“There’s So much I Want To Do” – Zendaya Tells British Vogue

I just don’t know what I’m doing when I’m not working.

“Zendaya is British Vogue‘s October cover star. The 24-year-old actress, described by Edward Enninful as ‘a thought-leader for younger viewers’, talks to the magazine about her life and career lessons so far.

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On therapy

“Yeah, of course I go to therapy. I mean, if anybody is able to possess the financial means to go to therapy, I would recommend they do that. I think it’s a beautiful thing. You know, there’s nothing wrong with working on yourself and dealing with those things with someone who can help you, someone who can talk to you, who’s not your mom or whatever. Who has no bias.”

She’s a workaholic

“I hate spare time,” she says, wrinkling her nose a little. “I just don’t know what I’m doing when I’m not working. I’m like, I don’t know what this [and here the actor waves her hands over her body] is.”

She has a hard time spending on herself

“My mother’s a saver, and so I try to keep that in mind. Then my dad’s like, ‘You know, you can’t spend it when you’re dead,’ kind of thing. I’m somewhere in-between. The hope is to have a career where you can be in a position, financially, to just do things you want to do because you enjoy the work and not have to worry about the other things,” she says. She’s not sure she’s there yet, revealing the weight of duty behind her drive. “But I’m always like, ‘I will always need to work.’ Because if I don’t work then everything can be gone tomorrow.”

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