Well, well. I should have remembered before now that Amal Clooney is one of the hosts of this year’s Met Gala. One of the hosts always gets the May cover of Vogue. Rihanna is also one of the hosts, but I guess Anna Wintour thought Amal would be a bigger “get.” Amal delivered too: she invited Vogue into her English country home, Aberlash House in Sonning Eye, on the Thames. Amal allowed Vogue to photograph her extensively in her home – go here to see the editorial – and Amal and George both sat for interviews. Amal even got to plug some of her legal cases too – she invited Yazidi Nadia Murad into the interview, and Nadia is photographed by Vogue as well. You can read the full Vogue piece here. There are SO MANY details to absorb. Amal calls George “my love.” That’s her pet name for him. His home office is dark and clubby where her home office is light and bright. And so much more. Highlights:
The babies’ first words: “We’ve had some ‘Mamas’ and ‘Dadas,’ ” Amal says. She smiles coyly. “George was very careful to ensure that ‘Mama’ was the first word.”
George on Amal: “She’s the professional, and I’m the amateur. I get to see someone at the absolute top of their game doing their job better than anybody I’ve ever seen.”
She and George tried a healthy-eating cleanse. “It was hard to give up the glass of wine in the evening, but even harder to give up the espresso first thing in the morning. We’re like, Aren’t we supposed to be feeling amazing?” They bailed on day eleven of three weeks.
They love photos: The mantel is decorated with wedding photos; the Clooneys love photos above all else. Some of their most cherished paintings, by contrast, are of George’s late, beloved cocker spaniel, Einstein (posed as a physics professor at a chalkboard), and the head of a giraffe (Amal adores giraffes). When some insurance appraisers came by, a while back, they spent some time peering at these paintings of dogs and leaf-munching mammals before issuing a pointedly low estimate on the Clooneys’ art. “They were like, ‘It’s barely worth getting a policy,’ ” Clooney says, dropping her voice in mock umbrage. “They were very judgmental.”
Falling for George: “It felt like the most natural thing in the world. Before that experience, I always hoped there could be love that was overwhelming and didn’t require any weighing or decision-making.” Now she felt she’d found it, on the strangest of flukes. “It’s the one thing in life that I think is the biggest determinant of happiness, and it’s the thing you have the least control over. Are you going to meet this person? I was 35 when I met him. It wasn’t obvious that it was going to happen for me. And I wasn’t willing or excited about the idea of getting married or having a family in the absence of that.”
When George knew he would marry Amal: They went on a safari in Africa. “Some giraffes walked up to her,” he recalls. “They just came out of the blue. I took a picture of her, and she was smiling. I said to my buddy Ben, ‘You know, I think I should ask her to marry me.’ And Ben said, ‘I think that’s a good idea.’ ”
There’s so much more, about her law career and what she’s working on now and her career path. She seems to genuinely adore being a mom, and she seems slightly surprised by how much she adores it too. Like, both George and Amal didn’t really have marriage and babies on their radars before they met each other. I mean, is this all some sort of weird Clooney PR? For sure. But I have to admit, I bought it. I bought a large chunk of it.
Anna Wintour discusses the Amal Clooney cover shoot and the upcoming 2018 Met Gala. https://t.co/RAy6tDyXYj
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) April 10, 2018
Cover courtesy of Annie Leibovitz for Vogue.
I’m only here for the pics and they’re…not great. Have a dated feel and not very flattering.
I’m sure the griping and complaining has already started on this site but I think Amal looks great here. What else is George supposed to say? He’s dammed to condemnation no matter what comes out of his mouth. I’d love to see the twins, hopefully they’ll bring them out in the not too distant future.
I like her just fine, and have no problem with them as a couple. My comments are only about the pics, which I think could have been better with a subject as striking and stylish as Amal.
Amal is not a model or actress. As much as people like to pretend that anyone could model with the right looks it’s just not true. Modelling involves a skill set. Even “natural” seeming poses are not so natural when actually taking the photo. A good model employs all sorts of angles, uncomfortable positions (back arching etc), connects with camera and more. When striking a pose that looks normal in a photograph one often feels contorted and exaggerated in real life. I would guess that Amal – much like most people – feels slightly awkward when having to do a professional model shoot and it shows a little bit. She is beautiful, tall and thin but her professional skills lie elsewhere. So even though I bet she found the dressing up and all of that fun, this is not her schtick. The most talented portrait photographers can pull an incredible photograph out of normal people but Vogue seems to be using a normal fashion photographer here so yes: the shots are a bit boring I suppose.
