Rising Model and Goth Girl Gabbriette Bechtel Moonlights as an Instagram Chef – Vogue

Model Gabbriette Bechtel is drinking a green juice when we speak over Zoom. It’s a choice typical of a Cali native, but Gabbriette isn’t your average Cali girl. With her shock of raven hair, pencil-thin brows, and almost all leather wardrobe, the 25-year-old is more high gothic priestess than Lycra-clad granola queen. It’s giving Angelina Jolie in her brother-kissing, blood-drinking era, and the internet can’t get enough.Born in Orange County, Gabbriette never really felt like she fit in. “The majority of students at my high school were beautiful, strictly white blonde girls, and my sister and I were Hispanic. I was called some pretty awful things. But then I just learned to laugh at it.” Instead of playing volleyball at the beach with her classmates, Gabbriette hung out in the dance theater. “I was convinced I was going to be a professional ballerina, and I still am.”Gabbriette moved to LA to pursue her dreams, but instead of ballet, found herself dancing in music videos for Blood Orange (Dev Hynes) on MTV. From there, she found her way into modeling. “I was an unpaid, hard-working model for a very long time,” she says. Now, she’s starting to get the recognition she deserves, having
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