Julia Fox on “The View”.Photo:ABC
ABC
Julia Foxis spilling all her style secrets.
During anappearanceonThe ViewWednesday, the actress, 33, opened up about her joy for wearing latex — something that stemmed from her days of working as a dominatrix in a Manhattan dungeon at age 18.
“I loved wearing the latex outfits and really going full dom,” she said.
“In the beginning, it was a little harder to pull it on but now I can just do it,” said Fox. “But the trick to latex is actually lube. I see a lot of girls wearing latex and they don’t lube up their latex and then it doesn’t have the shine!”
Sunny Hostinadded that she was “learning so much,” asJoy Beharjoked, “These are the kind of tips you only get onThe View.”
Backstage photo of Julia Fox’s appearance on “The View”.The View ABC/Instagram
The View ABC/Instagram
Prior to her latex revelation, Fox spoke about what she learned from being a dominatrix.
“I think prior to that, I just had really low self-esteem,” she shared. “You could tell me I was beautiful and this, but I would always think, ‘They want something from me.’ I was already very jaded, even as a young teenager.”
That changed once she started making money off her beauty, something she said she was able to use as “a metric on which I could really measure my worth” (even if she was just making $85 an hour doing it).
She went on to praise the job for inspiring her to be an actor. “A lot of it is role play, a lot of it is cosplay. So really, that’s where eI learned to act,” she said, noting how she’s have “5 clients in a day and each one of them [would want] something different.”
“One wants the mean popular girl in school, one wants a nun, one wants a neglectful mother,” Fox said. “I had all the costumes ready.”
“That’s50 Shades of Julia!” joked Navarro.
Julia Fox is seen on October 11, 2023.Gotham/GC IMAGES
Gotham/GC IMAGES
Foxspoke more about her dominatrix pastand shared new details about her life in her new memoirDown the Drain, which is out now. Ahead of its release, she opened up toThe New York Timesaboutwhat she hopes readers will take from her story.
“The book swallowed my life. Everything became book, book, book. I didn’t go out. I didn’t take other jobs. I was doing it for me. It felt really cathartic,” she said. “It was really important to be honest and vulnerable.”
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“My hope now would be that someone reads it and thinks: ‘She went through this and look at her now. I can get over anything,'” she added.
The Viewairs weekdays (at 11 a.m. ET) on ABC.
source: people.com
