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Editor’s Letter
Maia Reficco • Call her the ultimate #StreamQueen, because ever since the Nickelodeon Latin America alum made the jump from teen idol to Hollywood heavyweight, she’s been collecting platforms the way the rest of us collect passwords. She’s stolen scenes in HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Netflix’s Do Revenge, and most recently Prime Video’s The Last Sunrise. Now she’s bringing her star power to the Cosmo Quiz.
GAME NIGHT • When it comes to holiday gifting, all you need is friendly competition and solid taste.
Your 2027 Love Life: Delightfully Chaotic • Thanks to multiple eclipses and retrogrades, next year is going to be a wild ride.
Five of a Kind • Its fans know the K-pop group i-dle as the genre’s rebels. Its members say they’re just being themselves.
Willa, Help? • Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Willa Bennett answers your pressing questions about love and relationships.
The Sky Is Hers • At just 18, two-sport Olympian Sky Brown has more accolades than years on the planet. Still, she measures life by more than just wins.
Or Is Everyone Wearing Tiny Watches? Is It Just Us? • Our Is It Just Us? series celebrates trends taking over the culture. In this installment: the accessory tastemakers suddenly can’t live without.
Heartbreak Looks Good on Her • Rising country star Megan Moroney is letting her emotions lead the way.
Ice, Ice, Baby • Beauty editor-at-large Julee Wilson on turning her smile into a work of art.
The Business of Becoming MomTok Pretty • Things got surprisingly personal when I adopted a viral beauty standard that has almost nothing to do with my own.
Peak Steam! • Ten Cosmopolitan-approved spicy scenes that deserve the group chat treatment.
The Sugar Baby Fantasy • My friends and the internet promised it would just be easy cash. The reality delivered something else entirely.
Unraveling Relationship OCD • What happens when the person in your romantic life you trust least is yourself?
Hidden Agendas • Literary legend Taylor Jenkins Reid pulls off her greatest feat yet with a new novel about two best-friend pool hustlers set in the ’70s. Here, she annotates an exclusive excerpt and explains why being underestimated is a superpower.
REBEL, REBEL! • When The Hunger Games was first published nearly 20 years ago, it would’ve been impossible to predict just how big the franchise would become: more than 100 million books sold, 6 movies, $3.3 billion in box office sales, theme park rides, merch upon merch, and more. Today, the series is both an indelible part of our cultural lexicon—mockingjay pins, Jennifer Lawrence as a millennial icon, “may the odds be ever in your favor”—and a gift that keeps on giving. The latest film, Sunrise on the Reaping (in theaters November 20), feels eerily relevant in 2026, thanks to its themes of misuse of power and suffering as spectacle. It’s also ushering in a new class of stars, played by Mckenna Grace, Whitney Peak, and Maya Hawke, who are ready to make Panem their own.
WHITNEY PEAK • THE ‘GOSSIP GIRL’ AND ‘HOCUS POCUS 2’ STAR IS STEPPING INTO ‘THE HUNGER GAMES’ WITH HONESTY, HUMILITY, AND A VERY GOOD RACHEL ZEGLER STORY.
MAYA HAWKE • THE ‘STRANGER THINGS’ AND ‘INSIDE OUT 2’ ALUM THOUGHT SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A PART OF A MAJOR FRANCHISE. THEN CAME ‘SUNRISE ON THE REAPING.’
MCKENNA GRACE • EVEN AFTER FILMING ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE,’ ‘SCREAM 7,’ AND THE UPCOMING ‘SCOOBY-DOO:...