Vic sexy ở chung kết Wimbledon

Thứ ba, 9/7/2013 08:48 GMT+7

Bà Becks diện chiếc váy hai dây màu đen khoe lưng trần và vòng một lấp ló khi đến sân xem trận chung kết Wimbledon.

Hôm qua, Victoria cùng với rất nhiều nhân vật nổi tiếng của nước Anh đến sân cổ vũ cho Murray trong trận chung kết Wimbledon gặp Djokovic.

Vic đẹp ngỡ ngàng trên tạp chí

Bà mẹ 4 con khiến mọi phụ nữ phải ghen tị với đôi chân thon nuột và vòng eo nhỏ nhắn, mịn màng trên tạp chí Icon của Đức.

Trong loạt ảnh này, bà Becks tự tin khoe đôi chân thẳng tắp và nuột cùng phần bụng gọn gàng dù qua bốn lần sinh nở. Cựu ca sĩ nhóm Spice Girls cũng khéo léo quảng cáo cho bộ sưu tập váy của mình bằng cách diện những thiết kế mới nhất. Ở Vic toát lên vẻ sang trọng, quý phái và viên mãn của một phụ nữ thành công trong sự nghiệp và hạnh phúc trong cuộc sống gia đình.

04/07 Why do women always fib about how much they eat?

By HILARY FREEMAN

Last updated at 1:01 AM on 4th July 2011

A group of forty-something female friends are ordering lunch. 'Starters?' asks the waiter. Lucy, the slimmest of the three, piles straight in.

'Garlic bread with cheese — and can you put extra pepperoni on my pizza, please?'

Lucy's appetite is the stuff of much discussion among the rest of the group. 'How does she eat all that and stay so slim?' they wonder.

What they don't know is that back at home, Lucy's evening meal will be a bowl of clear soup.

Gordon Ramsay says Victoria Beckham eats like a horse while Gwyneth Paltrow says she 'adores' pizza and fried foods

Despite her apparent enjoyment of her huge, calorie-laden lunch, Lucy is not being entirely honest with her friends about her true diet.

In fact, our garlic bread-eating friend is one of the growing ranks of 'Liar-exics' — women who order huge portions of food when out with others, but dramatically restrict their portions in private.

The trend is even more pronounced among female celebrities. Fearful of appearing to be too hung up on eating, actresses who maintain size six figures are desperate to prove how 'healthy' (or, in other words, large) their appetites are. 

 

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Gwyneth Paltrow, 38, but with the lithe body of a 16-year-old, claims to 'adore' fried foods and pizza; Drew Barrymore reportedly 'loves' macaroni cheese; and just the other week Gordon Ramsay claimed Victoria Beckham 'eats like a horse'.

Many A-listers even go so far as to ensure they are regularly photographed forking up giant helpings of pecan pie or tucking into chips. In fact, so common is this trend that Hollywood publicists have given the event its own acronym, a 'DIPE' (Documented Instance of Public Eating).

Drew Barrymore is a huge fan of macaroni cheese

'Celebrities are under huge pressure to be good role models,' says psycho- therapist Rachel Morris. 'Kate Moss was vilified for being honest about her diet when she revealed that her motto is “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”.

'Yet no one believes that all these celebrities really eat stodgy fast food and cakes. That's why they resort to the DIPE.'

And it seems ordinary women are increasingly copying this behaviour: privately dieting, but publicly piling their plates high.

'Liarexia can be a form of eating disorder,' says Rachel Morris, 'It's connected to feeling shame around food and it's often sparked by fear of being challenged by other people.'

This is something Jane Traynor, 36, knows all too well. 'I don't think I have an eating disorder, but I am a Liarexic,' she says.

'I'm slim because I work very hard at it — I never eat bread and I run most days. But if I order salad when friends are all having pasta, I get a chorus of disapproval: “You're too thin, treat yourself!” It's easier just to eat a lot, then go back to my normal diet the next day.'

'Women can be critical of friends' food choices,' says Rachel. 'If you're overweight and trying to lose weight people will reassure you, but if you're slim, other women often feel judged if you refuse food — as if you're highlighting their own lack of control.' 

A recent study found that one in three British women admit to lying about their weight, so it's not surprising that so many are prepared to modify their diet in public to create the 'right' impression of laid-back normalcy around food.

