Petulant and ungrateful, NYC’s first lady ‘deflates’ when asked about moving to Upper East Side
New Yorkers finally got to meet our soon-to-be first lady, Rama Duwaji, Tuesday.
The 28-year-old artist, who was completely absent during her husband Zohran Mamdani’s successful bid to take the city’s top job, has declined most media but said yes to a cover shoot with The Cut.
And no wonder. The magazine fawned over her as both a style icon and an independent woman.
But, more than anything, this profile underscores her youth.
She’s a Gen Z-er who gushes about being in “platonic love” with her friends and how they discuss whether “Usher is hot or not.”
The icebreaker she used to ask on dates: “What kind of fruit would you be and why?”
Previously, she’d say she was a “sweet and tart” raspberry. But after a mayoral election where she was really treated with kid gloves by the media, Duwaji’s a lychee: “slightly hardened shell but still open and soft on the inside.”
As for any insight into her husband’s platform, we only learn that she and Mamdani are “focused on protein right now. Don’t sleep on cottage........





















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