[crowd chattering]
Okay.
Hi everyone.
I am Brooke Shields
and this is my daughter Rowan Henchy.
Hello everyone. And we're so excited
to be here and to welcome you
to the 2024 Glamour Women of the Year Awards.
Guess what?
We are here live on the red carpet outside
of the Paradise Club
in the heart of Times Square.
And tonight our amazing honorees
will be joining us
along with some pretty fabulous VIPs.
That's right, mom. Thank you.
We have got fans watching on the Jumbotron on YouTube
all over social media and all my friends at college.
Hi guys, I hope dinner was good.
Olympian Suni Lee will be here
and we will hear from Sydney Sweeney
Billy Eilish and Finneas will be at the show tonight.
Mom, last year you were actually honored
as the Glamour Woman of the Year
and you did mention me in your speech. Thank you.
So let's take a look.
[crowd chattering]
Thank her for reminding my children, my daughters,
that I might actually be a little cool and badass.
And it's because of this award
that they're sort of coming around to that.
Well, it's really hard to call you cool
when you look like the next host of Toddlers and Tiaras.
Yeah. Okay. Alright.
Well, you know what, thanks for the shade.
I am very proud of you and your sister.
You're both in college now
and right now I can't believe
that we're co-hosting a red carpet together.
It seems like it's the only way I'm getting to see you.
And we are not the only mother daughters here
on the carpet tonight, Glamour is honoring the moms
of some of the most talented people in the world tonight,
and their grateful kids, including Selena Gomez,
Billy Eilish, and Finneas and Kelly Rowland
are gonna be here to cheer them on.
But joining us right now,
the woman who made it all possible,
the Editor in Chief of Glamour
and our very good friend Samantha Barry is here.
Oh my God.
Sam hi.
You look gorgeous. You look so good.
Thanks for having me.
So this is so amazing, we're so happy to be here.
And in addition to the Woman of the Year,
we're also celebrating 85 years of Glamour tonight.
Talk about that.
Look, it's been 85 years that Glamours been around.
Since 1939, we have been telling women's stories
and honoring them in the most special way.
We have a book, this is a plug,
it's out on October the 14th.
So get to Amazon pre-order it,
it is the best present you could imagine.
It's gonna be great.
So Glamour: An Extraordinary History.
It is very, very good.
And that vibe continues
with the 2024 Glamour Women of the Year.
Tell us about it, Sam.
Oh my God. We have the most amazing group of honorees.
They're athletes and innovators, they're activists.
So they've just been doing amazing things.
You'll see there's three sports women on this group
Olympic year that made sense for us.
There is a group of super moms
that are raising the next generation.
You have just people fighting for a lot of things
entertaining us, Sydney Sweeney's
entertained us a lot this year.
So it's just the most amazing group of women.
And you're talking about these amazing honorees.
I am wondering, did you get to spend time
with any of them? Yes.
Tell us, please tell us. Oh my God,
my joy of the year is actually going to the cover shoots.
So for example, with the moms,
we brought them together in LA during the summer.
It was kind of a magic moment
because a lot of them hadn't met each other before.
And you can count on one hand the amount of women
that have raised these kind of famous people.
So that was really special.
Post Olympics, we had Suni come
and we bought a lot of young gymnasts with her
and we didn't tell them who we were shooting,
so it was a surprise for them.
It was in Chelsea Piers, not too far away from here
in Times Square.
And they got so excited when Suni the Olympian
walked in the room and they got to shoot with them.
So it was really special.
It seemed like every photo shoot you had
was like a real party.
So what can we expect different from the event this year?
It's just that word. It's a party.
It's actually a bit different. It's a party.
Right, we got performances from Kelsea Ballerini.
It's just this really interactive moment,
the honorees are going to be honored in a way
that we have never done before with Freestyle Love Supreme.
It's going to be very, very special.
We'll be sharing everything on Glamour social.
So if you can't be in the room,
like the a hundred plus people are here,
just go to Glamour and you'll be able to see all the fun.
[Brooke] Absolutely.
Sam, this is just amazing.
It's so good to see you again.
I love you always.
Have so much fun tonight.
And we will see you inside.
We'll see you inside for some champers.
And next we have Ubah
from the Real Housewives of New York.
So this is beyond exciting to introduce her here.
[Brooke] And she hosted the show last year.
She was in our spot.
So we have lots of questions
and we need a lot of advice
because- Absolutely
we need the advice from them because this is a first for us.
And Ubah did such a beautiful job.
They both did such a beautiful job.
And we have her right here.
I feel guilty holding this. Hi Ubah.
You look so beautiful. You look stunning.
Hi. Lovely to actually meet you.
I know you very well. Hi everyone.
[Ubah exhales]
You did such a beautiful job last year.
Do you have any advice for us?
Because this is our first time doing this.
The fact that it's a mother and daughter duo
and the gold and the silver,
like you guys don't need no advice, I've been watching.
Well, and you are right now fitting perfectly in
and what's been so amazing is the energy
that's on the carpet.
And you had that energy.
I remember when you first asked me questions, I was like,
These stunning, stunning women.
Did you enjoy yourself
being on that side of- Oh my God!
It was so nerve wracking,
'cause we would just not interview anybody.
We were interview people like you, like Brooke Shields.
And so it was very nerve wrecking.
But again, everyone is so glamour and grace, so it was easy.
Who are you really excited to see tonight
and cheer on tonight?
I mean, every single one on the list,
I'm looking forward to hear their speech
to find out why they're nominated.
But there's a mother and daughter duo
that just, she's a lawyer, she won.
Did you see that?
Yes. Yes.
I just so her and I was like,
Oh my God, I just watch you and my eyes.
I'm start crying.
Well, we are so excited and we're gonna see you in there
and we'll have a little toast
and you can tell us how we did.
It's amazing meeting you.
You are stunning.
Everyone's head turned when you walked in
and I was like, they're like, You have to go.
I was like, No, I don't.
Unbelievable mwaah! I'm watching.
So right now, however,
we are joined by a gold medal winning Olympian.
And she is the one and only the incredible Suni Lee.
So please everybody put your hands together
for the wonderful, beautiful Suni Lee.
Congratulations.
Oh my goodness.
Oh my gosh
This is so wonderful.
I'm gonna hold it for you. Okay.
You can hold your own. Oh, okay, okay, okay.
I can hold it, it's all right, it's all right.
We're so happy to have you here.
Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
I just wanna say Suni, I follow your TikTok,
I watch your Get Readys With Me.
I take makeup advice, I take fashion advice,
I take flexibility advice from you as much as I can.
That's not the path I wanna go down anymore,
but it was for a little bit.
And you really are the comeback kid,
from fighting kidney disease and inner doubt
to the medal again this year at the Olympics in Paris.
Tell me and tell us how did it feel to be there
and what's next for you?
I mean, it felt amazing just knowing that
I wasn't even supposed to be there
and doing everything that I could to get there
was probably the biggest accomplishment of all.
I mean the medals are amazing, but just making it there
and doing the thing that I could
was probably the best feeling.
But yeah, facing all the challenges
and getting to where I am right now, I'm so happy.
And you're a real fighter and a real inspiration.