As well as a fear of being criticised, there are other psychological reasons behind Liarexia, says health psychologist James Lamper of weightmatters.co.uk.

'Many women who have body image and eating problems are perfectionists,' he says. 'There's a huge amount of competition and comparison with other women — it's about wanting to be slim without appearing to try.'

SNACK ATTACK

Kate Hudson says her favourite foods are chocolate and pizza, while Cameron Diaz says she loves fried chicken

It's similar behaviour to the A-listers who shrink to ballerina proportions after giving birth, claiming their weight loss is down to 'running around after the baby,' rather than an agonising regime of rice cakes and hours in the gym.

'This phenomenon is directly related to the values of modern, western society,' says Dr Yoram Inspector, eating disorders consultant at London's Capio Nightingale Hospital. 'Self-esteem has become confused with body shape and weight issues.' 

Being 'perfect' no longer just means sticking to a strict diet — now, it means staying slim while appearing to eat like a horse. That way, you appear to have a fabulous figure and a relaxed attitude toward food.

The trouble is, past 25, it's virtually impossible to stay Gwyneth-thin without major effort. 'It does depend on genetics, but even women who have “skinny genes” will find their metabolism slowing after the age of 30,' says James Lamper.

Foodie fibbers: Being 'perfect' no longer just means sticking to a strict diet — now, it means staying slim while appearing to eat like a horse like Cameron Diaz and Kate Hudson

'This may mean having to watch what you eat and exercising in order to stay slim. Some women who are very slim, but appear to eat lots in public, may be hiding an eating problem.'

No one's suggesting that includes women like Gwyneth or Posh. But as many as 1.6 million ordinary Britons have an eating disorder, and while anorexia typically begins in the late teens, bulimia - where a sufferer binges then 'purges' themselves of extra calories by making themselves sick, over-exercising or starving for several days - is far more frequently suffered by professional women in their 30s and 40s.

'Sufferers tend to be secretive,' says Dr Yoram Inspector. 'They are engaging in eating disorder behaviours in order to feel in control or to regulate emotions.' It may be, then, that the friend who seems to have it all - along with the size six hips and the love of pizza - is struggling with a lot more than which pudding to choose.

Eating disorders that begin later in life are often triggered by certain events - feeling pressure to be slim for a wedding, a new job or post-baby; or a traumatic experience, such as bereavement or the end of a relationship.

'Being "perfect" no longer just means sticking to a strict diet - now, it means staying slim while appearing to eat like a horse'

Helen, 39, developed an eating problem after a nasty break-up.

'My ex had said he didn't find my body attractive - I was a size 14 - and I went on a diet to prove to myself that I could be slim,' she says.

'I loved the attention I got as a size ten, but my female friends were really opposed to it. They said I was just doing it because of what he'd said and that I should love myself as I was.

'I ended up pretending I'd stopped dieting to get them off my back, so when we went out, I'd eat curry or cake, but back home I'd throw up to get rid of the excess calories.'

Counselling helped Helen develop a healthier attitude to food. 'But I've still not told my friends,' she says. 'If I did, I know they'd be watching me like a hawk when we go out. I'd prefer to lie about food than be nagged.'

So what should you do if you suspect your friend's Liarexia is concealing a genuine disorder?

'Talk to her and try to be gentle and non-judgmental,' says James Lamper. But be aware of your real reasons for commenting. 'Some women may simply feel jealous that a friend is slim, but that is not a good reason to pressure her to eat more.'

It's notable that Liarexia seems to be an almost exclusively female condition. While some men do suffer from eating disorders, the way they relate socially is seldom based around food.

Men rarely notice or comment on each others' food habits.

'My husband will go out with his friends who have a three-course Indian washed down with lager,' says Mel O'Connell, 32.

'Instead of nagging our slimmer friends to order chips, maybe it's time we accepted that what other people eat - or don't - is no one's business but theirs'

'He's watching his weight, but if he just orders a plain vegetable curry, none of them comment.

'But I hate it when a friend is dieting because it reminds me I should be, too. I worry she'll think I'm greedy if I have a starter and a pudding. So I'd probably try to persuade her to eat more.'