However, I don’t care! I think Amal is fabulous and a fantastic role model and I’m thrilled that they’ve featured her! The red Oscar de la Renta jumper and black leather pants is my favourite ensemble on her. Also, her hair is impeccable as always.
Good points, SKF. I wish they had put her with a different photographer. Something about the soft focus lighting and framing of the shots doesn’t feel modern to me. Whereas I think she looks fabulous in that train shot with George. Regardless, she certainly does have the most enviable hair going!
Yes a really talented portrait photographer could have done something really special. Alas – it was not to be!
“So even though I bet she found the dressing up and all of that fun, this is not her schtick.”
They’re not featuring her because she’s a new standard of beauty, because she has exceptional taste in fashion, because pre-marriage she was an upcoming-and-coming barrister, or solely because she’s married to Clooney. They’re featuring her because she sells advertising space, plain and simple. And she would would not have helped Vogue, Vanity Fair, and other fashion-leaning magazines sell so much space were she not such a massive fashion fan (or victim, you decide) married to a famous person.
Why is there a website devoted to her style? It’s horrific and on it’s best days horrendous. Her style is either dated, tacky and juvenile or overly matronly.
First off her hair: I know every one goes on and one about her mane, but, Jesus take the wheel on this one, it is dry at the ends and stringy. She needs a cut, badly. Her look would be so much more fresh and interesting. She parts her hair in the SAME way, for every.single.photo.op – parted to the left side, her curls straightened out with the remnant frizz at the roots showing. Why not just go natural? Her naturally curly hair is more beautiful and more interesting. Take out some of the clip in extensions too.
Her fashion style and taste is bizarre. She dresses like an IG teenager on her off hours or she dresses like a school marme when she puts her lawyer hat on? You can tell the times, when she uses a stylist. Or she just pulls a look directly from the runway – where’s the creativity?
She is so thirsty for the cameras. You can see it for day one. When she was first videographed she was in NYC and was chatting to a woman, once the cameras/videos came around she left her friend and started posing like a Kardashian in a quick minute. Then she bounced back to her car and that was the beginning of the ‘coy coquettish eyes’ and Beyonce-level hair flipping and hair molesting for the cameras (pssst … we get it, you have long hair).
Funny, she’s shoved down our throat as legal unicorn. She does bring attention to worthy causes, but pleaze, a unicorn she ain’t. She’s striking because she’s tall, thin and has long hair – but beauty is not … a fact, it’s an opinion. All the rag mags calling her an undoubted beauty? Oh lawd. There is doubt, it’s not uniform opinion of the masses.
Folks saying she gets hate because she’s not White. Huh? She looks White to me? If I saw her walking down the street, I would not say “oh there goes, the non-white lady” and trust, I’m not White so don’t play the race card on me. She gets the hate, because she’s annoying and fake. Trust, I knew her in NYC, she was in love with herself then and as much as she is now.
The best part of this editorial is that they lightened her eyebrows and made them less angular (i.e. Joan Crawford-ish). But, dude, we know she probably requested the wind machine but she’s a “Serious Attorney”, not a Kardashian on a cover of ET. It just makes the whole editorial cheesy, fake and silly. You don’t need wind machines. Her extensions might blow off.
Why is the wind perpetually blowing in the same direction so that her hair flows in the same.exact.way in every.single.photo. just like the wind machine was set up while she was wearing her wedding dress with Oscar de la Renta.
She has a heavy hand in how she’s photographed. Her hair must be styled and parted in the same exact boring way she’s been wearing every day since she’s been spotted by the paps, even on on her wedding day. Come again, she’s a style icon because she wears tacky and ridiculously expensive sh*et and has a wind machine following her as she flips her hair everywhere.
I love the red sweater in the editorial pics
That was my favorite pic, too! Red sweater + leather pants. I liked all the outfits, though!
She has an amazing sense of style and what goes well with her body type!
