Photography by Andrew Tess

Julia Fox

WRITER, ACTOR, AND ARTIST

WHAT IS YOUR CALLING CARD?

1-800-Save-a-Hoe.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

Weird Barbie.

WHAT’S COMING UP FOR YOU IN 2024?

My TV show OMG Fashun is out on E! May 6. Movies, movies, movies, and maybe another book?

WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, ALBUM, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE?

Pedro Almodóvar films. My advisor in high school lent me a box set of all his films on DVD. They opened my eyes to a new world where the impossible is right at your fingertips and being strange and “interesting looking” is celebrated.

““I’m not a celebrity. I’m an artist who happened to get famous. That’s it.””

WHAT’S SOMETHING PEOPLE GET WRONG ABOUT YOU?

People think I’m dumb, but I’m actually really smart. At 16, I was testing at a college level. I’m actually a genius, and that’s a fact. I learned everything I know from experiencing life in the world, not in a classroom. I know a lot about history and geography and can find common ground with just about anyone from any walk of life. I’m a worldly woman, a Renaissance woman.

WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR?

I was always a hood celebrity. I was famous in the streets of New York even in middle school. I was the crazy white girl who didn’t have a curfew and was never scared of anything. It’s funny, because now I’m scared of everything.

DESCRIBE A RECENT CROSSROADS AT WHICH YOU FOUND YOURSELF.

Last year, I’d gotten all this fame all of a sudden and had to really reevaluate what I was going to do with it. I don’t want it to all be in vain. I want to make a difference. But mostly, I want the art to speak for itself. I’m not a celebrity. I’m an artist who happened to get famous. That’s it.

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