Vanderpump Rules‘ Brittany Cartwright tied the knot with boyfriend Jax Taylor on Saturday, June 29. According to People, the two got married in a gorgeous fairy tale-themed ceremony at Kentucky Castle in Versailles, Kentucky, near Lexington. (Kentucky being, of course, the state Cartwright is famously from.)
Among the 240 guests at the wedding, reports People, were friends, family—and, of course, cast members of Vanderpump Rules as well as other Bravo shows, like Shep Rose from Southern Charm and Lauren Wirkus and Stephen McGee from Summer House.
The ceremony took place outdoors in the courtyard of the castle under a bright blue sky, with flowers in shades of white and off-white decorating the area. Taylor sweetly left a place for his late father in the front row of the guests’ seats. “My dad, always early. ??” he captioned the Instagram.
*NSYNC’s Lance Bass officiated (he’s also Taylor’s business partner) in place of Lisa Vanderpump, who was unable to due to her mother’s sudden passing—but managed to show up for the wedding and surprise the newlyweds on their big day, according to People. Cartwright’s dad also gave a blessing and prayed during the ceremony.
“I wanted to make sure that even though we weren’t having a pastor officiate the wedding that my religion was still very much involved, and Jax’s as well,” the bride told People.
According to E!, Cartwright wore a custom Netta BenShabu dress she purchased at L.A.’s Kinsley James Bridal (you can see the gown here), which transformed not into only a reception dress, but a third look during the evening as well. Hairstylist Bradley Leake gave Cartwright’s hair waves, and the bride opted for a natural makeup look by her MUA Jared Lipscomb. Taylor, for his part, wore an elegant Jack Taylor tux, the outlet reports.
People also has details on the wedding party: Scheana Shay, Ariana Madix, Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, and Lala Kent served as bridesmaids and Katie Maloney-Schwartz as matron of honor—all wearing blue Wtoo by Waters dresses (they also all received Victoria’s Secret goodie bags). Taylor had 13 groomsmen, with Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz as best men (they all received Givenchy sunglasses by Trendsavvy).
After the reception, according to People, everyone roamed the grounds of the castle for a bit, where a pool was lit with floating castles. Canapés included crab cakes and Kentucky hot browns (a local speciality), and signature cocktails—a tequila-based drink and a bourbon-and-blueberry one—served as aperitifs. After that intermission came dinner in the greenhouse, decked out in sunflowers, and then a dance party in the ballroom with late-night snacks from Hooters (where Cartwright was working when she met Taylor in Vegas).
“I don’t know if people know or realize that we—Katie, Stassi, and I—had full creative control,” Kristen says. “Not only over using the wine and the wine’s taste, but the actual label. We created that completely from scratch on our own.”
“I think people are often very surprised by how good it is,” Katie adds. “And that was very important to us because we don’t drink shitty wine.”
“Well, we used to,” Stassi says.
So considering this wine is meant to be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I wanted Katie, Kristen, and Stassi to tell me their tips and tricks for all-day drinking—and the next day hangover. See their advice, below.
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Plan the right environment.
A theme is always a good idea for a summer party, Kristen advises, but make sure you schedule an end time for the event. “I think what’s really important is that you have a cutoff time, if you’re having people over, for your guests to leave so you can unwind and drink wine alone with your TV,” Kristen explains. “That’s really important.”
She suggests wine pong as an activity, though Katie and Stassi aren’t big on drinking games with their rosé. “I just need to enjoy my wine,” Stassi says. “Yeah,” Katie adds, “I guess my only game would be, like, drink this glass of wine before the ice melts.”
Don’t stray from the rosé—and eat lots of carbs.
But if this wine is meant to be consumed all day long, how does you keep from going too hard too soon? “Stick to the same thing,” Stassi says. “If you’re gonna commit to day drinking it’s best to drink the same thing, [so we wanted] a rosé that’s really easy that people aren’t going to get sick of.”
“Also, you don’t have to be ashamed of adding a little club soda to make a little spritzer,” Katie says. Adds Kristen, “We’re not against icing your wine either!”
The women also advise adding water and food into the equation, especially “carbs” or their favorite, Taco Bell. (Speaking of which, they recommend pairing Potion Two with a Doritos Loco Taco, Chalupa Supreme, or “anything with the nacho cheese.”)
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Maybeee don’t drink more than two and a half bottles.
