Table of contents for 1/16/2017 in People

For January 16, 2017 'I didn't know she was as ready as she was. I was completely shocked. I was crying uncontrollably.' —SAMIRA WILEY, on Orange Is the New Black writer Lauren Morelli's proposal, to Out magazine 'I am not a piece of meat.... I'm an adult in a relationship with a man who treats me with love and respect.' —ARIANA GRANDE, responding to a fan who objectified her, on Twitter 'My mom took a pic of me looking down at my phone and captioned it "Dinner with Zendaya and her phone." Seriously, I've gotta do a detox.' —ZENDAYA, on her relatable New Year's resolution, on her app 'I'm at peace with paying my own price, [but not] when it invades on my kids' space and time. They didn't make…

Carrie & Debbie WHEN DEBBIE REYNOLDS died a day after Carrie Fisher, some who knew them joked (affectionately) that Debbie was once again trying to upstage her daughter. I am fairly certain that Carrie would have said the same thing. After years of turmoil, estrangement and ultimately forgiveness, Carrie kept her mother close (literally—they lived on the same property at the time of their deaths) but never grew sentimental or lost her sense of humor about her family or herself. "I am truly a product of Hollywood inbreeding," Carrie once wrote. "When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result." Carrie's fierce intelligence and personal demons gave her a remarkable objectivity about her own life, and it was a doozy. She was baptized in tabloid ink at the age…

ALL THE NEWS & BUZZ FROM HOLLYWOOD SERENA WILLIAMS SURPRISE ENGAGEMENT! ONE OF THE WORLD'S greatest tennis players has finally met her match. On Dec. 29 Serena Williams, 35, took the world by surprise by announcing her engagement to her boyfriend, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, whom she's been quietly dating since last fall. And she announced it in a very fitting way: on Reddit, the news-aggregating website that calls itself "the front page of the Internet," in one of the subreddit sections dedicated to engagement stories. Williams revealed in a free-verse poem that her fiancé had whisked her away to Rome (where she says they first met) for the life-changing moment. "Back to where our stars first collided / And now it was full circle / At the same table…

On the way to an awards show, Carrie Fisher was asked what connected her and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, besides the red carpet beneath their feet. "Oh, we're always on a red carpet," she joked. "A red carpet connects our homes." It was close to the truth. "At the one end of the family compound in Beverly Hills lived Debbie Reynolds, star of Singin' in the Rain, with Dorothy's red slippers from The Wizard of Oz on the mantelpiece," said Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom, who shared written memories exclusively with People after filming the pair in 2014 and 2015 for the new HBO documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, airing Jan. 7. "Adjacent was Princess Leia, in a house where Bette Davis once lived. You don't…

When Brit Marling—then a senior economics major at Georgetown—scored a job offer from Goldman Sachs in 2005, rather than celebrate, she had an epiphany. "I thought, 'I'm setting myself up for a life that I'm not really going to enjoy,'" says Marling, who promptly ditched investment banking for acting. Eleven years later Marling, 33, is reveling in her decision, thanks to the overnight success of The OA, her so-crazy-it's-addictive new sci-fi mystery series on Netflix. But Marling's rise to fame wasn't typical for a Hollywood starlet. "Nobody in L.A. wants to audition an actress in her 20s who has never even been in a car commercial," the Illinois native says of her early years in showbiz. Disappointed by the variety of roles available for women, Marling decided to control her…

PREMIERES Feb. 19 HBO BIG LITTLE LIES STARRING Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz Reese Is No Longer the 'Only Woman' in the Room Reese Witherspoon was tired of working in a man's world. "So often I'm the only woman on a set full of men," says the Oscar winner. But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress is now bringing Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor. "It became this really interesting group of women whose work I'd always loved," Witherspoon, 40, says of enlisting Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz to star alongside her in the limited series, which explores themes of domestic violence, marriage and motherhood. "Getting to work with them…

JESSICA ALBA Look of the Week THE STAR'S LAID-BACK WAVES AND BERRY LIP COLOR STOOD OUT WHEN SHE HOSTED THE OPENING OF LADUREE IN L.A. Meet Her Glam Squad! HAIR Renato Campora @renatocampora Tell us about this look. It's soft and simple. I didn't want to overstyle her hair, so I gave her relaxed waves and a middle part to frame her face. She thought it was cool. How did you create the style? I only curled sections from midshaft to a few inches above her ends. Then I misted her hair with sea-salt spray and blow-dried it for a few seconds to get that effortless texture. Is her hair naturally wavy? Yes. It's gorgeous. We've worked together for about 12 years, and sometimes when I see it air-dried, I…

