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Metro
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Julia Fox wears her period blood with pride
Julia Fox has proven once again that she is the It-Girl to end all It-Girls -this time by wearing period blood as an accessory. Long-reduced to 'Kanye West's ex-girlfriend' in media mentions, the social media star, actress, model, and best-selling author is an artist in her own right. Her canvas? Her own image. The 35-year-old wore the daring ensemble as a part of her new role as the face of Mienne, a 'luxury house dedicated to desire' that claims to 'sell products dedicated to turning body care into a sacred ritual.' The brand named Fox, Lola Leon (Madonna's daughter), and Parris Goebel as its 'muses,' writing in their promo material that all three embody the ethos of the brand. Worn by anyone else, Fox's outfit – which features a head scarf, oversized sunglasses, a shirt that reads 'ladies night,' and panties stained at the crotch with what appears to be blood – would seem attention-grabbing and ridiculous. On her, it's a salient political statement on womanhood, desire, and the pain of beauty. Why? That's the power of Julia Fox. Her lack of self-consciousness, insistence on being sensual on her terms, and tendency to talk openly (whether on social media, to the press, or in her best-selling memoir) about her trials and tribulations, transforms any outfit she puts on into another point in an ongoing discourse she's having with the world. Speaking to Elle about her collaboration with the brand, Fox said: 'With Mienne, the campaign was whatever [I] wanted it to be, and that was so cool. I could choose my photographer, outfits, products, and also take my own pictures. The principles that were present during the shoot were what sex should be. It was, 'You can do this, or not.' 'I wasn't policed around or made to feel exploited in any way. Because of that, I really opened up, and had control and freedom over the direction of the brief. They're the real deal, and it's not bullshit, from behind the scenes to what they're putting out into the world.' While this might seem like what most celebrities would say to hawk a new product, chances are it will go a long way coming from Fox, who has a reputation for refusing to BS her fans. A TikTok video of the event, showing Julia's outfit, elicited supportive comments, with one fan writing: 'Love. Julia's the only celebrity who makes sense in this news cycle.' Another wrote: 'Omg Julia is so iconic!' Others were outraged, with one commenter on a news article about the event writing: 'Julia with the red crotch stained panties seems to be sending some loony liberal message. I remember seeing dims at demonstrations dressed like this, trying to virtue signal something about men can mensurate.' Another agreed: 'Julia Fox is so desperate.' But comments like these (particularly from men) are precisely what Fox tries to evoke with her boundary-pushing looks. She appeared at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in a sheer dress this year that only covered her crotch, thanks to the long mermaid hair that curled across, down, and around her body, earning similar outrage. Many expressed disgust, saying that the dress looked like overgrown body hair. Dressing for the male gaze is something most women do without even realising it, with hundreds of years of fashion trends and social conditioning working to subconsciously influence women's clothing choices. To escape it, one must make a deliberate choice – and be willing to risk becoming what women are most conditioned to fear: repulsive and unpalatable. More Trending A key aspect of Fox's art is challenging societal conditioning by turning elements that men often find unappealing on women – such as body hair or period blood – into statements of chic, high fashion. Chatting with Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss her memoir, Down the Drain, she said: 'Men hate my outfits. They're so mad that I'm not like how I was on Uncut Gems. 'I hear that all the time, but I don't care…because the girls love it. The girls and the gays love it!' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: James Bond actor Joe Don Baker dies aged 89 MORE: Chris Brown arrested in Manchester over bottle attack in London nightclub weeks before tour MORE: Rihanna teases release of first song in years and fans ask if their 'eyes are tricking them'
Daily Mail
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Harry's actress ex Cressida Bonas was 'too boho' to be a royal bride...now with her podcast to rival Meghan's, idyllic new life and closeness to the Prince's family, it's impossible not to ask 'what if?'
