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This Eerie Video Shows Italians Sharing What They Would Have Told Themselves 10 Days Ago About the Coronavirus


As the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads in America, many experts and civilians are looking to Italy as possible glimpse of what our future might hold. That country is currently on lockdown with residents only allowed to leave their homes for absolutely necessary reasons in an effort to slow down the spread of COVID-19.

As of Monday, March 16, the total number of coronavirus cases in Italy was 27,980, up 3,000 from just the day before. Some experts believe Italy is about 10 days ahead of the United States in this ever-evolving situation, which is one of the reasons many states and cities are restricting movement by citizens and closing schools, restaurants, and bars.

In a new video released by the CDC, Italian residents of all ages were asked to film messages to themselves from 10 days ago. What would they told their past selves about the virus’s spread, the ways that life would so drastically change, and what they could have done differently had they known what today would look like?

Their messages are sobering, to say the least, as Italians describe their transitions from normal daily life to quarantine and warn others about not taking the pandemic seriously by continuing to go out just for fun.

Take a look:

“A huge mess is about to happen.”

“The worst case scenario? That’s exactly what will happen.”

“A whole nation stuck at home. Didn’t see that coming, uh?”

“There are currently kids our age intubated and in intensive care.”

“We’ve seen worrisome videos from France and the U.S. of people not taking this thing seriously. This issue is more serious than most of the world believes.”

“You’ll realize that just being able to breathe air in your own house—it’s something you should already be grateful for.”

Watch the full video for yourself below:

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As this crisis in America continues to evolve and shift, it’s important to listen to guidance of the scientists and doctors who are telling us to stay home as much as is possible. And perhaps take a cue from Italians, too, who know better than us what’s coming next.



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Chrissy Teigen Had the Perfect Response to a Troll Who Told Her to ‘Cover Up’


There’s no one who can put a troll in their place quite like Chrissy Teigen—and she proved that when she expertly shut down someone who asked her to “cover up” her breasts in a recent post.

The Cravings author exercised her clapback muscles on Friday, December 6, after sharing a sweet photo with her daughter, Luna, on Instagram. The image shows Teigen sitting on a staircase as her three-year-old adjusts her blazer.

While most fans loved the candid moment, mom-shamers were out in full force to accuse her of showing too much skin in front of her child.

“Jesus cover up your daughter is right there,” one person commented.

Oddly, the troll also had a photo of the picture as their Instagram profile photo.

“She sucked it for months and doesn’t mind it much,” Teigen replied.

Others tried to shame her for not covering up as well. “Do you ever wear underwear?” another person asked.

“U cold up there?” Teigen responded.

As always, the mother of two is the best at coming up with responses to her haters and has become known for her comebacks on social media. In fact, this isn’t even first time she’s masterfully taken on trolls this month.

When the model posted a couple of photos from her Thanksgiving, including one with with her personal chef and nanny, a user mocked her for having hired help for her and John Legend‘s two children, Luna and Miles.

“Grateful for the people that make our dysfunctional house functional,” Teigen captioned the sweet shot.

“AKA ‘thankful for my household staff of chefs and nannies,'” the troll commented.

But Teigen wasn’t having any of it and quickly put the person in their place. “Literally just said that but you sure got me,” she replied.

When will people learn not to come for Chrissy Teigen on social media? She always has the last word.



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Emilia Clarke Was Told She’d ‘Disappoint’ Her Fans If She Didn’t Go Nude for a Project


In a new episode of Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast, Emilia Clarke reveals she was told she’d “disappoint” her Game of Thrones fans if she didn’t go nude on another project.

The actor started the interview with Shepard by talking about those initial nude scenes on GoT. (She played Daenerys on the hit HBO series for eight seasons.) “I’d come fresh from drama school, and I was like, ‘Approach this as a job.’ If [nudity’s] in the script, then it’s clearly needed. This is what this is and I’m gonna make sense of it,” she said, according to Us Weekly. “I’m floating through this first season and I have no idea what I’m doing. I have no idea what any of this is. I’ve never been on a film set like this before, I’d been on a film set twice before then, and I’m now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don’t know what I’m meant to do and I don’t know what’s expected of me.”

