“Back then, they weighed you, and I weighed 121 pounds,” she told WSJ Magazine of a required weigh-in she failed back in 1989, during the time weight restrictions were common in the industry. Her weight thwarted her from landing the role. At age 18, she moved to Los Angeles with hopes of working for Southwest Airlines. Magazineīefore TV, Sanchez initially wanted to be a flight attendant. Sanchez, 53, an Emmy-award winning TV host and helicopter pilot, catapulted into the public eye via her relationship with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starting in 2019. “Everything happens for a reason,” she said. “It turned out to be a good thing because I wouldn’t have had Nikko,” Sanchez said of giving birth to her first child, who is now 21, with former NFL tight end Tony Gonzalez. She found the silver lining in the career setback. Then, if you fail, at least you fail as yourself.’ I never forgot that.” “Producers were trying to make me dress extra conservative and she saw me and said, ‘What happened?’ She said, ‘They will try and make you ordinary. Not only as someone I looked up to, but really guided me when I was up for ‘The View,’” Sanchez told WSJ Magazine after Walters died in December.
Daniel Jack Lyons for WSJ Magazine Lauren Sanchez (from left) appears on “The View.” The View/ABC Lauren Sanchez, girlfriend of Jeff Bezos, talks career setbacks in the WSJ Magazine. Sanchez said Jones later apologized and that Walters remained a mentor. Instead, journalist Lisa Ling took the coveted spot alongside Jones, Meredith Vieira, Joy Behar and Walters, who personally phoned Sanchez to tell her the disappointing news that left her in tears for days. Their differences may have cost her the role. Sanchez recalled bonding instantly with Walters while auditioning for “The View,” though she admitted clashing with original cast member Star Jones. “It was one of the most devastating days of my life,” Sanchez told Derek Blasberg in the interview published Wednesday. She didn’t get her dream job: a role on Barbara Walters’ daytime talk show “The View.” The 53-year-old TV host and helicopter pilot, who catapulted into the public eye via her relationship with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starting in 2019, recalled in an interview with WSJ Magazine the moment she felt like her career was crashing down in 1999. When Lauren Sanchez left Fox to start contributing to “Extra,” she was ready for her TV career to take flight. But she didn’t reach her dream destination. Jeff Bezos benched from Commanders sale as bids come up short: sources
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