Have you noticed Ellen Pompeo‘s glow?

It’s hard to miss whether you’re watching her on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, which just wrapped season 21 in May, or in the recent Hulu mini series Good American Family. 

Her radiance was also on full display when the actress attended a Walk of Fame ceremony in her honor in April. It was then we had to know the secrets of our favorite TV doctor’s beauty routine. 

Luckily she answered the call.

The Meaningful Beauty ambassador since 2019 says it was her “chemistry” with Cindy Crawford that led her to a partnership with the brand. 

“I am old enough to know that Cindy was one of the first women to have a beauty brand. I don’t know of any other women in her position that were doing beauty brands back then when it wasn’t cool or popular,” Pompeo recalls. “I’m sure she got more than a few eye rolls.”

Pompeo, who fought to become one of highest-paid dramatic actresses on television, knows a thing or two about forging an uncharted path, has the utmost respect for her friend, who just celebrated Meaningful Beauty’s 20th year. 

Today, she owes some of her glow to Crawford.

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“I love the serum. That’s my hero product from the line, and, I think that’s their best product,” she says of the Youth Activating Melon Serum, which improves hydration and elasticity utilizing melon leaf stem cell and Hydrosome H2O technologies. (The latter helps the former penetrate deeper to firm and plump skin.)

Pompeo’s also a big fan of the brand’s eye patches, especially when she travels. “I can totally wear them on a plane and just go to sleep,” she says of the Revive and Brighten Eye Masques.

While Pompeo didn’t always prioritize spf (“I had plenty of sunburns as a kid,” she admits) the product is high-priority now, and she completes her routine with the brand’s Anti-Aging Day Crème Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen.

Of course, her wellness regimen also plays a huge role in how Pompeo, 55, looks and feels. “I think diet and exercise is honestly the key. I know everybody says it, but I really do,” she says. “I’m a pretty regimented person. Very disciplined. My husband [Chris Ivery] says I’m the most disciplined person he knows which I think is a compliment.”

For one, her diet is “super-clean,” she says. “I’m really quite militant about the way I eat and what I eat,” she says. Her one weakness is sweets, which, “is kind of a problem,” she adds. “But I really try to manage it. I really just try to eat dark chocolate and cherries.”

The actress also has to move “all day long,” which sometimes means getting creative during a long day at work. “I’ll ride my bike from my trailer to the set,” she explains. 

Pompeo also tries to get in a few minutes in a sauna as well as a cold plunge “pretty much every day that I can,” she adds. “Even when I travel, I try to look for hotels that have a sauna and a pool. If they don’t have a cold plunge, put a little bit of ice water on your face! I think it really tightens up my face, and the endorphin rush also makes me feel great.”

For Pompeo, a balanced wellness routine helps keep her mind clear. She’s also very honest when it comes to her outlook on aging.

“Obviously getting older is a privilege, but I definitely make my living on TV with my face. So, I think you can lean into the aging, if you want, or you can fight it. And I think I’m just trying to keep it at bay, you know?”

She continues, “I definitely am not going to say I’m keeping it 100% natural, that’s for sure. I definitely have vanity. It’s definitely not easy to watch yourself age.”

For the TV star, that means she boosts her routine with a minimally-invasive beauty procedure every now and then with peels, Morpheus8 treatments and “a little bit of Botox.”

One thing that she’s not into is filler. “I don’t like it at all. I’m not really into it,” she says.

And while she has a teen, Stella Luna, and a pre-teen, Sienna May, at home on the verge of entering their Sephora Kid era [She and Ivery also share son Eli Christopher], Pompeo says they don’t have any influence on her beauty routine. 

On the contrary, it’s still Pompeo who’s doing the influencing, telling them they don’t need multi-step routines, and more.

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When it comes to when the TV veteran feels most beautiful, she’s clear: Probably after [makeup artist] Hung Vanngo beats my face. 

“I have an incredible privilege of having the best hair and makeup people. So after they’re finished, you’re like, ‘Okay!’” 

“It’s like a fun part of the job, for sure. Again, it’s not easy to get older, but Hung is definitely amazing. I love when he does my makeup.”

Charlize Theron was less than impressed by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s star-studded $50 million nuptials in Venice, Italy.

The “Old Guard” star ripped into the Amazon mogul and his new wife while hosting the fifth annual Block Party for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project on Saturday.

“I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding,” the actress deadpanned onstage during the event on the Universal Studios backlot in Los Angeles.

“But that’s OK because they suck and we’re cool,” Theron added, per the Hollywood Reporter, seemingly joking.

The Oscar winner, 49, went on to thank her guests for “taking the time to be a part of this, especially when the world feels like it’s burning because it is.”

Theron continued, “Here in Los Angeles, in the US and across the globe, we’re moving backwards fast. Immigration policy has destroyed the lives of families, not criminals; women’s rights are becoming less and less every day; queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise.

