Julia Fox opens up about dating after meeting Kanye: I never want to be called just someone’s girlfriend
Julia Fox opened up about her dating life after her highly publicized, short-lived fling with rapper Kanye West in January 2022, following his split from Kim Kardashian.
While speaking to InStyle, the Uncut Gems star, 34, admitted that she has struggled with be just being seen as just one of the 46-year-old musicians’ exes.
The actress stated that dating West ‘for a month’ and the attention that came with their brief romance has left a ‘sour taste in’ her ‘mouth about dating anyone in this sphere.’
‘I don’t ever want to just be known as someone’s girlfriend. I know I’m so much more than that. And I feel like that happens so much to women in this industry,’ she said.
She continued: ‘They’re only as good as their partner, or they can make a whole career off being some guy’s partner. But regardless, either way, it becomes their identity.’
Fox, who is set to appear on OMG Fashun, a new design competition series next month on E!, said she is aiming to ‘transcend that’ and ‘break that mold.’
‘I want to just stand on my own two feet and not need a man to back me. I did that for years. I’m good.
I have established myself, and I want to keep establishing myself,’ the mom-of-one noted. ‘And maybe one day I’ll even be taken seriously.’
As for whether she googles herself, the performer said, ‘not at all.’
‘The thought of even Googling myself gives me so much anxiety because it’s always going to be some bullst, and then I’m so reactive, and I’m just so rowdy that I’ll repost it,’ Fox said.
‘What you don’t know can’t hurt you. Ignorance is bliss. I don’t know what’s going on over there.’
As she looked back on her time as a nightlife staple in New York City, Fox said she ‘was the party girl’ and ‘crack head.’
‘I was out all the time. I was homeless,’ the Down the Drain author recalled. ‘Now that I do have that stability and that safe space, that’s where I want to be—home.
I’m done. I’m done. I paid my dues. I got my street cred. I’m ready to stay home.’
Fox went on to explain why she continues to work in the entertainment industry, despite calling it exhausting.
