Pete Davidson and Julia Fox Did a Bizarre Photoshoot Together Before Dating Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West
Pete Davidson is currently dating Kim Kardashian West, while Julia Fox has been spotted several times with the reality star’s husband, Kanye West. But did you know that Fox and Davidson were connected before dating the Wests?
Pete Davidson starred in a bizarre photo shoot for Paper Magazine in 2019
In November 2019, Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson starred in a cover shoot for Paper Magazine.
The photographs were inspired by vintage Barbie dolls, with Davidson modeling as Ken. He posed stiffly while staring blankly into the distance, just like the popular children’s toys.
In one photo, Davidson is pantless and wearing an open shirt, revealing his heavily tattooed chest. His bottom half was photoshopped to look like a smooth Ken doll from the waist down.
Actor Tommy Dorfman, who starred in 13 Reasons Why, wrote, directed, and photographed Davidson’s cover story. Dorfman revealed in Paper Magazine’s accompanying article that the SNL star helped conceptualize the photoshoot.
“I threw out a Ken Doll concept. It seemed right since tabloids manipulate people in that way, him especially,” Dorman wrote. “He was down with the idea, but challenged me to go darker, something that leaned into his struggle with depression, which he has been admirably public about.”
The actor continued, “He’d told me he slept in a car bed as a kid and I saw it immediately: this Staten Island Ken Doll version of Pete stuck in a Barbie nightmare, pills everywhere. ‘You’d be like depressed Ken,’ I said.”
According to Dorman, Davidson responded, “Yeah! And dickless, like, with Ken-dick.”
Julia Fox appeared as a vintage Barbie doll in the same photoshoot
Model and actor Julia Fox appeared in the photoshoot with Davidson as an edgy version of Barbie.
In one photo, she takes a bubble bath while wearing earrings and a sparkly red bow in her hair, with mascara running down her cheeks. Davidson sits at the edge of the tub, staring blankly at the camera with his arms and legs in a doll-like pose.
In another image, Fox wears a pink outfit with acid green shoes while sitting in Davidson’s race car bed, stroking his bleached hair.
Dorman wrote that “actress/model/artist Julia Fox was the perfect outer-borough Barbie to Pete’s Ken.” They described Fox as “a star on the rise in her own right,” and pointed out that she was “starring in the Safdie brothers’ new film, Uncut Gems, produced by one of Pete’s good friends, Sebastian Bear-McClard.”
Pete Davidson is dating Kim Kardashian West while Julia Fox is seeing Kanye West
Fans might be interested in revisiting Pete Davidson and Julia Fox’s 2019 Paper Magazine photoshoot because the two stars are dating Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West, respectively.
Davidson has been seeing the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star since she hosted Saturday Night Live in October 2021, and West met Fox on New Year’s Eve 2021.
Interestingly, both the reality star and the musician have also covered Paper Magazine. Kardashian West did a famous photo shoot for the publication’s Winter 2014 edition, in which she exposed her behind while wearing a pearl necklace and black satin gloves. Kanye West was the star of the magazine’s April 2015 issue.
