American actress Elle Fanning arrives for the 77th Tony Awards at Lincoln Center in New York on June 16, 2024. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

In 1949, LIFE magazine sent famed photographer Nina Leen to document the daily life of a sassy troupe of young women who had run off and joined the famous Barnum & Bailey Circus in Sarasota, Fla. What developed was a portrait of a sisterhood formed over acrobatics that mixed high-flying wire acts with fashionable high-waisted shorts. Sarasota was once considered “the home of the American circus”. Here: an aerialist smoking while rehearsing for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Sarasota, FL in 1949. (Photo By Nina Leen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Singers “Elle & The Pocket Belles” attend day 3 “Ladies Day” of the Qatar Goodwood Festival on August 3, 2017 in Chichester, England. (Photo by David Hartley/PA Wire)

Actress Nina Dobrev kicks off the first-ever Aperolidays celebration with an Aperol Spritz in hand in the second decade of November 2025. (Photo by Aperol)

Australia's Nina Kennedy competes in the women's pole vault final at a Diamond League event in Florence, Italy on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)

Canadian actress Nina Dobrev needs an umbrella whilst leaving her hotel in Paris, France on March 4, 2019. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

Elle & The Pocket Belles on day three of the Qatar Goodwood Festival 2022 at Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester on Thursday July 28, 2022. (Photo by Steven Paston/PA Wire)