“We can’t go out to any restaurants or anything but the service and entertainment here is pretty good,” Lopez wrote.
Zoe Kravitz
Zoe Kravitz is as chill as ever. The actress shared a selfie that shows her hanging out with her dog. “Self(ie) quarantine. stay inside kids. one day at a time,” she advised her social media fans.
May we suggest binging her Hulu series, High Fidelity?
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner is looking for movie recs as she bunkers down. She shared a regal selfie from her mansion and asked her followers to send her ideas for fun things to watch—suggestions included “Frozen 2,” “Great Expectations,” and “Outbreak.”
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is at home, battling the urge to eat all her isolation snacks. Stars, they truly are just like us.
The pop star, who announced she was expecting earlier this month, shared a shot that shows her standing in her kitchen, annihilating a jar of pickles.
Madonna
Madonna is making the most of her time in her house and staging karaoke parties. She shared a video of her having fun changing up the lyrics to “Vogue” and yelling them into a hairbrush.
Jenna Dewan
Jenna Dewan is spending time with her kids, who might be having a little more trouble social distancing than she is. She jokingly shared a shot that shows her daughter coping with cabin fever.
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez is teaching everyone to follow hand-washing protocol by participating in the #SafeHands Challenge, which was designed to help people practice good habits to avoid the spread of COVID-19. After she was nominated by Arianna Huffington, she took some time to show her best practices at home and broadcasting the tips on Instagram.
I’m sure Lopez had a blast at whatever after-party she chose to hit up. Here’s hoping she had a kiki with the other MVPs of awards season (in my eyes): Laura Dern, Florence Pugh, and Bong Joon-ho. You know they all wanted Lopez to get nominated for Hustlers.
Let’s take a moment to reflect on one of Lopez’s captions from last night: “Dance the night away, live your life and stay young on the floor.” She quoted her own lyrics, people. I truly cannot stress that enough. The power that she has.
J.Lo also graced our feeds with a full-body moment on her Instagram Stories:
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Of course, Jennifer Lopez’s snub is not the Oscars’s only notable misstep. The Academy conveniently forgot that female directors are a thing and that the actors in Parasite probably contributed to its raging success. At this point, the Oscars’s only saving grace is all of Bong Joon-ho’s wins, Janelle Monae, and Brad Pitt’s tongue. Otherwise, they were a Jennifer-Lopez-less disappointment.
Here’s hoping next year we see a more diverse batch of nominees and maybe even a retroactive Oscar nom for J.Lo. What? It could happen! I’m putting it in the universe.
The defining characteristic of Aerie’s campaigns is their commitment to portraying a group of diverse women as they are: with no retouching, allowing them to present the most authentic version of themselves in their intimates (which is one of the most personal items of clothing, after all). Its spokespeople aren’t called “stars” but rather Role Models. They include the likes of Iskra Lawrence, Aly Raisman, Yara Shahidi—and now Busy Philipps.
If you’ve followed her on Instagram (which, uh, you really should), read her memoir, tuned into her late-night show, or kept up with her two-decade career in Hollywood, you know Philipps has always kept it real. That makes her an obvious fit for the whole #AerieReal message. Philipps says the partnership “is actually such a huge deal for me,” and much bigger than just getting to appear in some ads—it’s about endorsing the brand’s underlying philosophy of representing women and celebrating their diversity. (Aerie stopped retouching its models in 2014, a decision that had an immediate effect not only on its parent company’s sales but also on the advertising industry at large.)
The actress remembers noticing the brand’s #AerieReal efforts a few years ago—she was walking down a street in New York and was impressed by a billboard featuring models of different shapes and sizes. “I remember seeing those [Aerie] ads and feeling like, That is so dope. That is so cool. Those women are beautiful and look incredible,” she tells Glamour. “I loved it. It made me so happy to see.”
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“I’m the mom of two little girls—one daughter, Birdie, is 10 years old now—and I have already seen the influence that magazines and ads and seeing different types of humans and bodies [has] had on her,” Philipps says. “Aerie taking this position of no retouching and being one of the first companies to do so is so powerful and has had such an impact. And hopefully, it’s going to change a lot of industry standards for others.”
