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# Awkwafina's Cosmo Cover Is Really Cute!
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/awkwafinas-cosmo-cover-is-really-cute-08-2021/
- Published: 2021-08-20T14:00:47.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-20T17:30:12.000Z
- Description: What a pleasure!
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: Fug The Cover, Cosmopolitan, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:18

This cover is LEGIT CUTE and one of the best one's Cosmo has done in a long time! My big note is that I almost would have had her wear this blazer as a dress -- but [as we learned in her recent Red Carpet Retrospective](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/awkwafinas-red-carpet-retrospective-is-incredibly-enjoyable-08-2021/), Awkwafina loves a pants suit and almost never goes to Leg City, so this is actually quite on brand for her. Bravo, y'all -- including whoever it was on staff who figured out a way to make having Covid into something Cosmo-y. That's not snark, I'm genuinely pleased that they pulled that off. NATURE IS ETC ETC!

[The interview is for Cosmo subscribers only, so I wasn't able to read the whole thing, but if you've got a sub, or want one, click on through!](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a37210454/awkwafina-september-cover-2021-shang-chi/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) The excerpts sound like it's a pretty good read:

> **On the cultural significance of movies like *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings*, the first Marvel film to star an Asian superhero:** “These movies make me so proud, just as a watcher, because they contribute to visibility, which I do think has real-life effects. When the AAPI community is seen as not ancillary characters, it’s almost like, then people will know that we’re here, you know?”  
>  
> **On the pressure of being expect me to be funny all the time, and the message so many comedians get, that they’re valuable only when making people laugh”**“Yeah. There’s always going to be the immediate want that is, ‘Okay, well, I’m going to do this because I want you to feel joy right now.’ But ultimately, a lot of comedy is grounded in really long periods of solitude and really crazy contemplation.”  
>  
> **On being fueled by her family history, even at a young age:**  
> “When I was growing up, I knew how I was socioeconomically classified. I knew that my grandma was a working-class immigrant and my dad was a single dad. I knew that I would have to get through in my own way. That taught me a lot of lessons, like you really have to humble yourself, doing waitress jobs and applying to really hip stores and not getting the job and feeling like, *What is even out there?* You have to really hit a kind of rock bottom to really want it, to fight for it.”

###### \[Photo: *Mei Tao for Cosmopolitan\]*