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Primary Topic

Emma Chamberlain recounts her experiences and behind-the-scenes chaos at the 2024 Met Gala.

Episode Summary

In this episode, Emma Chamberlain delves into the highs and lows of her 2024 Met Gala experience. She begins by describing her initial physical discomfort post-event, reflecting on her excitement and the dreamlike quality of the gala contrasted with its chaotic aspects. Emma shares anecdotes from past galas, like struggling with tonsil stones and last-minute outfit changes, emphasizing the recurring chaos each year brings. Sponsored by brands like Haagen Dazs and eBay, the episode transitions into detailed stories from the gala, including losing her voice and skincare mishaps before the event. Emma humorously discusses the challenges of long nails and her tactics for managing them during the gala. She touches on the physical discomforts that come with high-profile events, like migraines and standing in heels for extended periods. Throughout, Emma maintains a lighthearted tone, candidly sharing the less glamorous sides of a typically glamorous event.

Main Takeaways

  1. Behind the glitz of the Met Gala, numerous challenges and chaotic moments occur.
  2. Personal care routines can be disrupted by events, leading to physical discomforts like lost voices or skin issues.
  3. Unexpected issues, like long nails, can complicate simple tasks and cause humorous predicaments.
  4. Preparation for high-profile events often includes last-minute adjustments and coping with physical discomfort.
  5. Despite the challenges, the experience remains a cherished and exhilarating part of Emma's career.

Episode Chapters

1: Introduction

Emma discusses her physical state after the Met Gala, setting the stage for a recount of the event's chaotic but thrilling experiences.
Emma Chamberlain: "I'm a little sniffly... just got back from New York."

2: Met Gala Reflections

Emma reflects on the recurring chaos at the Met Gala, sharing past anecdotes and her love for the event's spectacular yet demanding nature.
Emma Chamberlain: "Every year, I have a different slew of issues."

3: Pre-Gala Preparations

Challenges like losing her voice and skincare mishaps are discussed, highlighting the preparations and issues faced before the gala.
Emma Chamberlain: "Losing my voice... I fully lost my voice two days before the Met."

4: Gala Night Challenges

Emma narrates the difficulties of managing long nails and dealing with wardrobe and physical discomforts during the event.
Emma Chamberlain: "So for this Met gala, I get really long nails put on."

5: Conclusion and Reflections

Emma concludes by expressing gratitude for being part of the Met Gala, despite its challenges, and reflects on the personal growth and experiences gained.
Emma Chamberlain: "I truly had a phenomenal time, though, and it's always such an honor to be allowed back."

Actionable Advice

  1. Prepare for big events well in advance to minimize last-minute stress.
  2. Consider simple remedies like ginger tea for quick recovery from minor ailments.
  3. Always have backup plans for potential wardrobe malfunctions.
  4. Maintain hydration and take care of your physical needs during long events to avoid discomfort.
  5. Remember to balance professional commitments with personal comfort.

About This Episode

i just got back from new york last night. i was there for my fourth met gala and it was a phenomenal experience. however, as with all things, there's a chaotic side to the met gala, and that's what i want to talk about today.

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Transcript

Emma Chamberlain
I'm a little sniffly. I feel like this happens to me every time I go to a big event. I'm not even sick, but my body is just broken down in a way that vaguely resembles an illness. Okay, so I'm not, like, fully ill. I don't have a fever, none of that, but I have a slight headache, a sniffly nose, a sore throat.

I'm half sick. I just got back from New York. Mmm. Last night at one in the morning. I was in New York for the.

Met gala, and now I'm back. And it was a fucking phenomenal experience. It was my fourth Met Gala. It was truly incredible. It was just kind of a dream come true.

Emma Chamberlain
I loved my outfit. I have the most phenomenal team. I got to spend a lot of time with them, and it was just a beautiful, beautiful weekend. And that's the way that it looks online, too. Like, you look at the Met gala through the lens of the Internet, and it looks like this dreamy experience.

You know, all these people dressed up in beautiful outfits, walking the carpet and going in to the event that is somewhat unknown but assumed to be delightful, which it is. The event as a whole is truly a special experience. However, as with all things, there's also a chaotic side to it, and that's what I want to talk about today. The Met Gala looks gorgeous and is gorgeous, but somebody's got to be honest and talk about the shit that happens. During Met Gala week that's chaotic.

Every year, I have a different slew of issues. Two years ago, I had a tonsil stone. Or was it two years ago? Yeah, I think it was two years ago. Two years ago, I had a tonsil stone.