With so many complex emotions attached to eating habits, is it any wonder so many women fib about their diets?

'Liarexia is a way of adapting to the feelings of those around you,' says nutritionist Shaleen Meelu.

'Women don't want to be reprimanded for being superficial and can find it hard to explain why they're on a diet if they're a normal body weight.'

In other words, a size 12 may want to be a beach-ready size ten, but refusing bread is an insult to her size 14 friend.

So perhaps the rise of Liarexia is because we are more obsessed with food and dieting than ever. Instead of nagging our slimmer friends to order chips, maybe it's time we accepted that what other people eat — or don't — is no one's business but theirs.

 

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03/07 Phụ nữ chân nhỏ hấp dẫn đàn ông nhất

Chủ nhật, 3/7/2011, 07:29 

Những phụ nữ có bàn chân cỡ số 5 (cỡ nhỏ nhất theo tiêu chuẩn của Mỹ) chẳng hạn Sophia Loren - thì quyến rũ nhất trong mắt đàn ông, một nghiên cứu vừa khẳng định.

Theo đó, trong mắt đàn ông, công thức cho một bàn chân hoàn hảo của phụ nữ là có cỡ số 5, đi giày cao 7,5 cm và đánh sơn đỏ. Trong số những đôi chân quyến rũ còn phải kể đến Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian và Sophia Loren.

Người sở hữu bàn chân nhỏ như của Sophia Loren là quyến rũ nhất. Ảnh: Telegraph.

Nghiên cứu do Công ty đế giày Compeed thực hiện cho thấy: gần một nửa số đàn ông quan sát chân cô gái trong lần hẹn hò đầu tiên, và một phần ba sẽ căn cứ vào tình trạng của nó mà đánh giá tính cách của nàng.

Telegraph cho biết, cuộc khảo sát trên 2.000 người trưởng thành cũng tìm thấy những mối lo ngại hàng đầu đối với bàn chân của phụ nữ là nứt gót và da khô, sơn móng chân sứt sẹo và rộp da, chai chân.

Tuy vậy, rất nhiều phụ nữ, dù giàu có, vẫn hầu như bỏ lửng đôi chân của mình, không hề chăm sóc.

"Tôi thích những bàn chân nhỏ và nếu một phụ nữ chăm sóc nó, bạn có thể nói rằng cô ấy đang chăm sóc đến bản thân", Andrew Simson, một nhân viên văn phòng ở London, nhận xét.

T. An

09/2009 Victoria Beckham giữ vóc dáng nhờ salad

Để có được thân hình mảnh mai từng giúp cô kiếm hợp đồng 20 triệu USD với hãng Armani, cựu ca sĩ Spice Girls không nhịn ăn nhưng phải chạy bộ điên cuồng.

> Victoria lộng lẫy nhờ tóc mới/ Victoria ngán ngẩm xem bóng rổ bên chồng


Victoria sở hữu vóc dáng mảnh mai. Ảnh: Armani.


Trong cuộc phỏng vấn với tạp chí làm đẹp Allure (Mỹ), Victoria cho biết, cô ăn uống rất lành mạnh. “Tôi sẽ không nói dối. Tôi không phải kiểu người nói rằng mình ăn humburgers. Tôi ăn salad. Tôi khởi đầu mỗi sáng bằng hai cốc cà phê espresso. Sau đó, tôi leo lên máy chạy bộ và chạy như ma đuổi”,Victoria nói.

Người đẹp 35 tuổi thừa nhận, cô thích ăn salad hơn là khoai tây chiên. Cô cũng chế giễu những phụ nữ thường nói dối rằng họ ăn nhiều nhưng thực tế không phải vậy.


Người đẹp kéo mũ sụp kín mắt. Ảnh: Bigpictures, Matrix.

Hôm 19/11, nữ ca sĩ kiêm nhà thiết kế bị chộp ảnh đi thang máy ở một khách sạn tại London (Anh). Victoria mặc bộ đồ đen kết hợp với đôi giày cao gót. Cô đội chiếc mũ kéo sụp xuống mắt, có vẻ bị hạn chế tầm quan sát. Tuy nhiên, người đẹp vẫn ra ngoài, lên xe hơi mà không hề bị vấp ngã.

