'When it was published, people kept saying "It's so brave of you to write this", but it wasn't bravery - it was stupidity and complete naivety. I hadn't even intended for it to be a book,' she admitted. 'I'd had this crazy work experience which not a lot of people had had, so I wanted to write all the stuff down that was in my head.
Over all, she says her time thee was 'a hell of a - crazy, exciting, and hard,' and she ultimately left to work for a travel magazine. 'She would stare at them in disgust and it was a stare that conveyed her displeasure pretty clearly,' Weisberger said. 'And even though for a couple of weeks I made the boot-to-high-heels switch under my desk, I just had to forget it in the end.' 'I wore these horrible, black platform boots with a thick rubber sole because there was no choice,' she went on.
It was expected of me, but I ran all day, all over the office, up and down the building 1,000 times and to Starbucks six times a day, so there was no way I could manage even a two-inch heel. 'And unlike Andy I couldn't force myself to wear high heels. French Vogue provided Anna with assistants when she was over there,' she said. Unlike Andy, she 'never got to raid the closet because I never had time, although the other girls did and they wore the most fabulous things to parties. 'I knew I was tall and thin, but I was short and fat there,' she said. It's an unwritten rule among Condè Nast staffers that no one gets in an elevator with Wintour, and Weisberger confirmed she'd never have made that faux pas.Īnd though she is slim, she has recalled feeling dumpy in comparison to other Vogue staffers. She spent most of her time 'faxing, filing, getting coffee, and basically keeping Anna’s life running as smoothly as possible.' 'But of course my time at Vogue informed the book, there's no denying that.' 'It wasn't a one-to-one portrayal ,' she told Event magazine. Weisberger - who just released a new novel, 'Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty' - has certainly let The Devil Wears Prada speak for itself, but over the years has shared some more real-life stories from working at Vogue as well.
Her time working for Wintour would go on to inspire the story for The Devil Wears Prada, which she published at age 25 - with Wintour herself serving as inspiration for the boss of the fictional Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly. 'It was a crazy, crazy, crazy entrance into the working world of New York City and it was wild. No idea how it happened, ended up at her desk, and I was there just under a year and it definitely informed that whole book, for sure,' she said. Weisberger noted that her job at Vogue was her first out of college, and she's still surprised she landed it. Memories: Weisberger raised her eyebrows as she spoke about the job, calling it a 'crazy entrance into the working world of New York City'
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