This episode is sponsored by my go to stop for makeup of all things Revlon. Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Graham. And this is pretty big deal. We're confidence is key every episode I get to pick the brains of brilliant and inspiring honest new and old friends who are a pretty big deal today. We are talking to the incredible Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Rosie is a model Beauty Enthusiast and badass business owner for But Eros ink is a widely successful online form that keeps visitors on The Cutting Edge of all things beauty. I'm good. I'm very pregnant that think so happy for you so much Carol, you're in the mommy game. Yeah hardcore Jax like to in a bit now. So what kind I feel like we're over the hump because the first year is like it is right. It just gets easier and easier and better and better. It's the best thing even the challenges the good moments and bad moments. All of it is just it's really incredible. I'm excited. I mean Everybody has kind of told me that exact same thing, but they're like you don't sleep. I mean there's exhausted like all the time. Oh geez. Okay. First of all, I'm so glad we are wearing the same color because I'm sure you've heard this and I'm sure you're flattered or may be embarrassed by but you're my style icon. I never had that you have it. Are you serious? No, well II screenshot and you are the most looks say in my saved IG folder. Seriously. Thanks Ash. I really You just have it together. You have like a sense of ease and cool girl. I don't know what it is. But it's you and it suits you and the other thing that I always talk about with my friends is that you're always like recycling something like you don't just get a bag where it once and then yeah it again like you're constantly wearing yeah, are these looks that you put together? Yeah. Do you have a stylist at does it like I want the tea, but I want to like I want to know I've Loved fashion since I can remember and that's really why I got into modeling. So I thought I'd work on the kind of Gates of behind-the-scenes part of the industry and ended up modeling which we can get to yes. Well we have to but I've worked with a stylus for red carpet for you know, the last seven or eight years and that's really when I feel like I need it because right so whole other beast but day-to-day I've always put my outfits together and and I just love it. It's like a fun creative part of my morning you put forward your best self. And I don't know. I've just always loved clothes. It's just what it is. I collect them. I'm actually really happy to hear. Here that you put your own looks together. Yeah, it's fun. Right so you'll be my stylist. Yeah. Okay, great. Yeah love that pleasure that you're one of the highest paid models in the world, and I know I know I know. No, you started really young and I want to hear from the beginning. Yeah, I started working when I was 16 when we have 15 at school. Everybody was encouraged to take a week of internship somewhere in a field of work that was interesting to them and having grown up in the countryside. I had this love for fashion ever since I can really remember my mum and I bonded over kind of buying the women's magazines and we'd sit together and go shop for my birthday. I would always ask for a subscription to to Elle Magazine and bizarre and things and so I really just kind of that was my was my passion. So when we were given this task of finding a place to to get a work experience, I got out the Yellow Pages and I just wrote to every kind of fashion brand that I had heard of at the time wrote off handwritten letters posted them. I wrote off the headquarters of Brands, you know shops. I had no idea had no contact to the fashion industry whatsoever. This is 1617 years ago. So this is even Before the internet was really kind of booming and one of the places I've written off to was a modeling agency. I came as a big one tiny tiny modeling agency. So I came home from school about a week later. And my mom said we got a phone call from this modeling agency and they want you to go up an intern and I thought oh my gosh. This is it. I'm going to be going on shoot. So I thought I would be out and the creative side of the industry and of course, you know cut to a few months later. Later, I'm up in London, like walk into this tiny little office and I realized that I was actually kind of brought up just to kind of empty the ashtray. No do faxes and be like, you know, someone that running all the errands it was such a tiny little agency humbling - yeah, it was and and of course like anybody who knows like an agency your it's an office units. So it was five or six Booker's sat around a table picking up phone calls, you know sending out faxes and I would just Out of there on the computer taking, you know, taking the phone and making Cups of Tea and pouring wine and doing all the kind of things that an intern does and office. I went back to school after we finish the week and I finished my exams and then I had the intention of going back you could leave school back then at 16 and if you wanted to go to university or college or to do the final two years. So my intention was to do the last two years of school. So 1718, which is called sixth form in the UK in the summer before I started 6-4. Um, I'd gone up to London with