“Carine Roitfeld told me, ‘I know about the boobs, darling, it’s ALL about the boobs!’ She brought me to Paris for the shoot and even had this custom bra made by Alexandre Vauthier.” ♥ VIDEO Caroline shares ‘My Favorite Things’ on genlux.com
custom bra made by Alexandre Vauthier. Now, in any editorial I’m doing, everyone is aware of the situation and embracing it. And so am I.” Caroline, who is recently off not one but two relationships over the past year—one male and one female—sips her white wine, takes a deep breath and shares her story. “My legal name is Caroline Olivia Zickerick. I was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Belvedere up in the Bay area. I have a sister, Alexandra, who’s 28. We have both German and American citizenship because my dad’s German. He moved our family to Jamaica for four months, where he served as the country’s German ambassador. My parents were together for only a few years when one day my mom got a call from a woman saying she was having my father’s child. So my mom moved us to live on an Ashram under Gurumayi where my aunt was living in upstate New York. I remember knowing from an early age that if my parents didn’t love each other, they shouldn’t be together.” Last month, on a trip to Milan, after years of not seeing each other, Caroline reconnected with her father. “I’ve tried over the years to make things work with him. He just retired and lives outside of Munich. So he drove to meet me, and we had a nice dinner. Growing up, he wasn’t a part of my life or trying to be part of my life. My dad has a dark side, and so do I. To my mother’s credit, she never spoke a bad word about him to us.” Our conversation turns to president-elect Donald Trump, and Caroline’s demeanor
goes south. “I was so shaken and so numb and hopeless,” she says somberly. “In light of everything, we’re going to have to stand up and protect our Muslim and LGBT friends. I’m focusing my charity efforts on those communities. We need to initiate the #I’llridewithyou campaign like they did in Australia last year. When someone isn’t feeling safe, either because of who they are, or what religious clothing they wear, we can help them by riding along with them.” We jump on the subject of books and Caroline rattles off her favorite authors. “When I want to take myself outside of the world, I’ll crack open anything Russian. I like to wallow in that mind-fuck darkness of Dostoyevsky, Chekhov or Nabokov (one of Caroline’s ten tattoos quotes from Nabokov’s Lolita: ‘light of my life, fire of my loins’). Right now I’m reading Vladimir Sorokin’s T he Queue. Or, if I really want to lose myself and relax, there’s Haruki Murakami—he takes basic everyday life in Tokyo-slash-cats can speak, and fish can fly.” “I think I can announce...” Caroline starts off, before suddenly letting out three mousesize sneezes, “…that I’m on FOX’s new show, Star, directed by Lee Daniels (Monster’s Ball, Precious, Empire). I play Mary Davis, a heroinaddicted mother, who appears in flashbacks. And the best news is I sing on the first two episodes. Lee’s friend found me on Instagram and through my music, it led me to this role.” In parting, I ask Caroline for a Diana Vreeland quote to conclude our interview. She looks up for a second or two, and says, “Never fear being vulgar, just boring.”
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