In person, Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos is surprisingly tiny, less lacquered than the glossy images that circulate online. She picked out a window booth, and when the hostess said it was reserved, she smiled. \u201cOh,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to know who\u2019s sitting there.\u201d She tossed her black Birkin bag, adorned with each of her children\u2019s names and a Flynn the Fly keychain, on another corner table and asked the server his name. (\u201cThat\u2019s Luciano,\u201d she said to me. \u201cHe\u2019s from Argentina.\u201d) When somebody suddenly turned the music up, Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos shimmied and joked: \u201cWant me to dance on the table? That gets a lot of attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
You would think that marrying into obscene wealth would transform a person, but in this case, Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos appears less changed than her husband; the world has long been her Everything Store. Even before she married Mr. Bezos, whose net worth is estimated to be roughly $250 billion, Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos liked to think she was 20 percent happier than the average person. Even when she was 18, crashing in a cousin\u2019s garage in Carson, Calif., after she hadn\u2019t gotten her dream job as a Southwest Airlines flight attendant because she was a few pounds over the weight limit, she was still basically happy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf baseline is here,\u201d Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos said, holding her hand about chest height, \u201cI\u2019m up here,\u201d with her other hand above her head.<\/p>\n
The couple had recently returned from Seattle, where Mr. Bezos celebrated his 62nd birthday by making pancakes for all of their seven children from previous marriages. Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos, 56, adores kids. Having them. Raising them. Encouraging other people to have them. Over several interviews, she repeatedly urged me to have another baby. \u201cDo it!\u201d she said. \u201cI would have another one tomorrow. Tomorrow.\u201d I finally asked if she and Mr. Bezos were considering it, as a couple of her friends had suggested to me. \u201cI would have a baby tomorrow,\u201d she repeated, with a coy smile. (A spokeswoman later called to say Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos was not having a baby.)<\/p>\n
But honestly, why not? Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos has shown that with the right attitude and mind-boggling wealth, anything is possible. Space travel. The Met Gala. Fertility after 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In person, Mrs. S\u00e1nchez Bezos is surprisingly tiny, less lacquered than the glossy images that circulate online. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[8773,27227,25398,27766,25007,734,28285,28284,1512,306],"class_list":{"0":"post-44654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-bezos","9":"tag-bezos-earth-fund","10":"tag-content-type-personal-profile","11":"tag-fashion-and-apparel","12":"tag-high-net-worth-individuals","13":"tag-jeff-bezos","14":"tag-jeffrey-p","15":"tag-lauren-1969","16":"tag-philanthropy","17":"tag-sanchez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116470874308352802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}