Glamour's Woman on the year: Ms Rachel [View all]

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“The success of Ms. Rachel is a rare and curious thing. Her look is deceptively simple, but her voice has become, for millions of parents, the definitive soundtrack of early childhood. And then there’s the other side of Ms. Rachel: the activist, business woman, and #GlamourWOTY. “

“The Meaning of Ms. Rachel”

“The success of Ms. Rachel is a rare and curious thing. During the past few decades, most of our early-childhood icons have been animated animals or brightly colored puppets—Barney, Peppa, Elmo, Bluey. Not since Mister Rogers has an actual adult human managed to break into that particular canon of cultural fixtures, becoming a household name and shaping the imaginations of millions while still speaking joyfully and directly to the youngest amongst us.

Enter Rachel Accurso, the 42-year-old Maine native better known as Ms. Rachel. Six years ago she was a stay-at-home mom with a baby on her hip, posting singsong videos to YouTube to help her son, Thomas, through a speech delay.

“Her unchanging look is deceptively simple: pink T-shirt, denim overalls, always a headband. Her voice, a clear, singsong cadence that toddlers seem helpless to resist, has become, for millions of parents, the definitive soundtrack of early childhood. “I told my mom I wanted to help kids,” Accurso says, recalling her own childhood. “And I also wanted to be a singer.” She is both.“

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