Where Billie Lourd Really Gets Her Style

Not long after actress Billie Lourd was born to Carrie Fisher and talent agent Bryan Lourd in 1992, Lourd and Fisher split up. In her poignant, hilarious memoir Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher talks about the emotional rollercoaster she rode after Billie was born. “A great father,” Fisher says, but when a year later Bryan Lourd “left me for Scott — well naturally, I was devastated.” (“I make them bald, I turn them gay, my work is done!” writes Fisher.)

But if you want to know why Billie Lourd has good perspective for a young actress (she’s set to appear in Star Wars: The Force Awakens), you might look past mom to her grandmother, the great Debbie Reynolds. Sure, the latest pictures show Billie rocking her mom’s iconic Princess Leia hairdo. But the worldly-wise Billie owes at least as much of her style to grandmother Reynolds. When Bryan Lourd and Fisher split up, Reynolds comforted her daughter with this: “You know, dear, we’ve had every sort of man in our family — we’ve had horse thieves and alcoholics and one-man bands — but this is our first homosexual!” Nothing in Hollywood seems likely to rattle Billie Lourd. (Instagram and interview below.)

??? Happy birthday to this glorious woman who has always taught me to be myself (and a lil more) even if it involves rocking a rugrats tee and a tattered ol blanket on the red carpet #regalrugrats #lionkingladies

A photo posted by Billie Lourd (@praisethelourd) on Oct 21, 2015 at 8:43am PDT