Table of contents for Issue 834 in Grazia

IT'S BEEN A bombshell couple of weeks in Westminster, but the party's finally over for Boris Johnson. So what next? On p12, political commentator Gaby Hinsliff looks at whether female leadership of the Conservative party is a possibility - and what that would do for the country. Whatever happens with the leadership battle in the weeks to come, I hope affordability and accessibility of childcare remains on the political agenda. It's something we've been campaigning on through The Juggle and with charity Pregnant Then Screwed; earlier this month the Government announced measures that don't go far enough but are a sign they're listening. Join us on Instagram @thejuggleuk where we'll be continuing the fight. We've seen with the horrifying overturning of Roe v Wade in America (see p44), women's rights…

LET THERE BE NO doubt: the overturning of Roe v Wade by the US Supreme Court is the worst thing to happen to women's rights in my lifetime - in all our lifetimes. It is a devastation. Let's count the ways that denying swathes of American girls and women abortion provision will hurt. There's the way it will lock generations of women into cycles of poverty, because banning abortion disproportionately clobbers those already struggling, those who can't meet the travel costs to get to a state that does allow abortion, for example, so are then obliged to have and raise children they cannot begin to afford. There's the shame it will engender, the stigma. There are the risks. When women can't end pregnancies legally, we find other ways, none of…

IT'S THE TIME OF year when love runs high, ice cream van platoons annex entire counties and difficult truths must be faced. You're having some kind of summer, girl. The question is, which one? ‘Hot Girl', ‘Feral Girl', ‘Goth Girl' and, erm, ‘Side Character'… There are more mystifying labels clunking around than on the conveyor belts at Gat wick baggage reclaim. Don't fret. In the great, fantasy dressing room of Big Summer Trends (think Ru Paul's Werk Room, but with dreamy piña coladas and a side return to the beach), we all have something to learn. Who knows, Megan Thee Stallion may be minutes from declaring a new summer variant. Dot Girl Summer? (Super-techy.) Scot Girl t Summer? (Highland-theme.) Shot Girl Summer? (Please, no.) The mind Bk boggles. But, for…

IN AN EVER-SERIOUS world with an increasingly depressing news cycle, Jeremy Scott is the bow-wrapped antidote. If you don't know the pop culture pin-up by name, it's unlikely you've missed his designs. The Kansas-born fashion designer counts Katy Perry among his best mates, has dressed Madonna and genuinely considers ball gowns as viable daywear. Britney Spears' air hostess outfit in the Toxic video is his. As is Lady Gaga's outfit in Paparazzi. Scott loves a theme - in 2019, he sent Perry down the red carpet in a light-up chandelier to the camp-themed Met Gala, before dressing her as a human-sized burger for the after-party. This year's Met was further proof he understands an assignment. The evening's ‘Gilded Glamour' dress code was catnip for Moschino (Scott had unknowingly designed T-shirts…

GRAZIA HEALTH + BEAUTY GLOSSIER With a digital-first, direct-to-consumer business model, Glossier disrupted an industry previously reliant on high-street wholesalers when it launched with the key components of any beauty bag: a moisturiser, a skin tint and a lip balm. But it was its Boy Brow (£14) that really took off: an eyebrow mascara that gave Cara Delevingne-style definition while looking natural and fluffy, PAT McGRATH OH, BEAUTY; CUTE!' That was the response that Emily Weiss, founder of Glossier, would get in the boardroom when pitching her brand to investors. With millennial pink packaging and a digital-first strategy to focus on young, switched-on shoppers, her idea wasn't taken seriously by the blokes in suits. Beauty is an industry worth $511 bn, and Glossier, which launched in 2014, is now worth…

READ GRAZIA BOOK CLUB 'MY NAME IS Meredith Maggs and I haven't left my home for 1,214 days.' So begins this beautiful story about a young woman's life of isolation. When we're first drawn into Meredith's world, we know little of why she's shut herself away inside her Glasgow home. But as the story unfolds, we learn of her dysfunctional childhood and meet her big sister Fee, who tried to protect Meredith from their mother's unkind ways. We're also transported to 2015, the day she decides to stay home for good. On the surface, Meredith's life seems calm. She's a freelance writer and spends her days cooking and doing jigsaws. But we're reminded of the narrowness of her life with the arrival of Tom, a kind volunteer from a befriending…

