Well, WIRED actually shares a parent company with Reddit.
Good. Get rid of it.
What is the part of all this that still seems strangest to you? Is it weird to have something happen in your life and have to post a statement about it on Instagram?
It’s strange that if I say something, the press does it. And sometimes I don’t think about that. So when I decided to post an Instagram story two weeks ago and say, “I’ve never slept with someone I interviewed,” I didn’t expect to wake up to an email from my PR team saying, “Here’s all the news. the press you got from this.” Or when I got divorced and paparazzi showed up at my house, I thought, “A. How did they find out where I live? B. Why do they need to take pictures of me walking around without a wedding ring?”
It’s a little crazy. Are you in a good place on all that personal stuff?
A lot of people still give me a hard time because I’m no longer with the father of my children. I was 22 years old when I got married.
I didn’t know if we were going to talk about this. But I got married when I was 21 years old..
Maybe you?
And I got divorced. I was going to offer to tell you about my divorce if it would help you talk about yours. Because I married an abolitionist vegan in college. Special. And I was also vegan and then I was seeing a doctor. I was vegan because I was starving myself.
Oh my god.
I went to see a doctor and the doctor told me, “You have to start eating dairy. Katie, you need to start eating some type of animal products. “You have to gain weight.” So I started eating yogurt and I called my husband, because we lived in different cities at the time, and I said, “There are two things I need to tell you. One is that I started smoking.” And he said, “That’s really funny. “I never would have imagined you smoking.” And I said, “And the other thing is that I started eating yogurt.” And he said, “I’m done.”
By no means. Your husband.
My husband. And we got divorced because I ate…
Yogurt.
A simple 0 percent Fage.
It’s very easy to look at the future and say: you get married and you stay married forever. We had children immediately. I got pregnant 10 months after meeting him, maybe 11 months. And then, in a year, we will get married. We got married at the courthouse.
When I was a child, I watched my parents behave horribly together. Awful. Really, really, really. The worst possible couple that could be together.
Are you still married?
No. And I remember that the day my mother told us that they were going to divorce was the best day of my life.
I read online that the best time to get divorced and for it to have the least impact on your children is before they turn 3 years old. When my daughter was 3 years old, I remember that, if we are going to do this, it needs to be done now, because our children will not know. He wasn’t like my parents, but we weren’t in love.
And by then you should have had some financial independence.
The timing coincided perfectly with me getting a lot of money. Once I knew my career was going to take off, I felt good. And we had the conversation and it was a joint conversation of “this is not good anyway.”
Do you want to get married again?
I would love to get married and have all the things I never had. I want to meet someone, date them for a while, have them surprise me with an engagement ring, and then get married and have a big wedding with lots of family and friends there. I want to be disgustingly in love one day.
Well, I’m sure all your fans on Reddit will read this interview and take notes.
Oh, they will.
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