She's a former actress who has moved away from a burgeoning career in TV drama to write, make podcasts and create content around her experience of raising two children with her husband Harry. This might sound just like a quick summing up of the trajectory of Prince Harry 's wife Meghan Markle, but in fact it's a potted history of the royal's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas - his last serious relationship before meeting his now wife. The similarities, down to the women's personal projects and Instagram content, are notable, but where they diverge is in their relationship with the Royal Family. In his memoir Spare, Harry revealed how Cressida had the seal of approval of Wiliam and Kate, and to this day she is close with Beatrice and Eugenie - with the latter being the one to introduce the couple in the first place. It certainly raises intriguing 'what if's' about the future Harry may have had if he'd wed his last serious girlfriend before finding his 'soulmate' Meghan. Much like Meghan, Cressida kicked off her career as a model, actress and dancer, and was championed as a rising star by Harvey Weinstein when she was given a part in his £19 million costume drama Tulip Fever - before the disgraced movie mogul's downfall. She also had a leading role in the ITV true crime drama White House Farm. In recent years however, the Hampshire-born 'It-Girl', who is expecting her second baby with husband Henry Wentworth-Stanley, 35, has moved into writing and podcasting, with her social media feed turning from chic, artsy selfies to wholesome sunny snaps with her two-year-old son. It's a similar trajectory to that of the Duchess, who burst into the spotlight after playing paralegal Rachel Zane in the 2011 drama Suits - but shifted her focus after marrying Harry in 2018. The socialite, who is expecting her second baby, appears happier than ever as she recently shared a snap on a sunny day, in a canal boat with her husband - baby bump in sight The As Ever founder has, since making an Instagram comeback in the New Year, also come out with a Netflix cooking show and launched a lifestyle brand - As Ever - where she sells the likes of raspberry 'spread', flower sprinkles, herbal teas and cookie mixes. Meghan's path is comparable to Cressida's, with the British star going from wowing audiences as Daisy Buchanan in the Great Gatsby play to sharing heartfelt op-eds on motherhood in national magazines. The pair have even released new podcasts within days of one another - with Meghan announcing Confessions of A Female founder just days before Cressida launched Lessons From Our Mothers, hosted with her half sister, Isabella Branson, for a 'series of conversations that celebrate motherhood and mothering in all its forms'. The series features cameos from a variety of A-listers, including the likes of Kate Winslet, Giovanna Fletcher and Mary Berry - who made the duo a tasty homemade cake and a cup of tea. Cressida's close friend Princess Eugenie, who was the brains behind her match with Harry, will also speak as a guest. A sneak preview posted on the podcast's Instagram account saw Eugenie, 34, speak touchingly about her own mother, Sarah Ferguson. 'What is the most valuable thing you have learned from your mum?' Cressida asked in an episode. Eugenie said: 'I think for me, it's the fire inside, you know, the strength inside of you, and how to bring that out, and to pull it in when you most need it.' Though Lessons With Our Mothers is an exciting new career venture for Cressida, it's not the actress's first foray into podcast hosting. In 2020, she also launched Fear Itself, featuring guests such as Sir Richard Branson. Cressida encouraged her guests to share their personal stories around the nature of fear, to explore why it shows up, why people try to hide it, and what can be learned from it. The podcast ran for 37 episodes until 2021, with Matt Haig, Elizabeth Day, Jamie Laing and Emma Barnett among the guests featured. It's not the first time Cressida has spoken openly about her experiences with growing a family, as she has penned candid reflections on the topic for several outlets. Most recently, she opened up about her heartbreaking struggles to conceive in an extremely candid personal essay, where she also spoke of fears of losing her elderly mother and how she coped with her sister's death from cancer. Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend, 36, who is the daughter of Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, 78, and Jeffrey Bonas, 81, is currently expecting her second child with her property investor husband Harry Wentworth-Stanley. In an article written for the Telegraph, Cressida admitted that being a mother 'is unpredictable and frightening' and said she has 'elements of her childhood she would like to leave in the past'. The actress added that her late sister Pandora Cooper-Key, who died in July aged 51, always 'played a maternal role' and was 'protecting her even in her final days'. In a further candid confession, she revealed that she and her siblings feared they were going to 'lose their mother' when she was rushed into intensive care last year. 'My husband and I struggled to conceive, and our son is a product of IVF. Fortunately, after the successful transfer of another of our embryos, I am pregnant with our second child. 'Even though I remind myself how fortunate we are to have been able to have children, being a mum is the most challenging thing I've ever done. It is unpredictable, frightening and it tests me every day,' she wrote. The socialite has also previously spoken about how she conceived her first child through IVF. Cressida revealed that she was pregnant with her second child in January of this year. 