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The veteran actress, 85, stars in the new Netflix reboot of One Day at a Time The series has been reimagined with a Latino cast. Why did you want to do it? I loved the concept, and it's such a funny show. We happen to be a Cuban family, but it doesn't leave anybody out. The balance is absolutely brilliant. What do you love about your character Lydia? She's the grandma, and I adore her because she is such a diva. I love her vanity. She was talking about her daughter's wedding, and she said, "God, I looked beautiful!" You just turned 85. Any thoughts on slowing down? The moment we finished our 13th episode, I had one week off. And then I went on tour doing cabaret and lectures.…

BABIES Singer Pink, 37, and husband Carey Hart, 41, welcomed their second child, a baby boy named Jameson Moon, on Dec. 26. The newborn joins big sister Willow Sage, 5. • Just Friends actress Amy Smart, 40, revealed on Jan. 1 that she has welcomed her first child, daughter Flora, with her husband, Carter Oosterhouse, 40. ENGAGED Gilmore Girls' Danny Strong, 42, proposed to his girlfriend, actress and producer Caitlin Mehner, during the couple's vacation in Hawaii and announced the news on Dec. 30. SPLITS Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Ben Mendelsohn, 47, and his wife of four years, writer Emma Forrest, 40, are separating. • Supergirl star Melissa Benoist, 28, has filed for divorce from her husband, The Edge of Seventeen actor Blake Jenner, 24. CRIME On…

On New Year's Eve in Palm Beach, Fla., Luann de Lesseps finally got her happily ever after. The star, 51, tied the knot with Tom D'Agostino Jr. in a lavish, modern-chic outdoor ceremony on the groom's 50th birthday. "It was one of the best days of my life," de Lesseps tells People. As 250 guests watched, de Lesseps, in a Randi Rahm Couture gown, trailed behind her flower girl, daughter Victoria—and was given away by her brother Michael. (De Lesseps's son Noel served as the ring bearer.) "To celebrate with all of my friends and family in one night was just magical," says de Lesseps, who had a big hand in planning the picture-perfect weekend. Gushes her groom: "Luann put her heart and soul into this, and it really shows.…

EXCLUSIVE People EXCLUSIVE By starring in Sister Wives, TLC's show about fundamentalist Mormon polygamists, the Brown family became famous not just for its unconventional relationships but for its adherence to strict religious beliefs. So when Mariah Brown asked all five of her parents—her father, Kody, her biological mother, Meri, and her mothers through polygamy, Janelle, Christine and Robyn—if she could talk with them about something deeply personal, the group feared what would come next. "I wondered if she was going to drop out of school and move to Europe," Kody recalls. Janelle, his second wife, was even more worried. "My head was racing," she says. "I was terrified something was really wrong and she was sick." Instead, the Westminster College senior stunned everyone by announcing she was a lesbian. "I…

From the beginning Jeffrey MacDonald's story has remained the same: Four intruders, he says, entered his family's home in Fort Bragg, N.C., on Feb. 17, 1970, killed his pregnant wife, Colette, 26, and their daughters Kimberley, 5, and Kristen, 2, and left him with head injuries, several stab wounds to his chest and a partially collapsed lung. But in 1979 the former Green Beret surgeon was convicted of murdering his family and sentenced to three life terms. "I don't think," MacDonald told the judge at sentencing, "the court heard all the evidence." Since that day he hasn't stopped fighting to get all that evidence—plus new details he and his defense team say they have discovered—back before a court. On Jan. 26 the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.,…

SPOTLIGHT What's your approach to the red carpet? I'm not someone who tries to break the Internet with what I'm wearing. I need to feel my best, and I decide on my clothes based on that. You can't overthink it. How do you decide what you'll feel best in? I'm very moody! I like to be a risk-taker. And I like mixing and matching. When I wear an outfit, I don't dress to impress. I dress to be the best version of myself. I've learned you can pull off anything if you wear it with confidence. If you're not comfortable in an outfit, you will never be able to look amazing in it. So is anything off-limits? I don't like wearing too much makeup. I like my skin to show…

PLAY MORE FUN GAMES AT People.com DANCING SENSATION Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez performs with (from left) Dancing with the Stars' Artem Chigvintsev, Keo Motsepe and Alan Bersten in Dancing with the Stars: Live! in Seattle on Dec. 21. (That's Gleb Savchenko and Val Chmerkovskiy behind her.) The 16-year-old gymnast, who won DWTS in November, is touring the country with the dancers through mid-February. 10 CHANGES KEEP SCORE 1. Chigvintsev's shirt is a V-neck now. 2. Motsepe's shirt is blue now. 3. Bersten's blazer sleeve is longer. 4. A pocket has been added to Motsepe's blazer. 5. One of Hernandez's shoe straps is missing. 6. Savchenko, who is left of Hernandez with his hand on her waist, has a blue cuff now. 7. The diamond farthest to the right on…

