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A Woman’s Work Is Never Done

... unless she's a famous influencer?

Photo of Italian influencer ​Chiara Ferragni wearing her viral Dior dress at the Sanremo Music Festival

Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni wearing her viral Dior dress at the Sanremo Music Festival

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“In the morning I get up at 5:30 a.m. I clean the house, then I wake up the children at 7. I get them ready, make them breakfast, then at 7:30, we leave for school. At 8:30, I start work. I clean two offices, then at 11, I go to a lady's house to clean until 3.30 p.m.

At 4 p.m. I pick up the children. I take them home and help them with their homework. Three days a week, I take my youngest to a physiotherapist at 5.30 p.m. The other days, there’s my daughter's catechism classes and my other daughter’s gym lessons. By 7:30 p.m. it's dinner time, because at 8 p.m. I have to go clean offices when they close. Then by 10 p.m. I come back and put them to bed.

I tidy up and at midnight, I go to sleep too. Since my husband’s gone, this is my life. I don’t want much, but a half an hour to myself every now and then would be nice.”

“Sure, think of yourself as free.”*

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*This is a reference to Pensati libera ("Think of yourself as free”), the inscription on a Dior dress worn by influencer Chiara Ferragni at the 2023 Sanremo Music Festival.

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