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Real Breakup Stories From Celebrity Ex-Partners
Model Gigi Paris broke up with Glen Powell after three years together, during which his profile skyrocketed due to dating rumors between the actor and his Anyone But You co-star, Sydney Sweeney. Gigi said that Glen agreed to lean into the speculation for PR purposes, despite her discomfort, saying, "It was just, 'This is what I have to do for my job.' I had two options. I could either pretend like I was going along with everything and have everyone wonder, like, 'Are they hooking up? Are they not hooking up? Is she okay with this? What the fuck?' Or stand up for myself." "I just wanted respect, especially if it's gonna be public. Like, don't make an ass out of me. Like, just don't make a fool out of someone you've been with for over three years, talking about forever with. Just have some decency," she continued. "And at the end of the day, it was like, 'Well, work comes first.' And if that's the case, power to you, that's your priority. I gotta walk away. What sucked was how it was handled. I felt like I was just fed to the dogs." Before he dated his Wicked costar Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater was in a relationship with his high school sweetheart, psychologist Lily Jay. After their divorce, she wrote an essay for the Cut where she said, "I really never thought I would get divorced. Especially not just after giving birth to my first child and especially not in the shadow of my husband's new relationship with a celebrity. In this season of shock and mourning, over a year after the end of my marriage was made public, I deeply miss the life of invisibility I created for myself as a psychologist specializing in women's mental health." "It was a tenuous balance — my profession, which requires privacy, and his, which is measured in applause — but it worked well while life was unfolding according to our plans," she continued, adding, "Days when I can't escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker." Chelsea Winstanley is a successful Māori film producer, writer, and director in her own right. However, when her ex-husband Taika Waititi began hitting the Marvel big-time, things changed in their relationship. "I didn't want to be the dutiful wife and race over to the Gold Coast [in Australia], where he was making Thor, and sit in an apartment all day long, fucking twiddling my thumbs, and bring the kids out," she previously explained in 2024. "That probably was the beginning of the unraveling because I wasn't that pandering, dutiful, get on my knees and whatever you want.' Someone else was, though," she added, seemingly confirming cheating speculation. "I didn't know that until many years later." There's been ample speculation that Chris Pratt's sudden rise to mega-fame played a part in his 2017 split from Anna Faris, who was previously the more well-known one in the relationship. In her memoir, Unqualified, she wrote about the strain of his success in a segment addressed to Chris: "I'm thrilled and grateful that you are doing the things you are, and I have crazy pride in the fact that your talents are recognized, but it can be hard not to have a moment of self-doubt when my husband is acting with young women in big movies and I'm playing a role in Mom that, while I love it, is completely unsexy." Elsewhere in her memoir, she wrote, "A while back, Chris asked me if I felt a lot of pressure from being in a high-profile relationship and I told him that I did — it was an odd circumstance. That he was asking that question made me think he probably felt that way, too." When author Justine Musk started dating her ex-husband, Elon Musk, they were both students. As she later wrote of his rising business profile in 2010, "Although I'd been dating a struggling 20-something entrepreneur, I was now engaged to a wealthy one." Justine said that Elon's South African upbringing and "he vast economic imbalance between us" resulted in a "certain dynamic" between them. "Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. 'I am your wife,' I told him repeatedly, 'not your employee,'" she wrote. "'If you were my employee,' he said just as often, 'I would fire you.'" He would go on to get engaged to actor Talulah Riley six weeks after their split. Cynthia Lennon gave birth to her child with then-husband John Lennon, right around the same time that Beatlemania began to take over the world. In her 2005 memoir, John, she wrote that she was told to "stay away" and even blocked entrance into a hotel John was staying in as security thought that she was a fan. John would go on to admit to numerous affairs following his fame, with their relationship ending shortly after she walked in on him and Yoko Ono sitting in robes. She wrote in her memoir, "The truth is that if I'd known as a teenager what falling for John would lead to, I would have turned round right then and walked away." Finally, Tom Cruise's first marriage, prior to his Top Gun success, was to actor Mimi Rogers. He would go on to initiate their divorce shortly before filming Days of Thunder, where he fell in love with his second wife, Nicole Kidman. In an interview in 2001, she said she didn't mind being the less famous one in their relationship, explaining, "I was doing the work that I wanted to do, and if I didn't have the commercial success that Tom had well, that's just the luck of the draw. When I met him, his career was just beginning to take off, and neither of us could imagine that he would become such a big star in such a short time." "But the stardom wasn't really a problem. What did annoy me, though, was the age thing," she said of their age gap. "Some of the tabloids brought it up all the time, and exaggerated the gap between Tom and me. Every six months they seemed to add a year to my age. If Tom and I were still married, the tabloids would probably have me in my sixties by now." Do any other high-profile examples come to mind? LMK in the comments!
