “normal” is less a moral category than a repeated behavior that eventually feels like truth. The punch is in the reversal: what once felt necessary (boxers, tank top, “whatever”) becomes the thing that blocks rest. It’s not titillation; it’s a confession about how quickly we can naturalize our own rules and then outgrow them.

The language is deliberately casual, even slightly awkward, which is part of the point. “Kind of weird” and the tossed-off “or whatever” act like disclaimers, softening a topic that can get overinterpreted in celebrity culture. She anticipates the audience’s gaze and steps around it, framing the change as practical rather than performative: sleep is the metric, not sex appeal. That’s a savvy move for an actress whose body is already public property in the cultural imagination; she’s reclaiming the narrative by making it boring.

There’s also a quiet cultural tell here: the modern wellness confessional, where personal tweaks (diet, therapy, sleep routines) stand in for larger identity shifts. If you can’t sleep with clothes on, it’s not just preference; it’s a new self you’re training your life to accommodate.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Prepon, Laura. (2026, January 17). I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-used-to-wear-boxers-and-a-tank-top-but-now-i-55823/

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Prepon, Laura. "I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-used-to-wear-boxers-and-a-tank-top-but-now-i-55823/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-used-to-wear-boxers-and-a-tank-top-but-now-i-55823/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is a Actress from USA.

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