a friend and my uncle lived in London at the time and you know going up to London with a big deal. I was a country girl was a farm girl and so we were sort of pin London, you know walking along Oxford Street Kings Road going to the Museum's and my mom called me one day and she said you better go and poke your head into the modeling agency because darling it's not what you know, it's who you know and fashion. That's true. And that was one of the many shrew pieces of Base my mum's given me over the years and so I sort of you know, begrudgingly kick my heels. Went and poke my head in and there was a new Booker and she said, you know, I've been tasked with building out a new faces division. Can I take some Polaroids of you? There's you know, maybe something and she took some part because you came back in. Oh, wow. She took some Polaroids. She went back. She came back, you know 10 minutes later. And she said you need to grow your eyebrows back. We'll have to do something about the hair the braces. I guess they'll come off in time. Hopefully the skin of clear up, but what do you want to go out on some castings? And I thought all I want to do is go on a shoe because then I can see what job opportunities there are within the fashion industry because you didn't know photographers here make these images that you'd see in magazines and and I was always fascinated by what went on to make these images. What was the creative process of it who was on set? It was just so magical to me. And so I said, yes, I would love to went out on some castings and very quickly started to get you know. To do test shoots and then quickly from that started to get bookings and it was then a few months later. I was in New York. So I've always been really lucky with my career. I've always worked. Yes, wherever the work has been quality work, but I've been really lucky. I've always worked just as you move to New York ions. That was when I was 16, I then spent a bit of time. Just traveling. I went back to school. You know, remember my mom saying to me and I sort of had a bit of a breakdown She said your father and I will support whatever you do, but this sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I think you should run with it because it seems to be going pretty good. Oh, they were completely supportive of it. And so it's 17. I decided to leave school go full-time and I spend a lot of time in Paris and Europe and then went to New York for two weeks and called my mom and said I'm not coming home. I'm getting my first apartment. I love you, and she was like great go for it. Wow, and it's truly been I think the biggest gift. Parents have ever given me as the encouragement to fly and let me go. So yeah biggest thing. I think that if parents are constantly handcuffing their kids, then you're never going to know what their potential can be my mom at 17. I graduated high school and the next month. She was like you have to leave this house. Yeah. He's like it's time for you to go. I was like fine. I'm just moving to New York and she said great go do it and it was the best thing for me even though I don't know if I would let my 17 year old kid leave the house now in this is the thing now being a mom. Mom, I look back on that and I think gosh, you know every day I'm with my son. I think that's one less day. I have a viewer in my arms, you know, you really start to think of these things. That's why I always consider it being the greatest gift that they could ever give me was just to give me the encouragement support and still to this day. I know they're they're they're in the same house. I grew up in there just consistent support and normal and grounded and it's and I think it's kept me going through all the ups and downs. Yeah, because I share a similar career in yours. I mean in the beginning of catalog. Yeah catalog. I mean like those cute little checks coming through. In fact, nobody would know your name. They don't really know your face. Yeah. How long were you doing catalog until your big break and I want to know what that was. So when I started you were either considered a commercial or editorial and high-fashion Commercial modeling as you know is, you know Brands catalog. Log, it's Smiley. It's happy it's holster dancing. It's approachable and then editorial is much more creative It's Fashion least eyebrows. Yeah, it's smug. Look. Yeah, it's extreme. It's sort of fantasy fashion and luxury and so I always fitted into the commercial side and as a commercial model if you were successful you made money and actually in many cases you made more money than high fashion girl. So luckily for me even Oh, it was never creative enough for me to do catalog. You know, it's pretty standard. It can be yeah, you know how the days really good can be pretty boring at times but you know, it was like you said cute checks coming in. I was able to save I bought my first apartment when I was 19 and for me as well. I didn't really have my big break until you know years into the industry. I pounded the pavement had a lot of rejection. I was doing work that you know, I wasn't happy with and I think that it really he gave me this insight to the industry. It allowed me to kind of evolve and figure out what I wanted to do and dream and so it was then I think at about 19 that I got my big break with Victoria's Secret