Body confidence

It's a photo that measures all of three by three inches in our September issue, but the letters about it started to flood my inbox literally the day Glamour hit newsstands. (As editor-in-chief, I pay attention to this stuff!) "I am gasping with delight...I love the woman on p 194!" said one...then another, and another, andanotherandanotherandanother. So...who is she? And what on earth is so special about her? Read More »

As a redhead, I’ve often been told I resemble, well, anyone else who also happens to have red — or even reddish — hair. When I had a pixie cut, people told me all the time I looked like a young Mia Farrow from “Rosemary’s Baby,” and before that, when my hair was longer, I always got compared to Lauren Ambrose from “Six Feet Under.” About two years ago people started telling me I looked like a character on a new series called “Mad Men.” I’d never seen the show, but a friend soon emailed me a picture of Joan Holloway and wrote “Your doppelganger!” in the subject line. I had to admit — we did kind of look a little alike.

A few months after that, I actually met a “Mad Men” cast member at our mutual friends’ Superbowl party and he even made a comment about how much I resembled his co-star, Christina Hendricks (something my husband likes to bring up as often as possible). It wasn’t until several months later when I finally rented the first season of the show that I really understood what a compliment it was to be compared to the incomparable Joan Holloway. She’s a vixen! A sex symbol! A goddess in tailored office-wear! If people like the way she looks, and they think I look like her, that can’t be a bad thing, right? Almost immediately, I started feeling more confident about myself.

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What’s it like to have Jillian Michaels kick your butt when you’re not a contestant on The Biggest Loser? A quasi-religious experience, as Glamour’s health department (Wendy Naugle, Sunny Sea Gold, and me) found out. We met Jillian at a Crunch gym in NYC yesterday for a workout. Read More »

First stop: Check out the new 5-Star Day widget.

OK, I turn on my computer and Yahoo comes popping up—I love this homepage since it always refreshes and tells me cool facts and useful items and yes, breaking news. It's where I learn about things like Ashton's Twitter surpassing the 1 million followers mark and beating CNN and the release of the ship captain and other news. And then I also see (every now and then) my own content from SELF, like how to eat to be healthier and lose weight. Well, I have a new application that, while not at an Ashton level of popularity, is certainly worthy of a gander: It's the SELF 5-Star Day, and it's so easy to use that you can lose weight no matter what you like to do for exercise or how you want to define your own healthy diet.

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When I was in the fourth grade, my grandmother gave me the worst gift of my life. I know she had the best of intentions, but this gift was one that shaped my body image--and my relationship with food--for years to come. Any guesses as to what it was? Read More »

I had the best kind of workout last night: I went to a gym class taught in a handbag showroom! Coincidentally, my trainer, Lacey, was tapped to teach her signature Booty Camp class to a group of fashion/magazine/media folk. So there we were, surrounded by Anya Hindmarch’s amazing bags. (Anya’s the woman behind the “I'm not a plastic bag” bags, but I’ve coveted her accessories long before that huge success.) After I RSVP’d, I received a cute little tank top in the mail with the words “Anya’s Gym Class” across it.

Check out these five ways to look cute at the gym! Read More »