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Chrissy Teigen Wrote a Beautiful Note About What *Crazy Rich Asians* Means for Her Daughter


After seeing Crazy Rich Asians with her daughter (Luna) and husband (John Legend) over the weekend, Chrissy Teigen took to Instagram and explained why the movie was so important for her family.

“You never know how much you miss being represented on screen until you actually see what it’s like to be represented,” she wrote in the caption, picking out specific moments of resonance, like seeing Luna call Constance Wu’s character’s mom “yāy,” or ‘grandma’ in Thai, because she looked like her own yāy. The model also wrote about how great it was to see that representation manifest with a wide range of different characters and themes, from sacrifice and hardships in the table scene to over-the-top spectacle in the party and wedding scenes, “just like any other great movie.”

Also included were cute photos of Luna and Teigen looking up at the poster, Luna and Legend watching the movie, and a video of the dad/daughter pair dancing over the closing credits at the end.

The importance of representation in Crazy Rich Asians has been pretty much woven into the movie from the start. Kevin Kwan, the author of the original novel, optioned the movie rights for $1 so that Hollywood wouldn’t whitewash it. And earlier this month, Constance Wu published a statement on Twitter about how significant it is that Crazy Rich Asians is a romantic comedy that “not only centers [on] an Asian-American story,” but fills it with a “talented, dynamic, unique all-Asian cast.” Its impact has already been felt at the box office: In just four days, it made $34 million and became the top-grossing film on its opening weekend.

You can read Teigen’s full caption below:

What can I really say about this movie that hasn’t been said byabsolutely everyone who has seen it. I’ve been excited to see thissince production was announced but I could have never imagined howwonderful it would be. I planned on seeing it, making a few jokesabout how it checked all the boxes for me (CRAZY ☑️ RICH ☑️ ASIAN ☑️)but the feeling I got during the credits, watching John dance with mylittle black asian mashup baby bear luna tunes, was a feeling Ihaven’t had at the end of any other movies.

Luna, aside from being blown away by the general movie-goingexperience (yep she’s 13 now, time flies) looked up at @constancewu’smother and yelled “yāy!” (“Grandma” in thai) because she saw someonewho looked like her yāy. Someone beautiful and aspirational. It wassomething that simple that made my heart just…warm. That made mehappy. It made me happy to see this over the top story done from somany angles, some I could totally understand because of my ownconfusing Asian American upbringing. I loved it all, from the quietermoments of talking around the table of sacrifice and past hardships tothe spectacle of the bachelor party. Finding that I could cry watchingthe most over the top aisle walk on the planet.

You never know how much you miss being represented on screen untilyou actually see what it’s like to be represented. And represented byall different types of characters with all different types ofpersonalities, just like any other great movie.

Also aside from all that, it’s just colorful, fun and big as f*ck.

God I love a rom com. God I loved it all. Thank you guys for makingthis movie.

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The Obamas Just Published a Beautiful Tribute to Aretha Franklin


Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, passed away on Thursday (August 16) after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Several public figures have paid tribute to Franklin on social media, and now Barack and Michelle Obama are adding their voices to the chorus. If you remember, the trio enjoyed a well-publicized friendship while Obama was still in the White House. It began with Franklin putting on a show-stopping, cry-your-eyes-out performance at his first presidential inauguration.

“American has no royalty. But we do have a chance to earn something more enduring,” the Obamas wrote in a statement obtained by TMZ. “Born in Memphis and raised in Detroit, Aretha Franklin grew up performing gospel songs in her father’s congregation. For more than six decades since, every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine. Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel out history, all of it and in every shade — our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. She helped us feel more connected to each other, more hopeful, more human. And sometimes she helped us just forget about everything else and dance. Aretha may have passed on to a better place, but the gift of her music remains to inspire us all. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace. Michelle and I send our prayers and warmest sympathies to her family and all those moved by her song.”

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Obama also released an additional tweet with some of his favorite White House photos of Franklin. “Aretha helped define the American experience,” he added. “In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade — our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace.” Michelle added: “She will forever be our Queen of Soul.”

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Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco Just Got Married—And Her Dress Was Beautiful


Yesterday was a pretty big day for Kaley Cuoco. The Big Bang Theory star officially tied the knot with her fiancé, equestrian Karl Cook, in San Diego. Cuoco herself confirmed the news on Instagram with two stunning snaps. “Legally KCSQUARED 6-30-18 ,” she captioned the first one, which shows Cuoco in her wedding dress and kissing Cook, flower petals scattered on the floor. Cuoco wore a Reem Acra dress for the occasion and her hair done in a gorgeous low bun. (Taking cues from Meghan Markle, perhaps?)

