Her first major film role came the same year, as an Upper East Side girl trying to fit in with the black hip-hop crowd, in James Toback's drama Black and White, opposite Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Brooke Shields and Elijah Wood. Phillips made her film debut in a brief role of the independent drama Sugar Town (1999). Upon its release, I'd Rather Eat Glass received mixed reviews from music critics, mostly criticising the work for being immature, but her musical style has been positively compared to Natalie Imbruglia or Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo. Phillips collaborated with a number of artists when writing songs for the album, including Eric Bazilian, Greg Wells, Dave Bassett, Howard Jones and Jill Cunniff. The album's title refers to her past as a fashion model, saying she would "rather eat glass" than go back to modeling. It was released on May 11, 1999, by Almo Sounds, and remains her only full-length music release to date. She has expressed her distaste for the modeling world, and once stated in an interview: "It was like, I wanted to go swimming in the ocean, but I was jumping up and down in a puddle." Īfter signing a record deal at age 17, Phillips began working on her debut album I'd Rather Eat Glass, produced by Jerry Harrison. The campaigns were widely condemned as eerily pedophilic. Phillips also became an image model for Calvin Klein and appeared in several advertising campaigns in which adolescents showed white underwear. Shortly thereafter, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia. Phillips was on the cover of Interview magazine when she was 13. At 17, following the death of her friend, the 20-year-old Manhattan socialite Davide Sorrenti, due to a heroin overdose, her father sent her into rehab. Growing up, she became somewhat of a local tabloids' fixture due to her late-night persona and association with other socialites like sisters Paris and Nicky Hilton. At 15, she reportedly lost her virginity to singer Evan Dando. On this period of her life, she remarked: "If you were 14 years old and able to live on your own in an apartment in New York City, and you got invited to all these clubs, and you got a bank account and you had a car service you could call so that you could go wherever you wanted. Once described by The Observer as a "wild child", she experienced a rebellious childhood in New York City, where she used to party, drink and take drugs, such as cocaine, ecstasy, and heroin. Īccording to Waïte, when Phillips was 13 years old, her half-sister Mackenzie informed Bijou of her (Mackenzie's) ten-year incestuous relationship with their father, and the information had a devastating effect on Bijou's teenage years, stripping her of her innocence and leaving her "wary of father." Īt 14, Phillips left school and moved into her own apartment with a housekeeper, just off Fifth Avenue. Her father won custody when she was in third grade, and she moved with him to Lloyd Harbor, a village of the Town of Huntington, Long Island. She lived there on and off, making extended visits with her parents, who had both acquired houses in the area. After her parents split up, both were found unfit to have custody of Bijou and she was placed in foster care with a family in Bolton Landing, New York. She is the youngest of Phillips's children she has one brother, Tamerlane, and three half-siblings ( Mackenzie, Jeffrey, and Chynna). She was named for the song "My Petite Bijou" by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ( bijou means ' jewel' in French).
Phillips was born on April 1, 1980, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is the daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and his third wife, Geneviève Waïte, a South African model, artist, and actress.
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From 2010 to 2013, she played the recurring role of Lucy Carlyle on the television series Raising Hope. Phillips made her singing debut with I'd Rather Eat Glass (1999), and since her first major film appearance in Black and White (1999), she has acted in Almost Famous (2000), Bully (2001), The Door in the Floor (2004), Hostel: Part II (2007), and Choke (2008). The daughter of musician John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, she began her career as a model.
Bijou Lilly Phillips Masterson (born April 1, 1980) is an American actress, model and singer.
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