United Kingdom, Dec. 1 -- Shonda Rhimes felt like she had been "stung by a thousand bees" when she became famous.

The 55-year-old TV mogul found it "hard" and "very stressful" being in the public eye after Grey's Anatomy took off because very few producers are household names.

Speaking on the recent Shonda Rhimes in Conversation with Robin Roberts: Year of Yes panel at 92NY, she said of being in the public eye: "It's so hard to do. I mean, my job was to imagine things.

"Name a TV showrunner or TV creator who you know their name on sight. There's not that many.

"So it was really startling and shocking to me, to be in a position where I was in a corner writing things for other people who should be famous, to discover that people wanted ...