Samantha Leach

6 days ago | bustle.com | Samantha Leach

“When was your last panic attack?” Lewis Pullman asks me. We’ve been talking about how we’re both too anxious to enjoy psychedelics — “I don’t like feeling out of control in my brain,” he says — which is not really the conversation you’d expect to be having with a newly minted Marvel star on the eve of his blockbuster hitting theaters.

1 week ago | bustle.com | Samantha Leach

Carla Sosenko spent much of her life trying to tame her body. She had liposuction at eight years old, cycled in and out of Weight Watchers, and hid her frame under layers and layers of clothes. But in her debut memoir, Sosenko tries a different approach — finally coming to terms with the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome that left her with two different sized legs, a hunched posture, and many more idiosyncrasies.

2 weeks ago | bustle.com | Samantha Leach

In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at the blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. While Sarah Jessica Parker has always been a big reader, nothing could prepare her for the 200-plus books she’ll have tackle this year as a newly appointed Booker Prize judge. “When I finished this most recent batch, we were up to book 103,” the And Just Like That... star tells Bustle.

1 month ago | nylon.com | Samantha Leach

Once upon a time, in a Williamsburg apartment with more roommates than square footage, Terrence O’Connor could feel his life starting to change. His boyfriend and closest collaborator, comedian Benito “Benny Drama” Skinner, had just uploaded an impression of Gossip Girl’s Serena van der Woodsen to Instagram. “Blake Lively liked the post and we were literally jumping up and down on our bed, almost crying, like, ‘We made it,’” he tells me over drinks at the Dimes Square hotel Nine Orchard.

1 month ago | bustle.com | Samantha Leach

By Episode 10 of The Pitt, Dr. “Robby” Robinavitch has already completed a triathlon’s worth of herculean medical feats.