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Two “Saturday Night Live” cast members who made history when they were hired have announced their exits from the sketch comedy show. Punkie Johnson, who joined “SNL” as a featured player in 2020, was the first out Black queer woman on the show’s cast. Danitra Vance, a Black lesbian who was a cast member on “SNL” in the mid-1980s, was not out publicly when she was on the show. Molly Kearney was SNL’s first ever nonbinary cast member. They joined the sketch comedy show in 2022.

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☆ ‘SNL’ star Molly Kearney is also leaving the show ahead of Season 50
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —This week has brought two announcements of “Saturday Night Live” cast members leaving the show, the latest coming from Molly Kearney. So much love to all my big hearted buddies behind the scenes who make the magic happen every week,” Kearney continued. The news of their departure comes just one day after fellow cast member Punkie Johnson also announced she was leaving the long-running program, which she also shared via social media. CNN has reached out to “SNL” representatives for comment on both departures. “Saturday Night Live” premiered on NBC in October 1975.

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☆ Body dysmorphia: Definition, symptoms and treatments
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Here’s what living with body dysmorphia is like, and how people can find help. What causes body dysmorphiaThere isn’t a sole cause of body dysmorphia, but there are some contributing factors. “Body dysmorphia is in the same family of disorders as obsessive-compulsive disorder,” Durvasula said. Body dysmorphia was originally described as “the imagined ugliness syndrome,” Kearney-Cooke said. Since body dysmorphia is in the same category as obsessive-compulsive disorder, treatments for OCD, such as “exposure and response prevention,” could also be helpful for managing body dysmorphia.

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