'I am now well into my second pregnancy,' she wrote in The Spectator magazine. 'Having conceived through IVF the first time, we were fortunate to have another embryo stored away in a freezer.' Cressida added that it had been difficult pregnancy. 'I've been battling morning sickness,' she said. 'I've never had it before, and now feel like I've been swaying on a boat for months.' The writings offer yet another similarity between Cressida and the Duchess, who has also numerous times spoken about parenting and how motherhood has shaped her. During her Harry's trip to Nigeria last year, Meghan spoke poignantly about fulfilling her dream of becoming a parent as she opened up about her 'very chatty, sweet children' Archie, five and Lilibet, two at a Women in Leadership event she was co-hosting with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization. Meghan told the audience how much she loves being a mother but admitted that balancing her family and her career posed its own set of challenges. During the talk, Meghan was asked how she juggled her duties with her career. She replied: 'I love being a mum.' Despite being told more than ten years ago by her friend and mentor that she would never be able to balance both, the 42-year-old said her priorities are constantly changing. During the panel discussion, Meghan said that 'balance' in her life has changed over the years and looks different to ten years ago before she was married and had Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. She said: 'What I think that to mean now is that that balance will always change for you. That balance, what seems balanced ten years ago is going to shift.' Harry's relationship with Cressida - from 2012 to 2014 - was marked however, in contrast, a very unglitzy affair compared to his star-studded romance with Meghan, who he met in 2016. Despite his status as the most eligible bachelor in the country, the prince's love life involved a series of failed relationships with an array of heiresses and aristocrats. The As Ever founder has, since making an Instagram comeback in the New Year, also come out with a Netflix cooking show and launched a lifestyle brand - As Ever - where she sells the likes of raspberry 'spread', flower sprinkles, herbal teas and cookie mixes During her Harry's trip to Nigeria last year, Meghan spoke poignantly about fulfilling her dream of becoming a parent as she opened up about her 'very chatty, sweet children' Archie, five and Lilibet, two His on-off relationship with Chelsy Davy petered out after seven years, his fling with the late Love Island host Caroline Flack bombed and his romance with The Saturdays pop star Mollie King fizzled. Following the repeated failures, one expert claimed he started to feel like the 'royal Bridget Jones'. But his last serious relationship before Meghan was with someone who turned out to be an almighty hit with the entire Royal Family - Cressida. It lasted for two years, in which Cressida and the Prince spent un-glamorous date nights glumly holed up inside his small bachelor pad eating takeaways and watching Netflix, a book by royal expert Tina Brown claimed. But their relationship also had a more serious side, and in Harry's tell-all memoir Spare he wrote how he cried to Cressida about his mother for the first time since she died when he was 12. The Royal Family were so sad to see her walk away that Charles labelled her the 'one that got away', a source told Brown. Cressida, known as Cressie, dated Prince Harry between 2012 and 2014 after being introduced to him by his cousin Princess Eugenie at a music festival in Hampshire. She drank rum straight up, a magazine approvingly reported, and when embarrassed she was heard to exclaim 'Cringe de la cringe!', according to Brown. Blonde Cressida is the daughter of 1960s It girl Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon – who once famously posed apparently topless, smeared in motor oil – and Old Harrovian Jeffrey Bonas (her mother's third husband) who owns a fabric company called MacCulloch & Wallis. She was also athletic, winning a sports scholarship to Prior Park College in Bath before attending the co-ed boarding school Stowe. After school she studied dance at Leeds University and later pursued acting as well as modelling for Mulberry. Throughout her relationship with Harry, the couple went on trips together to Switzerland, attended concerts, and were even spotted on date nights at burger joints. Brown wrote she was Harry's guest at Sandringham for shooting weekends, and she blended easily with his friends. The budding actress was encircled by her discreet but entertaining extended aristocratic family and it seemed like she was perfectly suited for palace life. She also seemed to be understanding of the prince's shortcomings. Just before he deployed to Afghanistan in late 2012, he was photographed naked while playing 'strip billiards' in his Las Vegas hotel suite. Following the incident he apologised to her for 'embarrassing her'. Tina Brown wrote in her book The Palace Papers: Inside The House Of Windsor - The Truth And The Turmoil, 'Cressie was amused and forgiving' after the antics. With one royal source telling Brown, who was a confidante of Diana's, following the incident Harry appeared with 'his tail between his legs, looking like a puppy who had peed on the carpet'. Harry also wrote about the incident in Spare: 'After hearing my careful and abashed explanation, she came to the same conclusion. I'd been a dummy, not a debaucher. I apologised for embarrassing her.' But eventually it is claimed Cressida got tired of his frat-boy antics and wanted him to be less laddish. While media reports talked of her romantic and glamorous love affair