Talkaholiq The Blog

We've already established on this very website that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen hate being famous. To the Olsen twins, fame is a drug, except it’s the sort of drug that somebody slips into your food against your will for the entire duration of your youth. Even so — or, more likely, as a direct result of this — the Olsens cannot stop getting more famous. Their first Instagram selfie , despite being #sponsored by Sephora and featuring smiles stretched thinner than the plot of Holiday in the Sun, drew the sort of foaming-at-the-mouth media coverage that Jessica Lowndes only dreams about. A recent New York Times piece went long on the strangely opaque social-media presence of the twins’ fashion line, The Row. And now, as of this past weekend, there’s a Kickstarter-funded pop-up exhibit focused on the twins’ celebrity and their considerable hatred thereof. Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen — UCB alums, roommates, collaborators, best friends, and boxed-wine savants who met at a party during a