“Ok let’s party!!! #kcsquared,” Cuoco wrote for her second picture, which shows her grinning ear to ear as Cook makes a kissy face. In this pic, Cuoco’s changed into a Tadashi Shoji jumpsuit and switched her hair over to a chic high ponytail, presumably for the reception.

Check out both photos for yourself, below:

Cuoco and Cook got engaged on November 30, Cuoco’s 32nd birthday. Cook posted a video of Cuoco crying happy tears shortly after he popped the question. “Who knew my prior post was oracular. Well after nearly two years I finally got up the courage to ask her to marry me. This is the best night of my life and I think the video shows it is the best night for kaley as well…..if she said yes,” he captioned it.

Cuoco shortly posted the same video, captioning it, “Still crying ? every part of this night has been perfection just like you @mrtankcook I love you forever!”

Cook revealed to Sidelines magazine last year the story of how he and Cuoco met. “We met at Thermal in 2016 and the day we met I actually ended up asking her out to dinner. We went to dinner that night and we’ve been together ever since,” he said, according to Us Weekly. “We met each other because of horses. Horses are a big part of our lives individually and together it’s amplified because it’s something we share and we can do it together.”

Congrats, you two!

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Winnie Harlow: 'It’s Beautiful That the Age of Cookie-Cutter Models Is Ending'


I never wanted to be a model. Growing up in Toronto, I was always asked by friends who had a T-shirt line or were having a little community runway show to model for them. I remember a friend telling me: “I can see you on the cover of Vogue.” And I looked at her like, “OK….” Not because I thought I couldn’t be a model; I just never thought about it. But then Instagram was becoming a thing and I began posting pictures of myself, and people were liking them. I thought, You know what, why not give it a shot?

That was 2013 and the beginning of the time when models who weren’t cookie-cutter-pretty were getting booked. Right now it’s so beautiful that there are so many different people and so many different sizes and all that [represented]. Growing up, I would never have imagined someone with vitiligo or freckles on the cover of a magazine. Just the fact that Adwoa [Aboah]’s gorgeous face is on the cover of British Vogue, which I’m literally looking at right now, wouldn’t have happened before.

When it comes to inclusiveness, [the modeling industry] still has a lot of work to do. For example, with hairdressers—just because you’ve worked on one black person’s hair doesn’t mean you know all black hair. If you’ve worked on Naomi Campbell, that’s not the same as working on kinky hair. There are so many people who are like, “Yeah! I’ve worked on a black girl before. I know black hair.” And then they still reach for the tongs or use too high a heat.

With makeup artists, we need to have more people who know how to work with someone with a dark skin tone and not have it turn gray or ashy. Even this past Fashion Week, I was backstage and put in front of a makeup artist and I looked at the range of tones she had—she didn’t even have colors dark enough for my skin. If you don’t even have shades dark enough for me, that’s saying a lot.

We have to keep educating people. When the Evening Standard ran a picture of me with a caption describing me as a vitiligo “sufferer,” it tore me to shreds. I said to my agent, “WTF. Again? Is this a joke?” That’s how I feel every single time I see that word placed beside my name. It’s something I see often, so I felt like I should say something. Just because you see someone with whatever it is, even a pimple, you don’t get to say that they are suffering. It’s very rude for anyone to describe me as a sufferer, and it takes away from everything else—I’m 100 percent excelling in everything I do.

Today I represent a different standard of what people traditionally consider beauty. Sometimes I say there are a million different standards of beauty; sometimes I say there are no standards of beauty. In the end, it’s the same thing: We’re all beautiful.



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This Unicorn Vibrator Is a Beautiful, Tragic Creature


I told myself I would not buy the unicorn vibrator. For one, I had plenty of sex toys at home, and I didn’t need another one. For another, it was pretty silly-looking. I was at my local Babeland, sex toy shopping with my best friends, when I first spotted the Tokidoki Unicorn Wand, made in collaboration with pleasure company Lovehoney. Though tempted, I walked out of the store with $119 still sitting responsibly in my bank account.

But back home, I laid in my bed alone, horny, and somewhat stoned. “You will never regret spending money on a magic unicorn that gives you orgasms,” the evil part of my brain whispered. So I ordered the unicorn, curious as to whether using it would be as enthralling to me as looking at it was. Unfortunately, what I got was a beautiful creature who offered more in appearance than in function.

The unicorn arrived at my door in its shiny box, ready to be used. Like the classic Magic Wand vibrator, it needs to be plugged into a wall. At first, I took this to mean that the vibrator was antiquated. However, given how lazy I can be about charging my USB vibrators, I realized I can actually appreciate this quality. Sure, it may be clunky, but my unicorn will never tucker out on me. And it’s so pretty, I often leave it out after use, rather than tucking it away in a dresser. This unicorn likes to run free.

