Empire was pre-empted this week by the World Series. Whether you're a Mets fan or a Royals fan, on this we can agree: Everybody's a fan of Cookie Lyon. So this week, we went in search of someone who could tell us what it's like to walk in Cookie's shoes. And dresses. And leopard print fedoras. Jazmine Hughes wrote an essay for Cosmopolitan about how dressing like Cookie for a week made her feel like a badass, so we invited her over to talk about the experience.

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Jazmine admits that wearing leather shirts kept her 'schvitzing' all day. (FOX/Kathleen Kamphausen)

Jazmine Hughes says she had "residual Cookie attitude" after her week of dressing like the Empire star. (FOX/Kathleen Kamphausen)