The One Thing George and Amal Clooney Can’t Do

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The One Thing George and Amal Clooney Can’t Do

It’s hard to blame them.

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• ERIKA HARWOOD
  

APRIL 10, 2018 4:55 PM

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It’s easy to look at Amal Clooney—accomplished human-rights lawyer, undoubtedly beautiful, married to George—and assume her life must be perfect. She must be perfect. Thanks to her Vogue cover story, the world can now rest easy knowing that there’s one thing Clooney hasn’t been able to conquer: cleansing.

While speaking with Vogue, Clooney sipped on a mug of espresso, recounting her and George’s 21-day cleanse, of which they lasted 11, explaining that there are certain things she just couldn’t give up.
“It was hard to give up the glass of wine in the evening, but even harder to give up the espresso first thing in the morning,” she said. “We’re like, ‘Aren’t we supposed to be feeling amazing?’ ”

While she may not be able to rid herself of her wine and caffeine vices for 21 days, there are, of course, many other astonishing things she can do, as Vogue reminded us. She’s faced off against ISIS, worked on the Enron case, and lived on a compound in Beirut while she worked on a U.N. investigation of the murder of Lebanon’s prime minister, Rafic Hariri.

She’s also spent years of her career as a champion for women around the world. She now has her own daughter, 10-month-old Ella (plus Ella’s twin brother Alexander), and believes that there’s a bright future for her in the workplace thanks to the success of the #MeToo movement.

“I think because of the brave women who have come forward to tell their stories, the future workplace will be safer for my daughter than it was for people of my generation,” she said. “We’re in a situation where a predator feels less safe and a professional woman feels more safe, and that’s where we need to be.”[/size]