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Alex Borstein is the profanely funny comic actor who voices Lois Griffin on "The Family Guy." She also stars in "Getting On," the most under-hyped series now airing on HBO, a dark comedy about a down-and-out hospital unit for elderly patients.

In an interview with HuffPost earlier this year, Borstein opened up about parenting, body image, creativity, and life with hemophilia ("it's like diarrhea of the blood").

She also described a new phase of her life, divorce. "If you believe in romance and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce," she said. "It's like with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all. We're just here to witness and believe in both."

"Getting On " returns for its third season on Sunday, November 8.