True story: before this very moment, I had never heard Grimes’ speaking voice. I didn’t know that she’s Canadian either? You learn something every day. Grimes is currently knocked up by Elon Musk, her crazy billionaire boyfriend of several years. Elon started dating Grimes several months after his thing with Amber Heard ended. Grimes and Elon seem like an odd couple in general, but once you see her and hear her talking like a normal person, it makes more sense. She even reminds me a bit of his second wife, the actress Talulah Riley.
Anyway, Grimes did a Harper’s Bazaar video for their ongoing Food Diaries feature. Grimes is actually kind of funny here? She’s more realistic than those women who are like “oh, I just graze on some celery juice when I’m hungry!” Or the women who swear up and down that they maintain their size zero figure by eating French fries. Grimes has been a disordered eater at times in her life, but she seems to be listening to doctors and nutritionists at the moment, during her pregnancy, and her current food life is bizarre yet relatable. I hope people actually sit and watch this video, it’s quite funny.
She has GO Cubes which are caffeinated cubes, and she keeps them by her bed and eats one, goes back to sleep and waits for the caffeine to hit her system. She also drinks matcha. She usually goes to bed at 6 am and sleeps until noon, so the whole “this is my lunch/dinner” thing is sort of confusing. She used to only eat one big meal a day, but that’s changed because of the pregnancy. Her favorite “breakfast” is “this thing called butter toast, which is where I melt a stick of butter on a plate, and then I put toast, and then turn the toast over so the toast is completely saturated in butter. Then, I put a little bit of jam on it and eat that. It’s actually incredible.” If she’s not eating a stick of butter with a toast chaser, she’s eating “fortified cereal, like Raisin Bran.”
While she proclaims to hate fruits and vegetables – “I actually dislike vegetables pointedly. But they’re important to eat. It’s just vile. Like, broccoli? Like, what the f–k? It’s actually disgusting, I don’t know how anyone eats it” – she actually does seem to eat a lot of spinach, bananas, blueberries, avocados and tomatoes. And salsa verde. And carbs. She says, “I basically hate everything besides carbs and fat.” She also talks about an unhealthy period of two years where she exclusively ate spaghetti and she got incredibly sick and her doctor told her she was malnourished. Nowadays, she eats veggie burritos, she loves hot dogs (she says they’re her favorite kind of meat) and she has pregnancy cravings for a glass of milk every day.
Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar (screencap) and Instagram.
She sounds mature. /s.
I listened to about six minutes of her “like, uh, I dunno, it’s kinda weird” because the article promised it was funny. It was not. It made me worry for young people. This person is a terrible speaker and very very boring.
I don’t know that it made me worry for young people because I think a lot of them are the opposite of her. They embrace a healthier lifestyle that doesn’t shun vegetables. We all have preferences, but to be all like, ‘eww, vegetables,’ at her age is just silly.
Most young people I know are into health, and worried about the environment.
Grimes sounds like this one friend I had, who never grew out of his childhood eccentricities. Could only eat chocolate, white bread, white rice, yellow cheese, soft drinks, chicken fingers… that kind of thing. He was a smart guy, read a lot, had good observations about people and current events… but he couldn’t leave his childhood comfort zone.
Someone can be clever and have little selfawareness… have juvenile tastes… be stuck in an adolescent emotional state.
She sounds like she skipped that class in high school biology where they taught you about nutrition. Eat some veggies girl. Also, maybe pick up a book and learn about some food groups?
It never ceases to AMAZE me how uneducated actors/singers/entertainers are.
Like sure you make great music but maybe people should find someone with an education to take life advice from. Cough, GOOP, cough.
I guess I didn’t know what she ACTUALLY looks like? Behind all the goth makeup?
Yes, I think she’s cute and it’s nice to see that she hasn’t cropped her ears and nose; rare.
If I ate nothing but spaghetti, I’d be as big as a house.
My hippy mom grew a garden next to our family home, an old dilapidated airstream. We weren’t materialistic, but green food is the stuff of Life. I did the same for my son and we both love green leafy onion snap peas zucchini, bring it ON & our immune systems are STEALTH.
what is a green leafy onion snap peas zucchini? is that some kind of hybrid?
