Just B Rant: Chanel N°2

It's like the nam a stay of it all. And it sounds cheesy, but it's not even something I tell myself to do or something that is because of the end of a practice. It's because it's what I feel. So I finish yoga and I'm like grateful to myself in the universe. And it happens when I go on a nature walk, but it really happens when I go in to be So I really don't exercise, and it's not like phishing for compliments because I know that people

think I exercise a lot because it's always this. It's always this, like you know, it's usually mad's men and women, but like, oh my god, you must work out all the time, Like you work out NonStop? What's your workout? I'm like I don't really work out, and then wait what, And then it's a whole conversation back and forth, and then I say, like I walk on the beach when I can, and I feel like I'm lying because it's such a I get that I look fairly in shape,

you know, fit. I think that that's from years ago of maybe spinning and yoga, or maybe it's genetics. I mean people would say it's genetics, but I think it's a combination. And I have a good relationship with exercise, meaning if I don't do it every day, well that's a joke. Like some people have a bad relationship where

they are counting. I was sitting with this guy yesterday, and I have a friend who's the same, Like they count their steps and they're obsessive about it, and then they count the calories they get with the steps, and of course you would eat five bites of cake and have the calories back. And I just feel like it's all a bad relationship with exercise and food and calories and all that. It's like super noisy, I call it.

So for me, I like to have a good relationship with not only food but exercise also in that when it's like, do what you can when you can. And for me, my favorite thing to do is beach walk And during the summer, I make an effort and I drive to the beach and as much as I can, I do it. If it's chilly or windy, I don't, or sometimes you don't want to drag yourself to go. If I'm away on a vacation in summer warm, I'll

make sure I walk on the beach every day. If I go snowboarding, I'll make sure I try to snowboard a couple of days. But I haven't had a really consistent, like all year round exercise regimen in years. And I also think the past couple of years, I think I've been not I haven't been unhappy, but I haven't been like fully happy. I've been in a little bit of

like purgatory. And I feel like when you're not fully happy, you don't always realize it, because when you're miserable, you realize it, and when you're really happy, you realize it. But when you're kind of just like going through the motions, and you sometimes think is it your age, is it that we're boring, is it that you're married, or whatever? The thing is so I think it also always it affects exercise, and you're like, it's like almost like a

low grade or middle grade depression. It's not clinically depressed. You're just a little blah. So I haven't had an exercise practice in kind of years besides these beach walks, et cetera. And so around the time my mother passed away, I started doing these nature walks in my in my neighborhood in Connecticut, and I've felt good about it, and I've been longing for the summer because that's when I

do my beach walks. And I was on a beach walk with britt at the end of last summer or in the middle of last summer, and I said, one day, something's gonna happen in my business, or Mommy, I'll have something happen and we'll be able to get a beach house. Because some people want to be on the water, which is great. People are boat people, which is also great.

I don't necessarily care about either of those. I care about sand, like a walkable beach that's obviously on the water, so you could walk on the beach and I'd have to drive. And that's like my therapy it's just a dream. I mean, there are some people I've been in a relationships with people who don't even like their feet touching the sand. They don't like to walk on the sand,

And to me, it's like what. Or people who live near the beach and then they walk on like a boardwalk or cement, I'm like what, because I just feel that your feet touching the earth like it's proven to be therapeutic. And I think there's like I don't know if it's called ions or something from the water in the ocean. So I said this to Brin in the summer, I said, I one of these days, meaning years to come.

So I would look at the middle of the night and I would look up listings anywhere from Westhampton, which is like the closest to New York City, but not where all my friends and people I know live all the way out to Montalk, which I don't want to live in Montalk or Eastampton Ramagansta because it's so far from New York City. So it's like limited, and the Hampdens is a fortune beyond and being on the water and being on the beach isn't impossible. So for whatever reason,