The three famously have alter egos—The Dark Passenger, Crazy Kristen, and Tequila Katie—that emerge after one too many drinks. They’re the kind of creatures you might buy a crystal to ward yourself against: They throw their phone on the ground and cry because their boyfriend won’t come to bed. They fall dramatically in the middle of a hotel lobby. They send rage texts from an airline’s economy seat.
When I ask how much rosé it’d take to bring these … powerful beings to the forefront, the women agree it’s probably around two and a half bottles. “It depends on if you’re in the sun all day, because if you are, the Dark Passenger, Tequila Katie, and Crazy Kristen come out a lot quicker with a minimal amount of alcohol,” Stassi says.
“I would say it’s like waking up in the morning in a really great mood, and you’re like, ‘Yeah, let’s get this!’ You know? You have a little breakfast, and you’re like I’m gonna have a little beverage cocktail. Then you’re going to hang out by the pool all day with your friends and drink. And then around, like, 6:00 p.m. that’s when things get dark,” Katie says.
Adds Kristen, “I don’t blame that on alcohol, I blame that on dehydration. What I like about our wine is that it doesn’t bring out crazy Kristen.”
The cast of Vanderpump Rules—Bravo’s hit reality series about a group of sometimes-servers and bartenders in Los Angeles—will fight about anything: birthday parties, cheating accusations, rap lyrics, one another’s physiques, couch cushions, pasta. (Though to be fair, that one probably wasn’t about the pasta.) During the course of seven seasons, this group has hooked up and broken up, friendships have started and stopped, and they’ve seldom seen eye-to-eye on anything. Except their love of Brittany Cartwright, the Kentucky-born fiancé of reality TV’s reigning bad boy Jax Taylor.
With her Southern drawl and overwhelmingly accepting disposition, Brittany has been a breath of fresh air for the long-running series filled with characters once described as “pieces of shit” by one of its own leading ladies. Since making her first fresh-from-the-farm appearance in 2015, Cartwright has managed to swoop in and elicit a softer side of the cast’s queen-bee clique Stassi Schroeder, Katie Maloney, and Kristen Doute, women who refer to themselves as the Witches of WeHo. She made impetuous, hard-drinking, conscience-free British DJ James Kennedy feel remorse after he made her cry. She seamlessly charmed the show’s matriarch, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump who owns and operates SUR, the restaurant that serves as the series’ central backdrop.
The 29-year-old’s biggest hat trick, however, was pulling a feat few others could have managed: Taming Jax, a man who inspired headlines like “The Villain of Vanderpump Rules” thanks to his knack for lying, pot-stirring, cheating, and drunkenly stealing sunglasses while on vacation on Hawaii, which landed him a year’s probation.
The point is, Cartwright has become the unexpected moral center of Vanderpump Rules. But when I tell her as much when she arrived at the Glamour office, she demures. “I think they all thought I was just a little girl wanting fame or following them around [at the beginning]. I understand. I know what it’s like to have somebody new come around—you don’t know if you can trust them at first. But once they got to know me and realized who I was … what can I say? I try to be myself, and I take their friendships very seriously.”
It seems impossible now that the cast would ever doubt Brittany’s motives, but given her origin story with the show, it’s not too hard to see how they might have. As Brittany tells it, she and Jax first met in Las Vegas after her friend, a fan of the show, saw cast-member Maloney at a bar and asked for a photo. From there, they started taking shots when Jax walked up. “I found out later he was on a date with a girl that night. She walks away, and he comes up to me and gets my number.”
Brittany admits she thought he was hot, but she was fresh out of a relationship and figured nothing would come of it, especially given his role in the reality TV hierarchy. (“You just hear all of the rumors about everything.”) But then he texted her “good morning beautiful” the next day and asked to see her. They spent the rest of their time in Vegas together. “He told me after the first night we met that he wanted me to move to L.A.,” she says. She flew home to Kentucky instead, but they talked daily. She started going to L.A. every other week to visit. After two months, she moved to be with him. “I’ve never done anything that crazy before in my life. But it just felt so right.”
Moving to a new city came with its challenges: Brittany and Jax were living together in his tiny West Hollywood apartment and still getting to know each other. The studio didn’t have central air or closet space, and if she used her hairdryer the whole floor’s electricity would combust. And she now was on a hit reality show with little preparation. “[Jax said], ‘I think they’re going to want you to film. It’s probably not going to be a lot. Do you care?’ At first I was like, ‘Umm, I don’t know.’ I was so nervous.” His advice: Just focus on him and ignore the cameras. But, “That’s really hard when you’re brand new. By that time, he was a seasoned pro.”
