By the time Michelle Williams came onto the carpet, I had forgotten that I was actually waiting to see her. We knew that she announced her surprise pregnancy last week, ahead of the Golden Globes, because she didn’t want to suddenly debut her bump out of nowhere. But wow, what a rollout. Michelle walked the carpet with her (still-married?) lover Thomas Kail, who directed her in Fosse/Verdon. They were both married when they worked together. Her marriage fell apart soon after. We don’t know when his marriage fell apart. It does look like Michelle is about five months pregnant, I would say. So… the math is there. Hilariously, some Getty photos ID Thomas as “Phil Elverum.” Nope. And for old time’s sake, Michelle brought Busy Philipps along as her second date too.
Michelle’s look here was Louis Vuitton and honestly… I don’t hate it. When she was single, she wandered around red carpets looking like a Civil War ghost and/or a retro widow, and now that she’s in love and knocked up, it’s all about soft, creamy orange? The message has been received.
People are still talking about Michelle’s Globes victory – well-deserved for Fosse/Verdon – and her speech, where she spoke about a woman’s right to choose.
CB tweeted that it felt like Michelle was making a convoluted argument that every woman has the right to make reproductive choices and/or slay as many married dudes as they want. Which… is true. Women should be 100% free to make all of those choices for themselves.
I feel like Lucy Boynton was trying to do a Michelle Williams thing and maybe Lucy pulled it off better than MW! She also wore Louis Vuitton… I mean, it’s just tin foil, but it sort of works. She’s an actress in her own right, but she attended as her boyfriend Rami Malek’s date.
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Lucy Boynton is so stunning.
I loved her alien 70s look!
Truly. She’s so pretty that I haven’t seen her look bad yet (despite her wacky dress and makeup choices).
Michelle Williams would never wear anything as fussy as Lucy Boynton’s dress.
Loved the speech, hated the dress.
I agree. The dress is hideous, and that hairstyle does nothing to improve her look. But, eh… I feel a bit awful even commenting, because at the end of the day, I’m not bothered by what anyone wears.
Michelle looks fine. Enough with that eyeliner/eyeshadow thing Lucy does every red carpet.
I honestly would not have thought Michelle was pregnant in that gown. Which to m, lends more credence to the theory they are telling more to get their version of the timeline out than because they have to because the baby is due super soon.
I didn’t realize it either! (Reminder to self: celebrity pregnant rarely looks like typical woman pregnant.)
The idea that other people know who you are because you play pretend on film does not change how your body reacts to pregnancy though. It’s not an award granted with career choice?
Plenty of nonfamous people hardly show, and plenty of famous people blow up like a balloon. I was a skinny person who turned into a small campervan, and took a couple years to get back and my sister was a tall runner who carried normally and snapped back in no time. Some people never show, some show in the first twelve minutes after implantation. 🤷♀️ It’s not fame, it’s just people.
It’s tacky to get engaged if you or your intended are still married to other people.
Tackier to get pregnant! Might as well go on now.
Me neither. She looks fake pregnant: like when a tiny actress straps on a fake bump so they can play a pregnant woman in a movie. I can usually tell when a woman is pregnant, even early on in the pregnancy, from their face. Pregnant women’s faces are generally a little wider than usual. Michelle looks like her normal self, no extra weight anywhere. It almost looks like she’s just pushing out her stomach on purpose. I don’t know why she would pretend to be further along than she is though, so maybe this is just what she looks like pregnant.
Same. I wouldn’t have thought anything.
Award season is starting, there will be red carpets, gala and luncheons every week for the next month or so and she’ll likely start to show more and more. That’s probably why she decided to get the news out right away: had she not and wore sack dresses throughout all the awards, there would have been ton of speculation
Nah. What actually happens is three-fold:
Celebrities have people who dress them, which helps a great deal. Knowing how to dress for your figure is so incredibly helpful.
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Celebrities tend to be thinner and taller, so they “wear” the weight better.
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They can (and do) hide out when they get huge.
Some don’t hide out, which is why we have Kim Kardashian in the last months of her first pregnancy looking terribly uncomfortable, but for the most part, they seem to try to hide.
I like the color but I think the dress will be better without that weird blue flower thing on her shoulder. I don’t get that detail.
Ditto. The blue flower detail is distracting.
Hate her dress and hair ugh…..bad choices, but why? Also, her speech was too long and too serious. She could have said the same thing in another way and made it shorter. I get it, and she has a good message to send, but maybe the Globes isn’t always the place for this?