Thanh Hương


Theo dòng sự kiện:

Victoria Beckham khốn khổ vì giày cao gót (27/11)
Victoria Beckham lộng lẫy nhờ tóc mới (02/11)
Victoria Beckham ngán ngẩm xem bóng rổ bên chồng (01/11)
Victoria Beckham tiết lộ về đời sống vợ chồng (16/09)
Victoria Beckham bị cấm dùng nước hoa (12/09)

Victoria Beckham: Is She for Real?

Robert Fairer for The New York Times
Victoria Beckham, in her London studio, where she connects the dots for her clothing line.

By RUTH LA FERLA
Published: September 3, 2010

London

VICTORIA BECKHAM talks the talk. Guiding a visitor through her fall 2010 collection, spread on a rack in her studio in Battersea, she draws out a dress recently worn by Cameron Diaz, identifying its fabric authoritatively as a metallic jacquard. Another, shapely and lavishly draped, is underpinned by domette wadding, she says, to hold its folds in place. Still another, crisp as corn flakes, was made of gazar. “Gazar, I love it,” Ms. Beckham murmurs, savoring the term like a vintage Bordeaux.

A quick study, she has mastered the argot of the cutting room with the same alacrity that has marked all her most ardent pursuits — the voice and music lessons that laid the foundations for her career as the pop idol known as Posh Spice; her marriage to the British soccer star David Beckham, an exercise in family branding; her wardrobe, engineered to show off her whippet frame and improbably lusty chest.

“I don’t do anything by halves,” she says, an edge in her voice. “If you’re going to do something, do it properly, I think. Otherwise there is no point in doing it at all.”

That resolve has paid off handsomely. In recent months Ms. Beckham, she of the contorted public poses, racy aphorisms and fleeting television career, has emerged as an industry force, the wily maverick of New York Fashion Week.

Written off not so long ago as a pneumatic Barbie of the hinterlands, Ms. Beckham has been a fixture in the front row at presentations like those of Chanel and Marc Jacobs. Her sinuously curvy cocktail dresses have been worn by Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore and Ms. Diaz and are showcased in stores alongside luxury labels like Narciso Rodriguez and Vera Wang. “Don’t underestimate her,” said Anna Wintour, among the many editors and retailers who have embraced her, pointing out that Ms. Beckham has managed, in a scant four seasons, to shed her dubious standing as the girl least likely to succeed.

“She’s growing up,” said Ken Downing, the fashion director of Neiman Marcus, and an early advocate of Ms. Beckham’s designs. “Her knowledge of dressmaking is impressive. She understands how to bring out the best in the female form, and that’s one reason our clients are drawn to what she does.” As important, he said, “She knows how good clothes feel when they’re on. Because she has worn them.”

Good clothes are necessary adjunct to a life spent basking in the public eye. Ms. Beckham has cavorted for the camera in the Mediterranean-style villa in Beverly Hills, Calif., that she shares with her husband, a home filled with art by Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood and Tracey Emin. She has sashayed along fashion runways, modeled in high-profile advertising campaigns and appeared as a guest on television shows like “Ugly Betty” “Project Runway” and “American Idol.”

Her life — the feverishly documented spending sprees, the star turns on the red carpet, the clamor for her designs — may be enviable, but she wants you to know it has left her unspoiled. “Doing diva,” she said in London in June, “that’s completely pointless.”

INSIDERS powerful enough to score an invitation to her intimate spring 2011 showing next Sunday in a town house on East 63rd Street may well take her at her word. They will be greeted by a woman aglow in, though not overtly dazzled by, her own success, one who serves as the commentator for her shows — confessing, rather disarmingly, her relative ignorance. “Look, it’s a very basic way that I am doing this,” she said last season. “Technically, it’s probably not the right way.”

Her dresses, once so corseted that they gave off a whiff of kitsch, are loosening up, exuding at times a patrician breeziness. Whisking a visitor around her London headquarters, she said: “My style has relaxed a bit. I think you will see that in this next collection.”

You will also see a self-assured creature whose angular features have grown softer and more womanly, her turnout a departure from the constricting get-ups that once were her fashion signature.

Diamond studs wink in her ears and a pink gold Rolex gleams on her wrist — but these are discrete compared with the rhinestone studded hipster jeans she flaunted in New York only a handful of years ago.

