Madison Bailey sits in her bedroom on a dreary day in L.A. She’s waiting for our editor-in-chief to join a Zoom call so she can plug the new season of her hit show,
BAILEY: Of course. We had the time to actually be on-screen together this season, so we got a little closer.BAILEY: Sort of. I have intentions for the year of improving my health physically and mentally. But actual resolutions—I wrote down that I need to return the things that don’t fit. I’m an online shopper and I’m horrible at making returns.
OTTENBERG: Yeah. The Adam Selman. It goes way back. Listen, I’ll see what I can do. I know she looks atBAILEY: I haven’t. But I had a good time.OTTENBERG: They like me. They love you. What more can we say?OTTENBERG: Okay, I want the real answer to this question. What are the best and worst things about having 6.9 million IG followers, Madison?
BAILEY: Yeah. I have a personality disorder. I’ll be like 100 percent behind something, like, “I’m posting this, it’s going to be great.” And then that night I’m like, “Um.” I’ll run it by my friends or sometimes—okay, gossip. I have a finsta. So I’ll post something on my finsta and I’ll ask my friends, like, “Is this too much for the main?”