I don't know why I'd said this. And days later a house came up with a couple that were getting divorced, and they like were firesale getting divorced, like wanted to get out of it. Real estate. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. It wasn't like the pandemic where everything was overpriced and crazy, but it wasn't like cheap. It was just because of interest rates, people weren't really buying, so things were just sitting. So I had that in

my mind. And then you had this house that was being sold by this divorced couple and that they needed to get rid of it. And I walked into this house and it's on miles of sand on the water, and it's like it's right by the opening of the ocean and the water's moving and it's clean, and it's like a sand beach, like it's a real sand beach. And I went to the house and it had problems. And I love a house that has problems because I'm

not I'm not I love doing work. I'm not afraid to do work, and I have vision, so I immediately know, and that's when you can get a good deal, make a good investment. Like you go in and buy something that's like a you know, McMansion and perfect. Obviously there's no money to be made because they're charging top dollar. It's turnkey. So my house manager, Garrett, who found it, is also a real estate broker, and I looked him and I know he's gonna get a good commission. He's

a young kid, he's like in his twenties. I go, listen, you want to do this. You promised me this thing I'll be done by by the spring. And it ended up being a gut renovation like plumbing and kitchen and everything. And I'm like, the last thing I love my house in the Hampton's. It's a great house in New Hampton. It's the last thing I needed. I just bought a place in New York City. I just bought a place in Florida. The last thing I needed was to buy

another place in the Hampton's. But I was like, I'll never my whole life get on the beach. I'll never get on the beach. This is like a weird, magical unicorn house. And I was like, am I dreaming? I keep thinking there's like a dead body or like cocaine under the floorboards, like why and I'm in this house and I literally this morning was I woke up and I six o'clock in the morning, I was on the beach walking in pajamas because it's also private. There's no

one there. I'm in such shock right now. My life has got made like I literally you could go take every watch, piece of jewelry, everything I own, leave myself and my daughter to paddleboards and some you know, some hydration packets and the freaking house in the Hampton's on the beach. It's all that I need in my life. Like, I'm in shock. So I have a house in the Hamplets on the sand. I'm freaking out every day. I need to talk to new people because I have to

tell new people like I can't say. Every day I'm like, is this real? A mine of dream? What's happening? How is this real? And the house is stunning? Like this is I did it, and I nailed it. It was

exactly all the problems I made into intentional. I love home design, but I'm just and I feel like resentful to have to leave there, like I just anybody wants me to do anything, I'm like, I feel like it's a violation canceled a trip to go to Belmont Steaks in Saratoga, felt like offensive to think about having to leave. Canceled a trip to Sanchrope find me on the beach. Honestly, it's all I want.

and what are you gonna do. You don't have a massage, you're not going down to the spa. I guess a lot of people would work out. I was like, I want to walk. I just want to see and we weren't staying right in the middle of the city, which we had changed at the last minute, and I was sort of like a little annoyed by that because we're out of the way. So I said, let me just see where we are. And I'm already gross from the plane, so I'm gonna it's eighty degrees in Chicago's so I'm

gonna get gross. So I'm not gonna change. Not that I had anything to change into anyway I look like,

but I didn't make myself look cute. I I was off the plane wearing a T shirt and Jean Cargo soft pants, and I had like a cashmere sweater that I'd had for the plane that was on my waist that had a water per like water bottle, and I had gone to do the lord's work at Garrett's Popcorn and so I was just walking, just walking, wanted to get, you know, some steps in and then passed the Chanel store and I saw something in the window that I had seen online, this like striped T shirt dress, and

I just wanted to see what it looked like inside, and so I saw it right through the door, like there's a display right through the door. So I just wanted to go and he's like, look at it and then leave, and I there was just a dismissiveness by the man by the door. And now that I remember, I think he was a younger person. I'm not even gonna blame him. We'll get into that after, but I want to make sure because I don't know who that person is, and I didn't know this was going to be.

You know, it's probably it's definitely over, like fifty million, could be one hundred million views on all the platforms. It's bananas. What went on? So I walk up to the front door and the guy doesn't fully you know, when like someone comes to answer the door, like it's girlscot cookies or they're selling encyclopedias or something, or like vacuums in the fifties and you open the door literally like hi, and you like bend over, lene over. So the guy was like, hi, do you have an appointment?

