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It has since been acquired by Hay House. The Hay House edition will be released in February and is available for pre-order now! In addition to galadarling. I believe in the colour pink, spelling things the British way, the transformative power of dressing up, and celebrating life every single day. Current obsessions: Neon lingerie, fake tan, turbans, how much cod The Rock eats on a daily basis, making videos about everything, buying old issues of the Weekly World News.
How I stay sane: No sugar, weight-training and Pilates, long walks, spontaneous trips, and taking photographs of small moments. Best ever. One piece of advice: Do what makes you feel good. I am also a fan of her writing, which is as inspiring as she is. I highly recommend Radical Self Love and everything else she writes. My media bio is below. View more on Gala Darling's website ».
View all posts ». Combine Editions. Gala Darling Average rating: 3. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Mel Wells ,. Cynics might say that following her advice could leave you fat and broke. Those of us in between might wonder how Darling's advice - common sense wrapped up like a feelgood fairy tale - has become so popular. But whatever you make of her online magazine, Darling has considerable reach.
She is indeed a darling of the internet. In person, Darling is not as gregarious and p layful as the persona she has created for herself. Despite the attention-grabbing dress sense, she comes across as serious, introspective.
Speaking in a New Zealand-American accent, she confesses that as a writer, she is often alone and not as much of a socialite as it might seem.
After we meet, she is due at a lunch for fashion designer Tory Burch at the upmarket private club Soho House and she's a little nervous, as she's no idea who will be there. It's a networking opportunity organised by her new manager. She needs a manager? Darling's photograph featured on in-store billboards worldwide. It's hard to put Darling in a box - she is part self-publisher, part "influencer" - but perhaps her biggest achievement is her ability to attract opportunities.
On her website you can hire her as a speaker - she has appeared at writers' festivals, fashion weeks, bloggers' conferences and social media and marketing events - or pitch her ideas for collaborations and sponsorship deals. I don't really deal well with figures or money or saving it or knowing how much I've got in the bank but I'm good at working a deal and selling something. I know how to sell myself. She says it's this side of her writing, along with advertising and corporate hook-ups that allow her to work for herself out of the two-bedroom apartment she shares with her boyfriend and two rescued pitbulls.
In recent years the blog content itself has changed almost as often as her shoes, lurching from cheery self-help to interviews with artists and fellow web stars, such as John Harris, who created the first web TV channel. She's also dyed her hair platinum blond, to show corporates they can "take me more seriously".
I started off just wanting to be about fashion and style and then I got bored with that, so I did a lot of self-improvement content I'm very intellectually curious and now I like trying to branch out a bit. It's one thing to make a living as a registered therapist and another to come up with your own online manual to life. With thousands who subscribe to her advice, Darling carries a lot of responsibility.
Much of it is common sense, some is purely whimsical. I decided to fix my shit up. I didn't want to be miserable for the rest of my life. So I did a bunch of research about how I could become happy.