Take a look back.
Nov. 22, 1991
Who was Julia Roberts before she was a romantic comedy legend?
You’re looking at her.
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June 24, 1994
The following year, Julia gave some sage advice to EW’s readers.
“Life is a great adventure,” she said.
“I think that people sometimes fixate on a sort of smaller, narrower view of things.
That’s a horrible thing to do with this big, gigantic, fabulous thing!
But for me to become guarded or reserved would squelch the natural instincts of a young woman.
And I don’t want to be a party to that.
So I say, raise hell, ride on, you don’t have me yet!”
“He hasn’t given me his letterman’s jacket or anything,” she told EW.
“We’re not pinned.
Aug. 15, 1997
This cover was noConspiracy Theory.
Sorry, we quite literally could not pass that pun up.
Nov. 27, 1998
Name a more iconic duo than the stars ofStepmom.
April 30, 1999
Okay, so Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant are a pretty close second.
(That would beOcean’s ElevenandThe Mexican, the impetus for this particular cover.)
July 20, 2001
You read it here first: Julia Roberts in a fat suit.
File that under “EW cover lines you never thought you’d read.”
We’ll rest our case.
“I just thought, Horrible woman!
Why are you doing these things?
Why are you saying these things?”
They’re not 30.
And what’s going on with girls in their 20s?
Where are the movies that are motivated by the 20-year-olds?
There aren’t any!
There certainly aren’t as many as there were when I was in my 20s.”
The fall of 2018 also marked Roberts' move to the small screen, like many A-listers before her.
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Julia Roberts photographed by Carter Smith at the Beekman Hotel
Julia Roberts photographed by Carter Smith at the Beekman Hotel
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