Five inspirational books by trailblazing women
The team picks five empowering reads by (and about) inspiring, trailblazing women
The Stella reading list
Stronger by Poorna Bell
After her husband died in 2015, journalist Bell managed her grief by getting physically stronger, but along the way she strengthened her mental well-being, too. In this moving semi-memoir, she completely rethinks what it means to be a strong woman. From hating PE as a child, to not wanting to touch weights at the gym as an adult for fear of ‘bulking up’, it immediately resonated – as it no doubt will for many other women.
Jodie Turner-Smith On Meghan Markle Exit: Missed Opportunity For Royals
The actor touched on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex s step back from the royal family in January 2020 and spoke of the monarchy s dysfunction.
Jodie Turner-Smith says Meghan Markle’s royal exit was a “terrible missed opportunity” for the British royal family.
The actor, who is portraying Anne Boleyn in a Channel 5 drama by the same name, discussed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s step back from the royal family in an interview with The Telegraph published over the weekend.
Writer Sonia Haria asked Turner-Smith if she saw Meghan as “a great modernizer of the monarchy.”
Sonia Haria
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It’s official: make-up is back. Hooray! After a year that saw sales for skincare surge as we became more interested in the lotions and potions in our bathroom cabinets than the cosmetics in our make-up bags, the time has come for us to dust off our lipsticks and collectively get our game faces on for our slow re-emergence back into society. I, for one, can’t wait to start dressing up again.
How fitting that, 100 years on from the roaring twenties, we’re seeing a return of the fun and creativity associated with make-up. Val Garland, the leading British make-up artist behind the looks on these pages, agrees: ‘After the year we’ve had, people are desperate to dress up. It’s time to get that lip on, the blush on and even more eye make-up. This period is reminiscent of the 1920s, but also the 1980s, when you wanted to be an individual.’