So I was very self conscious that my breath reeked of tonsil stone. If you don't know what that smells like, to be honest, I don't know how to describe it. It feels like something's rotting in your throat, and it tastes like shit. And it's sort of inconclusive whether or not people around you can smell it. I think if you have a really big, severe tonsil stone, people can smell it.

If it's not that big, it's not that severe, people can't smell it. It depends. Regardless, it's very stressful, especially when you're doing red carpet interviews and talking to. A lot of celebrities. It's like, yeah, I don't really want my breath to stink.

That was a chaotic moment for me a few years ago. One year, I tried on my look for the first time the day before the Met gala. Usually I at least get a fitting a few weeks before, so I'm sort of familiar with what I'm wearing and I'm confident in how it fits, et cetera. One year I tried it on the day before and we were making tweaks the day before and there was almost no time to make revisions or edits. That was chaotic.

Every year there are different chaotic moments. Those are two examples from prior years. But this year had its own slew of chaotic moments, and I am going to go through them for you and we're going to discuss them. This episode is presented by Haagen Daz. It's love at first bite with the new Haagen Dazs dulce de leche bar featuring rich caramel dulce de leche ice cream, swirled with thick, milky dulce de leche ribbons and dipped in milk chocolate.

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Emma Chamberlain
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Emma Chamberlain
Losing my voice. Okay, two days before the Met, I. Kid you not, I fully lost my voice. And I lose my voice a lot. For an unknown reason.

It could be genetic, just how my throat is. I could have undiagnosed nodes in my throat. Look, that up if you don't know what it is. It's like these little growths on your throat that can form if you overuse your vocal cords. I think that might be a wrong description, but it's something somewhat like that.

I could have that. I don't know why I lose my voice so much, but I do. I went to my friend Derek's birthday. Party two nights before the mat, and. This party was in a very loud.

Room, and there were a lot of people that I knew, so I was. Doing a lot of chatting. But when you're chatting in a loud room, you're not really chatting. You're screaming. So for like, 2 hours, I was.

Screaming at this birthday party. And it was delightful in the moment. But I knew while I was screaming. That it was not going to be good. I felt my voice going.

Well, I was on to something because. I got home that night and I realized, yeah, my voice is gone. And so I drank some water, went to bed, and crossed my fingers that I'd wake up in the morning and it would be better. Because sometimes that's the case. Well, I woke up in the morning, and guess what?

My voice was even worse than it was the night before. At this point, I have, like, 32 hours until the met gala. I'm not feeling so good about it, so I start ordering ginger tea with honey and lemon every few hours and. Hoping for the best. By that evening, my voice was back, but it was still a little gravelly.

Emma Chamberlain
It was still a little scratchy. So I went to bed that night. Woke up the next morning, and thank God it's back. I knew deep down that the universe was going to have my back. I was like, there's no way the universe would do this to me.

Like, there's just no way. And I've been taking good care of my throat. Please, universe above, give me my voice back. And I got it back. Thank God.

I was so afraid because I do the interviews, and that consists of approximately 4 hours of talking with. With no breaks, pretty much very short breaks in between. Cause I'm talking to people as they arrive on the carpet, and it's a little loud. It's a little chaotic on the carpet. So I'm talking a bit louder than usual.

I need to talk a bit louder than usual so that the person that I'm interviewing can hear me. Like, it is critical to do that job with a voice, a voice that projects at that. And so, thankfully, I got my voice back. Listen, say what you want about simple remedies when it comes to, you know, certain physical elements, but fuck ginger tea with lemon and honey. It expedited the process of getting my voice back, because I'm very familiar with losing my voice, and I normally don't really do anything to remedy it.

I just kind of let it come back naturally. But, my God, it worked. It really worked. I mean, did I drink, like, nine of them? Yes, but I think it worked.

So crisis averted, but it was a close call. Next. I was breaking out the whole week before the Met. Just unhappy skin. My skin has not been happy, and I think I know why.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I know why. I went, like, three days without doing any skincare a few weeks back, and my skin was so happy. Like, my skin clearly appreciated the break. It cleared up so much. It looked so good and so healthy and so happy.

And in that moment, I thought to. Myself, wait a minute. Maybe my skin doesn't want any product right now. Maybe it doesn't want moisturizer. Maybe it doesn't want toner.

