October 21, 2015
Hollywood Survivor Drew Barrymore: ‘I Had the Weirdest Life Ever’

Drew is featured on the cover of the new issue of People magazine which will hit stands on Friday. She talks about her daughters, her crazy childhood, and more.

Drew Barrymore knew she wanted to give her kids a “normal” childhood.

So when it came time to teaching her 3-year-old daughter, Olive, how to cook, Barrymore got her a bowl and taught her how to whisk eggs.

“She loves helping,” the actress tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. But putting Olive on the step stool so she could see the skillet concerned Barrymore. “If she burns herself, someone will say, ‘You are the biggest a-hole, why did you let her near a stove?'” Barrymore says. “I’m just trying to figure this all out.”

The actress is used to figuring just about everything out on her own. Since she found fame after her breakthrough role at age 7 in E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, Barrymore “had the weirdest life ever,” which entailed pre-teen drinking and clubbing, going into an institution at 12 and living on her own by 15. But in her new book, Wildflower, the star reveals “the in-between moments” of the very public life she lived.

“I’m certainly not known for being boring,” she says. “But I also think things that are emotional and raw are also a lot lighter than they seemed. Someone once said to me, ‘But your life… it’s so sad.’ And I was like, ‘Well, no, it’s not to me, but I could see how you would think that.’ My life is amazing.”

Barrymore says she wrote the book for her daughters, Olive and Frankie, 18 months, with husband, art consultant Will Kopelman, 38. “When I first started having children, people were like, ‘Well, what are you going to tell them about [your upbringing]?’ And there was always a connotation and insinuation of, ‘You should be ashamed,'” she adds. “But that’s crazy. [My daughters] are going to know I’m not some holier-than-thou person who just doesn’t want them to live. I just want to guide them in the best way possible.”

For the actress, that means making her daughters a priority, a notion that she and Kopelman agree upon. “Honestly, I don’t know how it is for other couples but really I like watching him be a father,” Barrymore says. “I know everyone says you’re supposed to put your coupledom first. But I really love it being all about the kids. Maybe that’s my compensating for not having parents myself or a childhood but right now, the focus is about how we’re figuring things out as parents.”

Finding a balance between motherhood and work – her next film, Miss You Already hits theaters in November – means “not everything gets 100 percent all the time,” Barrymore adds. “I got into trouble saying, ‘You can’t have it all’ so I changed it to, ‘You can’t do it all.’ But you just can’t. It’s not physically possible. I’ll do my best. I’m a workhorse, I always have been, I always will be. But work is very much second to my kids.”

For more of our exclusive interview with Barrymore – in which she reveals her own memories of childhood and the happiness she’s found as a wife and mother – pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday





October 21, 2015
InStyle November Scans

I have added scans from Drew’s feature in the November issue of InStyle magazine! She looks beautiful! The issue is on stands now so be sure to go grab your own copy!

Gallery Links:
Drew Barrymore Online > PUBLICATIONS > 2015 > November | InStyle





October 09, 2015
‘I Am Who I Am, and I Just Don’t Have a Bikini Body!’

People.com shares that Drew is going to be on InStyle magazine’s first virtual reality cover experience.

Drew Barrymore is one of our all-time favorite celebrities — she’s personable, fun, takes a great selfie and is always down to try something new. Which is why she was the perfect choice to test out InStyle‘s first-ever virtual reality cover experience. But inside, she was the same old Drew: Candid, charming and totally relatable on things including body image and what you really don’t want to know about your parents.

First and most important to Barrymore is to know thyself, and to then have a sense of humor about thyself. “I am who I am and I just don’t have a bikini body,” she says. “I don’t even have a one piece body anymore! But I am loving the long rash guard, board-shorts look.”

Though it’s not always easy to be so laid-back about it. “I’ve beaten myself up about not being a certain thing. If someone says, ‘Let’s go to the beach today,’ my first thought is, ‘F––, what am I going to wear?’ I remember when Amy Schumer was on Ellen, she called her midsection a ‘lava lamp.’ I thought, That was perfect! That’s what I’ve been trying to say. But then I saw her in Trainwreck, and she looked so good in a tiny bra and short skirt. I was like, ‘No, you don’t have a lava lamp.’”

She is more focused these days on passing on what she’s learned from her rollercoaster childhood. “I’m not going to pretend to my daughters that I’m pure as the driven snow… The best I can do is open up my heart to them. That’s soul-baring enough,” she explains. “Making bad decisions doesn’t make you a bad person. It is how you learn to make better choices.”

