Awkwafina, Kacey Musgraves & More Cover 'Marie Claire'

Actress Awkwafina, singer Kacey Musgraves, U.S. Women’s National Soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe, and A Little Late with Lilly Singh‘s Lilly Singh are the cover stars of Marie Claire’s October 2019 issue, on newsstands September 19.

Here’s what the stars had to share with the mag…

Megan, on the differences male and female athletes are treated: “In the same breath that someone would call me arrogant, they wouldn’t call Tom Brady or LeBron James or Michael Jordan arrogant. Even when they do call male athletes arrogant, it’s almost in a positive way. But when it comes from a woman, they’re like, ‘How dare she? How dare she know she’s one of the best players in the world? How dare she take a moment to let 55,000 fans absolutely adore her?’ You know? We don’t allow women the space to be that way.”

Kacey, on her experimentation with psychedelics: “They’ve brought me closer to our planet and to humanity. I’ve walked away with a lot of little gifts.”

Awkwafina, on defying stereotypes against Asian Americans: “It’s going to be hard to not walk into a room as an Asian American woman and not surprise someone with my bawdiness or the way that I yell. It proves a larger point that we’re all different and come from different experiences, and just because this is how you see ‘Asians,’ that’s not how I am. Let me a little color in your landscape.”

Lilly, on how her idols became her friends: “Dwayne Johnson, Selena Gomez, Priyanka Chopra. People who I wanted to get their autograph one day. And now I’m in a position where, if I need advice, I call Dwayne.”

For more from the stars, visit MarieClaire.com.