Alix overcame an eating disorder and a tumultuous breakup with her fiancé to become a home-renovation star. Now she's poised for the big time.
Ten minutes after saying hello, Galey Alix is showing me her bedroom — a calming melange of whites and sandy grays that feels like Nancy Meyers' version of a northern Italian villa by way of Home Goods.
Alix says she often stays awake for the duration of a job fretting about whether she'll be able to pull it off, pacing around in black Spanx tights and Ugg boots, her elbow-length blonde waves tied back with multiple elastic bands and topped with a baseball hat. When it comes time for the reveal, she changes into one of her many pairs of coveralls, all of which are available for purchase on her website.
Right now, Alix is anxiously waiting to hear whether her show will be renewed:"Am I losing my mind? Absolutely." If she gets a second season, her life will change — for the better, she thinks, although the way she talks about her calling makes me wonder.Galey Alix Gravenstein comes from a family of overachievers. Her father is an anesthesiologist, as is one of her brothers. Her sister is completing a surgical residency. Her mother was the head of an ICU.
When she got engaged in 2017, Alix says she put the same level of energy into becoming a perfect wife. She tells me she met her former fiancé, who worked in tech, during a business trip to New York. They fell in love and after a year of dating, he proposed and asked her to quit her Wall Street job. Alix didn't want to leave Goldman. She countered: What if she commuted from Florida to Connecticut every weekend until the wedding, then resigned? He agreed.
She didn't want to keep secrets from her soon-to-be husband. And, more importantly, she needed help. So on the last trip to Connecticut, right after quitting her Goldman job, Alix told him about her eating disorder. He accused her of misrepresenting herself and gave her 90 minutes to leave the house. Because she was too unwell to fly commercial, he put her on a private plane back to Florida.
"It was an out-of-body experience," Alix says."The more I dove into the DMs, the more I started to feel like I was watching a movie about someone else's story and seeing how it all started." The Calloways were thrilled."You're like, this can't be the same room!" Calloway says."It's still an incredible feeling." They posted the finished result on Instagram, and the response was overwhelming."People were knocking down our door to be like, 'How do we get Galey?'" Calloway says. The renovation got 30 million views on Instagram.
Parker says working with Alix inspires an intoxicating feeling:"I wish I could bottle it up and have you experience it for yourself." Lauren Parker, who helps Alix with installs, says working with Alix inspires an intoxicating feeling:"I wish I could bottle it up and have you experience it for yourself."At the"Home in a Heartbeat" premiere in April, Alix looked at her mom, who was sitting next to her in the theater."This is what I was telling you about," Alix thought, remembering what she'd told her 18 years earlier."This is the big thing.
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