![]() I wonder if she’s holding back the grimmer details. Even as she’s telling me about these experiences, Mulvaney keeps it bright. Not so long ago, her car was followed by creeps, just after she had left her laser-hair-removal appointment down the road in Beverly Hills, and the paparazzi occasionally turns up at this address (I take note of a security camera watching us on the back porch nearby). But she always keeps her location visible on Find My Friends. These days, Mulvaney rarely posts on social media in real time. “There were nights that I laid there” - in her pink bed in her pink bedroom - “with my best friend, who stayed with me for a while, and we’d be like, Oh, are we going to wake up tomorrow?” she tells me. ![]() Which has often been unbelievably difficult. The vision board says a lot about the 2023 Mulvaney hoped to have before she became, in her own words, “a sacrificial lamb in the election landscape.” There are also photos of her idols: women she’s met (Paris Hilton, Chelsea Handler, Laverne Cox), women she’d like to meet (Meghan Markle, Jill Biden, Anna Wintour), and Lady Gaga, whom she’s not yet met in person but is constantly you-go-girling in her comments. There’s a photo of a Broadway street sign (because she’d love to star in a musical), a kissy-face emoji (because she’s eager to be kissed as a girl), and the self-explanatory affirmation I’M ON DYLAN TIME. It’s a simple black posterboard adorned with images printed out from Google. “Do you have a vision board?” she asks me excitedly before leading me to her home office so I can see the one she assembled at the beginning of the year. It looks like Influencer Barbie’s Dreamhouse, down to a massive ring light and pink pegboard wall on which she hangs pink note cards with TikTok ideas on them. YOU ARE DOING GREAT, declares a throw pillow in her living room near a framed cover of Paris Hilton’s memoir on a credenza. The bathroom is “ Eloise at the Plaza themed” with a tea tray of bath bombs next to the bathtub. As such, pretty much everything (the living-room couch, the stick-on wallpaper, even the toaster oven in the kitchen) is bubblegum pink, gingham, or bubblegum-pink gingham. Dazey’s assignment here was to create a “cozy, calming, colorful grandma cottage” suitable for content creation. Just look around her house: She moved to the Canyon this past October and brought in the interior designer Dani Dazey, perhaps best known for bedazzling Trixie Mattel’s campy motel in Palm Springs. ![]() In person, Mulvaney, 26, is remarkably similar to the bubbly, perpetually positive, and, as even she admits, somewhat cheesy character she plays on social media. In the process, Mulvaney became a “woke” villainess to some - and a queer heroine to the rest of us. Then a spectacular shitshow ensued with right-wing pundits, politicians, and provocateurs launching a transphobic anti–Bud Light crusade. Mulvaney duly uploaded some sponcon to Instagram. Bud Light, presumably counting on her ability to reach a less fratty consumer than is often associated with the beer, sent her a can with her face on it. She had racked up millions of followers on TikTok while cheerfully divulging every little detail of her life as a newly out trans Everygirl. In March, an influencer-marketing team working with Bud Light took notice of Mulvaney’s social media, where she had been documenting her gender transition. I understand why she might be superstitious. Oh! This is fucking epic.” When we clink glasses, she says, “Wait! Look me in the eye. Do you trust me?” she asks while topping off a hefty pour with some bubbly. The TikTok starlet is dressed like a sexy Stepford in a baby-blue miniskirt and a cropped white cardigan that is coming undone in the front and, unbeknownst to her, exposing her pasties-covered nipples. Needless to say, they were not Bud Lights. Still, when we meet at her cottage tucked behind a towering shrub on a steep drive in Laurel Canyon on a blazing-hot afternoon in July - “It feels like Palm Springs!” she chirps as she ushers me inside - she whips up some Aperol spritzes for us despite there being some brews in her fridge. Dylan Mulvaney would like to clarify that she does in fact enjoy drinking a cold beer now and again.
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