Time Magazine
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
Tefi Pessoa: TIME100 Creators 2025
Tefi Pessoa is on Drew Barrymore's couch. She's making TikToks with Barack Obama. She's on the red carpet, interviewing Sarah Jessica Parker. She's doling out wisdom in her new advice column for the Cut , and soon she'll be yapping on her first podcast, Tefi Talks . Known online as @hellotefi, Estefanía Vanegas Pessoa is the internet's big sister—a title that's been a long time coming. In 2020, after her YouTube talk show, Tefi , was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Brazilian and Colombian American creator began posting unused clips—ranging from analyses of Robert Pattinson's 'golden ratio' to odes to pubic hair—on TikTok. 'Being online has helped heal something in me where I thought I had to ask permission or have certain accolades,' says Pessoa, 34, who also uses her platform to react to news events. Now, with 1.9 million followers on TikTok and 400,000 on Instagram, she says she still thinks of a post that gets more than 11 likes as a success—a nod to Instagram's simpler early days. For Pessoa, it's not about the numbers; it's about taking up space and giving others the freedom to do the same.
Elle
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Millennials Are Changing What 40 Looks Like
When Anne Hathaway was cast as a 40-year-old mom in The Idea of You, there was backlash online. Surprisingly, it wasn't about the sexy storyline, in which she romances a younger male pop star. Instead, armchair commentators on Reddit said that she 'looked like a teenage girl' and seemed too young for the role. The Cut noted that her portrayal 'suggests a sophisticate in her early 30s at best.' And it's true—Hathaway looks young enough to get ID'd at a liquor store. But at the time of filming, she was also the same age as her character. As a millennial myself, it's especially unnerving to witness the The Princess Diaries star turn 40—but it's not just Hathaway who is throwing everyone off. As millennials reach so-called middle age, no one seems to be looking or 'acting' their age anymore. For this generation, born between 1981 and 1996, the phrase 'age is just a number' isn't a form of self-soothing. It might actually be true. We are used to being scrutinized. For decades now, millennial behaviors have been well-documented and mocked. We're the avocado toast-pilled, girl boss-ified, American Apparel-wearing, BuzzFeed-quiz-taking, side-part-sporting generation. As the first generation that grew up with the internet, our every move has been dissected to forecast trends and analyze the state of the culture at large. All this attention made our approach to aging and beauty uniquely influential. For other generations, turning 40 often served as a trope for midlife crises or 'life ends here' jabs in movies and TV. Miranda Hobbes bemoaned 43 as her 'scary age' in Sex and the City (Carrie Bradshaw's—for the record—was 45). In This Is 40, Gen Xers Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are at a standstill in their lives and marriage. But now, as millennials reach the milestone, they're proving that this generation might actually be the first to push beyond aging stereotypes. 'There really is some truth to the idea that 40 is the new 30,' says Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and the author of Generation Me and the upcoming 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World. For many millennials, 40 doesn't feel like the midpoint of our life. 'They may anticipate longer lifespans, and more healthy years to enjoy,' says Anne Barrett, Ph.D., a professor of sociology at Florida State University. Twenge points out that millennials tend to be much less settled than previous generations, at least by traditional standards. Once, 40 was the age when your career was established, you'd been married for a long time, and your kids might be heading to college. According to Census data, in 1960, American women's median age at first marriage was around 20; today it's 28. In 2023, a Pew report found that a record number of 40-year-olds—25 percent—had never been married. Census data also shows that the number of women between 30 and 44 who have never had children is at a record high. Millennials aren't just figuring themselves out—they're holding onto their youthful looks, helped by a more open attitude toward beauty interventions. David Kim, M.D., a millennial dermatologist in New York City, calls us the 'Kardashian generation'—the first to witness the power of in-office treatments through influencers like Kim and Khloé, who actually admitted to getting them. When millennials came of age, he says, 'there was a huge spike in interest in cosmetic treatments and people being more curious about lasers and Botox and fillers.' Kim shares that openness to cosmetic treatments has helped millennials remain ageless into their fourth decade. Our generation proves that you can care about beauty and still be a serious person, and that beauty can be an empowering form of self-expression, too. Women like Emily Weiss of Glossier and Sophia Amoruso of Nasty Gal made a business out of celebrating individuality through beauty. 