Music
She’s not your average California girl.
Gabbriette Bechtel is a model and musician who rose to prominence after becoming the lead singer of the punk band Nasty Cherry.
Bechtel also found success in her personal life when she began dating 1975’s Matty Healy after her brief romance with Taylor Swift.
Keep scrolling to learn more about Bechtel.
She’s from California
Bechtel was born Gabriella Leigh Bechtel on July 28, 1997 in Orange County, California, to a Mexican mother and a Swiss-German father.
Growing up, Bechtel said she faced a lot of bullying because of her ethnicity.
“The majority of students at my high school were beautiful, strictly white, blonde girls, and my sister and I were Hispanic. I’ve been called some pretty horrible things. But then I learned to laugh about it,” she told British Vogue in May 2023.
The “Better Run” singer dreamed of becoming a ballerina early on and spent most of her time in dance theater.
“I was convinced I was going to be a professional ballerina and I still am,” she told the magazine.
After graduating from high school, she then moved to Los Angeles to pursue her ballet dreams, but found herself starring in dance videos on MTV.
She is a musician
Bechtel became the lead singer and songwriter of the punk rock band Nasty Cherry, created by Charli XCX.
The band also includes guitarist Chloe Chaidez, drummer Debbie Knox-Hewson and bassist Georgia Somary.
The women were originally unknowns when they all moved into a house in Los Angeles to make music together for the first time for Netflix’s documentary/reality series “I’m with the Band: Nasty Cherry” , which premiered on the streaming platform in November 2019.
“We are all together in this house during this filming period. “That’s when we stopped working, didn’t see friends, and just focused on the project to make sure it was all worth it,” Bechtel told Harper’s Bazaar in 2019.
“I don’t know if it was very risky, I mean, I think personally and individually there was a lot of risk for everyone. But it really was a ball in the sky. We didn’t know what would come of it.
Nasty Cherry released her debut EP, “Season 1,» in November 2019.
She is a model
While dancing in Blood Orange music videos, modeling agencies took notice of Bechtel.
“I was an unpaid, hard-working model for a very long time,” she told British Vogue.
However, her hard work paid off and she signed with IMG and walked in Diesel’s Fall/Winter 2023 fashion show in February 2023.
Bechtel also starred in campaigns for Savage X Fenty by Rihanna, Bottega Veneta, Skims by Kim Kardashian and Heaven By Marc Jacobs.
Bechtel’s ’90s gothic aesthetic is key to her appeal, and she draws inspiration from the fashion of ’50s dominatrixes and pin-up stars.
“I have a ton of leather jackets and pants – I’ve been trying to find the perfect pair. I finally learned how to dress myself. I used to really dress for other people, but now I just wear what I feel comfortable in,” she told Vogue.
She has a huge following on social media.
At the time of this publication, Bechtel has over 800,000 followers on Instagram and over 400,000 followers on TikTok.
Several of her cooking videos went viral during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading her to create menus for fashion brands.
“Growing up, my family was always cooking,” she told Vogue. “My mother is Mexican and my father is German, so there were all these different cultures colliding in our house… My mother was always modifying a recipe and my father was grilling something or making sauerkraut. »
Bechtel continued, “Family meals were a big part of our lives, we would sit together after school without phones and talk about our day, and the cooking process was always a big part of it. »
The “Music With Your Dad” singer is also working on a cookbook due to the positive response her recipes have received from the public.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen with these videos,” she told Vogue. “Social networks are constantly evolving. It’s so unpredictable. But for now, it’s working.
She is engaged to Matty Healy
A few months after Healy ended his short-lived romance with Swift in June 2023, he began dating Bechtel.
In September 2023, the couple was seen on a PDA-filled stroll around New York City.
The musicians couldn’t keep their hands off each other while waiting at a restaurant.
On June 11, 2024, Bechtel sparked engagement rumors when she showed off a huge diamond ring on that finger on her Instagram stories.
“Marrying the 1975 is very bratty @trumanblack,” she captioned a snap adorned with the “extremely rare” ring, which featured a diamond-encrusted black rock.
Ajay Anand, CEO of Rare Carat, told Page Six Style in June 2024 that Healy appeared to have opted for a rose-cut stone of up to 9 carats.
After Bechtel’s photos surfaced, Healy’s mother, Denise Welch, confirmed that the couple was engaged, saying on her talk show “Loose Women” that she “couldn’t be more thrilled” for them.
“She’s from Los Angeles. She is absolutely beautiful,” Welch exclaimed. “We couldn’t be happier. She is everything I would want in a daughter-in-law.
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