Inarguably, Julia Fox is more famous for her relationship with Kanye "Ye" West than her breakout role in Uncut Gems (2019). Consequently, her fame has resulted in more curiosity about her history.
Per Chris Gardner's Hollywood Reporter piece, Fox was born in Milan, but she moved to the UES of NYC when she was in elementary school, and by high school she was working as a teen dominatrix. Fox shared with Gardner, “[...] I got into the sex industry pretty young, doing S&M stuff.”
Unsurprisingly, Fox related that she wasn't the only NYC high school sex worker, “I had heard about another girl who was doing it [...] I did it, and it was great.” (It's safe to assume that Fox's clients were ephebophiles.)
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Fox told Popsugar's Corinne Sullivan that her after (high) school job as a teen dominatrix prepared her for acting:
"My after school job was a dominatrix, so you know, it was fantasy role play [...] so I'm good under pressure and I can read someone and know what it is that they want. I pick up subtle cues very well and pay attention to detail."
Interestingly, prior to filming Uncut Gems, Fox made, Fantasy Girls, a short film that she shot after meeting a group of 13 to 15-year-old nymphets in Reno. The "artful" film is about Reno's underground nymphet prostitution ring and teen sex trafficking. Fox explained to Elle's Julie Kosin:
So I went to Reno with my childhood best friend with [the idea of] making a movie. We enter the city and meet this group of kids on the side of the road, and we just both knew, we're going to uncover this story in this little mix. After speaking with some of their guardians, we were informed [that] the whole town is an underground [teen] prostitution ring. So many children are being trafficked and girls go missing all the time, and they were at risk. I was like, I want to tell this story in an artful way, not like a documentary.
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In the end, one could safely assume that if Kanye had shared that he hired a high school sex worker, he would be justifiably (completely) canceled but customarily, like most teen sex workers, Fox has been proverbially acquitted.