Lauren Sanchez says she’s 20 percent happier and reveals she’d ‘have a baby tomorrow’ with Jeff Bezos

Lauren Sanchez Bezos insists she is ’20 percent happier’ than the average person and said she would ‘have a baby tomorrow’ with her husband Jeff Bezos.

The 56-year-old opened up about her daily life with her new husband – who is ranked the third wealthiest man in the world at a net worth of roughly $250 billion – during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times. 

The Times described the lavish lifestyle of the former Good Day LA co-anchor as she flaunts her wealth across the world following last year’s marriage to the Amazon founder.

Sanchez Bezos said she has always had a happy demeanor, claiming that even before she married Bezos, she liked to think she was 20 percent happier than the average person.

Even when she was 18, crashing a car in a cousin’s garage after she didn’t get her dream job as a Southwest Airlines flight attendant because she was a few pounds over the weight limit, Sanchez Bezos said she was still basically happy.

‘If baseline is here,’ she said, holding her hand at about her chest, ‘I’m up here,’ she said, with her other hand above her head. 

The actress also shared her love of children, telling The Times: ‘I would have a baby tomorrow.’

A spokeswoman later had to call the outlet to clarify that she was not pregnant, The Times reports. 

The wide-ranging interview also dealt with Sanchez Bezos’ daily life in the upscale private Miami island Indian Creek, which is often referred to as ‘Billionaire Bunker.’

She said she and her new husband begin each day by listing 10 things they are grateful for – with the added twist that they cannot repeat what they named the day before.

From there, Sanchez Bezos said she and her husband drink their morning coffee in a sunroom – hers from a mug that reads ‘Woke Up Sexy As Hell Again,’ and his from a mug she got him that spells ‘HUNK’ in symbols from the periodic table – as they watch the sunrise.

The couple then go on to play pickleball, and six days a week, they also work out for an hour with a personal trainer.

With everything they do, Sanchez Bezos said, they do it together.

‘I talk about everything with him,’ she said of her husband. ‘Everything! Jeff is my best friend and I don’t say that lightly.’ 

She relies on his advice for nearly everything, including when she published her second children’s book, The Fly Who Flew Under the Sea, about Flynn, a dyslexic fly whose wrong turn leads to an undersea adventure.

Bezos edited the book, suggesting a change to the illustrated submarine on the cover, advice Sanchez Bezos said she decided to take.

‘He said it should be fantastical, not realistic,’ she said. ‘Sometimes I listen. Sometimes I don’t.’

Bezos also relies on his new wife, and even appointed her vice chair at Bezos Earth Fund to take on ecological causes.

In that role, she reads technical papers about the cost of nuclear and geothermal power, and invests in technological advances she thinks could improve the world – including satellite systems to detect wildfires, deploying AI tools to indigenous tribes for reforestation efforts and to Alaskan fishermen to monitor illegal fishing. 

This summer, Sanchez Bezos, with the Earth Fund, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild organization will also announce a joint commitment to save species near extinction.

But that is not the only cause the couple have taken up.

In 2021, they started the Bezos Courage and Civility Award, giving Jose Andres, Dolly Parton and Van Jones each $100 million to grant to charities and nonprofits of their choosing.

Sanchez Bezos’ longtime friend Eva Longoria was also later given $50 million for similar work, and more recently, smaller, targeted grants have included $5 million to Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist known for criticizing social media’s effect on the youth.

The couple is also now set to foot the bill for this year’s Met Gala.

Yet Sanchez Bezos said what the world sees of her life is just five percent of it.

She noted that their star-studded wedding – which included A-listers like DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Tom Brady, and Kim Kardashian – also included toasts from their children.

Also in attendance, Sanchez Bezos said, were Bezos’ friends from high school, whom nobody had bothered to photograph.

‘They’re our friends,’ she bemoaned. ‘And you did not see one picture come out of that wedding!’