The brief skirt she wore for her interview was demurely balanced by a cropped Alaïa cardigan that revealed nothing more brazen than a line of Hebrew scripture tattooed at the base of her neck: “I am my lover’s and my lover is mine,” meant to cement her marriage bond, which has survived numerous allegations of Mr. Beckham’s infidelities. Through it all — the up-and-down marriage, the abortive singing career, the storming of fashion’s citadel and the occasional misstep, including the failure of an earlier denim line — Ms. Beckham has proved a deft architect of her own ascent.

One part inspiration, three parts aspiration, she is quick to disclose the great source of her drive. “I am a control freak,” she said calmly in her studio. No Ghesquiere or Galliano, she does not claim to be an innovator. “She takes conventional dresses and makes them stand out,” said Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue. But a dedication to perfection has played a significant part in the advancement of her fashion career.

Yet Ms. Beckham, by her own account, is a wobbly work in progress. “I’m very aware that I’m working my way up the ladder,” she said. “I have a long, long way to go.”

With her business partner, Simon Fuller, the creator of “American Idol,” she presides over a luxury brand encompassing dresses, denim, sunglasses and now a line of handbags that will make its debut on the runway next week. Her dresses, built on a contour-perfecting inner scaffolding, are magnets to the well-heeled clients ready to pay for a Grecian draped tunic or urn-shaped cocktail dress. Their growing allegiance has contributed to sales in excess of $7 million last year, said Zach Duane, the company’s senior vice president for business development, a figure that would hold steady through this year as well.

Not so impressive, perhaps, by the standards of industry behemoths who tally their sales in the billions of dollars. But Ms. Beckham envisions a measured growth for her brand. “We are moving in baby steps,” she said of the line, mostly financed at the outset with the proceeds — under $1 million — from the sales of the Beckhams’ successful fragrance line.

The collection is tightly distributed; the dresses are made in England and carried in 20 stores around the world. New denim and eyewear collections are being sold in 100 stores, Mr. Duane said, and free-standing Victoria Beckham boutiques are in the offing.

Ms. Beckham, he indicated, can take much of the credit for the label’s success. “She is incredibly involved in pricing, wanting to know where we’re at in terms of turnover, and how the costs are being managed,” he said. “She is fully aware that this is the only way that you can properly run a business.”

She is certainly integral to the design process, draping her dresses on herself. “I might get a piece of fabric and tie it around me, then ask an assistant to pin it for me,” she said. “I’m not claiming to be a master draper. The bottom line is: Would I wear this?”

Her beaver-ish attentiveness to the fit, construction and marketing of her line has just won her a British Fashion Council nomination as Designer Brand of the Year. It has also secured her enviable retail real estate. At Bergdorf Goodman, her dresses, which sell from roughly $1,500 to $3,700, “are among the highest sell-through performers,” said Jim Gold, chief executive of the store. What’s more, there is a wait list. “It’s not unusual for a dress to be reserved two or three deep,” he said.

She may like the taste of victory. But Ms. Beckham is still fending off critics from inside an armor of self-deprecation. “I’m so camp, such a gay man trying to get out,” she likes to say. And, “It’s exhausting being fabulous.”

Her sauciness has endeared her to no less a cultural arbiter than Marc Jacobs, who befriended Ms. Beckham and featured her in an ad campaign, in which she allowed herself to be photographed upended, her legs projecting from a shopping bag and waving in the air. Mr. Jacobs’s public embrace went some way toward redeeming her in the eyes of the fashion cognoscenti.

Yet she is still being held to the coals by some insiders who tagged her from the beginning as an upstart, just another in long line of pop confections to brand her initials on someone else’s frocks. Skepticism has dogged her since she announced her intention to create her fashion label.

“There is always a certain amount of bias involved when you have a name as big as hers,” acknowledged Holli Rogers, the buying director for Net-a-Porter, now Ms. Beckham’s biggest global client. The Web-based company picked up her line in its first season, but not without “a lot of deliberation,” Ms. Rogers recalled. “We had to take into consideration, ‘Is this a marketable brand for our level of customer?’ ”

In February, the New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn dismissed Ms. Beckham’s fall collection as a succession of “ladylike vamp dresses straight from the movies. I could see them on TCM any old time.”

