Is there anything in life better than a best friend? Actually, yes: a best friend forever. BFFs have a special relationship that is unlike regular friendships. Sticking around when times are tough. Delivering the brutally honest truth. Making each other laugh until you pee your pants. And knowing that if you ever have to spend the night in prison by happenstance, they will be your one phone call.

Movies and TV shows we love have long documented BFF-ships, from the serious to the silly. From Dionne and Cher, to Lucy and Ethel, to Meredith and Cristina, best friends will always be trending in pop culture. We rounded up 30 of the best BFF quotes from movies and TV that'll totally remind you of your relationship with your best friend. (Spoiler: You'll want to share these with a certain someone.)

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Now that we're solidly in the Golden Age Of Television, it feels like there's a new Must-Watch TV Premiere every other week. On July 23, HBO brought back the beloved Insecure. On August 4, Netflix will debut the insanely stacked comedy Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. But, fall TV still reigns supreme when it comes to television premieres.

Although the traditional "premiere week" usually starts the third Monday of September, the old-school rules have been thrown out the window in 2017. Cable can debut shows whenever it wants, and broadcast networks are jockeying to get the most eyeballs on their offerings, no matter the costs. For returning shows, this drama isn't impossible to navigate, since we all have a pretty good idea of what we loved from last season. But, when it comes to brand-new shows, it's essentially complete chaos.

To help you deal with the impending television madness, we put together a fall TV preview of every new show you need to watch, along with its premiere date. Scroll through the gallery to find out which freshman series to add to your DVR ASAP. Check back soon to find out which midseason shows are worth tuning in for.

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Getting through The Bachelorette ’s Men Tell All special this year felt especially difficult. It seems the show’s producers knew there wasn’t enough content to fill two hours, since they kicked the episode off with a confusingly long montage of Men Tell All Through The Years. No one needs to see Bad Chad Johnson again. The episode then spent approximately 84.67 percent of its time trying to work through the racism and sexism of Lee Garrett, despite how banal and obvious his prejudice is. The remainder of the installment gave DeMario Jackson’s less-than-stellar explanation for his philandering ways and a reminder of local puppy dog Dean Unglert’s broken heart. That’s why the real star of Men Tell All wasn’t a man at all. It wasn’t even the Bachelorette herself, Rachel Lindsay. Oh, no, the true queen of the evening was none other than Makenzi King, the adorable daughter of beleaguered season 13 contestant Kenny King.

Makenzi has been the stealthy star of The Bachelorette throughout its 2017 cycle. As we all know, it’s Bachelor Nation custom to cut contestants off completely from the outside world, essentially blocking them from even touching an iPhone while they go through their Bachelor(ette) "Journey." But, producers allowed Kenny to buck tradition this year in order to see him FaceTime with his 10-year-old daughter, leaving the wrestler a gooey mess of teary, fatherly love every time he pressed "End Call." The results were especially heartwarming to see as the teddy bear was accused of being "aggressive" by season villain Lee. This is a man who cries every time he sees his daughter’s precious face or even thinks about her — he’s clearly not the kind of person who's comfortable dragging singer-songwriters out of vans, even when they’re using dog whistle politics against him. The feud between Lee and Kenny was an indelible dark spot this season, but seeing Kenzi’s smiling face and hearing her sweet words of encouragement were always helped to brighten up an episode amid all the thinly-veiled, mustache-twirling racism.

After seeing Kenzi solely through her dad’s iPhone screen throughout The Bachelorette, she was a sight for sore eyes on the Men Tell All stage, which was filled with endless nonsense. Before the tween joined the special, her father was forced to go over Lee’s dreadful season 13 sentiments all over again, despite the fact viewers already watched all of the racialized drama go on for weeks this summer. If that filming decision wasn’t already eyeroll-worthy itself, things got even more annoying when former dark horse contestant Will Gaskins accidentally slipped in his own backhanded compliment of Kenny, saying one conversation proved the darker-skinned Black man was "easily one of the smartest guys in the house." The statement feels uncomfortably close to the implying Kenny is "One Of The Good Ones" if you actually get to know him. Thankfully, Makenzi’s entrance put an entire to philosophizing about whether or not literal teddy bear Kenny King is aggressive.

me when McKenzie comes out on stage #theBachelorette #MenTellAll pic.twitter.com/13WZGfhYDf

— kayla schimmer (@realschimshady_) August 1, 2017

Kenzi and her single red rose made a splash the moment they joined the proceedings, and things only got better from there. The 10-year-old was the most endearing person on the entire special, with her perfect braids, winning smile, and honest commentary about her dad’s time on reality TV. Was there a more memorable line from Men Tell All than Kenzi telling her dad, "Yeah, I’m proud of you. You were, like, number eight?" Bachelorette star Rachel might be the current Queen Of Subtle Shade, but it looks like someone is coming for her crown.

Considering all the madness of the special, I was originally annoyed the Bachelorette dragged an uncorrupted child — who prefers Dubsmash to actually smashing people with Viking swords — to the drama, but Chris Harrison convinced me the filming decision was for the best by the end of Kenzi’s cameo. The Men Tell All special was seemingly taped on July 21, the day before Kenny’s birthday. As host Chris brought up this fact, Kenzi began beaming, realizing her dad was about to get a huge surprise. That’s when Chris revealed the daddy-daughter pair were being sent to Disneyland on ABC’s dime for Kenny's birthday, since the Disney Corporation is the network's parent company, after all. Kenzi’s face lit up was disbelief as she clapped, danced, and hugged her now-famous dad. Before things take a turn for the dark, as they often do on reality television, Kenzi's segment ended, meaning she didn't have to experience any drama, or join in on Lee's armchair therapy session. For once, it was truly sweet moment amid lots of sexist and racist tension on Men Tell All.

Considering the way Kenny was used in Bachelorette season 13, essentially as target practice for Lee’s basest compulsions, it would have been easy to to let the wrestler remain a two-dimensional character in the Bachelor Nation universe. But, by adding in Kenzi and all of her precocious charisma, we were introduced to a fully fleshed out Black man, who can be a fighter in the ring, but loves his daughter more than anything in the world. And, Kenzi is a totally mini boss on her own. I would say #Makenzi4Bachelorette2037, but she’s way too awesome for this all of this rubbish.

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Welcome toMoney Diaries , where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we're tracking every last dollar.