Maybe it doesn't want oil. Maybe it wants nothing. So let me give my skin a break, because it's reacting so well to nothing right now that I'm just gonna keep this going. So I went, like, a week and a half without using any products. Nothing.

I would maybe lightly moisturize if my skin felt dry, but that was about it. I wasn't using any other products. Uh, yeah. So that quickly ended up making my skin very unhappy. My skin was very dehydrated.

I started breaking out. I started developing clogged pores again. And so I realized, okay, you know what? This isn't working. This isn't working.

The timing was a little off for me because. Because once I realized it wasn't working, and I tried to pivot and start using skincare regularly again, it was a week before the Met gala, and this is obviously a very photographed event. And so I always try to get my skin in the happiest, healthiest place I can get it to just because that tends to look better with makeup on top of it on a red carpet. My skin was not in its healthiest, happiest place by any means. It was actually very angry at me, and unfortunately, that did not go away in time for the Met.

So I actually had quite a few zits going on. And, yeah, my skin just kind of looked dehydrated, and I think we remedied it pretty well for the carpet. My makeup artist is amazing, and, you know, did her magic, but that was definitely kind of chaotic and stressful. I was a little bit bummed out about that. Okay, next, let's talk about my really long nails.

So for this Met gala, and for most met galas, I get really long nails put on, like, really long. I like having somewhat long nails, but. Not this long, okay? These are so long that you can't do shit anymore. You can't type on your phone.

You can't wipe your ass. They're that long. And for the sake of my well being, I decided to get my long nails applied the day of the Met, like, 2 hours before I leave for the event in hopes that I wouldn't really have much to do once the nails were applied. Like, I wouldn't have to poop, you know what I'm saying? I wouldn't have to go on my phone very much, because on the day of the Met, it's like I sit in glam and get my hair and makeup done, and then I go to the carpet and I do the interviews.

All of those things I can do easily with nails. It's doing work on the phone or on the computer. That's challenging. It's going to the bathroom or showering. That's challenging.

And so I was like, well, if I get them applied while I'm getting my hair and makeup done the day of the Met, then I won't have to struggle with these nails as much, and I can just remove them that. Night once the event is over. Well, lucky for me, I got the nails applied, and immediately after they were applied, my body decided that I had to poop. Yep, really bad. So I tell my whole team, I'm like, you guys, I don't know what to do.

Like, I have to shit. My nails are so long. Like, I don't know what I'm gonna do. And there were multiple people on my. Team who were like, I will help you wipe.

And I was like, no, no. But that just proves how great my team is. Like, how much they take care of me and how much we love each other is that they were like, I will wipe for you. I mean, I have a lot of moms on my team. And they were like, Emma, we'll wipe.

Emma Chamberlain
And I was like, no, we can't do that. I can't let you do that. I'm 22. Fuck, I'm almost 23. May 22.

Mark your calendar. My birthday. Mommy's birthday, May 22. But I was like, that is actually. That's too far.

No, but also, like, what should I do? Like, what's the recommendation anyway? Totally too much information. But the method ended up being to wad up so much toilet paper that I didn't really have to apply that much pressure with my hand directly. Like, I could kind of.

I don't know. If you use enough toilet paper, you can wipe in a way where you're not applying as much pressure, and it's very efficient. Anyway, you didn't want to know that, but that was horrible. Okay, next chaotic thing that happened after I finished getting ready for the Met, I had a few photo shoots I. Had to do, and one of them.

Emma Chamberlain
Was for long comb. We were going to do a little quick photo shoot with some of the makeup products that we used in the makeup look. Now, one of the photos that they wanted me to get was a photo of me applying mascara. Now, normally, that wouldn't be a big deal. However, the most efficient way to shoot it was to have me apply the mascara without looking in a mirror.

Why? Because they needed to set up lighting and have their cameras out and all this. So there wasn't really room for me to have a mirror, and they didn't really want the mirror in the frame. So what made the most sense was for me to just use spatial awareness to try to apply the mascara without looking into any mirror or anything. Now, this normally wouldn't be a big deal.

It's like, okay, yeah, we could do that. We could apply mascara without looking into a mirror. And worst case scenario, we fuck up and we just wipe it off and whatever. This is a higher pressure situation because. My makeup is done.

My makeup artist had just spent, what, two and a half hours on my makeup. If I get a smudge of mascara on my face, that could put us behind 30 minutes. And the day of the Met, it is like, minute to minute. There's so much to do in such a short amount of time that everybody's just trying to get shit done as quickly as possible. And, like, anything that goes wrong could throw off the whole schedule.

