Julia Fox is being praised for her honest remarks about the reasons behind her “ditzy” voice.
The 33-year-old fashion mogul sat down with Vanity Fair for an episode of its “Lie Detector Test” YouTube series, published on 25 October. Fox was probed with a series of questions with the expectation of answering honestly or being exposed by the detector for fibbing.
To start, Fox was asked to confirm her full name and birthday – Julia Artemiev Fox, born on 2 February. When questioned whether she felt proud to be a millennial, theUncut Gems star answered: “Hell yeah.”
While Fox confessed to having an “old school New York accent,” the interviewer pressed the topic of her voice further, pointing out how people online claim the way she talks is “fake”.
“Julia, is this your normal speaking voice?” the interviewer asked, to which Fox responded: “I think so, yeah.”
Immediately, the test administrator proclaimed Fox was not telling the truth. Having already confessed to being nervous, Fox thought about why her answer showed up as being a lie.
She admitted: “Maybe when I’m nervous I lean into more like ditzy, like, you know, and I feel it kind of disarms people. And I think a lot of women probably do that.”
“You know, whether it’s the baby voice, or like the damsel in distress. It’s kind of a defense mechanism, so that I’ll be taken care of,” Fox continued. “I think it’s subconscious though. I don’t even think I realise when I’m doing it. It just happens.”
“She’s telling the truth,” the lie detector administrator remarked.
Following Fox’s sincere answer, multiple viewers commended her for the thoughtful explanation. “Her honesty and frankness is so refreshing,” one person commented, while someone else said: “I don’t know much about her, but I really enjoyed her candor.”
“I love her takes on everything. She really is such a powerful force for women empowerment,” another person wrote.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, others said she gave a “thought-provoking response to voice controversy”.
“Julia Fox failed the VF Lie Detector Test on one big point: that’s not her real voice. But what is a real voice, anyway?” New York Magazine added. “To be a woman is to perform, after all.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Fox spoke candidly about how she feels about men, with the model stating that she doesn’t hate men, only for the answer to be deemed a “lie”.
“I think that there’s a lot of men that benefit from the systemic oppression of women in our culture and society and religions, and I do wish that more men could stand up for us,” she then clarified.
