As she basked in the sweetness of Bird’s success, Hammer’s up-and-down career hit a new high in 2017 with Call Me by Your Name. “It was completely magical,” she recalls fondly. ![]() When Hammer left to shoot a movie or go on press tours, Chambers came along. While Chambers oversaw the opening of a second Bird location in Dallas, the family split time between Texas and California. Their daughter, Harper, was born in 2014, and son Ford followed just over two years later. The shabby-chic space, which Chambers proudly designed herself, is reminiscent of a Joanna Gaines remodel, with distressed teal wainscoting and cutesy chalkboard menus with sayings like “You are the cup to my cake.” “I really wanted it to be homey,” Chambers explains. Nostalgic locals who remembered her grandmother’s catering lined up to try Bird’s signature Monster cookies (peanut butter oatmeal cookies filled with M&Ms and chocolate chips) and sea salt caramel cupcakes. “It all felt very full circle,” she says. Two years later, Chambers followed in her family’s foodie footsteps and opened Bird bakery in San Antonio, one block from Circle Street where she was born. Traveling with Hammer to shoot movies or go on press tours was “completely magical,” says Chambers, pictured here with her ex-husband at the New York City premiere of The Social Network in 2010. “They were the most in-love, perfect couple,” Chambers’s longtime friend Jenna Marshall Schuler says. Their 2010 wedding took place at the All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, with a star-studded reception at a vineyard in Malibu. “My first instinct was be careful who you are trusting.”Īfter a few months of friendship and nine months of dating, Hammer planned a very Texas proposal and pulled a diamond ring out of his cowboy boot. “Armie was starting to get some publicity and recognition,” Chambers’s sister Catherine Chambers tells me. Following a cameo on Arrested Development and stints on Desperate Housewives and Gossip Girl, he nailed a dream double role as both of the Winklevoss twins in 2010’s The Social Network. ![]() Hammer, four years her junior, was also getting screen time thanks in part to blue-blooded wealth and good looks fit for a Brooks Brothers catalog. At the time, she was an anchor and correspondent at Al Gore’s now-defunct Current TV, covering immigration and environmental issues. ![]() Courtesy Elizabeth ChambersĬhambers met him in 2007 through a mutual friend in Los Angeles. “These are beyond,” she says, taking a bite.Ĭhambers (center) with (from left) her mother, grandmother, father, and younger sister Catherine. “It’s not going to help me, and it’s not going to help anyone around me.” Chambers pours syrup on our pancakes. “The last thing I ever want to do is let someone else’s actions, which have nothing to do with me, make me angry,” she says. The 40-year-old bakery founder and CEO is writing a cookbook, working on a TV show, and dating a new man who is helping heal “my body, my heart, and my mind.” Call her by her own name: Elizabeth Chambers. The man she married is not who she is, and his purported appetites-true or not-certainly don’t define her. “You stand up for what you deserve, for what you know is right.” With the table set, it becomes increasingly clear she is ready to dish about, in her words, “the events.” “I’m in love,” she confides.Ĭhambers tells me she has exited her Tell Me Lies era, referencing Hulu’s new streamer about a deeply toxic relationship, and is stepping into a new one where “I’m not taking any bullshit from anyone,” she says. Chambers looks ready for the runway in full glam, but there’s something else making her glow aside from the makeup. ![]() “Thanks, lovely!” she tells our waiter, flashing a smile as he sets down a heaping plate of lemon-blueberry ricotta pancakes. Even among the glitterati, Chambers stands out in lace-up Frame heels, a cranberry Ganni minidress, and a gold initial- E Celine necklace. On a chilly morning in November, Chambers and I meet at the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge, where Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump dined a few weeks earlier. “Yeah, welcome to my life,” Chambers says now. In 2020, her decade-long marriage to actor Armie Hammer ended and, well, let’s just say it, six months later he was called out for having cannibalistic fetishes, among a host of other allegations. This is not how Elizabeth Chambers thought it would work out.
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