It's a sunny May afternoon in Miami's leafy Coral Gables neighborhood, and Camila Cabello welcomes me into her family's one-story home accompanied by a small menagerie: four dogs — including Golden Retriever, Tarzan, and German Shepherd, Thunder — along with the rescued cockatoo, Percy.
Cabello is home “to recharge” amid a hectic few days that included time in California and will soon take her to New York for the Met Gala. But today, in her messy pigtails, Daisy Duke shorts, and silver flip-flops, Cabello looks more like a college girl on recess than a major pop star preparing to release her fourth solo album — a fearless artistic statement that arrives on the 28 June titled C, XOXO. Her father washes the street, her mother offers me cafecitoand her aunt plays with the dogs.
“Let's go to lunch – I'll drive!” Campello exclaims as she grabs her bag. The 27-year-old only got her license two years ago and learned to drive during the pandemic. As we get into her white Tesla – nicknamed “Tessie” – she admits that getting behind the wheel (with a good album or podcast on the stereo) is her favorite form of stress relief. She takes us to Pura Vida, one of her favorite local health spots, where we sit outside with summer chicken bowls. “Girl, this Met Gala is coming up… I can't wait to stuff my face afterwards,” she jokes.
With her still-quite-new platinum blonde tresses (a fresh 'do debuted on social media in February), Cabello is going largely incognito. some passers-by seem to recognize her, but may be too shy to approach her. Only one screams, “Camila, I love you!” — a reminder that while Cabello may periodically crash at her parents' house, she's still a global superstar. But while she jokes that her new look has the side benefit of giving her some anonymity in public, she explains that it has a deeper meaning.
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