In her early 20s, Fox and her friend Briana Andalore launched a bodycon knitwear label, Franziska Fox, which has been worn by celebrities including Kylie Jenner and Bella Thorne.

Piza, Renata (July 21, 2023). "JULY ELLE VIEW: JULIA FOX AND SPECIAL JEANS FOR YOU". Elle Brasil. Archived from the original on October 8, 2023 . Retrieved October 7, 2023. Fox made her feature film debut in the 2019 Safdie brothers Netflix film Uncut Gems, playing a showroom saleswoman and mistress of the film's protagonist Howard Ratner (played by Adam Sandler), an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict. [21] Fox had known the Safdie brothers for almost a decade after meeting Josh Safdie through a chance encounter at a café in SoHo, Manhattan. [21] [22] She was subsequently nominated for Breakthrough Actor in the 2019 Gotham Awards. [34]Ye is never mentioned in the book, though she does describe a relationship with a person referred to as “the artist.” There are biographical similarities between the artist and Ye. For example, the artist in question was married to a “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star, she writes in the book; Ye was previously married to Kim Kardashian. Fox’s publisher Simon & Schuster declined to comment. Read on to learn more about Julia Fox, including revelations from her new memoir, “Down the Drain.” She has been open about her turbulent childhood Mantha, Priyanka (December 5, 2022). "On the Cover of New York Magazine: Reasons to Love New York". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on April 23, 2023 . Retrieved October 7, 2023. I write about how lonely I am and how everyone always leaves me, leading me to put on a facade of toughness and aggression,” Fox writes in her memoir. “I write about the urge to compare myself to others and the resulting feelings of inadequacy. I fantasize about what life could have been like had I been born into a normal, loving family and all the ways in which I would be different.” Fox was born in Italy and moved to the U.S. at 6. In her memoir, she candidly describes her erratic upbringing in New York City, with parents who were often in conflict with each other, she says.

Announcing the TFCA's 2019 Award Winners". Toronto Film Critics Association. December 8, 2019. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019 . Retrieved January 26, 2020.a b c d e Gardner, Chris (January 5, 2020). " Uncut Gems Breakout Julia Fox Is Ready to Infuse Art With Activism". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020 . Retrieved January 11, 2020. It's also possible that I'm just expecting too much, and the events are too recent for me to really expect something to come from a person writing about them to have a lot of insight to meaningfully reflect. Julia Fox has made a name for herself by telling it all. It's something she’s done so cannily that it’s set her apart even in an era defined by oversharing. The model and actor, who first burst into mainstream consciousness as the bombshell breakout star of the 2019 Safdie Brothers film Uncut Gems, has never shied away from telling her unvarnished truth, whether on her podcast Forbidden Fruits or on TikTok, where she may detail for her 1.7 million followers anecdotes from a high-profile romance or offer a down-to-earth tour of her relatively modest New York City apartment. Except that, in some ways, it didn’t. Fox had a baby with Peter Artemiev, a pilot she met at the Uncut Gems wrap party, married two months later, and divorced 18 months after that. She made a movie with Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro called No Sudden Move (2021). As her fame grew, so it appeared to Fox, at times, that she had merely advanced to attracting a different kind of abusive man. In late 2021, a message reached her via a friend that a “famous artist” had been asking after her. This was West (who has changed his name to Ye), and a phone call between them was arranged. Over subsequent days, he called her multiple times and they talked for hours, or rather, in Fox’s account, “he talks for hours and I mostly listen”. She writes: “He loves my ideas and thinks I’m really smart.” When he invited Fox to meet him in Miami for New Year’s Eve, she politely declined – her son wasn’t yet a year old – so Ye chartered a private jet. She relented, taking her friends along with her. Within five days, he had put her friends on the payroll as stylists and asked if she wanted to take the “relationship” public. Though she never mentions Kanye West by name, and only refers to him as “the artist,” all the clues are there. Fox details the first time she met him when he flew her and her friends out to Miami for New Year’s. She writes about all of the things they do while together: go out to parties, play a dictionary game that involves highlighting all of the positive words, pose for a photo shoot that would later land in Interview Magazine, and give her entire wardrobe a massive overhaul. He tells her that he wants to appoint a team to style her and then hires two of her friends to dress her. “I immediately think of an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, where he did the same thing for his ex-wife in their early stages of dating,” she writes. “This all feels so surreal. I can’t believe this is my life.”