Camila Cabello is lounging backstage in Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, eating spicy Takis corn snacks and trying to figure out what to do with a rare bit of free time. In three hours, 2017’s fastest-rising pop star will be gyrating onstage in knee-high boots and a corset, but at the moment, she’s dressed like a college kid, in an oversize gray sweater and leggings, her glossy brown hair in a bun. It’s a Monday in mid-December, the kind of frigid day in a boring city that makes Cabello, 20, wish she was back home in Miami. But there’s always Netflix. “Do you wanna watch reruns of Friends?” she asks, sounding genuinely excited about the idea.
Read more about Cabello’s rise to stardom here.
