So many fun facts here. 1) this is my first time in the entirety of living in NY (22 years) that I’ve been in a space where I’ve had trick or treaters. THIS IS A BIG DEAL. 2) my mom has been sending me about a million boxes from my childhood and she just sent the very first costume I ever wore as an “actor”. My grandma Joyce made it. Alice lives even though our original production was subpar and I vividly remember being horrified that no one knew their lines (myself included). 3) Darcy went as the shrimp cocktail from Beetlejuice (DAY-O) but in actuality this is the birthday hat they would give you at hooters which we totally stole and which smelled like Daytona sauce for like 3 years until we finally washed it. 4) we have a basement that’s filled with old vhs tapes and I’ll never get rid of my vcr thank you good night. 5) our lil Maybel as the sweetest Halloween baby STAY SAFE OUT THERE!
This is for everyone who asks if the Orange cast was really that close in real life. Yes. Yes we were. And are. Today is my dear Julie’s birthday. My Angie. My favorite onscreen partner and the easiest person in the world to love. We also having matching anxiety disorders (shocker) so when she texted me at 10 pm from the loud hotel she was staying in I promptly got in a car and brought her back to Brooklyn for the last 12 hours of her short trip so she could get some sleep because that’s what friends do. It doesn’t matter how much time passes between talking or seeing each other, we always pick right back up where we left off. Happy birthday to a true legend. There’s always a quiet place for you here, and an unwashed gremlin (me) making breakfast in the morning. I love you ANUSTART. @julie__lake
This is for everyone who asks if the Orange cast was really that close in real life. Yes. Yes we were. And are. Today is my dear Julie’s birthday. My Angie. My favorite onscreen partner and the easiest person in the world to love. We also having matching anxiety disorders (shocker) so when she texted me at 10 pm from the loud hotel she was staying in I promptly got in a car and brought her back to Brooklyn for the last 12 hours of her short trip so she could get some sleep because that’s what friends do. It doesn’t matter how much time passes between talking or seeing each other, we always pick right back up where we left off. Happy birthday to a true legend. There’s always a quiet place for you here, and an unwashed gremlin (me) making breakfast in the morning. I love you ANUSTART. @julie__lake
This is for everyone who asks if the Orange cast was really that close in real life. Yes. Yes we were. And are. Today is my dear Julie’s birthday. My Angie. My favorite onscreen partner and the easiest person in the world to love. We also having matching anxiety disorders (shocker) so when she texted me at 10 pm from the loud hotel she was staying in I promptly got in a car and brought her back to Brooklyn for the last 12 hours of her short trip so she could get some sleep because that’s what friends do. It doesn’t matter how much time passes between talking or seeing each other, we always pick right back up where we left off. Happy birthday to a true legend. There’s always a quiet place for you here, and an unwashed gremlin (me) making breakfast in the morning. I love you ANUSTART. @julie__lake
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
Happiest of happy birthdays to quite literally (everyone will tell you) my better half. My husband turns 40 today and I think that’s rad for many reasons but the most important is that when he calls me old I can remind him that he’s old now too. My sweet Darcy, no one has ever, or probably will ever, love me the way that you have and do. You are truly the best and I hope you know the feeling is deeply mutual. You are the bread to my butter and the breath to my life. I am forever lucky because you walk this world and even luckier to walk with you.
What an UNBELIEVABLE night out in support of The Pink Agenda. It’s always an honor to be included in the fight to end breast cancer, but TPA’s tenacity and joy in the face of such a relentless battle is unmatched. So proud to be there with my mom and sister and so proud to champion this incredible organization filled with the strongest and coolest people I’ve ever met. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
What an UNBELIEVABLE night out in support of The Pink Agenda. It’s always an honor to be included in the fight to end breast cancer, but TPA’s tenacity and joy in the face of such a relentless battle is unmatched. So proud to be there with my mom and sister and so proud to champion this incredible organization filled with the strongest and coolest people I’ve ever met. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
What an UNBELIEVABLE night out in support of The Pink Agenda. It’s always an honor to be included in the fight to end breast cancer, but TPA’s tenacity and joy in the face of such a relentless battle is unmatched. So proud to be there with my mom and sister and so proud to champion this incredible organization filled with the strongest and coolest people I’ve ever met. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
What an UNBELIEVABLE night out in support of The Pink Agenda. It’s always an honor to be included in the fight to end breast cancer, but TPA’s tenacity and joy in the face of such a relentless battle is unmatched. So proud to be there with my mom and sister and so proud to champion this incredible organization filled with the strongest and coolest people I’ve ever met. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
What an UNBELIEVABLE night out in support of The Pink Agenda. It’s always an honor to be included in the fight to end breast cancer, but TPA’s tenacity and joy in the face of such a relentless battle is unmatched. So proud to be there with my mom and sister and so proud to champion this incredible organization filled with the strongest and coolest people I’ve ever met. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
On this, the very glorious occasion of my sister’s birthday, I offer you a baby snippet from my upcoming book and the dish I dedicated to her. Love you Sissy. Happy birthday.
