Today, Glamour unveiled a special Holiday cover featuring Love Island USA’s most talked-about couple Olandria Carthen and Nic Vansteenberghe. Since leaving the villa in Fiji, the fervor around their relationship has only grown. When they attended the 2025 Glamour Women of the Year Awards, the magazine was inundated with emails, DMs, comments and videos about the couple. Fans petitioned the editors to put them on the cover and #Glamourlandria became a trending topic. Today, Glamour presents their readers with a gift for the holiday season a festive and joyful cover feature with the pair colloquially known as Nicolandria. See more photos inside…
On navigating new fame and making memories:
Olandria: [Before Love Island] I would have personal goals for myself, but they would be so far-fetched like, I love this, I’ll have this on my list. How am I going to get here? Even post-show, when I got my phone back, I kind of shut down, I’m not going to lie, because of the weight of the world, the voices, the opinions, and all these crazy things that come with the internet. I would find myself comparing myself with other people that already had teams. [Nic] already had a management situation going on with modeling I never had anything like that. I came from a 9-to-5. I was literally one of the last islanders to get a team together. But I was so happy that I actually took my foot off the gas to breathe.
On setting boundaries:
Olandria: It was kind of hard at first. These are the people that met us through a TV screen and watched us every single day for six weeks at a time. They’re hungry for more. We felt obligated to let them in, still, in the beginning. [Nic] was the Nicolandria updater, literally, because I was so shook up and just not really friendly with the internet at that time. They would get all the updates from his Snapchat account what I’m doing, what we’re up to. They were so used to seeing us on the screen and they loved us so much. It was like, ‘We have to keep giving them content.’
But eventually it became mentally draining. People started to nitpick us. They were doing that on the show, but we didn’t have our phones to see it now that we’re actually having to live with it and hear about it, it’s like, ‘Oh, maybe we don’t need to share as much anymore.’ Because they’ll find the smallest little thing and it’s a big discourse all over social media. I’m like, Where did you get that from? Who did you hear it from? ‘Alright, maybe we need to put some boundaries to try to draw back on how much we decide to share.’
Because mentally, we were both just drained. We depend on each other to uplift and be there for each other when we’re going through things, but it became draining for both of us. I’m like, ‘Okay, maybe if we share less, that’s better.’ But even then, discourse starts because we don’t share enough. I’m like, I don’t know how to find a happy medium in this life now.
I think we’re still trying to get used to being in a spotlight. 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. And when you’re extremely popular, like him and me, it’s just like, Alright, I want to still be me and have fun. How can I do that when there’s always a camera and people purposely trying to talk down on you for whatever reason? I don’t know. It’s weird.
I want to find a person. I never thought about what my actual life would be. I never imagined this at all. I’m still trying to make sense of it to this day. The amount of support, I never knew, never imagined, never thought about it. I honestly forgot there was a prize because I was so tunnel-vision, so focused on the overall goal to find someone.
On holiday traditions:
Nic: No traditions, but I wake up at 5 a.m. for presents. I get really excited the night before. When we were younger, we used to do road trips to Ohio with my family and go to this snow hill for tubing.
Olandria: We would wake up not at 5, but probably like 8 or 9 and my mom had all of our gifts sectioned out for the three of us. We would all open gifts one at a time. She wasn’t one of those parents that had set out cookies and milk. We knew from a very early age that Mom was Santa. She did not give us a chance to believe. I’m like, “That’s whack. Why didn’t you?” She was like, “Girl, I’m a single mother of three. You know I bought this stuff.” You know what? That’s fair.
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