'We grew up in an age [when branding] encouraged being different, being you, and self-discovery,' Kim adds. Millennial beauty brands like Jen Atkin's Ouai, Milk Makeup, and ColourPop strike the perfect balance between accessible and playful. Some of us may have lived through more 'unprecedented times' than we would choose to, but we were also a generation raised on hope—we lived through Y2K and were thought of (or maybe thought of ourselves) as being a beacon of light for the new millennium. 'As teens and as young adults, millennials were more optimistic and had higher expectations than previous generations at the same age,' Twenge says. Perhaps hope is the secret sauce that you'll never find listed in your skin care ingredients. That hope, and need for self-expression, have shaped how millennials think about fashion, too. Take millennial pink, a term coined by ELLE's own fashion features director Véronique Hyland that ended up defining a generation of professional women. 'Around the time of the 'girl boss' era, you'd see women in pale pink suits—an intentional shade choice,' she says. 'The idea was that if you integrated yourself into the male-dominated power structure and brought a bit of femininity and your own flair, you could seamlessly fit into that existing system.' There was a softness to millennial pink. Now, Gen Z has Brat green, which Hyland says feels like the antithesis. 'It is intentionally sort of ugly,' she adds. 'It doesn't have this softness.' Brat green is jarring—it's a color that represents Gen Z's frankness and in-your-face attitudes, while millennials broke barriers more gently. Notably, millennials were also the first generation to put themselves out there on the internet, their MySpace and Tumblr experiments growing into the creator economy that exists today. In 2025, 84 percent of millennials say that user-generated content influences their beauty buying decisions, according to brand strategy consulting firm DCDX. The popularity of viral brands like Rhode, Rare Beauty, and Charlotte Tilbury shows that—even on the cusp of 40—millennials are using social media as a guide just as much as their Gen Z counterparts. Even as markers of success like home ownership elude them, research shows that many millennials continue to feel hopeful about the future. In a Deloitte survey, over 50 percent of them said they feel optimistic in their ability to make positive changes in the world around them, such as improving mental health awareness and access to education. Kim thinks that the generation's approach to aging also reflects their overall positivity. 'Millennials are happy looking—a little bit fresher, and brighter,' he says of his patients. 'They're very comfortable in their own skin, and they're not nitpicking everything about their hair, skin, or teeth that they don't like about themselves. They're very balanced. They really do embrace who they are.' As we enter our fourth decade, millennials are still exploring who they are—only now, there's less millennial pink, and American Apparel is firmly in the rearview. In 2025, turning 40 is not a midlife crisis. Rather, it's a time for reinvention (one survey showed that more than one in 10 millennials planned to quit their job for greener pastures in 2025). It's time to rethink cultural norms. And if you ask Hathaway, it's also time for really, mystifyingly good skin. ELLE Collective is a new community of fashion, beauty and culture lovers. For access to exclusive content, events, inspiring advice from our Editors and industry experts, as well the opportunity to meet designers, thought-leaders and stylists, become a member today HERE. Katie Berohn is ELLE's beauty editor. Previously, she held the same title at Who What Wear, where she was promoted from associate beauty editor. She's written for publications like The Cut, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Mashable. Her interests include fragrance, vintage shopping, hot yoga, food, travel, music, books, and attempting to make every NYT Cooking recipe. She's on the endless hunt to find the perfect shade of red lipstick.
