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Drake Revealed His Collection of Hermès Birkin Bags He Buys for His Future Wife


Drake recently showed off his gigantic Toronto mansion and it’s definitely been a revelation, to say the least. The 50,000 square foot home which he calls “The Embassy” contains, among other things, an NBA regulation-size basketball court, a chandelier made from 20,000 Swarovski crystals, and a bed that weighs around a ton.

However, perhaps one of the bigger revelations is that Drake has been collecting Hermès Birkin bags he plans to one day give to his future wife. “Equally dramatic is Drake’s two-story closet, adorned with amethyst hardware, rock crystal, and seating upholstered in diamond-tufted shearling with polished nickel studs,” Architectural Digest reports. “It’s the perfect place to display the musician’s extensive wardrobe, sneaker collection, and the array of precious Hermès Birkin bags that he has been amassing for years.”

While Drake doesn’t speak to who exactly the bags are for in this latest story, he has spoken about the subject in the past. He told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that the collection of expensive handbags (they can range in cost from $12,000 to over $300,000) was for “the woman I end up with.” The Birkin, named for actress Jane Birkin, is one of the most coveted handbags on the planet. Not only are they incredibly expensive, but they are also not produced en masse and can be a considered a formidable investment. We can only imagine how much Drake’s current collection is worth.

Check out the stash below.

Drake, who has been linked to Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez in the past, is one of those celebrities that can instantly create a massive social media conversation—and his house (and the Birkins held within it) definitely had people in their feelings on Twitter. “Drake collecting Birkin bags for his future wife is such a Drake thing to do,” one person wrote.

“Wait… does drake keep Birkin bags on his tables like mints?” another tweeted.

Now, all we want to know is exactly how many Birkins are currently in that collection—and if it rivals Kris Jenner’s Birkin closet.



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Reid Scott on the Elaborate Bachelor-Themed Date He Planned for His Wife


What’s a dating or relationship “rule” you think is B.S.?

I don’t know, I really got lucky. My wife and I don’t have any sort of hard-and-fast rules. Actually, this just came up: A friend of mine was dating a guy who is very generous—sort of overly so—but she wasn’t feeling it. She didn’t want to hurt his feelings because he’s so nice, but I [told her], “You can hurt someone’s feelings.” You know, being brutally honest is better than being sweetly dishonest.

That’s good advice. Okay, fill in the blank: “I love when my wife…”

Oh man, there are so many things. I’m like, How much do I want to give away? Well, I’ll say a couple: I love when my wife encourages me to go out and do my thing with my guy friends. And then a slightly more intimate thing is that I love when my wife initiates, you know, intimate times.

You have a full day to binge-watch whatever you want: What do you pick?

I’m really looking forward to the next season of Mindhunter, so I’m definitely going to be binge-watching that. I love anything dark. I’m fascinated by serial killers and con men and things like that. That’s what the show really gets into—what goes on between the ears of a serial killer. I think that’s really cool.

Reid Scott and his wife, Elspeth Keller

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What’s the sexiest thing about yourself?

My wife says it’s my sense of humor. I like that it’s something sort of intangible, which, to me, is always the sexiest thing about someone else too.

What’s the biggest romantic fail you’ve experienced?

My wife and I were in Mexico for a wedding for one of her best friends. We were not yet married—so, you know, the notion of marriage was certainly looming. My wife ended up having to go to the hospital with horrible food poisoning. At one point in the hospital, I had to help her poop in a cup, and I think we’d only been together for, like, eight months or something like that. In that moment, I was like, “Wow, I think I’m going to marry this girl.” So not the most romantic weekend, but…

Oh my God. I hope she’s fine with you telling this story?

Oh yeah. We laugh about this quite a bit.

That’s true love.

True love. That’s how I knew.

Hard to move on from that, but let’s try. What’s the weirdest thing you do in your alone time?



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The Secret to Having the Best Relationship With Your Work Wife


Grey’s Anatomy‘s Cristina Yang and Meredith Grey. Younger‘s Liza Miller and Kelsey Peters. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Rebecca Bunch and Paula Proctor. These television power pairs are each other’s closest confidants, allies, and cheerleaders. They’re also work wives. But beyond pop culture—across every industry—the work wife relationship is an important dynamic for many women. So much so that Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur, co-founders of fashion and design website Of a Kind, have written a definitive book on the subject called Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses.

