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Bella Hadid Says Victoria's Secret Never Made Her Feel ‘Powerful’


It’s not all that rare to see Bella Hadid, one of the highest paid models of her generation, in lingerie. But at the Vogue Fashion Festival in Paris on Friday, she admitted that she never felt comfortable until walking in Rihanna’s epic Savage x Fenty show this September. “That was the first time on a runway that I felt really sexy. Because when I first did Fenty, I was doing other lingerie shows and I never felt powerful on a runway, like, in my underwear,” she said per WWD.

Hadid, who has walked the runway for Victoria’s Secret three times, shared that she’s struggled with mental health issues for years. “For a while I just didn’t want to talk about it, and I’ve gone through a lot in the past few years with my health,” she said. “I feel guilty for being able to live this incredible life, have the opportunities that I do, but somehow still be depressed. It doesn’t make sense.”

Her point is powerful and important: Mental health issues like depression and anxiety don’t discriminate. Success doesn’t make you immune.

“I would cry every single morning, I would cry during my lunch breaks, I would cry before I slept. I was very emotionally unstable for a while when I was working 14-hour days for four months straight as an 18-year-old,” she said. “I think I just wanted to breathe a little bit. And so it kind of put me in a spiral.”

Last month, in honor of World Mental Health Day, Hadid alluded to struggling with her mental health to her followers on Instagram. “Being kind and protective to yourself and your energy is something I’ve learned to be helpful. When the world feels like it is collapsing around you, you are allowed to ask for help,” she wrote. “You do not have to deal w/ your mental state alone.”

At the panel on Friday, the 23-year-old model shared that she’s in a better place—and that she wants to help destigmatize mental health issues. “I feel like I would be doing a disservice to myself if I didn’t speak about something such as mental health, because that’s pretty much what I’ve been going through for the past five years very intensely,” she said. “Now we’re here and we’re good, but it took a while.”



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Here’s How Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Reportedly Feel About Selena Gomez’s New Music


Selena Gomez dropped two new songs this week—“Lose You to Love Me” and “Look at Her Now”—and fans are convinced both address the pop star’s ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber.

The evidence is in the lyrics. On the former song, Gomez muses, “In two months, you replaced us / Like it was easy / Made me think I deserved it / In the thick of healing.” (Bieber became engaged to Hailey Baldwin in summer 2018, a mere few months after ending his relationship with Gomez for good.) The latter song, meanwhile, speaks in generalities but illustrates the process of finding yourself again after enduring a breakup. “Of course she was sad / But now she’s glad she dodged a bullet,” she sings.

Gomez, for her part, hasn’t mentioned Justin Bieber or Hailey Baldwin by name in recent interviews about the new music. We’ll probably never know for sure the inspiration behind the songs⁠—but regardless, Bieber and Baldwin aren’t sweating the chatter.

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“Of course Justin and Hailey have heard Selena’s new song and they are both trying to not give any reaction to her lyrics referencing Justin,” a source reveals to E! News. “It isn’t ideal for Hailey, but she understands the creative process of writing music and that Justin had a past.”

The source continues, “Justin has completely moved on from that chapter of his life and understands that Selena is allowed to reflect on the past in her own way. Justin and Hailey both want Selena to be happy and in a good place and aren’t phased by it.”

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This is certainly in line with how Baldwin reacted to fans thinking she shaded Gomez on Instagram after the new music dropped. The model posted a screen shot of the Summer Walker song “I’ll Kill You” to her IG Story the same day Gomez released “Lose You to Love Me,” which, of course, fans read into. But Baldwin shut this down quickly. “Please stop with this nonsense. There is no ‘response.’ This is complete BS,” she wrote in a now deleted comment.

Gomez also seemingly addressed this drama on Instagram Live. “I am so grateful for the response of the song. However, I will never stand for women tearing other women down,” she said. “So please be kind to everyone.”





