Jenna Ortega's Glamorous Reinvention: Goth to Glam, Hollywood Highs, and Harsh Realities

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Jenna Ortega is having a massive late summer, with her face and name everywhere from magazine covers to red carpets and streaming headlines. The most widely noted development is her glamorous style reinvention, most vivid in her VOGUE Mexico cover shoot for September 2025, where she swapped out her signature Wednesday Addams goth look for a minimalist glowing aesthetic that instantly had Instagram and fashion media abuzz. Parade reported that fans flooded her socials with praise for embracing a “soft girl” era, and her transformation from goth to glam is leading countless comment threads and memes. VOGUE, Harper’s Bazaar, and even unofficial fan pages are celebrating this high-gloss new phase.

Career-wise, Jenna is at the zenith of a global press tour for two of her biggest projects. She recently made headlines for her appearance at the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Venice, Italy, alongside Winona Ryder in spectacular Beetlejuice-coded fashion, followed by a high-drama teal-and-black Harris Reed dress at the London opening, as detailed by AOL. Tim Burton and Michael Keaton joined her on the Venice red carpet for what insiders are calling one of the hottest tickets of the year. These appearances landed her yet again on Harper’s Bazaar’s Best Dressed Celebrities list this August, especially for a widely shared Fendi look at a Wednesday season two event in Sydney.

But it's not all about red carpets and runways. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jenna opened up about feeling “incredibly misunderstood” in Hollywood and how public assumptions about her weigh heavily, admitting she feels disconnected from her public persona. She described her discomfort with fame and the sometimes harsh, even abusive, encounters with fans, comments that generated major headlines about the darker side of celebrity.

Wednesday season two, meanwhile, is breaking up its release into two highly anticipated parts in August and September on Netflix, a move likely to deepen Ortega’s cultural impact as the show’s fandom explodes once more.

On social media, Jenna is maintaining her spot in the top 60 global Instagram influencers for August, according to HypeAuditor, with engagement rates above 5 percent and nearly 38 million followers. Notably, her estimated Instagram income for June alone ranged from $155,000 to $213,000, and speculation is growing about her mysterious new horror project teased by fan accounts. For pop culture currency, Ortega’s revelation in a Vogue “What’s in her bag” video that she loves the cult band Death Grips also set off another wave of fan appreciation and think pieces about her unique, edgy persona.

Altogether, Jenna Ortega’s past few days have been defined by bold career moves, candid revelations in major publications, and becoming a lightning rod for fashion and media chatter—cementing her place as one of Hollywood’s most watched and talked-about young stars.

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