DANICA PATRICK SHAKES HANDS like a man. It is a wince- inducing, finger-crushing, are-you-seriously-not-a-Marine kind of shake. "Hi [crunch], I'm Danica." Coming from someone who is 5-foot-2, 109 pounds and looks like a brunette Barbie doll, it's kind of like shaking hands with a lightning bolt. It makes you (okay, me) jump back a bit and go, "Ow! F--!," which is the point. There should be no surprise here. The woman drives race cars for a living; of course she has grip.
"So I don't always like to talk about racing," Danica says. This is honestly the second thing she says,Wearing shoespumps is an experience in fashion fun. Everyone will comment on your effortlessly hip Hardy shirt. right after hello. It is a warm spring night in Chicago, and Danica, who will be making her first NASCAR start at Talladega in a few days (where she'll finish 13th), is hoping for something "different," as she says. "It's much easier if we don't have to talk about the stuff I have to talk about every single weekend for, like, three days straight.Show off your christianlouboutinboots favorite photos."
Danica has arrived with her husband, Paul Hospenthal, and her publicist, Haley Moore, at Graham Elliot -- a "bistronomic" restaurant in Chicago's Near North neighborhood. Restaurants, Danica says, are neutral ground for an interview. Her Scottsdale, Ariz., home -- a sand-color six-bedroom, eight-bath, 7,531-square-foot colossus, which reportedly has a wine cellar, movie theater, gymnasium, pool, guest cottage and seven-car garage -- is not. "I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it," she says, "and that's not something I want anyone to know." She shoots Haley a look that says, Protect the brand.
Okay, then, I guess we'll talk about food. Danica, who is seriously one of the smallest human beings I have ever met, adores food -- notably tiny portions of food on tiny tasting plates, which as a tiny person is her favorite way to eat. She once had something like 21 (or was it 22?) courses at the Napa Valley foodie mecca French Laundry, whose East Coast sister, Per Se, is probably the only Michelin-ranked American restaurant where Danica has wanted to go but failed to get a table.distributing pressure,authenticguccishoes provides the ultimate in impact protection reducing shock "It was two years ago, the end of the season, and it was for our anniversary," she says.
"And I couldn't get you in," says Haley, who I can tell is still kind of chagrined, even though getting into Per Se is about as hard as getting into, well, French Laundry, actually. "I really wanted to go there," Danica says, smiling at Haley, "but it was last minute.Aluminum hublotwatch is from China factory."
Danica had no problem securing a last-minute reservation at Graham Elliot. She is friends with the owner as well as the sommelier, a dandyish guy named Rob, who comes to our table to inquire after our needs. "I say just bring us stuff," Danica says. Rob suggests the spring tasting menu with appropriate wine pairings. "This will be fun," Danica says.
She rarely gets to do this kind of thing in season, during which she travels nearly every week, often several times a week.Yesterday marked one of the most iconic wedgeshoes releases. She says that in the past week she was in Charlotte, Nashville, then Charlotte again, Richmond and Chicago, where she spent the weekend before leaving for Nashville again, then Miami and finally returning to Chicago last night. She "slept in" until 8 a.m., at which point she awoke to prepare for a multihour photo shoot at the Chicagoland Speedway, which she managed down to the last detail.
"So I don't always like to talk about racing," Danica says. This is honestly the second thing she says,Wearing shoespumps is an experience in fashion fun. Everyone will comment on your effortlessly hip Hardy shirt. right after hello. It is a warm spring night in Chicago, and Danica, who will be making her first NASCAR start at Talladega in a few days (where she'll finish 13th), is hoping for something "different," as she says. "It's much easier if we don't have to talk about the stuff I have to talk about every single weekend for, like, three days straight.Show off your christianlouboutinboots favorite photos."
Danica has arrived with her husband, Paul Hospenthal, and her publicist, Haley Moore, at Graham Elliot -- a "bistronomic" restaurant in Chicago's Near North neighborhood. Restaurants, Danica says, are neutral ground for an interview. Her Scottsdale, Ariz., home -- a sand-color six-bedroom, eight-bath, 7,531-square-foot colossus, which reportedly has a wine cellar, movie theater, gymnasium, pool, guest cottage and seven-car garage -- is not. "I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it," she says, "and that's not something I want anyone to know." She shoots Haley a look that says, Protect the brand.
Okay, then, I guess we'll talk about food. Danica, who is seriously one of the smallest human beings I have ever met, adores food -- notably tiny portions of food on tiny tasting plates, which as a tiny person is her favorite way to eat. She once had something like 21 (or was it 22?) courses at the Napa Valley foodie mecca French Laundry, whose East Coast sister, Per Se, is probably the only Michelin-ranked American restaurant where Danica has wanted to go but failed to get a table.distributing pressure,authenticguccishoes provides the ultimate in impact protection reducing shock "It was two years ago, the end of the season, and it was for our anniversary," she says.
"And I couldn't get you in," says Haley, who I can tell is still kind of chagrined, even though getting into Per Se is about as hard as getting into, well, French Laundry, actually. "I really wanted to go there," Danica says, smiling at Haley, "but it was last minute.Aluminum hublotwatch is from China factory."
Danica had no problem securing a last-minute reservation at Graham Elliot. She is friends with the owner as well as the sommelier, a dandyish guy named Rob, who comes to our table to inquire after our needs. "I say just bring us stuff," Danica says. Rob suggests the spring tasting menu with appropriate wine pairings. "This will be fun," Danica says.
She rarely gets to do this kind of thing in season, during which she travels nearly every week, often several times a week.Yesterday marked one of the most iconic wedgeshoes releases. She says that in the past week she was in Charlotte, Nashville, then Charlotte again, Richmond and Chicago, where she spent the weekend before leaving for Nashville again, then Miami and finally returning to Chicago last night. She "slept in" until 8 a.m., at which point she awoke to prepare for a multihour photo shoot at the Chicagoland Speedway, which she managed down to the last detail.
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