Reese Witherspoon has basically grown up in front of the world. She starred in her first film—the wonderful Man in the Moon—in 1991, when she was just 14 years old. Now, at 43, she’s not only a successful actress but an acclaimed producer who’s helping shepherd interesting stories about all different kinds of women through the Hollywood machine.
Even though she works in an industry that has long been focused on women’s looks—and struggled to know what to do with them as they get (gasp!) older—she’s not afraid of aging. In fact, she’s proud of the physical signs of getting older. “I have a point of view because I’ve been on this planet for 43 years, and I didn’t feel that same way when I was 25,” she says in a new interview with Allure. “I didn’t have the same things to say. I’m 43 and I’ve had a whole bunch of experiences, and I can speak with a thoughtfulness about the changes I’d like to see in the world, and…I just feel like I earned that gray hair and my fine lines. I like ’em. I so prefer 43 to 25.” As a fellow 43-year-old woman myself, I very much agree with everything Witherspoon says here.
But she also gets those grays touched up by her longtime colorist, Lorri Goddard, and that’s OK too. “It takes three hours to have my highlights done, no joke. I go every seven or eight weeks,” she said. “I’m starting to get gray around the edges of my hairline. Lorri doesn’t like to call them grays, though. She says they’re ‘hyper-blonds.'”
Obviously, Witherspoon has looked fabulous at every age, but she does have some beauty regrets from the nineties—including dark brown lipstick, which she wore to get her driver’s license at 16, and ultra-thin eyebrows. “In the nineties, we plucked our brows really thin. I said ‘we’…at least I did. And it just looked awful. Thank God they grew back, but, I mean, who knows what they might look like now if I hadn’t plucked them into oblivion!”
We were all a little bummed when Lauren Conrad decided not to join the MTV reboot of The Hills, which premieres this year, but it seems she has enough going on in 2019: On Tuesday, April 2, the former reality show star revealed that she and her husband, William Tell, are expecting their second child.
Conrad shared the news on Instagram with a photo of her baby bump. “It’s been hard to keep this one to myself,” she wrote in the caption. “Very excited to share that our family will be getting a little bigger this year.”
Conrad and Tell, who got married back in September 2014, had their first child, Liam James, two years ago. If you remember, the couple announced that pregnancy in equally adorable fashion: Conrad posted a picture of her sonogram on the first day of the year, writing, “Happy New Year! I have a feeling 2017 is going to be the best year yet….”
While she was pregnant and after she gave birth, Conrad has gotten candid about motherhood—she even provided some tips for how people should approach soon-to-be-moms. (Note: Ask before you touch her baby bump.) Just after she had Liam James, she told People that she’d been thinking about expanding her family with another baby.
“I was looking at him the other day, and I was like, ‘I understand now why people keep having babies!'” she told the publication. “We’ll probably have two. I think it’s best not to be outnumbered.”
In addition to doing some family planning, Conrad also recently shared that she’s launching a podcast that’ll tackle lifestyle tips and ideas. She’s also continuing to work on her business The Little Market, a fair-trade-focused store with a mission of women empowering other women. It’s going to be a jam-packed few months for her, and I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds—luckily, LC is diligent about documenting it all on her Instagram account.
When it comes to her style, Meghan Markle has a habit of breaking with royal traditions. Even as a duchess, she loves her dark nail polish, collarbone-bearing bateau necklines, and pantsuits—precedents be damned. Naturally, the media goes bananas every time she seems to go against “protocol,” whether it’s with her outfits or with her email schedule. Inside the palace, though, the narrative is totally different.
“You read all the time about Meghan breaking protocol by wearing dark nail polish, Meghan breaking protocol by wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, breaking protocol by wearing black or by not wearing tights. She’s not breaking royal protocol. There is no book of royal etiquette,” royals expert Katie Nicholl tells Glamour. “She’s just doing things differently. I don’t think that is causing huge problems at the palace—if Meghan steps out wearing dark nail polish, I don’t think it’s upsetting anyone.”
