By Emily James of emilysarahjames.wordpress.com My 4-year-old is a liar. She tells me things like, “I don’t need to go to the bathroom,” and, “I already blew my nose.” The way she curls her lip, puts her chin down and looks off to the side gives it away, so I’m […]
By Lindsay Stauffer Dear Postpartum Depression: You’re brilliant. No really, you are. You let me make it through my first pregnancy completely unscathed, with nothing more than a few days of the baby blues, so that the second time around my guard would be completely down. I never saw you […]
For her role in the Netflix movie “To the Bone,” actress Lilly Collins had to lose a significant amount of weight from her already-thin frame. The starlet, who has been open about her history with eating disorders, signed on to the film in order to shed light on the private […]
Two studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine report that coffee drinkers experience greater longevity of life than those who abstain from drinking the beverage, suggesting what I can only conclude to mean I WILL LIVE FOREVER. Of the two studies, one focused on over 500,000 subjects in 10 […]
First jade eggs, then wasp nests, then glitter bombs, and God knows what else. WTF is going on with women’s obsession with putting ridiculous things in their vaginas? So in case you don’t know any better (and apparently this needs to be said), this is a list of things […]
It’s summer, which means beach-goers, poolsiders, and sun-lovers everywhere are slathering themselves and their children in sunscreen to thwart the aging process and prevent future skin cancer. Smart move. Except now, researchers out of Russia have found that when exposed to sun and water, common chemicals in sunscreen can actually […]
By Danielle Maldonado of The Inappropriate Suburbanite I’m going to let you in on a little secret from the Big Book of Secrets of Fat Girls: we’re not all wallowing in low self-esteem every day. I know this probably comes as a shock to you because we’re supposed to be. We’re […]
By Erin Nickels We mangle ourselves and shatter our bones while bearing down, fighting against every instinct of self-preservation. When the sweet face of our progeny is in sight and our bodies finally rest, it was all worth every excruciating bit of pain. Another mother might disagree with this sentiment. […]