Today: a higher-ed faculty member who makes $66,564 per year. This week, she spent some of her money on a duvet cover and Indie Lee toner.

Occupation: Faculty
Industry: Higher Education
Age: 35
Location: Michigan
Salary: $66,564
Paycheck (2x/month): $1,922.49

Monthly Expenses
Housing Costs: $1,082.35 for my mortgage, taxes, and insurance. I live with my two cats and rent out my basement suite on Airbnb. (I rent it out legally. I have a business license from the city and get about $830/month.)
Car Payment: $299.21
Debt Consolidation Loan: $217
Student Loans: $288.56

Pre-Tax Monthly Deductions
Health Savings Account: $100
Vision & Dental Premiums: $9.44 (only for nine months)
401(k): My job does not require a match. I currently receive $887.52/month in retirement benefits (also only for nine months), in addition to my regular pay.

All Other Monthly Expenses
Cable, Internet & Cell Phone Bundle: $240
House Cleaning: $300. This includes the rental suite, which is a partial tax write-off.
Utilities: ~$200 for water, gas, electric and trash
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Share: $100
Newspaper Subscriptions: $20.77 for the New York Times, WaPo, and local papers.
Netflix: $7.99
Car Insurance: $104
iCloud: $0.99
Investment Account: ~$100

Yearly Expenses
Dropbox: $99.99
Business License Renewal: $129
Amazon Prime: $99

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The dilemma: You want to take an unforgettable vacation with a bunch of your besties, but you need it to be affordable. You already learned the hard way that summer share houses are the worst; you could go with a hostel or split one nice hotel room amongst far too many people, but you want to relax — not recreate senior year spring break.

Well, we have good news. You can take a fabulous trip with all of your friends, and spend way less than you would at any Hamptons share house, sketchy hostel, or split-four-ways beachfront hotel. How? Because you can rent one of these insane private houses — which all accommodate at least 10 guests — for about the same per person nightly cost as an Uber ride to the airport. We're talking luxe properties with heated pools, private screening rooms, hot tubs, and most important, privacy.

Note: Prices reflect the most current information available, and may be subject to change. Some rentals may require a minimum stay. Refer to the original listings for more information.

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Spider lashes may not be the most desirable look, but at least they only get their name from resembling the arachnids in question, not actually because someone thought to incorporate them into a lengthening mascara formula. (“Organic, all-natural ingredients,” indeed.) But clumpy mascara is the least of one U.K. woman’s worries after she mistakenly attempted to glue — wait for it — a dead fly onto her lid in lieu of her faux lashes.

Text from mum - having trouble sticking lashes on without her glasses.. turns out she was trying to glue a dead fly to her eyelid. I'm out. pic.twitter.com/2vNpcW5l5n

— Molly Robbins (@MCreativeCakes) July 29, 2017

Molly Robbins, of Lancashire, England, is going viral after she shared her mom’s hilarious (but understandably mortifying) mishap to Twitter, complete with photographic evidence to back it up. “Text from mum — having trouble sticking lashes on without her glasses... turns out she was trying to glue a dead fly to her eyelid,” Robbins wrote. “I'm out.” And you thought uneven eyeliner was the worst thing that could happen to someone who decided to apply their makeup before putting in their contacts.

To be fair, Robbins’s accompanying picture is a testament to how a person with limited vision might easily mistake the clump of lashes for the deceased insect — squint your eyes, and they’re practically indistinguishable from one another. But we can only imagine the shock the unsuspecting woman must have felt when she discovered the truth about her lash-application struggle. On the bright side, at least she realized before it was too late and she’d actually left the house with a fly glued to her face.

Some users have replied to Robbins’s original tweet accusing her of making up the whole thing, but considering her feed focuses mostly on her career as a cake artist (which she’s incredible at, BTW) with no trolling or practical jokes to be found, we’re choosing to believe her. Why would anyone ever humiliate their mother by claiming she tried to glue a bug to her eyes if it wasn’t true? At least it wasn’t a wasp to her lips — then she'd just be a copycat.

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We all want Bella Hadid to be with someone who makes her happy. It just so happens that the person is herself right now. The fashion model had to respond to more dating rumors, after a photo of her holding DJ Daniel Chetrit's hand surfaced.

We get it: her break up with The Weeknd sucked for everyone because they were an incredibly attractive couple, but it's time to move on. Since then, the star has been linked to nearly every man she comes in contact with. She's finally come out to put rumors past, present, and future to rest.

Just to be clear...i'm STILL not dating any of my best friends, y'all! In a committed relationship with myself & my happiness for now🙏🏼💍❤️🤣

— Bella Hadid (@bellahadid) July 31, 2017

Hadid has confessed to being in a serious relationship with herself right now, and we love that.

In the past few months, Hadid has been falsely connected to men like Leonardo DiCaprio and fellow model Jordan Barrett. The latter of the two was caught up in nasty invasion of privacy when paparazzi snapped photos of he and Hadid while they were in her NYC apartment. Not cool.

Literally any of these guys would be lucky to land someone like Hadid, but it doesn't make these rumors any better. Constantly connecting Hadid to the men she's with is kind of demeaning. She can hang out with whoever she wants without being romantically involved with them.

Right now, she's just happy being herself and focusing on things that will make her happy. In fact, she just got a super cute rose tattoo from the famed tattoo artist to the stars, JonBoy.

When Bella Hadid does decide to give love another try, the public probably won't be the first to know. And that's totally fine. Stars deserve their privacy just as much as we do. That means no more breaking into houses, stalking, or anything Ingrid from Ingrid Goes West might try.

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If drinking rosé all summer has made you wish all your food could be pink, we just found you the perfect spirit. Wölffer Estate Vineyard has a gin that's made from actual rosé wine. Made in small batches using distilled wine as the base, Wölffer first bottled its pink gin last summer, using hand-picked juniper berries from its Hamptons vineyard. The booze has been slowly gathering a following of rosé-crazy fans ever since.

While gin made from wine might seem odd, gin is simply defined as any neutral spirit that is infused with botanicals. Winemaker Roman Roth uses a copper still to distill the rosé, creating a pure alcohol. In addition to the juniper berries, Roth uses six other herbs and seeds, including cardamon, coriander, and fresh mint also grown on the estate. As a final step, a very small amount of red grape skin extract is added for that pink hue.

