For those of you who haven’t seen “Outer Banks” (OBX), it’s basically “The O.C.” meets “One Tree Hill” but with mystery. As a group of guys from the wrong side of town, “The Pogues” spend their summer on a treasure hunt with their best girlfriend Kiara, I can’t help but feel the sun on my face and wonder, “Where can I get friends like these and how is this Kiara girl so cool?”
After skyrocketing to fame last year as the breakout star of Netflix hit show Outer Banks, Madison Bailey felt compelled to address her sexuality on TikTok. As she becomes one of GLAMOUR’s Beauty of Pride Issue digital coverstars, she opens up to Paula Akpan about her journey to realising her pansexuality, the pressures of being a Gen-Z queer spokesperson, the importance of queer representation and her unbridled love for her girlfriend.
Like most of us, Madison Bailey has spent the better part of the past month glued to her phone. “[My screen time] is honestly embarrassing and I wouldn’t tell anybody what that number is! Like you couldn’t pay me to tell you,” she says over the phone. Unlike most of us, however, Bailey has been keeping busy preparing for the release of Netflix’s Outer Banks, a soapy YA thriller set on the barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina.
Outer Banks star Madison Bailey is opening up about being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, whether Outer Banks fans will get the Kiara/JJ romance they’ve been shipping, how she discovered she was pansexual and found love with UNC Charlotte basketball player Mariah Linney.
Madison Bailey is Kiara. The idea of anyone else playing the role on Netflix’s sunny teen drama Outer Banks seems laughable after watching her playful jabs and heart-to-hearts among the four men who fill out her crew. They're known as the Pogues, working-class residents from the south side of the OBX, named after pogies or "throwaway fish." Bailey's Kiara is a refreshing badass, a warm-hearted, open-minded, eco-conscious equal whose “one of the boys” status never bottoms out into sexism.
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