Yup, LOVE that sweater, and sooooo want it in my closet! However, I’m sure it costs more than my monthly income lol. Any ID on it??
I appreciate her contributions to her field, but I’m rolling my eyes so hard at this. George is really going for portraying this quasi feminist version of Jackie O..
I feel like he is overdoing it. The constant self deprecation while fawning a bit much about her comes across as fake. Like a man who dated women who were nowhere near his equal, was made fun of for that and is now the lucky nobody who married the most brilliant woman in the world.
I feel you guys.
My husband was like that in the beginning (20 something years ago) and I told him it sounded a bit condescending. It was sincere I know for sure but some friends who did not have an ideal relationship cringed while others looked at him in complete awe as if they wanted to put him in his pocket!
Annoyed the crap out of me and came off as self-centered even if I know it wasn’t. He’s learned to cool it down.
Sorry but what exactly did Jackie O contribute to society other than fashion?? If he wants to think the sun rises and sets on his wife I think that’s absolutely fantastic. And unlike Jackie O, Amal is doing amazing work for the betterment of women in worn torn countries.
Valiant…im with you… this site’s commentators are just a bunch of negative nancies…
I really like Amal…. she is a career woman and found love and had babies and thats really awesome for her… I guess i identify with that….. like she prob saw her colleagues and the like get engaged in law school or whatnot and oo and ahhh about that in their 20’s … I too recently found love again in my late 20’s while my friends were already married up and babies out of college or highschool… i chose my career and to never settle and didnt think it was in the cards for me but that was totally fine… i had my dog and my house and a career and traveling and writing…but like amal i met my fiance and in months was engaged …. and he talks about me to anyone like george talks about amal… its really sweet. Let’s root for them man!
@ValiantlyVarnished – very true about Jackie O. She was a fascinating person on her own and I adore her, but I wouldn’t put here up there, next to Amal, Michelle or Diana achievement wise.
Jackie was deeply committed to the arts and historic preservation. She wasn’t able to do much while she was First Lady due to (a) her time in the White House being cut short and (b) having two little kids, she oversaw the White House restoration. And she had a TON of achievements after JFK’s assassination, including helping establish the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and saving Grand Central Terminal from demolition.
Granted, that’s nowhere near as impressive as the human rights work of Michelle, Diana and Amal. But as someone who works in the arts (and who basically would not have a career were it not for the NEA), I cannot emphasize enough how important her accomplishments were. Jackie was in fact much more than a fashion icon, and far smarter than we remember her to be today.
These comments about Jackie Kennedy Onassis bug me. Jackie was one of the first career women who worked and paved the way. She was a cub-photographer for a newspaper when few women had jobs at all, and at 40 she started a new career as a book editor. She said it was challenging being a woman in the 70’s trying to start a 9-5 new career. A lot of people didn’t give her a chance, but she persevered.
She also was the mother of modern historical preservation. The White House, Lafayette Park and Grand Central Station certainly wouldn’t look like they do today without her, plus many more. She was a strong supporter of the arts, i.e. the creation of the Kennedy Center. She helped many more philanthropic causes too. Finally, she helped a country grieve over the loss of our young leader during a turbulent decade. The fact that you only know her style makes me really sad, because she was a trail blazer. Certainly, her achievements out pace a lot of the women you admire above especially Amal at this point.
@M I agree with most of what you said about Jackie, but she was far more involved in a lot of things than you think. She became a lot less public about it after the death of RFK to protect her children. She was afraid they would be targeted. Apparently, Caroline was the target of a few kidnapping threats. Jackie was the patron of many philanthropic causes and the JFK Library and foundations are still really active today helping poverty, civics, scholarship and education issues, and she created them. It kind of reminds me of Eliza Hamilton. Who would have known that she is the creator of orphanages and the Washington Monument if it wasn’t for the play Hamilton.
Now I think Jackie was the first Michelle Obama and Princess Diana, they just took on the role Jackie created. Other than Eleanor Roosevelt who had a very different first lady position, most First Ladies didn’t do anything, and my understanding is Diana even talked to Jackie about her role.