Not a person outside online, not a person inside. I was looking there was I didn't see one person. Of course, there could have been people on the other floors, but I'm just saying I've seen when it's crazy. It was not so the guy goes, hey, do you have an appointment? I said no, and he said, yeah, you have to have an appointment. There's like I'm paraphrasing, but it was pretty much, yes, you have to have an appointment. Sorry, but like super dismissive. And there was just something about

it that was demoralizing and degrading. And I don't know. I wasn't like I don't care, but there was just something about the way that they think that they can speak to you because there's been this whole superiority complex with luxury brands. That's really the headline. Like luxury brands have become this like you I'm up here, you're down here.

You're we're better than you. You have to be on a list, you have to go buy things to bait us and to you know, they call Burke and bit like there's a whole gamification of watches and bags and it's like, wait, my money's not good here. So I just ranted about it on the street. I look like a mess and I did not. I just was talking. I had no idea this would be like this, like but it was like, I look like the lighting wasn't good. I realized that I had a stupid filter on like

why this went crazy? It just like hit nerve. It struck a chord. And this video of me talking about this guy and how he spoke to me, So this thing starts going viral. Okay, Wow, I've a viral video. I've had viral videos before, but it's flying. Okay. So the next day I do the appearance and I'm dressed decked, and it just so happens that I'm wearing a very Chanel centric outfit, Like it's just the black and the white and the gold and the whole thing. It's just

what I packed. It's weird that I pack that. Very strange. So the next day I get glam and I'm going to this appearance, which is thirty minutes out away from Chanelle, away from a city closer to the airport. So we finished the appearance, and my assistants like, we have to double back if you want to go to Chanelle, because I told her earlier we should go back to Chanelle and I should see if I could get in dressed like this, if they're gonna be if it's gonna be different.

So she's like, you have to double back. I'm like, I don't care. We're going to Chanel, so we double back. We don't have a ton of time, and I get out of the car and I just talk to my audience and say, like yesterday I was hearing this happened, and if they let me in because of what I look like, Christmas is canceled. So I come out, I tell my assistant to stand back, and I go walk

up to the front. There are three security guys, which there weren't the day before, because I had done a summarization of the day before, clarifying for people that it wasn't because of crime per se. Maybe it's because of crime that they have appointments. But being rude and dismissive, you could say that three different ways. You could have said you have to have an appointment. I'm so sorry, Jane.

You can talk to her at these hours, like there's a way to say something, which is a lesson in life anyway, by the way, and I've made that mistake myself. There are multiple ways to say something. I could think exactly of the example in my mind of me not saying something right and it being a disaster for me.

I'm sure you could too. So we've all made this mistake but it was the way that it was set and the way that it made me feel, and it started a lot of people started talking about their perspective and how they feel. So the next day I go up and there are three security guards outside and they don't It doesn't seem like they know who I am, which is good. I'm not asking for special treatment. I

don't think someone should know who I am. This is just me being a human being, so either way, so I guess they said something to somebody inside, and then they let me in. I walk in past them for a nanosecond, make a U turn, come right back out. I'm like a little different today. So that breaks the Internet. That goes viral, and then the press starts picking up all of it, and then I'm engaging with the audience and I'm in shock by what this is doing. This

is crazy. So then I shoot with my assistant and some strangers in a parking lot, a scene recreating the Julia Roberts Big Mistake. Huge. Well, then I go off and it's now a series, and now we are peeing our pants, crying, and everything is making us think of this, and everything is a creative idea, and we start this like Chanelle skit series on Instagram and TikTok, and the thing has been so psychotic, it's been the views have been psychotic, like insane, and it's an inside joke and

everyone except for a few people are laughing. But I mean people are crying. It's just so entirely unnecessary. It's there are no stakes, it's not hurting anybody, and and it's it's gone on and on and on for what's almost a week, and then some people are so mad. They're just so mad enough they're following me, they're taking the time to comment enough now okay, mom. Like people are so irritated by it, and it's because it's viral,

so it's bothering them. Like people get really crazy on social media when someone else goes viral, particularly on TikTok, it makes them very upset. There's one girl on TikTok who like bought her own house in the Hamptons and she's young, and you never saw people more angry. They're just all angry at her because like why not me? Like pick me? And it's just people get mad and they're just so transparent, like let's do an investigative report, deep dive on Bethany and why she keeps talking about

Chanelle You fucking crazy? Why because it's hysterical?