Yeah. And I know family means a lot to you,
but is there anyone that you would like to thank
in this moment to getting you where you are today?
I would've to say, obviously my whole family,
but my doctor and my managers,
I mean, they've been my rocks and my sister.
I probably wouldn't be here without them
because they've always supported me
and just been here along the journey.
Well I just wanna say thank you so much
for being here tonight.
It's such an honor to be in your presence
and I hope to see you inside
and have an amazing rest of your night.
We will be cheering you on from inside
and we'll see you later.
I'll always be cheering you on
no matter where you are Always always.
Especially on a mat or a beam or a bar.
But especially here tonight.
Okay. We have a very, very special other guest
that is coming in an honoree.
And we are so excited
because I now know her a little more personally.
We worked on a campaign together.
But please, the unbelievable Donna Kelce,
welcome and congratulations.
Donna come over here.
Come over here, meet my baby.
[Donna laughing]
Yes, this is my baby girl.
This is Rowen Yeah, that's me.
Oh hi. It's good to meet you.
Nice to meet you. You can hold the trophy.
Okay. I know it's kind of large.
How...
Go ahead ask her.
I'm wondering how can moms hold space for themselves
while also giving so much energy
and so much attention to their kids?
It's a full-time job.
She complains, she loves me, but she complains.
So I'm curious, how do you do it?
I'll tell you, there's a lot of people,
there's a lot of individuals in your community,
neighborhoods, families, whatever that you depend on,
especially when you have to go on work duty
and go on the road.
But it's really helpful to really have a base
and a support team.
Especially when you're working
because it's definitely difficult.
And it does take a village,
we always say that, but it really does take a village
and to know that people that you and the other women,
the other strong women that you can count on.
And I've heard you talk about your women friends
and the other moms in your life.
Yeah. I have so many friends
that I've kept in contact with.
A lot of them over 50. They're fabulous.
And I just wanted to say that thank you
to all those individuals that had to put up with my kids
when I wasn't around.
But also I had a fantastic husband at the time
that helped out and we were a team and we did this together.
So it worked out well.
Well we are so, and we've learned from you.
I wish I'd met you a little bit earlier in my life
because having a baby girl now Glad I'm meeting you now
And we recently worked on a campaign
for, yes for over 50 shingles
and it was really wonderful getting to talk with you.
And I was so happy when I heard
that you were getting this award tonight.
It's really an honor.
It's amazing to be in the same room
with so many iconic women.
Just knowing that I just gave birth to two celebrities,
but I really am not one myself.
So it's kind of fun though, it's very crazy.
But you know, the idea of celebrity
is so odd in this day and age.
You know what, I think all moms are icons and celebrities
because it's not easy being a mom
and instilling, encouraging them and to strive.
So you really, you set the bar pretty high for all of us.
So thank you.
I appreciate that Brooke.
You too Rowen. Thank you for being
here tonight, it's great to meet you.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Congratulations. See you inside there.
See you inside.
That was awesome. All right so here it is.
Meet Glamours, your mom of the year, Lynda Limon
and her daughter Dupree Walker,
who nominated her for this very, very award.
So please This is is so exciting.
Hi guys. Come over here
[Rowen] you beautiful women, you. Hi.
Look at the gold. All right.
All right. Moms.
Hello.
Hi. Welcome to Times Square.
This is so amazing to meet you both.
Thank you. Thank you.
This is such an honor, so congratulations.
Dupree what did you nominate your mom for this award? Why?
I mean, my mom is the most important person in my life.
I love her. Everything that I am is because of her.
And I wouldn't be here
or doing the things that I'm doing with my life,
if it weren't for my mom and she just deserved this.
So it felt like the only thing to do.
[crowd chattering]
I'm gonna give you her phone number later
so you can just talk to her a little bit.
Now, Linda, you're so many things
and I always start with mom, but you're a family lawyer.
You yourself are an endurance athlete,
which I also think most moms are in general.
And you are a mother of two girls. I also have two girls.
So what would you say the secret of your success
but keeping moving forward.
One step at a time and always embrace every single moment.
'Cause every single moment is so special.
Even the hard ones.
And the hard ones sometimes make the easier ones
just that much easier because we understand
well you have a beautiful daughter,
I look forward to meeting your other.
Well, I don't know, we were gonna talk about that later,
but we are so excited.
So just like you taught us, enjoy every minute.
Congratulations.
I've met one daughter, we can't make wait
to meet the next one and we'll see you in there.
We'll be at the after party.
Okay.
[Brooke] We will too. Woo! Woo!
[Rowen] We'll be right there with you.
[Rowen] Thank you so much. Believe us.
Perfect. Congratulations.
It's so great meeting you.
And I mean- Nice meeting both of you.
A mother daughter bond is really something special.
So I'm glad that we got to share
this with you tonight. Can't replace it can you?
No, you can't and we'll see you inside
and we'll talk dirt.
Okay. We'll talk dirt. Okay.
That's amazing. Alright, so now
we are joined by Bethany Frankel, entrepreneur and TV star
also pretty amazing mom.
Mom, Bethany, come over here.
So your daughter. Hi.
You look so beautiful. [mouth kissing]
How are you?
Hi. Have we ever met? It's so great to meet you.
I don't think so, but there's a first for everything.
You look like Dakota Johnson tonight.
Oh. Don't you see it?
I'm never gonna hear the end of that,
but okay. Thank you.
And I know you're dad. Yeah.
'Cause I met your parents together.
Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.
You're daughter Bryn she just started high school.
I'm curious how that's going.
It's going well. Yeah.
She loves it. I love it. She's really happy.
And it's about us telling them how to navigate it,
'cause it does require a little bit of that.
I think everything requires a lot more
of what we don't even realize.
But we've got a lot, we can learn a lot from you.
You're a powerful businesswoman.
So what would your advice, I mean to your daughter
or to other young women to really sort of keep thriving
and keeping moving forward in business in life?
I think positive reinforcement
about what they're passionate about,
nurturing what they're passionate about.
I think I said to an advisor at her school recently,
I would like her to stretch herself.
There should be discomfort but not pain like a yoga pose.
[Brooke] And some-
But don't push yourself too hard.
And also sometimes you have to be your own support system
if you are met with anything less than the confidence
that you deserve.
And I always try to tell them that,
don't always look for somebody else to tell you.
Believe it in yourself first.
It's very hard at that age because even us
we get influenced by trends and what other people are doing,
we want what other people have.
And so that's like uniquely what they're doing
and so that's a hard thing to know.
Well we follow you for trends.
So when we get in there, Your advice,
Keep telling me Your snacks.
I love your snacks. Thank you.
All of them.
I like with
the cream cheese.
And you put the cream cheese
on the caviar and then yes. Everything.
That's perfect.
[Rowen guggles]
So I'm gonna take some notes from you inside
and you can give me more snacks.
Me too. Great to meet you.
Congratulations to your daughter.
Great to meet you.
Right now we have the creator and the star
of Survival of the Thickest Michelle Buteau.
We are so excited for season two are we not?
Hello?
Season two.
Who gets the season two anymore?
It's very exciting. It's gonna be fun.
