I can put my legs behind my head and sing ’Happy Birthday.’ Because that’s something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Rossum’s anecdote uses playful exaggeration to underline a real, embodied skill: flexibility developed through childhood training and retained into adulthood. By linking the trick to “gymnastics class as kids” and a nickname (“Gumby”), she frames physical ability as part of personal history and identity—something learned socially, repeated for fun, and remembered through the way peers label us. The humor (“sing ‘Happy Birthday’”) also signals a light, self-deprecating performance of talent: it’s not presented as athletic achievement so muchs much as a quirky party trick that humanizes a celebrity by grounding her in ordinary childhood experiences.