![]() In a 2004 Salon piece about then-presidential candidate Gen. Still, Holmes might believe that her unbroken gaze makes her more powerful and more convincing, in the style of Jobs or other renowned non-blinkers. There’s virtually no information available online oriented toward teaching yourself not to blink-the closest thing to a YouTube tutorial is a meandering video about how to “ Attract Women With Strong Eye Contact,” which probably wouldn’t work on, say, Henry Kissinger. ![]() If Holmes is doing it on purpose, she’s almost certainly self-taught. “If her employees are saying she never blinks, then I’m guessing her physiology is just such that she doesn’t blink as often as other people.” There are no generalizations you can make it all needs to be specific to the person,” Konnikova said. “People have different physiological baselines. In 2019, con artist expert Maria Konnikova told The Cutthat Holmes’s blinking (and lack thereof) doesn’t say much about her level of honesty, despite speculation at the time from outside commentators. ![]() And, like a lot of people, I find her an object of intense curiosity what’s better than watching someone who’s so serious lie so much? And all of the ongoing comments about her mesmerizing, unblinking eyes-typically framed as part of her powerful charisma, the thing that helped her (allegedly) fool Walgreens and bilk millions of dollars out of investors-made me wonder: Is this a unique feature of her biology, or a real thing someone would do on purpose? Is it even possible to not blink for extended periods of time? (And how much time between blinks are we talking about here?) And if she does train that stare on purpose, what could she possibly be after? Like Holmes, I’m an ambitious young woman with huge eyes who’s a hit with older men. (The author of that profile, Ken Auletta, also noted that she “rarely blinks.”) Cheryl Gafner, who worked as a receptionist at Theranos, described the habit in less horny terms in a documentary on Holmes: “She didn’t blink,” Gafner said. John Carreyrou, the journalist who wrote the exposé that made her infamous, called Holmes’s gaze “hypnotic,” adding that “the way she trained her big blue eyes on you without blinking made you feel like the center of the world.” Henry Kissinger called her “ethereal” in a 2014, pre-scandal New Yorker profile. But one of her signature looks has nothing to do with aesthetic choice and is, in fact, quite literal: her well-documented habit of making unbroken eye contact with potential investors, with employees, with journalists during interviews, and, according to a CNBC report, every potential juror in her ongoing criminal fraud case. There’s the “rhymes with Neve Bobs” black turtleneck, and, of course, that hair. Former Theranos CEO and girlboss parable Elizabeth Holmes is a woman with a laundry list of signature looks.
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