Jordan Weiss Wants You to Reconnect With Your Friends

When Jordan Weiss was a freshman at USC, she had a best friend she grew so close with (and was conveniently close in size to) that they got into the habit of sharing a closet. When the friend started dating an older guy who lived off campus, slowly the communal wardrobe seemed to drift out of their room and into his home. “I woke up one morning and was like, ‘I don’t own pants anymore,’” Weiss says. “I was like, ‘I don’t know where any of my jeans are. I think she has all of them in this guy’s house.’” Later in college, Weiss had a serious boyfriend of her own. She was young and struggled with self-confidence, and let herself be swept up in the adoration of her partner. “It was easier to just sort of let this romantic partner like me, so that I didn’t have to like me,” Weiss says. “And I think I really got absorbed and lost touch with a lot of my friends.” See also: Nasty Cherry, a Band Formed by Charli XCX, Is Thrown Into the Beast Called Fame Coming out of college, Weiss changed her attitude: namely, to focus on finding female friends with the same gusto

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