The 37-year-old Australian actress admits she didn't have much confidence in her looks during her younger years but doesn't think that is a "unique experience" to her, although she is impressed with the way "body diversity" is now celebrated across social media.
"I feel like everyone goes through that in a way, I don't think it's a unique experience for a young woman to go through their teens and twenties thinking  'I know that there are pretty people in the world and I'm not one of them'," she told CBS Sunday Mornings.
"It's just not really understanding or being ... maybe it's different now because of Instagram, the democratising of 'What is beauty?'
"You see more body diversity, gender diversity, and diversity across everything and then you can pick and choose what feels more like me.
"It wasn't in my teens and twenties experience to be like 'I'm hot!'"
Meanwhile, the Succession star admitted that she never considered acting to be a job or a profession, and certainly never felt the pressure to succeed after she went to drama school.
"I don't think I ever knew acting was like a job. I loved doing plays, and characters, and I wanted to keep doing that. I had a great drama teacher who told me to audition for NIDA.
"She said 'You probably won't get in because you're just out of high school but use it as a drama class''," she said.
"NIDA is like the Julliard of Australia. And that was great, it was good to have encouraging people around me who could see it as a potential career but were fostering an interest in a young person.
"I never felt the pressure of becoming an actress, I wanted to do it and I wanted to challenge myself by doing it," she said.
"I wanted to be a part of it but I never thought of it as a job job. Just an expression of my passion, I suppose."
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