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I’ll start by answering a few of the questions you might otherwise find yourself googling during a late-night internet spiral. Gabbriette Bechtel (26 years old, Leo, 5’ 4”, based in LA) doesn’t have: 1. Famous parents.

2. Eyebrows (after she’s washed her make-up off). 3.



Inhibitions. The iconoclastic American model and Instagram chef, known simply as Gabbriette to those of us who are chronically online, does have: 1. A pet rat called Splinter.

2. A Mac Cosmetics lip liner in Stone in her battered black Gucci bag at all times. 3.

An enormous black diamond engagement ring on her left hand to match her all-black uniform of 1990s Jil Sander and Tom Ford-era Gucci. The ring comes courtesy of The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. In June, she announced her betrothal to him with a picture taken during a Charli XCX concert in New York.

It was hardly a surprise. After all, haven’t we all fallen for Gabbriette this summer? She has “It.” Which, in 2024, means she’s in possession of a self-deprecating sense of humor that some might label “unhinged”; a wardrobe of archival late-1990s clothes; and self-made success that attracts a sizable social media following.

Gabbriette’s particular kind of “It” counters the narrative that life online has made our generation uncool and hung-up. And she loves eating. Bored during the pandemic, she posted an Instagram Reel of herself making her mom’s authentic Mexican ceviche.

“She puts ketchup in it,” Bechtel says. “The inter.

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