Oh my God, you so ladies look amazing.
I was here, you hosted
the Glamour Women of the Year Award last year.
What can we expect tonight?
Ooh. Oh my goodness.
Things to go right, things to go wrong, people have fun.
Very expensive wedgies
and a lot of supports
and celebration
and I don't think we celebrate each other enough.
I think we get caught up in the day-to-day
of what I'm not doing and what needs to be done.
So it's so nice that we could dress up, come out,
celebrate each other and have like our own holiday. So yes.
[Brooke] And feel celebrated all ourselves as well.
For all being a part of a wonderful, wonderful community.
Yes, it is a wonderful community.
It is. And I was so happy
that I knew you were gonna be here again this year.
So we're gonna see you inside
and we'll gossip a little bit more.
I can't wait, I'm gonna start the electric slide
'cause that's who I am.
But I can't drop anything in this dress.
I can't bend down low.
Great to meet you. We'll see you in there.
Bye.
Okay, switching gears just a little bit.
One of the biggest stories in sports this year
was the popularity of the WNBA and we love to see it.
Joining us tonight from the New York Liberty
is CEO, Keia Clark.
Keia Clark, get in here.
You are amazing.
We're so happy to have you here today.
So happy to be here. Thank you.
You are welcome. And you look absolutely beautiful
and it has been an incredible season for the Liberty.
A number one record.
We've got stars on the courts, celebrities outside.
What made this season such an incredible success?
You said it, it's been a historic, historic year
for the entire WNBA, but we're super proud here in New York.
The team has been playing exceptionally well.
The crowds are showing up.
It's a party in Brooklyn,
one of the best summer parties ever.
But the entertainment value,
just high quality world class basketball
and chasing the championship,
that's really what's made it such a successful year for us.
Well talk about high class, The Liberty made
the WNBA finals, should we say it again? Finals.
So what would a championship mean for New York?
Championship would mean everything.
Personally, I've been with the team for almost 15 years,
but for the players, blood, sweat and tears,
unfinished business.
We were in the finals last season
to return again and have a chance
to bring it home for New York, it would mean everything.
And we'd be the first basketball team
to win in New York in 50 years.
So we hope that this team is ready to do it.
I know they're ready to get started
this Thursday night at 8:00 PM with game one of the finals.
We can't wait. I'm a native of New Yorker
through and through, so I am right there with you.
Thank you so much, now-
And it's so amazing.
I'm just a little bit distracted
because I know that you have brought
an absolute fabulous guest with you.
So would you mind introducing who is beside you?
I'm happy to introduce none other
than Ellie the Elephant, our team mascot.
Hello, Ellie.
Oh, hello Ellie. Hi Ellie.
Oh my gosh.
Okay. I thought that I really turned it out tonight.
But I'm sorry, you win, you win head to toe.
I mean, Ellie, every single celebrity
wants to take a selfie with you.
I hope you know that on the sidelines
everyone's talking about you.
And I understand you are here to serve looks.
So first of all, you go girl
and Ellie slays the house down, especially in boots.
We love your bag, we absolutely love your bag.
So Ellie, thank you for being here
with us tonight. Thank you.
Good luck in the finals and take a night off.
Go enjoy the refreshments, talk to people,
show your looks because that's what you do best.
And we will be cheering you on.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Appreciate you. Thank you.
Fantastic meeting you.
I may need to borrow those pearls.
Yeah, the pearl and the bag. I mean, that's crazy.
Oh my eyelashes. That is amazing.
Oh, hello. Okay.
And the hair, all these. Oh yes.
Oh wow. Oh, a Colab. That's amazing.
Oh, that's great. So we'll see you inside.
Cocktails.
Cocktail don't worry. We'll meet there.
We'll meet you in there.
Now in just a moment, we will hear
from Glamour Woman of the Year,
the one and only Sydney Sweeney.
Sydney I am obsessed with you and your precious dog Tank.
So we are sending you both a huge congratulations.
Sydney is such a talented actress and producer.
I loved her in Anyone But You
and of course you Euphoria,
which I watched with my mother.
It was fantastic.
Yes, we are so happy and I'm sure Tank is very happy too.
But right now we've got the most decorated
track and field athlete in history.
She is a long time advocate for the wellbeing of athletes
and she's fighting for better outcomes for Black mothers.
Everyone please give a big kiss to, it's Allyson Felix.
Hello. Hi Allyson.
Congratulations. You look beautiful.
Thank you so much.
This is such an honor.
Well it's an honor to be talking to you
and all the amazing work that you do.
And this year has been extraordinary for you
because you received a $20 million grant
from Melinda French Gates
to fund that your important work,
it's making the difference, so it's just incredible.
Can you just tell us why protecting Black maternal health
means so much to you personally?
And also how can we all help?
I mean, my eyes were open to this whole new world
when I was having my daughter.
I had a very traumatic birth experience with her
and I didn't realize I had severe preeclampsia
and I didn't realize what a crisis it is in America
for Black women giving birth.
And so as soon as I learned I wanted to come
and help as much as I could.
And I knew people were doing important work
in this space for so long and so I'm so excited
that Melinda French Gates has really supported this work
and that we can continue to try to make things better
and everyone can, they can contact
their congressional representatives,
express support from the Momnibus Act
because we have to change this.
And it's a very, very important time right now.
And thank you so much for being here
and sharing your story.
Is there anyone special that you would like to thank
for getting you to this moment?
My own mother, she has always my role model
and just has made so many sacrifices
so that I could be here.
All the women who have just paved the way
and I'm just so grateful to follow in those footsteps.
Well, you're paving the way as well. Thank you so much.
Enjoy tonight. We'll see you in there.
Thank you. And a huge congratulations.
Okay, so there's a very exciting moment
coming up and we are so excited
because we are able to say this.
I never thought I would say, Billy Eilish.
I never thought I would say
Finneas. Finneas.
I never thought I'd say Maggie Baird.
I never thought I would say that,
but in about three seconds.
[Rowen] Three. Three.
[Rowen] Let's make it two, take it one.
[Brooke] Okay everybody- We are going
to introduce you all to Billy Eilish Finneas
and their gorgeous mother Maggie Baird.
And look at that gorgeous mom, Maggie.
Maggie Baird.
Congratulations. Congratulations.
Congratulations.
This is my baby girl. It's so nice to meet you
I'm Rowen. Nice to meet you.
Sweaty hands
but that's okay. That's okay.
Nice to meet you. Warm heart.
Hello. Hello.
This is my baby.
Hi. Hi.
Great to meet you guys.
Thanks for being here to support your gorgeous mother.
Thank you for being here to do this,
that's so nice of you.
So Maggie, congratulations again.
Can you talk about the way that your work
as a climate justice activist connects to your children
and your kids and your life?
Well, I basically spent their whole lives talking about it
to the, probably the lot of eye rolls,
but really a lot of support too and appreciation.
And then the amazing thing is because of them,
I get to talk about it even more now
and I get to influence a lot more people.
And because they're doing so much in this space
and helping us move the music industry
to a more sustainable model
and just helping feed so many people
and support really the things that I love the most,
which is really amazing.
And those are your babies, you know,
and I think that we just,
we're such, I'm in awe
of you as a mom.
