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Lana Condor, Beanie Feldstein, and More Trailblazers Are Your New #AerieREAL Role Models


Aerie has announced the new class of #AerieREAL Role Models, and it’s quite the impressive bunch. Joining current role models like Iskra Lawrence and Aly Raisman are actors Lana Condor, Beanie Feldstein, Ali Stroker, and Hari Nef; scientist Keiana Cave, Smile on Me founder Dre Thomas, DJ and wellness advocate Tiff McFierce, and sustainability activist Manuela Barón.

The #AerieREAL Role Models, for those who don’t know, are a crop of women whom Aerie believes are leading conversations and pushing the needle forward on topics like inclusivity, women’s empowerment, wellness, and sustainability. Each year the Role Models participate in a completely urnetouched photo shoot, a hallmark of AerieREAL’s body-positive message. The new pics are stunning, naturally, and powerful.

Sadly, this isn’t the norm yet for the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries. Retouching and superficiality are still very much things in Hollywood, but hopefully #AerieREAL and other similar efforts can help make pop culture more inclusive. Below, we talk to two of the new Role Models⁠—Feldstein and Condor—about the campaign, beauty standards, and so much more.

Glamour: How did you feel when#AerieREAL first approached you about becoming a Role Model?

Beanie Feldstein: I was just so excited because it feels like such an incredible fit. I was really inspired by it and always so impressed and in awe of the fact that they gave up retouching. I thought that was so important. I think in everything I do, whether it’s onscreen or off-screen, I want to be a part of things that feel right to me and feel morally in line with who I am. Aerie is a true celebration of every woman, every body type.

Lana Condor: It was so exciting because I think all of these women are so accomplished because they are being themselves. It takes a lot of courage to just to be yourself and show it to the world.

Lana Condor

Lana Condor

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What was the photo shoot like?

Feldstein: I was just so excited to be with this group of women and look around and be like, “That looks incredible on you.”

Condor: It was just kind of like a big party. We were just dancing, and it felt like a really fun girls’ party. It’s so rare to find a group of girls who can all have a great time together and bond so quickly without knowing each other before, so it was really fun.



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Beanie Feldstein, MJ Rodriguez, and Britney Young Are Redefining What It Means to Be Leading Ladies


Actors Beanie Feldstein, Britney Young, and MJ Rodriguez rocked the big and small screens this year in awe-inspiring ways. You probably recognize Feldstein best from the summer movie Booksmart. Meanwhile, Rodriguez brought tears to your eyes as Blanca on FX’s Pose. And Young has been killing it on GLOW for three seasons now.

These performances couldn’t be more different, but they’ve all had similar effects on viewers: We were captivated and transformed by them. Credit for that goes to Feldstein, Rodriguez, and Young, who have changed the landscape for women in Hollywood just by being themselves. They’ve each pushed the needle forward for representation in various ways—be it race, gender, sexual orientation, size. At Glamour’s Women of the Year Summit, these three women got together and talked about how they’re disrupting the system.

Growing up, Rodriguez, Feldstein, and Young didn’t really see themselves reflected on screen. “There wasn’t a lot of representation for young African American trans women,” Rodriguez told Vogue senior culture editor Estelle Tang, who was moderating their panel at the summit. “But I found comfort in watching shows like Will & Grace and Noah’s Arc. It made me feel included at a young age.”

Young, meanwhile, didn’t see good representation for either plus-size women or bi-racial people. “There were larger people on film and TV, but they were never shown in a positive light” she said. “They were always the bully, the prison guard. I never saw a nice plus-size girl who wasn’t being mean to people. [Bi-racial representation] was never shown in a positive light, as well.”

Feldstein had a similar experience growing up. People constantly told her she’d grow up to play Tracy Turnblad on Hairspray, but that role never interested in her. She wanted to be seen for all her complexities and nuances. , “[Tracy] is not who I am. I’m so many other things, let me show you all the other roles I can play,” she said. “Thank God things changed as I got older, and we have so much room for growth.”

We do have room for growth, but these three women are playing a huge part in moving things along. They’re using their positions of fame and power to impact the sets and projects they work on. Feldstein says she learned a lot from her Lady Bird co-star Saoirse Ronan on how to set the tone of a set. “Stepping into slightly bigger roles [like Monica Lewinsky in American Crime Story, her next project] at the center of a story, I think, ‘What would Saoirse do?’ To be the center of a story and hold that space is intimidating, but watching her do it was [inspirational].”

Beanie Feldstein, Britney Young, and MJ Rodriguez at Glamour‘s 2019 Women of the Year Summit.  

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Beanie Feldstein Wore Her Prom Dress on the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards Red Carpet


The red carpet at Sunday night’s 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards featured a slew of spectacular looks. One dress on the carpet, however, came from a somewhat unexpected source. Pulling an extreme power move, Lady Bird star Beanie Feldstein decided to forgo a conventional designer gown in favor of her high school prom dress.

“I put it on and it fit, surprisingly maybe better than it did in high school,” she told The Cut. “I looked at myself, and I was like, WHAT!? and my mom and her best friend were just laughing so hard, like, ‘You have to wear it! There’s just no other dress that would be better.’”

Indeed, Feldstein looked extremely elegant in the black Kay Unger gown on the red carpet—a dress that, to be honest, didn’t look a bit out of place among, say, costar Saoirse Ronan’s pink Louis Vuitton gown or Danielle Brooks’’ showstopping sequined Marc Bouwer ensemble.

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Feldstein told The Cut that the prom dress felt especially fitting for the Screen Actors Guild Awards—the first time she’ll attend an awards show as a nominee (Lady Bird received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture)—due to her character Julie’s storyline in the film. “It’s just a gorgeous dress, and I love how my character’s story ends at the prom,” she said. “So like, for the first time I’m going to an awards show as a nominee with the cast, it’s like, ‘You gotta wear your prom dress, girl, and honor Julie.’”



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