The result, according to a press release from Wölffer, is a gin that is clean and full-bodied with a hint of spiciness. It's perfect for upgrading your gin and tonics, or for a late-summer martini. And, of course, it mixes well into other classic gin cocktails like negronis, though you will lose sight of the color.

Pink gin is currently available in select east coast stores for a suggested retail price of $34 as well as online from Bottle Hampton. This isn't Wölffer's first foray into rosé drinks that aren't technically wine. In addition to its popular Summer In A Bottle rosé, the vineyard also sells a rosé cider made with New York apples. While it doesn't use wine as a base like the gin, it is finished off with grape extract, giving it not only a pink color but a hint of sweetness reminiscent of rosé. And while we're all about rosé jams, gummies, and ice cream, we are very appreciative of Wölffer's work to give us more ways to expand our rosé drinking options, too.

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Sour Patch Kids offer the perfect balance of two key candy flavors: sour and sweet For that reason, they're many peoples' favorite candy. Some of us have probably spent hours of our lives staring at boxes and bags of Sour Patch Kids as we've downed them during movie nights or even just as an mid-day sugar fix at work. And, yet, we never noticed one tiny detail that's on every package. A Reddit user named Toms42 recently pointed out that the speckled boarder of every pack of candy is actually made up of tiny Sour Patch Kids, and our minds are blown.

A few days ago, the Redditor posted a photo in the /r/mindlyinteresting subreddit, and the post was brought to our attention by FoodBeast. The photo was a closeup of a bag of Sour Patch Kids, and accompanying the photo, Toms42 succinctly wrote, "The orange splotches on the edges of Sour Patch Kids are actually lots of kids." A quick look at the picture confirms that the Reddit user is right. Check it out.

The orange splotches on the edges of sour patch kids are actually lots of kids from mildlyinteresting

In the comments, people posted to express just how astonishing the discovery was. One user wrote, "These are my favorite candy, I never noticed that. Nice Find!" Another simply said, "mind = blown." Toms42 even responded to one of the comments to stress just how wild the revelation was for him. He wrote, "Ikr totally man! I'm a pack-a-day man myself as well, and my friend just now pointed that out to me!"

We wondered if maybe the reason we had never noticed the tiny kid boarder was because it only appeared on certain packages, but a quick Google image search showed that it's present on all bag sizes and boxes of all flavors, and it even appears on Sour Watermelon Patch packages. We can't believe this never registered with us, but now, we can't unsee those little characters.

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This article was originally published on June 27, 2017, but we are bringing it back for World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7. For more stories about breastfeeding (or not), head to our Mothership page.

Do you remember the summer every girl came back to school with boobs? I remember so vividly watching my friends blossom into those adolescent autumns; even more vividly do I remember hoping, praying, knowing that the next would be my summer. My own summer of boobs never came.

I found myself reminded of these unfulfilled summer dreams — my original mammary failure — as a new mother hunched over a whinging breast pump that for its best efforts could only exert the rare, stingy drop of milk from my sore and feckless tits. (At least they were finally bigger.) I was awash in love and other drugs — the doctors threw a fistful of Vicodin home with me — diminished only by my otherwise perfect baby’s refusal to latch.

It had begun in the hospital, where I held him to me in cross-cradle, football, and side-savasana, yet he wouldn’t latch for more than three or five minutes at a time, and with each feeding, got more frustrated at the lack of milk. Then he would cry, and then I would cry. The nurses told me not to worry, that he’d figure it out.

Then, at his first checkup at home, on day four, the pediatrician noticed his cracked, dry lips and told me to start supplementing with formula immediately. She pointed out that Jed had been born three weeks early and my letdown likely hadn’t yet received its work order. This, plus the fact that I’d lost so much blood in delivery that, even after the doctors transfused me two liters back, my fluids were still desert-low. The pediatrician, too, told me not to worry, that supplementing often lasted only a few days while my confused boobs caught up.

Jed took zealously to the bottle, crushing formula like the hungry boss he now was over my life, but I resolved to press on with pumping. I was obstinately committed to stimulating my dimwitted breasts, to shepherding my maximum antibodies and primordial IQ soup into him. This was the overachiever in me — The Breast Is Best! — and also an accordance with the plan drilled into me by my San Francisco prenatal care. That weekly catechism had exalted breastfeeding’s benefits like so many beatitudes: Breastfeeding is free! Breastfeeding boosts immunity! Breastfeeding helps you lose weight! Breastfeeding bonds you to your baby! Breastfeeding: It’s so organic!

I resent, now, that once it became clear formula would be at least part of my feeding picture, I had scads of information about breast milk banks, breast pump makes and models, and lactation consultants, but not one recommendation for a choice of formula or bottle. Six months of group prenatal checkups had offered me not one indication that I could provide my family more solace, sleep, and nutrition with a single trip to the grocery store than with a whole phone book of breastfeeding brochures. Also suspect: I’d been oft-cautioned not to drink or smoke while nursing, but no one breathed a word about the aforementioned fistful of hospital heroin.

My resolute pumping went from bad to worse every day. I pumped and cried, feeling like a trapped, defective, miserable cow over the slow drips into the bottle, yielding only half an ounce or so in half an hour of the machine’s painful throb. After a few dozen ounces of formula, my baby was clearly thriving, his skin pinker and damper and his dumps gaining in gravitas, but every scoop of Similac I bottled seemed to pile on my failure. On day six, I had my first total nuclear meltdown. My parents, enthralled in their fresh grandparenthood, were drinking and crowing with my husband and our friend Justin. I was sobbing at the pump behind a dressing screen, until the unnatural volume of my weeping hustled out everyone except my husband. Wasn’t this supposed to be easy, automatic, involuntary?! Fie on my ever-defective breasts.

Desperate, I summoned an expensive lactation consultant — so comically buxom it seemed to extol her job qualifications — to help. Her assessment was a triple whammy: As the pediatrician had observed, my baby was early and my fluids were shocked, but on top of that, Knockers also noticed that my baby was tongue-tied, preventing him from latching. I could get him a frenulectomy, she said, but even if I could quash my queasiness at the idea of slashing my baby’s cherubic little tongue, there was still no guarantee my breasts would then agree to milk. With a common sense that I still appreciate, Knockers advised me to keep pumping if I felt like it, but that because of these physical impediments between us and nursing, a bottle and formula were likeliest to prevail. In a confidential, I-wouldn’t-normally-say-this tone, she consoled me, “You know, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that there isn’t much difference in outcomes between breastfeeding and formula-feeding.”

