Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Inside Their Strange World (Happy Birthday, Mary-Kate and Ashley!!)
Similar to Jack Nicholson, who has seen forever unknowable things in Hollywood rooms, there are mysteries about Mary-Kate and Ashley that we will never know. Thank goodness there’s still some opaque glamour in the world! Without social media accounts that make celebrities simultaneously too glossy and too familiar, we have just glimmers of what two ephemeral, famous sisters born today, June 13, might be like.
We’ve learned that Mary-Kate, for instance, enjoys Lady and the Tramp moments with dogs, was Heath Ledger’s last phone call, and likes bowls of cigarettes. Kind of like Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, the following not-so-blind items from this 2008 People story probably exist on a spectrum of truth. This is also a throwback to a kind of tangential, narrative-driven celebrity journalism hard to find today.
Ashley and Jackson Pollock
Ashley wrote her NYU admission essay about Jackson Pollock’s “Number One” painting, using it as a melancholic, tender comparison to her own life.
“Some people look at it as complete mayhem, or just paint splattered on a canvas, and yet there’s so much emotion behind it,” Ashley wrote. “Some people will never, ever get that. No one knows what it’s been like for us, and we don’t expect anyone to know, good, bad or amazing. But we do expect people to respect the decisions we make.”
Mary-Kate and BDSM
“A friend” said that Mary-Kate “is known to write dark poetry and has seen the S&M romantic comedy Secretary a hundred times.”
Emotional Movements
At an unnamed event that year, a source saw Mary-Kate “dancing with her arms up in the air, doing this spastic move with her arms,” continuing to describe that, “She was the only one dancing and everyone was looking at her.”
An Age Difference in Aspen
For a spell in Aspen, a then 22-year-old Ashley partied with 38-year-old celebrity decorator Estee Stanley. They spent New Year’s Eve together.
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Happy birthday Mary-Kate and Ashley!!! You’re very cool.
February 9, 2022
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