You're talking about eye rolling.
I get that all the time from my baby girl.
She's like, Your eyes are gonna get stuck.
Yeah.
I don't that's impossible.
If I had the color eyes that you all have,
I would be rolling and rolling and rolling.
Oh my God.
We wanna be clear,
this is one of the few times on the red carpet
that you guys are not getting an award.
Instead, Glamour is honoring your mom
an artist and activist. So cool.
Maggie, what to you makes her,
and I mean, I know to me,
but what do you makes her a woman of the year?
To me? Yes.
Oh my God. I mean, it's so obvious.
My mom is like the smartest person in the world.
She knows so much about everything
and I feel like every time she speaks about,
the climate crisis and people and inequity
and all, she speaks like she's been studying it
for her entire life.
And really she's just like such a,
she's such a sponge, with information
and she just like soaks it all up
and is just like, instead of soaking it all up
and then sitting in it, she like wants to
share it and help people.
And like save the world. And help educate
And help educate people.
The real thing is like, there's just like
not a lot of people, we don't really,
not a lot of people know about a lot of this stuff.
And so it's really important to just share the information
and she's just the best, I don't know.
And a lot of people, you say don't know,
but they also feel like, oh, it's helpless,
they can't do anything about it
and they can't make a difference.
And that type of a message is always something
that you've really sort of gotten away from and said
it all can make a difference.
And as a mom, I kind of, you know, I have to know,
what do you think that your mom did for you
that helped you become the mom
and the person that you are today?
My mom. Your mom first of all,
just one little thing about your mom
and you can have my mic in a second Finneas.
[all laughing]
Well, I lost my mom in my twenties sadly.
But my mom, oh gosh. [chuckles]
Oh, get ready, it's gonna be a whole night of this.
I'm sorry.
My mom was amazing, very loving
and an incredibly capable human being
who had so many talents and skills
and really I think in her era did not get celebrated
for those very much.
My mother was an incredible singer.
Billy has her gift, Finneas has her gift,
and yeah, she was a woman of the fifties and sixties.
I mean, you can feel the emotions
and they will always be so raw.
Finneas, tell me what this means to you
for your mom to get this? You know, I think we,
our mom has been the same wonderful person our whole lives
and most of our lives were spent privately thinking,
Oh, this is such an amazing person.
And having friends and people my own age
and people our mom's age saying,
Your mom's a really special,
incredibly important person in our, local small world.
And I think as our sort of community has grown, so to speak,
as we've gotten a wider and wider audience
and platform, I think allowing our mom
to educate more people and help more people
has been such an amazing, important thing.
I mean, the thing I always think about is Covid begins
that we have the whatever, two weeks to flatten the curve.
And I remember calling my mom and like the third day
and my mom was like, immediately was like,
well, all these restaurants are about to close
and all these hospital workers won't be able to eat,
so let's start this donation platform
where people can donate money to restaurants,
the restaurants can cook all this food
and the food can get brought to emergency workers.
Immediately, that was like the first thing
she thought about.
She didn't think, Oh, I can't wait to binge this TV show.
Which was the first thing I thought.
Or Look at all these hours I have to watch television.
She was immediately thinking about
how she could help other people.
And that's just a sort of a testament
of the way she's always been.
And we can all learn so much from your mom
and from the message and from never giving up
on that message and making sure that people keep hearing it,
and keep beginning with love.
Thank you all for being here tonight and talking to us.
It's so inspiring to see you guys have a relationship
with your mother, just like I have one with mine.
And so I just wanna thank you both
for being here on your night off. Thanks guys.
Thanks for having us And it's going
to be emotional, so just get ready but it's okay.
We've got tissues and congratulations.
Thank you for speaking with us.
Thanks for having us.
[Rowen] Yeah. Thank you so much.
[Rowen] We'll see you guys in there.
We will see you in there.
[crowd chattering]
Reproductive justice
advocates. Thank you, you too.
Kaitlyn Joshua and Hadley Duvall are here now.
Kaitlyn and Hadley bravely shared their stories
and got the whole world to think about
reproductive healthcare in a new way.
And for that they are here and they are being honored
as Women of the Year.
So now let's welcome
both of these amazing women, Both of these
amazing honorees tonight. Amazing honoree,
Kaitlyn and Hadley.
Kaitlyn, Hadley Over the wire
We want you to jump over this wire
and we want you to come back over here and be with us
because we think you're fabulous.
[crowd chattering]
Hi guys.
Hi there.
Congratulations. We're so happy.
[Rowen] Congratulations.
Kaitlyn, why was it so important to you
to share your individual story
and what do you tell others who might wanna do the same?
For me, it was extremely important for me to tell my story
because I know there's thousands of women out there
that are not able to share or advocate for themselves
and especially a lot of women that look like me.
And I know that that is a disadvantaged community
and it was on me to to speak out
and tell my story in hopes that others
don't have to experience the same thing.
And sharing that message allows other people
to really share their own message.
And Hadley, I've been watching you speak out.
You've had an amazing wild rollercoaster of the year
from speaking at the DNC to hanging out with Oprah,
getting a standing ovation from Madame Vice President.
Do you, if possible, have a highlight?
Honestly, probably just every little girl
being able to watch from home
no matter where they are in the country
and see that someone's fighting for them,
there is hope for them.
And even if you've been through something terrible
and you've checked some boxes
before you've even had the chance to grow up,
you have control of your future.
And that's really just the message that I wanna spread
to so many people.
And to rely on the community and your community
and continuing to have these conversations.
We thank you so much for sharing those stories
and for being brave and we're gonna have to hang out
when we get in there. Okay.
Congratulations and we will see you in there.
Thank you both Thank you for being here
and for speaking.
I just wanna say thank you now more than ever.
It means a lot, especially to people like me
and my generation, so I really appreciate
everything you're doing.
Thank you. Thank you.
[crowd chattering]
Okay. All right everybody, if I had a drum roll,
I would drum roll right now.
So I'm just gonna
[mouth rumbling]
please everyone welcome
Glamour Woman of the Year, Pamela Anderson.
[Rowen] Woo. Woo.
Hi. Hi. Oh my God.
You guys are gorgeous. Hi, Rowen.
[mouth kissing] Great to meet you.
This is my baby girl.
Oh my goodness, they've grown up so fast.
I know they do that. I don't know why they do that.
This has been, why don't we just call it as it is
the year of Pamela?
Oh, I don't know about that,
but- It's okay.
It feels good, I mean it's been a long time
and these exciting doors are opening for me
that never opened before, so I'm making the most of it.
Well also, I mean listen,
you did have a beautiful year
and I think it's important to take all that in.
You wrote a book, the documentary
and then I am so I get a little ah,
because you got to really show your talent.
There was a director that really wanted everything from you
and you arrived and you showed up
in the movie The Last Showgirl
I think it's so wonderful
that your talent is being heralded
because it's always been in there
and I wanna say congratulations.
And why do you think so many people are resonating
with your story in this particular time?
Well, I think authenticity and vulnerability
are rarely celebrated in this glitz and glamour world
of fashion and everywhere.