“I didn’t really speak the whole first season I was on,” she continues. “I kind of just let Jax lead the way.” The first day she filmed, she went to SUR and met Vanderpump—an unexpected encounter that she wasn’t fully briefed on, thanks to Jax, who took her shopping beforehand to get an outfit. According to Brittany, she thought she was going to the restaurant to meet the cast, not her potential new boss. “He picks me out this sexy little romper because he was like, ‘All the girls dress sexy there. It’s West Hollywood.'”
What her new guy neglected to tell her that she wasn’t meeting Lisa to just say hello, but was about to undergo a job interview for a server position—viewers will remember this as Brittany’s first official scene—while wearing a barely-there romper, with no résumé prepared. “That was like one of the most nerve-wracking things I think I’ve ever done in my life. It probably will always be.”
“[Brittany is] humble and kind—qualities many people in L.A. lack.” — Kristen Doute
When the rest of the cast did meet Brittany, they took to her quickly—a rarity for groups of women on reality TV who almost always seem to exhibit a type of xenophobic “you can’t sit with us” mentality when it comes to new and attractive blood. “I’ve been very lucky, I guess. I haven’t had any bad fights or anything,” she says. It’s hard to stay completely out of the drama, but Brittany usually refuses to pick sides unless a “girl code” is broken. And, shocking to anyone who regularly watches Bravo, her friends respect that. “I’m not huge on the drama,” she says. “I like to help bring people together more than push them away from each other.”
Kristen Doute told me via email that Brittany lends a “soothing, sort of calmness” during these chaotic moments. “[She’s] truthful but not judgmental … She’s humble and kind—something many people in L.A. lack.” Doute—a notoriously tough nut to crack—also said Brittany is everything she could want in a best friend. “She’s kind, sympathetic, trustworthy. My favorite thing about Brittany is her zest for life. She never fails to make me laugh. Her energy is contagious.”
So, yes, everybody on Vanderpump Rules loves Brittany. But with any type of spotlight and status comes a hoard of social media trolls. If she’s wearing too much makeup in a picture, they say L.A. has “changed” her. Some commenters will call her fake and posit she’s had her nose done. “I haven’t had any plastic surgery on my face,” Brittany says. “No matter what I’ve done I would tell it. I had my boobs done on national TV, so let’s be real. I’m not hiding anything. I had Botox once six months ago. I don’t even know if it’s still in there anymore. I had Kybella under my chin awhile ago. But I also lost 25 pounds. I hate when people say I got a nose job or my lips done, because I lose weight in my face.”
“I’ve aged,” she continues. “If you’re a true fan of Vanderpump Rules, go back to the first episode when I started. Look at how skinny I was! I gained weight on the show, then lost weight again.”
The plastic surgery comments don’t cut too deep—”If they want to say I had a nose job, whatever. I know I didn’t have a nose job.”—but the judgments on her character do. Like people saying, “I thought you were a Christian” after she posts a sexy photo. Those get to her.
Her fiancé and the rest of the cast help keep things in perspective. “Jax [will say], ‘Stop reading that, Brittany.’ I know he loves me, and that’s another reason I think [negative attention] doesn’t bother me: All these people comment on my looks, and I’m like, ‘Well, I’m engaged. I don’t care what you think.'”
When she does get overwhelmed by it all—with 1 million Instagram followers at press time, how could she not?—she says she craves alone time, snuggled up in bed with her dogs, Monroe and Kingsley. Her values kick into overdrive: She calls her mom every day. She talks to her friends back home (their group chat is called Cheaper Than Therapy). She prays and goes to church.
The plastic surgery comments don’t cut too deep, but the judgments on her character do. Like people saying, “I thought you were a Christian” after she posts a sexy photo.
She also has a chat group with the women on the series—called the Pumpettes—where they share screen shots of nasty comments. They’ll joke about them and give each other compliments. “Because of Brittany I feel more comfortable in my own skin than I ever have,” Doute says. “In the social-media world we live in, it can be very easy to sweat the small stuff—whether it’s people attacking our character or physical appearance. She always picks me up when I’m down and is able to show me a more positive outlook.”
