Emma Stone Reveals She Used to Be ‘Really Obsessed with the Idea of Being Tan,’ Leading to Her Only Red Carpet Regrets

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• Emma Stone went through her life in looks for a Vogue video segment

• The actress expressed regret about wearing spray tans early on in her acting career to red carpet events

• She also reflected on wearing corsets in The Favourite, one of her red carpet dresses becoming a meme for looking like a waffle and more

Emma Stone might not have many red carpet regrets, but there’s one step in her 2000s glam routine that she likely would change if she could go back in time.

The Poor Things actress sat down with Vogue for a “Life in Looks” segment released Aug. 14 and said she initially thought she’d have a positive reaction to all of her red carpet looks but instantly changed her mind upon seeing her look for the 2011 Critics Choice Awards.

“I told you before that i wasn’t going to say that I regret anything. I’m immediately going against that,” she said.

For the occasion, Stone glittered in a silver halter dress and looked radiant with golden blonde hair. She didn’t have an issue with the dress, and instead had a problem with her spray tan.

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“I’m from Arizona, and I don’t have any pigment in my skin, so growing up, I was really obsessed with the idea of being tan,” she explained. “That sort of followed me the first couple years that I was going to these types of things.”

The Academy Award winner continued, “I thought, if you were dressing up and if you wanna look great, you should get a really, really dark spray tan. My hands … look like I’m wearing gloves because [the spray tan] it’s not on my hands. I love this dress. I felt so great in it, so great that I had to get a spray tan to really enhance how great I felt.”

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The spray tan moments followed her to the 2011 Golden Globe Awards, where she wore a peachy pink gown with an A-line fit and short sleeves. “I looked like one solid thumb, and that dress is so pretty. Why did I decide to match my skin tone to the dress?” she wondered.

One of Stone’s corseted looks from Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite made its way into the video, which prompted the star to share that the movie was her “first time really ever wearing a corset.”

“I can confirm it does shift your organs after a while,” she added. “My body shape was different for … a month after The Favourite because it was extremely tight. It pulls you in. I’ve got a very big rib cage, so it’s an intense thing to maneuver.”

Though wearing the corset was a difficult experience for Stone, she did walk away with one major bonus — “now I can really hold my breath for a long time under water,” she said.

The fashionable outfits continued with Stone’s look for the 2019 Oscars, which was designed by Louis Vuitton and took 712 hours to create. Despite the level of artistry, the largest talking point about the actress’ look came from its resemblance to a breakfast food.

“I saw the memes that I looked like a waffle,” Stone said. “The color brown [and] because of the honeycomb shape, it is a little bit waffle-esque, and I like that, because waffles are my favorite food.”

By 2025, Stone made food a part of her fashion and attended SNL 50: The Anniversary Special in a bold red custom creation by Louis Vuitton that contained structured pockets so deep, she was able to store popcorn in them.

“I trailed popcorn everywhere I went, and I know that’s rude … but at the same time, did a lot of people eat popcorn out of my pockets? Yes,” she recalled. “People were just so excited that there was free popcorn.”

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