Philipps came up in the heyday of the “Nothing comes between me and my Calvins” campaigns of the nineties. And even to this day, she still feels insecure about parts of her body. “My stomach didn’t look like Kate Moss’s stomach when I was a preteen and a teenager,” she says. “It was the thing that has been the hardest for me to overcome, that programming.”
Even as supermodels like Emme started to come up later in the decade and the industry began slowly introducing plus-size bodies into its imagery, she still didn’t see the in-between space she occupied—the not sample-size, not plus-size—represented. “I’ve got hips and a butt and boobs, but where do I see what [something] looks like on me?” she says. That’s where Aerie has been a game changer for online shoppers like her, she adds, “[using] women of all different shapes and sizes, not just the two that we were accustomed to for so many years.”
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On top of appearing in Aerie’s campaigns, Philipps now wears the title of Role Model for the brand. (Other new members of the class: Samira Wiley, Jameela Jamil, Brenna Huckaby, and Molly Burke.) If you know her work, you know the multihyphenate surrounds herself with a lot of incredibly strong women, from Tina Fey (who executive-produces Busy Tonight) to longtime agent Lorrie Bartlett (who became the first African American woman to join the board of a major Hollywood talent agency in January). One of the most important ones, though, has been her mom. “I mean, obviously, a lot of people say their mother, but my mom is an incredibly strong woman and one of my role models,” she says. “That’s why I dedicated my book to her and really why I feel my book was a love letter to my mother and how unwavering she always was in her support and love of me.”
Busy Philipps‘s brand-new memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little, has earned rave reviews from countless friends and fans since its release earlier this month. But on Thursday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, the actor expressed some dismay at the level of coverage a certain excerpt is receiving.
In one section of her memoir, Philipps details the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of James Franco when they both starred on the show Freaks and Geeks as teenagers. Philipps told Cohen that she was disappointed by the media’s incessant coverage of the story, not only because it overshadowed the rest of her book, but also because it put so much attention on a man’s story rather than on the woman who wrote that story. “It really bummed me out because I felt like, I’m a woman in this industry who wrote a very personal book about my experiences in life and in this industry,” she said, “and the headlines were all about a man. I was like, that was my point the whole time.”
The incident in question allegedly happened on the Freaks and Geeks set, during a scene where her character hit Franco’s character in the chest. That action, she wrote, prompted him to scream, “Don’t ever touch me again” at Philipps before allegedly throwing her to the ground. Philipps told Cohen that Franco had apologized and that she hasn’t spoken to the actor in some time. She added that she was particularly surprised by the reaction to the Franco story because she’d actually already told the story on, coincidentally, a previous episode of Watch What Happens Live.
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Philipps also addressed the issue on Instagram earlier this month. “My book is 308 pages, not one paragraph,” she wrote. “The Franco story is used to illustrate a larger point about the way women are treated in this business and in life. There are no ‘allegations’ and no ‘accusations.’ It’s a story that I have been telling for years. James apologized. I accepted.”
In her new memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little,Busy Philipps alleges she was physically assaulted by James Franco—whom she calls a “fucking bully”—on the set of Freaks and Geeks.
According to an excerpt first obtained by Radar Online, Philipps claims that she and Franco were shooting a scene in which the actress says she was directed to “lightly hit Franco in the chest” while delivering a line. In response to the action, she says he broke character and lunged at her.
“He grabbed both my arms and screamed in my face, ‘DON’T EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!’” she claims in the book, per Radar Online. “And he threw me to the ground. Flat on my back. Wind knocked out of me.”
She writes that he then stormed off and the crew was left to help her up. She says she sobbed to costar Linda Cardellini, who reportedly urged her to call her manager. The next day, she says, Franco apologized, after he was reportedly ordered to, but he apparently never received any consequences for his actions, Radar Online reported.
I’ve always been extra, but people haven’t always been kind about my extra-ness. A former male friend once said to me, “You know, people would consider you beautiful if you didn’t talk so much.” And an ex-boyfriend told me, “You laugh too loudly in restaurants, and you always need people to look at you.” I sort of understood what they were saying. I’m a lot. But ever since I was a kid, I’ve thought, Some people will like it, and some people will hate it. Either way, awesome.
