Lorde Flashes Abs, Reveals Self-Care Secrets

Lorde is the latest Vogue covergirl! In the October issue of the fashion magazine, which hits newsstands September 21, the Solar Power singer flaunts her washboard abs in designer duds while revealings all the secrets to her emotional wellbeing in the interview. Read on for everything Lorde said about prioritizing mental health—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bikini Photos!

1. She Isn’t Cut Out for Fame Because She Is “Highly Sensitive”

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“I’m great at my job, but I’m not sure I’m the man for the job,” Lorde told Vogue about fame. “I’m a highly sensitive person. I’m not built for pop star life. To have a public-facing existence is something I find really intense and is something I’m not good at. That natural charisma is not what I have. I have the brain in the jar.”

2. She Isn't a Slave to Fame

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In order to keep herself mentally sound, she allows herself to live a normal life to regroup when she needs it. “But for whatever reason people have allowed me to say, Okay, I’m going to come and do the thing—do the shoot, do the red carpet, speak to the journalists, put the music out—and when I’ve done it to the point of total exhaustion, when I have completely quenched that thirst, I’m going to go home, and you’re not going to see me for two or three or four years,” she said. “I’ll be doing the other thing, which is being there for every single birthday and dinner party and cooking every single meal and going on every single walk and taking every single bath. And when I’ve done that, and I’m like, all right, that’s enough of that for a little while, I’ll come back again.”

3. She Appreciates the Outdoors

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Lorde reveals that after spending the last few years in Auckland, she has come into herself and it has to do with spending time outdoors. “I was so serious and shy and tough. And I think that coming home, having a second record under the belt, I just felt like I could relax and play,” she says. “I don’t know—something started to happen, and it was all to do with spend­ing time outside.”

4. She Doesn’t Go Online

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Lorde explains why she stays offline. “I could sense that it would be very bad for the work and for me if I stayed online. I don’t think I’ve met too many people for whom social media is a net positive,” she says. “It’s producing crazy chemicals, forming crazy neural pathways that are not rooted in positivity. You don’t want to be the person shaking their finger, and I’m totally aware that it’s an immense privilege, a social privilege and kind of an economic privilege to be able to abstain. But I think we’ve got to be upfront about the things that are making us sick as a society.” In fact, she doesn’t even run her own accounts. “So I’m not, like, lurking on a Finsta. I’m really off,” she says. “I think I was known for having my finger on the pulse, so it was actually a huge decision philosophically for me to step back from that. But I started to see the phone as a portal. I can’t keep going through that portal, in the same way that I wouldn’t just take mushrooms all these moments of a day. It’s too deep a tunnel.”

5. Her Self-Confidence Has Never Been Better

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Lorde is in a great place mentally. “When I said I felt young for the first time—it meant feeling like I’m confident enough to put my butt out there. I wouldn’t have been able to do that as a teenager,” she explains. “When you’re really famous as a young person, feelings get magnified. At that time, people were discussing my body on Twitter, and the natural response was to shrink away from it. Now I have a sense of my worth and my power, and my body is—awesome, for one thing. But it’s also not as central as my brain is to the whole operation. I don’t think you could make me feel bad about myself now by saying something about my body, but that’s the difference between 16 and 24.”

Demi Lovato is a successful actress and singer and bonafide icon. She’s best known for her roles on the Disney Channel, like the Camp Rock film series, and the sitcom, Sonny With A Chance. Lovato’s singles include, “Cool For The Summer”, “Confident”, and “Heart Attack.” She shared a photo on her Instagram story of herself in an all black outfit. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Demi Lovato stays in shape and the photos that prove they work.

