No Broad City bit has resonated so deeply with me as the time Abbi and Ilana waltzed into a thrift store with gusto (and a wind machine), ready to make bank off of second-hand clothes—which is pretty much how I feel whenever I go to the coupon machine at my local CVS and score ExtraBucks…
Read moreThe year was 1999, I was 15, and Brandy had just been named as the newest spokesmodel for CoverGirl. The actual news wasn’t quite on my radar, but when I started to see her face even more—on covers of magazines like Seventeen and Teen People (I subscribed to both) as well as on drugstore aisle…
Read moreElizabeth*, 38, started puberty early, getting her period in the fourth grade. Her pediatrician criticized her for weighing more than the average nine-year-old, despite the fact that she was already five-foot-three. “I can easily say that experience triggered twenty years of body dysmorphia and disordered eating,” she says. “Shortly after that, I used to just…
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PHOTO: ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection This week we heard some disappointing news: Sex and the City 3 isn’t happening. That’s right, Sarah Jessica Parker herself confirmed the news on Thursday, saying she’s disappointed the movie franchise based on the iconic HBO series is done. And SPJ wasn’t the only core cast member to express…
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PHOTO: Getty Images/Jamie McCarthy After three years of being asked to guest star on Fuller House, the sequel to the show that launched their acting careers, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are still saying “no thanks” to series creator Jeff Franklin’s requests for them to make a brief appearance on the revived sitcom. Michelle Tanner’s…
Read moreAs women smash glass ceilings and elbow their way into the boys clubs, the perception of what it means to be a lady has shifted. Where the parameters of what’s ladylike used to be stifling (“A lady wears pearls and pours her husband’s coffee.”), modern women have taken back the word lady, redefining it to…
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