Maybe there was some truth to The Devil Wears Prada after all?
After her blunt critique of festival style, Stacy London returns with even more controversial statements about the fashion world. The celebrity stylist and host of TLC’s Love, Lust or Run participated in a Facebook Q&A discussion with Cosmopolitan.com editor Amy Odell on March 31, and discussed her early career days as a Vogue employee.
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“Vogue was my first job out of college,” the TV host, 45, said. “I had been very thin [when] I interviewed for the job, then got double pneumonia before I started and within a year, I was up to 180 pounds,” London explained.
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In a bid to fit in with the rest of Anna Wintour‘s team, the fashion guru switched up her style in order to draw less attention to her body type. “Talk about feeling like and outsider… Lucky for me, that was the year grunge came in, so I could wear flannel shirts and big peasant skirts!” London said.
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Now looking back, London contemplates whether she would have landed the job had her interview occurred after her weight gain. “I don’t know whether I would have been hired at 180 pounds,” the What Not to Wear alum said.
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“Not looking the part in that environment was hard, but I overcompensated, did the work of three assistants, and tried to be the class clown.” London added, “Honestly, it’s less about whether Vogue would have hired me and much more about my own self-esteem issues. I worked super hard to compensate for not being a size 0.”
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