On the Cover 48 DEBBIE REYNOLDS AND CARRIE FISHER 63 COUNTESS LUANN'S WEDDING 85 COULD JEFFREY MACDONALD BE INNOCENT? JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC 21 Scoop Serena Williams announces her engagement to Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian. ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES 48 Hollywood legends Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher shared an undeniable bond in life and in death. HBO 89 Jude Law stars in the new HBO drama The Young Pope—plus more of winter's hottest shows. winter TV preview 21 SCOOP Serena Williams is engaged! Plus: Drew Barrymore's modern family and Eva Amurri's struggle with postpartum depression 72 BRIT MARLING The breakout star of Netflix's addictive new series The OA talks about her unconventional road to stardom 75 SISTER WIVES Mariah Brown, daughter of Sister Wives' reality stars, comes out as gay 82 AMERICAN DOERS…

RED CARPET REPORT One-Shoulder Dresses IN A SOLID HUE OR COVERED IN SPARKLING EMBROIDERY, THIS SIMPLE SILHOUETTE ALWAYS STUNS THE SECRET TO STYLING THIS LOOK? "DRAMATIC EARRINGS DRAW JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ATTENTION TO THE BARE SHOULDER," SAYS CINQ A SEPT FOUNDER JANE SISKIN, WHO CREATED VIOLA DAVIS'S GOWN. Viola Davis In a black and pink Cinq à Sept style with a Tyler Ellis clutch and earrings by Hueb. Bryce Dallas Howard In a navy Lauren Ralph Lauren sequin gown. Penélope Cruz In a gray Atelier Versace dress with crystal fringe. Shiri Appleby In a blue Monique Lhuillier look featuring a feather skirt with Stuart Weitzman sandals. Allison Williams In a black Carolina Herrera gown with emerald Jacob & Co. earrings.…

Being the youngest of seven children, it turns out, is perfect preparation for a Hollywood career. "You're not really babied, but people kind of adore you, which I loved," says Michael Keaton of his working-class childhood outside Pittsburgh. "But they also push you around, leave you behind, beat you up. You learn to be scrappy." Thirty-five years since his breakout role in 1982's Night Shift, Keaton, 65, is enjoying a renaissance, scoring his first Oscar nomination for 2014's Birdman and starring in last year's Best Picture winner, Spotlight. Now playing ruthless McDonald's exec Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder, the single star (he has one son, Sean, from his marriage to Caroline McWilliams) rests up between roles by fly-fishing in Montana with pals such as Tom Brokaw. His keys…

Introducing Essex Reese BORN: Nov. 4, 2016 ASHLEY ROSENBAUM HAS CHERISHED every minute with her 2-year-old son Ford, but the former Bachelorette admits that when she found out she'd be having a daughter, "I was thinking about tutus and sparkles." When Essie (short for Essex) finally arrived in November, "I was excited to get shopping," says Rosenbaum. "I have a little doll! And I've danced my whole life. As soon as she's walking, she'll be in ballet shoes. That's what I daydream about." Since Essie's birth, family has been keeping Rosenbaum on her toes. "Juggling is hard," says the 32-year-old pediatric dentist, who has been wed to construction manager J.P. Rosenbaum, 39, for four years since meeting on season 7 of the ABC hit. "But J.P. is superinvolved. When he's…

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Hydration 5 glasses of water Preworkout Green juice (cucumber, spinach, kale, pear, celery, carrot, green apple, ginger, lemon and beets) Breakfast 2 steamed eggs over easy with sliced avocado and tomato; 1 cup of English Breakfast tea with skim milk and Stevia in the Raw Snack Apple pie smoothie (5 raw almonds, 1 red apple, 1 small frozen banana, 6 oz. fat-free plain Greek yogurt, ½ cup almond milk, ½ tsp. ground cinnamon) TIP! 'OLIVE OIL AND LEMON JUICE MAKE FOR A SALAD DRESSING THAT'S LOWER IN SODIUM,' SAYS MOORE Lunch Boneless, skinless chicken breast over mixed green salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, hearts of palm, almonds, edamame, banana peppers and olive oil and squeezed lemon Snack One orange Dinner 6 oz. baked salmon with sliced lemon and rosemary; 2 cups…

Last time I danced My daughter [Lily, 17] and I do those YouTube videos where you have to follow along. She's pretty good. We don't have a large audience, fortunately. She meanly and secretly makes videos of it on her computer, so it's going to be there to ruin me. Last superstition Somebody told me that you always have to step onto a plane with your right foot, so I have to do that. And then someone else said you should never light a fire with a white lighter because they're unlucky. I just really don't want to hear any more of them because I've already got too many! Last irrational fear I'm not great when people vomit. That's my worst thing. Like if you were bleeding to death, I…