In Work Wife, Cerulo and Mazur explore how female partnerships in the office can lead to a more progressive, productive, and empowering workplace. The biggest takeaway from the book—and their own experience—is the secret to maintaining a solid relationship: You have to put in the work.

One of the ways Cerulo and Mazur do this is by seeing a management coach together. They started going to theirs, Ben Michaelis, Phd., six years into working together—right after they sold their company, which they still continue to run. “We realized we wanted to see a coach because we were struggling,” Cerulo says. “For the first time ever, we had a boss, and that was the biggest source of tension: How to manage that situation as a single unit and how to deal with authority in this way that we’d never had to do in the course of our working relationship.”

They meet with their coach weekly, and the structure of the sessions are similar to couples therapy. They say working with a third party has strengthened their partnership, sharpened their communication skills, and made them more effective leaders. “I don’t think it’s possible to have the working relationship we have and not wish you could work through certain issues with someone else, or have a forum to deal with the ins and outs of your day to day interactions,” Cerulo says.

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So when Sierra Tishgart and Maddy Moelis started Great Jones together, Cerulo and Mazur recommended seeing their coach. Tishgart and Moelis are childhood friends of 20 years—they first met at sleepaway camp—but when it came time to launch their kitchenware company, they knew they wanted to consult an expert. “Seeing a coach was one of the first business decisions we made and one of the first investments,” Tishgart says. “To run our business, both successfully and long term, depends on the strength of our relationship. So having a dedicated space to process all of the rapid changes that we’re experiencing in the business—and knowing that we can rely on that—has been invaluable.”

Whether you’re launching a venture with a partner, or just have an extremely close bond with someone on your team, both pairs of work wives attest that having dedicated time to work on your work relationship can help in the long run. As coach Michaelis puts it, “Erica and Claire, as well as Sierra and Maddy, are so successful because they really love each other. They protect each other like they would a marriage, and they also work on that love. Making time for your counterpart—like you would for a romantic partner—and treating it with that level of significant care is what makes it a success.”

So if you’re looking to better your work relationships—with a management coach or by carving out some time for one another—here are a few tips to get you started.

Understand Each Other’s Quirks

They say that opposites attract, which can also be true with business partners. Tishgart considers this a strength of her relationship with Moelis. “What makes Maddy and my relationship work is that different things stress us out,” she says. They take time to understand each other’s differences, as well as empathize with the other’s stressors. “We try to figure out how to really take care of each other in those instances,” Tishgart explains. “It’s natural to have stress and anxiety when you’re build something. So we talk and say, ‘Hey, I see this was a stressful week for you. How can we make sure that stress doesn’t spread and dissipate?’ This helps us not become a sponge for one another. When you’re working so closely together, it’s important to figure out how not to diminish or erase your stress, but to really help to contain and support it.”

Quality Time Is Key

You can’t work on your relationship if you’re not actually spending time together. Michaelis suggests setting aside weekly face-to-face time, no matter what. “That time is sacred, so you can empathize with one another and know what’s going on in each other’s lives,” he says. He also warns that you shouldn’t make the majority of your communication over the Internet, especially around challenging or sensitive issues. “Slack is fine for purely functional things, but we overuse the tool,” he explains. “Especially when we don’t want to deal with certain things. That’s where the challenge really comes in.”



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This Is Why Hillary Clinton's Twitter Bio Kicks Off With the Word ‘Wife’


If you’ve ever come across Hillary Clinton‘s Twitter and wondered why her highly impressive list of roles included in her bio leads off with “wife,” you’re not alone. It does seem a strange that the former secretary of state and presidential candidate—who can boast decades of experience in politics, has gone up repeatedly against powerful men, and has been a longtime advocate for women in the workplace—starts off her bio with a role that defines her in domestic relation to a man. (“Wife, mom, grandma, women+kids advocate, FLOTUS, Senator, SecState, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, 2016 presidential candidate,” is how it currently reads.) Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had that thought, too—and asked Clinton about it during a PEN World Voices Festival lecture on Sunday night in New York City.

