Glamour just dropped a holiday treat fans didn’t know they needed. The magazine unveiled a special festive cover starring Love Island USA’s most buzzed-about duo, Olandria Carthen and Nic Vansteenberghe. Since exiting the Fiji villa, the excitement around their relationship has only intensified.
When the couple stepped out at the 2025 Glamour Women of the Year Awards, the response was instant and overwhelming floods of emails, DMs, comments, and fan-made videos poured in, all asking for one thing: a cover moment.
Now, just in time for the holidays, Glamour delivered. The result is a joyful, celebratory cover featuring the couple affectionately dubbed Nicolandria a festive gift to readers and a full-circle moment for a fandom that made it happen.
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.’
On what’s next:
Nic: “I’m down for anything but a dating show.” Though he’s never watched a full season of Dancing With the Stars, he really wants to be on it. “I’m going to start training soon. I’m manifesting,” he continues. “But the thing about it is the progression would be insane. I would win most improved. I just want to dance.”
On what they hoped to get out of Love Island USA:
Olandria: [When I signed on for the show,] I actually was hoping I would find love and go there for my actual person. In season six, you got a few couples that came out with actual partners, and they’re doing life together. That’s kind of beautiful. Me, being single for five years, I was like, ‘Let me just try my luck.’ Even before I went, I literally told my general manager to keep my job. I did not think life was going to take off like this for me… I never imagined myself having to quit my job. I was going to go back to work, even though I really did not care to go back to work.
Nic: I didn’t really know what the show was prior to going on. It got brought up to me, and I was like, Okay, pretty girls in a villa in Fiji? Honestly, at that time in my life, I was very in the present, not really thinking too much about the future. I just went on the show to have a good time. I did. I had a great time. And now everything that came from it is so beautiful and amazing. I feel like that’s why we did well. We just kind of enjoyed ourselves and had fun with it.
Photographer: Emma Anderson