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In this deeply personal conversation, actress Camila Mendes opens up about her journey through perfectionism, eating disorders, and finding peace through spirituality and therapy. She discusses her seven-year experience on Riverdale, the panic attacks and pressure that came with it, and how the Hoffman Institute transformed her relationship with herself. Camila shares intimate details about building a home with fiancé Rudy Mancuso, healing from past relationships, navigating her Brazilian-American identity, and preparing for her role in Masters of the Universe. Throughout, she emphasizes the importance of honesty, doing inner work, and learning to accept both the light and dark parts of ourselves.
Building Home and Finding Groundedness
Camila discusses what excites her most at 31: building a home and future with her fiancé Rudy. She shares her passion for interior design and how she approaches designing spaces based on how she wants to feel. The conversation reveals how she and Rudy blended their different aesthetics—his minimalist, zen approach with her love of color and texture—to create their shared sanctuary.
- At 31, Camila is most excited about building her home, future, and family—cultivating a sense of groundedness
- She designs rooms like her mind, asking 'how do I want to feel in this space?'
- Rudy prefers clean, spotless, zen interiors without personality, while Camila loves color, texture, and warmth
- Their new home together is the perfect amalgamation of their tastes
" I like to design rooms like my mind. It's like how do I want to feel in this space and how does my mind want to feel in this space? "
The Challenge of Balancing Everything
Camila opens up about the difficulty of juggling multiple projects, relationships, and personal life. She reveals her preference for focusing on one thing at a time but acknowledges the industry requires having your hand in many things. She explains her 24-hour cycle philosophy for managing overwhelm and the importance of scheduling personal time first rather than letting work fill every gap.
- During the Masters of the Universe press tour, there was no room to think about anything else for 3-4 weeks straight
- Camila struggles with dividing attention between multiple things—she prefers to focus on one project at a time
- She lives in 24-hour cycles, only focusing on what's happening in the next day to avoid overwhelm
- After press tours, she refuses to schedule anything until she returns to herself and decides what she wants to do
" I live in 24 hour cycles. I cannot live outside of what I'm doing in the next 24 hours. "
" It's so easy for your schedule to just fill up with so much stuff. Let me get back into myself and figure out what do I want to do with my time this week, and then I'm going to work around that. "
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