“As a woman, it’s like…fuck! You have to act like a nun for a guy to respect you. And even if you do wait to have sex and you’re very comfortable and you do exactly what you want to do in that moment, you still have to be very careful because you don’t want to be looked at as a ho,” Amber Rose tells GQ’s Carrie Battan. “How do you win? You do exactly what you want to do. And if it doesn’t work out, then he’s just not meant for you.”
After a period of relative peace, West went on the radio this year and quipped that he “had to take thirty showers” before he got with Kim, a barb aimed at Rose. In a radio interview a few days prior, Rose had criticized the relationship between rapper Tyga and Kylie Jenner, then 17, the youngest of the Kardashian/Jenner gaggle. (Tyga has denied dating Kylie while she was underage.) Rose’s radio interview set off a full-bore social-media feud. Khloé Kardashian pounced, reminding her Twitter followers that, in case they’d forgotten, Rose was stripping at Kylie’s age. This caught Rose off guard, provoking her to come back with a comment about Kim’s sex tape: “I said [to Khloé Kardashian], ‘Your sister [Kylie Jenner] has a career because your other sister [Kim Kardashian] made a sex tape and put the family on.’ I think it’s fucking awesome that she did a sex tape and made millions of dollars for her family,” Rose says now. “But let’s not forget where we came from. Because I didn’t.”
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Rose started stripping at age 15, a profession she remembers as invigorating, not tragic. “Best fucking time of my life,” she says. “I’m not going to say young girls should go be dancers. But that was my journey, and I don’t regret it.” Rose wonders whether Kim, deep down, might feel the same way about that sex tape. “She probably had a fucking blast. And guess what? At the time she was in love with that guy,” Rose says. “So don’t think you’re better than me, because we’ve all had trials and tribulations.”
Despite Rose’s intimidating beauty, she does show a vulnerable side. She calls Kanye “my ex,” for example, never using his name. When asked why she won’t listen to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the infamous album detailing their intense relationship, Rose replies “Never, ever, ever. It’s just not for me. Don’t get me wrong,” she says, “I’ll hear songs and I’m like, ‘Oh, he said that about me.’ No one knows what he’s talking about but me and him. People can’t decipher. They’ll be like, ‘That’s a cool song,’ and I’m like, ‘That happened to us when we were together.’” The two haven’t spoken a word in years, but when she hears his verses, she says, “Obviously, I know he’s talking to me through music.” So what happens when she’s out at the club and one of Kanye’s hits comes on? She does what everyone does: She dances. “I don’t give a shit,” she says. “I was a fan. He’s really…he’s a good artist.”
It’s no surprise that this stripper turned megalomaniac muse has just published her first book: a 256-page memoir meets self-help guide called How to Be a Bad Bitch. “I have my own house. I have a Ferrari. I have a Jeep. I have an Escalade. I have two Can-Ams. I have a beautiful son, two assistants, lawyers, business managers, management, and access to pretty much whatever I want. It does become intimidating for a man. I do feel more comfortable with someone who’s living up to par with me.”
The November issue of GQ will be available on newsstands in New York and L.A. on Tuesday October 20, and nationally October 26.
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