1. She Doesn’t Pressure Herself

Lovato tells Cosmopolitan that she doesn’t like to compare herself to others or feel pressure to look a certain way. “I've been on the internet for so long. I just had to realize that the images of people on social media who have the perfect hair, the perfect makeup, the perfect whatever—I just have to look at them and be like, 'Okay, that's great for them.' I have to ask myself like what's great for me and that looks totally different. I'm not going to fit the mold of what other people expect from me. I've never been that way, and I took a lot of pressure off of myself after spending so much time in the public eye and getting those comments that were hateful, and I just decided to take the pressure off myself.”

2. She Takes Care Of Her Skin

Lovato makes sure to take care of her skin. She shared her routine with Cosmopolitan. “Every day I have a diligent skincare routine where I use cleanser and a toner, then a day cream and an eye cream. Then at night, I use the same cleanser, same toner, a serum, a night cream and an eye cream. Twice a week, I also use a peel, a scrub, and a mask. I'm very, very strict [with it].”

3. She Takes Care Of Her Hair

Lovato also shared her haircare secrets with Cosmopolitan. “I use K18, and that's kept my hair really, really healthy. I also love Olaplex for the shampoo, but I am definitely trying to grow it out. I have a few extensions in the front right now, but I'm trying to get it as long as possible. I'll probably use hairpieces day-of, but I'm trying to keep it healthy [until then]. I'm keeping my skin in tip-top shape, and I'm doing the same with my hair. A part of me wants to go red again—like an orangier red—but I might wait until after the wedding.”

4. She Doesn’t Obsess Over Food

Lovato is open about her struggles with body image and an eating disorder. She revealed in this Instagram post that she is working on not obsessing over food and exercise. "I don't count calories anymore. I don't over exercise anymore. I don't restrict or purge. And I especially don't live life accordingly to diet culture.. and I've actually lost weight. This is a different experience, but I feel full. Not of food. But of divine wisdom and cosmic guidance.”

5. She’s All About Self-Care

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Lovato shared her favorite self-care practices with Cosmopolitan. “Self-care is really important to me. And it's about taking care of myself. Doing whatever makes me feel the healthiest—whether it's going on a walk or working out or taking a bath, getting a massage, whatever it is that I feel like is going to be the most beneficial to my self-love routine—is what I focus on. I used to be affected by the comments on social media when I was younger, and the way that I've tuned it out is realizing that my joy doesn't come from comments on the internet. It actually comes from real deep and meaningful connections to the people that I love and care about. So I spend more time with them, and I care less about what people say on the internet. I just know that my happiness doesn't stem from outside validation; it really stems from within.”

Former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson has turned her health and fitness around—and it shows. The singer posted a series of sultry pictures of herself looking confident in a pink patterned bathing suit with a matching jacket. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 7 ways Nelson stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Prioritizes Mental and Physical Health

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Nelson has spoken about crash dieting to get in shape for a music video, and vows never to do that again. “On the day of the Sweet Melody video I had a panic attack on set because I didn’t look how I wanted to look and I found it so hard to just be happy and enjoy myself.” she says. “I was sobbing in the dressing room. Someone really close to me said, ‘This has got to stop. You can’t keep doing this to yourself. You’re going to end up where you were before.’ For me that was the pinnacle point. I was like, ‘I need to start taking care of myself now because this isn’t healthy.’ It wasn’t nice for the other three to be around someone who didn’t want to be there.”

2. She Loves Boxing

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Nelson regularly incorporates boxing into her workouts. "This kind of boxing has many health benefits, because it constantly requires you to think, change your position, and change your posture," says physical therapist Linda Arslanian, director of rehabilitation services at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's hospital. "You're swinging your arms, moving the muscles of your arms and shoulders, increasing your upper-body strength. And when you're in the boxer crouch with a wide stance, with your knees slightly bent, you're strengthening your core muscles, back, and legs.”

