The student has hundreds of thousands of subscribers on social networks. A perfect platform for her fight for women’s rights. Portrait of a worthy heir of Melinda Gates.
“Doing your children a favor is not handing them lots of money,” Bill Gates said in 2016. It distorts everything they could do because they create their own path. A phrase her younger Phoebe took at face value. The young woman who grew up in the shadow of the spotlights had a preserved childhood. Until now erased, it now seems to have found its voice. At the age of 20, Phoebe Gates traded her wise blond for a more confident brown and now follows in the footsteps of her mother, Melinda, who is committed to women’s rights.
New voice
In June 2022, a women’s health researcher at Stanford University publishes her first militant post. We see her posing in a white bikini. “I’m not shy when it comes to my body (…”), she captioned an Instagram post. Everyone deserves access to sexual and reproductive health. Right now, the Supreme Court is poised to end the constitutionality of abortion. right. Join me and millions of other women in our fight for this basic human right.” A post that surprises: Since 2018, Phoebe Gates has been content to share with her nearly 282,000 subscribers her vacation in Peru, her siblings or friends with pictures of his walks.
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With a following of 76,600 people on TikTok, a platform where she shares her workout routines and favorite outfits, Phoebe Gates has turned her social media presence into a political battleground. In her 20s, she advocates for causes as diverse as the fight against global warming, women’s rights, and the fight for mental health. In December 2022, she thus revealed her “love letter to her therapist” and thanked him for teaching her to “be grateful” and “appreciate” her connections with loved ones. Martin, who studied classical dance at the American Ballet and Juilliard, also publishes a post in favor of abortion rights.
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“My mother, my heroine”
Fights that Phoebe Gates is not only on social networks. May twenty-one, on all fronts, honors the invitation of Global Citizen Now, dedicated to the fight against poverty. During her speech, she advocates for the right of women and girls around the world to make independent decisions about their health and future. The causes he advocates even in magazine columns. A testament to Femtech is her column, Advancing Technologies for Women’s Health, published Teen Vogue in September 2022
He also attends 20 in Julye Anniversary of the Sean Carter Foundation, which fights for equal education for all. That evening, the organization collected 20 million dollars (18 million euros). Philanthropy reminiscent of her mother Melinda’s, who ran a foundation dedicated to fighting disease, inequality and poverty around the world, and whose many feminist quotes Phoebe Gates shares on her Instagram stories. A legacy he evokes especially in the columns American Voguein July 2022.
“When you’re Melinda’s daughter, it’s not hard to be passionate about reproductive health,” she says. My mother is my heroine. She is a brilliant reformer who travels the world to advocate for gender equality.” Phoebe Gates does not forget her father’s lessons. “Well, I am the daughter of my parents, it gives me a great privilege, but it is not what defines me,” she emphasizes. WWD:. I want to develop my own identity and get away from it all. I’m just trying to do it in a way that makes a difference.”
Catwalks and red carpets
Fashionista Phoebe Gates also stands out from her sister Jennifer, who is more interested in medicine and horse riding than the front rows. The youngest of the Gates, who wants to become a stylist, attends many fashion shows and is offered an internship in the spring of 2022 fashion British next summer. In August 2022, she addressed the issue of sustainable fashion in an Instagram post.
In the same year, the younger sister of 27-year-old Jennifer and 24-year-old Rory invaded the red carpets. And especially offers a remarkable appearance at the TIME 100 gala in a glittering Fendace dress on the arm of her father, Bill Gates. He also goes to parties they host Harper’s Bazaar or Valentino.
Golden family
The sight is all the more surprising because the young woman grew up in the privacy of her parents’ vast estate in Medina, near Lake Washington. Born on September 14, 2002, Phoebe had a peaceful childhood under the guidance of the Gates couple, who allowed little information about her private life to emerge. For added discretion, Phoebe and her siblings adopt the French name of their mother when going to school. Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe are also banned from owning a phone until they turn 14. The three children, however, are thriving in the 4,500 m² luxury abode known for its high-tech equipment, in addition to its 24 bathrooms, 6 kitchens and 2 tennis courts. In the morning, they are taken to school by their father, Bill Gates, whose “intellect and hard work” Phoebe admires.
Close to the family, Phoebe Gates regularly pays tribute to him on her Instagram page. He thus multiplies vintage pictures of his siblings, all smiles in the back of a minivan or in party hats. About her brother, she claims that he is “her best friend”. And shares her admiration for the newly married couple from her sister and rider Nayel Nassar. In April 2020, she celebrates the birthday of her eldest, whom she describes as “adorable, loving and determined”, calling him “her confidant”.
“Thank you for teaching me the lessons I needed to learn, telling me the truths I needed to hear and of course showing me how to grow,” she wrote. Under his pen, his mother in turn becomes “the most incredible woman”. She says of her father that he “teaches her every day.” It’s also the video of him playing with a ball that will give him the most views on TikTok, with a total of 8 million.
“Misconceptions and Conspiracy Theories”
in an interview with The information In March, however, Phoebe Gates spoke about the dangers of such overactivity. She laments the “misconceptions and conspiracy theories that have been circulating about her family and her relationship with her boyfriend, Robert Ross.” Some netizens are really criticizing his romance with a black student, which was officially confirmed in July 2022. “We are in 2023, he says. I don’t want to become a meme just because I’m in a mixed relationship.”
If the young woman still values the exchanges with her virtual community, then there is no question of making it her job. He even intends to build his own empire. Phoebe Gates will be working on a startup, Pia, with her roommate, an environmental activist named Sophia Chianni. Their goal. “Making fashion more sustainable”. Perhaps the student, who is due to graduate in 2025, will choose, like his father, to leave the university before the end of his course; better start his meteoric rise.
Source: Le Figaro
