Sophie Turner, Good Mother, for British Vogue June 2024 by Mikael Jansson AOC Fashion

British actor Sophie Turner covers the June 2024 issue of British Vogue [IG], meeting up with Chioma Nnadi at London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom for the cover story Sophie Turner Is Doing Just Fine.

Camilla Nickerson styled Turner in a Louis Vuitton yellow top and white jeans for the cover. In late December 2023, Vuitton noted that Turner had worked for the brand for six years, starring in six campaigns.

Mikael Jansson [IG] photographed Turner, in a wardrobe expanded to include Another Tomorrow, Proenza Schouler, Stella McCartney, Turnbull & Asser, Victoria Beckham, Wales Bonner and more. / Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Hannah Murray

Effie and Sophie

We return to the charming London Zoo gorilla Effie, born in 1993 at the Copenhagen Zoo and possessed with a large appetite. The zookeeper on duty does not give Effie the highest marks for good mothering.

“Do you see how she’s dangling her baby by one arm? That’s actually not the best way to handle their newborns,” says the zookeeper. “They’re supposed to be wrapped around the body.”

Effie has had four attempts at winning a crown for good mothering, and it never works out. Sophie Turner, mother of two girls, Willa and Delphine, can relate. According to Nnadi, “ . . . it is, in fact, Turner who has been subjected to mom-shaming—of the most egregious kind.”

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“I mean, those were the worst few days of my life,” says Turner with a sharp intake of breath, the memory still fresh. We’ve moved to a quiet corner in the zoo’s canteen, a vast light-filled space that’s mercifully empty now that the breakfast rush is over. “It hurt because I really do completely torture myself over every move I make as a mother—mum guilt is so real! I just kept having to say to myself, ‘None of this is true. You are a good mum and you’ve never been a partier.’ ”