Agreed, I didn’t get it either. I thought it was a corsage at first. I also think her hair would look better in a darker shade of blonde, too.
I agree with you about her hair color. She needs a darker shade and some lowlights.
Totally cosign on the stupid blue flower.
I hated this dress. It looked like she tied an orange felt blanket around herself, over a white tank top and then just stuck a random blue thing on the shoulder.
I don’t like the Creamsicle color, the goofy blue flower, or her bleached out hair.
I thought it was a blue octopus on her strap 🤣
Kraft Mac n cheese dress.
Agree 1000% and I her hair needs to be darker! The white color is doing her no favors!
I like the color and style of Michelle’s dress a lot, but that blue flower detail makes it look like a mess in photos. If instead her jewelry was that shade of blue, it would have been a more striking look.
I don’t think she looks 5 months pregnant. Maybe she is, but that’s a tiny bump.
Same. Especially since she’s already a mom. Pregnancies after the first almost always “pop” much sooner, though that could be somewhat mitigated by the 14-year gap between Williams’ pregnancies.
With my first, I was still wearing my regular clothes at 7 months, but with number two, four years later, I was already in maternity wear at 14 weeks, even though I actually gained less weight than with my first.
Second pregnancy pop is a pretty common, well documented thing.
Second pregnancies do not show on all people the same way….and she’s tiny – probably 98 lbs or something! When you’re that thin, you don’t have a huge bump.
Lucy’s show, The Politician, was nominated for best comedy so I don’t think she’s just a date.
I’m probably in the minority here but I personally hate the political speeches. It’s an award show people!
So? Thanking your agent, your mom, your dog and god becomes quite boring quite fast. They are given a platform and are using it, why not? Or better and do like Russel Crowe and don’t show up because more important things are going on
I would much rather hear them thank everyone. It is just as boring to hear actors blather on about their personal beliefs even if I agree with them.
Me too. I think celebrities do it to cover up their own unsightly lives
I think these speeches are interesting when they come from people you wouldn’t normally expect them to come from, like Michelle Williams.
Sure, it’s boring when Susan Sarandon does it but when a normally reserved and quiet person does it I do find it makes me pay attention. Also, if the speech is written well, as hers was, it’s good.
Chances are we’ll be getting more political speeches if the President keeps acting out. This wouldn’t be happening if he’d behave normally.
Me too, and they’re so messy and think their faux platform is more significant than it truly is🙄 Yes, we know you have the right to do Anything you want with your body, regardless of who it hurts, Michelle.
I agree with so much of her speech, but let’s not deny that fact that her current choice is to be pregnant by another woman’s husband, both her children were conceived out of wedlock, not nearly a responsible choice, she must of knew ahead of time that she was gonna to win because her speech was certainly prepared. I don’t hate on her but I don’t look at her as a icon.
Why would conceiving out of wedlock be irresponsible? The majority of kids are conceived by unmarried parents where I live and it’s totally fine.
Conceived out of wedlock? Are we not in 2020? You don’t have to get married. You don’t have to have kids and you definitely don’t have to be married to have kids.
Welcome to 2020, where there is nothing wrong with conceiving a child out of wedlock as long as both parties consent.
That’s what choice implies though. I was surprised when people assumed she had had an abortion in the past, because choice also means you can choose to have a baby. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your only option is to abort but to have the choice between different options.
Oof.
Michelle’s dress looks like something to wear on a beach especially the top. The hair doesn’t accentuate the look very well either. If she would have bundled the lower hair parts in the back it would have given the look a bit more elegance.
Lucy’s dress style in general is absolutely not my cup of tea, but I feel this is her and that makes it work somehow. Just the heavy eye make-up doesn’t do it, less is more in that case. She looks like a singer of a 70s glam rock band about to perform on Top of the Pops.
Nothing wrong in conceiving out of wedlock. And for the record, I’m firmly pro choice Still, her own personal history is so messy (3 engagements in 2 years, 1 marriage and a pregnancy ..with guy No 3), she should stay out of lecturing others about their choices. Not to mention she didn’t give Heath a choice when she trapped him with a surprise pregnancy. I remember reading an interview with him in which he openly admitted it wasn’t his decision. He also said that Michelle twisted her ankle because of him early on on the set of BBM and he felt he had to “take care of her from that moment on”. She’s a very good actress and I agree with her politics but I’ve always had doubts about her personally. Near the end of his life, Heath had limited access to Matilda, which contributed to his problems. Michelle milked her saintly “widow” status for years but the truth is much more layered IMO.. Let’s not forget that.