and I'd had a few few Great Moments When was Burberry Burberry was on my 21st birthday. Oh that was really like a coming-of-age moment. That's a big deal. You got that. First of all, I want to come back to Victoria's Secret and Burberry. Yeah, but before then what kept you moving like what? Have the Persistence of getting through catalog and and just saying I'm not doing what I want to do. Yeah, but I'm going to continue to keep moving on this trajectory Festival because I left school so young. So let me be candid. I had nothing else to fall back on right second of all I was making money and I could see that I was saving and you know, like I said, I had kind of taken a leap of faith to do this. I did not want to like go back home with my tail between my legs and I did not want to go back to school and third wheel because I really really dreamt and I could see this opportunity for myself and I just knew if I worked hard enough and I played my cards right I could get to where I wanted to be. That's and I find like creative visualization really the core of any success. I've had in my life whether it's in my personal life or career like that is at the core of everything I do is that I've allowed myself to see myself there. It always have a five-year plan. I know where I want to go. I'm ambitious. It's that's that's all. Really what it comes down to do you do a vision boards? I think I do. Well, I mood board everything in my life. My team will tell you that but I just have always seen I've seen it, you know where I want to be. It's funny because last time I was home, my mom just went where does it come from? Like I just don't understand your brother and sister aren't like this your father and I aren't like this and I think it's something I feel lucky that's always been, you know in me you had a taste of it and you couldn't go back. Yeah. Okay, so then how old were you when you got Victoria's Secret? I was 19. Okay. So Victoria's Secret. Holy crap. You booked the job. Was it everything in more when he went on set? Yes. Yes, baby shows that you walk. I walked five shows. So I work for vs for about five years. It was a dream come true. I'd had an American boyfriend for a little bit and he said we're walking down Broadway and you know the big store and on Broadway and he said that's what you want to do. That's Adriana Lima. And that's just how and I thought. Yeah, that is like that is that is amazing like that is the best of the best to be to be part of that company and so luckily I'd actually had years of doing catalog and years of doing lingerie. I was always the lingerie catalog girl cause you were curvier than a Runway and I was sure and I boobs and a bomb. I think they tested me out on one shoe and then the bookings came they were always slow with me. I was never kind of like the girl there. I was just always very very proud to work with them at that time. Yeah, and that kind of helped catapult you into high fashion. Yeah, I think there was a real shift around the age when I was about 24 Victoria's Secret had led me to Transformers which was my first film. I'd actually much she's not an actress people. She's not an actress. I remember when we first met we were sitting there front row and I was like, so oh you live in LA, is that because Of your job when you go, oh, do you think I'm an actress? I was like, yeah, I just saw you you were awesome. No, I'm not an actress. Yeah, it was an opportunity of a lifetime. I'm glad I did it but I failed that it was something I feel really lucky. I got to try my hand at but nothing I never felt a passion for it and the same way I feel passion for other things in my life. And that's a whole other story. But yeah that led me to the Receipt will be done a commercial Michael Bay cast me then in Transformers. And then with that came this whole, you know repositioning of me within within my work and also at that time the industry took a big shift, I think social media just started to come into play and I think that these girls that were considered to be commercial had it much more as approachability a word there was just sure we'll make it. Was that a consumer or an audience related? Two more with commercial models and so the industry would see the, you know, these girls followers and Their audience was much bigger and something happened where you would start to see other women, you know in these kind of high fashion and walking down the runway and suddenly we were being embraced in a different way and we had that voice. Yeah, and then of course social media really has taken off in the last few years and which we can talk about because that is I mean your social media is Saying I swear you look put up a chair and I'm like I want that tank. Oh good. I don't know. It's like your aesthetic is so on point you have a social media team that helped. I do four rows think for me I don't have help for your I'd like to I'm just taking pictures all the time. I see inspiration around me everywhere and I see it through Furniture. I see it through ART I through galleries architecture fashion film and I just felt like why am I not sharing all of these things that I've got like count Those photographs about and it's nice to know that people respond to them as well. And well, I'm a responder execute grid. Yes, girl. Well, you're a gret as rock and it's