In addition to requesting all her images be “edited as minimally as possible,” the About Time actress looked back at the headline-making photoshoot she did for Girls. Girls. Girls. magazine back in 2017. In the most notorious photo from the shoot, McAdams is seen wearing a breast pump in a bondage-style bra and grungy black eye makeup. “I love that juxtaposition of beauty, glam, fantasy, and then truth,” McAdams said.
“With this shoot, I’m wearing latex underwear. But I’ve had two children,” she continued. “This is my body, and I think that’s so important to reflect back out to the world.” In some of the gorgeous photos, McAdams wows in a figure-hugging white Bally dress, in another couple of pics she wears a daring bralette and latex briefs from Miu Miu and Vex that show off her midriff, and in another look, the story’s main photo, she once again takes our breath away in a lingerie-style top and wide-leg pants (with her armpit hair on full display!)
At another point in the interview, the writer added that when McAdams smiles, “her whole face moves” and her “smile lines linger.” And given how much we’ve seen her smile in movies like The Notebook and Mean Girls, we know just how beautiful it is. “It’s OK to look your best and work at it and be healthy, but that’s different for everyone,” the actress said. May we scream that from the rooftops!
During filming, McAdams was still breast-feeding her daughter, who was just five months at the time and had to pump in between takes. At one point, the costume designer asked if she’d shoot a couple of scenes braless, something that immediately daunted the veteran actress.
“The great irony is Margaret just can’t wait to get into a bra. But I’m playing a kind of wild child, hippie artist mom [who] doesn’t wear a bra throughout the whole film,” she explained. “[We] really wanted Barb to feel like a real person who’s still figuring herself out, to put Margaret and her on similar trajectories.” Looks like we’re all just trying to figure ourselves out, right?