Oh wow, I’d completely forgotten that back in the day I had the distinct impression that Heath was not nearly as invested in their relationship as she was. I guess it shows how quickly history can be whitewashed, so to speak.
There is so much to unpack in this comment.
“Nothing wrong in conceiving out of wedlock” – then why mention it so many times? What does having children out of wedlock have to do with being pro-choice or not?
“she should stay out of lecturing others about their choices”. Was she lecturing or encouraging women to make choices for themselves – just like she did once upon a time (that’s what I took away from her speech, that she had chosen to have an abortion in the past)?
“she trapped him with a surprise pregnancy”. Did she now? The only way she could “trap” him with a pregnancy is if she had raped him while being off birth control. I have never heard such thing and I certainly hope that it was not the case. What I believe is that like many men, Heath believed that women were the sole responsible for contraception and sexual health. A frankly appaling take, especially if – like rumour had it back then – Heath was cheating on Naomi Watts with Michelle.
” Near the end of his life, Heath had limited access to Matilda” – and thank God for that. At least, Matilda was not there to watch her dad slowly kill himself.
“which contributed to his problems. ” Heath was an addict. He had an illness, which contributed to his problems. Blaming Michelle Williams for her reasonable desire to protect her only child is something else.
All this. Trapping a man through a pregnancy is just as antiquated a view as saying there’s something wrong with having a child while unmarried. With the number of deadbeat parents, it’s clear that it’s actually quite easy not to be involved in your kids’ life if you don’t want to, HL wasn’t trapped: it might have been a surprise, but he could have been out had he wanted it, he chose not to.
And the only person responsible for an addict’s addiction is themselves. If HL had restricted access to his child near the end of his life, it probably had much to do with his substance abuse issues and it’s quite reasonable to keep a child away from such an environment. His addictions kept his child away, not his ex
God bless you Sarah and Amanda. My head is spinning from some of the replies and you said everything perfectly.
@Arpeggi ,
“With the number of deadbeat parents, it’s clear that it’s actually quite easy not to be involved in your kids’ life if you don’t want to,” My thoughts exactly!!! There are so many parents, fathers especially out there, who have bio kids running in the world and who do not give a d*mn about them. They don’t see them, they don’t pay child support despite court orders, etc. If getting pregnant was the ony thing necessary to trap a man, how does one explain the existence of deadbeat dads – including some fairly famous ones?
I have a friend who told me that his wife wanted another child and that the conception was not really his choice- he spoke around it, was awkward and clearly didn’t know how to talk about it but the sex wasn’t his choice. It happens… I really had no idea what to say to him. It was awful.
If a man does not want to father any children than he should get a vasectomy or refrain from intercourse altogether. If neither of these steps are taken then he took the chance he would get that woman pregnant.
Many men just expect the woman to take care of birth control and if she doesn’t she gets blamed for getting pregnant.
That was a wonderful speech. I personally think everyone should be using their platform to support reproductive rights because they are truly under attack from Congress right now, not to mention our president and the very conservative Supreme Court. So I have no objections whatsoever. It is an issue of basic human rights. As for her personal history… Heath had drug issues toward the end of his life and that may have affected him not being able to spend as much time with his daughter. Marriages fall apart all the time for a variety of reasons. I truly hate cheating so much but… I wouldn’t judge or jump to conclusions too quickly. We don’t know. And you do not “trap” a man with pregnancy. Guess what, he was equally responsible! What is this, the nineteenth century? Some of you with your “out of wedlock.”
+1 @Amanda and Sarah
And yet if not for her pregnancy, she would have never ended up with Heath. No matter how much women who used it on a man dislike the term, stuff like this happens all the time.
I agree with your comments but I also agree with Minxx. These things do happen all the time. I personally know a few women who have “accidentally” gotten pregnant because they KNEW the guy would marry them. Some people are still raised to believe that marriage is “the right thing”.
Not saying I agree, but it DOES happen.
LOL, you can’t “trap” men with a surprise pregnancy. If you’re engaging in sexual behavior, the risk of pregnancy is always there. If they’re passionately opposed to not having children, they can use a condom or get snipped. The reality is most of them want the women to do the work of thinking about birth control and not have to worry about any of it themselves. If he wanted her to avoid children or get an abortion in an event of a pregnancy, that conversation should have happened before sex.