TiredTreaded, kids really benefit from exposure that food link to nature. I think that’s what I found most depressing about her interview; she has a depressing take on food. Japanese kids, for example, seem really connected to nature with their food and even little kids are good cooks in the basic sense they know how to prep their food / prep healthful meals.
I was deciding on my weekend breakfast and Raisin Bran and some cold milk and blueberries sound yummy.
Oh, I’m sorry. Fortified cereal and milk.
I had the same thing in my first trimester — craved a glass of milk every day as well. Funny to hear someone else with that craving.
With all of my pregnancies (I’m due in a month with my 3rd), I craved cereal and cold milk. That was 70% of my diet. This pregnancy in particular it’s Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Something about the crunchiness with the cold milk!
Same! Special K, strawberries, and skim milk. My entire pregnancy.
Y’all. Maybe it’s because I’m olllld. But she sounds absolutely vapid. I know Elon Musk is problematic for many reasons, but he definitely is intelligent and thinks a lot about big problems and how to solve them. I think my estimation of his intelligence just dropped, though, if he finds Grimes a good companion. Yikes.
She is not eloquent but shes not stupid. Comes from a smart family and went to Mcgill before dropping out to do whatever this is.
Yeah, it’s funny because she’s wickedly smart… so I appreciate how utterly human she is in this interview. Supposedly homegirl had a double-major in neuroscience and Philosophy, with a double minor in Russian and electroacoustics at McGill… and then went off to go teach herself how to produce music. She also produces many of her music videos, too. Once you know how smart she is, it makes her total lack of interest in proving it even more amusing.
I think she’s spoken about being ADHD before, which also might give some insight on her speaking style.
Her music videos are bad tho. And her music is just noise to me. She talks like a teenager tbh.
I was thinking the same thing. I have heard of her and this is the first video I’ve actually listened to, but the way she talks and just that vapid energy… instead of being cute and selling some healthy life things she just seems like a child that’s been livig under a glass jar. I can’t …sorry everyone.
she studied neuroscience and is an incredible musician who writes and produces her own songs . so be quiet, tifanny
Sorry I don’t think it’s cute when people brag about their unhealthy diet. My dad, also Canadian, lived off of pasta and starches and and sweets and even though he was always skinny he ended up almost diabetic. Luckily he changed his life style before he became diabetic.
I do eat shitty stuff but I would never brag about eating like this. I dont get the praise
Yeah, I don’t either. I mean, you can eat it, whatever, it’s your body. But it’s not cute to be acting like a toddler who only likes five foods and thinks salad is rabbit food.
Yes, she seems to be intentionally doing the exact opposite of all the goopiness ways of eating. It seems more for attention and how cool and relatable she is.
She comes across as very normal. I’d be curious to see the two of them interact.
Look up how they connected through Twitter. These two nerds are talking nerdy, obscurantist stuff.
Grimes is a fantastic and talented artist. I hope she has a healthy pregnancy and delivery!
she sounds spoiled and idiotic. For some reason I think she has some eating disorder or something. She mentions how she used to have one big meal at night because she doesn’t get that hungryLol wut?
A lot of people are the same. One big meal per day; no eating disorder. It’s just IF. I know of one woman who eats a big meal every two days, sometimes one day but mostly two days. She’s very healthy (and yes pretty slim).
Like, but does she like, have in like, common, with like, Elon Musk?
Look up how they first got to know of each other on Twitter.
Echo… echo… echo… echo……
I actually found her charming and adorable! 🤷🏻♀️ Different strokes for different Folks I guess…
Yeah, I thought this was cute and funny. She seems pretty normal. For the people saying she’s vapid – she’s being asked to talk just about food for the segment. She can’t really break off into discussing something more weighty.
+1. She’s pretty nerdy with her music.