So I think I was just really excited
to be able to bring that to the character
in The Last Showgirl on the character Shelly.
And I was really happy that Glamour
actually put me on the cover of the magazine
with no makeup on.
And I just feel like this has just been my year
to strip it all back, see what's underneath it all.
And you always have to keep
that little fire burning within you
and you never know when opportunity comes.
In my case, it took a couple decades,
but I finally got the opportunity to do this.
I'm so excited.
I think it takes, people don't realize
that they talk about like overnight success
or they talk about, it's like,
no, no, no, let's get this straight,
these are decades in the making.
And you've always been authentic
though that has been a part of your sweetness.
And all of the people that I know that we know in common
have always said that about you
and your openness and your sweetness
and your willingness to be honest
and to be thoughtful of other people.
Like there's so much that goes into that
and this business can absolutely destroy you.
So you have done it. You both have done that.
We do, but you know what? We're not gonna let it.
No, we're gonna stand tall
and we're going to use all that to our benefit.
It's like women that turn
poop into fertilizer.
[Rowen] Yes.
[Rowen] Right? Exactly.
[Pamela chuckles] That's us.
I love that that's such a glamorous thing.
Poop into fertilizer.
I think we could start our own business.
Yes we could.
[Pamela chuckles]
And thank you so much, it's so great to meet you.
Is there anyone special that you would like to thank
right here, right now for getting you,
I know you have a beautiful family.
Well thank you guys, but I wanna thank my family.
Obviously my boys are my pride and joy
and they've been so supportive of everything
and I just love the love that we share.
I wanna thank Gia Coppola of course for making the bold move
and putting me in this movie and the cast
and to Conde Nast and Glamour
for giving me this wonderful honor
and to be able to be here tonight.
I never would've thought that would've happened.
So it's a happy surprise.
Well you deserve it and it's only the beginning.
How about that? It's a new beginning.
This is the beginning of my career I always say.
[Pamela chuckles]
And it's exciting and it's awesome.
And we will be here to watch the rest of it.
Cheering you on. We cannot wait.
I know you guys will love it. You'll love the movie.
Oh, oh no. I already do love the movie.
I know, I love the movie.
Yeah. Oh yeah no, I came prepared. Come on.
Oh my God really.
Well, yes, promise. Love it. Love it.
And been saying that since it's happened.
So I'm happy for you- Thank you guys.
When we go in there we're not in front of like
a major camera, let's have a little hug.
Yes. Yes. Okay. All right.
Okay. Congratulations.
We're gonna go right down there,
that way, watch hold, okay.
And now we have four time Grammy nominee
Kelsea Ballerini with us.
So I would love to give a warm welcome.
I know that was fast. Hi.
You Kelsea got thrown in.
Hello. Thank you.
But I'm always gonna give you the down side.
Nice to meet you I'm Rowen.
Nice to meet you I'm Kelsea. Nice to meet you.
You guys look stunning. Thank you.
Thank you, you do too. I think we all look
pretty good together
We're like Olympic medalists.
So something metallic.
Yeah, I don't know.
You girls I like that Metallic is taken
unfortunately, but we can work around that.
You're right, you're right. It's so
Ooh. Ooh yes, see how I did that?
Alright, so there's so much to look forward to tonight.
I mean, you are performing tonight.
How does it feel to perform in front of
all of these badass women?
Well, okay.
So whenever they asked me to perform I was like,
I don't even know who's being honored yet,
they kept it very tightlipped
but I was like just yes,
like performing for women as a woman,
I'm like, I'm just here for the girls always.
And then I started hearing who's was being honored
and who was gonna be here
and then I got in the room for sound check today
and I just saw all the seats and I was like,
Man, I am so influenced by so many of y'all.
And yeah, it just feels really wonderful
to sing a song off a record that I'm about to put out
that I made with only women.
So it feels very kismet. Yeah.
Awesome. It drops pretty soon.
I know. And you're talking about it,
your new album it's called Patterns,
it drops October 25th.
Yes, real soon. Can you give us a little bit
of a sneak peek into what we're expecting?
Girl, well it is honestly just,
it is my entry into my thirties.
It is like every big feeling that I've had
entering into that good, bad and ugly
and it has some bops and it has some criers
and that's how I roll.
That's how we roll too, that's every day.
It's one or the other and we're rolling with it.
Absolutely. Well, have fun tonight.
Yeah, this is really, thank you for being here.
It's such an honor to meet you.
Break a leg tonight
and I- We were in the back
and we heard the sound check so-
Yeah, we were like running through.
Oh my God, we cannot wait.
It was amazing. Chopping our feet
But thank you for saying that.
Hopefully so have we.
[mouth kissing] I'll see you guys in there.
See you in there.
And now coming up we have actress and model.
[Brooke cheering]
Yaya Dacosta. Dacosta
She's an actress, she's a model.
[Rowen] She's the most important- Hello.
Look at this outfit One of them in your life.
Look at this. Okay, wait, hold on
[Rowen] just a moment here. Stunning.
[Brooke] I mean start to finish.
[Rowen] Look at this and the back.
I love an open back.
[Yaya] For the back, let me give it up for the back.
[Rowen] I love an open back.
Thank you. Thank you.
[Yaya laughing]
All sides. All sides.
Thank you Brooke.
How are you ladies doing tonight?
Sweet. How are you?
Thank you so much for being here, t's really exciting.
How are you feeling? Amazing.
Yeah. Amazing.
Excited to be in the room with so many
beautiful, powerful, intelligent, inspiring women.
It's just lovely.
Is there anybody in particular
that you are especially looking forward
to like bumping shoulders with or hugging?
To be honest and not to be boring, but to be honest,
after being quarantined, every single opportunity I get
to be outside is exciting.
Like anyone who I meet,
I know that it's an ordained encounter.
We're celebrating, we're excited to be
free people out in the world looking fabulous
and interacting with each other.
So anyone is an exciting person to meet,
'cause you never know where those relationships end up
in the future. Right.
[Brooke] That's sounds supporting
[Rowen] And she sells me every single time.
[Brooke] Supporting one another I think is so important,
you've always been that.
Yeah. Is there anyone that you wanna thank
or who is the most important person,
woman, female, anybody in your life would you say?
Oh wow. Gosh. Well first obviously my mom.
Sorry for being, I'm staying with her when I come
because I don't live in New York anymore,
so I stay with her and she's like,
When you come, you just running around
here and there we don't hang together.
So sorry that I've been running around crazy
but just to be able to come home
and be in a familiar setting setting
and get the recharge so I can go out in the world
and be myself is just a blessing.
Tell your mom I understand
the only way I got from her I'm home from college
Was hosting the red carpet together
because she's in college.
Yes. I am.
So tell your mom I understand.
I go to Wake Forest.
I'm a senior so I'm taking every day very slowly
because I don't wanna be anything above a senior.
Get ready girl.
Okay.
I'm not ready, but we'll talk later
and I'll talk to your mom.
I'm gonna give her my number.
Enjoy yourself tonight.
We will see you in there. So to see you.
Thank you for being here tonight.
[mouth kissing]
Thank you.
Bye. Bye.
And now we have very impressive singer songwriter Ayra star.