100% this. Many men are lazy about birth control and expect the women to deal with it. No one gets trapped into a surprise baby.
I agree with you!! I won’t ever be able to look at her the same & won’t forget it because of some speech that someone probably wrote for her.
Really?! Heath had limited access to his daughter because he was on DRUGS. I would’ve limited his time too, and as you stated multiple times it wasn’t his choice to be a father and he was trapped into it, so maybe he didn’t even want time with her? He chose his lifestyle over being present for his child, and what a dick to say his daughter wasn’t his decision, I’m sure she’ll love reading that one day. To insinuate it’s Michelle’s fault he had “problems” and died is actually pretty twisted.
Plus, she wasn’t lecturing anyone, what an odd thing to even think.
I agree. She should have followed surprisingly fitting advice of Gervais of restraining from lecturing anyone else with her fake poor little innocent girl act when she clearly broke at least two marriages with kids involved. And I hate that Ricky proved to be right on this. This just does not come well off of someone like her. hypocritical is a more accurate description here.
People are slowly waking up to real Michelle Williams, a few started questioning the timeline and the wacky string of engagements, so her team had a brilliant idea to write that speech and turn her into a feminist icon overnight. I have to hand it to them, they’ve done a brilliant job! The speech was great! And look: nobody’s talking about Michelle’s messy relationships, nobody would dare attacking her now. Whatever she pays her PR, it’s worth it. I feel sorry for Matilda though, Michelle is throwing her to the press as a “matchmaker” in her latest relationship. And everyone is lapping it up. SMH
Yep she’s full of it and people are dumb enough to buy it
Lecturing? I don’t think so.
For any of us in the U.S. we know, given our current political climate and federal judicial, legislative, and executive branches, that abortions may be made illegal in the next few years and women will be forced to continue pregnancies they don’t want.
And as soon as that is accomplished? They will be going for outlawing birth control/contraceptives. No lie.
So much respect to Michelle Williams for being vocal. Wake up everybody.
A large group of GOP senators filed a brief for the USSC to consider overturning Roe v Wade when the current term hears a case about abortion. Her speech about choice was spot on. Many women in the US don’t realize just how far the GOP wants to go on this.
@Nic919 exactly! women who are dismissive of the need for vocal defense of abortion rights (or want to police the women speaking out for being bad girls who should shut up) should be sure to educate themselves about what the GOP envisions for their lives and their futures. Because they have plans that actually go way beyond erasing Roe v Wade. We have many senators, supreme court justices, Cabinet members, and other high officials believing that the time is drawing near to enact God’s plan for the women of America. And all the pieces on the chessboard to make things happen are being put in place.
she “TRAPPED” him with a baby? also, heath had limited access to his daughter because HE WAS ON DRUGS. he could’ve changed that. he could’ve made his child a priority and gone to treatment and worked hard to get clean, and maybe he’d still be here today, but we’ll never know.
a child should not be exposed to a parent on drugs just because it makes the parent happier, and that seems to be what you’re implying when you say his daughter was kept from him and would’ve helped him.
Who is doing this woman’s hair?? It’s such an awful, unflattering, brassy gold. Come on, Michelle. You have to be paying at least a grand to get somebody to do that hair.
Her hair is terrible, that color and style age her.
Her skin is great, how old she is??… I wonder what she does… retin a?
I’m sure like any celebrity she has a team of beauty advisors, dermatologists and access to all the top level peels, facials and procedures.
Michelle is messy, but so pretty.
When she was with Heath Ledger especially. She was very soft and her canary yellow dress to the Oscars is still one of my all-time favorites of the young actresses.
She is super messy. That’s all I’ll say. And she is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah sorry that speech does nothing for me when she’s pregnant by someone else’s husband/she ruined someone else’s home knowingly. He’s got more burden to bare on his shoulders but she’s just as bad.
+1
For all we know, that wife *might* be relieved to be rid of him.
Good riddance for sure but still…inexcusable.
I guess she didn’t leave the new man that is still another woman’s husband at home. The hair style & color is awful & I don’t like the color of the dress. What I notice the most is that she usually has such a blank look on her face. Same look, different red carpet.
This! She always looks like a porcelain doll. Zero expression.
perfect way to describe her!