According to Nicholl, there was one instance when Markle’s wardrobe may have ruffled Kensington Palace’s feathers. And it had more to about what she didn’t wear.
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“I think possibly eyebrows were raised when she didn’t wear a hat on her first official engagement with the queen, and I do think that was a mistake,” she says. “But I think, other than that, people get their knickers in a twist unnecessarily so.”
Markle’s lack of headwear did spark some headlines at the time. According to the Daily Mail, royal aides actually informed the duchess that the queen was planning to wear a green hat in honor of those who died in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire—which meant, more or less, that she should’ve followed suit. “I don’t think the duchess fully understood,” a senior figure close to the queen told biographer Robert Jobson for his 2018 book Charles at Seventy: Thoughts, Hopes and Dreams. “This was not a request. They are for others to make, not the queen.”
That being said, Nicholl also tells us the queen and Markle have a great relationship, so any of this “hat drama” from last summer is obviously squashed.
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“She likes Meghan,” Nicholl says. “She’s very impressed with her work ethic. I’m told she was surprised and impressed Meghan carried out that tour of Morocco when she was so heavily pregnant. The queen is arguably the hardest-working member in the royal family, and I think she likes what she sees in Meghan.”
Taylor Swift fans love a good theory—especially when it comes to her music. Before she released her sixth studio album, Reputation, in November 2017, Swifties were running rampant with theories about what her next era would be. At one point they thought the new album was going to be about space—like, the actual stars and planets. And the evidence was there! The FBI honestly needs to recruit new agents from the Taylor Swift fan base, because their sleuthing skills are unparalleled.
And now they’re at it again. Roughly 14 months after Reputation, the Swifties are convinced Taylor’s next era—which we’ll call TS7—is upon us. As always, they have the receipts to back it up. Let’s go through (1) all the reasons why Swifties think new music is coming soon, and (2) what that new music could be.
Swift has allegedly talked about releasing new music this year.__ Perez Hilton claims Swift told him she plans to release new music before her 30th birthday, which is in December 2019. Also, keep in mind that at last year’s American Music Awards, Swift said this: “I always look at albums as chapters in my life. And I’m so—to the fans, I’m so happy that you like this one. I’m so happy that this means that you like this one. But I have to be really honest with you about something: I’m even more excited about the next chapter.” This at least hints Swift is working on new material.
The Scrabble saga of October 2018. A few months back, Swift posted a photo of herself playing Scrabble with her mom. The letters she had on display were B, I, O, I, E, letters whose point values, ironically, add up to seven. Swift fans were quick to point this out and suggest it was a nod to TS7.
Seven palm trees means…TS7? On Sunday (February 24), Swift posted a photo of palm trees and captioned it with seven corresponding emojis. This is yet another reference to that number and further fuels the idea new music is coming.
But this could also mean a countdown…starting at seven. The proof for this lies in Swift’s next two Instagrams. On Monday she posted a photo of herself sitting on the sixth (6) stair of a spiral staircase.
She then uploaded this photo, with five (5) holes in a fence and her face in the middle:
Obviously, the idea is once Swift reaches one (1), there will be a special announcement—possibly about new music.
That fence pic and the Scrabble photo have a strong connection. She’s wearing the same flowered shirt in each—and the flower featured is the woodland forget-me-not, Myosotis sylvatica, which blooms in April.
The stamps in Swift’s fan calendar. As BuzzFeed points out, specific dates are “stamped” on Swift’s 2019 fan calendar: April 13, May 13, July 13, August 13, and December 13. There’s also a flower marked on March 2, which is when the aforementioned “countdown” would end. The consensus? Swift is making a big announcement on March 2, and April 13 could be the first major date connected to it. BuzzFeed also says Swift is rumored to be Elle magazine’s April cover star. That issue, presumably dropping in early March, might tee up whatever Swift has planned for the spring.
YouTube is also doing something fishy. Swift has 245 videos uploaded to the site, but only 243 are visible, according to BuzzFeed. This could mean she has two clips prepared to drop after this countdown. Orrr it could just be two old clips she doesn’t want to release. The first theory is more exciting.