[Brooke] We're so excited.
[Rowen] Hi Ayra. Oh look, oh wow.
She just came in, look how she walked the shoulders back.
Oh boy. That dress.
How are you? You look gorgeous.
You look stunning. Thank you.
So we are here to celebrate women
and women that have made a difference in our lives.
And who's the most important,
let's say woman in your life?
My mother of course.
I know, I feel like everybody says that, right?
[Brooke] But it is the truth.
Okay, okay.
But it's the truth, moms are the best.
[Brooke] Everybody says that, right?
[Rowen] Yeah, everybody says that, right?
Thank you.
[Ayra laughing]
Okay, well I've been around a long time
and I think that there are certain things
I thought when I was younger
that I don't necessarily think the same today.
So were there any assumptions that you made as a child
about your own life that stuck with you?
Either good, bad or assumptions other people made
that you wanna really say, No, that's not it.
Growing up I always had like
this childlike faith, like I was gonna do music
and all of that.
And I feel like I always,
like my mom always manifested greatness in my life.
And I feel like that's something
that was always at the back of my mind.
So any assumptions that were made
by anyone around me never stuck
because I was surrounded by a lot of positivity
and like strong women. So, yeah.
Well I just wanna have you on tape
and I just wanna have it play all that voice
and the message it is just so inspiring.
And what are the best words to live by
that anyone has ever shared for you?
Let me see.
There's so many good things everybody has told me.
I met like one of my idols the other day
and she was just like, Have fun.
It's so simple but we actually need to have fun.
We need to enjoy the process of life
and it's all in the journey.
The highs, the lows, all of it
and that's all a part of it.
And you've done both and we're so excited
to see what you do next
and to keep listening and watching you.
And thank you. Thank you.
[Ayra laughing]
Have a great time tonight and we'll see you in there.
See you in there.
[crowd chattering]
And now a true legend Golden Globe and Emmy winner,
Oscar nominee, style icon entrepreneur
and entertainment mogul.
Give it up for Taraji P. Henson.
[Brooke] Hello.
[Rowen] This is really amazing.
[Brooke] Yes, congratulations.
Hello. Oh my goodness.
Silver and gold I love it.
We are silver and gold.
And we were so, so happy to be seeing you.
Congratulations.
Mwaah, back to you.
Mwaah, thank you so much.
So last year you honored your friend Mary J. Blidge.
I did.
And now you are a woman of the year.
So first of all, congratulations.
Thank you so much. That is so amazing. Yeah.
How do you feel tonight?
Honored,
grateful,
blessed. I'm full of joy
in a world that is trying to steal it from us.
Thank you Glamour. Thank you.
'Cause I needed it in this moment right now.
Thank you for my flowers. I appreciate you.
Oh well we appreciate you.
And we were talking earlier and we were saying like,
Okay, well what's the list?
And then I ran out of fingers
because you're an actor, you're an entrepreneur,
your film, TV and a Broadway producer.
You are an author, you are a mom,
and you are a big advocate for mental healthcare.
That has always been something very important
in my life to talk about it,
destigmatize it and take away the shame
and create support teams.
With such a busy life though,
how do you manage to take care
of your own mental health for you?
I pay attention to how I'm feeling and I have anxiety.
So if the anxiety gets to be a bit too much,
then I have to stop and I have to assess it
and I have to take care of myself.
And if I feel overwhelmed, no is okay.
Saying no is okay.
No will save your life.
I did not grow up knowing no.
And I didn't learn it until I'm 59
and I just learned it a while ago.
I know me as well, 'cause you get in the industry
and finally you get that break
and it's like, go, go, go, go
because you're scared the phone's gonna stop ringing.
And you know what, when you have faith,
you don't have to worry about that stuff.
And when you're a mom, you give so much
and then you give so much to the industry and your art
and I think that it's important
to lean on other people.
Get help and lean on yourself.
I have an amazing circle of girlfriends.
They're my Sisters of the Yam,
that's what I like to call them and they check in on me.
Sometimes they'll pull up,
if my hello sounds funny on the phone,
they will knock on the door
'cause they need to check on me,
look in to see what's behind my eyes.
So it's always great to have a great support system,
especially women.
Like it's nothing like us, right?
No. And you need to be witnessed,
especially with mental health,
sometimes we isolate, that is very dangerous.
We need to be able to witness each other
and allow ourselves to be witness
to not go through something alone.
Absolutely. Because humans need humans,
period at the end of the day.
Absolutely. Well, we need you as a human
and we've needed you so thank you.
And you've been such a big inspiration to me
for being not afraid to use my voice.
Because when you tell your story,
you help not only yourself but so many other people.
So thank you for being brave.
Thank you.
Oh stop. I can't,
we're gonna have to hug for real life inside.
Or now.
[mouth kissing]
I always try to hug the downstairs.
Look at the camera.
Thank you.
We'll see you in there. Thank you.
It's great meeting you.
And thank you for just speaking what you just said.
As someone who's in their last year of college
and I have amazing girlfriends
and they're watching me right now.
A support system goes a long way.
And it's good to have people there
and it's okay to also say, Hey, I need someone right now.
Absolutely.
[Rowen] So I appreciate you speaking those words.
Thank you so much.
[Rowen] Congratulations to you. Thank you.
Good luck. Thank you. Thank you.
You have a right use your hand.
I'm not worried. Thank you.
So good to meet you. So we'll toast inside.
Congratulations. Yes we will.
Okay. Thank you.
Right now we're here with entrepreneur Jordan Woods
and her mom, Elizabeth Woods,
another amazing mother-daughter duo tonight.
So let's please welcome them. Hi guys.
Come on. Look at this.
Look at you creatures.
Oh my God.
We should have done silver.
We're like all perfect.
I saw this one with arms off.
Yes. It must feel amazing.
Come over here. I gave it to her
Come over here, mom.
Show everybody out there
that you're gorgeous on the Jumbotron.
Look at these gorgeous outfits and women
and an unbelievable mother daughter.
How amazing is it to be out here with your daughter?
I mean, I'm proud beyond and we're so excited
to be talking to you tonight and-
This is crazy.
We didn't call each other though. No, we did not.
But I mean, look at this, I mean we match.
Yeah, we've been spending a lot of time together
these past couple days when I'm home from school.
Where do you go to school?
I go to Wake Forest. Oh, amazing.
Yeah. So I'm in my last year there.
But you guys are here and Jordan, this is your first time
at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards, correct?
It is my first time. Okay.
And how are you feeling?
I feel amazing, I think it's always a beautiful thing
to be surrounded with such beautiful, powerful,
strong, amazing woman.
I agree.
And I'm glad that we all get to come together
in this world right now and just be women
because that's pretty darn cool.
And just be positive.
And just be positive. Yeah.
And uplift each other
is amazing. Uplift each other.
Right girls, for girls. No, it's amazing.
I think that is what tonight literally embodies.
So, Jordan, I'm curious,
obviously you have your mother with you here tonight,
but are there any other women or anyone else in the world
that have influenced your life
and gotten you where you are today?
I feel like on a day to day base,
I'm always influenced by any amazing woman that I meet
because there's so many beautiful people out there.