And, in true Brittany fashion, she’s found a way to hit back at haters with that positive outlook. “I swear it’s mothers who are writing mean things about my looks [the most],” she says. “So I’ve found the best way to get under a cyberbully’s skin: If they have kids and they’re writing horrible things, just go to their picture, tell them how beautiful their child is, and say that you hope one day their child never has to deal with cyberbullying like I am from you.” She says the trolls usually apologize.
Brittany says this season of Vanderpump Rules is her favorite yet. She dreaded filming last year, because she knew the issues she and Jax were facing were going to be an inescapable arc—a cheating scandal, after all, makes good reality TV. Now, though, she’s excited for everybody—cast members and fans—to see how much her man has changed and how hard he’s trying. Brittany says it’s the little things that really show the effort he’s making: He helps out around the house, he makes her (turkey) sandwiches, he buys her tampons at the store, he’ll surprise her with gifts, he’s even going to church on his own. “I’m so proud of him,” she says. “He has changed almost 100%. He tries harder at every single thing he does, and it makes me….” She tears up. “After his dad passed away, he could’ve spiraled out of control. Went crazy. Just became this horrible person, because he was so unhappy with himself. But he turned it all around and made every change he wanted to make to better himself.”
This new Jax also came with a marriage proposal during the season premiere. “I had an idea it might happen this summer, but I didn’t know it was going to be that early,” she says. “It was perfect.” Jax popped the question at Neptune’s Net, a classic, casual Malibu seafood spot. (“We love crab places. It’s what we do, whether we’re in Florida, Kentucky, anywhere we’re at we always find a crab place.”) The show’s editing made the location seem like a random choice, but Brittany says it holds importance, having been the scene of an early date and also a favorite of Jax’s late father.
Brittany cried watching the footage back. “He’s my best friend in the whole world,” she says. “We want to be together all the time. No matter what I always saw these good parts of Jax, even when we were fighting. People on the show only see the worst parts, of course, but knowing his heart and knowing how great he actually was kept me going. I loved him too much to let him go, honestly.”
And now, she’s looking forward to planning the wedding and the business ventures they’re starting (beer cheese, cocktail mixers). “I’m so excited for us to have a good season for once. This season is a lot of me and Jax being happy and our friends slowly getting on board with that. He had to prove to everybody that he really has changed.” Brittany says they also want to be parents, though it might be tricky with the show. “I don’t know how having a baby on Vanderpump Rules with all the drama…I think as we grow the show might have to grow a little bit too,” she says. “But we’ll see. I can’t imagine Jax not being on TV in some way.”
Whatever happens, Brittany trusts they can tackle it as a team. “It would be very easy to get lost,” she says. “At the end of the day you have to be very confident in yourself. I know I’m not a bad person. I know I have a great family. I know I have great friends. I know at the end of the day, I have to get back to that and being a Christian woman.”
Anna Moeslein is Glamour’s senior editor. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @annamoeslein.
Photographs by Michelle Rose Sulcov Fashion stylist: Amy Hou Hair and makeup: Mia Santiago at See Management
New York–based swimwear label Chromat has long been committed to radical inclusivity, from its diverse Fashion Week casting to its use of curvy mannequins to create truly size-inclusive samples. With its latest campaign, designer Becca McCharen-Tran is pushing on industry conventions once again, looking beyond the runway to where customers actually wear her designs: the pool.
Chromat released a photo series in which it proposes a new set of Pool Rules: Intolerance Not Tolerated, Body Policing Prohibited, Scars and Stretch Marks Welcome, All Abilities Accepted, Food-Shaming Not Permitted, Body Hair Appreciated, Celebrate Cellulite, No Age Restrictions, Respect Preferred Pronouns, and Unrestricted LGBTQ+ PDA.
“I just really loved thinking about all the messaging we see around summertime, and how it can be such a vulnerable time for people—I wanted to make a campaign that really celebrated all these amazing trailblazers in the fashion industry,” McCharen-Tran tells Glamour. Bringing this edict to life are the brand’s Babe Guard—models Denise Bidot, Ericka Hart, Mama Cax, Emme, and Geena Rocero; all of the models that appear in the Pool Rules campaign have worked with Chromat before, at some capacity, “and they all represent a certain type of advocacy to change culture and push the culture forward,” she says.