As I write this, I’m inclined to emphasize our physical defects — his stunted tongue, my stuttering buzooms. But the truth is that nourishment is also a matter of choice. I look back at this period now and I see it so clearly as a story of confronting my addiction to overachievement. The priority was to feed my baby, by any means necessary. But like the neurotic I am, I managed to turn the method of feeding into a referendum on my personal value. Sarah Blackwood writes, “What is the charge to feed and nourish an infant but a captivity narrative in which a woman is isolated, and then made to feel that her fate is both privately and ideologically meaningful?” This is the kind of hoax only hormones and the patriarchy can construct.

This is the kind of hoax only hormones and the patriarchy can construct.

Here’s what no one told me about breastfeeding: It can be an inconvenient, mechanical, often painful, around-the-clock job. It’s even more laborious if you’re pumping instead of latch-feeding: You have to get up multiple times in the middle of the night to feed the baby and pump, separately, because as soon as you stop pumping every two hours, your milk supply evaporates. If you work outside the home, or — god forbid — ever have to travel for work, your life devolves into a montage of huddling over a pump in closets and bathroom stalls, fighting with TSA employees over acceptable liquids, ending meetings before your boobs explode, and strategically timing your every cocktail. Your nipples may crack and bleed. Your pregnancy weight may not fly off because you’re starving all the time from expelling so many calories. Your cooter may be — I was going to say “bone-dry”, but “bone” will not enter your physical vocabulary for longer than you ever thought possible. Every decision in your life will be compartmentalized into two-hour increments.

For some women, breastfeeding offers an oxytocin-fueled bonding high that offsets these indignities. I can tell you honestly that I never felt it, not once. All breastfeeding made me feel was despair, frustration, and a deep, ancient sensation of feminine failure.

On my first Mother’s Day, about three weeks into my son’s life, I gave myself permission to give up the pump. The relief I felt far outstripped the oxytocin rush that had never come. Maybe it was our first occasion for celebration that made me look up and notice how healthy my son suddenly was as a result of formula-feeding, finally well-fed and gaining weight, already sleeping three or four hours at a time in the first month of his life. As I had been berating myself for not feeding him superlatively enough, he had been blithely slaying all his developmental checkpoints. He couldn’t talk, walk, or write, but that grinning little chunker was still out-achieving me by a mile.

Here’s what I wish someone had told me about formula-feeding: Formula-fed babies often sleep longer, because it’s easier to regulate how much food they’re getting. Formula-feeding mothers also sleep longer, because their babies go longer between feedings, and because night feedings can be shared between caregivers — my sainted husband, bless him, eagerly stepped up to those night feedings, and bonded fast and hard with our baby through them. Formula allows mothers dramatically greater liberty in the first year of a child’s life, because you can be gone for more than two hours without being tethered to baby or pump. I had my first overnight getaway with friends when my son was two months old: a freedom unthinkable to many of my nursing friends for three or four times as long. Formula allowed me to enjoy the occasional buzz without fear of poisoning my baby. It allowed me to return to work, to put my child in daycare, and to share the snuggle-high of a suckling newborn with his father, grandparents, daycare provider, and anyone else within arm’s reach when I needed to poop. As it turned out, none of those were insignificant factors in my mental and physical health.

Though it took me the better part of two years to shed the residual shame I felt about my “failure” to breastfeed, looking back now, I feel no regret, only gladness. I’m so glad that instead of assailing myself for months with an arsenal of nipple guards, fenugreek brownies, pumps, and consultants, crying over every feeding but pressing on, I found the confidence in my maternal intuition to turn my attention to actually caring for myself and my son. Trying to breastfeed was making me crazy, and my son needed me to be sane, well, whole. I had to choose that for us.

No matter what our culture alleges, the measure of a mother is not in how much she sacrifices. For some women, nursing is the very definition of a feminist action: feeding a child from the body, for free, and scoring an all-natural high in the process. I applaud these women, my mother-sisters: supporting all modes of feeding is mutually inclusive with supporting mothers who breastfeed. For me, formula was feminism: detaching feeding from biological gender, liberating myself from its narrative of captivity, and considering my own needs as worthy as I would consider my son’s. This was never a failure. It was the success of nourishing us both.

Welcome to Mothership: Parenting stories you actually want to read, whether you're thinking about or passing on kids, from egg-freezing to taking home baby and beyond. Because motherhood is a big if — not when — and it's time we talked about it that way.

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On any given day, Bella Thorne is living her best, unfiltered life. Specifically, the 19-year-old uses her social media platforms to engage with followers — and engage she does. An average amount of posts for the actress and singer is roughly a dozen Snapchats a day, with a few Instagram posts a week (usually depending on what projects she is promoting). But this weekend, fans thought they saw something different in one of her photos that they hadn't noticed before, and started speculating on what Thorne may be trying to tell them. It turns out that Thorne wasn't trying to tell her fans anything, and she was happy to clear up any confusion with an epic response.

As Teen Vogue writes, Thorne Snapchatted a selfie in which one of her many necklaces could be seen stacked on top of one another. A thin gold chain clearly had a phrase on it, and one fan screengrabbed the snap and asked if it said "Allah", thus also putting the question out there that she may be practicing an Eastern religion. The follower wrote: "Who else sees Allah on her necklace." Seeing that this could quickly spread into a full blown rumor regarding her faith, Thorne slid into someone's comments and cleared up the confusion: "It actually says 'slut'...." One Twitter user put the two iconic responses together in a tweet that quickly went viral because of Thorne's hilarious response. Followers of the fan account also couldn't believe that the celebrity had found their posting critiquing her piece of jewelry.

But now onto that word: 'slut.' Thorne has always been read to reclaim the term 'slut' and 'slut-shame.' The words are often topics of conversation in interviews, usually stemming from trolls misinterpreting her private and dating life. "Social media is so beautiful in that you get to share your thoughts with everyone," Thorne told Seventeen earlier this year. "But, of course, it's a numbers game so for every great person you're going to have somebody that's not so great who is willing to spread hate, that's insecure." Spreading hate isn't Thorne's style, and never is censoring herself. It wasn't that long ago that Thorne was having to respond to a troll-made NSFW video of her allegedly masturbating (it was not her). And it wasn't long before that when she was defending herself against rumors that she hooked up with Scott Disick (they're just friends).