Unicorns and sex have gone together before. Where preferences are concerned, the term “unicorn” is both infamously distinct and potentially problematic. It usually refers to a female third in threesomes who is, often, able to swoop in and out of the couple’s relationship emotionlessly while causing absolutely no relationship problems or vocalizing any emotional or sexual desires of her own. She is good in bed and hot, but not, like, good enough and hot enough to break up any happy homes, almost like a robot. Threesomes with people can be emotionally messy, but the Tokidoki Unicorn is just a vibrator. It won’t be mad if you ignore it after you’re done playing.

Most wands have a smooth, vibrating head that makes it easy to place on a clit. But between this unicorn’s pointy horn and its lavish mane, there’s just too much going on. Finding the best clitoral placement can be awkward. As a result, the unicorn works best as a once-in-awhile experience. It’s beautiful to look at and is there when you want to spice things up (or when the battery is empty on the rest of all your vibrators), but I do not recommend purchasing it as your first foray into the wonderful world of wands vibrators. Buy an original Magic Wand, just for the sake of owning one. If you tend to get chilly, the Doc Johnson warming wand is one of my favorites.

As much as I want to look at it all the time, the unicorn is too complicated to be my main squeeze. Don’t buy it because you think it’s going to give you the best orgasm, but if you have $119 lying around and are as enamored with this cutie as I was, buy the unicorn for the sake of novelty. Sometimes it’s just nice to have pretty things.

Tokidoki Unicorn Wand, $119, available here



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These 'Pod' Sex Toys Are Beautiful But Confusing


When I received an email from the sex toy brand Jimmyjane about a new set of vibrators called “love pods,” my first thought was that they looked like beautiful little lily pads. My second thought was, “WTF do you do with these?”

There are three versions of the toy: the $109 OM, a pointed purple ball with crevices meant to emulate fingers for “a naturally pleasing intimate experience;” the $129 pink Coral, a ball with deeper crevices and two motors that alternate for what are somewhat vexingly called “magical, immortal orgasms;” and the $149 fuchsia Halo, which has three heads that fit around the clitoris or nipple to encircle it with vibrations.

But outside of their appearance, those descriptions didn’t provide much information about what these sex toys actually feel like. What was the point of mimicking flat fingers that can’t even reach out to touch you? And what the heck is an immortal orgasm?! (Sounds exhausting.)

“‘Immortal orgasms’ is not a technical term,” a Jimmyjane rep explained. “The Love Pods are each based on Greek goddesses and symbols of feminine desire: Aphrodite, the Lotus Flower, and the Shell of Venus, as expressed on the packaging.” Well, OK then!

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Coral

I started off with the Coral. The vibration traveling from one side to the other was an interesting sensation in my hands, but when I put it between my legs, I kept losing stimulation on each side every few seconds. I turned it to the steady vibration setting and was able to orgasm within a few minutes, but not without enlisting the help of my other hand—something that, IMHO, shouldn’t be necessary if you’re using a good vibrator. The crevices made the sensation more concentrated on specific parts of my vulva, rather than consistent throughout. And since the toy is hard and unbendable, I couldn’t do much to change that. As result, my experience was fairly lackluster.

A few days later, I moved on to the OM. I had even less luck with that one: The vibrations felt good, but they weren’t powerful enough for my liking. While the crevices provided something a little new, they didn’t add much to the pleasure.

Orgasm-less, I moved on to the Halo—the most hyped-up of the three. I first tried it on my nipple, and it did create a nice subtle, tingly sensation there. But what I was really after was clitoral stimulation. I placed the three motors around my clit, and again, it was something different: I felt vibrations around the sides instead of just the top. Still, it wasn’t making enough direct contact with the clit to get me off, it was just grazing the sides.

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Om

Feeling like I had to find some obvious use for this toy, I asked my boyfriend if he wanted to try putting it over his penis. Same thing for him: The sensation was nice but not particularly intense. “I guess I could put it on my balls,” he said.

“Yeah, I guess you could put these in a lot of places,” I replied. You could just roll them over your body if you wanted to. But why would you when you could use a toy that’ll move air around your clitoris or oscillate over it instead of just lightly rumbling around it?

It’s entirely possible that my body just isn’t built for this kind of toy. I don’t generally get turned on by touch outside my genital area, and when it comes to that region, I prefer stimulation firmly and directly on the clitoris. But some people may be different: The Jimmyjane rep told me the company designed the Coral because some women like stimulation around the clit rather than on it. I just don’t happen to be one of them.

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Halo

So my first reaction still stands. These are beautiful toys—like lovely lily pads—and they could even go on top of your bedside table instead of inside the drawer. They could also glide over any part of your body as part of a foreplay massage, especially if you’re looking for an interesting tingling sensation.

But if what I’m looking for is an orgasm, I’m more likely to turn to the plenty of other effective options that don’t cost over $100. To each their own.

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