Meet Cami Morrone, the Breakout Instagram Star With a Body to Match

When 18-year-old Cami Morrone walks into the Vogue office, she is a seemingly endless profile of limbs. It’s partly genetic. The 5-foot-9 Los Angeles transplant and newly minted Victoria’s Secret Pink recruit is the daughter of male supermodel Maximo Morrone and Argentinian actress Lucila Solá (the woman she can thank for her pillowy lips and thick, brushed-up brows). But her lithe frame is something that Morrone works for. Despite the bruised hand she encountered at a recent fashion fitting, she is already in the process of booking a sweat-inducing session at New York’s just-opened Dogpound gym with her close friend Hailey Baldwin. Her Instagram is riddled with GIFs of her moving from downward dog into warrior one or performing bicycle crunches in ab-baring spandex. Her namesake blog even has its own fitness section, and in today’s Vogue.com butt-sculpting video tutorial, she’s as comfortable demonstrating a curtsy squat as she is at delivering an eye-level ballerina kick. We sat down with Morrone to find out why the secret to a love of fitness has something to do with great cookies, what’s behind those brows, and the stealth way that Manhattan keeps her in shape.

Have you always been into fitness?
I played volleyball and soccer. I go to the gym now because it’s my job. I think if it wasn’t, I’d probably be sitting on the couch eating pizza all day. But I like it now. I’m boxing a lot.

Where do you box?
I have a trainer named Mario; he’s an MMA fighter. He’s going pro at the end of the year. He teaches me takedowns, jujitsu, everything. When I moved to New York, I had to find cardio that I was into. I can’t really run for the life of me, so IMG sent me over to him and I fell in love with it.

Is that your main form of fitness?
I box three to four times a week. I try to mix it up and do whatever I can. I love yoga, [but] I just do it as a stretching in between and to get some peace of mind. I do a lot of Pilates on the reformer. I tried SLT here, and I go to Carrie’s Pilates [Plus] in Los Angeles, which is amazing. I think you have to mix Pilates and yoga with cardio because I don’t think you’ll get the result you want to get if you’re just doing yoga.

Tell me about your blog—how did that start?
My blog is my baby. Earlier this year, people started asking me, “How do you get beachy waves?” “Where do you get self-tanner?” “What is your skin routine?” Instead of answering people individually on Instagram, I was like, Okay, I’m going to create a place where I can respond to everyone. What I would tell you as one of my girlfriends, I just write on the blog. None of us are professional hairdressers, but I’ve learned a couple of tricks in the industry. So I try to make it easy—you don’t have to be great at hair in order to learn how to do this. And I have a YouTube channel with makeup tutorials with this makeup artist, Nia Joy. We just did a brow one.

You have good brows.
My mom never let me [touch] them. My friend, the makeup artist, is really good at creating brows that don’t exist. These are all penciled in.

You are a rare breed.
I’m trying. I’m a total foodie. That’s why I work out, to balance it off. And in New York I’ve been cooking more, with vegetables and fruit and salad. I walk everywhere. I don’t have a car. I just try to take care of myself. My phone tells me how much I walk during the day—the health app. Yesterday I walked six miles, and then I compare it to L.A., where I walked 0.01 [laughs]. My movements in L.A. are minimal. It takes two steps to get anywhere. Survival of the Fittest 90210.

That would make a great reality show.
I had a show on HGTV with my mom and grandma called My Flipping Family. My mom loves interior design. We remodeled my house from top to bottom in three weeks. I had one of the best times.

What are your major indulgences?
Pasta at Jon & Vinny’s in Los Angeles. I can eat cheese pizza like nobody’s business, cactus tacos . . . I have some good spots in New York, too. I go to Bar Pitti all the time. Vesuvio cookies are the best cookies I’ve ever had in New York. Cookie shots at Dominique Ansel . . . you get some cheat days in there. Acai in the morning, salad for lunch, then maybe go to Carbone and have mozzarella balls [laughs]. Or Rubirosa! Wow.

 

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