LADIES IN FIRE

Emma Stone photographed by Victor Demarchelier for Madame Figaro, 2018

Emma Stone for Revlon (2013)

Emma Stone attends the ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination’ Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (May 7, 2018).

"I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don’t know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can’t live areal life, how do you play a real person?”

Jennifer Lawrence & Emma Stone - Screen Tests | W Magazine

It can be really challenging in today’s world for anyone — especially girls and women —to feel good about their bodies. No matter how things look from the outside, we can all be super critical of ourselves and of our image in the mirror. I’ve seen articles or comments that have addressed my weight of ‘caving to pressure to be thin’. Keeping weight on is a struggle for me — especially when I’m under stress, and especially as I’ve gotten older. That’s the way my genes have decided to go, and things will change as time goes on, as does everyone. So when completely untrue statements are made about me or my health, of course a part of me wants to defend. Thing is, people have a right to imagine what they want to imagine. My job at those moments is to tell myself the truth. Am I taking care of myself in a healthy way? Am I respecting myself and being responsible? And over and over, I answer yes to that question. Then I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps. - Emma Stone

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

I feel safer when I know what I want. When I don’t know what I want, I feel like I’m flailing through the universe. - Emma Stone

“I always think it’s funny when people feel they have to be delicate with me. On Superbad, people would say absolutely anything every single day. After that, nothing could faze me.”