On this, the very glorious occasion of my sister’s birthday, I offer you a baby snippet from my upcoming book and the dish I dedicated to her. Love you Sissy. Happy birthday.
On this, the very glorious occasion of my sister’s birthday, I offer you a baby snippet from my upcoming book and the dish I dedicated to her. Love you Sissy. Happy birthday.
On this, the very glorious occasion of my sister’s birthday, I offer you a baby snippet from my upcoming book and the dish I dedicated to her. Love you Sissy. Happy birthday.
I started putting this post together earlier when I heard that Maggie Smith had taken her final bow. I loved her. Very few people could turn the word “fork” into comedy gold but she did. She didn’t just say it. She pronounced every letter like it was a separate syllable. Forcefully. And then she blank stared at SJP until the utensil was put back on the plate. “F-O-R-K”. The First Wives Club was a turning point for me. In my love of Maggie but also in something I didn’t actually think about it until this very moment. I saw that movie in the theater when it came out. I was in middle school. I went with my naturally skinny friend Andrea who had gotten a hotdog. I couldn’t have a hotdog because I wasn’t skinny like her. Not biologically. I had to try to be skinny. Put in the effort. Refuse the hotdog. Take the sugar free red-vines that tasted like cardboard and chemicals. 12 years old and my food willpower was created. I was so good at making the right choices. Trying to be less or trying to keep myself from being more. Normal. Solidified by what I was seeing on screen; Brenda pasting large bodied women on her fridge to deter her from snacking, all of them comparing their bodies to the younger bodies their husbands left them for, fat free ranch, watching your diet and working out everyday not for health reasons, but to look like you haven’t aged a day in 20 years, finally being happy when you’ve “lightened up, literally” and you get to wear the dress you couldn’t wear earlier in the film. This wasn’t a narrative being pushed. It was a narrative that reflected the truth of what was and is expected of us. Normal. It has never not been totally normal. That’s why I had to write this book. Because it’s not normal. And it high time we stop pretending that it is. And in case anyone thinks I feel a certain way about this movie, I love it. I’ve seen it over a hundred times because it’s the GOAT and I am obviously neurodivergent. And I’m gonna watch it again tonight for Maggie. I have a recipe for ranch in the book. It’s not fat free. But I do think it’s close to restaurant quality. Here’s to Gunilla Garson Goldberg. 📸 @emiliaghamirzai Preorder link in bio
Yeah, this was too good to not go on the grid. I asked Chelsea what she wanted for a birthday cake and she was like “oh you know me I’m a basic b—ch when it comes to that stuff I’m happy with a box cake.” And as someone who typically makes cakes from scratch I was trying to figure out how to make that special. Then I had an epiphany. 1 box cake? Not super special. EVERY box cake? Getting warmer. So that’s what I did. I made all of her favorite box cakes plus a brownie layer on the bottom because yolo, I made the buttercream from scratch (something had to be homemade I can’t help it), then I just happened to have a ghost face cake topper because I impulse buy things for baking when I’m bored, the balloons made sense because our theme kind of accidentally became “children’s birthday party”, and then in the same vein the light pink was a cheeky and nostalgic nod to girlhood. It turned out better than I could’ve guessed and it’s now my favorite cake in the history of the world. But be advised if you want to make it, it’s like 20 lbs and super tall. I had to rig my cake carrier with makeshift stilts made out of napkin rings and gorilla tape. Chel you know you are anything but basic. It was an honor to create the cake you deserve.💗💗💗 The build starting from the bottom- Doubly fudge brownie, vanilla buttercream, yellowcake, vanilla buttercream, strawberry cake, vanilla buttercream, chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream, Joyfetti cake, vanilla buttercream. Thanks @realduncanhines
