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Mary-Kate And Ashley
Mary-Kate and Ashley are just your average 17-year-old multimillion dollar–earning sisters. Okay, they're anything but average...
Explain your role in the company Dualstar. What exactly do you guys do? Ashley: There are so many different areas within Dualstar. We have the fashion, the videos — we got to choose what we wanted [the videos] to be about, the script, everything. When it comes to the fashion line, we get to choose what we want for the line....what we think is appropriate and not appropriate.
Is there one aspect of the business that you guys are more involved in? There's the beauty line, the clothing line, the films, the books... A: We're pretty involved in most of it, but I'd say the two that we're most opinionated about are the films and the fashion.
How so? A: For the fashion line you just have to think about the rest of America and what they would like and the age group. Sometimes certain kids are going to like it more than we would, but you just have to compromise. It's been a lot of compromising. We like to stay in the loop, so that if something goes in and we don't necessarily like it we'll get more involved because we want to make sure it doesn't happen.
Does that happen where stuff goes through that you didn't okay? Mary-Kate: Yes. We'll be like, "That's not our signature. We didn't say okay on that." A: A lot of the time they'll make us sign something after we see things to approve them. M-K: Like dolls A: And then they'll come back three months later and we'll be like, "We didn't sign okay to that one. There's no way I let them put that top on that doll."
Is it weird seeing yourselves as dolls? M-K: The weird thing was being able to tell the difference between the two dolls. It's the face. That was a weird thing. A: When we were 2 years old, there was a Michelle doll [the girls' character from Full House].
Did you guys have to pose for your doll? Do they measure your face and stuff? A: They take pictures of your face from every single direction for over an hour. Then we went back and the first time we were like, "Um, our noses are a little too big, and I think maybe you could do this a certain way." M-K: It's so weird to look at a tiny face and be like, That doesn't look like me — maybe if you shaped the eyes a little different...
Did you guys play with your own doll? M-K: No. A: We used to get Barbies and cut their hair. That was the coolest thing ever. M-K: We'd get them and go, "This one needs short hair. This one needs bangs. Let's layer it." Mom used to get mad. We'd be like, Oh it looks better like this. A: Or sometimes you'd get carried away and it would be really spiky hair.
Have you ever read your own books? M-K: We used to. A: We give ideas for what activities we like to do [in them], like ballet and horseback riding.
Do you still get excited when you meet a celebrity? A: Yeah, we still get excited to talk to certain people. We just got excited to meet the girls that we did the Vanity Fair photo shoot with because we wanted to see their personalities. When we were at the MTV Awards...who was sitting behind us that we were so excited about? M-K: Busta Rhymes.
Do you ever read things about yourself that totally aren't true? A: There's a magazine called Star that just came out [with a story] talking about how I have a boyfriend and how I love partying and we go Rollerblading. I don't go Rollerblading. I want to be like, Excuse me? It's also hard when I see pictures of me in magazines...that's our worst nightmare is to see candid shots of us in a magazine. We were in Hawaii on vacation... M-K: Scarred for life. A: There was a whole page of us in our bathing suits. M-K: Running. A: Running in Hawaii. I thought I was going to kill myself. They want bad pictures. That whole paparazzi thing freaks me out.
Is it hard to keep your boyfriends out of it? A: Yeah and it's been in the press lately and that's kind of weird. In People last week there was a picture of Mary-Kate and my boyfriend, Matt, saying, "Ashley and Matt" but it was a picture of Mary-Kate.
Does that happen a lot? A: Not usually.
Do people try to dress you the same all the time? A: No, because other than photo shoots like this, we get to choose what we want to wear — no one is going to tell us what to wear.
Did you guys used to like dressing alike when you were younger? M-K: No, but that was what we were known for. If we did premieres or a photo shoot we'd be like okay — same but different.
Have you guys ever wanted to wear the same thing to a premiere or do you have different tastes? M-K: Sometimes I'll want to wear a shirt and she'll want to wear a shirt, so we'll just have to work it out. AG: So there'll be a fistfight. M-K: Yeah, we'll pull each other's hair out! A: For premieres or special occasions, we usually dress totally different. I like being classy and elegant but funky at the same time. M-K: I like being fun. I really just don't care. I go out to dinner probably in sweatpants and a shirt.
Wouldn't you love to just roll up to a premiere in sweatpants? M-K: I would never do that, but I mean that would be so cool...The MTV Music Awards!
