Love Quote by Grey DeLisle

Grey DeLisle is doing two things at once: accepting affection from her fanbase while refusing to let that affection turn her into a fragile symbol of motherhood. The opening - "Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes" - is pure fan-facing warmth, but the phrasing "friends out there in cartoon land" tips into playful world-building. She’s not just thanking people; she’s inviting them into the shared, slightly weird community that animation creates, where audiences feel oddly close to the voices behind fictional lives.

Then she lands the punchline: animation as the one workplace where pregnancy doesn’t automatically rewrite your role. That’s the joke, but it’s also the point. In live-action, a nine-month belly is treated like a production problem to hide, a career interruption, or a storyline to force. In voice work, the body that carries the labor is largely offscreen, so the performer keeps her range, her persona, her power. She can still be the "hot goth chick" because the job is about sound, attitude, timing - not a camera policing silhouettes.

The belly shirt detail is doing extra work: it’s an image of female-coded aesthetic freedom (sexy, alternative, unapologetic) colliding with the cultural expectation that pregnancy should read as wholesome, modest, domesticated. DeLisle punctures that expectation with humor instead of a manifesto, smuggling in a quiet flex: her identity doesn’t narrow just because her body is changing. The subtext is a thank-you note that doubles as a boundary line - don’t reduce me; I’m still performing.