This Lauren Sánchez/Jeff Bezos Magazine Spread Is Really Something

This set of images is unhealthy for my brow, as a result of I simply maintain furrowing at them. They may be cursed. A minimum of considered one of them may be my sleep paralysis demon.

I’ve by no means actually responded to Lauren Sánchez — I keep in mind her years as a newscaster for the Los Angeles UPN affiliate, which tells you ways way back that was; I really feel like a superb anchor is one you take pleasure in spending time with, or who on the very least doesn’t make you actively attain on your distant, and he or she was… not that for me. She married a mega-agent at one level, nevertheless it wasn’t till the Bezos relationship that she appeared to need to up her profile in a major approach — possibly as a result of they felt the affair and their subsequent divorces was a nasty look, or possibly they simply actually need everybody to love them, I don’t know. Anyway, I solely point out that as a result of it’s been fascinating to watch all this as somebody who’s been regionally conscious of her because the early aughts, and VERY conscious of HIM because the ’90s. Vogue appears to have agreed to place the Sanchez-Bezos union as considered one of courageous philanthropists who’re simply SO VERY down-to-earth — house journey pun supposed, given their specific extracurriculars — and in studying the piece, I can see the mechanisms at work. Chloe Malle received the project, and he or she’s Candice Bergen’s daughter; I badly need to purchase a drink for these broads and get the complete, unvarnished intel.

Actually, the parts of the profile that made me cringe essentially the most had been the bits with Jeff Bezos, like when he’s requested if he’s serving to with the marriage planning and his response is to chortle HELL NO and say that certainly he doesn’t look that dumb — which is the WORST stereotypical dude response and if I had been marrying somebody who stated that and meant it, I’d suppose twice. There’s additionally an ooky bit the place he brags that he’s made Sánchez “weak and comfortable.” However Sánchez had her moments:

Sánchez is undaunted by the query of how she reconciles her personal carbon footprint together with her environmental work. “I believe Jeff and I actually are specializing in the long-term dedication to local weather, and we’re extraordinarily optimistic about it. Ten billion is just the start.” She says additionally they use inexperienced aviation gas when doable and that Koru can sail utilizing solely wind energy. “We’ve accomplished it and it’s magical.”

“Nicely, we’re trying LONG TERM, not at our personal jet use proper NOW, though our boat is rad, DID I MENTION MY BILLIONS???” isn’t REALLY an ideal reply to that.

[Photos by Annie Leibovitz, story by Chloe Malle]