Now as far as Amal, and I don’t dislike her but she is just a a human rights lawyer who has taken some of her new found fame to help people. This is great, but she really hasn’t done much yet, it hardly puts her in the same place as the other ladies. I mean a lot of people have done this and better Audrey Hepburn, Angelina Jolie among others.
Unlike others I like the pictures. She does have a weird hunch when she walks or poses, but George moves his head funny sometimes according to Spielburg maybe he thought it was endearing.
I find it rather sad that the three women who are set as great role models here are all women who became famous through their marriages. I adore Michelle Obama but the fact is I wouldn’t have known who she is if it wasn’t for her husband. I wouldn’t consider Diana a great role model, regardless of some of the work she’s done on HIV and landmines. Even as a child, during peak Diana years, I found the world obsession with her pretty out of proportion.
How about women who became famous for their work and contributions to society? Merkel? Lagarde? Serena? Oprah? Atwood? Mirzakhani? Beyonce? There are many more names. While Canada’s head of state Queen and her family attract so much attention, including mine, her representative, Governor General of Canada, Julie Payette is a much more accomplished women than the whole BRF times 100.
maybe it bothers you because you dont like amal. brad pitt used to say the same things about angelina, krasinski with blunt etc.
Many do. David Bowie about Iman, Pierce Brosnan over Keely Shaye-Smith, Hugh Jackman goes on and on about his wife.
But their non-celeb wives weren’t pushed out to be celebrities in their own right.
This relationship is so fake to me, i don’t know maybe is because I’m a big cynic.
If it seems too good to be true…
Yaaaaase!!!
youre a cynic
I feel a bit cynical too, only because the whole thing happened so fast and she was so different than his previous taste in women. And he’s been a bit OTT performative every step of the way (at times approaching Tom Cruise jumping on the couch level). But I like her, and want it to be real, so I’m just kind of left hoping that it is.
Screams PR relationship to me but again, I’m just like that.
The most beautiful woman in the world
Well, the bitchy comments didn’t take long did they. Did Amal Clooney run over your dog or something?
Yes. And Meghan Markle was in the passenger seat laughing hysterically, while Blue Ivy stage directed from a carseat in the back.
lololol right??
Slightly-YES And depending which side of the feud you are on, somehow Jennifer Aniston and Angelina were in the backseat as well. 😛
@SlightlyAnonny, you gave me a great laugh today!
Thank you ~
@slightlyannony LMFAO!!!
That’s what I was wondering!
Yes! The bitchy comments here about Amal are so surprising. She’s the sort of woman i’m happy to read about, intelligent, interesting and wears fashion that is always noteworthy (good or bad).
It’s not her fault her husband is so over the top cringey in his admiration for her. She, at least, never gushes so profusely about his acting skills.
Frankly George married up, and i think he knows it too. As for Amal, she’s living the dream, a stellar career, two kids, a doting husband and unlimited wardrobe budget. Maybe that’s why she’s so disliked? Because she is the embodiment of “having it all”?
she is! but that makes me in awe of her. i firmly believe “you can have it all, just not all at once” but dang it, is she proving me wrong!
I would rather look at Amal as a role model than Kim Khardashian who has to show her tits and arse to make money because that’s all she has to offer.
That’s it, George is so over the top cringy. Why do we always go after the women, and then compare them to all other women and of course she’s not going to beat all of them: George’s many exes, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Obama, Princess Di, Jackie Onassis? Who’s next Mother Theresa? We are not all in competition with each other. I know I’m not, I don’t want George, maybe only his money sometimes like when I’m paying my kid’s tuition.
@Brittany: Check the name of the site you’re on.
Yes, the site is called Celebitchy but generally there are some grounds for the “bitchiness” to ensue.
Amal is not white, that says it all. A classy, beautiful, intelligent woman married Clooney and he’s praising her. That is what husbands are meant to do!
Have to admit I’ve bought the whole thing. I find them kind of fabulous! Amal is living a dream life in my book.
Agreed, I think they are cute honestly.
I agree. I like them both a lot, and think they make a sweet couple. I’m surprised so many have an issue with them.
Not sure if I buy it, but they do bring a certain old school glamour to things that’s very appealing. I can’t seem to look away from pics of them.
No shade from me. She seems a nice combination of smart and fun. I guess the fun side of her likes him, but I bet he’s not as silly as he pretends to be (isn’t he very involved in Darfur?)
