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.
Just be a Mom and STFU.
Wait a minute. Her father is Bill Clinton !!!
It appears she has a problem with selective outrage.
She has access to million dollar make up artists, and the best they can do with her is "homely."
(Hubble wasn't exactly an attractive man.)
I like the “Come Hither” look in the second pic...
Gucci dress, Mateo New York bracelet, Cartier bracelet, Garland Collection ring, Halleh ring.
You can put chrome on an Nash but you can’t make it sell.
I was thinking the people that work in the photo shop dept of Elle must have burnt the midnight oil on those photos.
“Lots of lipstick used on that pig!”
Plastic surgery and airbrushing helped too : )
What can you expect from a child who was raised by 2 socio/psychopaths???
I’m deadly serious here.
She’ll be even more dangerous. She has a lot of money and power (both unearned) with which to do damage.
Most any female would be sure to put her best appearance forward in any well know magazine. Give her a break. Many women are very average and ordinary looking.
It is ugly to criticize her basic looks. Many are the people that are just like her in being somewhat plain.
Wish her well and show her mercy. Life is tough enough with out being attacked for the basic appearance which she can do little about.
HAVE MERCY.
She is not her parents. Though she was raised and taught by them.
God bless her.
More despicable than the current felons in the White Hut? I doubt it..
Keep in mind.. we live entirely in a DIGITAL world where anything and everything is easily altered and manipulated.
The lefties are taken with action nouns and verbs applied to eternally static persons and things.
Empowerment, liberation, elevation, awareness, (direct) action, etc.
At most they stage pickets with preprinted slogans. At worst they tweet impotently.
Not to worry. She probably inherited both parent’s genes and is a lesbian-rapist.
Oddly enough, I guarantee that she is actually one of the better looking people in that magazine. My wife got a complimentary subscription to it, and most of the models look like Auschwitz victims.
And she is none of that. At all.
She can't help it she's homely, no matter surgery and photoshopping, and she shouldn't be criticized for being so.
But the American public is irritated at having nothing people being stuck in their face as something people.
We see it with the Clintons. We see it with the Bushes. But people don't like it. They never have. At least in part, this is because people know that the 'best families' are very rarely the best families.
Has Granddad Webb been over to see the new baby?
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