Us Weekly exclusively talked to 20 sources to get insight into the secret life of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Growing up in the 1990s, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were undisputed pop culture royalty. Getting their start on Full House when they were just 9 months old, America immediately fell in love with the twins who starred as the adorably sassy Michelle Tanner on the hit sitcom for eight seasons.
Us Weekly talked to 20 sources — from members of the Olsens’ inner circle to current and former employees to people they used to party with in NYC — to get insight into their second act. “Mary-Kate and Ashley both gravitated toward the downtown fashion gays,” says a fashion insider who hung out with them in the early 2000s. “Mary-Kate was like this eccentric bag lady smoking Marlboro Reds with all the boys, having fun at dive-y hotspots like the Beatrice Inn and the Jane Hotel. Ashley was much straighter and sensible, but she loved fashion and was intrigued by us.”
While Ashley is still based in NYC, Mary-Kate splits her time in L.A., and they both travel frequently to Europe for work and spend a good deal of time in the Hamptons. Mary-Kate was spotted with longtime friend Sean Avery outside The Row’s Amagansett location over Memorial Day weekend. “She loves the Hamptons, riding horses and just being in nature,” says the first friend.
A second friend tells Us Mary-Kate and Ashley are “very low-key and kinda boring nowadays. They’ve given up smoking and stopped going out for a while. Ashley also had a baby, so her priorities are different; nobody sees them as much as they used to.” The twins work full-time on the business, though neither designs the clothes. Mary-Kate is more involved with the creative, while Ashley spends more time on operations and finance.
A former higher-up says Mary-Kate and Ashley “don’t trust anyone.” Once, after an intern tried to take a photo of the sisters in the showroom, interns were banned from the space. Ashley also dislikes dissenting opinions and can tire of employees quickly. She maintains more of a work-life balance than Mary-Kate, who the source says “would be completely lost without work and horse riding.”
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