“Glee” star Lea Michele is the December cover star of Elle US, wearing a white jacket from Ralph Lauren and denim pants from Frame denim. Carter Smith photographed the actress for the new issue which features her on a race track. Earlier this year her boyfriend Cory Monteith tragically passed away and Lea opened up to the magazine about it, saying, “I never thought I would be in this position in my whole life. Now that I am in this position, you can choose to rise, and that’s what I’m going to try to do. I know that Cory would want nothing more than for me to take this situation and use it to help people.”