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Taylor Swift Gets Candid About Politics, Privilege, and How the Pop Industry Can Feel Like 'The Hunger Games'


Taylor Swift sat down with the Guardian for her first major U.K. interview in years, and over the course of the conversation, she opened up about pretty much everything fans have wanted to ask her over the last several years. Swift went into detail about her political views and why it took her so long to speak out about them; she explained why she’s been so protective of her relationship with actor Joe Alwyn; and she even shared her thoughts on the pop music industry and how it can feel like The Hunger Games sometimes.

During the interview, Swift focuses a lot on 2016—a rough year for her, during which she had some public feuds with Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. She had previously said in interviews that “an artist fails when they lose their self-awareness,” and she’s asked if she feels she’d made the same mistake during her career.

“I definitely think that sometimes you don’t realize how you’re being perceived,” she said. “Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators. And you can really lose focus of the fact that that’s how it feels because that’s how a lot of stan [fan] Twitter and tabloids and blogs make it seem – the overanalyzing of everything makes it feel really intense.”

From there on, Swift launches into even more details about aspects of her career and her time in public view. The entire piece is full of nuance, and you can read it here. In the meantime, here’s what we learned about Swift:

Why she’s protective of her relationship with Joe Alywn:“I’ve learned that if I do [talk about the relationship], people think it’s up for discussion, and our relationship isn’t up for discussion,” she said. “If you and I were having a glass of wine right now, we’d be talking about it—but it’s just that it goes out into the world. That’s where the boundary is, and that’s where my life has become manageable. I really want to keep it feeling manageable.”

How she overcome one of her toughest years:“You can either stand there and let the wave crash into you, and you can try as hard as you can to fight something that’s more powerful and bigger than you… Or you can dive under the water, hold your breath, wait for it to pass and while you’re down there, try to learn something. Why was I in that part of the ocean? There were clearly signs that said: Rip tide! Undertow! Don’t swim! There are no lifeguards!”

“Why was I there? Why was I trusting people I trusted?” she said. “Why was I letting people into my life the way I was letting them in? What was I doing that caused this?”

What she’s learned about her own privilege:Swift said that she’s come to understand “a lot about how my privilege allowed me to not have to learn about white privilege. I didn’t know about it as a kid, and that is privilege itself, you know? And that’s something that I’m still trying to educate myself on every day. How can I see where people are coming from, and understand the pain that comes with the history of our world?”

Why she sued radio DJ David Mueller, who touched her ass at a meet-and–greet event.“Having dealt with a few of them, narcissists basically subscribe to a belief system that they should be able to do and say whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want to,” she said. “And if we—as anyone else in the world, but specifically women—react to that, well, we’re not allowed to. We’re not allowed to have a reaction to their actions.”



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How Aging Makes Me Feel More Beautiful


Every time I see my mom, she tells me, “Dye your hair. You look like an aging hippie.”

I’m 51 and while I fear I’m aging out of a lot of things—the ability to run miles and miles without getting injured, for one—I’m not aging out of looks. There’s a photograph of the writer Susan Sontag taken at 58. She’s lying back, holding her elbow up with her hand resting on her head. Sontag was known for her political theories, but also for the thick swath of gray hair right in front, while the rest was dark brown. In the photo, you can see the gray and also the loosening of the skin under her eyes. She looks strong and calm. The picture was taken by Annie Leibovitz, who was her lover.

My friend Allison is also 51. In high school, she was on the soccer team and the dance drill team. She was fit and blond and had her pick of the boys. She’s still fit and blond, but on top of her monthly touchups at $120 each, she spends $300 and three hours every month to upkeep her roots. She’s single now and complains that pickings are slim.

“When I was young, I walked into a room and people noticed,” she says. “Not anymore.”

I never walked into a room that way. If I wanted attention—and I did—I had to work a lot harder. I had to say something funny, so I got good at being a clown.

I was never pretty. My mom would disagree, but they had mirrors in high school. I saw my puffy cheeks, puffy body, and puffy hair. I wasn’t fat, but I felt bulky and spent way too much time switching out my jeans for different jeans before I left the house in the morning. They had mirrors in college too. When I could see I wasn’t one of the pretty girls, I opted out and went for ugly. I wore black rimmed glasses way too big for my face. I wore men’s boxers, T-shirts, and suit vests. I was funny and young, so I could find men and women to sleep with, but beauty wasn’t my social capital.