consistent. It's very color-coordinated. So let's fast forward. Yeah to you did fashion. You did Runway your you just had so many great moments. And now you're a mother and Jack is to Jack is doing a bit and I know and I just I want to talk about like what is that? What is The hood mean to you. Aw. It's just such a journey. It's hard to even put it into words really because I will say I don't think I was in any way prepared for the emotional side of becoming a mother really, I've never really been around babies before I knew it was time to start a family and I knew I had this inkling and me that I wanted to have a baby but the maternal Instinct never really kicked in until I gave of birth really it was incredibly overwhelming on so many different levels because here was here. I am with this newborn baby that I had this overwhelming sense of love for and it is a huge identity shift. And so that first year for me was a mix of like pure joy a lot of anxiety learning as I went redefining my identity to myself to my partner to my work to my son. And it's a very intimate kind of personal experience and really beautiful because I feel like I've evolved and grown so much and there is just nothing that comes close to how proud I feel of him and how much and I just stare at her could stare at him all day long Susan. Yeah. Yeah because you're so close with your mom. Have you taken any advice from her raising Jack? Yeah, you know, it's funny I think as well when I when I found out I was pregnant. Pregnant you do a lot of looking back on your own childhood, right? You look at the things that were really impactful to you the things that really shaped you the things that you didn't shave your things that didn't shave you or Dare and you start to kind of cultivate your own way of like parenting, you know, I had such a great childhood on so many levels and that but there are a lot of things I want to do differently. You know, I'm 32 study. Years ago my parents came from you know completely different generation and you know the world I'm living in now compared to the world that I grew up in which was a very sheltered rustic country life and the world I live in today and the challenges and the opportunities and the exciting fast-paced world that I live in is very different from my own childhood. And so yes, she's there she's there at the end of the phone and again just such a huge support and she's just always got my back. Do you know what I mean? My mom's the same. I've been told her and be like I've done that she's like no you're in the right times. You just need that to know that you know, my pregnancy has been it's been like a roller coaster of emotions. I mean my first trimester I was just tired and I like a little queasy and then like towards the end of it. I think I just started crying a lot more body was changing so rapidly and you know, let's talk about that because I don't want to talk about that. I have had really terrible days. Really good days, you know everybody can tell you how cute your Bump is but when your body is changing so rapidly it's like you kind of have to like succumb to it. Yeah. Did you have a similar experience you did? I gained a reasonable amount of weight. I gained about 55 pounds pounds. I feel like I'm on my way to there. I'm like at 40 right now and I've still got two more money. Yeah. That's an I enjoy myself. Let me bring you know some new. Experience so you're kind of like wow, let's see how this goes and six months in I was like, wow, it was an intense journey and the same thing it was kind of like so magical to see your I never felt more like of a at towards the end. I just I basically walked around naked for the last week. I was in the pool all day and I just was like fuck it anymore. This is me. By the end, I just felt really empowered in my body, but it took a minute to get there and then suddenly afterwards when I'd had Jack and I would look in the mirror and I was like, I've got 35 40 pounds to lose and I go to the gym go to the gym go to the gym. It's not falling off. It's not coming up. It was a very humbling for me because you know having had a certain body type like, you know for most of my life certainly the the last few years. I've never felt fitter. I was very Raylene I was in good shape and people always ask me about my body my workout and you hear yourself saying, you know workout three times a week and did it in there and I just felt like no I cannot tell people how to feel about their bodies because everybody has a different experience and I will say like working out in the gym and looking back at myself and feeling like shit. I was like now I understand like how hot it is for some people to get The gym and it just took so long to see that weight shift and I've had girlfriends that have lost it within two or three months. There. Was that bounce back that was fearful thing and for me I breastfed for six months. I didn't lose a pound I breastfed and I ate so much because you're starving and you want to eat eat. I was more hungry when he was born, but you need to make milk, right your body needs that. I would eat a whole box of bran flakes first time in my life. I've ever craved bran flakes. Anyway, it did it took a full year. It was just after them at ball and I got on the scale and I was like, oh I'm back to where I was