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The Proust Questionnaire (As Seen in Vanity Fair)
A while back, I did a “40-Over-40” boudoir photo shoot. I didn’t get very neked for it, because I’m a raging prude, but I did feel beautiful and powerful and get some hella cool portraits. The creator and photographer, Elisa Cicinelli out of San Francisco, is putting together a little magazine featuring each of us “models.” In addition to our faces and butts, she wants to reveal some of our personality, so she asked us to complete the Proust Questionnaire…this was originally popularized by French writer, Marcel Proust, and has been used by many people as a kind of deep dive/confessional. Vanity Fair regularly uses it when interviewing celebrities. I thought I’d join famous cuties Sharon Stone, Sophia Loren, and Karl Marx in “revealing my true nature.” If you care to do it, too, just use this link or copy and paste from below and change the answers, unless you like mine, in which case steal them for yourself. I’ll never know.
What’s your idea of perfect happiness? Lack of fear. I’ve spent most of my life being extremely anxious, so when I’m most happy, it’s because I feel comfortable and safe in that moment.
What is your greatest fear? Running out of coffee.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Insecurity that leads to a sense of scarcity and…