Interestingly enough, as a black woman, my main criticism was that Michelle broadly spoke about “women”, rather than specifically about “white women” who are the ones voting for awful white supremacists time and time again. They are the ones who need to do MUCH better in 2020.
Didn’t come here expecting to hear that her opinions on reproductive rights were invalid because of her having an affair and children born out of wedlock… No wonder women’s rights are under constant attack in the US when even liberal women spout patriarcal nonsense.
100%, well said
Well said Sarah.
Say it louder for the people in the back.
Agree with ALL of this, Sarah. I’d vote to move this comment to the top if I could.
Thank you! Michelle’s speech was 100% White Feminism. It isn’t ALL WOMEN who vote against their own interests, it’s white women.
I’m not a fan of Michelle Williams. I thought she was very good as Gwen Verdon but I don’t think she redefined acting with her performance. However, I was so proud that she stood there and spoke about a woman’s right to choose, a right that is under attack. Williams’ life has been messy as hell but as an American woman she has the RIGHT and as a wealthy White woman, the obligation to speak for those who can’t.
I’m never going to LIKE Michelle Williams, but last night I ADMIRED her.
Anybody else things she is already over the baby daddy?
What is going on here? Are we unable, in 2020,to appreciate a woman speaking out on reproductive rights, using her platform on a night like this, because we disagree with how she lives her life? I don’t live in the US, my rights aren’t threatened. But you ladies need all the people you can get to speak out. Her messiness has nothing to do with this.
Plus all those comments are actually showing why her speech matters. Basically, she’s being told that her choices aren’t valid because they go against other people’s values and she should STFU as a result. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable
I hear it, too. It’s disconcerting.
Agreed 100% emmy. Who cares about her personal life, and honestly who knows how messy it really is? We don’t know the exact dates she was married or split from Phil Elverum, when Kail split from his wife, nothing. We don’t know the whys. But even if there was overlap, who cares. What she’s saying here is super important, and many of the comments here only serve to illustrate why her speech is so important.
Aw man, I was so disappointed. I wanted her to show up and totally OWN her drama. Come on, she’s pregnant and engaged with a man who is not her husband, and also left his wife for her. And he’s there with her and actually looking totally giddy about it! That’s a lot of drama she has under control, so why not revel in it? Like yeah, this is what I’m doing and it’s going to be fine. Laugh a little, hold your belly a little, pose up a little storm. That’s the Michelle Williams I wanted to see.
Instead, she showed up kind of frozen and awkward, like usual. And that speech about pro-choice was so odd. What are you trying to say about your baby? Lol. What? Matilda must be so confused at this point, poor girl.
If she’s 5 months pregnant hows she able to have her hair so bleached?
This is a bit ‘bitchy’ but the first thing that came to mind when Michelle was going on about abortion rights, is ‘ya girl you need to be able to abort when you get knocked up by married men’ lol *sips tea*. she’s a homewrecker imo
That’s way beyond bitchy, it’s viciously nasty!
Probably spoken by a woman who feels deeply threatened by the prospect of unfaithfulness.
What’s with all the ties on Michelle’s dress? It looks like an outerwrap you wear to the pool with your swimsuit strap showing.
Yeah when she initially started her speech, I thought it was a right to fool around with married men. She took a bit of time to get to her point. I don’t disagree with the speech. I still side eye her with the much married Tommy Kail (I side eye him too).
It’s not her best look – and she is one who usually always looks so elegant (IMO). And her man….definitely an, er, odd choice. Can I say that? And Busy Phillips is so extra. Enough with the Michelle Williams +1 already.
It was so awkward for me that her speech was memorized. You know she practiced that a hundred times beforehand. I love an off the cuff, in the moment type of political soap box speech, but this one was way too awkward for me.
Totally agree!
I was wondering if her speech was somehow in the teleprompter.
In general, I find personal political speeches annoying, even if I agree with them.
For me, award shows are for fun, not for talking about heavy political issues.
Has anyone ever changed their opinion after hearing a political speech at an award show….doubt it.
Yuck. She looks as if she needs a blood transfusion.
Has the waxed mannequin look.
“The right to choose” in the context of choosing to sleep with another woman’s husband is some crazy bullshit. It’s rich for her to make this statement in the name of women, of feminism. I support a woman’s right to end a pregnancy she does not want. I do not support anyone’s right to choose to cheat, and it’s anti-feminist to sleep with another woman’s partner.