My best friend in college, Meredith, another sunny blond, was invited to practically every fraternity formal. Once, without showering or putting on makeup, Meredith threw on a white flapper dress and went to a formal. I remember when one of her dates stopped us at a party. He said, “Mere, your friend is the wackiest girl in America.”

I wish looks didn’t matter to me then, when I pretended not to care. I wish looks didn’t matter to me now, when I know other things matter more. But they do.

Now, I look older. On Mother’s Day, my wife, Vicky, and I went to dinner. Vicky is two months older than I am. We sat side-by-side in the booth, holding hands. We ordered a beer to share. The waiter came to our table with the beer and poured two glasses, then slid the glass with slightly more beer to me and said, “The mother gets more.”

Vicky laughed and said, “Oh, no, no, that’s crazy. We’re partners.”

The waiter made no indication that what he said might be offensive. He went on to explain that I looked more mature.

Vicky said, “It’s the hair.”

“No,” he said. “It’s the face.”

Me with my wife, Vicky

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The first time this happened, we were probably 42. A woman, stumbling drunk at a food and wine festival, asked if Vicky was my daughter. I wanted to throw her mojito in her face. A few years later in Chile, our driver asked Vicky if she’d have a drink with him. She told him we were together, and he said he thought I was her mother.



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11 Best Face Mists That Don’t Feel Like a Waste of Money


There are two types of people in this world: those who swear by face mists and others who brush them off as overpriced bottles of water. Ask anyone in the first group and they’ll swear by the healing powers of a good thermal water or the therapeutic effects of a spritz infused with essential oils. And don’t even get them started on rose water. Most people probably fit into the second group, though—many even within the halls of Glamour. Our hypothesis? They just haven’t found their perfect match. So we gathered dozens of face sprays and put them in the hands of our staffers to get their honest opinions on which they deem to be the most worthy of their money. Because while there are plenty of options out there that probably are a scam, these face mists are so much more than that.



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The Sweet Way Kit Harington Made Rose Leslie Feel Comfortable During Their 'Game of Thrones' Sex Scenes


Rose Leslie and Kit Harington have Game of Thrones to thank not only for the most high-profile roles of their careers but also for their relationship. The couple, who married in Scotland last summer, actually met while filming the hit HBO show.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Leslie’s Ygritte, a wildling who Harington’s Jon Snow met after he joined the Night’s Watch at The Wall—but the actress’s mark on the show lingers on via one of its most famous lines: “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”

Well that—and their characters’ steamy sex scene in a cave. Now, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, she reveals how her now-husband made filming those scenes more comfortable for her.

Leslie recalls that only necessary personnel were on set that day and that she “felt very safe,” which Harington played a huge role in.

“[Harington] was, as ever, a gentleman, and he made sure that I was comfortable where he was going to be positioned, and he would always then turn around when they called cut, and the lovely wardrobe dailies would come in with a dressing gown, and then I would be covered. And only then would notes be spoken to us from the director,” she said. “But he was very considerate and made sure as much as possible that I didn’t feel awkward standing in front of people with your tits out. So it’s never going to be an enjoyable day, it’s always going to be an awkward one, but he and the rest of the crew were incredibly considerate, and it’s a conversation that we most certainly had in terms of where the boundaries lay.”

And as for that iconic line? Leslie loves being associated with it—but she and Harington don’t go around saying it to each other at home. “I feel incredibly privileged to have a catchphrase whereby, especially for the last few years, it’s been around me,” she says. “How lucky for any actor to walk away from a television show and have a catchphrase, but I’m sure many people find it the most irritating thing in the world, but there are still some people who find it fairly endearing. I think between he and I, no, we never say it to one another for obvious reasons—and not just ’cause it’s corny.”

Speaking of knowing nothing, we still have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen in the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones—even the cast, Leslie included, doesn’t. But luckily there’s not much longer to wait: It’ll premiere Sunday (April 14) at 9 P.M. ET on HBO.



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