Editor’s letter

When it comes to Ashley Park, the answer has always been yes – while filming Emily In Paris, while owning a Broadway stage, while starring in some of the buzziest projects of the past few years. And, also, we now know, while living through a recent near-death experience, which has taught the 33-year-old force of nature that sometimes you have to power down to level-up all over again

The actr ess Lupita Nyong’o paints a picture of her season of change as she pr epares to embr ace a new era

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The word should invoke a sense of lightness and frivolity. Instead, those with a front row seat to how it feels to be a girl in 2024 are sounding the alarm. And our own data confirms that girlhood is not just in flux, but in crisis. From the influence of a culture of misogyny on coming of age to the harms inflicted by years-long waiting lists for appropriate care, WH gives this life stage a health check – and asks where it leaves a generation of young women and the people who love them

THIS FESTIVE SEASON, CHEF PAUL AINSWORTH’S ELEGANT RECIPES PUT A BRITISH TWIST ON A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS EVE FISH FEAST

I can pinpoint the moment the existential crisis set in. I was sitting at a huge touchscreen, a 3D model of my naked body slowly spinning before me like a rotisserie chicken. The doctor zoomed in and