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I’m no Justin Bieber. I go to Aroma to get
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cofee, and the paparazzi walk me to ballet
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class. I drink one or two cappuccinos a day.
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I think that’s bad, but I have worse habits.
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I just gave up smoking because I was
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deathly ill and couldn’t ft the smoke in my
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lungs. Whiskey is my main indulgence.
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10:00 a.m.
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In England, there’s no exer-
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cise element, whereas in America I start my
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day—when I have one off—by doing
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Ballet Beautiful with my friend Harley
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Viera-Newton. In L.A., it’s all design
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for my collection with AG. I’m always
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traveling for work, and 70 percent of
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the time I’m jet-lagged. This month
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I’ve been in London, Paris, New York,
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L.A., and back to New York. The past
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year has been a real learning curve. If
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my diary doesn’t have set things in it,
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it seems that people on other teams
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will take advantage of that and I’ll
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split apart. It’s the biblical story about
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how they [threatened to] split the baby
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in half because they couldn’t decide
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whose it was. I feel like real life is like that.
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11:30 a.m.
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When I can I go to Jack’s Wife
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Freda or to the Smile and get scrambled eggs
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with cheese and avocado. In New York, I’ll take
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cabs, Uber, the subway, or when we’re going to a
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number of diferent things around the city, I get on
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the back of my assistant’s Vespa.
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1:30 P.m.
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Real-
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istically, I’m a journalist, but I want to do TV again.
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Someone said to me the other day: “Name someone
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who excelled in more than one arena. Alexa, you need
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to focus on one thing because you can’t succeed if you
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do it simultaneously.” I won’t allow people to limit what
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I do. In the afternoon, I might go back
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home and do some work. My assistant
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sends e-mails that say, “from the ofce
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of Alexa Chung,” but my ofce is es-
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sentially my bed. That sounds really
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unprofessional, but it’s usually just us
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two in bed cranking out e-mails. I go on
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Astrology Zone once a month, and I love
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the Secret Language of Birthdays. You put in
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your birthday and it comes back with a
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survey of people born on that day and
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their attributes—it’s so spot-on, it’s
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insane. I’m a Scorpio and from the
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Week of Depth. I think it just means that
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I overthink things, and I’m refective and
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dark.
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7:00 P.m.
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My friend Tennessee Thomas
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has a shop called the Deep End Club in the East
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Village, so if I’ve fnished my work I’ll stop by.
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I’ll likely be hungry at that point, so I’ll pick up
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a cappuccino and a sandwich from across the
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road and take it in. I have a close group of friends,
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and if I invite one somewhere, I know that they’ll
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invite the rest. I’m out every night with them—
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I don’t like doing it for work. Half my life is spent
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at a dive bar and half is spent at, like, a Valentino
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dinner. Usually I’m lamenting that my shoes are
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ill-ftting. Last night I went to karaoke, but I can’t
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talk about it anymore because I’ve become like
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a caricature. I went a number of times a week for
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about a year. When I like something I become ob-
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sessed with it, even, like, string cheese. Right now
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it’s Lindt chocolate balls.
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1:00 a.m.
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I come home,
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get some water, wash my teeth and face, get into
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bed, and fall asleep. I always sleep naked. I’d like
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to be in bed with a boy at 10
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p.m., but that’s not
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what happens.
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As told to Christine Whitney
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