The house and garden is spectacular! Their falling in love story is sweet and sincere sounding. I think they are cool and lovely.
I really like both of them a lot. And I want to read Nadia’s book. I didn’t know about it so I’m going to order it. And yes, he is really involved in Darfur.
She looks beautiful on the cover, but I like the inside picture of her in the striped dress even more. Her hair is unreal.
Her hair pisses me off only because I wish I had volume like that LOL My hair is so…not bouncy at all.
Mine is getting thinner with every passing year.
Full, thick hair is in our genes lol. I always find it odd when I read comments on this site saying women over a certain age should chop their hair off! It’s a cultural thing to have beautiful long hair, no matter the age.
Rayan, you’re so lucky. If you have thick hair you can always wear it long. I used to have longer hair but I’m gradually going a bit shorter because it looks thicker.
Rayan, my hair isn’t bouncy like hers but I definitely prefer it longer so I will probably also never cut mine unless it gets SUPER thin. My mom is 55 and still has long hair and she looks great!
A shorter cut (not drastically short) does look better/fuller if hair thinning is a problem. Brittany, my mother, and aunts are the same. Hopefully, my hair will be as healthy as theirs when I’m in my 50’s!
I LOVE her style. Badass and elegant – hard to find the balance. As for the rest, the whole idea of a sham marriage is so alien to me that my brain is unwilling to even go there.
I never bought there relationship as some epic romance. And I thought George was trying to push that narrative a bit too much for a while.
But, I think they both found what works for them and they seem to enjoy being with each other.
I like how willowy she looks on this cover.
Fantastic cover. It just feels really natural, like she’s posing but not really. And I must say, I’m buying the whole thing, too.
I like Amal. I always have. She has a great combo of being incredibly intelligent but also has personality. And I like her and George’s vibe. I find their relationship refreshing. They were two independently successful adults with their own careers and lives when they met. And as someone who has always been on the fence about George she has increased his likability factor for me.
You’ve said all I have wanted to say. Their relationship is really refreshing.
Agree! I met my husband at 35 and had also never thought I would be married. So I understand perfectly what she meant. Love her clothes, love her intelligence, she’s beautiful AND a party animal!!!
After reading the Vogue piece, I do think everyone should go and read the section on Nadia Murad. Amal is doing really good work, and I have zero shade and lots of respect for that!
The giraffe quote sounds so cute and genuine. Good for them.
I am such a stan for Amal. I know that people like to say their relationship is staged but I am a believer. Just because it works on several levels for both of them (romantically, politically, pr-wise etc) doesn’t mean it’s not real. Some people just might be that lucky. Amal is so accomplished, cool and confident. I don’t always love her style choices but I love that she is always trying something new – you can tell she loves fashion as much as she loves being a serious barrister. I am sold.
I rolled my eyes at them a lot when they were dating, but I find them really refreshing now. I think it takes some guys longer to outgrow their stupid, and I honestly believe he was just ready.
Now, if Leo DiCaprio ever marries a lawyer over 30, that’s when I’ll be on the lookout for flying pigs.
ANYONE over 30, for that matter!
Over 30, brunette, size 6, lol!
Im just glad they stopped the fame whoring of thier initial get together. After having children they have settled down and are lower profile.
I stopped at Einstein died. I feel like crying. It reminds me of my cocker dying last year. Einstein was a cool dog and George’s first adoption of the three fur babies.. Einstein was photographed last summer, I believe, on the tarmac when they were all heading by plane to Italy for the summer. At least, I thought I saw all three dogs. He adopted him as a senior dog.
Okay. Back to the article.
Amal does great work, and it’s great that she keeps shining a light on Nadia Murad. She has my respect. I have nothing to say about George, other than I hope he knows how lucky he is . On a superficial note, she has such beautiful hair.
Great cover, great interview. However it’s really depressing that such a smart and accomplished woman could only get a this cover and interview (alongside a Wikipedia page, name recognition, wider acknowledgement of her work etc.) because she married George Clooney. Maybe we should treat other equally high flying women with the same reverence we give to Amal and certainly with the equal reverence that we give to both random and big league celebrities. (Sorry if this comes out jumbled – English is not my first language.)
