Who is Julia Fox?

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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.

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