Chromat worked with creative agency Berlin Cameron on this campaign, marking the first time the indie brand collaborated with ad professionals. Their goal was “to change the traditional pool rules for mass representation this summer and create something truly impactful,” says Jennifer DaSilva, president of Berlin Cameron and the founder of Girl Brands Do It Better, an initiative within the company that focuses on female entrepreneurship to “grow the women-driven economy and close the gender gap in the leadership and investment communities.” McCharen-Tran developed the 10 “rules” and the messaging with Berlin Cameron, and then sent it to friends, colleagues, and even the models, asking: “‘Does this sound right?’ ‘Am I saying anything weird?’ ‘Am I overstepping?’ ‘Am I not saying enough?'”
“We wanted to create a campaign that allowed us to show off Chromat’s amazing swimwear in a way that also hit on the radical, inclusive values of the brand,” Kristy Heilenday, Berlin Cameron’s senior art director, says. “Every swimming pool has a poster of their rules, so we decided to take that and reimagine the rules to speak to something more meaningful.” DaSilva adds: “With our reimagining of the average ‘Pool Rules,’ our goal was to create a campaign that showcases the swimwear while staying true to the progressive spirit that’s at the heart of the brand, letting go of the standard ‘no horseplay’ in favor of new rules centered on self-love, boldness, and acceptance.”
“As a fashion designer, as a swim designer, we have a lot of responsibility to put out imagery that we want to see, that really reflects the people in our world and [doesn’t] just ascribe to this narrow definition of what a beach body [looks like],” says McCharen-Tran. “We recognize the aspirational nature of swim campaigns, and we want to change that, to open up this aspiration and this dream to more people.” She first became cognizant of these “ideals” when she was a teenager, and it was something that made her feel apprehensive about becoming a designer. “I’ve always thought that if I did enter fashion, I would want to make it in a more open and inclusive way,” she explains. From the very beginning, that meant casting people in her community (as opposed to professions) as her models, and committing to racial and body diversity in every aspect of her brand, especially as the company grows and is able to give back to the community, by hiring female, femme, or nonbinary creatives to work on campaigns, for instance. “The goal is for inclusivity to not even be a press message—this should be the norm.”
Ahead, read Chromat’s new “Pool Rules” in full.
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Love is in the air in West Hollywood, where Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright—of Vanderpump Rules fame—are engaged to be married.
This basically brings the “Forgive Jax” tour full circle after the most recent season found him cheating on Cartwright with fellow Sur co-worker Faith (allegedly right next to an elderly woman in her care, which we still have a lot of questions about). This led to a couple of breakups and makeups, Taylor developing a possibly too-close relationship with his Reiki instructor, and Taylor’s rage-filled rant on the reunion show. You know, all the things that make you think, “True love!”
Both Taylor and Cartwright announced their engagement on Instagram and, of course, made sure to note that we will be able to see the proposal on the next season, which is filming now.
Taylor writes, “She said yes!!! I can’t wait for y’all to see how this happened next season!!! I am marrying the woman of my dreams and I could not be happier!! ? make sure y’all tune in season 7 to see how this unfolded.”
Cartwright echoed her new fiancé’s sentiments: “Omg omg!!!!!!!! We are ENGAGED! What a way to start our summer and season 7!! I am so happy, so in love, and so beyond excited for this next chapter of our lives! I can’t wait for all of you to see how he proposed! I am the happiest girl ever right now. ?? love can win ??”
The ring was prominently displayed, complete with a shout-out to the designer, Kyle Chan. The bride-to-be is in white. The cameras were there…something tells me this wasn’t the most spontaneous moment. Even the restaurant got in on the promotion action:
Listen, as all of her co-stars constantly remark, Cartwright seems so very sweet—which is why I truly hope Taylor has changed. However, his past behavior does not bode well for a happily ever after. This is a guy who has failed to remain monogamous in every single relationship he’s had during the six glorious seasons this show has been on the air. He rarely even takes his infidelity outside the group!
But on the last reunion, Taylor said his father’s passing—and Cartwright’s support while he was grieving—made him want to change his behavior and be a better partner to Cartwright. So, maybe they’ll prove me wrong. In fact, I hope they do!
At the very least, it looks like we’ll get another TV wedding soon—though Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, this is not. In the meantime, I have a few questions:
—Will she be allowed to call him “Jason” during the actual ceremony?
—Will said ceremony be on her family’s farm and will it be a “dry” reception?
—Is Reiki master Kelsey invited?
—Will Lisa Vanderpump officiate?
—What does Rihanna think about this development? (A question that should be asked about any and all things in the world.)
