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The new decade has only just begun, and it’s already filled with so much happy news from celebrities expecting babies in 2020. If this year is anything like 2019, the Hollywood baby boom will keep going strong. America Ferrera ended the year with the announcement of her second child, while Michelle Williams kicked off the new one with a pregnancy, an engagement to Hamilton and Fosse/Verdon director Thomas Kail, and a major Golden Globes speech about women’s choices. Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny also announced in 2020 that she’s pregnant with her first child.
We can’t wait to see who else announces they are expecting new little bundles of joy as the year goes on. For now, though, here are all the pregnant celebrities and celebrities who are expecting that you’ll be hearing about in 2020. A big congratulations to all of them is in store.
Q&A interviews are an interesting part of my job. I do a project. I promote it. I attend screenings and after there’s usually a question-and-answer portion. There are a few questions I’ve gotten used to answering. “What was it like working with the cast?” “Were there any on-set pranks?” Stuff of that nature. But every once in a while, someone will approach me after to ask something they didn’t want to say into a mic in front of a large crowd.
That happened recently, at the Provincetown Film Festival. I was there to promote my movie Brittany Runs a Marathon, which tells the story of a woman who feels stuck in her life and decides to set an epic goal: to run the NYC marathon. It’s based on a real woman—the amazing and inspiring Brittany O’Neill—and is the first script I’ve read that really showcased the highs and the lows of a transformation tale. I was inspired to go through the same physical journey the character takes on in order to prepare for the role, so I started running. And I lost 40 pounds, like Brittany did. It was hard and emotional, but it connected me to the character in a way I hold very dear.
But back to that Q&A in Provincetown: After, a woman approached me and asked if I found myself feeling more confident in my own skin after I lost the weight. I told her the truth: No.
For me, I was less in my head when I had a little more body to my body. When I lost weight, however, I was constantly comparing myself to other women. “Am I bigger than her?” I found myself thinking. “Smaller?” At times, I was frustrated when people didn’t comment on my weight loss. But if someone commented in a way that felt hurtful to my old body, I was upset too.
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The woman’s question had me thinking about all of this. So when I came back to Los Angeles, I continued the conversation with my good friend and fellow actor Vanessa Ray. Vanessa and I often sound like mad scientists—like we’re one step away from figuring out the cure to the dreaded “I hate my body” disease. On this particular night, we got into a discussion about all the different bodies we’ve had throughout our lives. I was skimming through pictures of me at my skinniest and at my heaviest and telling her that in both of the pictures I had times of confidence and also times of insecurity.
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I realized in both of these bodies I had experienced love and loss, laughter and tears, first kisses and kidney stones. (Kidney stones SUCK, by the way.) Both bodies had experienced panic attacks and movie premieres and way too many nights in watching The Office. We thought, “What would happen if we tried to celebrate all stages?” What if everyone saw old pictures of themselves and stopped judging those women? What if we focused on the experience we were having at the moment, rather than whether or not our pants look too tight?
Sophie Turner is quickly becoming one of our most photographed celebrities, which may be low-key annoying for her in her regular daily life—but is great for anyone who is a fan of her laid-back, but always chic ,with a side of quirky, style. Much like her sister-in-law, Priyanka Chopra, the Game of Thrones star has also mastered the high-low mix when it comes to her fashion choices. Remember that time recently when she paired $56 bike shorts with $645 Louis Vuitton sneakers? (The actress has a Louis Vuitton advertising contract.) Or that $99 miniskirt she wore with a Gumby t-shirt? She’s up to her affordable ways again—this time by way of a pair of on-trend-again overalls from Mango that only cost $99.
Turner was photographed with husband Joe Jonas ahead of the 2019 MTV VMAs wearing denim overalls with a simple white blouse, sneakers, and a black studded headband.
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It’s the perfect casual fall outfit inspiration—and it’s under $100. Mango still has the flared denim overalls in stock for 79.99. Grab yours now before they’re gone.
Mango Flared Denim Dungarees
Flared denim overalls with adjustable straps and metallic clips.
The overalls trend, yet another throwback to the ’90s, is showing no signs of slowing down as the seasons change. They’re actually a great transitional piece since you can layer a short-sleeve or heavier top underneath, as well as throwing a little leather jacket over the to when the weather gets chillier.
We’re very excited to see what Turner brings out for her fall vibe after a summer filled with a mix of everything from cocktail dresses for the red carpet, a gorgeous wedding gown, as well as bike shorts and mini skirts. One thing we know for sure, she’s going to keep it interesting.