Elle
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Why Turning 40 Looks Different for Millennials
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. When Anne Hathaway was cast as a 40-year-old mom in The Idea of You, there was backlash online. Surprisingly, it wasn't about the sexy storyline, in which she romances a younger male pop star. Instead, armchair commentators on Reddit said that she 'looked like a teenage girl' and seemed too young for the role. The Cut noted that her portrayal 'suggests a sophisticate in her early 30s at best.' And it's true—Hathaway looks young enough to get ID'd at a liquor store. But at the time of filming, she was also the same age as her character. As a millennial myself, it's especially unnerving to witness the The Princess Diaries star turn 40—but it's not just Hathaway who is throwing everyone off. As millennials reach so-called middle age, no one seems to be looking or 'acting' their age anymore. For this generation, born between 1981 and 1996, the phrase 'age is just a number' isn't a form of self-soothing. It might actually be true. We are used to being scrutinized. For decades now, millennial behaviors have been well-documented and mocked. We're the avocado toast-pilled, girl boss-ified, American Apparel-wearing, BuzzFeed-quiz-taking, side-part-sporting generation. As the first generation that grew up with the internet, our every move has been dissected to forecast trends and analyze the state of the culture at large. All this attention made our approach to aging and beauty uniquely influential. For other generations, turning 40 often served as a trope for midlife crises or 'life ends here' jabs in movies and TV. Miranda Hobbes bemoaned 43 as her 'scary age' in Sex and the City (Carrie Bradshaw's—for the record—was 45). In This Is 40, Gen Xers Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are at a standstill in their lives and marriage. But now, as millennials reach the milestone, they're proving that this generation might actually be the first to push beyond aging stereotypes. 'There really is some truth to the idea that 40 is the new 30,' says Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and the author of Generation Me and the upcoming 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World. For many millennials, 40 doesn't feel like the midpoint of our life. 'They may anticipate longer lifespans, and more healthy years to enjoy,' says Anne Barrett, Ph.D., a professor of sociology at Florida State University. Twenge points out that millennials tend to be much less settled than previous generations, at least by traditional standards. Once, 40 was the age when your career was established, you'd been married for a long time, and your kids might be heading to college. According to Census data, in 1960, American women's median age at first marriage was around 20; today it's 28. In 2023, a Pew report found that a record number of 40-year-olds—25 percent—had never been married. Census data also shows that the number of women between 30 and 44 who have never had children is at a record high. Millennials aren't just figuring themselves out—they're holding onto their youthful looks, helped by a more open attitude toward beauty interventions. David Kim, M.D., a millennial dermatologist in New York City, calls us the 'Kardashian generation'—the first to witness the power of in-office treatments through influencers like Kim and Khloé, who actually admitted to getting them. When millennials came of age, he says, 'there was a huge spike in interest in cosmetic treatments and people being more curious about lasers and Botox and fillers.' Kim shares that openness to cosmetic treatments has helped millennials remain ageless into their fourth decade. Our generation proves that you can care about beauty and still be a serious person, and that beauty can be an empowering form of self-expression, too. Women like Emily Weiss of Glossier and Sophia Amoruso of Nasty Gal made a business out of celebrating individuality through beauty. 'We grew up in an age [when branding] encouraged being different, being you, and self-discovery,' Kim adds. Millennial beauty brands like Jen Atkin's Ouai, Milk Makeup, and ColourPop strike the perfect balance between accessible and playful. Some of us may have lived through more 'unprecedented times' than we would choose to, but we were also a generation raised on hope—we lived through Y2K and were thought of (or maybe thought of ourselves) as being a beacon of light for the new millennium. 'As teens and as young adults, millennials were more optimistic and had higher expectations than previous generations at the same age,' Twenge says. Perhaps hope is the secret sauce that you'll never find listed in your skin care ingredients. That hope, and need for self-expression, have shaped how millennials think about fashion, too. Take millennial pink, a term coined by ELLE's own fashion features director Véronique Hyland that ended up defining a generation of professional women. 