Whether it's someone I see on the street
that gives me a compliment
or someone on social media, I feel like
just as long as we're giving each other our flowers,
I can easily be inspired by anyone out there
that's being unapologetically themself.
And my little sister also, she's not here,
but she is like my twin and she also-
Hi baby sister.
Hi Jody. Hey Jody.
And they look identical, which is crazy.
Wow. Yeah. That's crazy.
Are they different personalities
or just- Polar opposites.
Polar opposites.
For sure they are and she's 17.
Oh. Oh yeah.
Oh. Yeah.
Oh, all right.
It speaks for itself.
But she's great. She's sweet.
Is there a piece of advice that your mother has given you
that has really resonated with you and that you still,
kind of recite in your head daily?
Yeah. Okay. One thing she always says is
People will not remember what you did,
but they'll remember how you made them feel.
And always keep your integrity.
And those are words that I go by every day
because I always try to uplift the people around me.
Wow. Mom, thank you. Thank you for that.
And our babies I think we should have a toast inside
to celebrate our babies.
I think we should. For sure. For sure.
[Rowen] Well, I will be there and I hope you will too.
Please. Yes.
I would love that. Yes.
Congratulations on everything.
It's been so many years, we're still 25,
but you've uplifted people for a long time
and kudos to you.
Well, thank you.
And she's magnificent. Thank you.
And she is magnificent.
We have some pretty cool mamas,
I think you can agree with me on that.
So thank you both
for being here tonight. Thank you so much.
It's great to meet you We'll see you in there.
I will see you in there For sure.
Have a wonderful evening, we'll be right with you.
Yes.
Thank you guys. Thank you.
Thank you.
Talk to you tomorrow about what we're wearing.
You might need that.
Oh, I might need that.
Oh, hello. What?
What?
That's awesome.
That works. That's amazing.
And right now the fun keeps going.
We're here with actress, producer and activist Sophia Bush.
Okay. She's my friend, by the way.
Hi.
I know she's your real mom,
but she was my mother-in-law in a movie
[Rowen] and it feels It's real.
[Rowen] Yeah. It is real.
It feels real. No, it is real.
No, I know.
I get it The best one.
Hi cuties.
Hi beautiful woman.
You had had such a year and you just,
you keep making the world a better place
and fighting so hard and you're stunning.
And I'm so happy for you. Thank you.
And we're so,
I mean every time I see you,
I'm always amazed at your energy,
Stop. Your clarity. No.
And your intelligence.
And it's one of those things that I always,
I would call home and I'd say, Oh my God, she's amazing.
And she's so, so unbelievably brilliant about what you do.
And talk to us just a little bit about what the last,
oh, I don't know, year, few months you pick,
have been like for you.
I mean, listen, I think at the end of the day
our journeys are about evolving, right?
And realizing how to be fully realized happy humans,
and hopefully leave the world better than we found it.
And I think that's never more sort of pressing or obvious
than right ahead of an election.
And especially on a night like tonight.
I mean, I know we've talked about this for so long,
our concern is fighting for you all
to have the rights we've had
and to be here with incredible women
who are working to make the world a better place,
who are attempting to ensure that shocker,
51% of the populations treated like people
who knew that would be our battle in 2024.
But it's profoundly important
and I think also so unifying for us,
and I'm thrilled to be here in this community.
And I know you've had this very strong message,
especially now about voting and the importance of it.
And I'd love you to, you've been going all over the country
and you've been speaking this
and you've been talking about reproductive rights
and what do you want people to do?
The people at home, what message can you help
disseminate and keep disseminating?
Well, I think my hope for people is to realize
that on these sorts of issues, the math and the morals meet
to treat women and anyone who is fighting
for their right to bodily autonomy as full people
is both morally important,
but it's also incredibly important for the economy.
Reproductive justice is an economic issue.
And if women are allowed to fully participate
in their dreams, their life planning, their educations,
whether they wanna have kids, how many kids
when they wanna have kids, if they want them at all,
all of this, it not only matters for our lives
and our own pursuit of life, liberty
and freedom per the constitution,
but it really matters for the economy.
And if 50% of the population is not able
to participate in the economy,
we slowly suffocate the country.
And when you consider that women are the largest creators
of small businesses in America,
that we are often heads of household in terms of finances.
The math and the morals meet here folks.
And it's so incredibly important that we,
I think, wake up and stand up for each other.
And I think that's so important.
I recently had to go to DC
and talking about something different.
But it was amazing to me how the economic piece
was not something that was primary.
And I kept saying,
Look, this isn't just touchy feely feelings like kumbaya
this is an economic benefit to communities,
to the culture, too.
And it that's a message that they will hear.
Yes. Well, because I think,
listen, people can have different opinions.
You can have different feelings about social issues.
Feelings are not facts.
Medical science, it turns out, is based in fact.
But the economy is hard to argue
because math is math, no matter how you feel about it.
And I think to create a really healthy economy,
to create a really healthy America and a new way forward
as we're discussing on the Harris campaign,
it's really important that we tie these issues
of, as you said, emotion and fact together.
And we have rational conversation based in truth.
Well, that is something
that we need to keep talking about.
And we are gonna do everything in our power,
'cause you are absolutely to move this forward.
From my generation, I am saying thank you
for helping be our voice
and especially right now, more than ever.
And everybody please make sure to go out,
get registered and vote, vote, vote.
It is so important, especially for Gen Zs, everybody,
now is the time to vote.
Use your voice because it really does matter.
Thank you Sophia, for being here today.
They all matter.
[mouth kissing]
We will see you. I love you.
I love you more. Okay.
I'm so happy to see you.
I'm obsessed that you're doing this together.
I'll see you in there. We'll see you in there.
Oh, okay. Well, oh yeah, keep talking.
Intermission.
[both laughing]
We are here, that's live television
with the Grammy's best new artist of 2024,
Victoria Monet. Hello Victoria.
[Brooke] Look at you. Oh, look at you.
That is amazing. Oh my God.
Hi. You look beautiful.
You look absolutely stunning.
This is just everything Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Show everybody in Times Square.
Come on. Wow. At Jumbotron.
Thank you so much.
Victoria, thank you for being here tonight.
Thank you guys. Who are some
women in your life that have inspired you?
[Rowen] Oh my God. My mom. Yeah.
She's here in the city tonight and my daughter.
So I feel like it is so lovely
to see you two hosting this together,
'cause I cannot, it's future goals,
my daughter's only three, so I got a while to go.
[Brooke] But definitely my- She's a slacker!
Yeah, I know. So what is she thinking?
[Victoria chuckles]
Yeah, so I would have to say my mom.
And so it's really nice to see the honorees
and the presenters tonight be mother daughter duos.
It's just like, I love it so much.
And how are you feeling tonight?
It's so amazing to be in a room
with all of these amazing women.
How do you feel and what does this mean to you?
You know what, any event that we're able to honor women,
I'm so down for, I'm so here for it.
I think there was ages where we felt unseen
and it was a thankless job to be a woman and a mother.
So I'm happy to be here tonight alongside everybody
to clap it up for all the women involved tonight.
