Before making headlines as Kanye West's new girlfriend, she made paintings with her own blood ... Who is Julia Fox?
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00:00Kanye West has been dating Julia Fox since the beginning of 2022 and as with all things
00:15Kanye their relationship has been heavily documented.
00:20So who exactly is this woman that Kanye met in Miami around New Year's and then paraded
00:25around Paris Fashion Week?
00:27Turns out they have a lot more in common than you might think.
00:30Let's take a look.
00:31When the audience realizes what she's up against, they're going to be rooting for her.
00:36You might recognize Fox from the 2019 movie Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler.
00:41That movie takes place in New York's Diamond District and it's a fitting role since Julia
00:45identifies as a native New Yorker.
00:48She was actually born in Milan, Italy on February 2nd, 1990.
00:52That makes her an Aquarius if you're keeping track.
00:55Her mother is Italian, her father is American, and Fox first moved to New York when she was
01:016 years old.
01:02They lived in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan near the Upper East Side, but it
01:06doesn't seem like Fox had a ritzy gossip girl upbringing.
01:10She worked a bunch of different service jobs as a teen and at one point even spent six
01:16months working as a dominatrix named Mistress Valentina.
01:21Eventually Fox started designing her own clothes.
01:23She launched a fashion label called Francisca Fox with a friend and business partner.
01:28Here's what some of their clothes looked like.
01:30Obviously, Kanye has his own fashion label.
01:34And another thing they have in common is that Julia is also an artist.
01:38In 2015 and 2016, Fox self-published two different photography books.
01:45The first one chronicled three abusive relationships that she'd been in.
01:50A year after PTSD came out, she had an art exhibit called R.I.P.
01:56Julia Fox that featured silk canvases she had painted in her own blood.
02:03Now let's talk about her modeling.
02:05Also in 2015, Fox was featured in Playboy's last ever nude edition.
02:12She's also been in campaigns for brands like Diesel and Coach.
02:16And for a while, she was in a lot of magazine editorials, which means that we know she can
02:22pose and looks really good wearing clothes.
02:25The small world story here is that Paper Magazine did a photoshoot with Fox and, yes, Pete Davidson
02:33back in 2019.
02:35The magazine recently acknowledged introducing them on their Instagram.
02:40In 2019, Fox made her acting debut in the Safdie Brothers movie Unka Jem.
02:46She had apparently known the directors for over 10 years at that point, just from around New York City.
02:53She has only been in one other major movie, No Sudden Move, with Don Cheadle and Benicio
03:00del Toro, which came out in 2021.
03:03And she also wrote and directed her own short film called Fantasy Girls about teenage sex workers in Nevada.
03:12Here's another thing Fox and Ye have in common.
03:15They're both single parents.
03:17Fox got married in November 2018 to a pilot named Peter Artemov.
03:24They have a son called Valentino, who was born in January 2021.
03:30These photos are from the end of her pregnancy.
03:33She wrote that when she found out she'd have to go into labor early, she ran home, had
03:39this photoshoot, and then went to the hospital to give birth.
03:44Literally right before news broke that she and Kanye were dating, Fox made headlines
03:49for bashing her ex on Instagram.
03:52That, however, became very old news very fast, and she later apologized for calling him a deadbeat.
04:01On January 6, 2022, this blog post went up in Interview Magazine, in which Julia writes
04:10two paragraphs about dating Kanye.
04:13So at that point, they had been on two dates at two different Carbone restaurants in Miami
04:18and New York, and they also did this impromptu photoshoot for the magazine.
04:26Then they went to LA for a Zola screening with Playla Bright Jeremy O'Harris, and that
04:31other photoshoot with Madonna.
04:34And then after that, they went off to Paris.