Alexandra English

Features Editor at ELLE Australia

Features Editor at Marie Claire (Australia)

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Articles

Plestia Alaqad On How Beauty Can Prevail Alongside Devastation

2 weeks ago | marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English

The last “normal” meal Plestia Alaqad had in “normal” Gaza was hot chocolate and pizza on the evening of October 6, 2023. Hot chocolate and pizza: it’s an odd combination, she admits, but looking back, it’s one that would seem utterly, well, normal.
Joey King Talks Gypsy-Rose Blanchard And Her Hollywood Future

1 month 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.
How Will America's Broliarchy Effect Women?

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.
Gracie Abrams Talks Her Career, Taylor Swift & Chappell Roan

2 months 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.
Renee Zellweger On Why We Need Bridget Jones More Than Ever

Feb 8, 2025 | 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?
Nicole Kidman On 'Babygirl' & Why Being Called 'Good Girl' Is Hot

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.
How To Prioritise Relationships In 2025 With Rachel Voysey

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.
How To Be Fitter, Faster & Stronger In 2025 With Laura Henshaw

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?
New Year Same You: Achievable New Year's Resolutions To Set In 2025

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.
Will France's Attitudes Towards Women Change After Gisèle Pelicot

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.