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Margaret Qualley is shedding more than just her clothes.
In a new cover story for Cosmopolitan’s Fall 2025 issue, published Monday, the “Poor Things” starlet opened up about her husband, Jack Antonoff, and how she felt before they met.
“In every other relationship I’ve ever been in, I still felt really lonely because I wasn’t with my person, and it’s like I was seeking something,” Qualley, 30, began. “I don’t feel like that anymore. Jack makes me feel safe and comfortable.”
“I spent so many years trying to be someone’s perfect girl, and that girl changed over and over again,” she continued. “But I can’t lie to Jack. I can’t be that for him – he’d see through it. So I just have to be myself. He’s been the person I’ve pictured my whole life. And I’m not even saying that metaphorically.”
The “Substance” actress also revealed how she and the Bleachers frontman, who married in 2023, first connected.
“Falling in love with Jack was the biggest feeling I’ve ever felt. We met right as COVID was ending, at the first party I’d been to,” Qualley shared.
“We saw each other on a roof, and we just started talking and never stopped,” she added. “We went on a series of walks throughout the city that summer.”
Although the “Honey Don’t!” actress admitted that she “fell in love” with Antonoff, 41, shortly after they first met, she claimed that he was the one to say “I love you” first.
“He did, obviously,” Qualley began. “I’m very old-school about stuff like this. I would never put myself out there first.”
“I never text twice. I mean, now we’re married and I can text him anything at any time. We’re always having a conversation; he’s like my human diary,” she added. “But before we were together, at the beginning, I would always follow Southern girl etiquette.”
The “Happy Gilmore 2” actress admitted it didn’t hurt that Antonoff looks a lot like her first-ever Hollywood crush.
“My first crush was Adam Sandler in ‘Happy Gilmore’ and ‘Big Daddy,’ and I’ve been looking for that essence my whole life,” she said. “I’m like, ‘That’s Jack.’”
As for her idea of “healthy love,” Qualley said that it is “like there’s always a ground below you” and that she makes a point to perform in projects that feature her concept of “healthy love.”
“You can’t fall very far because you’re going to be caught,” the “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” actress said.
“But love is also hard. It’s why I feel inspired to make movies about love, whether it’s platonic or romantic or whatever,” she continued. “The kind of thing I would be proud to show my kids one day.”
Elsewhere during her interview with Cosmopolitan, Qualley opened up about her former model-turned-actress mother, Andie MacDowell.
More than 40 years before Qualley posed for photos around New York for the magazine’s latest issue, MacDowell, 67, did the same for the outlet’s September 1982 cover.
“It’s iconic—she looks amazing,” Qualley said of her mom’s shoot.
While her mother starred in movies like “Groundhog Day” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” and her father, Paul J. Qualley, 67, was also a model, Qualley started her career all on her own when she left home for the big city while still just a teenager.
“I moved to New York City at 16, when I got into a summer program at the American Ballet Theatre,” the “My Salinger Year” star recalled. “Although I didn’t watch Dance Moms, that was very much the world I grew up in.”
“But I realized I was just not good enough to be a dancer, and I’ll never be perfect at it,” she admitted. “And if I’m not going to be the best, I don’t think it’s worth pursuing.”
It was then that Qualley began modeling.
“I got a modeling job and was able to pay my rent,” she said. “And I was like, ‘I could just stay here.’ I sent my mom a long email: ‘Found a school. Got a job. What do you think?’”
However, it wasn’t always easy for Qualley, who didn’t make her acting debut until the 2013 film “Palo Alto” or gain real recognition until the HBO drama series “The Leftovers” one year later.
“I was 16 years old, alone in the city. It felt terrifying,” she shared. “Other kids were going home to their parents and their tutors, and I was at Paris Fashion Week with a chemistry or algebra textbook for a class that I was failing.”
“I didn’t have any friends. I didn’t know anyone in the city,” Qualley continued. “If a guy got on the elevator, I would get off.”
“I lived all of my 20s out of a suitcase, without any furniture. I had a mattress on the floor,” she concluded. “And I became financially independent by the time I was 18, so I was super frugal, too.”