before but it took a long time and it was a real humbling experience for me because yeah, I remember there was a little bit of press to about you at the in your swimming suit and the Press was tearing you apart and it was so Clearly that we are saying about yeah, I couldn't believe that's funny because I didn't know anyone ever really sees that stuff and I was on a shoe. The only reason I'm yeah it was because obviously it's in my wheelhouse. Yeah, and somebody had sent it to me and was like, isn't this discussing? Yeah girl is like a size 6 I had gone on a shoot for my swimwear line. Yes. We were in the Caribbean and frolicking around the beach having fun with my team, you know, very unselfconscious. Conscious and the next day. We're all on the shoe and the photographers like oh there's tons of Paparazzi shots, and I'm like, oh my gosh, and I'm always like that because I don't worry. I actually find being packed very uncomfortable and it's especially when this sneaker. Yeah, it's very just unnatural the whole experience of being spied on or even if they're there it's something I've never really kind of gotten comfortable with so the Press comes out and you know, I read it like sometimes you just read these things. I don't often read stuff, but I wanted to See the pages and so I read it and I was kind of taken aback by some of the comments that people had and most so what it was upsetting for as the kind of narrative around how women are supposed to look it wasn't so much like oh that's really hurtful towards me. Like I kind of amused two things over the years. I can brush it off. It was just like shocking like to see someone write another body ruined after a baby and you're like, What the fuck like, you know sure I haven't bounced back at seven months later. But like I'm you know, you looked amazing juice but it's one of those things it comes with the territory it does but it's not fair. It was ever fair for a couple of days, but you get on it makes you stronger and but really it was more kind of like really are we still at this place where we have to defend our body Sheriff like bouncing? After a baby, it's just everybody's body is different. Everyone's on their own journey, and I really want for every mother to really focus on herself ultimately but also the time with her child and it will come and it will happen and everybody gets back to a place where they feel good again. And well that's good advice I take I feel better now then and I feel it different respect for my body than I did before. I'm going to take that advice home and really keep it. Yeah dear to my heart because I keep thinking about what's going to happen after but I need to not I need to think about focusing on my baby. And yeah, so I'm glad I did it that way. Is this part of the reason why you decided to not put jack? Face on social for me. It was just like it's a no-brainer really like I just always felt really strongly that it should be Jack's decision if he wants to live a public life. I just dread the idea of him turning around to me at 15 16 and being like you and Dad just didn't protect me you hold me out. It should be his choice. I want him to feel normal because without trying it's going to you know, it's going to happen, you know, and it's really different for everyone and I don't judge either way, but that's what fills most authentic to me. And that's what you know, it's good. I'm so curious because like, you know and having this baby and it's so hot my yeah, gorgeous. Really small and Rail and then when I go to work, it's they could shift of identity and it just helps me like kind of process everything. I need to feel that down-to-earth thing. Well, let's talk about what's going on right now with you Rose ink baby. I mean the whole creative process happened in your third trimester. I'd had the idea of setting up a Content platform for quite some time. Every time I sit down to do an interview the journalist would ask me for my tips my tricks and I could just see see there was this appetite for it. And so I had this idea and I've always been a lover of like fashion magazines and blogs and websites and content platforms. And so I really just kind of wanted to build something and so for several years. I've been really thinking about it. And of course I was on a plane every 10 days two weeks every five days. Like I was traveling all over I said yes to everything and I had fallen pregnant and I thought okay. Still going to work so I still had to work through my pregnancy, but I'm going to sort of strip back on the traveling a little bear and I built out a team and we literally sat around my kitchen table for a year whilst I was pregnant as I was breastfeeding and still now Jack comes in first for some of the meetings have wherever at home now, we have an office but we started in 2017. We started to build and then launch 2018. You know, what eight? 