Lauren Sánchez: Everything to know about her rise from local news anchor to Mrs. Jeff Bezos

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00:00In the next few days Lauren Sanchez will become one of the richest women in the

00:04world she's about to marry Jeff Bezos and in order to figure out how on earth

00:09she got there and what it was in her character and in herself that enabled

00:14her to get to the top I spent a month speaking to people who knew her speaking

00:19to people who knew her growing up school friends teachers people who employed her

00:23people who worked with her to try and understand more about who she is rather

00:29than just what she looks like in photographs so Lauren Sanchez is about

00:34to become one of the richest women in the world which is an enormous amount of

00:39power and we didn't really know that much about her I also thought that up until

00:45this point the way that she had been covered was like pretty tongue-in-cheek a

00:50lot of the things that she did became these sort of like viral memes online she

00:55was seen as being kind of grasping and quite naff and quite gauche and like uber

01:02wealthy in the way that she presented which was kind of liberating to see you

01:07know among like all the rest of the sort of quiet luxury that we have but I just

01:12thought like who are you because there was a determination you can see it in her

01:17even in front of the cameras a determination and a pride and I kind of wanted to get to the

01:23bottom of that or figure out where she came from who she was when she was growing

01:27up and sort of how she became that person that we see today on the red carpet and

01:32on Jeff Bezos arm so over the month that I spent reporting it what I began doing

01:38firstly was just going over all of the interviews and all of the cuts the

01:42newspaper cuts on her from the last decades and then from there I sort of

01:48understood where she worked where she grew up where she went to school and then

01:54I tried to get in touch with people from every single one of those parts of her

01:58lives and I went to Albuquerque which is where she grew up and I hit the phones

02:03which in journalistic speak just means like going down the long list of names

02:07that you see and who you know are connected to her and I did things like go

02:14through her school yearbooks and try to understand who else was on the cheerleading

02:19team and get in touch with them so you sort of start really broadly and then you

02:23just narrow down narrow down narrow down until you get to the core group of people

02:28who you hope can give you the essence of a person I think the thing that

02:31surprised me the most about what I heard about her at school perhaps it makes

02:36sense but was that she kind of appeared fully formed in the same way as she is now

02:41she was so perfectly presented she wore high heels every day which someone said

02:48were a little bit big for as they slipped off the back of her heels her makeup was

02:53always done her hair was always done she was a pageant girl she was a cheerleader she

02:57taught people how to put their own makeup on and she had these beautiful dresses that

03:02she'd lend out for prom and homecoming ball and all of these things and she was kind of an

03:10it girl there was a shyness I think to her that meant that she wasn't the most popular

03:14girl in the school but there was something magnetizing magnetic about her and boys adored

03:20her too as a result she told so many people that she was going to be somebody I mean that

03:25was the phrase that I heard again and again and again and I think it was taken seriously I

03:29think she moved through the world even then with like this determination and steeliness like

03:35she was getting out of Albuquerque and so I think people couldn't help but believe her when she

03:42told them I'm getting out of here I'm gonna be somebody and I'm gonna be rich and I'm gonna be

03:46famous I think so much of what she did at that age with the pageants and her cheerleading is to do with

03:54performance and energy and pep and that was one of the things that came up later was that she was

04:02this force of nature and certainly when Jeff Bezos talks about her he sort of talks about this sort of

04:08like vibe that she brings into a room and in the texts that were exposed by the National Enquirer when

04:15their affair was exposed he called her his live girl so though which you know you can feel as cringy about

04:21that as you like but there is something in that in her I think someone said that she was so into

04:29being a teenager she practically bounced down the corridors she was sort of full of that energy I

04:34think and I think she was aware of being full of that energy and I think she was aware of that being

04:39attractive people also said she knew how to work it she knew how to work that in a room with other

04:45people she sees herself as a hard worker and as a grifter and as someone who sets her sights on

04:51something and gets it she somehow managed to get a TV agent before appearing on TV and had her fast

04:59on-screen job by 25 shows a news anchor by 30 she was part of this sort of quite sexualized cohort of

