Rita Ora On Marriage To Taika Waititi And More

Rita Ora is a frequent subject of the tabloid press, where her street style and musical performances are chronicled at a near-daily clip. But for the last year, the British-Albanian singer has kept one aspect of her life largely private: her wedding to the filmmaker Taika Waititi. Rita Ora Net Worth

The title track on “You & I,” the album she released in July, “was all about, ‘Do I want to marry this guy?’” said Ora, 32. “It was all those questions and thoughts I had to ask myself.” She’d kept a journal during the writing process and has often returned to those pages to “reference what I used to feel like.”

Last August, Ora—who reportedly has a net worth of $30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth—and Waititi married in a secret and semi-spontaneous ceremony at their home in Los Angeles. The couple invited fewer than a dozen guests; many of Ora’s friends didn’t even know the ceremony was happening. She later asked some of them, including Chelsea Handler, Lindsay Lohan, and Kristen Stewart, if they wouldn’t mind doing her a wedding-related favor.

“I said, ‘Look, I know you’re all mad at me because no one was in it. So if there was a message you wanted to tell me, it would be lovely and I’d love to put it in a video,’” Ora said. Their messages appear in the opening of her music video “You Only Love Me.” Stewart tells her friend, “I just had the craziest dream that you were getting married and I wasn’t there.”

“It was amazing to see them all really pull through,” Ora said.

Ora, who has acted in “Fifty Shades of Grey” and the TV series “Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight,” lives in L.A. and London with Waititi. Here, she discusses her recent appearance on the British reality series “Love Island,” what she’s reading, and how it feels to frequently appear as a crossword puzzle clue. Rita Ora Net Worth

Here are a few things Rita Ora revealed to WSJ. Magazine…

On what time she wakes up on Mondays, and the first thing she does after waking up:

Roughly 9 o’clock. I get up, brush my teeth and go straight to the gym. I usually exercise five to six times a week.

On exercise:

I do about three days of weights and cardio, and then I do two days of Pilates, which is more like my version of a day off but it’s still intense.

On her beauty routine:

I don’t use any face wash in the morning, just water. Then I put on all my products: my day serum, my SPF tint, and a really light moisturizer. It’s all about hydration and looking sort of shiny and healthy.

On what she does on Mondays to set her up for the week ahead:

I write my week out on a whiteboard so I can really see what I need to achieve. It’s really big for me to visualize what I’m doing.

On favorite memories from making her new album:

I was just so happy and proud of it that I was playing people things that weren’t even finished, which is usually not what I do. This time around, it felt better to play people rough things and that was really exciting, looking at their faces.

On how she would describe the personality of her new album:

Mature, artistic, fun. There’s a song, “That Girl,” and it’s about really understanding that you can always have that kid in you. It’s more mature, definitely wiser, but fun and vibrant.

On getting Fatboy Slim to agree to remake “Praise You” for her album:

I just didn’t really stop. I knew he would be very, very protective over it. He loved my vision because it wasn’t trying to copy his version. It was just respecting it.

On being a frequent crossword clue:

My dad has this chess club, and they love doing crossword puzzles. There’s this huge population of Albanians and Kosovans in New York City, and they send him pictures all the time of crossword puzzles. I wonder why my name’s being used so much. I don’t do them as often, but I love it. It’s a huge compliment.

If you’re reading this and you make the crossword puzzles, continue, because it makes me feel really, really important. Rita Ora Net Worth

On performing in an episode“Love Island,” and whether she is a fan of the show:

I love the show. It was so much better before when they were doing so much stuff and had a smoking area and they were all just talking about each other. It’s such a great distraction for me in my life. I’m a huge reality buff.

On what it was like to be in the famous villa:

They were so surprised that I knew who they were. I was like, “Oh, my God, Jess!” I knew all their names and they were just shocked. At one point I think the producer had to come in and just be like, “Can you guys just try and relax and be normal?”

On her secret when it comes to shopping for décor:

I’m really proud of my house. I’m actually sitting in it right now looking out at the garden. First of all, I’m all for finding a good price tag, a great bargain. It’s not all about how expensive something is, it’s about the time period and quality. Because this house was so old, it was really important for me to bring furniture in that felt like it matched the house.

On an example of something she’s dragged Taika into that he ended up enjoying:

Health stuff, like in the sauna. In the morning, I go to the gym and I sit in the sauna but I don’t think he used to have the patience for that. He’d probably say it differently, but I think he’s starting to enjoy that 40 minutes of calmness where you just have to sit with yourself.

On her most prized possession:

Probably my mum’s engagement ring. She gave it to me when I got married. It was a really thoughtful gift.

On the one piece of advice that she’s gotten that’s been important to her:

It’s not that bad. Like, this too shall pass. It feels so bad, but you will get through it if you just hold out. Rita Ora Net Worth

Featured Image: TAYLOR JEWELL/INVISION/AP via WSJ. Magazine

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