Amal Alamuddin quit smoking cold turkey when she met George Clooney
I guess Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney are currently on their honeymoon, possible in Marrakech. I hope they’re having a good time. I really hope…well, I hope Amal gets pregnant, quite honestly. That would just be FUN! I’m still sort of confused as to how this whirlwind courtship, engagement and marriage came about, and I’m also wondering if we’re going to find out more about Amal now that she’s officially Mrs. Clooney. People Mag has this very interesting story where it seems like the focus is on Amal and her dreams and desires. What’s this? She’s not some bland vessel for Clooney?!
One night last summer, Amal Alamuddin and Jae Kim, her dear friend since law school, had a heart-to-heart about love.
“[We] stayed up talking late into the night about relationships and whether she would ever meet her partner in life,” recalled Kim during a touching speech at Alamuddin and George Clooney’s Sept. 27 wedding ceremony. “She had just been picked the ‘Hottest Barrister in London,’ and I was concerned that this would not work in her favor, as most men found her intimidating already.”
What’s more, Alamuddin’s bar was almost impossibly high. “The list of things she was looking for in this man, she readily admitted, could not realistically be found in one person,” shared Kim. “She was looking for Mr. Perfect, and he was nowhere to be found.”
Until she met George. While Alamuddin, 36, was clearly smitten, the actor’s reputation as one of Hollywood’s most long-standing bachelors was not lost on her friend. “I have to admit, that caused some motherly panic,” Kim said in her speech. “Is she going to get hurt? He isn’t exactly Mr. Commitment, I thought.”
Those fears were quickly dispelled. “You could see in the way he held himself, treated her and others, and enjoyed life that his heart was big and he loved her with all of it,” she said.
The effect Clooney, 53, had on Alamuddin was evident: She quit smoking (“cold turkey!”), and uncharacteristically, Kim joked, “ever since she met George, she has been on time.”
But most of all, she said, “I had never seen her smile like that. She has had that smile now for almost a year straight.”
The couple’s love story, said Kim, “is nothing short of a fairytale.”
This is like the most we’ve ever heard about Amal. She was a smoker who quit cold turkey?! She worried she would never find “Mr. Perfect”? She used to be late all the time?! Wow, this really is a fairytale. Of sorts.
Also, I’m not sure if people caught this, but The Daily Mail did a side-by-side comparison of Amal’s style versus Duchess Kate’s style and guess who came out ahead? AMAL. The Mail constantly compares various women to Kate, often dubbing those other women “Copy-Kates.” I was shocked to find that The Mail’s editors seemed to like Amal’s more sophisticated style more than Kate’s college-girlish fashion. I really wish they had used those photos of Amal’s casual street style though, because if Amal has an stylistic Achilles, it’s her taste in jeans. Fun fact: Amal is only four years older than Kate.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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