By now you probably know that I think Cara Delevingne is pretty overrated. I think most of her fame and success comes from nepotism and connections (her parents are rich, well-connected aristocrats), plus a healthy dose of social media savvy and being the public trainwreck that people love to watch. I also believe that Cara should have gotten a bigger backlash last year when she completely mishandled being (justly) called out by Vogue for being an unprofessional mess who slept through the interview because she was partying too hard the night before.
So, that’s my general impression of her: poor little rich girl with a martyr complex. Party girl who only talks about solidarity and women-supporting-women when she’s being called out for unprofessional behavior. But here’s something new: is Cara also sort of a brat? That’s my question after watching what could have been a simple, breezy morning show appearance turn into an awkward disaster. To be fair, it wasn’t just Cara – or “Carla” as they called her – turning this interview into messy morning show amazingness. But Cara seemed… off. Here’s the clip from Good Day Sacramento:
Full disclosure: I’m actually a morning person, in that I can be fully functional, coherent and truly awake very quickly after I get up. But I could never be “perky” like morning show anchors. Not without heavy medication or a buttload of caffeine. So, just on that alone, I think there was always going to be some awkwardness between peppy, perky Californian morning anchors and a jet-lagged, hard-partying, hungover British girl. Maybe it was being called “Carla” or maybe she was just tired of doing press, but it did feel like Cara had a chip on her shoulder. It felt like she stifled (just barely) several eyerolls as she deigned to answer their questions. So… unprofessional brat or completely reasonable given the circumstances?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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