Brighten up

With starring roles in hit comedies, from Emily in Paris and Beef to Mean Girls the musical, Ashley Park shines brightly on both stage and screen. She talks film, fashion and female friendship with Frances Hedges

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

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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