“In your Twitter account, the first word that describes you is ‘wife.’ And then I think it’s ‘mom,’ and then it’s ‘grandmother,'” Adichie said, reports Jezebel. “And when I saw that, I have to confess that I felt just a little bit upset. And then I went and I looked at your husband’s Twitter account, and the first word was not “husband.'”

Adichie then went on to ask why Clinton had chosen to “first identify in relation to her husband.”

“When you put it like that, I’m going to change it,” Clinton replied, according to Jezebel. According to the website, Clinton continued by responding that “women should be able to celebrate both their accomplishments and their relationships,” citing a lecture she heard by former First Lady Barbara Bush (timely) at Wellesley in the ’90s.

“She said, you know, at the end of the day, it won’t matter if you got a raise, it won’t matter if you wrote a great book, if you are not also someone who values relationships,” Clinton explained.

“It shouldn’t be either/or. It should be that if you are someone who is defining yourself by what you do and what you accomplish, and that is satisfying, then more power to you,” she continued. “That is how you should be thinking about your life, and living it. If you are someone who primarily defines your life in relationship to others, then more power to you, and live that life the way Barbara Bush lived that life, and how proud she was to do it. But I think most of us as women in today’s world end up in the middle. Wanting to have relationships, wanting to invest in them, nurture them, but also pursuing our own interests.”

Clinton then went on to praise Senator Tammy Duckworth, who last week made history by casting a vote with her newborn accompanying her.

“I think that summed it all up,” Clinton said. “She’s a mom, she’s a senator, she’s a combat veteran. She is somebody who is trying to integrate all of the various aspects of her life. And that’s what I’ve tried to do for a very long time, and it’s not easy.”

Anyway, it seems like Clinton’s down for a revamp. Adiche, for her part, had an idea of what Clinton’s newly rewritten bio could read: “It could say, ‘Should have been a damn good president.'”

As of Monday morning, Clinton’s team hadn’t yet gotten on the bio update. We’re looking forward to seeing how the new one reads—because although, yes, Clinton is a wife, she has also made history defining herself in her own right.

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Donald Trump Hogs Umbrella While Wife and Son Get Rained On


On Tuesday, President Donald Trump faced—quelle surprise!—criticism. This time, it wasn’t over his unpopular political opinions, or outwardly racist statements, but rather for what appears to be a move that quite literally left his wife and son out in the cold.

In new press photos and videos, the president can be seen walking up the stairs to board Air Force One while holding an oversized black golf umbrella. It looks to be a normal enough scene, until you realize his wife, Melania, and 11-year-old son Barron were following behind, neither of whom were protected from the elements. Of course, Trump may have offered to give them the umbrella—to which they could have said no thanks, we’re good—but, well, c’mon.

Regardless of how it went down, it wasn’t a great look and people on social media were clearly displeased.

“Just seen @realDonaldTrump getting on his plane holding an umbrella for himself while his son and wife get soaked in the rain. says it all about him,” one commenter tweeted.

“It would never even occur to my husband to cover himself if my daughter and I were standing with him in a storm. He’s such a disgrace,” another added.

And it’s not just social media users who think Trump’s behavior was lacking. Etiquette experts are weighing in, noting that being the leader of the free world doesn’t exempt you from common decency.

“We generally try to not comment on individuals, but in terms of principles of etiquette your rank doesn’t absolve you from common courtesy,” Daniel Post Senning, author and spokesperson for the Emily Post Institute, explained to the New York Daily News. “The core tenet of good etiquette is thinking about other people. There’s something classy and thoughtful about considering others.”

So why would Trump behave in such a way? Newsweek has one great theory: It all comes down to protecting his hair over his family.

“She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate—a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery—surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray,” Michael Wolff wrote about the president’s hair in his new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of unchivalrous conduct. In September, Trump literally forgot that his wife was standing right next to him at an event and talked about her like she wasn’t even there.