“GRAZIA LIFE ADVICE 1 All human beings have a superpower. It's called neuroplasticity: it means we have the capacity to change our brains. You can't eradicate emotional injuries from the past but, through understanding yourself, you can learn to change your response to situations. Once you know what triggers the ‘shitty committee' in your head - the voices that say, for example, ‘They don't love me any more' - you'll have the awareness to calm down and tell yourself a different story. 2 Vulnerability is the key to authentic connection. Love is a risky business but we're not taught at school what love means, or how to show love. One of the definitions of love is being fully seen for who you are, with all your faults and all your…

Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK BODY BEAUTIFUL This makes my heart sing! A girl who looks like me in a bikini on the cover (11 July). I've just been on a work trip, which involved some down time and being in swimwear on a boat. I had told myself that this time I would be body confident and not feel self-conscious, but then I thought I heard some of the crew discussing my body and covered up for the whole trip and felt miserable while everyone else had fun. However, seeing this gorgeous cover has made me want to try again; next time I will be like Leslie Sidora. I need to shake off this bad body image and start…

1. Up RIHANNA Youngest selfmade billionaire, according to Forbes (though our lust is motivated by looks, not cash. We're shallow, we're just not money shallow.) 2. Up MELISSA McCarthy Heavenly in God's Favourite Idiot (pun intended); also pushing what we've come to recognise as a truly exceptional wardrobe. 3. New in DAVIDE AND EKIN-SU We've thought about it a lot — have concluded it's not too much to declare them the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of the Love Island villa after all. 4. Non-mover NAOMI In stripy full-length mesh, with a micro bag, at Paris couture week. We shall never tire of looking at her. 5. Non-mover THE QUEEN Photographed up Front in a Range Rover, in the company of her racing manager, en route to see her horses;…

Had he not resigned in a blaze of shame, 24 July would have marked Boris Johnson's third anniversary as PM. In that time there have been an unprecedented four Education Secretaries: Gavin Williamson, Nadhim Zahawi, Michelle Donelan (who quit after just 48 hours) and James Cleverly. Johnson claimed his party will continue 'cutting burdens' on families, but with Westminster in turmoil, will our fight for affordable childcare slip even further off this Government's radar? Last spring, Grazia and its parenting platform The Juggle launched our Childcare Change Now campaign with the charity Pregnant Then Screwed (PTS). We called for a Government-led independent review of the cost and availability of UK childcare - the second most expensive globally. In response, on this year's International Women's Day, no less, the Government said…

GRAZIA FEATURE FOR SEVERAL YEARS I was locked into an intense friendship that wasn't healthy. My then BFF portrayed herself as a maverick, someone who wasn't afraid to make bold, unconventional life choices and to challenge the status quo. But behind closed doors she was extremely insecure and often went out of her way to undermine my self-esteem, to say or do things that were deliberately cruel, manipulating vulnerabilities she'd gleaned from our intimate chats. After I'd finally found the strength to extricate myself, it occurred to me I'd be far less likely to let a man treat me this way for so long. We've all been there: shocked, hurt or downright appalled by the actions of another woman, but afraid to call her out (and how we'll be perceived…

GRAZIA HEALTH + BEAUTY FOR OVER A DECADE, Huda Kattan has sold a face. Her face. One of geometric brows, anatomically impossible cheekbones, feline eyes and pillowy lips. It's coveted and copied by millions; 50.6 million, to be precise - the astronomical number of people who follow her on Instagram, which, to put it into context, is greater than the population of Spain. As the founder of Huda Beauty, a company that in 2019 was valued by Forbes at $1.2bn, the 36-year-old is one of the most influential people in the industry. The Iraqi-American blogger started out in 2013, selling fake eyelashes to her beauty-obsessed following. Within three years, she expanded her product offering to include liquid matte lipsticks and eyeliners, and in less than five, while deftly using YouTube…