3. She Loves a Cheeky Nandos

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Nelson is a big fan of South African fast-casual chain Nandos, which specializes in chicken dishes. “Baked chicken serves as a rich source of protein,” says Sylvie Tremblay, MSc. “A 4-ounce serving of chicken leg meat contains 27.5 grams of protein, while an equivalent serving of baked chicken breast contains 35 grams. You use this protein as a source of amino acids, which help maintain your tissues and allow you to heal after injury. A 4-ounce serving of baked chicken counts as 4 ounce equivalents of protein, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture food guide, and helps you reach the 5 ounces recommended daily for women or 6 ounces for men.”

4. She Practices Body Positivity

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Nelson is honest about her looks, telling fans appearances can be misleading. "I always get a lot of people comment on my abs in photos but I promise you I actually don't have abs lol,” she says. “I'm very lucky that when I breath in for [my pictures] I get these weird little indents that come sometimes look like I have abs. Anyway I'm here to tell you I DONT have abs ladies and this is what my chocolate loving belly really looks like. I'll never ever be a size 8 which is genuinely what I dreamt of being, but I've come to terms with the fact that I bloody love my food and that will never change."

5. She Accepts Her Unique Body

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Nelson has made it clear she will never follow the restrictive and damaging weight-loss methods she tried earlier on in her career. Instead, she appreciates the changes her body goes through. "We're all different shapes and sizes and that's what makes us unique,” she says. “I'll never sit here and preach and say I love my body because I don't, but I'm slowly starting to just accept it for what it is and sometimes I'm gonna put on weight and sometimes I'm gonna go to the gym and lose it, either way girlies one day we will be really old and look back at our pics and think god I was actually banging why did I worry so much. Anyway I'm rambling on now but you're all beautiful in your own ways and I hope you all know that."

Model and actress Cara Delevingne recently showed off her beach-ready body on Instagram, without showing off her incredible face. She posted a series of photos of her enjoying the beach with her friends, and the first photo was an underwater shot of her body. Delevigne captioned the photo “Shark bait ooh ha ha,” referencing the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Read on to see ways Cara Delevingne stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bikini Photos!

1. She Eats What She Wants

Delevingne may be a model, but that doesn’t mean that she is on a diet. Her trainer, James Dulgan has said that the model eats “whatever she wants.” When asked in an interview about her favorite foods many years ago in an interview, Delevigne said “Anything meat or cheese; my ideal would be a cheese steak.”

2. She Takes Care of Her Mental Health

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In 2015, Delevingne revealed that she struggled with depression in an interview. She said, “I think I pushed myself so far that I got to the point where I had a mental breakdown. [...] I got to the point where I went a bit mad. ...I thought that I was completely alone. I also realized how lucky I was, and what a wonderful family and wonderful friends I had, but that didn’t matter. I wanted the world to swallow me up.” Delevingne says that she now does yoga and has a support system around her to help her. “It’s about finding people around you who have your best interests at heart. [...] It’s about finding people who care about you and support you. And I’ve now been able to become a support for other people, as well."

3. She Takes Care of Her Skin

To be a model, Delevigne has to take good care of her skin, and use products that help her skin. Delevigne told Glamour that her favorite products are, “Lucas' Papaw Ointment [as lip balm] and Nivea cream—they're great for dryness. I used to get psoriasis; the cream was so helpful." Delevigne also says she loves, "Dayle Breault in New York makes a wicked good spray! I see her for facials too."

4. She’s All About Self-Love

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Delevigne admits that it took her a while to fully accept herself and her sexuality, but coming to terms with being pansexual has helped her. "Once I could talk about my sexuality freely, I wasn't hiding anything anymore," she told Variety. Delevigne said that once she told her father, he accepted her fully, and this has helped her in life. "He was like, 'You deserve to be loved.' He was so sweet, I could cry about it right now."

5. She Had This to Say About Staying Thin

Cara once said: "It's horrible living in a world where I'll get a call from someone saying, 'So-and-so says you were partying a lot and you were looking this way and you need to lose weight,'" she said, talking about the fashion industry. "It makes me so angry. If you don't want to hire me, don't hire me." She had earlier said: "I'd like to be curvier."