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Elle
a day ago
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- Elle
Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin Write Loving Anniversary Tributes With New Photos
THE RUNDOWN On Wednesday, Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin celebrated their eight-year anniversary with two posts on Instagram to commemorate the occasion. Song shared two photos, one seemingly from the beginning of their relationship and the second from now. In the first pic, they're at a table dressed in white tablecloths and red settings, each wearing bunny ears and leaning into one another. In the second photo, they're smiling goofily at the camera, again appearing to be at a restaurant. In the caption, Song wrote, '8 years and there is still no one who makes me laugh or smile like the way you do. No one who makes me feel more seen, heard or loved. My partner in crime, my adventure partner, my best friend, my baby daddy, my favorite everything- thank you. To be loved by you is the greatest privilege. Happy anniversary. I love you❤️' Culkin's post is also a carousel, but every photo is of Song as she moves towards his camera on the beach. The actress is wearing all-black, including a black bikini, black net coverup skirt and top, and black wide-brimmed hat with black sunglasses. In one hand she's carrying a her black flip-flops and she has a black handbag over her shoulder. She is smiling broadly. In the caption, Culkin wrote, 'Happy anniversary, babe. Thank you for always coming towards me. You never run away.' The couple shares two boys, who have made a few rare appearances, most notably when Culkin was being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2023. In his acceptance speech, Culkin told Song, 'After the birth of our two boys, you've become one of my three favorite are absolutely everything. You're my champion. You're the only person happier for me today than I am. You're not only the best woman I've ever know, you're the best person I've ever known.'
Elle
2 days ago
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- Elle
The Unexpected Way Meghan Markle Is Teaching Archie and Lilibet About Money and Privilege
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. THE RUNDOWN Meghan Markle's children, Archie and Lilibet, are just six and four years old, respectively. But the Duchess of Sussex is already teaching them to understand the value of things through gardening and a little entrepreneurship. She spoke to Emma Grede on Aspire With Emma Grede about the conversations she is having with her children about money—and why she is approaching it the way she is at their Montecito, California, home. 'We sometimes do a little farmer's market stand,' she began. 'We grow a lot of veggies is really, really so great for children because it teaches them patience. [It] teaches them to value and appreciate their food. So you start from seed, and you watch it grow, and they wait. But with that, it's like, now do you want to sell your harvest? And do you want to share it with our community? And also, what do you want to do with those funds once you have them? So really starting to understand, as they're learning counting and numbers and all of those things, that there's a cost and a price for things. 'And I think that's key for children to understand that—especially children who are very lucky to have a home that has privilege. You need to know that, just like manners and taking care of the things around you, there is a value on things. And in our life, for my husband and I, it's really important that they understand the value of things.' Equally important to Meghan is being a good role model for Archie and Lili. She spoke to Grede about how motherhood changed her own self-esteem. She touched on how brutal auditions through her acting career shaped her view of herself in her twenties and thirties. 'If I was going in for an have to remember this was a very different time than it is now,' she prefaced. 'It was 'girl next door' that was typically blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and a certain look. But because I'm half white, I would also be submitted for those roles. And then if it was a character that had any sort of ethnicity, there was always a bit of a edge to those characters. But I'd be submitted for those roles. a lot of people in casting, they thought I was Latina. So I share that because—and I've shared this before—it was a numbers game. If I'm only up for 10 parts, that could be 10 nos. But if I'm up for 30 parts, because I can fit into so many different rooms, that could be 30 nos. 'That is a lot to chip away at your self-esteem,' she continued. 'That is really hard....I went through my chapter of self-doubt as an auditioning actor and beyond that, and when you're so consumed [with] what everyone around you thinks of you, that can be a really hard way to live. So I think as I've gotten older—certainly in my forties and as a mom—you want to set the example for what your children are going to think about themselves. And that, you can't have an imposter syndrome around. You have to be so authentically the role model and the example of competence, self-forgiveness, kindness, fun—all of those things. You can't fake that. You want to model that for them. So all of that really shifted in the past six years of becoming a mom for me.' You can listen to their full discussion here.