'Around the time of the 'girl boss' era, you'd see women in pale pink suits—an intentional shade choice,' she says. 'The idea was that if you integrated yourself into the male-dominated power structure and brought a bit of femininity and your own flair, you could seamlessly fit into that existing system.' There was a softness to millennial pink. Now, Gen Z has Brat green, which Hyland says feels like the antithesis. 'It is intentionally sort of ugly,' she adds. 'It doesn't have this softness.' Brat green is jarring—it's a color that represents Gen Z's frankness and in-your-face attitudes, while millennials broke barriers more gently. Notably, millennials were also the first generation to put themselves out there on the internet, their MySpace and Tumblr experiments growing into the creator economy that exists today. In 2025, 84 percent of millennials say that user-generated content influences their beauty buying decisions, according to brand strategy consulting firm DCDX. The popularity of viral brands like Rhode, Rare Beauty, and Charlotte Tilbury shows that—even on the cusp of 40—millennials are using social media as a guide just as much as their Gen Z counterparts. Even as markers of success like home ownership elude them, research shows that many millennials continue to feel hopeful about the future. In a Deloitte survey, over 50 percent of them said they feel optimistic in their ability to make positive changes in the world around them, such as improving mental health awareness and access to education. Kim thinks that the generation's approach to aging also reflects their overall positivity. 'Millennials are happy looking—a little bit fresher, and brighter,' he says of his patients. 'They're very comfortable in their own skin, and they're not nitpicking everything about their hair, skin, or teeth that they don't like about themselves. They're very balanced. They really do embrace who they are.' As we enter our fourth decade, millennials are still exploring who they are—only now, there's less millennial pink, and American Apparel is firmly in the rearview. In 2025, turning 40 is not a midlife crisis. Rather, it's a time for reinvention (one survey showed that more than one in 10 millennials planned to quit their job for greener pastures in 2025). It's time to rethink cultural norms. And if you ask Hathaway, it's also time for really, mystifyingly good skin.
Time of India
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Ryan Murphy defends American Love Story after backlash to Carolyn Bessette looks: 'That was just a camera test'
The American Horror Story maestro is now battling a horror of his own: fashion critics. After releasing sneak peeks of actors Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Kelly in their American Love Story roles as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and JFK Jr., the internet went feral. The Cut even declared the wardrobe 'fast-fashion knockoffs,' comparing the pieces to Zara and Mango. ah... the power of social media! ryan murphy for variety on the way people reacted to the wardrobe of his carolyn bessette: Internet drags American Love Story wardrobe for missing the Bessette mark From the jeans and jacket to the Birkin bag, everything Pidgeon wore in the images got roasted. Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's die-hard fashion girlies were not having it. One major gripe? The use of a No. 35 Birkin when Bessette allegedly carried a No. 40. The critique hit harder when Vogue also published a savage quote from Bessette's hairstylist, Brad Johns, who called Pidgeon's wig a disaster and accused her of having 'one-colour, ashy' hair. yeah the wardrobe for carolyn bessette in the ryan murphy series is certainly... a (bad) choice. why is it so hard to get some vintage prada/yohji/issey/ck clothes? Ryan Murphy says, 'that was a camera test, not the final look' Now Murphy has come clean: those images were not meant to be official stills. 'They were just thrown-together outfits for lighting tests,' he explained. He dropped the pics only to get ahead of the paparazzi who were ready to hound the NYC shoot. That Birkin? Borrowed from another costume department on a different sound stage. ryan murphy bffr dpmo To set the record straight, Murphy confirmed a style dream team is working behind the scenes, 10 experts forming a 'style advisory board' to perfect every fashion moment. The production has even bought original Bessette pieces and is reconstructing her iconic Narciso Rodriguez wedding dress from scratch. He also clarified that Sarah Pidgeon was wearing a wig, not her real hair—despite Johns's claims. Murphy compares backlash to real-life scrutiny faced by Bessette-Kennedy Murphy says the social media rage is eerily similar to how the public dissected the real Carolyn. 'It is not fair,' he stated. 'They're doing to our Carolyn what they did to her back then.' The show is not due until Valentine's Day 2026, but Murphy plans to release 20 short videos showing Pidgeon in final wardrobe alongside actual Bessette photos to silence the fashion police. Until then, let's maybe chill on the Birkin hate?