Just another day in the life of Bella Thorne.

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— la bella vita (@drugproblem) July 31, 2017

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Listen, I know that Francis and Claire Underwood are back and winter is finally here, but there's another can't-miss show on TV — and anyone watching already knows it so damn good: Netflix's Glow. It's the first scripted, female wrestling show on television, but before you ask, "Why would we need a female wrestling show in 2017?" let me tell you.

Glow was created, produced, and largely directed by women, and is ultimately a story about female strength and friendship — all wrapped up in a high-cut leotard. It's an origin story for the real life '80s wrestling show of the same name, but it's also a love letter to modern feminism.

Of course, it's also a visual feast of glittery makeup, throwback hairstyles, and physical comedy. The mostly-female cast didn't just get sprained and bruised while preparing for day one, they also got perms, shag haircuts, spray tans, and countless waxes to get into character. You guessed it: It was two women who designed the killer hair and makeup looks, too, which required a dedication to the products actually available in the '80s, quite a few bottles of $12 leg makeup, and razored haircuts that prove dedication comes in all forms.

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December 14th, 2016 was a good day for Instagram users. Why? Because that was the day the app added a "Saved" section to every profile, instantly giving all of us the ability to secretly catalog any post.

For beauty lovers, this was big. Gone were the days of screenshotting a notable makeup look or palette to buy, only to lose it in the mess of photos in our camera roll. Now, if we spy something we love, we can simply click "save" and add it to our private vault of inspiration images.

That being said, there's no denying the fact that inspiration can be hard to find when you're inundated with hundreds — nay, thousands — of images daily. That's why we decided to share the photos we've archived in the past month. Hopefully, it'll get your creative juices flowing for the next. Ahead, check out 31 looks to try this July.

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Rain or shine, London is arguably one of the most photogenic destinations in the world: You simply can't beat a city that was founded in the Roman times and has been accumulating historical landmarks ever since. This dynamic melting pot continues to be the epicenter of fashion, culture, and of course, the home of the most well-known monarchy of our times.

The Big Ben and red telephone booths already get plenty of play on Instagram, but capturing London's unique beauty doesn't stop there. Ahead, we round up 10 delightful points of interest that will bait tons of double-taps on social media.

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Update: VFiles responded to Refinery29's request for comment regarding the partnership with the following: “We are huge fans of all she has achieved so far and think our community will really relate and be excited to learn from her — in particular, we are inspired and share her and Emma's vision and commitment to fashion being accessible to all body types. We think Khloé and Emma have an incredible vision for their brand and a commitment to a vision that may not be considered the "status quo" of the fashion moment. We think [Kardashian] will be able to show the importance of communicating that strength in vision and then being able to execute on it.” When asked if VFiles had any thoughts on Kardashian’s past controversies with young designers, the company simply responded “no.”

This story was originally published on August 1, 2017.

The Kardashian-Jenner family has an undeniable business acumen, with the rare ability to move even the most random products in a way that consistently yields profit: Kim has made an actual fortune on emojis, Kylie can’t keep those Lip Kits in stock, and Khloé's Good American clothing line, which launched just nine months ago, sold $1 million on its first day. Talk about selling power.

On Tuesday, VFiles, "experience based social networking platform that connects and empowers the creative global youth community," solidified Khloé status (and influence) in the fashion world, when it announced that she — alongside her Good American cofounder, Emma Grede, would serve as a mentor for its annual VFiles Runway, a New York Fashion Week showcase "designed to empower and showcase young talent and push the boundaries of culture forward."

Let's pause for a second.

A few questions need to be asked here — the biggest being: Why has Khloé Kardashian been chosen to nurture young talent? While it is impressive that she has managed to find success as a designer in such a short period of time, it hasn’t been without controversy. In fact, since the brand launched, it's been embroiled in two copyright disputes, both of which involve Good American allegedly replicating the work of aspiring indie designers (i.e. the very people she has been cast to mentor).

In March, Good American line was accused of copying Made O.G.’s “Betty” black skinny jeans. “I know the struggles that my designers have to go through to just make it to the next season, so when I see things like them getting ripped off by major, fully-funded brands, it’s more than irritating,” Clara Jeon, founder of Chapter 2, which represents Made Gold, told Refinery29. “It’s insulting and the fundamental reason why it’s so difficult for young brands to continue and grow...[it is] such a blatant ripoff of a small brand, and hopefully make other brands think twice before trying to make a dime off of an independent designer’s talent.”

Two months later, in June, designer Destiney Bleu accused Kardashian of buying her bedazzled bodysuits, jerseys, and intimates for the sole purpose of repurposing them for her own line. Bleu alleged that Kardashian’s former stylist Monica Rose requested two specific bodysuits that were later knocked off by Good American. Kardashian fought back, issuing a cease and desist letter, saying Bleu’s claims were “false, defamatory, and injurious to her reputation.”

Though Kardashian's reputation didn’t suffer from either instances — the family knows how to spin any publicity into good publicity — it's difficult to understand how she can coach young designers when her brand has been accused of stealing designs from them.

We've reached out to VFiles for more information about their selection, and will update this piece if/when we hear back. In the meantime, let us know what you think about her new gig in the comments below.

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If you've ever been to a music festival and noticed just how many people seem to use the performing acts as a backdrop to their romantic make-out session, this survey probably won't be too surprising to you.

According to a survey by sex toy retailer Lovehoney, plenty of people are having sex at outdoor festivals. The most popular festival to do so, is apparently Lollapalooza in Chicago. The poll, shared with Refinery29, surveyed 1,100 consumers and found that 23% of them have had sex at Lollapalooza. The next most popular festivals were Coachella (14.3% had sex there), followed by Austin City Limits (with 10% of responders saying they had sex there), Burning Man (9%), and SXSW (7.5%).

What's more, plenty of people are also planning on having sex at this year's Lollapalooza to specific acts. The survey also found that out of all the 2017 Lollapalooza acts, 10% of respondents want to have sex to Blink 182, followed by Lorde (8%), Muse (6.3%), The Killers (6.3%) and Tove Lo (4%).

If you're wondering just where in the middle of a music festival people have found a place to get down, Lovehoney has you covered there, too. According to the survey, 29% of respondents had sex in a camping tent, 15% had sex in a car, a brave 13% had sex in the crowd, 12.5% did so in a "quiet spot in the field," and 6% were lucky enough to have access to an RV.