I don’t understand someone that can call broccoli disgusting. Broccoli is delicious! When I cook broccoli I always sneak a few pieces either raw or frozen, because I can’t wait to eat it. And, raw broccoli is one of my favorite snacks (unfortunately, my other favorite snacks are junk foods).
i loooove it with just a bit of olive oil and lemon… hungry now 🙂
Lol, steamed or lightly boiled, fresh broccoli is wonderful, but raw broccoli tastes awful to me. Hate the texture.
One of my FAVORITE snacks to eat is cold & creamy cottage cheese ala mode style on top of hot broccoli! Add salt, pepper and a few sliced almonds…yummy 😋😋
My 10 year old knows more about food than her. I think I lost 5 brain cells while listening to and didn’t laugh once. I was promised a fun few minutes that planned to use as a pause for my exhausting proof reading and now I’m cranky old pantsing my way out of this comment.
Back to work!
My cravings were Mickey D’s 🍟,cheese and hard pretzels w/mustard
I have never heard of her before and don‘t even know what she does for a living. She sounds vapid…
That was pretty hard to watch. I didn’t finish. I hope she can learn to eat more veggies or it will catch up with her later. Wishing her a healthy pregnancy.
I’m guessing you’re saying “hard to watch” because of her speech patterns. I thought it was hard to watch too, because her food choices are so depressing! I like my veggies and balanced meals (but do love junky food about 5% of the time) and value eating healthfully. This was just painful to watch because she eats badly regardless of pregnancy or not.
Seriously Ladies, English is my second language and I can use it better…
She sounds and looks like a child.
Crikey.
WAIT WHAT? Grimes is 31…in that video….? (EDIT: wow, she turns 32 next week). by the way she is, it Shocks me she is 31. I would have thought she was…22??
Not that they are at all related, but in the same “wow I thought they were younger than that”, I was surprised to learn Ana de Armas the other day is 31 & will be 32 this year. She looks like she could be 25.
I think what the average woman looks like at certain ages is changing. Last year at my gym there was a woman who from behind looked like she was 20-something…her hands/neck/fac the only giveaway she wasn’t…but oh btw, SHE WAS 82. People who are 40 look 30, 50 looks 40…maybe modern life & it’s advancements? I dunno.
But yea….Grimes fooled me, age wise. I like some of her songs but I’m not really into her when she’s just talking eek that sounds mean but yea, it’s true 🤷♀️
I think she tries to seem approachable and normal in her interviews because her art or “art” is aspires to be so intellectual and full of cultural references.
She is incredibly intelligent and talented. She is also extremely nice, funny and relatable.
She has a college degree? She can barely speak here.
Her ability to put two words together without..like, umm, like, umm, I guess, ummmm.
Goodness, if this is her personality….I would be hard pressed to carry on a conversation with her.
I am certain she must be more intelligent than she comes across here.
What in the world do she and Elon have in common?
wow.
Well, he’s kind of a knucklehead…
She looks like the grown up version of the Simpsons mono-brow baby.
She’s an insufferable idiot, I don’t care how smart people think she is. And her eating habits are abhorrent.
This video was hilarious! She is definitely not goop-ing her way to a lifestyle brand and i love her for it. Totally honest about allll the weird food she eats! The butter toast sounds delicious and the cous cous sludge confession was so disgusting. Eating spaghetti cause it’s the only good vegan thing wherever you go on tour is actually the conclusion I’d come to too.
Also, her speech patterns may turn you off but this girl is incredibly intelligent.
She doesn’t sound like an idiot or young. This is just the new style of speaking…dialects, speech patterns, and slang change markedly every half century or so… I was actually told by a colleague that i came off as snobbish old and boring because of how professional my speaking voice is…. I’ve been working on a nice mix of Legally Blonde southern belle to soften my demeanor in meetings.
I’m kinda bummed to read all the Grimes hate, I’m probably a Grimes stan but I love her! She is way more visible now that she’s with Elon Musk, but she’s done plenty interviews in the past and has always been on her music/creative grind. Her Teen Vogue video/interview/chat from 4 years ago with Stella McCartney is a good one!!!