And there's a very strict arrival time, especially for me, because I do the interviews and I need to be on the carpet early so that I can start interviewing people as they show up. So the thought of me getting mascara on my face when I already have my makeup look done was gut wrenching for me. I was freaked the fuck out. However, again, by some miracle, I did not touch my face with the mascara.

Oh, yeah. I was worried, and I was, like, fully touching my eyelash with the mascara wand. Like, it wasn't like I was, you know, miming it in front of my face. Like, I fully, for a lot of the shots, had the mascara touching my eyelashes. It was frightening, but I was careful enough somehow that it didn't end up touching my face.

Emma Chamberlain
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Emma Chamberlain
Looks, especially very fashion forward events, is that a lot of the looks are very challenging to manage. Okay, for example, you might have seen if you kept up with the Met Gala this year. Tyla, for example. Her outfit was absolutely incredible, but it was so stiff that she couldn't move her knees enough to walk up the stairs on the carpet, so they had to lift her in between each stair, like, the people working at the Met Gala had to carry her up the stairs or with my dress to lead us to my chaotic moment with my dress. It had this beautiful, long train behind it.

But in order for the train to photograph properly, we have to readjust the train. Every step I take to make sure that it looks perfect. So every single step that I took. On the carpet, the train had to. Be moved and perfected to make sure that it photographed properly.

And, I mean, my train was nothing. Like some people have these insane trains that require five people to carry. Mine was nothing. I only needed one person to help me. But even that was a lot to manage and was very stressful, but it was worth it.

Next. I unfortunately did not drink water all day the day of the Met gala. And by the time I was on the carpet doing the interviews, I had a full fucking migraine, and I get really bad migraines. I didn't drink any water because I didn't want to have to go pee on the carpet, because I can't really step away and go to the bathroom. There's kind of no time to do that.

Emma Chamberlain
Cause there's so much happening very fast that there's no. Yeah, there's just no time to go. I mean, if I told the team. At Vogue, hey, I have to go to the bathroom, they'd be like, no problem. But I don't want to leave because I don't want to miss something.

You know, it's not like anyone's holding me there captive, but it's like I don't want to miss the action. I don't want to miss a moment. That could end up being incredible. So it's like me putting pressure on myself not to go to the bathroom. So, anyway, I didn't drink any water all day, barely any.

And it caught up to me. I'm, you know, an hour into doing interviews, and my head starts pounding, and I drink some water. I have some tylenol. But, my God, it did not go away. I'd say for, like, 75% of those interviews, I had a pounding headache.

Emma Chamberlain
But I was having such a great time that I was able to sort of compartmentalize my discomfort from what I was doing. But that was definitely a huge bummer, a little bit chaotic. Speaking of pain, also during the interviews. Cause I'm standing there for, like, 4 hours talking to everybody as they come in, or whoever wants to talk to me as they come in. My feet start to hurt.

Now, I thought ahead this year, and I asked Jean Paul Gaultier to make me a short little kitten heel so that I could change out of my high heels into my little kitten heels that are more comfortable, so that it'd be a little bit more comfortable when I'm standing on my feet for, like, 4 hours now. That worked out pretty good. I was in the kitten heels for, I'd say, the first 75% of the interviews, but for the last hour, I. Was like, no, I can't. I can't be in any shoe anymore.

I can't do it. I need to take my shoes off. And I was so mortified because I was like, I'm getting too old for this. Like, when I first started doing interviews, I was 19, I think. And I remember I took my shoes off, and I changed into these, like, slides that did not match my outfit, just so that I could be in a flat shoe.

And I was standing on a little apple box, like a little wooden box so that I looked a bit taller. And that was cute when I was 19, but then when I was, like. 20, it was like, okay, this is. Starting to get a little less cute, but, like, it's still kind of cute. And also, I remember that year, like, my dress was so long, you couldn't even see my feet.

So me not wearing shoes was kind of not noticeable. And then my third year, I changed into loafers, which were comfortable. So that was good, and that was classy. And I never took those off. I kept those on the whole night.

That was good. That was very respectable of me. And I. I knew I had to keep my shoes on that year because I was like, okay, I'm getting a little too old for this now. Now at 22 year number four, it's like, girl, you gotta keep the shoes on.

Like you're a professional. Stop. But I could not keep them on. My feet hurt so bad, and my back hurts so bad. I was like, I am taking these off, and I'm standing on a box with no shoes.