So what is it about music festivals that seem to turn so many of us on?

"Music festivals bring together thousands of people to enjoy great music in an amazing atmosphere, and great sex and great music go hand-in-hand," Neal Slateford, Lovehoney co-founder, said in a statement shared with Refinery29. "Sexual happiness doesn’t have to be found in the bedroom."

Certainly food for thought if you're planning on attending a festival this summer.

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The next time someone asks you where you'd like to go on a first date, consider taking a leaf out of Ben Velzian's book. When a guy asked him out recently, and wanted to know where they should go, Velzian didn't just send a text — he sent a PowerPoint.

It was pretty detailed, too — including pictures of the famous versions of themselves (Ben Affleck for Ben and Tome Scavo for his date, a guy named Tom) and a summary of the task at hand.

"I have presented with the task of suggesting venues for a date for Ben (me) and Tom (you)," he wrote in the intro. "The weather is very temperamental this week, as such any venue must be indoors or have an indoor component."

He goes on to suggest that they either go to a museum that's lit by candles (seems romantic), a maze built by an artist (SO fun), or Junkyard Golf ("everyone who lives in East London legally has to do it.")

If you ask us, those are some pretty solid options, and Velzian's PowerPoint is clearly well thought out.

Here are some example options. I think they are splendid ideas pic.twitter.com/uyz9Ef33RO

— BV (@velzzb) July 31, 2017

Options 2&3 pic.twitter.com/CMJvYMivxl

— BV (@velzzb) July 31, 2017

Unfortunately for him, it didn't exactly work out. The guy apparently blocked him immediately.

"I was assuming he'd take it as a joke, obviously he didn't," Velzian tells Refinery29. "We'd only spoken a few days so I suppose it was a bit full on, and I agree it would have been creepy if I was serious."

Honestly, we don't think it's creepy at all. And neither does most of Twitter. People love Velzian's first date presentation.

Ben, this was amazing and hysterical. 😂 He is obviously a bore. Snooze.

— Christopher Golds (@chrisgolds) July 31, 2017

Someone asked me out by PowerPoint once - and ended on an entire Walt Witman poem. pic.twitter.com/1HM2aL6cYv

— Ross (@rmcqj) August 1, 2017

You can PowerPoint ™ me into next week. I think it's brilliant. I love this: pic.twitter.com/4An3R1Ru2U

— Phil Mathers (@hairydoughnut) August 1, 2017

I would have loved this. My name is Tom, perhaps I could just take his place? It needs to be known that not all Tom's are ungrateful!

— Tom Hayes (@curlytomtom) August 1, 2017

Velzian said in a later tweet that it was "a waste of my MS Office skills." But as fate has it, it wasn't a total waste. Date suggestion #3, Junkyard Golf, reached out to Velzian to offer their apologies that Tom couldn't recognize his brilliance and to give him free golf for life.

Can we give you free golf for life if you promise you'll always make us your number three? pic.twitter.com/EJKKfdopMC

— JUNKYARD GOLF LDN (@junkyardgolfLDN) August 1, 2017

. DM us your address and we'll make it happen! Tom Scavo will rue the day 🙏🏻#freegolf4lyf #powerpointaintdead pic.twitter.com/QoKrK4FOan

— JUNKYARD GOLF LDN (@junkyardgolfLDN) August 1, 2017

So even though he didn't get the man, Velzian did get plenty of opportunities for new first dates. That's a win in our book.

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False eyelashes, hair extensions, and acrylic nails — the fun additions to a beauty routine may not actually be the best things to be gluing to our bodies. Nonetheless, advancements within the beauty industry mean that these things have come leaps and bounds, and within reason, we can carry on doing all of the above while protecting our natural assets.

There's no denying nail art and long lengths are (still) having a moment. Fun? Yes! The only problem? They're not without downsides: glues, buffing, chemicals that dry the nail, and even electric drills. These things don't exactly spell out healthy nail beds now, do they? After months, and sometimes even years, of fills and extensions, your nails can be left looking and feeling damaged and weak.

We spoke to Izabelle Bellamy — who filed her way through the ranks at WAH Nails , a U.K. hub for all things nail art, and is now the resident technician at East London's Stunt Dolly salon — about how to resuscitate nails that have passed over to the other side.

Bellamy explained that "acrylic nail extensions shouldn't really damage your nails, provided the correct preparation, maintenance (every two to three weeks), aftercare, and removal procedures are followed. The real damage is caused by heavy-handed nail technicians. Be wary of over-filing and drilling, this will cause weak and peeling nails — and even painful results."

She goes on to add, "You should always visit a qualified and insured nail tech. Over time, the acrylic begins to lose adhesion to the nail and can lift; if air pockets start to be common, this should be a warning sign. Acrylics should be removed and replaced every six to 12 months, although a person's daily routine and home care plus how often they have infills does determine time, too."

Okay, so obviously those are all wise rules to follow, but Bellamy accepts we can't always chose our nail technician and, well, life sometimes just gets in the way of perfect nails. For times when things don't go as planned, here are Bellamy's top tips and products for nails that really need some TLC, post-acrylics.

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We might just have definitive proof that Cersei really did make her servants get the same haircut as her, and it's all thanks to Vanity Fair, who spotted something surprising about the handmaiden who made an appearance during Sunday night's episode (creating an awkward moment with Jaime). While the woman in question made waves on Twitter thanks to her pixie cut, it turns out we all forgot where we had seen her before: pretty much every other season. This is the same handmaiden who's been with Cersei basically the entire time, we just didn't recognize her with her new 'do. Face, meet palm.

According to the outlet, actress Sara Dylan has been playing the role of of Cersei's maid Bernadette since since season 2, when we first met her after she was assigned to wait on Sansa, and was rushing to tell Cersei that Sansa had gotten her first period before being stopped by Shae.

Bernadette comes back briefly in season 3 when Tyrion proposes to Sansa, and also has a bigger plot point a couple seasons later when she's responsible for outing Shae to Cersei as Tyrion's secret lover, eventually resulting in Shae's capture and death at the hands of her former lover. During this same scene, she interrupts an argument between Cersei and Jaime, proving that Sunday night's episode was not the first time she's caught the siblings in a compromising situation.

