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The Best and Worst Looks of the 2024 Met Gala

The Met Gala is held on the first Monday of May. The 2024 Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” features about 250 items from the Costume Institute’s permanent collection, many of which have yet to be seen by the public.

The 2024 Met Gala theme “The Garden of Time” explores the fragility of nature, with options ranging from floribunda-laden couture to pieces inspired by the exhibition’s exploration of bygone fashion. The gala promises a cerebral approach to fashion theory, with the red carpet likely to showcase a diverse array of interpretations of the theme.

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Sobriety Had a Major Moment at the 2024 Met Gala

Sobriety and Met Gala don’t normally go hand in hand. This year, we watched all of the red carpet coverage and curated a list of every sober celeb who walked the carpet and here is our list of who is the best dressed. YES, that is right, this is The Sober Curator’s 2024 Met Gala Sober Celeb Best Dressed List!

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Celebrating 18 Years Sober – My Sobriety is Now an Adult

Sober Curator Founder, Alysse Bryson, celebrated 18 years of sobriety this week! Bryson exclusively told The Sober Curator, “I’ve been playfully teasing about my sobriety in the weeks and months leading up to the illustrious 18-year mark of Wednesday, May 1^st, 2024. From cracking jokes about my sober status being old enough to pull the voting lever in an election year to ribbing that it can now hit the jackpot at casinos or sneak into Rated-R flicks, the banter’s been on fire.”

Bryson chooses to live in the mindset that the best is yet to come. Through this experience, she has come to understand the unexpected happens, it can clear the way for something better. “Yes, getting sober matters. It just turns out that staying sober matters more,” Alysse Bryson, TSC Founder.

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Best Dressed Men at the 2024 Met Gala

We gave our flowers to so many stunning avante garde gowns yesterday with our Best and Worst Looks of the 2024 Met Gala and sober ladies by shouting out that Sobriety Had a Major Moment at the 2024 Met Gala this year. Now we want to give some flowers to the men of the 2024 Met Gala who were equally fierce in their fashion game.

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Reality TV, Sobriety, and Mental Health: Vanderpump Rules

In the realm of reality TV, Vanderpump Rules serves up drama with a side of sober curiosity as cast members navigate mental health struggles and sobriety amidst the glitz of West Hollywood. With stars like La La Kent leading the charge, the show sheds light on the consequences of heavy drinking, sparking conversations about the cultural shift towards sobriety, even amidst the usual on-screen debauchery.

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Queen Latifah is Over 22 Years Sober

After the death of her brother in 1992, Queen Latifah turned to substances to cope with his loss. “Drinking a bunch of alcohol, numbing myself. Every day I would be faded, like a painting that’s just not vibrant, whose edges are dull,” she explained. “I wasn’t living my full life.” Her older brother died on the motorcycle that Latifah gave him as a gift, but she said that she managed to start riding again just a month after the tragedy. “Riding was one of the things Lance and I did together a lot,” she explained. “I had to get back on. It was like a [healing] potion.”

In 2002, she was arrested for possession, and she made the choice to enter into recovery. When Queen Latifah began to love herself, things got easier. “I got to that place by not being happy with the other side — hating your body and criticizing yourself all the time,” said Latifah. “I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.” She has been in recovery for 22 years.