I have to do it. And I did it, and I wasn't. Proud of it, okay? I wasn't proud of it, but I had to do it for just a few minutes just to give my feet a rest. And nobody judged me.

It was actually amazing. Nobody judged me. In fact, I remember I was standing on the box, and all of a sudden, Cardi B walks up in her big, big, big, massive, massive dress. Okay, this dress, she said it weighed more than her. This dress was huge, okay?

It required, I think, seven people to help her carry it in. Like, it had this insane train. It was massive. Like, it was so huge. Okay, this.

Imagine that this huge, heavy dress around Cardi B. And Cardi B is just this, like, tiny, cute little thing in the middle of it. Okay? Very dramatic, very drama, whatever. I interview her while she's in this dress, okay?

About to walk the carpet. Her dress was so big that in order to interview her, I had to step off my little box and, like, step off to the side and reach over her dress with my microphone and try to get it close to her mouth. It was wild. It was awesome. But the best part was when she was walking away, her dress is so huge and heavy.

Emma Chamberlain
Part of her dress was dragging on the ground, and that part of her dress that was dragging on the ground somehow, like, absorbed my apple box that I was standing on, that wooden box that I was standing on, and it just got pulled away. Dragged away in her dress somewhere like, that is how big her dress was. That literally this fucking entire box got lost in her dress. And they eventually found the box kicked off to the side somewhere. Like, one of the people working at the Met found the box and kicked it off to the side.

Cause it fell out from the dress at some point. It was. What? I could not fucking believe it. That was unbelievable.

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Okay, next. When I got back to the hotel after the event, it was time to go out to after parties, and I made the mistake of briefly taking off my look. Okay. At this point, I was wearing a shorter version of. Of the dress that I wore on the red carpet, because for the last two years, I've had two different looks.

Emma Chamberlain
One look that I wear on the red carpet, and then one look that I wear that's a bit more comfortable, a bit more casual, a bit more understated for the interview portion of my evening. So, usually the second outfit that I change into is much more comfortable, and that was absolutely the case here. However, comfortable for me is, like, everything's really loose, everything's really soft. Like, I like things to be absurdly comfortable, like, to a point where it's not cute. You know what I mean?

Like, it's, like, so loose. Like, I love loose clothes so much, and I love loose clothes more every year. Like, what I packed for my trip to New York was loose jeans, loose trousers, like, loose everything. Loose, loose, loose, loose, loose. I love loose clothes.

That's what I'm the most comfortable in. Okay, listen, this second dress was gorgeous. And somewhat comfortable, but it's not that comfortable. Listen, it's a corset dress, and these tight tights and tight gloves, it looks gorgeous. And all things considered, it's very comfortable.

But in Emma standard, no. Comfortable for me is, like, really loose, baggy jeans and, like, a baggy t shirt that's comfortable for me. I do not have bravery when it comes to uncomfortable clothes. So when I get back to the hotel room after the event ends, I'm still a bit hungry. And so I decide, you know what?

I'm going to take my look off, get into a robe, and eat a snack before I go out to after parties. Well, once I took it off, I was like, oh, wow, I really don't want to put it back on. But I told Jared, like, a month ago that I didn't need a more comfortable look for the after parties because I loved the little mini dress version of the actual met gala dress so much that I would just wear that out. But I lied because, well, I didn't lie because in the moment, I thought it was going to be true. But I spoke incorrectly because I ended up wanting a more comfortable outfit so bad.

And I told Jared, please, can I just change into one of my cozy outfits? He was like, emma, no, we can't do that. And so I was like, okay. So then I changed back into the uncomfortable look. Listen, it's not even that uncomfortable.

I shouldn't even describe it as the uncomfortable look. But for me, in the moment, I was like, oh, my God, I'm so exhausted. I've been on my feet for so many hours. I want to be in my cozy, squishy clothes. But it was worth it because I love that look so much, the little mini dress.

And it was so cute that. I don't know. It's fine. The mini dress version was. Was worth me wanting to be in my PJ's, but not being able to.

It was worth it. Okay, next. You know what was interesting? When it came to the after parties. This year, I was overwhelmed because there.

Was so many that I didn't know. Which one to go to. Like, there were probably ten parties, ten. After parties all over New York, and everyone is sort of asking around, like, hey, which one are you going to? Hey, which one are you going to?

And everyone was like, I don't know. Because there's ten of them. Like, nobody could decide which one they wanted to go to because there were ten great options. So it was like, okay, I don't. Really know which one's the best.