Well, that depends on which fan you ask. Palm trees, though, seem to hold significance. A Reputationpromo photo of Swift features her wearing a jacket with seven palm trees. The trees also show up in the “End Game” and “Delicate” videos.
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Also, consider the placement of the palm trees in Swift’s Instagram pic. There are four on the left, two on the right, and one in the middle. One fan posits the first four represent Swift’s country albums, while the last two are her pop ones. TS7 lands right in the middle, which leads some to think it will be a country-pop fusion or something totally new.
The word eternal also keeps popping up. It was stitched on the dress she wore to the 2018 Billboard Music Awards. Palm trees, if you’re curious, symbolize “triumph, peace, and eternal life,” according to one fan’s Tumblr post. It all comes full circle.
After months of speculation about whether or not they’re dating, Ashley Benson appears to have confirmed her relationship with Cara Delevingne with a single Instagram comment — well, actually, it’s two Instagram comments.
On Monday, Delevingne posted a photo of herself looking gorgeous in a gold Balmain dress, and Benson took to the comments section to declare, “Mine.” She then followed up her initial post with another comment: “I can see your ??.” The exchange was first captured by eagle-eyed Internet sleuths @Commentsbycelebs, who watch celebrities’ Instagram comments to catch news-breaking moments like this one. Welp, that settles that, I guess.
Benson and Delevingne reportedly met on the set of their upcoming film, Her Smell, and have been photographed together multiple times in the past few months, which fueled rumors that they were involved romantically. There were a few signs that the two were possibly a couple — like the fact that they were spotted kissing in London, or that they spent Delevingne’s birthday together, or that Benson had started wearing a Taylor Swift–style necklace with the letter “C” on it — but neither one of them had spoken on the subject until now.
In fact, in a recent interview, Benson noted that she has purposely gone out of her way to keep her relationships private, despite the fact that it’s often challenging to do so. “I mean it’s hard, I don’t know, you kind of can’t get away from that if you’re in the public eye,” she said. “I just kinda try to keep myself as private as possible.”
Now that they’re (maybe) Instagram official, though, we hope that these sweet Instagram exchanges keep on coming.
During a highly anticipated interview with CBS This Morning, veteran journalist Ann Curry said she wasn’t surprised by allegations of sexual misconduct that brought down her former Today co-host Matt Lauer. In fact, Curry added that she felt most of her female colleagues understood that a “climate of verbal harassment” existed at NBC, where she worked until 2015
On Wednesday, Curry sat down with CBS This Morning to promote her PBS docuseries, We’ll Meet Again. The conversation inevitably turned to her disgraced former co-host, and Curry was asked if she believed Lauer abused his power at NBC.
“I’m trying to do no harm in this conversations,” Curry said. “I can tell you that I’m not surprised by the allegations.”
When CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King pushed her about what her comments meant, Curry was evasive, but she explained, “I’m walking down that road I’m trying not to hurt people. I know what it’s like to be publicly humiliated, I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated, and I don’t want to cause that pain to someone else.”
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Still, Curry was willing to speak out against a pervasive culture of harassment that she says she observed at NBC, saying, “I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed. I think it would be surprising if someone said they didn’t see that. It was verbal sexual harassment.”
Curry added that the effect #MeToo has had exposing sexual misconduct is long overdue, and said she hopes people focus on supporting women who have bravely come forward with so many disturbing allegations.
“We’re talking about the scandal, the scandal, scandal. What about the victims? What are we going to do to remove the stigma and the shame? What are we going to do to make sure these women work and are not sidelined and prevented from contributing to the greater good that we all are trying to do?” she said.
Curry left the Today show in 2012, following rumors that she’d a contentious relationship with Lauer and that he had been behind her ouster. Speculation intensified when NBC aired Curry’s tearful goodbye to Today viewers; in the clip, Curry visibly flinches after Lauer kisses her cheek.
Curry continued working at NBC until starting her own production company in 2015. Lauer, meanwhile, was fired from NBC last November after colleagues accused him of sexual harassment. He’d been the Today show’s anchor for more than 20 years.
