Popsugar Pulse's "Elle" Cover Is For the Girls

If you think about it, "Legally Blonde" was always a story about friendship. The bending and snapping, the liposuction secret-keeping, the Double Delta Nu Sister Swearing: it was all in step with the movie's overarching theme of girlhood. Of finding your place, your people, and, in turn, yourself. This is what made the franchise soar, and why, when we learned of a prequel called "Elle" debuting 25 years later on Amazon Prime, we knew we wanted to spotlight the new pink posse at the heart of the series for our latest cover of Popsugar Pulse. The show itself follows a young Elle Woods from Bel Air to Seattle and carries similar themes of the films, but to me, the connection between its stars Lexi Minetree (as Elle), Chandler Kinney (Kimberly), and Gabrielle Policano (Liz) is what makes it special. During the photoshoot, I learned they are every bit the embodiment of what "Legally Blonde" represents: friends who are different in many ways but who show up and root for each other in all things. On set, the three giggled between takes, spoke in inside jokes, and filled awkward silences for one another. Outside of set, they stay up until 2 a.m. the night before a big event, sleep on each other's couches, and FaceTime when they need help. "These are girls who will be in my life for the rest of my life," Minetree told senior special projects director Lena Felton. I can't help but wonder, and to co-opt a phrase from the popular Instagram trend, isn't this the whole point? In pink we trust, Kelsey 49480135