18 months and now so 18 months until when you first started you had seven employees. Yeah, we've got about yeah six seven employees in the office. Okay, and then, you know, we have like a sort of creative teams that you know, we kind of Outsourcing and work with on a regular basis as well. So videographers photographers and editors graphic designers and all of that. It's like people don't need to be in the office every day. So yeah, it's it's a full-on operation its kind of and growing and Changing quickly and it's very exciting. Rosen is a full digital Beauty Forum think of it like an online magazine for beauty. My intention was really to build a community of beauty lovers and to share everything that I've learned over the 1617 years. Well because makeup chair as a model. It's like every day you get a new tip or trick every single day you're working with a new artist or an office you've worked with for years and I just felt like like this is what people want to know, you know, I want to like democratize this kind of information and make it available for people and so and I and it's also my passion and I want to share I want to know what they want. I want to I want to start a dialogue and a conversation around something. I feel passionate about I feel comfortable talking about and so we launched the site. I don't show YouTube channel and it's really been about celebrating artist within the industry highlight. In hero products highlighting new Experts New influences and just kind of like having this place where we can all talk and share and talk about everything and anything beauty related and and deeper and what beauty really means two people on it on a deeper level. So I know I actually started using Katie Jane Hughes because you post it on your Instagram. I know she's the best she's so great and it was like, who is this girl and then she didn't like she didn't have an agency. So I had to DM. Yeah, and it's like such a new wave. Yeah. How to put I love that's one of my favorite things about social media is finding new talent and building relationships with them and it's been really special to be a small part of some of these peoples like stories and you know, there's just so many different ways of launching your career. Now, there's the traditional route as an artist and then there's this new wave and I just really want to celebrate all of it. Where do you see Rosie ink in the next five years? I see the content continuing to strengthen and you know, all the other things are going. I don't want it. I know well, yeah, let's I mean you have to ask you I have it. Yeah, you've seen like really great packages. Yeah. I see ambitious you nice escape plan. I'm not going to say anything today. But all those things are okay. So the skincare this make up those hairs all the things. Well, that's fine. And also you have Have Mark and Spencers autograph for Rosie and that lingerie I mean it takes over it is it's everywhere. Yes. How long have you had that Lavinia? It's now which is flex on us. Tell us some stats girl. Yeah, so I signed with Marks and Spencers the face of women's wear and that was about eight years ago as a young model. I always had done a lot of lingerie shoots, and I'd work for vs. I decided to walk away from vs. When I was 24, and because I really knew that I wanted to have my own line and there was just What they're sort of I kind of reached the ceiling for where I could go with vs and things shifted at the company and now things are shifting scoob. Wow. So that's another conversation. I felt like it was time for me to kind of Branch off and do my own thing and I always believed like a piece of career advice. Somebody gave me as that. You should always kind of look at your partners and your relationships and your contacts that you have already and so I started to do A little bit of research on Marks & Spencer and what I very quickly Learned was that they are you know by far the most dominant lingerie retailer in the UK. They own a third of the lingerie Market in the UK. Wow. So the statistic is like one in three women is wearing a Marks & Spencer bra at any time. So one in three women probably have Rosie on their boobs right now, hopefully. Whoo. Yeah, so I think then there's like a funny statistic and you know statistics or whatever, but it's like one in three women are wearing them expensive. And then one in three is wearing a Rosy bra which is kind of cool. So whether that's true or not. I don't know how to say it is but so I did this sort of research and I kind of very boldly as most of my kind of beginnings of things start and naively improve in a way went to the board and the heads at marks and Spencer and said would you be interested in doing a collaboration with me and they said yeah. Let's let's just let's start it small don't know if it'll go anywhere. We'll do a season. We'll just keep it really small and I think you know the time they just wanted you know to have my faith in lingerie. And so it was an opportunity to do that. It's grown into sleep where we dabbled in active. We're swearing fragrance Beauty. Wow loungewear. And so it's this kind of this that's a great example of just going out and getting what you want. Listen. That's just the way I do things. It's like I It's something I go after it. So someone can say is like no it's beep olds and just kind of go off to what it is that you want. If you truly believe in yourself, I feel like other people believe in you. It's infectious, right? I love that. Oh, yeah. So your mom your business woman. You're a wife. You are a model you're traveling. You've got employees Toby. I got your style icon giving me anxiety. There's just so many things. But what is the work/life yourself balanced like self-care bounds? I know there's no such