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Podcast Appearances
Her face changed completely, not through plastic surgery.
This is prior to Botox even.
And I think she's a person who exerted enormous
agency over the trajectory of her own life and achieved what we would recognize separately from him as enormous success right she was the head of pr for calvin klein in the 90s when calvin klein was like enormously influential and powerful and you get the sense that she did not land herself in the shop girl role looking for a wealthy husband and everyone
When I wrote a piece about her a number of years ago, I talked to people who went to school with her and who knew her.
And she sounds like a very magnetic person for better and worse.
She was a person that people responded to.
And you get the sense that John F. Kennedy Jr., having grown up with a strong mother figure, was probably responding with some strength there.
And then the flip side of this is the second they get married, she...
seems to crumble over the restrictions of her life.
Like she quits Calvin Klein six months before they're married.
She prepares for the wedding, one assumes.
And then once they're married, she goes underground.
She just disappears in a way that signals in the vocabulary we have now, probably some serious mental health hurdles of terror of being out in the world.
And it almost seems a little bit like, and I'm projecting as you have to, because we don't ever hear anything from her, that she couldn't
quite managed the life she had set herself up for, right?
Like she had hurled herself into the top sphere of New York society and fashion and power, and then was not quite set up to grasp the ring almost because she didn't do anything with that access.
She didn't go on any boards.
She didn't start any charities.
It was so clear that