Also, her music is wonderful and she has ALWAYS been a proponent for creating & producing all of her own work! She also has a hand in many (all?) of her music videos. I definitely couldn’t live like her, food-wise and sleep schedule-wise (I am a night owl too but I love broccoli!), but I think she’s great! I found her very candid in this video, and I always think she’s super cute. I do find her and Elon to be a strange couple, but they’re strange together and if it works for them, alright! Two nerd peas in a pod. She also said in her Rolling Stone interview that she made a conscious decision to have a baby with Elon, that it was a profound commitment for her and that she knew she had “capitulated her power”, that she had spent her whole life avoiding bowing to anyone in any way, so it was a big freakin deal.
If you’ve seen her recent makeup routine video for Vogue, I feel like she’s waaay more chaotic in that one. Her energy is really off the charts, but it’s very cool to just see how she thinks and speaks – like she thinks too fast for her mouth to get the words out. I love her! I wish her the best!!!
I’m not a Stan but I am a fan. I hated her makeup tutorial. She is bizarre but she was even weirder in that one. I haven’t seen this yet but I think many people don’t really understand her personality. And I’m guessing a lot of those people commenting about “the youth” are over 40. I am considered extremely intelligent but when I speak my brain works too fast and so it comes out weird or hurried or doesn’t make sense. I get it. Her thoughts are probably too quick for her mouth so I think it’s pretty unfair to call her dense because she’s a bit hyperactive when she speaks. By all accounts (her educational background) she’s considered vastly intelligent.
That being said, she’s way too cool for Elon Musk. I was so disappointed when her pregnancy was announced because I feel like he ruins her whole image/vibe (check out the video of him dancing while Oblivion plays. Tragic). Plus the marriages, the kids, the views, didn’t his family have some colonialiatic African diamond mines? he just doesn’t seem like a good partner (rumor is he’s an assh-le?). But get that check Claire.
Oh gosh yeah. If these two videos of hers were the ONLY ones I’d ever seen, I’d find her pretty odd and yes, maybe a bit off-putting. I’ve watched a number of the “73 Questions with such and such celeb” Vogue videos lately too, and some of them are like… mini performances in polished-interviewing. Like, they’re fun videos, but it’s almost like getting canned answers. If you’re used to that kind of celeb interview, seeing Grimes just being herself like this is absolutely mind-boggling as to how a human being like her could exist!
And that’s fair, I have also heard about Elon Musk’s past and questionable behavior with his ex wife, and am put off by that. Hopefully he isn’t an asshole to Grimes.. even though past behavior is often an indicator of future behavior.. But I also try to have faith that she wouldn’t take his shit if he was…
I had no idea who she is. But seriously, I can’t take adults seriously who won’t eat ANY fruit or vegetable. There is such a variety of flavors and textures, you can’t possibly hate them all. But go ahead, make it your thing and act like a toddler.
And still all taste like nothing if you don’t make a serious effort to be creative. Also, you feel hungry 10 minutes after eating, so it kinda sucks to work all day and have to eat something tasteless that doesn’t fill the stomach.
Why make a 7 min video of a woman talking about what she EATS? Wtf?
IKR? Ridiculous and I don’t care how “intelligent and talented” she may be, she reminds me of a know-it-all teenager, not a 31 year old expectant mother.
Food is important, isn’t it? I want to know what people are eating, personally. (But her diet is depressing.) Being flippant about the role of food could be a reflection of how disconnected we are from nature intellectually. On the other hand, people like Goop pushing every second diet is just commercialising the importance of food.
I feel you, girl. I love my carbs and fat. But I’m not totally unhealthy and make sure I get in my veggies, too. I don’t like it but I do it.
I’m amazed at the amount of anger over her food choices.
It seems like people get defensive when a thin person doesn’t eat vegetables. I honestly feel the same way as Grimes about veggies. I force myself to eat them for my health, but I prefer the taste of less wholesome food. If people actually enjoy broccoli, good for you, but why the harsh judgement at her for being honest? I think she was being lighthearted and funny here, but it’s being taken very seriously and people are questioning her intelligence. Harsh!