Yet, growing up and working in Hollywood, I started to question whether I should try to be something else. Especially at 19, when I was told by producers, studios, and directors that I wasn’t OK the way I was. Like the time I landed a TV role and the makeup artist was instructed to cover up the moles on my face, neck, and body. I was like, Wait a minute, my moles are my skin. How is my skin not good enough for you?
Being told these things hurt, but I said to myself, You’re really talented and you’re really funny. So when social media hit, I loved it, because I felt like I finally had the ability to present my personality to people.
It never even occurred to me to manufacture myself. I was just me.
Once my Instagram Stories started getting really popular, The New Yorker called and wanted to do a piece on me. I was skeptical at first, like, “Are you trolling me?” But the writer said, “Every social platform has an early adopter, and you’re it for Instagram Stories.” I was like, How cool! The attention also came at a time when I was trying to figure out what to do careerwise. A pilot I’d done for NBC didn’t get picked up, and I was devastated—so much so that when Tina Fey’s company reached out about a project, I was like, “Guys. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. I don’t know if I can put myself through this again,” and passed.
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A New Take on Talk“What audiences are responding to on late-night is a personal take on the news,” says Busy Tonight host Busy Philipps. “I can bring that.”Preen By Thornton Bregazzi blouse, skirt. Wolford bodysuit, $150
Then, a week after that New Yorker story came out, I was in the desert for my manager’s fiftieth birthday. I was kind of stoned, and I turned to my husband, Marc, and said, “I know what I have to do. I have to have a late-night talk show.” So I called back Tina Fey’s producing partner, Eric Gurian, and in a crazy twist of events, they came back two weeks later, saying, “E! is looking for a late-night talk show.” When we made that deal, I thought: I willed it to be so.
What audiences are responding to on late-night is a personal take on the news. Working on Busy Tonight is exciting and scary, but I think it’s OK to be scared every once in a while. People want more authenticity; I can bring that. And I still love Instagram. I use it to develop ideas for the show, ask questions, and see what people are responding to.Getting here has been a journey. Sometimes I get asked, “How do you and Michelle Williams maintain such a close friendship when you’re both actors?” It’s because I’m not Michelle. She and I have two wholly different paths. Everybody’s career, and everybody’s success, is different. I stayed self-assured in who I was, and now this is my path. And yeah, it’s pretty fucking cool.
Read on for more outtakes from Glamour assistant editor Samantha Leach’s interview with Philipps:
GLAMOUR: You have such a rabid fan base on Instagram. Has there even a DM, or even a comment you’ve received, that’s made you think, wow, I’ve really touched someone’s life?
BUSY PHILIPPS: Once, a couple years ago, I was complaining about one of my daughters, and this woman responded very angrily at me like, ‘Go fuck yourself, like, at least you can have a child.’ I was like OK, do I respond? But before I could, someone else who follows me responded to her and said, ‘It sounds like you’re having a really hard time in your life. I am sending you love, and I hope everything works out for you.’ And then the [original] woman responded saying, ‘I just found out yesterday my 7th round of IVF failed. This is just a dark moment and I felt like lashing out.’ And the [other] woman responded saying, ‘I totally get it. That must be so hard. Just know that there are people who want to support you online. Sending you a virtual hug.’ It was such a sweet exchange. Sometimes trolls are just trolls. But in that specific instance, it was just so clear this woman was in pain.
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Naked Ambition Philipps’ tattoo reads, “Aced out in her nudes,” a nod to a childhood act of defiance she details in her memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little, out this month. “I was a unique little kid,” she says.
GLAMOUR: You’re known for being so “unfiltered.” How will that translate into late night?
BP: What I’m hoping to build is [a show] for what we see as an underserved audience. People who care about [the news], but also like face masks, and want to know which celebrities were roommates when they first moved to L.A. Like, people don’t know that I only know Jessica Chastain because she and Michelle [Williams] have known each other forever. They did the Williamstown Theater Festival together. Or that Seth Meyers was Ike Barinholtz’s roommate. I think that kind of stuff is interesting. I just have a lot of information like that, because I’ve been working in Hollywood for 20 years. I know a lot of people’s dirt in a fun way. Fun dirt.
GLAMOUR: Since you’ve bared so much of your life online, do you ever get worried people won’t take you seriously on TV?
BP: No! I think people like vulnerability and personal takes. I’m not worried about it. I’m the fucking best. Why wouldn’t they take me seriously?
