Lili Reinhart’s Balancing Act
The actress shares how she keeps it real on social media, navigating mental health, and the diamonds that connect her to her family.
Photographed By Wai Lin Tse
Written By Jane Asher, Published: October 20, 2025
Being on set with Lili Reinhart is like watching magic happen. Every angle, movement, and scene produces a set of stunning shots, photos that only someone who is self-described “hyper-aware” of her face can produce. And yet, she does it without really trying. It seems the 29-year-old actress was born to be in front of the camera, whether it’s for a TV show with a rabid cult following like Riverdale or glowing on set in diamonds.
In fact, Reinhart shares that being on set is one of the places she feels most confident. “I’ve always loved playing dress up as a kid,” she shares with Only Natural Diamonds. “I loved those big clip-on jeweled earrings. I’ve always loved sparkle.”
After our shoot, Lili Reinhart is still glowing. One might think she’d use the momentum for a fabulous night out in NYC—especially given the timing, in the middle of fashion week when parties abound. Instead, she told us she was planning on hunkering down in her hotel room with Joe’s Pizza—perhaps not fabulous, but certainly classic New York. And she did just that, as evidenced by a funny TikTok the actress posted to her feed, eating a perfect slice of plain pizza. While holding a box of Joe’s, she lip syncs: “I would never order a full pizza for myself. I mean, I’ll take it but…”
These days, Lili Reinhart is more intentional than ever with her social media posts, aware of how many young women and girls look up to her as a role model, especially when it comes to mental health. “I was joking with my psychiatrist about how I keep talking about my depression in interviews, and he’s like, ‘Maybe you don’t need to focus on your depression in interviews.’ And we both laughed,” she shares in a meta moment, unapologetic about letting us into this intimate window of her life.
“But I think it sort of always rears its head in a way because people do see me as someone who is so outspoken about their mental health, and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” she says. Reinhart initially started sharing her mental health journey on social media to feel less alone. “To know that we’re all sort of in this together is a comforting feeling. I never set out to be someone who was so open about it. Now, ten years later, I go give talks and do so many panels about mental health,” she adds. “But I guess that just shows how many people need to hear other people talk about it.”
“It’s a delicate balance that I’ve learned from my own mistakes over the last ten years being a public figure,” she says of deciding when to share versus keep things offline. “The other day, I wanted to share that I was having a really bad day, but I didn’t,” she admits. “If I have to second-guess whether I’m going to regret something, I just don’t post it at all. That’s sort of my rule of thumb now,” she continues. “But I do think that continuing to talk about [mental health] in open and honest ways, in the right settings, is the right thing to do.”
Lili Reinhart knows all too well that social media can be a constant push and pull, but for the most part, she feels she has found a positive community online, specifically on TikTok. “It feels like the warm social media app that you go to for community… like, come sit with me in my living room as if we’re on FaceTime, and let me tell you about something that happened to me today. It feels vulnerable as hell, but there’s something lovely about it,” she shares. A quick scroll through her feed feels like catching up with a friend and bonding over shared experience—like unapologetically ordering an entire pizza from Joe’s.
Reinhart has shared that her mental health is often tied to her skin health, and she has always been open about her skin journey on social media. She shares her good days and bad days, feeling most confident when her skin is taken care of. “It helps because I have a skincare line that I founded [called Personal Day]. So when my skin is being taken care of and has a little glow to it, I feel really confident.” Reinhart was certainly glowing on our Zoom together—and even more so on set—thanks to Personal Day and the diamonds she was wearing from Jessica McCormack, Beck, Bernard James, and Bachendorf’s.
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