In our Sleeping With… series, we speak to people from different career paths, backgrounds, and stages of life to find out how they make sleep magic happen.
Lili Reinhart needs no introduction, but here’s one anyway: The 24-year-old star is about as famous as any young Hollywood actor could be. She left her Ohio hometown at 18 to pursue acting in Los Angeles, where she landed the role of Betty Cooper on the hit CW teen drama Riverdale. Reinhart also starred in the 2019 blockbuster film Hustlers and in Amazon Prime’s Chemical Hearts, which was released in late August. Her first book of poetry, Swimming Lessons, will be released later this month.
Her Twitter bio reads: “I take as many naps as I can,” and she echoes the sentiment throughout her interview with SELF. Reinhart has spent the last number of months resting and refamiliarizing herself with, well, herself. Always an outspoken advocate for mental health, and candid about her experiences with anxiety and depression, she’s not shy to share the work she’s been doing to heal from past trauma too. “I’ve been kinda selfish—necessarily selfish—throughout this pandemic,” Reinhart tells SELF. “Maybe that sounds worse than it is, but what I mean by that is just putting myself as a priority when it comes to my mental health and taking care of myself, whatever that means, whatever that looks like.”