thing as perfect. But what is it for you that keeps you grounded. I know that you have talked about The Four Agreements being something like a book that was really near and dear to you. But I just want to know like what is what is that that keeps you grounded or keeps you balanced. It's a really big question because I feel like it's definitely what Living right now and being a new mom and being somebody that finds a lot of passion from my work finding that balance is a struggle prioritize my family first and foremost and that's just like no nonnegotiable. Yeah, but you know with a career like ours it kind of can come and go very quickly and it probably will, you know, you're in it you make hay while the sun shines you see opportunity and you you sort of have to Have to stay on top of it. And that's also something I feel like I've always tried to do is kind of look ahead and and say yes and get on with things and the balance is just something I don't really know if I believe in it. I think it's another pressure but I think that the prioritizing your family first trying whenever you're in one scenario whether I'm at the office or whether I'm at home whether I'm on a shoe. I'm out with my son or I'm on vacation and I'm you know, kind of whatever I'm doing for work, wherever I am. I try and be really present. So when I'm with my son the phone goes away, you know, I'll go lock it in my bathroom. My time has him going to be devoted to him when I'm at work. I'm focused on that and of course, I'm reachable but you know surrounding myself with a really wonderful team. I have a wonderful team of women that I work with at a couple of men who I who I adore. Oh, and Jason really is the owner ultimately one of the most real grounding grounded people. I know and he is honestly the most supportive person. I know, you know, he really has always encouraged me and always my number one fan and it goes both ways and I think with that and with the encouragement of my parents and the support and love of friends and family around you you sort of feel like you can fly. A little bit but you know, I've had a really busy couple of weeks and I'm craving to go to London on Sunday and know that I'm going to have a few weeks off and like I can take my son to all the Museum's. I'm just so excited to like taken to so go see plays spend some time with his aunt and uncle and grandparents and you know, so all those things and making sure you really schedule the time with your family and I going on holidays. It's a big deal and Jason took off two years. Yeah during your pregnancy. This was so sweet. Yeah, and I'm still I'm like, what are you doing? He's you know, he's indifferent. It's really as thinking about it the other day. It's really cool. Because when we're at home in Allah, I have almost like a nine-to-five I'm you know out during the day and he is at home a lot because he has you know, he's an actor. So he's either gone for a few months or he's at home and when he goes off to work, I typically kind of go With with wherever he's based. So his last few projects have been in London, which has been great. We can sort of relocate and when I'm in London things are a little bit, you know, I'm away from the office a little bit more. I'm not as available. And so although I'm you know, we're always available phone and whatnot. But it's I sort of saw it as you know, we're able to really kind of support and be flexible with each other's projects and I you know, I sort of realized it and felt really grateful that we We have that kind of flexibility between us but yeah, he took off he took off a good couple of years and you know, he's he just loves being a dad and I love it. It's really kind of cool to see that. So Cory loves and to see this big tough. Like stroke is Sonia just like Jack is really cute. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's a great way to end this. Thank you. So thanks so much for being here one last thing that we do on pretty She'll is we do a lightning round of live boldly rapid question. Okay, so you just have to kind of answer the simple question. What's the last pretty penny you spent? I bought a Bottega Veneta clutch with Gabby yesterday another one. Yeah, how many do you have now? It's really bad. Which color is it? I bought a beige. I bought like beige new kind of crust. I don't like it when we kind of but they're like collectors items. Yeah, the collect and I there Are so expensive. But yeah, so I bought that yesterday with her. Okay, biggest deal breaker biggest deal breaker for me as Liars. Mmm and When I don't like to work on anything where it's not collaborative like I don't need to have my voice. I need to feel like I'm part of a deal-breaker. Yeah, okay, and because you're on pretty big deal and you're a pretty big deal, what's a pretty big deal to you pretty big deal to me is my son today coming out of his little preschool with like you've made some kind of like pumpkin picture and stuck a lot of things. There's just Like the best I can't wait for those days. Yeah, so sweet. Thank you for coming. Thank you for being here. Thanks Ashley. Don't forget to join the conversation on social follow pretty big deal on Instagram and Twitter and send us all your questions and comments. We want to hear from you.
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