THE MOST IMMEDIATELY Striking feature of The Thing About Pam is not that star Renée Zellweger is wearing a body suit, face altering prosthetics and a full suburban wardrobe, entirely befitting her strange anti-heroine, Pam Hupp. No, it's that in her new guise Zellweger looks remarkably like the sublimely camp comedy actor and The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge. I spent the first 10 minutes of the pilot wondering quite what Coolidge would make of it, just one of several distractions in this new murder mystery. Based on a true story - isn't everything these days? - The Thing About Pam is a slightly bizarre story. We are in the Republican heartland of Troy, Missouri, two nights after Christmas. Pam is due to collect her best friend Betsy from her…

12 JULY 2022 “Ladies, let's fix this mess ourselves Life is all a bit much right now, that we can all agree on. The last few days or political bedlam have made for bleak viewing - and women's issues will once again be put on the back burner while our Government scrambles to find a new leader. But with chaos comes opportunity: a chance to encourage more women to take a stand - literally, for public office. Parliament may not be the most welcoming place for female politicians - not by a long shot - but with greater representation that can change. Now's the time to roll up our sleeves and realise that if we want this done right, we're going to have to do it ourselves.…

JELLY BABIES Your favourite beach shoes just got a lift. £350, Loewe INTERIOR MONOLOGUE Zara Home's new collaboration is with legendary Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen. whose clients include Kim Kardashian. Want. It. All. From £130, Zara Home PICTURE THIS HOT METAL Boho meets disco? I'm here for it all day long. CLEAN SWEEP Can I be the woman who wears head-totoe white (and keeps it that way)? I will certainly be trying. MUST READ The new release from the ferociously talented Ottessa Moshfegh promises to be strange, subversive and utterly unique. £14.99, Jonathan Cape GO SEE Chichester's brilliant Pallant House gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. I'll be making a trip to see the Glyn Philpot: Flesh And Spirit exhibition. Until 23 October; pallant.org.uk OLFACTORY ALCHEMY With top…

GRAZIA FEATURE WALKING MY TODDLER like a marionette between my feet, his hot chubby hand in mine, I look up and see a garden where I once had sex with a man I'd met on the dance floor. As my son stumbles over the cobbles, his legs like cotton-clad pieces of overcooked penne, my mind plays out in perfect detail climbing up the tree, jumping the fence, feeling the edge of my 1950s summer dress rip on a branch, and then the heat of that man's mouth on my neck. Standing in this square I am simultaneously both a mother and a teenager; both here and in the past. Moving back to your hometown as a grown-up is a twilight zone head boil; a real cut-price piece of sci-fi. Everywhere…

HIGH-NECK DRAMA 1. BOARDROOM BLOUSES WHETHER YOU'RE PARTIAL TO A PUSSY BOW, PUFFED SLEEVES OR PUNCHY SHADES, MAKE SURE YOUR TOP HALF SMARTENS UP THIS SUMMERS BOSS IT BAGS Hybrid working means it's almost impossible to go handsfree. But with a kitchen-sink tote for your tech and a sleek shoulder bag for your essentials (phone, card, lipstick, pass), you'll at least score outfit points in the office lift. 2. EASY DOES IT HOT AND BOTHERED? PARE BACK EVERYTHING WITH SPORTSWEARADJACENT PIECES THAT WILL DO THE HARD WORK FOR YOU, IT'S ALL IN THE MIX: TANK TOPS WORN WITH CHINOS AND BOXER-STYLE SHORTS WITH BLAZERS. COOL CO-ORDS 3. SHORT STORY SHORTS FOR THE OFFICE? ABSOLUTELY! JUST MAKE SURE THEY'RE TAILORED AND ADD A MATCHING BLAZER FOR A LOOK TIT AT SAYS ‘BOARDROOM' RATHER…

PRESCRIPTION Yes, it's possible to get some sleep during a heatwave THE PROBLEM With summer temperatures on the up, doing anything - including catching 40 winks - is set to be a challenge. Having a fan at full blast seems to be the only respite, but is it safe? WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ‘It's generally fine to sleep with a fan on all night,' says Dr Greg Porter, co-founder of Resilient Nutrition, before adding some important caveats. ‘They can exacerbate dry skin, asthma and some allergies by increasing the circulation of small particles.' To minimise this, Dr Porter recommends aiming your fan at your torso and trying a lower setting. THE ONE TO INVEST IN If you don't want to wake up a stuffy mess, Porter recommends one that also…