Issa Rae in Bathing Suit is "VERY Outside"

Issa Rae is a lot of things. She’s a brilliant writer, actress, and showrunner, best known for creating the series, Insecure. (For which she was just nominated for Emmys!) She’s also become a fashion icon, and her most recent post on Instagram proves it. Rae posted a series of photos and videos of herself in different locations, and in one wears a swimsuit. She captioned the post, “VERY outside.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Issa Rae 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 Goes To The Spa

Rae has amazing skin, and many fans have wanted to know her secrets. She revealed to POPSugar that she likes to get spa treatments done as often as possible. "I do love facials. I go to the spa a lot. I love the spa. That's something I never got to do before, and now I make it a routine."

2. She Takes Care Of Her Skin

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Rae tells Page Six Style that she has started to really take care of her skin in recent years. “This is the first time that I’m consistently using sunscreen when I go outside. I am cleaning, exfoliating and masking a lot, so I’m just trying to keep my skin stress-free.”

3. She Gets Her Steps In

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Rae revealed some of her wellness secrets to Women’s Health. She says that she loves to walk and run. “My neighborhood has a bunch of hills, so it’s walking up hills. Then I alternate between walking and jogging. I hate jogging—you’re going in circles, but I recognize that it helps.”

4. She Has A Supportive Team

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Being a showrunner, Rae has to have a lot of supportive people around her. In her Women’s Health interview, she encouraged others to do the same. “Find a good team. Find a good team. It matters.…It’s enabled me to not lose my mind.”

5. She Moisturizes

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Rae tells Allure that she makes sure to keep her skin hydrated and moisturized. "I moisturize a lot, all over because, again, I'm a very dry person in general and I just find that as long as I'm moisturizing my skin, it helps the glow," she says. Rae also revealed her go-to moisturizing product. "I use Dr. Sturm Products, like the hyaluronic serum. That has worked wonders."

Holly Scarfone of the Netflix hit Too Hot to Handle lives up to the show’s name, making waves on social media and in the tabloids. (She was rumored to be dating Scott Disick.) She’s known for her toned figure, and frequently hits pool and beaches to show it off. She posed just now in a swimsuit and captioned it, "summer games." How does she stay so fit, and what's her take on being on the show? Read on to see 5 ways Holly Scarfone 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 Likes to Push Her Boundaries

When they reached out to her to be on the show initially, “I had no idea that it was Too Hot to Handle,” she says on her YouTube channel. “But the second that I saw Lana”—the show’s virtual assistant—“I knew, I just knew and first thought in my head was you have got to be kidding me. It's actually really crazy how you can like trick a group of what, like 10 to 14 people, to come out to shoot a show and then it turns out being something completely different. The fact that that's even legal is super cool. But I'm really happy that I caught the experience. It really was a journey. Like people just go on and think, oh, it's a TV show, but people forget at the end of the day, it's about self progression. We did a ton of workshops and we were pushed to the brink every day, pushing our boundaries and trying to progress ourselves as people.”

2. Yes, She Ate Well During Too Hot to Handle

“I get this question so much. I don't know why everyone's concerned about what we were eating or if we ate on Too Hot to Handle—the answer is yes, we did not not eat for a month and a half. In fact, we had a plethora of food. I was eating so much and we could have as many plates as we want. We had an open buffet, not to mention, we had a really amazing chef. I think the chef was Rihanna's chef. So we had the best food. And you would think that we were like eating salads and stuff, but like we had a lot of like pizza and like french fries and every day was a pizza party,” she said on YouTube. “So we definitely had a fun time eating. One of my favorite moments in filming was just like being in the dining room and sitting with people and we were always testing our mics. And so like, we'd have to go around and be like, testing wait to count to 10. And we'd all, you know, be around the table, singing and eating and like joking. But yes, we definitely did eat.”

3. She is Introspective

Filming the show: “It really was an intense month and a half….And even down to like the second that I started filming up until now, it's still changing my life. Of course when we were in there, we were doing workshops and personally I was struggling with the dynamic of building a relationship with myself and someone else. And then also balancing that with building a relationship with the group as a collective. And that was a complex thing for me for a while. It took me a while to really get the hang of it. But that's the whole essence of the show is just getting to know yourself on a deeper level and really challenging certain aspects and departments of yourselves that really need attention.”

4. She Likes it Out on the Water

Holly has shared an image of herself on a paddleboard in a river. “Can’t fake a smile it’s hard to wear,” she captioned it. Water-based exercises can be great for you. “Swimming can improve mood in both men and women. For people with fibromyalgia, swimming can decrease anxiety, and exercise therapy in warm water can decrease depression and improve mood. Water-based exercise can improve the health of pregnant people and has a positive effect on the pregnant person’s mental health. Parents of children with developmental disabilities find that recreational activities, such as swimming, improve family connections,” says the CDC.

