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3 weeks ago | 
elle.com.au | Alexandra English
Joey King can spot a former child actor from a mile away. It’s as though there’s a secret code invisible to the rest of us that only they can understand. “Even if we don’t all necessarily know each other, you can always spot a freaking child actor!” she says. “It’s beautiful — having success as a child is so incredible — but it’s also really hard to transition into a young adult actor, then an adult actor. It’s a journey.
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1 month ago | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
On a bright winter’s day in January – Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to be exact – the former reality-TV star, convicted felon, sexual predator and multi-billionaire Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States, again. It was an absurd and sinister display of pomp and ceremony.
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1 month ago | 
elle.com.au | Alexandra English
One summer’s evening in early 2024, as the sun was beginning to set, a handful of women strolled across Sydney’s Moore Park with bows in their hair. While a cloud of bats loudly set off for their nightly flight, hundreds more women adorned in silky ribbons quietly poured off the tram and gently stormed across the grass, gathering in a polite crowd outside the Hordern Pavilion on the other side. To the outside world, it looked like a very nice cult.
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2 months ago | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
A small problem arises every time a new Bridget Jones film starts production: no-one seems to know who the real Bridget is. Is it the Oscar-winning actor Renée Zellweger, who has portrayed the adored Brit on screen for four films in 20-something years, or is it the award-winning author Helen Fielding, who created the character for a newspaper column in the early ’90s?
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
In June 2024, the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award – the highest honour in American cinema, bestowed upon an actor “whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art and whose work has stood the test of time” – went to a rookie. Actually, that’s not entirely true.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to prioritise your relationships—congratulations, you’re in the right place. We sought the counsel of psychologist, and founder of The Relationship Room, Rachel Voysey, to share her practical tips for those wanting to improve their relationships. Whether you want to reconnect with friends or reignite your intimacy with your partner, here’s some free advice from a professional. 1.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
As the CEO and co-founder of Kic, a fitness app and network that prioritises feeling over appearance, Laura Henshaw knows a thing or two about setting realistic fitness goals to take into the new year. “It’s completely normal for your motivation and energy to ebb and flow,” says Laura Henshaw of the pressure associated with the lofty fitness goals we’re all guilty of holding over ourselves each year. The best way to reframe your mindset?
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
Sick of feeling like you need to overhaul your entire life and personality as soon as the clock strikes 12 on New Year’s Eve? Us too – so these achievable New Year’s resolutions might be just the ticket to making 2025 your best yet. A well-lived life should be crafted as a series of building blocks, the lessons from each year building on the last.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
In September, a horrifying story of the mass drugging and raping of a French woman began to trickle into newspapers across the country. As the story gained momentum and details emerged, it began to feel like a bad mini-series, the kind you’d watch the first episode of before declaring it too far-fetched. You’d turn it off. Only Gisèle Pelicot’s story is real.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
elle.com.au | Alexandra English
Kirsha Kaechele, the First Lady of MONA and vigilante art curator, has reopened her Ladies Lounge installation for a month-long celebration after a stunning victory in Tasmania’s Supreme Court in September. During a lengthy and highly publicised legal process, which began when a male visitor brought a complaint to the anti-discrimination commissioner, MONA—Hobart’s Museum Of Old and New Art—was ordered to “cease refusing entry to persons who do not identify as ladies”.