This!
George Clooney has not done anything in years. Amal is the only reason he is even in the news. And he is no brain surgeon.
I liked the photos more than I expected, having heard that Vogue arranged for her to borrow several million quid’s worth of jewels for her to pose in. The whole “sitting around my house in my diamonds” thing sounded a bit too Joan Collins. Glad she went for a more natural look – she looks great.
I wish we saw more of the house. The pics show very little of the decor and I agree with other posters that what is shown looks a bit dull. There are loads of designers who can do “English country house” but make it look fresh and modern at the same time. Given her fashion sense I’d have expected something a little more quirky.
They should have gotten Nicki Haslam in to do their interiors.
The red sweater/leather leggings is my new fitspo. God knows I need it. That’s what I’ll work toward.
I think she looks stunning. And her hair… My God it’s so thick and lovely! She knows how to dress her body type (more often than not). And her English country-side house is my dream house!
So George had to run an idea of a proposal to this woman with one of his buddies first? How very Clooney of him.
I never believed their relationship was real, especially after the garish week-long spectacle of a wedding (oh my, aren’t we lucky, living the good life, we’re SO
ELEGANT but even MORE FUN!) but I’m happy to say I was wrong. Glad they found each other & wish them all the best 💘
You know, with all the insta models who can’t walk/pose or talk, I think the cover photo is lovely. George knows his job, which is to fawn all over his wife. While I’m tempted to roll my eyes, I remember he’s probably twice a cynical as I am (I remember those articles where he spoke of his previous marriage and how he wasn’t going there again) so if he’s found someone who makes him talk like this, I’m ok with it.
I don’t mean to be rude but their brand of smug cheese is slightly unsettling and makes the dark sided portion of my brain wonder what kind of mess they are acting as a front for lol. Robot assisins? Jewel thieves? Hermès counterfeit ring? Black market trading? Hahaha I’m being silly but you know what I mean?
Lol. “It felt like the most natural thing”.What real couple speaks this way?
I still don’t understand 1) How they met? 2) why does a confirmed bachelor have a big splashy wedding? 3) why a man in his fifties with a vasectomy suddenly is a father to twins. 4)Why would someone at his age dramatically change? Lots of questions.
That’s why I keep landing back on “robots” as my answer. The real George has been preserved in a cryogenic chamber after suffering a cocktail waitress related accident in Montecarlo and they’ve trotted out this robot to do an unspeakable deed. And that is to run for a public office and unleash prankster robot army of Matt Damon’s to take over the world. Hahahah
Some guys buy sportscars to get over their midlife crisis. George decided to revamp himself, and Amal was the perfect accessory (so he thought) to help him do so. Sorry, I love a good celeb love story as much as anyone, but they’re so fake!
What interesting photo choices. A majority of them point to her work as an Atty. Prepping for cases, her wig, her robe, being compassionate with her client. A couple of nice fashion shots. I like that Annie Leibovitz went for photos about her identity apart from the fashion. It’s subtle but respectful of who her identity is apart from George.
I find it refreshing that a smart, educated, professionally accomplished woman not in the entertainment industry is covering Vogue, talks about her career and is celebrated for it. I’d like to see more of that.
Meh, I don’t really get why she’s a thing, I mean she just married the dude and she’s not famous in her own right. But I guess it doesn’t matter in our age of celebrity. Her clothes tho…God i love her clothes.
Who cares if she isn’t famous in her own right? Lol, fame isn’t the be all and end all. She’s far more educated and classy than most celebrity women. It’s refreshing to see someone like her covering Vogue.
Yes, she’s had more education and a LOT more opportunities than most. The sad part is she instead decided to be in a fake PR relationship with him for the fame and to parade around in designer outfits all day. She’s no different than Kim K., just pretends to be.
Very cool interview to read. She really uses the exposure she gets to highlight her work.
What I find fascinating, coming as it does in conjunction with the Brad Pitt/Neri Oxman whatever, is this apparent trend of ‘I have to demonstrate how sophisticated I am by finding myself a woman who is not only gorgeous, but accomplished, and I’m not going to find them in my industry’. Which is kind of a diss on smart women in the industry, but that’s a story for another day.
