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It may be funny, but most people probably don\u2019t want to be perceived as being as viciously mean as Emily Blunt\u2019s character in The Devil Wears Prada<\/a>. Today, stylist Leslie Fremar revealed that she is confident that she is the inspiration for the character \u201cEmily\u201d in the original Devil Wears Prada book by Lauren Weisberger. \u201cI know I am,\u201d she said on an episode of The Run-Through With Vogue<\/a>. \u201cYes.\u201d Fremar worked as Anna Wintour\u2019s assistant above Weisberger and even hired the latter originally, but she has never come forward previously to claim the title. She\u2019s incredibly confident it\u2019s her because some lines were taken from her mouth. \u201cI definitely told her a million girls would kill for the job,\u201d Fremar said.<\/p>\n When the book came out in 2003, Fremar was working in the Vogue fashion department. \u201cI got a call from Anna\u2019s office saying that she wanted to see me, and my heart sunk,\u201d Fremar said. \u201cI was like, \u2018She never would call in an assistant into her office.\u2019 I was very taken aback by that. Then I went into her office, and she said, \u2018Who\u2019s Lauren Weisberger?\u2019 And I said, \u2018She was your junior assistant, she was only here for a short period of time, maybe eight months.\u2019 And she\u2019s like, \u2018Well, she wrote a book about us, and you\u2019re worse than me.\u2019\u201d Fremar then received an early copy of the book, which was even meaner than the version that was eventually published. \u201cI remember feeling like it was a betrayal at the time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n What\u2019s different? \u201cThe fiction part of the book is that this character [Andy, Weisberger\u2019s self-insert] turns into this superstar, and I did not witness that,\u201d Fremar said. \u201cThis idea that the Emily character is not very pleasant or nice or seems high-strung is because I probably was not very nice and I probably was high-strung because I felt like I was having to do her job as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the book\u2019s publication, Weisberger and Fremar have remained distant. \u201cHer and I never talked about it,\u201d Fremar said. \u201cAnd we never talked again after she left.\u201d If they met again, Fremar thinks \u201cit would be very awkward.\u201d Now, she\u2019s a well-regarded stylist who works with Charlize Theron and even styled Kamala Harris for the cover of Vogue, which is not far off from the character Emily\u2019s job in The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>, working in luxury retail at Dior. But Fremar still never told anyone they should go to a \u201chideous skirt convention.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n