Maybe it's time to start paying more attention to Bernadette, and not just because she's rocking a new haircut. She's been present for most of Cersei's important moments, and it's not out of the question to wonder if her re-introduction during last night's episode hints at more things ahead for her. With Game Of Thrones, you literally never know.

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Annalise Basso just graduated from high school.

In school, she took four advanced placement classes classes and will enjoy a gap year before heading to the University of Edinburgh. In most ways, Basso isn't that different from a 19-year-old me; she wants to gush about senior prom, she loves a good meme, and she isn't willing to watch the HBO documentary about The Slender Man. But she isn't like 19-year-old me in one very important way — the St. Louis native has been a card-carrying member Young Hollywood since she was nine years old.

Her IMdB page presents her as a 2017 scream queen of sorts: She's starred in movies like Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus. Her best-known film, though, is more light-hearted — she starred as Vespyr in the 2016 Oscar contender Captain Fantastic.

Basso is graduating, though, literally and figuratively. Basso left high school behind this summer, celebrating her achievement with a private celebration with her family and teachers in Los Angeles. She managed a rigorous high school education in conjunction with a rigorous career. In addition to high school, she It's no small feat, and Basso doesn't treat it as such. She tells me over the phone repeatedly that it was "fricking hard."

Her new short film The Good Time Girls, produced by Refinery29 for the Shatterbox Anthology, is unlike any material she's performed before. In the film, Basso plays a prostitute Ellie — one of the good time girls — who takes Kill Bill- style revenge on her patrons. This marks the first time Basso has endured this level of violence on screen, even for Basso, for whom violence in movies is fairly routine.

Refinery29 spoke to Basso about The Good Time Girls, being a teen in Hollywood, and, most importantly, which Chris is the reigning king of all Chrises.

Refinery29: You have a lot of horror movies and thrillers on your roster, including the upcoming movie about the Slender Man. Do you have a preference for scary movies?

Annalise Basso: "Not really. It started out as just — it was the only genre that provided roles that were challenging for a 16, 17-year-old girl. When I did Ouija: Origin of Evil, I was super excited about that because here's a girl who can fall in love and also be a heroine and that drew me to that role. It wasn't necessarily the horror part of it. It was just — this girl can cry, she can be strong, she can be, you know. But I do like scary movies."

Do you have a favorite?
"Oh! The Babadook. That Australian movie."

Did you happen to see the memes that circulated about a month ago of the Babadook? It's become a gay icon.

"No! I do have a love for memes, though."

Editor's note: After the interview, I sent Basso a collection of Babadook memes, to which she replied, "Thank you for making my life better with those Babadook memes."

You've been in this business for almost a decade now — you shot your first project, Ghost Image, a psychological thriller about a video editor whose boyfriend haunts her after his death, when you were nine.

"Yeah! It sounds so weird. People are always like, 'Oh my god, I'm a decade older' or something, and I can say that I've been working for a decade."

What doe the schedule for a 9 year old actress look like?
"Well, we can only work for a set amount of time. I remember working very little and having to do a lot of school. Because as a minor, you work for about 9 hours, and 3 of those hours are dedicated to schoolwork. So production has to work those 3 hours into the schedule everyday somehow. You can't work very much as a minor, unless you take some kind of test [the California High School Proficiency Examination, called the CHSPE] that allows you to work as a legal adult. which is what I did [in high school]. Second semester sophomore year [I took the test]. That basically meant no more tutors, no more limited hours working on set. I'm basically an adult. So, I had to teach myself high school. I had to teach myself a lot of what I learned from that point on in school. "

So, after sophomore year, were you effectively homeschooling yourself?
"No, because I still went to regular school. I just didn't have a set tutor that was provided for me."

How long would you be in school between films then?
" I do one or two projects a year. In between that time, I would be at school — I just graduated from Campbell Hall."

Congratulations!
"Thank you! I graduated with distinction!"

How was your graduation ceremony?
" It was a blast. It just felt really good because [sighs] it was so hard! It was so hard. And it just felt so good to have teachers there and people who supported me and my family. I graduated with my class, but I actually had a separate ceremony because I missed my graduation for a job. But my mom put together a little private ceremony and my teachers came and some of them spoke and I spoke and Lulu Wilson, the girl who played my little sister in Ouija — I've been really close with her and her family — she played the ukulele and wrote a song. It was a really sweet ceremony. My dean came and handed me diploma and it was perfect. Even though I didn't get to do the walk with my class, I still did it."

Sorry, I'm just trying to get a sense of your schooling, here. When you were on set after you'd taken the test, would you go into your trailer and just pick up a textbook?
" Yeah."

That's incredibly difficult!
"Yeah! Especially this last year. Because I missed a lot of school. I don't know why! I guess I was just so busy — I was auditioning all the time, and working a lot. I took four AP classes. I had to teach myself AP statistics for the most part. And then when I was in class, my teachers were super helpful, but it was just really hard with math and some other subjects. It was a stressful year. But I'm still happy that I chose to take 4 APs."

That's really intense. Are you looking at college?
" Yeah! If I'm not working, then I'm going to University of Edinburgh next year. I applied with a gap year, so I'll have this next year to work. Then, come fall of 2018, hopefully I'll be at University of Edinburgh."

So proud of this not-so-little one @luluswilson ❤️🕺🏻📷@kavanthekid

A post shared by Annalise Basso (@annalisebasso) on Jul 11, 2017 at 7:29pm PDT

So you're going take 3 years off of acting to chill?
"I was planning on just taking three years, going to college, and doing that. Over my high school career, it felt like I was being pulled into two different directions and working two full time jobs. School's a job. Then you have acting. And I wanted to dance to do other things, so I kind of drove myself insane. But it was all worth it. And so that's why I'm just taking this next year to work, and in the fall of 2018, I want to take 3 years to go to school. They have 3 year programs over there. And maybe during the summer I can figure out a way to work! But I just want to take some time and do school."

Obviously, you've done a lot of intense films. ( Ouija: Origin of Evil is no picnic.) But The Good Time Girls is sexually violent. Do you consider this the most violent project you've worked on?
"Yes. I mean, at least, excluding horror films and all that. It was certainly the most violent physically. Cause of, you know, what happens to Ellie. And [there's] lots of blood. But yes. Short answer, yes, it was the most violent project I've worked on."

How does that affect your time on set? Are you conscious of the violence?
" No. I mean, not really. Because people don't take themselves too seriously. It doesn't feel particularly violent; it was just like, okay we're going to do this portion of the scene where this person dies, or where this person shoots that person. So, it kind of felt. It didn't feel violent."