Maybe it’s not a thing, but the coincidence is rather striking.
That was a really great interview. I loved the cover photo.
The pics are fine, not great, not bad, just fine; but I don’t generally care for her style choices. It’s just hilarious to me that folks still try to claim that she’s just interested in being known for her work, and totally disinterested in the Hollywood life lol, like lawyers hosting the Met ball & posing for vogue is standard (even for high powered one). She’s just as much a socialite as she is a lawyer & that’s totally expected given her family background.
Yep. If they were doing all this self-promotion for their causes, I’d give them a pass. But it’s like their human rights and social causes are a badge of credibility for them, rather than them serving the cause. It’s all an afterthought, something to bring a little polish and gravitas to their brand. The Klooneys are gross.
“I get to see someone at the absolute top of their game doing their job better than anybody I’ve ever seen.”
Still overselling her. She is a junior barrister. There are literally tens thousands of lawyers, both barristers and solicitors, who are equal or way more accomplished than she is, with publications and teaching appointments in addition to working full-time, which she does not do. He’s annoying and she’s so incredibly thirsty. A professional dedicated to their job wouldn’t allow themselves to be turned into essentially a mascot for the Klooney brand, and for what end? It’s not about their causes, since everything about her branding is more about fashion and glamour and lifestyle than human rights. It’s like they put that photo of Nadia in as an afterthought. These two are really an awful couple and shallow as a puddle.
And a giraffe’s head on the wall, really? Sickening and cruel!
The photo of Nadia in as an afterthought? Did you read the full interview, the large section regarding Nadia and the Yazidis? It’s about eight large paragraphs. That photo was not an afterthought. And good for Amal helping to promote Nadia’s book in this article.
The giraffe was a painting if you read the article before you got your hate on.
“Their most cherished paintings, by contrast, are of George’s late, beloved cocker spaniel, Einstein (posed as a physics professor at a chalkboard), and the head of a giraffe (Amal adores giraffes). When some insurance appraisers came by, a while back, they spent some time peering at these paintings of dogs and leaf-munching mammals before issuing a pointedly low estimate on the Clooneys’ art.”
Okay, sorry, it was a photo of the head of a giraffe.
Jayna, after having read the interview, it’s a valid point from you. But the fact remains she’s hosting the Met Gala (why?!!!) and since their engagement it’s been more about their celebrity and endless pap walks and self-promotion over serious causes. Do you really need to cultivate celebrity in this way to raise awareness? You can raise awareness by doing it plainly, without the personal promotion, (cruelty-ridden) fashion, and endless pap walks. I think playing up the frivolity of celebrity actually undermines the serious work lawyers are doing through the actual legal system for these human rights and humanitarian plaintiffs. And playing up their personalities and celebrity while supposedly advocating through PR reveals they’re in it at least partly to enhance their celebrity/brand.
Also the article makes it sound like she led all those high-profile cases, when for the vast majority of them, including Assange, she was a junior on a team with other juniors following the lead of QCs like Geoffrey Robertson.
But they have to push brand Clooney – that’s how they make a living. He certainly is not acting enough (or in anything good) to be covering the multiple houses, production company costs, lifestyle of expensive dinners & whatnot, private planes, all the toys and high end fashion that she wears (if not gifted by designers) to cover the bills whilst she is taking on pro bono cases. I’m sure he has cash reserves but he is making is money now through endorsements and not actual acting / producing work. Hence met ball involvement that guarantees them positive coverage.
He is getting at least 200 to 300 mill for his share of their tequila business and he has done well in real estate. All up estimates have him at half a billion. They don’t need this for income. I don’t think he’s after a political career but they want to be a power couple. It’s the muddying of serious advocacy work with celebrity and self-promotion that’s all wrong.
The thought Clooney was referring to her mothering…? That she was the professional and he was the amateur?
He was definitely talking about her career because in the same sentence they referenced how he was dabbling in humanitarian work as well.
I haven’t liked Amal initially, especially during their over the top wedding. Clooney’s gushing about her at the expense of his past girlfriends (dude, you chose to date them) made me dislike the couple even more.
However since then they have gone quiet and for the past year or so I kept seeing their names pop up in relation to charity and activism in non-gossip news items and articles. Hence, now I like them as a couple.
