Lauren Sánchez made headlines in 2019 when she and her fiance, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, went public with their relationship, and he or she’s since made a reputation for herself on this planet of philanthropy — and shortly, area exploration.

The previous broadcast journalist and founding father of aviation firm Black Ops Aviation lately sat down with Vogue in a tell-all interview, the place she make clear her relationship with Bezos, her plans to journey out of the ambiance, and the way philanthropy performs a task in her life.

On the lavishness of the couple’s upcoming nuptials

“We’re nonetheless eager about the marriage, what it will be. Is it going to be massive? Is it going to be abroad? We do not know but,” she advised Vogue. “We have solely been engaged 5 months!”

Bezos, 59, and Sánchez, 53 had been engaged in Could in a non-public second inside their dwelling, one thing the general public was not conscious of on the time. Sánchez advised the outlet that she discovered the engagement ring field beneath her pillow, which she discovered proper earlier than heading to mattress.

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Sanchez is conscious, after all, of what marrying Bezos and his fortune entails, and the way the financials of such a serious dedication will play out. Bezos is at present the No. 2 richest man on this planet with $166 billion, per Bloomberg.

“I believe there are plenty of alternatives that include that, and I take these alternatives very significantly,” she mentioned, noting that she might be taking Bezos’ final title. “We all the time have a look at one another and go, ‘We are the workforce.’ So all the pieces’s shared.”

On area exploration

Sánchez advised Vogue that she might be touring into area subsequent yr on Blue Origin’s New Shepard, although she left the small print obscure, noting that she might be flying alongside 5 (to date unnamed) girls who’re “paving the best way.”

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She additionally tried to make clear why Bezos is so obsessed with area exploration, and justified the follow as an informative and academic device as an alternative of only a joyride throwaway for the extraordinarily rich.

“Jeff all the time says, ‘Constructing the highway to area in order that our kids can construct the long run.’ And that is what it is about,” she defined. “Launch, land, repeat, again and again in order that we are able to determine find out how to have reusable rockets.”

^{Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez communicate onstage through the IWMF Braveness in Journalism Awards on October 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for IWMF)}

On the couple’s morning routine

Sánchez mentioned she and Bezos attempt to maintain off their telephones after they get up.

“We strive to not get on our telephones instantly,” Sánchez says. “That is what I am engaged on.”

And thru suggestions of well-known mates, resembling Diane Von Furstenberg (who reportedly hosted the couple’s engagement occasion final weekend), the couple has began journaling.

“We’re not fairly there,” admits Sánchez. “We’ll do it, like, three days every week.”

On philanthropy

Sánchez, who now serves because the Vice Chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, additionally works with This Is About Humanity and the Bezos Day One Fund.

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“We actually need to do probably the most we are able to with the {dollars} that we put into issues,” she mentioned. “It is not about simply giving the cash away. It is about being concerned … I believe Jeff and I actually are specializing in the long-term dedication to local weather, and we’re extraordinarily optimistic about it.”