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Anna Duggar spoke for the first time about her husband’s sex scandal in a segment of her sister-in-laws’ three-part TLC series, Jill & Jessa: Counting On.

Here’s something I never expected to write: Old Tupperware commercials are mesmerizing, brilliant, and strangely convincing. Dips keep dippier! Hams keep hammier! My God!

Tyra Banks has (mostly) sashayed away from her daytime talk show FABLife after just three months on air. Moving forward, she’ll be more of a special guest boss producer, like Barbara Walters in the last (good) season of The View, RIP.

Catholic priests have become synonymous with “abuse” in recent years, but they’ve never been the only people of the cloth guilty of inflicting physical and emotional pain on innocent victims. Seldom talked about are the rarely maligned women of the Church: sisters who intentionally abused fellow nuns behind convent walls. Nun abuse is that other dirty little secret of the Catholic Church—and it’s a secret that affected, and crushed, the spirits of scores of young women. My mother was one of them. Читать дальше...

Historical romance covers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s are instantly recognizable—a triumph of design, frankly. But equally striking are the covers for these science fiction romance stories from the period. In 3034, we won’t need spacesuits, just pants and rippling abs. The future looks bright!

Style icon and app developer Kylie Jenner has reportedly broken up with her boyfriend, an aspiring rapper named Tyga who is frequently Snapchatted by Kylie in her Calabasas home.

Todd Haynes has spent a significant chunk of his career making movies about long-suffering women. There’s the anorexic Karen Carpenter in Superstar, the suffocating Orange County housewife Carol Hicks in Safe, the betrayed and hopelessly lovesick Cathy Whitaker in Far From Heaven, and the famously shat-upon mother in Mildred Pierce who wants nothing but a little love and a place to bake pies.

As France recollects itself after this week’s terror attacks in Paris, many survivors and supporters are looking to art as a way to fight back. Ernest Hemingway’s memoir about his time in 1920s Paris has come to symbolize the city’s resilience.

If it’s not reboots, it’s long-awaited sequels. Trainspotting, the 1996 comedy based on Irvine Welsh’s novel about a group of heroin addicts living in 1980s Edinburgh, is finally getting a follow-up. It will be loosely based on Welsh’s novel, Porno, which followed the lives of the characters ten years after the first book.

With depressing statistics revealing sexual assault to occur every 107 seconds in the United States, it’s not unusual to carry some form of protection at all times — whether it’s pepper spray, a stun gun or a cute, cat-shaped keychain meant to gouge out the eyes of an attacker. A problem with these self defense products is having to fumble in a purse or pocket for them during a moment of need. A wearable safety device called Athena may help with this issue.

Although numerous investigations into the heavily-edited videos targeting Planned Parenthood have shown no evidence of wrongdoing, several states have called for the defunding of the women’s health care provider. On Tuesday, the Ohio House voted to remove Planned Parenthood’s Title X funds following this summer’s release of the controversial videos. Ohio senators want the $1.3 million Planned Parenthood gets for health services — such as HIV and STD testing — to instead be given to a specific list of alternative providers. Читать дальше...

You might want to sit down for this: Proud anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy had a bad opinion about a medical issue. She has now released a statement to dig herself deeper.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Emma considers Spencer’s offer, North West’s beautiful curls have finally been allowed to breathe and Zac Efron is enjoying Tokyo.

The Patti LaBelle sweet potato pie shortage continues one week after James Wright uploaded up the now infamous Facebook video promoting the dessert. Walmart really was not—and still isn’t—prepared for the tornado of sweet enthusiasts.

Tyra Banks is looking for a Field Communication Manager to wrangle and oversee her crew of flawless beautytainers. In other words, she’s looking for me. When I saw that Tyra was in need of a “consummate writer,” I was like, “Whaaaa.” I believe the following application is the best way to get her attention.

World Aids Day is less than two weeks away. If that information is a surprise to you, Durex knows you’re not alone. That’s why the condom manufacturer is requesting its sext-loving users to petition the world for a condom emoji, making even the dirtiest sexts (pineapple+skull face+the woman in red tangoing+eggplant+peach) a little safer.

“Women find it very difficult at times to find music,” a totally credulous Jimmy Iovine said Thursday on CBS This Morning, while seated next to Mary J. Blige, a woman who has a decades-long body of work about being self-sufficient in life, love and—yes—music.

Have you been wondering where exactly the maybe-relationship between Blac Chyna and Future stands? Probably not, but the answer to our non-question has been answered with Future’s new video for “Rich Sex.”

In this photo, Mariah Carey is either: a) shooting a reality TV show of some sort from bed, b) filming for an unspecified project in bed, or c) having her daily morning meeting with her minions.

Fear not, soon-to-be-single people! Facebook is releasing a new feature that will scrub all former scrubs from your news feed as part of their “ongoing effort to develop resources for people who may be going through difficult moments in their lives.”

In a piece towards which I felt all the traditional stages of love—surprise, attraction, anger, denial, tentativeness, renewal and then commitment—Mattathias Schwartz, for the New York Times Magazine, wrote a Letter of Recommendation for a vape.

Let’s acknowledge a simple truth: Being part of the wedding party sucks. It’s a special honor, yes, but wearing a knockoff Jessica McClintock as you walk down the aisle holding your neck in a spine-breaking position (so the pics look good) is also a special circle of hell. So, if you’re looking to avoid that, don’t move anywhere near the South.