Pompeo explains her love of fashion, her advice for Meredith, and her shyness as a child in the October issue. As for the clothing Pompeo, shown here in a blouse from Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, says she caught the acting bug as a child, while watching the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. "Afterward, I stood up and said, 'That's what I want to be. They're alive. That's what I want to do,'" she says.
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