Posted on 04/11/2015 5:05:26 AM PDT by HomerBohn
(Chelsea Clinton in a Gucci dress, Mateo New York bracelet, Cartier bracelet, Garland Collection ring, Halleh ring.)
Chelsea Clinton was thoughtful and candid during her conversation with ELLE editor-at-large Rachael Combe for this month's cover story. Their discussion topics ranged from whether she'd like her daughter Charlotte's grandmother to be the first female president of the United States, to the pressures she feels as a woman in a leadership role, to how she influences her parents on topics of national importance such as gay rights, to what it's like riding the subway and going to the grocery store as, well, Chelsea Clinton. She talked passionately about motherhood and her seven-month-old daughter—along with her other baby, the No Ceilings Full Participation Report—and the happy place in which she finds herself, finally writing her own story as a mother, wife, advocate, and, yes, the beloved daughter of two of the most powerful people on the planet.
In her May issue editor's letter, ELLE Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers writes: "There is something innately regal about Chelsea—a kind of grace that doesn't seem practiced, or trotted out just for public consumption. She's a person of substance for sure, a young woman who, while measured in her manner, has a fierceness of conviction, and a calling to make the world a better place."
No Ceilings is emblematic of the work Chelsea says she felt called to do. It was an idea she and her mother dreamed up together, looking back at the United Nations' World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, where Hillary, then First Lady, made her famous declaration that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights." Chelsea says she wanted to use the 20th anniversary of that historic event to provide perspective on the status of women's rights, and last month she was able to do just that as she officially released the No Ceilings Full Participation Report at an event in New York City, alongside her mother and Melinda Gates (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined forces with the No Ceilings initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation to create the report).
Read a preview of what Chelsea had to say below. For the full story, pick up the May issue of ELLE—available digitally and in select cities on April 14, and on newsstands nationwide April 21.
(Derek Lam blouse, Stella McCartney trousers, Bulgari necklace, Tiffany & Co. bracelets, Trollbeads bangle, Garland Collection ring, Halleh ring, Brian Atwood pumps.)
On how life has changed since her daughter Charlotte was born…
ELLE: Is it a big change from before she was born?
CHELSEA CLINTON: Marc and I are like, "What did we do before we were parents?" My whole life is reoriented around my daughter in the most blessed sense. I now understand—this is something else that Marc and I talk about all the time—all of the enthusiastic, bombastically spectacular, wonderful things people say about their children, because we also feel and think all those things about Charlotte—that she is just the most remarkable little bubbly, perfect, chunky monkey creature ever.
On the importance of having a woman president…
ELLE: I was pregnant with my eldest daughter when your mother ran in 2008. I remember feeling that extra intensity you're talking about and being really frustrated when people said that it didn't matter if we had a female president, that it wouldn't make any real change, that it was just symbolic. What do you think?
CC: We've made real progress on legal protections for women, but in no way are women at parity to men in our country in the workplace. And if we look in the political sphere, it is challenging to me that women comprising 20 percent of Congress is treated as a real success. Since when did 20 percent become the definition of equality? And so when you ask about the importance of having a woman president, absolutely it's important, for, yes, symbolic reasons—symbols are important; it is important who and what we choose to elevate, and to celebrate. And one of our core values in this country is that we are the land of equal opportunity, but when equal hasn't yet included gender, there is a fundamental challenge there that, I believe, having our first woman president—whenever that is—will help resolve. And do I think it would make a substantive difference? Yes, we've seen again and again, when women have been in positions of leadership, they have had different degrees of success versus their male counterparts, historically being able to build more consensus so that decisions have longer-term effects, whether in economic investments or in building social capital. Who sits around the table matters. And who sits at the head of the table matters, too.
Chelsea would have got NOWHERE on her own as not only is she saddled with the homely countenance of her two parents, but she's liberally ignorant.
Chelsea was given useless, but high paying, jobs because those hiring her were stinking liberals trying to garner favor with the two monsters that brought her into this world.
I have no belief in anything that comes out of her mouth as she has learned from the two worst examples how to work the system and lie to get what she wants at anyone else's expense.
Go crawl back under a rock.
Memorable passage from Ed Klein’s book: ‘Mom, run for president! YOU DESERVE IT!’
The mind doesn’t just boggle, it shudders involuntarily.
Must be tough breaking the glass ceiling in her position. LOL
I assume that you are referring to Hillary and Web Hubbell.
Hillary is running on women’s issues it seems and will go harder left and completely destroy America in her hatred and arrogant pride and ignorance, it seems to me. I believe the whole left is stupid in the basics of wisdom being children of pride. The fools say in their hearts, their is no God. The are corrupt, they do abominable iniquities. And the left are foolish and godless individuals with a me only agenda who create special rights for themselves while destroying those who disagree with them.
I did the thorough check on the search feature.
The young lady must have been worked on for the better part of a day by makeup experts.
who gives...
You do, as most conservatives do who hate the evil of the left.
Webster Hubble would have been SO proud of his girl.
I have come to believe that the Left are demons or fallen angels.
I always find idea moment that Chelsea is the daughter of Webster Hubbell sort of ridiculous and in bad taste.
But yet with each photo I see of her, the resemblance to Hubbell is striking.
Yeah, but can she cook?
That’s the glass ceiling holding most American women back.
Everybody wants a wife but nobody wants to be one.
“The young lady must have been worked on for the better part of a day by makeup experts.”
...and all for naught!
Everyone should go to the Elle article link and read the comments posted. As was commented yesterday on the earlier thread, moovova described them as “BRUTAL”.
Chelsea Clinton in a Gucci dress, Mateo New York bracelet, Cartier bracelet, Garland Collection ring, Halleh ring.
Poor thing! She has really struggled to become a liberated feminist and has had to fight so hard against the white man’s oppression of her gender AND her race. She grew up poor, ya know..dirt poor with only a few rags. MamaHil worked so much to see that her girl had what she didn’t have. Her Daddy was a mean ole mister, hard drinkin with a wandering eye...
What a portrait in courage!
[spit]
Was Hubble’s rotting corpse atop the immense pile left in the wake of the Clinton duo as they marched onward towards the quick riches that only politics offers?
This duo can be described only as thoroughly corrupt, evil and dangerous to this nation as have been most of those who sell their mortal souls to Satan and do their utmost to destroy America. What many Americans have done to elect specimens like the Clintons, et al, is a sin.
Someday they’ll all be able to convene in the biggest convention ever held in HELL!
One can only wonder what held the lecher back.
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