Down the Drain

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She is not a movie star, exactly; although her Uncut Gems role was a breakout, she has appeared in only a few productions since. She's had a fashion label, published art books and held numerous exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. She had rough relationships with men, lived a nomadic lifestyle with friends, and worked as a dominatrix.

Após este período, o valor da mensalidade será cobrado automaticamente, por meio do método de pagamento cadastrado. After moving back to Italy for high school, Fox wrote about visiting New York on vacation, where she tried ecstasy for the first time. The actress and model has worn many hats in her 33 years — including fashion designer and dominatrix — but says she is wary of the title “celebrity. Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media.He spends an hour tweaking the topography of their table at Carbone, casually offers her a boob job, and falls asleep beside her in bed while watching Zola. Some pages left me speechless and with tears in my eyes, it is incredible… sometimes I found myself in her experiences and if you also went through similar things like her you definitely feel kinda connected. If you know her only for her association with Kanye, their relationship is barely one chapter of the book, and really does not compare to the rest of her story. But what makes them truly compelling is the way she grounds them in the gritty and, at times, ugly realities of her life. She recounts her tumultuous relationship with her father, the back-and-forth with her drug-addicted boyfriend and the billionaire who became her sugar daddy.

I believed her when she first said she planned to get clean and healthy, and I was therefore devastated in her moments of relapse. It’s written in the present tense, with the young Fox lurching from club bathroom to pavement to drug den to hospital wing to dungeon to tattoo parlor to courtroom, dragging you along with her. When I think of this brand of survivor, parroting the party line to the last, I always imagine a conference room filled with other survivors applauding, which is meant to be its own reward. If you are a woman who has experienced neglect, or have been the subject of the male gaze please read it. A sugar daddy has her trailed by a private investigator, the man she loses her virginity to in Italy tells the whole town she’s a whore, various boyfriends shove her up against walls and dictate who she is allowed to speak to.I would have loved to hear more about her acquaintence with the Safdies but also understand for brevity's sake she couldn't exactly address every single scene she passed through. It felt like reading the diary of a permanent teenager, if that’s the kind of book you enjoy, go for it. For nothing, anything, everything—if there’s a person who’s a better representative of fame in 2023, I don’t know who it is. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience – it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. I heard about her interview where she said this book is a masterpiece, and while I know that's 100% subjective.

Though “Down the Drain” features an incredible number of themes and “characters,” Fox does not lose herself or the novel’s point. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience―it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. When a teacher corrects her at school, she describes hearing “gasps around the room harmonising like a s----y choir”.Instead, Fox is the opposite of a nihilist in a world increasingly committed to the bit that nothing is real. Fox makes a case for herself as one of her generation’s most authentic storytellers…The memoir is a practice in radical transparency. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son.