The barbs sting, Ms. Beckham acknowledged, but not enough to deflect her from her purpose. “I want to build something that’s very respected,” she said with a pleading urgency. Her career, she added, “is about getting things right. I want to make sure I’m in this position in 20 years’ time.”

You believe her, even feel for her. Still, it’s tough to forget that Ms. Beckham is a skilled performer, balancing a calculated raciness with a great show of decorum and humility. For the space of a morning she held her runaway tongue in check, sparing the salty commentary that has seasoned past conversations. “You have to go to a sex shop to get this spray to polish them,” she once said of a pair of thigh-high PVC boots she wore for a Macy’s appearance. More than once she has boasted about the size of her husband’s penis.

But holding forth at her London studio, she dabbed at the corners of her mouth, perching or alternately rocking on the edge of her chair like a schoolgirl in a scratchy pinafore — her propriety evidently conceived to disarm the greatest cynics.

Ed Burstell, who first encountered Ms. Beckham a couple of years ago, during his tenure as a top executive at Bergdorf Goodman, relished her sales pitch, describing it as girly and unscripted. Ms. Beckham had approached him as an artless supplicant, he recalled, alighting in his boardroom to show off her new line of sunglasses.

“She had all the frames in a plastic bag,” said Mr. Burstell, who is now the managing director for Liberty in London, adding with a hoot, “She pulled some of them out and was modeling some of the frames for me, really getting into it, really working it. She was funny, but at the same time relentless.”

Ms. Beckham’s persistence is ingrained. “Nothing has ever come easy to me,” she said wryly. “At school I was never the brightest child. I had to work really hard.” Acutely aware of her shortcomings, she can be her own toughest critic. “I’m no Mariah Carey,” she said of her time as a Spice Girl. As a designer, she thinks of herself as still being in a formative stage, her style sense as fungible as her public persona. Why not? “I find it really boring when people are afraid to change,” she said.

Her metamorphosis seems well in keeping with her ever-mutating aims. What motivates her? “You have to think that she doesn’t want to be eclipsed by her husband,” Mr. Burstell said, an observation she would be unlikely to challenge.

The label of WAG, a British acronym reserved for the brassily acquisitive wives and girlfriends of soccer players, seems to leave her unfazed. “I was probably responsible for creating that look,” Ms. Beckham said, “the long hair extensions, the fake tan, lots of makeup.” But unlike her presumptive peers, “I’ve never really been a true WAG,” she said quickly. “I’ve always had a career.”

There are still great gaps in her catalog of accomplishments. “I would love to be Lady Beckham,” she once joshed in a radio interview. But you suspect that her remarks are only half in jest.

“You can’t buy class,” she said. But a string of good works may not hurt. “I grew up obviously admiring Lady Diana’s style, the amount that she gave, the charities,” she said. The Beckhams have helped raise millions in support of cancer research and children’s education. The Victoria and David Beckham Charitable Trust serves children in need, providing wheelchairs, prosthetics and other forms of assistance.

As revealing is her guest list for an imaginary dinner party, not just the predictably aristocratic likes of Grace Kelly and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but also contemporary idols like Cate Blanchett; Tilda Swinton; Carine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue; and, oh, yes, Michelle Obama. “I really would love to dress her,” Ms. Beckham said almost plaintively.

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From left, Courtney Cox, Mary J. Blige, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz are some of the notables who have worn the designs of Ms. Beckham, who now lives among them in Southern California.


For all her ambition, Ms. Beckham is not ready to slough off the last remnants of her working-class past. In the 1980s, her father, an electrical distributor, celebrated his own success by trading up from a van to a shiny Rolls-Royce and dropping her off at school in it. Ms. Beckham was mortified. “Daddy,” she remembered begging him, “can we please go in the van?”

“I just wanted to fit in,” she recalled, cringing at the memory.

She takes pride just the same in being her father’s daughter, self-made to the core, the product of an unwavering optimism. She is aware her career isn’t bulletproof. At least not yet. It was built, after all, on “not taking ‘no’ for an answer.”

“My whole life has been that way,” she said. “I’ve always enjoyed proving people wrong.”