Jenny Lewis has always maintained an outward image of alluring self-sufficiency, repeatedly reinventing herself — from child star to alternative frontwoman to thriving solo act. Now, she’s figuring out what a new version of independence looks like
Prada headband, $240 at prada.com. Miu Miu top, $1,400; socks, $185; and shoes, price upon request at miumiu.com. Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello shorts, $4,990 at ysl.com. Photo: Kelia Anne “I feel like I’m living the Laurel Canyon version of the movie Big,” Jenny Lewis says, as she fires up her pinball machine and puts on a hot pink trucker cap that reads “BEST FRIENDS” in black lettering.
Lewis has spent decades in the public eye, or at least in its peripheral vision. Her child-actor days gave way to a musical career in 1998, when she formed the band Rilo Kiley alongside fellow former child actor Blake Sennett. The couple broke up, but the band stayed together, making a handful of moody, memorable records.
As the two of us trudge up the dusty canyon trail near her house, I’m struck by how much Jenny Lewis looks like Jenny Lewis, even when she’s hiking. Her trademark long red hair is set in soft waves, and her bangs — the bangs that launched a thousand trims — are swept slightly to the side. Before I have the chance to mention it, she calls herself out for wearing “truly the weirdest hiking outfit.
Lewis had been more or less estranged from her parents, who were also musicians, since she was 16. Her father left the family when she was a toddler, but with the support of Rice and other musician friends, Lewis invited him to play harmonica on her 2008 album Acid Tongue. Their reconciliation happened shortly before he died in 2010. Her relationship with her mother, who raised her, was more complicated.
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