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Eventually Clarke started pushing back on the scenes—and she had the support of her costar Jason Momoa. “He was like, ‘No sweetie, this isn’t okay,’” Clarke recalled on the podcast.

Now, Emilia Clarke says things are different. Spending eight years playing the Mother of Dragons taught her to speak up when she’s uncomfortable. During the chat with Shepard, she gave an example of a time she was asked to go nude for a project—and that she’d be “disappointing” her GoT fans if she didn’t do it.

“Now things are very, very, very different, and I’m a lot more savvy about what I’m comfortable with and what I’m okay with doing,” she said. “I’ve had fights on set before where I’m like, ‘No, the sheet stays up,’ and they’re like, ‘You don’t wanna disappoint your Game of Thrones fans.’ And I’m like, ‘F–k you’…. I feel like I’ve seen enough now to know what is actually needed. I was also, little did I know, protected by the show in terms of the storytelling being at a very high level and people they were hiring being at a very high level.”



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Miley Cyrus Told Women They "Don't Have to Be Gay" Because There Are "Good Men Out There"


Miley Cyrus has never been someone to shy away from controversy or speaking her mind. And the latest example of this comes from a recent Instagram Live that she did with her new boyfriend, Cody Simpson. In it, the singer joked that women “don’t have to be gay” because there are “good men out there.” People, unsurprisingly, have not responded well to this sentiment.

“Guys, I was being a little too, like…hardcore feminist vibes and, just like, I don’t know, not allowing anyone in, but now I am,” Cyrus said during her live-stream, per E! “There are good men out there, guys. Don’t give up. You don’t have to be gay. There are good people with dicks out there. You just gotta find them. You gotta find a dick that’s not a dick, you know what I mean?”

Simpson then laughed and repeated Cyrus’s “You don’t have to be gay” statement, and she responded with, “I always thought I had to be gay, because I just thought all guys are evil, but that’s not true.”

“There are good people out there that just happen to have dicks,” Cyrus continued. “I’ve only ever met one, and he’s on this live.”

Back in February, Cyrus talked to Vanity Fair about her sexuality in the context of her marriage to Liam Hemsworth. (The couple announced their split in August, and she then dated Kaitlynn Carter before getting together with Simpson.) “We’re redefining, to be fucking frank, what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship. A big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person,” she said. “What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level. It has nothing to do with sexuality. Relationships and partnerships in a new generation—I don’t think they have so much to do with sexuality or gender. Sex is actually a small part, and gender is a very small, almost irrelevant part of relationships.”

The reactions to Cyrus’s comments were swift. “Miley, this is so not it. Women don’t ‘have to be gay’ because they ‘can’t find a good person with a d*ck,'” one person tweeted. “Don’t use the queer community as a stop-gap because you couldn’t find a boyfriend. People aren’t queer because they ‘gave up’ on men. This is so insulting.”



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A Royals Expert Told Us the Real Story Behind Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton's 'Feud'


Rumors of a “feud” between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton have been brewing for months. Granted, Kensington Palace shut them down in December with a rare statement, but little tidbits keep coming out suggesting there’s at least tension between the duchesses. There was that story in November about Middleton reportedly leaving Princess Charlotte’s dress fitting for Markle’s wedding “in tears.” The chatter is so incessant, in fact, that TLC released a full documentary last month outlining Markle and Middleton’s relationship.

So what is the truth? Is there really a feud, or is this all rubbish? The answer, according to royals expert Katie Nicholl, lies somewhere in the middle. “I think this idea of there being a catfight between the two duchesses has made tantalizing headlines, but I don’t think believe that,” Nicholl, a royals correspondent for Vanity Fair and The Daily Mail, tells Glamour. “I’ve never heard from my sources that there has ever been a feud or a falling out. I had heard about an upset over the dress fitting for Princess Charlotte. And I had heard that while Harry was very keen for the two of them to become best friends, there was never that sort of a friendship.”

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She continues, “They quite quickly realized they were two pretty mature women—quite different women—and really the only thing they had in common was they’d married princes. Not just Prince Harry, I think probably the world wanted them to become best friends.”

