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Champions presence is outgoing, warm, and comforting; her dynamic with Hill is playful yet challenging.
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It is plain to see that they are exactly what we need to be watching at this moment.
Today, Champion lives with her really old dog, Coco, a Lhasapoo, in Los Angeles.
I have no complaints, she tells SELF.
You cant complain about things that you asked for.
She starts her days early, on calls with East Coast online grid executives and creatives at Vice.
She doesnt need much sleep, and she doesnt really understand why.
I bought an air fryerthePower Air Fryer XL.
Cauliflower has been a godsend for me.
I go to Whole Foods and I get a bunch of florets.
I thought in my mind I was some sort of chef, but they were just quick meals.
And then I would have a glass of roseI love it.
It could beWhispering Angel, that was a go-to for a while, and I’d unwind.
I didn’t know Glennon, but someone sent me her book like two weeks before.
I worked my way through college by working at a day spa.
So I do this religiously.
You have to realizeTV makeup is a lot.
I use two or three wipes, because it’s usually a heavy wipe-down.
It has been my go-to forever.
I just don’t even know anything else.
I have a lady that does facialsshe’s closed, obviouslybut she’s like a facial whisperer.
It’s a toner that moisturizes, hydrates, but it also feels like it has a tightening component.
It has a hyaluronic acid in it that really, really works well for my skin.
Some people might think it’s too much, but I use P50.
And then I take avitamin C serum from Obagi, anywhere from the 15 percent to the 20 percent.
Then I grab myCinq Mondes, which means five ingredients in French.
I use several different types of moisturizers.
I use theSkin Smoothing Cream from Dermalogica, which I love.
They have a nice, light face moisturizer.
I fall asleep with the TV on because for whatever reason, it’s comforting.
On her teenybopper taste in TV
I watchNetflix.
SoThe Politicianyou can follow without it being too intense.
Gosh, I hate to admit it, but alsoKissing Booth 1and2.
There’s a trapped teenybopper in me that I’m still watching these shows.
Jemele hosts a podcast aboutThe Wire, and she shamed me, so I have to watch it.
It’s great, great, great TV.
So I see what I was missing out on.
I watch that one over and over again.
I could live in a period piece forever.
But a nap, to me, is underrated, and people should do it.
I am a queen of the nap.
So I can easily take a nap.
No matter what’s going on, anywhere, any time, any place.
All of my old roommates would be like, Cari is the queen of a nap.
I’d be like, Absolutely.
I’ll show you how to do it.
I think that’s a lot of the way that I catch up on sleep and function.
I literally grabbed ajump ropefrom Amazon for, like, 10 bucks.
I go in the backyard area and I jump.
I play my speakers on blast, and I put on different radio stations.
It’s good for me.
I stick with my same teachers.
So after I do that, I go upstairs and I shower and my day begins.
I use this examplesaying, I guess I’m not up to working shape yet.
COVID requires another level of mental fortitude as well as another level of physicality that you have to extend.
Simply just consistently taking your mask on and off.
Or opening my dressing room without a glove on and then going to go grab my book.
It’s all types of different things now that you have to be mentally and physically aware of.
Sports is the last place where you are, quote unquote, not supposed to do that, right?
And quite frankly, sometimes the story doesn’t need that.
However, within the last five, six years, that has changed.
It is impossible to tell a story about sports without interjecting an opinion or nuance.
It was no longer black and white.
Our mission is clear.
We don’t have to be put in one bucket.
We can give you a serious conversation, and we can talk about Cardi B andMegan Thee Stallion.