“This isn’t just policy, it’s personal.” 

As the crowd applauded her remarks, she reportedly added, “Yeah, f–k them.”

While Theron was not on the guest list for Bezos and Sánchez’s three-day wedding extravaganza, a plethora of A-listers and power players flocked to Venice to celebrate the couple.

Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Tom Brady, Orlando Bloom, Ivanka Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Usher, Sydney Sweeney and more celebrities attended the festivities.

The itinerary included a lavish welcome party and an “all-nighter” pajama-themed bash — in addition to the main ceremony on San Giorgio Maggiore island that included performances by Matteo Bocelli and Ellie Goulding.

However, the over-the-top affair was met with backlash from Venice protesters who demanded Bezos, 61, pay more taxes.

Prior to the wedding, international environmental group Greenpeace displayed a large banner directed at the Amazon founder in St. Mark’s Square.

A laughing Bezos was pictured alongside the words: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding you can pay more tax.”

The organization also took to Instagram to share a video of banner being unveiled, claiming in their caption, “Jeff Bezos pays his staff poverty wages and dodges tax. No wonder he can afford to shut down half of Venice for his wedding this week.”

A spokesperson for protest group No Space for Bezos also denounced the billionaire’s wedding, telling Page Six, “We reject the exploitative logic that sees the city as a commodity.

“What worries us even more is a mayor who prefers selling Venice rather than addressing the real problems its residents face — rising living costs, housing prices, the depopulation of the historic center.”

However, we learned that Bezos and Sánchez quietly donated to local Venice charities months before their wedding.

Additionally, instead of accepting wedding gifts, the newlyweds made contributions to the city in the names of their guests so “Venice will continue to inspire wonder for generations to come.”

Angela Oakley has nothing to hide!

In the season 16 finale The Real Housewives of Atlanta, which aired Sunday, June 29, Angela admitted that her relationship with husband Charles Oakley had been struggling. After revealing they were millions of dollars in debt from her failed house flipping projects, Angela went to see their shared therapist Wendy for guidance on how to move forward with Charles.

“I just needed some advice on how to deal with my husband and all that comes with him,” she said in her confessional. “He’s handsome, he’s famous, he has money, he’s successful. I mean, any one of those things would attract women, and so Wendy has been instrumental in helping us stay married.”

“I have all of my money in these houses, and I’m in the ditch about all of them,” she then told the therapist.

Angela confessed she was willing to end her real estate endeavors to heal her relationship with Charles.

Noting that the emotional, physical and financial toll of trying to sell the properties was “too much,” Angela said she has accepted that she will “just lose them.”

“These houses have put a strain on our marriage,” she claimed. “Because I’m constantly asking Charles to pump more money into these properties, and now he’s at a point where he doesn’t want to. We have since reduced the price on all of these homes. I feel like we’ve done all that we can do in order to protect my marriage. Sometimes, you have to cut off your finger to save your hand, and that’s what I’m doing.”

When Wendy asked what Angela learned from the experience, she reflected on how she “went against” the former NBA player when she told her “not to do it” in the first place.

“I definitely feel so bad about that,” she acknowledged.

Angela also brought up the group cooking event, where a man approached her with rumors about Charles cheating.

“Afterwards, I told Charles what happened, and he’s just like, ‘Whatever they’re saying is a lie. Someone put him here. But you trust me, right?’” she explained. “Charles and I have been through a lot. You know that I didn’t trust him always, rightfully so. But right now we’re good. I trust him. He has proven time and time again, ‘You can trust me.’”

“After losing all these properties, I’m clinging on to my family, they have been my support,” Angela added. “Who would send someone to hurt me and potentially destroy my marriage?”

Later in the episode, Angela found the man from the cooking party and confronted her castmates with him.

When pressed to name the person who set up the encounter, the man accused Phaedra Parks of being the culprit.

“I absolutely have no reason to put anybody up to this nonsense,” Phaedra defended herself. “I’ve already had my marriage destroyed on national TV, there’s no way in hell I’d come for anyone’s marriage.” 

Angela, however, didn’t believe her, and the man went on to allege that Phaedra dropped off “an envelope” of things for him to spread in the days prior. When he left — “with no proof” — Angela claimed Phaedra was also the one who gave her the man’s information to track him down.

“Because he introduced himself in front of us!” Phaedra explained of how she knew his full name before declaring: “You’re researching, but you’re failing to tell us that you’re in foreclosure.”

“That ain’t no tea, sis,” Angela quipped. “I will tell you everything I’m going through, honey. And I will get out of it.”

The episode came to an end without the ladies making amends, and Charles leaving Angela behind out of frustration.

“I’m over this,” he said. “I knew he was full of B.S. from the get-go.”

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.