We’re declaring 2025 the year of Nicolandria. The star-crossed Love Islanders—Olandria Carthen and Nicolas Vansteenberghe, better known by their fan-bestowed mononym—cover Glamour’s December 2025 holiday issue after a whirlwind summer that saw the couple ascend to bona fide celebrity status.
“I think we’re still trying to get used to being in a spotlight,” Carthen tells Glamour. “Things that we used to do before the show, we can’t necessarily do now, because that starts discourse. Being in the spotlight is fun. The glamour of it all is all fun. But you have to rearrange your whole life and how you move going forward.”
The couple is just now getting a moment to settle into their newfound stardom, meaning plenty of low-key family time over the holidays—and serving some festive looks while they’re at it. “I wake up at 5 a.m. for presents. I get really excited the night before,” Vansteenberghe says of his Christmas plans.
Carthen, meanwhile, is focusing on the new year: “I decided to go to church on New Year’s. It was my first time I ever went to church for the new year. And honestly, this has been the best freaking year of my life,” she says. “I prayed over my life and my new year, went back home, and went to sleep. I did not write any goals down. February, Love Island called. April, Love Island called again. May, I was off to Fiji. June, it took off. Like, dang—the year I decided to not write my goals down, every single goal that I’ve ever imagined in my life came true.”
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