It's also kind of a girl power film.
"Yeah! That's something that I haven't really seen. A female protagonist — actually, three — in an old western film. I praise Courtney [Hoffman, the writer and director] for making something that is unique."

Was this your first time handling a prop gun?
"No. But this is the first time I've handled an old western gun. They work a little differently, and you can twirl them on your finger and everything. I loved twirling that gun around. It was so much fun. I love prop guns. Especially shooting — this one was a Colt something. I felt like a badass."

What was your first time handling a prop gun?
" It was for an episode of the show Nikita. I was a 12-year-old assassin. I shot a Glock-29, and it had some kick to it. It was fun. It was just a small handgun but I was surprised at its weight, because it was my first time handling a gun."

In Captain Fantastic your character had a very dramatic fall off the top of a roof. How much of that stunt did you perform yourself?
"Well, they did let me climb the tree, but they ended up using my stunt double Lucy. She taught me how to do it, but they had her do it. They actually had to stop me from going up the tree any farther. [Laughs] For the scenes when I'm tumbling down and all that, they built a separate roof with rubber tiles that was closer to the ground. So they shot me on that. Everybody was watching [Lucy] because she had to fall onto the roof of the car onto the cement. That was her. She did that by herself. I don't know if I could have done that. That was really scary! Because she had to fall onto cement after falling onto a car! That's terrifying."

Well, it was terrifying to watch. Speaking of Captain Fantastic, you worked with Viggo Mortensen! And in The Good Time Girls, you worked with Laura Dern. What's your biggest takeaway from working with such veterans?
"One thing is to respect everyone on set. That's what I really admire about Viggo and Laura and a lot of other people. They take the time to — they're just aware of themselves on set. They know how to be compassionate and still be professional. It's difficult to be really sincerely nice to everyone, because that takes a lot of time, and sometimes they can be distracting from a scene. But the way they handle themselves, I really admire that. Because even when we're doing, you know, a long shoot, or an all-night shoot, they're always professional, always kind. So, I'm trying to be as kind as I can be on set. All the time. Because everybody is working hard, and you just want to make a peaceful environment for everyone else, and you can do that by being kind and empathetic and respectful. It actually makes things move quicker."

I notice you have a quote from Uta Hagen in your Twitter bio — have you ever taken acting classes or studied acting methods?
"I did take a few classes, and I was coached for a while, but I'm a perfectionist — I got in my head a little bit, and I would go into auditions thinking, if I don't do it this way, then I won't get it. Although it did help for a little while, it came to a point when I knew I just had to figure it out on my own. My mom kind of took the reigns and really guided me. I owe a lot of my success to my mom, and her driving me to auditions and giving me notes and of course, my dad for supporting me and the rest of the family. Just got to give him that honorable mention. We all moved out to LA to pursue acting. He had to continue working in St. Louis and help support us."

Yeah, you're sort of a showbiz family. Both of your siblings, Gabriel Basso and Alexandria Basso act as well. What's that like?
"It kind of just happened. My sister was the first one to start acting. And I began doing it a few months after she did, and then my brother started doing it about a year later. It was fun! It kind of became a competition and that made it fun."

A competition! What do you mean by that?
[Imitating her siblings] "Well, how much did you make on that? How much have you got saved up in your bank account? That kind of thing."

So, you all have separate bank accounts for your careers?
" It started out that way. Then we pooled our money and became incorporated. My brother took a break for a little bit, and so did my sister, but I continued working. So I'm actually going through the process of creating a separate deal for myself. "

Are y'all represented by the same agency?
" Well, I haven't talked to my brother about acting in a while. He may be coming back, I'm not sure, but I think he's represented by UTA. I'm also represented by UTA. And my sister kind of quit acting and is writing now. She's trying to find representation because she's written a few scripts and they're wonderful and fantastic and amazing in every way. "

Would you ever consider writing?
"Yeah! I'm writing now. Maybe eventually. I don't think I'm very good at it, but I'm writing because it's good for the brain. Is this the right adjective — 'therapeutic'?"

I saw that you went to prom!
"Oh, prom was amazing. Prom was a great day, a great night. We finished the night by watching The Patriot, which was a little unconventional."

Do you feel like you were able to have a normal teen trajectory? You've basically worked two jobs for ten years.
"Right. I feel like I've had normal experiences. I'm so happy I was able to go to high school and that I graduated. School is so important when it comes to developing who you are. And I'm so grateful for that. My mom — she's done everything she can to make my life as normal as possible. I've had kind of a normal experience. I'm super happy with the balance that was struck. Because I got to experience both. I didn't have everything riding on my success at school. I also had this other part of my life — the acting part — that developed a different part of who I am. I'm just super grateful for how things I worked out. I wouldn't change a thing, even though it was so fricking hard. [Laughs] I had to teach myself a high school curriculum."

What about a social life? Is it hard to maintain a regular social circle when you effectively lead two lives?
"The social part of it was kind of hard because the kids at school couldn't relate to me taking so many breaks and being gone for so long and still being able to graduate. They didn't see how that was possible. What they didn't realize was that I was still doing the work, and so that kind of made it hard to continue friendships at school. A lot of actresses either quit going to school or take the test that I took and then that's it, so it's like, 'Hey, Sally, I can't hang out, I have to do schoolwork.'And they're like, "Oh. Okay."

It was difficult on both sides because it's hard to do both. You have to choose one or the other. The social part was definitely challenging. That's the part that I love and hate the most about this industry — during the couple months that you're working, you get to know so many great people either love or hate their jobs but are still great at them. Then, once that job is over, it's kind of like, 'Oh! I guess we'll never see each other again.' There have been crew members that I've worked with multiple times, but excluding that, you never really get to see anyone again. But that two months of pure bliss is worth it. I think."

You're set to be in the new Snowpiercer series. Have you seen the original film?
"Yes. I love it."

Okay, then who's the king of the Chrises?
"Oh, boy. Chris Pratt! I loved him in Parks and Rec. I think he's so funny and a genius and just so fun to watch."

Okay, silly question: If you remake any movie and then play any role in it, what would you do?
[Sighs] "Wow. My favorite movie of all time is Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley. But actually you know what? Lord of the Rings, and I would want to be Aragorn."

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This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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