Phoebe Gates Shares Funny Story About Seeing College Roommate ‘Butt A– Naked’

Phoebe Gates has some school tales to inform!

The 22-year-old daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates graduated early from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in human biology in June 2024 — however years earlier than that, she had a really memorable encounter with a roommate that concerned self-tanning and waking as much as an sudden sight.

“Do you bear in mind once we first truly bonded since you have been butt a– bare within the mirror in our dorm room?” Gates requested Sophia Kianni, her former roommate and present enterprise associate, on their new podcast, The Burnouts.

“One night time, I am, like, deep in REM. I actually worth my sleep, however I hear actually out the nook of my ear her sing-song voice, which may be very recognizable,” she continued on the April 1 episode. When Gates opened her eyes, she was greeted by the sight of her roommate “actually simply butt a– bare in entrance of the mirror taking a look at herself.”

In her protection, Kianni — who mentioned her Iranian heritage helps her to tan nicely within the solar, however that she prefers to faux tan to decrease her threat of pores and skin most cancers — thought Gates was “lifeless asleep” on the time, though she admitted her singing was “too loud.”

Though Gates mentioned the picture “is scarred into my retina, and it’ll by no means ever go away,” she additionally thought that Kianni seemed completely nice — and really, it was a bonding expertise.

“That was the second the place I used to be like, ‘Okay the ice has formally damaged, and I like this lady,’ ” she added.

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Kianni, 23, admitted that she was “shocked” by how snug she felt round Gates and mentioned she continued to use self-tan even after realizing her roommate wasn’t asleep.

“I used to be like, that is truly loopy how snug I really feel with this woman. I am normally by no means that particular person,” Kianni mentioned. “I am wall tremendous closed off, and I used to be like, she’s so enjoyable and open.”

Gates went on to clarify that wasn’t the one factor that introduced them collectively.

“We go deep about issues like as a result of we each had had these highschool boyfriends we have damaged up with,” Gates mentioned, including that each of their dad and mom had additionally gone by divorces as nicely.

Gates and Kianni, who’re additionally working to launch their firm Phia, beforehand advised PEOPLE their objective for the podcast isn’t to be “polished” however as a substitute to be sincere about what it is wish to be in your 20s and simply beginning out in your profession.

“Our dream listener is the woman who’s grinding, she’s transferring up the ladder, she’s working arduous, she’s falling down and getting again up,” she added. “And he or she’s listening in her AirPods on the best way to work.”

The first episode of The Burnouts can be found now.