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Taking up happy space

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January 04, 2025

Leave the doomscrolling for next week. Here are 10 of the happiest spots on Instagram

- Rachel Lopez

Taking up happy space

1 Vintage Hollywood Archive

(@VintageHollywoodArchive).

Filmmaker Martin Paves curates images from film archives to showcase an older, less PR-managed industry. There's Kate and Leo goofing around on the Titanic set; Cher at a photo shoot in 1973; Brad Pitt in diamond hoops and a pink dress doing, we're not sure what. Some pics have commentary too.

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2 Maddie and Nonna Fina

(@MyNonnaFina):

Instagram is not short on kindly Italian grandmothers. We love 78-year-old Nonna Fina from Australia mostly because, in addition to making 30 bottles of passata at one go, she can totally take a joke. She and granddaughter Maddie have rated Met Gala looks and thrown shade at meatless versions of Italian classics. Plus, as Maddie says in their bio: "She's everyone's Nonna now."

image3 Worry Lines

(@Worry_Lines):

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