Dressed successful a hot pinkish Juicy Couture tracksuit, Iris Owen strolls implicit to a park seat successful cardinal London, clutching an almond-iced latte successful her freshly manicured hand. Owen, aka Nectarine Girl, is the pistillate down Nectarine News – a wildly entertaining newsletter for fans of section gossip, Girls Aloud, blistery takes connected pub quizzes and debaucherous tales told from the sunbed of a European holiday.
“When I was 13 and making my Instagram account, I asked my mum what my grip should beryllium and she said she craved nectarines erstwhile she was large with me,” Owen says. Now 24, and arsenic a side gig to her occupation astatine Fiorucci’s caput office, she’s established herself arsenic a cracking newsletter writer acknowledgment to her, shall we say, unique instrumentality connected the world, and knack for making mundane activities similar grabbing a sandwich from Pret dependable similar a thrilling adventure.
To springiness you an idea, a few weeks ago, Owen attended a king and queen-themed party, for which she promptly ordered a multi-pack of sashes. “My sentiment is nary 1 wears sashes capable and present I have 12 to play with, I may commencement wearing them each day,” she wrote successful Nectarine News. “You could constitute truly boring statements connected them, but it would deffo get your constituent across: ‘I request to permission astatine 5 today’ oregon ‘there’s delays connected the Northern line’”.
Such is Owen’s outlook connected life. “I’ve got loads of rules that I set for myself and effort to follow,” she continues. “The main 1 is that I think you should person amusive each the time. I used to beryllium rather uptight, past I went and got the connection ‘Lol’ tattooed connected my ankle. I swear connected my life, erstwhile I walked retired of that tattoo parlour my full beingness became fun.”
Funnily enough, the archetypal instalment of Nectarine News came astir conscionable arsenic haphazardly. Owen’s quest to go celebrated has her applying to immoderate and each TV amusement she tin get her acrylic claws connected (up next: Big Brother). She got done to the last stages of an as-yet-unnamed endurance amusement past year, taking a whole period disconnected enactment for it and consulting friends and household astir what to pack, lone to get a disappointing telephone telephone the nighttime earlier her departure.
“They were like, ‘Hey Iris, anticipation you’re good! We emotion you, but our therapist has said you’re mentally unstable, truthful you won’t beryllium capable to travel connected the show’,” she explains. “So I had to alert everyone successful 1 spell that I wouldn’t beryllium going distant for 4 weeks to a tropical island. How bash I do that without putting it connected Instagram? Send an email.”
After adding a few other details to the wide message, similar her favourite radical of the week and what blistery caller purchases she’d made connected eBay, Owen received a load of responses suggesting she should commencement sending a newsletter regularly. Now, Nectarine News is approaching its one-year anniversary.
As long-time fans of Owen’s unshakeable sentiment connected men (“Adam Sandler is the lone 1 for me”), beingness (“What’s the constituent if everyone doesn’t cognize your name?”) and committedness to uncovering fame (“I’m hoping aft I do Big Brother they’ll connection maine Holly Willoughby’s job”), support an oculus retired for regular, juicy slices of contented from our Nectarine person implicit the adjacent fewer weeks. You’re successful for a treat.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24020034/226270_iPHONE_14_PHO_akrales_0595.jpg)
English (US)