Well, I'm sure your mom is an inspiration to you
and you are an inspiration to your baby girl,
a 3-year-old, that's so wonderful.
They grow up so fast.
And yeah, the nights are long, the years are short
is what I will say. So.
And I have to ask, as a super fan,
do you have anything fun potentially coming out
for your fan? You know what
I did just drop a deluxe of my Jaguar II,
it just came out last Friday. Oh.
Well there you go So there is new music
to be heard.
If you haven't heard it or seen it,
it's out now and available everywhere, so.
Okay. Wow. Available everywhere. Everywhere.
It's available. Everywhere.
Okay, well, we'll celebrate you more inside.
Have fun tonight.
So good to meet you guys,
you look so beautiful. You look beautiful.
Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here.
Thank you. Thank you.
Okay, now we get to hear from Glamour Woman of the Year,
Sydney Sweeney.
Sadly Sydney couldn't be here tonight,
but she sent this message.
Thank you Brooke and Rowen.
I really wish I could be there tonight.
And I'm so sad I'm not there in person with all of you,
but I'm very thankful to Glamour for being awarded
amongst such an amazing group of women.
And I hope you all have an incredible evening.
Thank you Sydney.
And we will- She said your name.
Yeah, I know. Oh my God.
I'm gonna get like a one of those scar things, tattoos,
and we will make sure that you and Tank get your trophy.
Thank you so much. And congratulations Sydney.
Tank has to meet our Tuzi, just to let you know.
Okay. Yeah, they're pretty special.
Those little fur balls.
But thank you so much Sydney and congratulations.
We are sending you love
and we are so happy to be here.
Have you had fun tonight?
Yeah, listen.
Thank you for, I needed a vibe check.
This has been so much fun for me.
I'm just so honored to be in a room
with all of these amazing women hearing stories.
People are here for a reason
because every single person has a unique story
and a rich history.
And talking to them is something
that I will remember forever.
Well, I hope you also remember that it's a real night
for moms and daughters.
I just want you to remember that.
And this year, Glamour is gonna honor
an entire group of moms who gave their kids
such incredible self-confidence to soar.
We are talking Beyonce, Solange Knowles,
and Kelly Rowland, Selena Gomez,
Billy Eilish and Finneas and Travis and Jason Kelce.
So take a look.
[upbeat music]
Woman of the year,
I would think that it would be someone
who is a powerful advocate for other women.
Someone that is kind, someone that is inclusive.
Someone who has done something to better the world
and change the way we think about the world.
Women who can do it all and take a lot of pride in it.
[upbeat music]
I mean, I think that tonight
has been such an incredible night.
What has been some of your favorite moments from tonight
besides being with your mother?
[Rowen laughs]
I think just, you know, being in this room
and looking at these women in their eyes
and asking questions
and talking about things that are important
such as reproductive rights
and following. Voting.
Yeah, voting and following
Confidence And confidence
and learning from those above us and from those below us.
And that every generation is as important
as the next, as the generation above them.
And it's just, I will say this again now more than ever,
it is important for us as women to just use our voice
because it's necessary and it really does matter.
Everyone's voice matters.
And also, I think that there's something very much
to be said tonight about community.
We've watched all these incredible women,
moms, daughters,
friends, siblings,
we saw all these women and they've all talked about
their community, their support group.
They've talked about people that have made their lives
doable and how they gain support
and how they lean on those people.
And we're not meant to do this alone.
We're not meant to do anything alone.
So I think that it's been a great lesson.
I'm so happy to be able to share it with my daughter.
And right now we get to invite our friend back, Sam Barry.
[Rowen] Sam Barry.
That's why we are here tonight.
You guys are doing and amazing job,
also I had a look outside Times Square.
You look so good on the Jumbotron.
You're so good. Yeah.
We all- Jumbotron.
Very good on the Jumbotron.
So what messages do you wanna share with women around
let's do the world tonight?
Oh my God. Well, do you know what?
I think there was just such moments of joy.
I was watching from the end of the red carpet
and I just loved all the family moments.
I loved the Mom of the Year from Glamour, Lyndon Limon
and her daughter Dupree,
who were the start to the red carpet with you.
I loved Maggie with Billy and Finneas.
I was like, oh my God, the beautiful moment.
I think there was just a lot of love on the carpet tonight.
Who's your favorite people?
Who did you love, who are you talking to?
I mean, meeting Bill Eilish
and just seeing the connection she had with her mother
and watching her mother
get emotional Tear up.
Talking about her experience with her mother.
I think that just speaks volumes on why we're here tonight
and why you host this amazing thing the way you do
and have us all here. So that was, yeah.
And Billy Eilish said, my hair looks good tonight,
[Rowen] so now It does.
I can die happy.
I was like, Billy Eilish said, my hair looks good.
So I was like, yes, I'm ready.
Okay, well don't leave too soon. Okay.
'Cause we need some more.
But I think that's a perfect way to end.
And I just wanna say thank you for having us,
for asking us to do this together,
this was a highlight for me in my life.
And we just wanna thank all the change makers
who joined us tonight.
Okay. So, well we might not go just yet
because I think we, here's what we know.
There's a lot of people tuning in
and I wanna give 'em a little sense
of what's happening upstairs.
Because what we do have is we've got performers,
we've got Kelsea Ballerini who you guys talk to.
What did she have to say?
[Rowen] Oh, she has a new album coming out
and she's very excited.
Lots of new music and she just once again emphasized
on being in a room and performing
for all of these badass women.
We had a lot of singers on the carpet as well tonight.
A lot of stars.
And I think what you also saw,
like the athletes really stood out for me.
I know we talked about this earlier,
but there's something about this Olympic year
that in general we love athletes.
We had Ellie the Elephant, which was I think,
a big surprise for a lot of people.
And there was something about having Suni Lee
and Allyson on that carpet that just,
I mean, I don't think I'm an Olympian,
but part of me when I watched the Olympics
thinks that I could do it.
I think we all have some Olympic tendencies
just in being women.
Not to take anything away
from the extraordinary athletes, obviously,
but we all have to get in touch
with our confidence and our endurance.
And we need to keep fighting and keep growing.
And you've taught me that
and you've taught a lot of people that,
and you provide a beautiful evening
for so many different beautiful women.
So thank you.
Thank you so much.
Okay. Now, and that is very worthy and brilliant,
but who was your favorite look of the night?
Tell me everything.
I'm gonna go with Ellie.
Ellie in the costume?
I loved Victoria Monet's dress.
It was, I wanna say That dress was insane,
like Hunger Games esque.
It was very covered but also not too covered. Regal.
We had the gold broaches, so everything was amazing.
And then of course, look at you too.
I mean, I was you- Wait a second.
Sorry. You. Of course. Yes.
You walked right in and I was-
I heard a rumor that you guys are doing
a costume change for the party.
It's not a rumor. It's true. Okay.
It's not true. And I've sweat
through this poor sequin dress
for a long time and I'm gonna just change it.
The sequins are welting.
Yes.
[both laughing]
All right.
Well what an amazing night, Sam.
Thank you so much for giving us
and giving me this opportunity and inviting her back.
Thank you. Bye everybody.
Goodbye everyone. Thank you.
[crowd chattering]