These rumors originated somewhere, though, and Nicholl says there’s never smoke without fire. “I do think there is some truth to there having been some tension—not just between the duchesses but between the dukes, as well,” she explains. “As we all know, things can gather momentum pretty quickly. So while I think there’s been tension, I don’t believe there has been some feud.”

That being said, it’s Nicholl’s understanding Markle and Middleton mutually decided at some point to put on a united front. “I do know that Meghan and Kate have come to an agreement to get along, to make an effort, to be amiable and warm towards each other in public,” she says. “They both realize it’s in neither of their interests to have these catfight headlines. It’s not what either of them want.”

Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle at Wimbledon.
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It’s unclear if the duchesses reached this resolution after having a one-on-one conversation. They have, of course, hung out solo in the past, but when that last happened is a mystery. “I know in the early days, Kate invited Meghan over to apartment 1A for tea,” Nicholl says. “Obviously, she took her on that high-profile trip to Wimbledon, so they have spent time together. But what I think hasn’t happened is—they haven’t become best friends out of all of it. That’s not to say they hate each other. I don’t believe that to be the case at all.”

There you have it, people. It seems like Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton are just your standard sisters-in-law: not besties, but not enemies, either.

If you want more tea on the royals, pick up Katie Nicholl’s book Harry and Meghan: Life, Loss, and Love, out April 9.

Christopher Rosa is Glamour’s entertainment writer. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisrosa92.





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A Bride Told Her Pregnant Bridesmaid to Stop 'Showing Off' Her Belly in Photos


A viral Reddit “Am I the A**shole” thread strikes again with a tale of a bride who felt wronged by one of her bridesmaids.

This time, the bride in question had complaints about a bridesmaid she calls “Kate” who was around seven months pregnant during the festivities. “Kate’s belly was easily accommodated into the dress style because it had quite a flowy skirt with a fitted bust,” she wrote in the thread as spotted by Insider. So all seems well, at first glance. But then came time for the post-ceremony, pre-reception photos.

“In one of the first photos I noticed Kate was deliberately holding her belly so it was really obvious in the fabric of her dress (think basically every maternity shoot photo ever taken),” the bride explained. “I asked her to stop holding her hands to show off her belly and to just pose like everyone else. I had to remind her a few more times before we’d finished taking the wedding party photos.” Upon her return from her honeymoon, the bride began to worry that Kate was upset with her. “Today another of my bridesmaids confirmed that Kate is pissed at me because I was ‘trying to make her look fat, not pregnant’ during the photos,” she added. “Now I’m annoyed because I paid a lot of money for a wedding photo shoot, not maternity pics.”

Somewhat surprisingly (considering pregnant women cannot control the size or shape of their stomachs), responders were split on the issue. “There is absolutely no reason someone should be deliberately showing off their ‘baby bump’ to take away from the bride in a photo,” one commenter replied. “If she didn’t feel comfortable in the dress, she could have opted out of being in the wedding. But making the photo shoot about herself and demonstrating her pregnant belly is not acceptable in a wedding photo. When you look back at the photos, you want to remember the happy times between you guys, not be distracted by her ‘on display’ baby bump.”

Nothing suggests she was “trying to take over [the] wedding photos,” wrote another. “From what OP [original poster] says, the friend wasn’t doing anything besides holding her belly, which is actually a normal standing position for pregnant people, not something reserved for maternity photography. Is it attention seeking to be visibly pregnant at someone else’s wedding? Because it seems like the bride (and a lot of commenters) are treating this girl like she maliciously planned to take over the wedding by not hiding her pregnancy, which is insane to me.”

Others (rightly) noted that the bridesmaid may have been self-conscious or physically uncomfortable in the moment—not actually a terrible friend trying to sabotage the photos or make herself the star.

“Posing like that is not trying to make it into a maternity shoot, unless she pulled the camera person aside and asked to take pictures of herself with her bump. She was just trying to feel halfway decent about herself in the pictures. It sucks being pregnant,” wrote another commenter. “I agree that if you needed everyone to do the same pose, she should have followed suit, but don’t assume that she was trying to make it all about her. She was probably just trying to make it through the photoshoot without crying.”

Our best guess is the photos turned out just fine, regardless of the drama.

See more: Do Friendships Really Change After Marriage?



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