Emma Chamberlain
Like, I don't even know how to narrow it down. And then nobody ended up communicating very well about which one was the one. And so it was very hard to figure out where to find everybody that was just at the Met. Cause that's kind of what's fun about the after parties is like, oh, we were all hanging out at the Met. Now we get to hang out some more at the after parties.

But there were so many that everybody was separated, and it was kind of sad. Like, nobody could find each other because there were too many. And that was kind of funny to me. I was like, what a weird problem to have that there are too many after parties. But I actually think that there is such a thing, because if there's ten of them and nobody can agree on which one's the best, then chances are you're not going to see your friends out or not even your friends.

You'd see your friends out because you're in contact, you're on text, but people that you only see once a year at the Met, you're not going to probably meet up with them or find them because you might not have their number, et cetera, et cetera. But that's, like, the fun part about the after parties is like, oh, I'm going to see all these people that I only see once a year, but then when there's ten and nobody knows which one to go to, and no one's making one big group chat with everyone who's at the met, it just. It's impossible to figure out who's going where and where the majority of the people are. And it's sad because not everyone can hang out in that way. And so, yeah, it was kind of a bummer.

So that's kind of a funny tidbit about it. And I really didn't go out much. I went to, I would say, two and a half parties. I went to one that was great, actually. I went to two that were great and one that was really bad.

And I was down to keep going, but then, I don't know, it was like, 330, and I was like, I'm not going to accomplish much more. Like, I think I've done it. You know, I need to go take a shower and go to bed. And that's what I did. But actually, on the way home from the last afterparty, I was actually not super drunk.

I had only had, like, two drinks. I was feeling very normal and honestly sober, and I just sort of started to take my outfit off at that point. I was so tired, and I just wanted to get into bed as quickly as possible. So I was like, let me just expedite the process by starting to remove my outfit in the car. So I took my gloves off, put them in my bag, I started chewing my nails off in the car, which was very disturbing for the people who were with me.

They absolutely hated watching it, but I was, like, gnawing my nails off. Uh, so that was really disturbing. And then, I don't know, I was just slowly but surely, like, taking everything off because I assumed that there weren't really gonna be any cameras outside of the hotel. Well, I was wrong. And so I did have to put my hands into fists to hide the fact that I had ripped my nails off just in case a photo was taken of me.

I haven't seen this photo surface, so maybe I got away with it, but. I also can't be sure. So, yeah, that's it. That's sort of all of my chaotic met gala moments of this year. I truly had a phenomenal time, though, and it's always such an honor to be allowed back.

I'm just so mind blown every year that they have me back to do the interviews, to walk the carpet, and to eat the dinner with everybody and watch the performance with everybody. It is such an honor for me and every single year, I'm even more grateful than the last. And, yeah, it was just. It was such a phenomenal year and I had great people around me and. I don't know, it was just.

It was delightful. And thank you to all of you who said kind words about my interviews that I did with Vogue or my look that I made with Jean Paul Gaultier and Cartier and Jared, my stylist. Thank you to all of you who sent me any sort of love about that look, I really appreciate it. And it was this sort of, you know, baby that we all put our love and heart into. And so it just means so much to me and to them that some of you resonated with it.

Emma Chamberlain
So I really appreciate that. And, you know, that's all I have for this week. Clearly. I need to go to bed or something because my nose has gotten progressively more clogged throughout this episode and I feel like I am becoming sick now. Like, I think in the beginning of this episode I was not sick, and then by the end of it, I'm now ill.

So I need to handle that and I will. But I love you all and I appreciate you all and I hope that you enjoyed this episode and I hope that you enjoyed the last few episodes about the Met Gala. If you haven't tuned into those, feel free to do that. They're up. You can find them new episodes of anything goes every Thursday and Sunday.

Stream anywhere that you get podcasts. Although video episodes are exclusive to Spotify, you can check out anything goes as Instagram at anything goes. My Instagram at Emma Chamberlain, my coffee company, Chamberlain Coffee. We're probably in a store near you. If you live in the United States, you can check the store locator, chamberlaincoffee.com.

It is on there. Or if you don't want to go in store, you can order Chamberlain coffee straight to your door. That's all I have for today. I love you all and appreciate you. All, and I can't wait to talk to you soon.

You're awesome. Oh, my God. My voice sounds horrible and nasally. It's just disgusting. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.

I hope you love me anyway. Okay, bye. I love.

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