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.
“Bombastically enthusiastic” Who uses those words in a sentence about their child? The entire family is whacked.
Come on folks, give her some slack. I think Princess Chelsea wants you to know the royals are just like us except they will never have to accept responsibility or work a day in their lives.
If this were still the country our forefathers gave us, grandma would be in jail. Grandpa, whoever that might be, would probably be locked away too.
I am so sick of this media crap reminding us daily how lucky we are to have had political dynasties like the Clintons, Kennedys, and Bushes to lead us and the wonderful things they have done for this country. Now their sons and daughters expect us to accept to their inherited royalty. They want us to know they are the rightful heirs to the throne that will rule our lives in the future. Crap on that idea...
As a country boy once said, she’s just carrying on a family tradition. But don’t give up and don’t forget a country boy can survive. And there is still hope the giant as awakening before the next presidential election.
A chip off the old Hitlery...
Chelsea has the Genetic potential to be the Harlot spoken about in Revelations 17. However, I think she’s just another empty-headed trust-fund baby who’s going to piggyback on her family’s money for the rest of her life.
BTW, the goal here is to project Hillery’s image. Chelsea and the media will have us believing Hillery is just like the Beaver’s mom before the elections.
Photoshop and a very experienced makeup artist who had nothing to work with. They do a better job with Mooch. This poor girl has absolutely nothing going for her in the looks department.
The people who work for that magazine could literally make ANYONE look good, without Photoshop.
Shocked! Shocked, there is gambling in the house!
How could the convincing Hubble signature be missed? It’s so apparent, I think it’s stunning.
She’s bowling shoe ugly.
...as a woman in a leadership role...
What leadership role? What is she leading?
...and remember, this degenerate will have her crime family’s trust fund $2,000,000,000 to play around with for some time. The whole family should be imprisoned for their many, many (and ongoing) crimes.
Something is wrong with her arms - prob photo shopped too much and lost proportion, scale, and natural perspective. Just looks off.
Why are we subjected to the enitre family, who gives a rats a##
I’ll bet Web Hubbell is really proud of his daughter!
I sense the drool of the author oozing out of my computer screen and on to my keyboard.
what has this piece of crap ever done?
Webster Hubbell is still alive.
I don’t know if she has or not, but she said that her Dad does, which gives me the creeps thinking about that sexual predator changing his baby granddaughter’s diaper.
She was pregnant in this picture.
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