I may actually buy this issue of Vogue.
How come Anna Wintour’s Vogue covers are always so lackluster? This one is no exception.
Here’s an interesting contrast — a link to a bio of Seth Myers’ wife (which I was curious about given the post about her giving birth to their 2nd in their apartment lobby. She’s, wait for it, a human rights attorney. Ever heard of her? didn’t think so.
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/who-is-seth-meyers-wife-alexi-ashe-is-a-human-rights-attorney-7634019
Is that Amal’s fault because she gets a lot of attention?
Here’s some thoughts from a few human rights lawyers on Amal and the spotlight on her.
“I think human-rights lawyers for a long time were thought of kind of like the hippie aspect of lawyers,” said Sara Elizabeth Dill, the director of criminal justice standards and policy at the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C. Dill has been aiding those hit by President Trump’s travel ban. Clooney and others, in Dill’s opinion, have brought “a level of professionalism and accomplishment” to the role. Since Clooney “came on the scene,” international human-rights lawyer Hilary Stauffer, who works at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said interest in her own work has spiked “100 percent.”
A little about a human rights lawyer from the same article.
“Lawyers will also enlist help from local community-based partners. “They will know the context and they’ll know the local law,” Bernstein Institute faculty director Margaret Satterthwaite, who is also a clinical professor at New York University’s Global Justice Clinic, said. According to Dill, “Providing testimony, lobbying Congress, working with other countries in terms of rule of law development, training judges and prosecutors and politicians” can all come into play, along with the nonstop task of educating the public.
Lengthy court cases “may not necessarily be the right way to get the result that you want,” said Stauffer, noting that most human rights lawyers don’t spend too much time before judges. “Most of the time you don’t win your cases, actually,” Sukti Dhital, deputy director of the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU Law, said. “But you get these small victories that kind of propel you to keep going.”
Yes, it is “her fault” when Amal Clooney calls the paps every day, clearly desperate for attention and a narcissistic need to show off a lifestyle that shows no concern for anyone but herself.
Amal Clooney also has represented dictators in situations that go beyond any legal requirement for a criminal defense attorney, such as her being a mouthpiece for Abdullah al-Senussi in a report that attempted to hide his human rights violations. Human rights activist, my A$$.
Is there a good reason she can’t be all of the above?
Human rights attorney – ok, junior barrister, whatever, the mere fact that she IS Mrs. George Clooney DOES raise awareness – it does give her a platform that others do not. Is that awful?
She’s a clothes horse – ok, she has some awesome fashion, many hits, a few misses…she can afford to play. I would.
They are over the top — performative? Ok. Is that awful? OMG these two people love each other. Is it fake…or do we want it to be fake because maybe not all of us have found this level of devotion.
Will it last? Maybe, maybe not. It’s good for both of them at this moment, they seem to be very involved in children that neither seems to have anticipated they would have.
I can’t find much to dislike about them as a couple. I could probably find a thing or two about him that annoys me. I think she’s kind of awesome and I am totally good with her living her large, glorious life. (and hair goals)
“She’s a clothes horse”
Are you kidding? She’s The Clothes Horse to End All Clothes Horses!
Doing a multi-page spread in Vogue wearing couture to promote oneself as a fashionista and one’s very expensive house and lifestyle and highlight a 1% lifestyle and pretending it’s advocacy work for Nadia Murad is gross. Everything is wrong with this couple.
Preach girl. Preach. I don’t begrudge her success or her husband’s success. C’mon co-hosting the Met Gala? That is real one percenter bullpo*p to the nth degree. She has an aura of smug, like she’s saving the world all by her damn self. Hiding behind “but I bring attention to good causes” you do that by this? tsk tsk to all the smart and truly beautiful women out there on the hustle doing the work.
She’s too basic for the gig anyway. She was a nobody before George and everybody knows it. I’m seriously rooting for this marriage to go south. The only positive is that the over-lionization of her and her and George’s ‘marriage’ has helped me curb my appetite because this has been enough to turn my stomach.
Do you often copy and paste comments from DM?
@Cushlife No, Baria.
I was talking about litcrit. Copied that comment directly from dm. How do I know? It was my comment!