with the prince, Brown writes the 'bizarre reality of date nights was glumly eating takeaway and watching Netflix at Nottingham Cottage, Harry's none-too-tidy two-bedroom grace-and-favour bachelor pad in the grounds of Kensington Palace'. The digs were a far cry from the grandeur that might have been expected from dating Princess Diana's son, as the ceilings were so low that when William lived there with Kate he had to stoop to avoid hitting his head. Cressida also reportedly became increasingly concerned about Harry's mental health. She saw the stress of William and Kate's royal tour on television and became overwhelmed with the thought of doing it herself, especially with Harry's increasingly explosive temperament, claims Brown. He took up boxing because, as he later said, he was always 'on the verge of punching somebody'. According to Brown, it was Cressie who first persuaded him to see a therapist. In Spare, Harry revealed how the couple broke up after a skiing trip to Kazakhstan in March 2014. He recalled how Cressida was the one who he broke down in tears to when talking about the loss of his mother on a skiing trip to Switzerland the previous year. The Duke had said this was the first time he cried since Princess Diana's burial when he was 12. 'Wiping my tears, I thanked her. She was the first person to help me across that barrier, to help me unleash the teats. It was cathartic, it accelerated our bond, and added an element rare in past relationships: immense gratitude', he wrote. 'I was indebted to Cress, and that was the reason why, when we got home from Kazakhstan, I felt so miserable, because at some point during that ski trip I'd realised that we weren't a match. 'There was massive affection, deep and abiding loyalty – but not love everlasting,' he shared. 'I've learned so much from you, Cress', he told her. 'She nodded. She looked at the floor, tears running down her cheeks. Damn, I thought. She helped me cry. And now I'm leaving her in tears.' After their relationship broke down, Harry wrote her a sweet letter saying, 'I admire you, I wish you well and above all thank you for helping me to address my demons and seek help', Brown claimed a contact told her. In Spare, Harry revealed how he considered marrying Cressida, and that his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Kate had 'mentioned, pointedly, repeatedly, how much they liked Cressida'. And according to one source Brown spoke to, Prince Charles expressed his regret at a Buckingham Palace function some time after the couple split, saying: 'I don't know what to do about Harry. We so miss Cressida.' Nevertheless she remained close to her friend Eugenie, who remains Harry's best friend in the Royal Family today. And she kept in touch with Harry, attending his and Meghan's wedding in 2018. She also moved on herself in 2020, marrying the son of the Marchioness of Milford Haven - Harry Wentworth-Stanley. The dashingly handsome 6ft 4in partner in a property investment firm comes from a 1,000 acre estate in the Sussex Downs. The couple initially struggled to conceive, and Cressida eventually fell pregnant through IVF before welcoming a boy, Wilbur, in 2022. They chose his middle name in honour of her husband Harry's brother James, who took his own life in 2006 at the age of 21. In recent years, Cressida has been photographed on occasion walking around London in casual attire, sometimes with her baby in tow. In May she was spotted smiling at the lavish wedding of a billionaire in Venice, seemingly completely at peace with not having married into the Royal Family. The socialite, who is expecting her second baby, appears happier than ever as she recently shared a snap on a sunny day, in a canal boat - baby bump in sight.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jenna Ortega perfects goth glam at Paris Couture Week
Could goth girl glam be the It-Girl trend for 2025? Jenna Ortega thinks so. Known for her sinister roles as Wednesday Addams in Netflix's hit show Wednesday, Astrid Deetz in Tim Burton's silver screen blockbuster Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Tara Carpenter in the sixth Scream film, it's no surprise as to why the actress gravitates to an all-black colour palette. Making it clear just how chic gothic attire can be, the 22-year-old Californian arrived at Dior's Haute Couture show in Paris, sporting a head-to-toe look hailing from the French designer Maison. For the occasion, Jenna styled together a set of black micro shorts over a set of sheer black denier tights, a fitted plunging neck capped sleeve blazer, cinched at the waist with gold fixture buckles and a set of long leather gloves. To top off the outfit and elevate the ensemble to the peak of haute style, the Hollywood heavyweight added a pair of black platform heels, a leather Dior handbag, a set of gold-toned earrings and a set of striking black sunglasses. Jenna has been the poster girl for emo-chic since she entered the chat as everybody's favourite (somewhat morbid) character Wednesday Addams back in 2022. Since then, she sent things into hyperdrive on the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice press circuit, sporting a plethora of peak chic gothic ensembles on the red carpet and beyond. Plus, let's not forget her custom Harris Reed gown and matching pinstripe Dolce & Gabbana twin set. Jenna isn't the only A-lister championing a goth girl moodboard for 2025. Last year, Dua Lipa made it her prerogative to style a stream of all-black outfits both on and off stage. From fishnet tights and leather corset bodysuits, as well as dying her famed cherry-cola-toned locks jet black, Dua joins Jenna on the grunge-fuelled fashion quest and, likely, we're not far behind.