05:10women in the early noughties on news on sort of more entertainment news that were like hot and attractive

05:18and they that they led with that and they were criticized by the sort of more broadsheet cerebral

05:26media for being like not serious journalists so she was part of that but she kind of just charged ahead

05:33I kind of see her and frame her in this sort of Becky Sharp like way who was the protagonist of

05:42Vanity Fair who kind of started at the bottom and worked her way up to the top so hard and with so

05:50much determination that instead of people criticizing it they kind of respected it everyone I spoke to

05:59was sort of like quite bowled over by quite how quickly she had moved into their lives and then moved

06:06out the other side but there wasn't necessarily bitterness there there was just kind of like whoa

06:13okay like great fair enough so that was a feeling that I got a lot from from people on my on my research

06:22trips I spoke to quite a lot of her ex-boyfriends yeah particularly when when she was younger and they

06:29all just said she could get whoever she wanted she sort of dated the hottest footballers she dated the most

06:36popular guys in school and then she left and then she dated this guy Gavin Maloof whose parents owned

06:42the uh cause distributorship in New Mexico and all of these hotels and he was sort of like the guy and

06:49his brother drove a bright yellow Ferrari and everyone knew them around town like they were like the rich

06:56playboys of Albuquerque and she dated him and he was 13 years her senior and I called him up and

07:05uh he was he now lives in Vegas where they own hotels and he was in the middle of a slots tournament

07:10and um I called him up and he picked up the phone and I introduced myself and said what it was I was

07:16working on and he was like oh god Wendy Wendy Wendy Wendy which was his half her name before she changed

07:24to Lauren and he still absolutely adored her like they dated for I don't know nine months under a year

07:32when she was 19 and she said he said she was hot then she's hot now but there was something more

07:41about her I think that really took him a lot of these men were and are still quite impressed and

07:50like stunned by her and they were then I think I think the thing that people get wrong about her

07:57when they are satirizing the way that she looks and her projects is that I don't know how much she cares

08:10I think she's confident and kind of rocks that and I think from the conversations that I had with people

08:19I think she's aware that she uses her charm and she uses her looks to an extent that's not to say

08:26that her looks obviously the only thing that got her to the top but I think she understands the value

08:31of charm and working and being with people like that um and I think most people who meet her seem to

08:39really like her you know I think she can look quite over the top when you see her from afar

08:45but um that's certainly my perception of her from from the conversations I've had her relationship

08:50with Jeff Bezos has had every influence on her power she went from being an LA news anchor and known

08:58among Hollywood her ex-husband was a big agent to being one of the richest women in the world that

09:06is really how much more power can you get and in terms of her image she's always been pretty flashy I

09:13think his image has changed more he's sort of bulked out he wears super tight t-shirts and leather jackets

09:20and uh he's like having a bit of a renaissance a late life renaissance and she is just wearing her

09:31crop tops and designer gear and they are stepping out really as the super rich couple that they are

09:42and I think they seem certainly when you see photographs I'm pretty confident in that I think

09:47she's excited to become Mrs Bezos she said and she will do I think she's going to pursue this

09:53philanthropy route as a lot of people do but I just think she's going to keep on networking I think

10:00she's going to be at the center of this celebrity life um because money can only get you so far

10:09it won't give you that like pure glean of celebrity because you just have the cash and the celebrities

10:18get the glean of celebrities and they've got some cash but they they don't have the big box so I just

10:23think that that like symbiotic relationship between her and the A-list and she'll never quite be the A-list

10:29even though she'll be side by side with them because of her money and because of her status um so I think

10:35that what she'll continue doing is trying to access this sort of like sacred sacred light of of celebrity

10:43like she did on the cover of Vogue and doing these interviews I think that is where she wants to be

10:48next Lauren Sanchez is a grafter she is determined beyond and I think she wanted to get to the top

10:59not with cynical calculation and not with any sort of cruelty but just because she kept on going and

11:11now here she is can't really get much higher than where she is now

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