At a pickleball court straddling SoHo and the West Village, Brooks Nader is splayed out on the ground, doing splits for the camera. It’s a brisk early autumn afternoon — and though she’s wearing little more than a sheer bodysuit, wraparound Balenciaga sunglasses, and stiletto boots, Nader appears entirely unbothered by the elements. Beatific, even. After all, this is exactly where the model, reality star, and newly minted tabloid darling always envisioned she’d end up.

“My mom goes, ‘I’ll never forget [when] you were 6 years old, you said, ‘We have to go to Dillard’s to look at heels,’” Nader recalls. When her mother asked why, exactly, she needed heels, Nader was unequivocal: “I said, ‘Because I need to pick out my shoes for my first red carpet. I want everyone to see my shoes when I ste

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