Vanderpump Rules isn’t typically a show one looks to for role models of any kind. The cast drinks heavily, cheats on each other often, fights like it’s their job (which, I guess it literally is), and sometimes steal shades from a Sunglass Hut in Hawaii. Oh, and they occasionally work at S.U.R, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump‘s West Hollywood lounge and restaurant. Watching Vanderpump Rules brings the same kind of joy people find in delicious soap operas, like Dallas or The Young and The Restless—which, ironically, one of the former cast members has starred in. (Remember Vail?)
So imagine my surprise this season when I found myself rooting for cast member Lala Kent. At first, Lala wasn’t somebody I’d consider a feminist role model for our times. She’s a more recent addition to the cast—joining the show in season four as a recurring character—and initially she seemed to be filling the tried and true reality show (and soap opera) archetype of the pretty newcomer who arrives to stir up trouble. She wasn’t afraid to flirt with whoever she wanted and she didn’t back down from the show’s own Mean Girls-like clique of Stassi, Katie, and Kristen. Though to be fair to them, Lala didn’t endear herself when she chastised them for not “working on their summer bodies.” Lala even walked away from the show for a chunk of last season after rumors (that continue, even now) that she’s seeing a married man were brought up. (Recent reports claim he’s now officially divorced and once previously filed for legal separation in 2015.)
But it turns out Lala was so much more than any of us—or the cast of Vanderpump Rules, frankly—bargained for. The more I see of Lala, the more I love her. She’s a pro-woman, sex-positive, body-positive badass who isn’t afraid to own her beauty…or anything she does to enhance it. There’s nothing wrong with Botox and fillers, if that’s your choice as a woman. “I’m not the type of person who’s going to walk out and be like, ‘I’ve had nothing done! My face just changed like this,'” she told Bravo’s The Lookbook. “I’m pretty open about things like that.” She’s also unapologetic about asking for—and getting—what she wants, and, yes, that includes flying on private jets and making her friends sign non-disclosure agreements. That doesn’t always sit well with some on the show, but I love that she doesn’t feel obligated to please everyone.
Now that Lala is back, she’s fiercer than ever. After (re)securing her hostess job at S.U.R., she has unleashed a fury of feminism. She has no time for the crappy behavior exhibited by the men on the show, most specifically the cheating Jax and Tom Schwartz. When the married Schwartz makes out with a friend of Lala’s during a night of blackout drinking, she tells his wife, Katie (no friend of hers, mind you), that she “needs to feel safe” in her relationship. When Jax cheats on his live-in girlfriend Brittany, Lala shares a recording of him speaking horribly about the relationship to the woman he just slept with. Some might find this mean (the guys on the show certainly did), but I think it’s information Brittany needed to hear. Lala even rallies the other women around Brittany, to the point where the men are exiled from the party they’re all at together. “God forbid women stand together…We’re not going to deal with your bullshit,” she shouts as the men scurry away. “I’m so sick of these guys thinking they can get away with whatever the fuck they want!” Even Andy Cohen gave Lala props for her “Norma Rae moment” on Watch What Happens Live, saying, “Lala should be on the #MeToo committee, I feel like she could get some stuff done.” The show’s so-called mean girls have come around too, joking on social media that they’ve signed the NDAs her boyfriend requires—from his private jet, no less.
And then there’s the way Lala so openly accepts others. The new transgender hostess, Billie Lee, calls her the “only one I can like kick it with after work.” That feeling is reciprocated by Lala, who says, “I love and adore Billie. She’s genuine. She’s open about who she is. She just embodies everything a human being should embody. She has great tits too.” When Ariana confesses to Lala that she’s battling insecurities that stem from a past relationship, Lala will not stand for it. As she says, “Every woman [should] know her worth.” This inspires the best moment we’ve seen of Lala yet: She admits she looks in the mirror every morning and talks to all of her body parts to say, “I love you.” While her mantra might not be the same as yours, damn if it’s not incredible: “I don’t love my feet, but I thank them because they walk me around. My hands, even though I think they’re man hands, they give great hand jobs. I thank my little kitty cat because it takes that D like a champ.” Owning your body and your sexuality—isn’t that something we should all strive for? I sure think so.
I certainly took this final message of Lala’s to heart, “So maybe getting in that routine of like, ‘I’m a fucking badass and not one thing that someone says to me is going to make me think otherwise.'” Keep doing you, Lala. I am here for all of it.
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