Nothing, it seems, has been more difficult to remedy than the issue of racism and implicit bias in this country, but this week, coffeehouse juggernaut Starbucks attempted to at least begin the conversation when they shut down more than 8,000 of their stores for a day of racial bias training following the April arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia location, sending the internet into a flurry of think pieces and expert quotes that had people wondering: Can a day of company training really fix a problem of this scope?
If the training video Starbucks showed is any indication, they’re at least using historical context to address exclusion. The passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 may have outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin, but in the video—released to the public Tuesday—the landmark law serves as a framework for understanding just how difficult it is to change hearts and minds, especially when it comes to the implicit biases we hold.
In the film, created by award-winning documentarian Stanley Nelson and underwritten by Starbucks, a narrator explores how access to public spaces has been regulated in this country, and how those areas have been made largely unattainable to black people. When blacks—who are maligned by stereotypes that have been intensified by the historical stink of slavery—enter those public spaces, it has been a punishable offense. That was no more evident than in April when two black men—Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson—visited a Philadelphia Starbucks to attend a business meeting. While they were waiting for their friend to arrive, and after they’d asked to use the restroom, a Starbucks employee called the police, telling the 911 dispatcher that the men refused to purchase an item or leave. The call resulted in an arrest on suspicion of trespassing—though no charges were filed—and the high-profile incident sparked protests and calls for Starbucks to address what many believed to be racial profiling.
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“It’s time we talk about what it means to not be welcomed as an American citizen,” Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of NAACP Legal Defense Fund and senior consultant to Starbucks’s racial bias training says into the camera. And it’s a conversation Starbucks is committed to having, according to Rosalind ‘Roz’ Brewer, Starbucks’ first woman COO.
“We’ve always said that this training is a first step in a long-term journey—we cannot change ingrained behaviors and implicit biases within four hours,” she told Glamour.com, adding that the company will send representatives to a convening this summer hosted by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and will take steps toward understanding how they can address other forms of bias.
Additionally, she said, the company’s 100,000 hires each year will be receiving racial bias training upon becoming a Starbucks partner—something experts think is nonnegotiable for the chain.
“This wasn’t just a thing that was nice to do,” said Heather McGhee, president of equal-rights public policy organization Demos and an outside advisor to the training. “The executives had to believe and communicate that they couldn’t succeed as a business without addressing this issue,” McGhee said. “And I think they actually did that.”
Chafing at criticism that the training was more symbolic than effective, McGhee reiterated what the company has been saying since the bias workshop was announced—this isn’t just a one-day fix.
“I think that most of the commentary has really focused on the ‘one day’ because that’s the information that’s mostly out there, but the company has tried to get the message out that they know that one day is just the start,” she told Glamour.com. “They’re looking at ongoing, deeper training as well as reviews of their systems and practices and procedures so that the message is continuously reinforced.”
If Starbucks, which, according to TIME.com, stood to lose up to $12 million in its Tuesday afternoon closings, is investing time and money, and opening itself up to public scrutiny, in proposing racial bias training, it’s expected that the firm would make it an ongoing focus, said Tamisha J. Ponder, director of intercultural engagement at the Community College of Baltimore County.
“We know that these types of trainings need to be reinforced,” she said. “I don’t want to discredit this attempt because it speaks volumes. It’s beneficial because it’s their first discussion of racial bias, ever.” When companies and institutions implement racial bias training with this high a profile, it’s safe to assume it isn’t just for a day, Ponder said. And pulling back the layers of implicit bias and the historical context, much as the Starbucks video shows, is key.
“Before we discuss bias, we discuss the social construction of race,” Ponder said, describing her university’s approach to bias training. “By discussing race as a social construct, it exposes America’s history of legal and systemic racism and access to privilege. It lays the framework for how to discuss bias and how our country has legally supported bias to understand how you, yourself, can be biased.”
To measure the success of these trainings, Starbucks will likely do spot audits of their stores, implement retention and hiring practices to promote diversity, and measure engagement and interest in training from their employees.
Of course, there’s research that shows racial sensitivity training isn’t always effective. But considering Starbucks’s corporate Third Place policy—which aims to “create a culture of warmth and belonging where everyone is welcome” according to the website—chairman Howard Schultz’s recent directive that employees should let anyone (not just customers) use the restroom, and the company’s plan to make accessible all racial bias training material to employees, McGhee is hopeful.
“I think it needs to be a national effort…there’s so much misunderstanding about the way race and bias work in the human mind,” McGhee said. “If we’re going to be a diverse democracy, we’ve got to all—as people in this country—have better skills at interacting across lines of race.”