And one better choice she intends to make? Not embarrassing her kids with her new book of personal essays, Wildflower, which she calls “a love letter” to her daughters. “My own mother, Jaid, wrote a book on sex, and it was the most mortifying feeling in the world,” she says.” So I know how a child feels when their parents put themselves out there too much, and I will never do that to my daughters. There are some things about your parents you just don’t need to know.”





August 21, 2015
“I Don’t Care to Be Perfect!”

Drew is featured in the new issue of In Touch Weekly Magazine … here is a highlight of her interview.

Despite more than three decades in show business, Drew Barrymore doesn’t bother trying to meet Hollywood’s absurd standards of perfection.

“I really don’t care about that,” Drew tells In Touch.

In the new issue, the mother-of-two reveals what’s really important to her.

“I just need to be a mom and get through every day, like most women.”

Drew explains how the pressure to look a certain way in image-obsessed Hollywood doesn’t affect her, especially after becoming a mother.

“Have you seen me photographed on the street?” Drew quips, “I think that answers your question.”

Drew has always been that carefree, confident woman, telling In Touch: “I was pretty damn confident in my 20s. I wore slips on the red carpet. Now I’m in muumuus! I was brave because I wasn’t really thinking about anything, just being. Now I’m much more conservative, especially being a mom.”

“I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying-to-pretend to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.”

For the full interview with Drew, including her biggest challenge as a mom and if she is planning on more children, pick up the latest issue of In Touch, on newsstands now!





January 27, 2015
More Magazine Photo Shoot

I LOVE this new photoshoot that Drew did for More magazine … so beautiful!

Gallery Links:
Drew Barrymore Online > Outtakes > 2015 > 001





January 27, 2015
Drew Barrymore Covers More Magazine: The Unexpected Supermogul

Drew is covering the February issue of More magazine and I think she looks stunning!

Three things we can all learn from Drew Barrymore:

1___You can overcome a crappy childhood,
2___Whimsy does belong in the workplace, and
3___Supermarket Cheddar rocks

I shouldn’t say this, because, I’ll get in trouble for it, but I’ll say it anyway,” Drew Barrymore says, leaning in, all intimate eyes and a half smile, because that’s the way she talks and it takes her zero minutes to warm up to someone new. Here it comes: “Women can’t do it all.”

She’s tiptoeing, because about two years ago she caught flak for making the same statement, the way anyone catches flak after suggesting anything about women’s capacity for getting things done. We have all lived long enough to see women get into trouble for saying they can have it all, or they can’t, or they should want it all, or they should opt out, and then the resulting think pieces about whoever said it and why it shouldn’t have been said. But the thing that strikes me as most ironic about Barrymore saying it is that it seems as if she has, in fact, at some point in her life, done it all. And from where I’m sitting, which is across from her as she introduces me to three new fragrances for her cosmetics line, Flower Beauty, it seems that she continues to do it all. The first lesson we could learn from Drew Barrymore is that if she thinks she’s not doing it all when she actually is, perhaps we who think we’re not doing it all are, too.

Still, she insists, “Quantum physics actually says you can’t do it all. Like, you can’t do everything at every minute of every day; it’s actually not mathematically, molecularly plausible.” However, she clarifies, “I do think that women can do everything they want to do”—a careful distinction, since she believes that from your passion comes your calling—“especially if they work hard enough at it. I don’t believe anything comes easy. You have to earn everything in life.”

She would know. Barrymore is someone who has invented herself into more incarnations than her petite, just-turned-40-year-old body should be able to account for. She is someone who published a memoir at age 15, a bulky volume that merited its length: hard drugs before she had pubic hair, rehab, an absentee mother, and an abusive father who probably should have been rounded up in a social services van by the end of chapter 1. In addition to having been an actual, not-just-listed-on-the-credit-sheet producer of movies like Charlie’s Angels and Donnie Darko, she has spent time as a winemaker, an author (last year she published a best seller about hearts—yes, hearts; yes, a best seller) and, of course, an actress. Today she emerges in her latest form: as a cosmetics mogul who is intensely involved in every aspect of her company. She is confident in her ability to pivot, which she does by rising above the emotions we’re all susceptible to: self-doubt, feelings of being overwhelmed and excessive concerns about what other people think of us.





November 17, 2014
Scans from 1995 – 2000

I have added a bunch of new scans to the gallery from magazines Drew was featured in from 1995 – 2000.

Gallery Links:
Drew Barrymore Online > PUBLICATIONS





October 18, 2014
People Magazine Scans

As we mentioned earlier Drew is the guest beauty editor for this week’s People magazine and now we have scans in the gallery! Go pick up your own copy because it is a fun read!

Gallery Links:
Drew Barrymore Online > PUBLICATIONS > 2014 > October 27 | People