Bobbi Brown Is Ready to Slay the Wellness Industry. Nicely.<br />On another board nearby were some of Ms. Brown’s favorite mantras, which she has had put on pencils, like “Be Who You Are” — “Everyone else is taken, you know,” she said, once off the phone —<br />and “Focus On What You Do Like” and “Simple Is The New Black” and “Be Nice.”<br />Hello?” Ms. Brown said.<br />“It’s like a sitcom.”<br />When Mr. Parker Bowles indeed made an appearance an hour later, he called Ms. Brown “the kindest woman I know in this area code,”<br />and along with Mr. Plofker, “the beating heart of Montclair.” They are active in the town’s philanthropy, and every Yom Kippur they have a break-fast party at their house attended by prominent locals like Senator Cory Booker, Stephen Colbert and the journalist Jonathan Alter.<br />I moped around for a couple days and drank tequila with my best friends.”<br />In the Bahamas with Mr. Plofker for his 60th birthday, she met a chef who said,<br />“I can’t wait to see what you do next.” “I don’t know,” Ms. Brown said.<br />“‘What if I told you could do exactly what you love to do and want, and I would give you complete autonomy?’”<br />“I didn’t even know what autonomy was,” Ms. Brown said.<br />“I had a hairdresser tell me I would never work in this town because I didn’t have a style, I didn’t have a thing,” Ms. Brown said.<br />“Then she said I’m ‘cool AF’ and I’m like, what the hell is ‘AF’?” Ms. Brown said.
