BY:Dianna MazzonePHOTOGRAPHED BY:Jens Ingvarsson
“Do you want to share a bottle of wine?”
I like her even more when she proclaims she’s not picky.
“Should we just point?”
(Our server eventually helps us select a not-too-dry Gavi di Gavi.)
She got her first credit at the tender age of four, when she starred ina commercialfor Life cereal.
“And I would absolutely do it again,” says King.
“I think every woman should [shave their head] at least once in their life.
I’ve never felt more free or more in tune with my beauty.
I couldn’t hide behind my hair.”
Of course, nothing upsets the internet more than a woman exercising her freedom.
“A lot of people made fun of me when I had my head shaved.
A lot of people said really mean things.
But when I hadshort hair, I actually felt more confident; I felt very powerful.
[Their words] slid off my back.
People like to insert themselves in other people’s business when it doesn’t actually matter.
Me having a shaved head for a project really upsets you that much?
I’m doing fine.”
King was and is actually doing a lot more than “fine.”
Oscar de la Renta skirt.
Heaven by Marc Jacobs boots.
I was like, ‘Oh, my God!'"
And yet…This stacked lineup is King’s version of scaling back.
“A couple of years ago, I was more addicted to being busy.
I feel like I burnt myself out sometimes,” she says.
“I like to keep myself on my toes.
I don’t want to keep doing what people are expecting of me.
During the rare stretches when King isn’t filming, she prefers the comforts of home.
“I find a lot of peace in sunshine and being outside.
I really love spending time with my foxhound, Jesse, and, obviously, my fiance.”
“We work really well together.
We also just really love spending time together.
“I think he’s so talented.
He thinks the same about me.
We really love just being able to put our minds together.”
At the start of their relationship, they were long distance for four months, says King.
Was it an “absence makes the heart grow fonder” sort of situation?
“I mean, were engaged now,” she says.
He popped the question on 2/2/22, with a custom-made ring from Brooklyn-based designerMociun.
It was not entirely a surprise to King.
“I was like, ‘If you pick it out, I’ll love it.’
And then he started asking me questions.
And then I realized I had an opinion.”
I said, ‘No.’
And she was like, ‘Are you fucking nuts?'”
“I guess when I dreamed about my wedding, all this shit was in place already.
I wasn’t picking [it] out, it was just there.”
“Allan has been my makeup artist since myRamona and Beezuspress tour.
He taught me everything I know.”
And she knows a lot: “Makeup is the love of my life.
All the makeup that I use on a daily basis is so worn in.
MyLorac [eye shadow] palettelooks like it’s been through some sort of shit.”
I let out a sigh of relief.
Last Christmas, Piet got her a product that “changed her life”: aSolaWavelight-therapy tool.
“I use that with mySunday Riley C.E.O.
Glowoil and it has changed my skin,” says King.
“Im telling you, he’s the greatest.”
Her gift to Piet was a cooking experience withStephanie Izard, whom they’d watched together onTop Chef.
“The first thing I tried to do was make octopus,” says King.
“It was so bad.
The instructions said to season it generously with salt.
I took that a little too far.”
“I really love trying something that scares me a little bit.”
