She’s a big-league lawyer, with a flawless sense of style.
From heart-stopping designer gowns, to awe-inspiring speeches, she has an effortless grace and
a closet-full of jaw-dropping couture.
With Hollywood's most eligible bachelor-turned-husband on her arm, Amal Clooney shines brighter with
every move she makes.
Having practiced law for years, and with an unrelenting taste for perfectly appointed
style, Amal proves she's got the guts — and the mind — to change the world.
And look good doing it.
Not just arm candy
A restaurant owner from Amal's ancestral hometown in Lebanon, told NBC:
"George Clooney is lucky to have a girl like Amal.
She's very well-educated, and a very well-esteemed person around here."
Amal was just two years old in 1980, when her family fled civil war in Beirut, opting
for a stable life in Buckinghamshire, London.
But her personal achievements are still very much treasured by the community she left behind.
The mayor of her hometown told NBC, "Amal is an outstanding person and we are very proud
of her.
Quite aside from her marriage to George, she has made a name for herself as a talented
lawyer.”
Charming Hollywood’s career bachelor
In a dashing romance ripped from the pages of the greatest love story of all time, Amal
and Clooney met in Italy when she was 36, he was 53, and he was the one falling head-over-heels.
He explained to Ellen:
"It was one of those funny things.
From the minute we met we just hit it off, and from the minute we met we felt like we
were going to be together."
Going public with their romance in late 2013, the glamorous couple was first spotted together
in London, then vacationing in Mexico, and soon after at a White House screening of Clooney's
film The Monuments Men.
So why did Clooney fall in love with Amal in the first place?
He revealed what hooked him in an interview with Entertainment Tonight:
"She's an amazing human being.
And she's caring, and she also happens to be one of the smartest people I've ever met,
and she's got a great sense of humor, there are a number of reasons why."
But their dreamy courtship soon developed the tiny flaws of any coupling.
He told Extra:
"I watch sports and it kills her because I got her into March Madness a little.
She got into that and the next week is the Masters, and I'm watching that and she goes,
'So every weekend we're watching a sporting event?'
I'm like, 'Actually, that's kind of how it works.'"
Fairytale wedding
Amal and Clooney said "I do" in a romantic ceremony in Venice, Italy in September 2014.
The couple were married in Venice, in front of 100 close friends and family, including
Bill Murray, Matt Damon, Bono, Cindy Crawford, Anna Wintour, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski,
and Ellen Barkin.
Clooney told PEOPLE Magazine,
"We met in Italy.
We have a home there.
We knew that was where we wanted to get married."
Amal's mother dished to the magazine, saying,
"George and Amal radiated love all night.
The wedding was so unbelievably special.
These three days — the friends, the families, the atmosphere, everything — will stay with
me all the rest of my life."
Clooney described finally tying the knot, saying it "feels pretty damn great."
Fighting for women’s rights
In a speech at the Texas Conference for Women in 2016, Amal urged world to take action when
it came to women who were victims of ISIS throughout the Middle East:
"I wish I could say that I was proud to be here.
I'm ashamed as a human being that we ignore their cries for help"
Later in the speech, she went on to quote Hillary Clinton, saying, "Women's rights are
human rights.
Holding back women is holding back half of every country in the world."
In September 2016, Amal officially stepped things up internationally, planning to take
ISIS to court for genocide, on behalf of human trafficking survivor Nadia Murad.
"I don't think anyone can feel that they're being courageous compared to what Nadia is
doing, you know.
It's no joke.
It's ISIS."
After meeting 21-year-old Yazidi activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Murad, who escaped
ISIS imprisonment in 2014, Amal just couldn’t say no to advocating for her.
"She made me make the decision because I met her and I just thought, I can’t walk away
from this."
New York Magazine's Heather Havrilesky described Amal, saying, "If you drew a Venn diagram
of what the world wants from a feminist superhero — the middle circle would include Amal and
Amal only.
This is a circle that, for decades, we've been told, or told ourselves, was a null set
— impossible to enter."
Red carpet stunner
She may not have been gunning for the limelight, but make no mistake: Amal stands out from
the crowd whenever she walks the red carpet.
Reportedly coached by none other than Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Amal's got a
style her husband describes as, "Amazing — it's eccentric but it's a fun sense of fashion.”
Amal made her Cannes Film Festival debut in 2016, in a jaw-dropping yellow silk Atelier
Versace gown, and red lip that was so radiant, we almost forgot about lil' old George!
Slay all day
Whether she's killing it on the red carpet or laying down the law, Amal Clooney achieves
her enviable success by truly being herself.
We dig her genuine spirit just as much we love swooning over her luxury lifestyle.
With the brains to boot, she's a brilliant woman who has it all, and wants women around
the world to "own it" too.
"Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi
Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person UN commission investigating
rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip.
So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award."
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