5. She Has a Sweet Tooth

“Who needs a man, when Ferrell's doughnuts can satisfy you x1000000000,” she once said. Enjoy once in a while but we’re sure Holly knows that “eating too many foods with added sugars sets the stage for potential health problems, such as:

• Poor nutrition. If you choose sugar-laden foods instead of more nutritious foods, you miss out on important nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
• Weight gain. There's no single cause for being overweight or obese. But added sugar might contribute to the problem. It's easy to get extra calories when eating foods that are sugar sweetened,” says the Mayo Clinic.

Emilia Mernes has become one of the most popular Latin singers in the past few years. She has also acquired a strong following on Instagram. Mernes recently posted a stunning new set of photos. In it, she posed in a green swimsuit top with jeweled straps and a pink skirt, as well as a sheer pink top, swimsuit top, and denim skirt. She captioned the post, “Behind the smoke you can’t see.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Emilia Mernes 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 Swims

Mernes spends a lot of time outside. One thing she likes to do is go to the beach and go swimming. She shares a lot of posts on Instagram of herself by the water. In this set of photos she posted, Mernes is seen on a boat and on a paddleboard. She captioned the post, “Made in Argentina.”

2. She’s Active

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Mernes opened up about her wellness routine in an interview. She says that she lives a pretty active life. “If I am skinnier it is because I am a thousand. But like everything, I eat well. The people around me know that I eat, it's not that I'm skinny, it's because I'm active, I dance a lot, I rehearse a lot, I'm doing things every day and I don't train, I should. Now I'm going to start swimming, but well the thing is that I never have a day off.”

3. She Speaks Out About Beauty Standards

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In the same interview, Mernes opened up about her past insecurities and spoke out about unfair beauty standards. “I didn't wear muscle or short sleeves because I said 'I have fatter arms' and people are going to judge me for that. I mean, imagine how my head was, really bad. And well, I had a really bad time at that moment and then I understood that it is not like that and that nothing is wrong. But you know what happens? It's that people put me in that place of the Argentine woman, that you have to fulfill a stereotype, that you have to wear these clothes, that you have to say or do this. And she broke my head that she felt that she had to comply with things that society imposes on her that are stupid.”

4. She Admires Mega-Powerful Women

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She grew up admiring Thalia, Rihanna and Beyoncé. “I would watch them on TV and I couldn’t believe it. I’d say: ‘I hope one day I can see myself like them!’ Because whenever I listened to them, they instilled a message of power and confidence in me,” she told Billboard.

5. She Benefits From Sun Exposure

"One of the best (and easiest) ways to get vitamin D is by being outside. Our bodies produce vitamin D when exposed to sunlight—about 15 minutes in the sun a day is adequate if you’re fair skinned. And since Vitamin D helps your body maintain calcium and prevents brittle, thin, or misshapen bones, soaking in sun may be just what the doctor ordered," says Select Health.

Holly Ramsay, the podcast host, influencer, and Gordon Ramsay’s daughter, often posts photos of her glamorous life on social media. She just posted another one from a trip she took to Palm Beach, Florida. In it, Ramsay lounged on a chair at a beach club. She wore a pale orange and white plaid swimsuit. Ramsay captioned the photo, “All sun & games.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Holly Ramsay 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’s Sober

At the end of 2021, Ramsay made a revealing announcement on Instagram. She revealed that she decided to get sober, and had been so for a year now. “I chose to take a break from alcohol because it wasn’t improving my mental health - which for me, comes first,” she wrote. “Living without alcohol has helped me feel better & be more present both mentally and physically.”

2. She’s In Therapy

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In an episode of her podcast, Ramsay opened up about her struggles with mental health. She says that she has started therapy as a way of helping herself. “I was diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Since then, I have been in therapy up to three times a week. I now have these diagnoses that I carry around with me.”

3. She Speaks Out About Her Issues

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Ramsay is open about a lot of her struggles. From her sobriety to her struggles with mental health. Ramsay says that she wants people to feel like they aren’t alone, and to lessen the stigma of these issues by speaking out. She captioned the Instagram post revealing her sobriety, “For anyone who needs this.” On an episode of her podcast where she talked about her mental health, Ramsay said, “I hope that by speaking out I can help other people.”

4. She Doesn’t Put Pressure On Herself To Look A Certain Way

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On an episode of her podcast, Ramsay talked about anxiety, and how people feel pressure to look a certain way. Ramsay said that she tries to not conform to society’s beauty standards, and encourages others to do the same. “I find it so sad because we have survived a pandemic,” she says. “No one saw this happening. So much has happened.”

5. She Spends Time By The Water

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Ramsay loves to spend time outside. Specifically, she likes to go to the beach and spend time by the water. Ramsay has posted several beach photos on her Instagram. She posted this photo of herself going on a beach hike with her friend, captioning it, “Dress code was beach casual.” She also posted this series of two photos and one video of herself spending time on a boat, watching the dolphins jump. She captioned it, “Tuesdays are better with dolphins.”