“I just want to thank everybody, the first responders, on behalf of myself, our Vice President—Melania really wanted to be with us,” he said as she stood, right there, directly next to him, not saying a word. Maybe Melania and Barron can just slip away in the middle of the night and Trump wouldn’t notice. For their sake, they may want to think about it.

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'Big Bang Theory' Star Kunal Nayyar and His Wife Neha Kapur Nayyar on Their Whirlwind Love Story


“The first time I saw Kunal, he was wearing a trucker hat, cutoff gloves, hipster glasses, and a scarf,” fashion designer Neha Kapur Nayyar recalls of meeting Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar in 2009. “It took me a while to find him among all that.” Though she wasn’t impressed with her future husband’s accessories and was oblivious to his fame—“I had never seen the show,” she admits—Kunal was already a goner. “My first thought was, This is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,” he says. “My second thought was, She’s way out of my league.” The two married in New Delhi two years later. The cutoff gloves stayed home. Here, we asked the so-gorgeous-it-hurts duo some very personal questions.

How do you each define love?

Neha Kapur Nayyar: Selfless.

Kunal Nayyar: Love is not perfect, and that’s OK.

Fill in the blank: Our love story began on….

NKN: December 24, 2009. New Dehli, India.

Fill in the blank: The first thing I thought when I saw my significant other was….

KN: She’s tall.

NKN: Interesting hat. [Laughs]

Your relationship described in three words. Go.

KN: BFF. Best friends forever.

Give me two more.

KN: BFF. Not so serious. Wait, that’s not right. Light. Like, relaxed. Laughter.

NKN: Comfortable. Companion. Best friend.

The best thing I’ve ever learned from my significant other is….

NKN: Selflessness.

KN: Clarity.

Not how to dress?

KN: Oh, that’s funny. I like that answer! Can I steal it? OK, I’ll do how to dress.

The pop song that best describes us is….

KN: That’s a great question. Why are you looking at me? [Laughs]

NKN: We listen to a lot of hip hop.

KN: We gotta come back to that! It’s gotta be something good. “Baby Got Back”? [Laughs] What about “I Love You Like A Love Song?”

NKN: No. [Laughs]

One thing my significant other does not know about him or herself is….

KN: She giggles in her sleep.

Is that true?

NKN: I have no idea! [Laughs]

KN: It’s creepy.

NKN: Thanks! [Laughs] I think when Kunal is singing on his own without anyone around him, I think it’s the most beautiful thing. He doesn’t realize how good he sounds.

Photograph by Olivia Malone Stylist: Henna Koskinen

What is your significant other’s superpower?

KN: Neha has incredible ability to be inviting. She creates a beautiful, familiar, inviting atmosphere wherever she goes.

NKN: Kunal makes everyone feel very safe. Very secure. You can always lean on him. He should be the first phone call when you need someone.

What’s the secret to love that lasts?

KN: The ability to forgive.

NKN: Yeah. I’d say space.

I know that my significant other loves me when he/she does….

NKN: Kunal always wants to make sure I’m OK when I’m traveling, or with my food, so he always takes care of it one step before I even ask him. He’s got it covered.

KN: I know my wife loves me when I come home and it smells like Indian food.

NKN: Oh, is that a little nudge? [Laughs]

When did you know you were ready to propose?

KN: Oh, that’s a good question. I mean, when I went to secure the ring. When I wrote a check for the ring. [Laughs] That’s a good question.

How did you know she was “The One”?

KN: Oh, when she met my family for the first time! There was an unspoken language. She just knew how to interact, be with, give love to, put herself in a very….

NKN: It was very organic.

KN: Yes. She was very organic with my family.

And how did you know he was the guy?

NKN: I came to visit him three weeks after I met him for the first time. I can spend hours talking to Kunal, and it just felt like I had always known him, so when I came to visit him in LA, it just seemed so right. I think I was always ready to marry him.

What advice would you give to somebody that doesn’t know whether they’re in the right relationship for the long haul?

NKN: I say take time. Spend time and take as long as you want before…nothing is out of bounds, no time is running out. Just take your time.

KN: Only do it for yourself. Don’t do it for your parents, your family, her or him. Do it truly for you. That sounds bad, but what I mean is don’t do it for anyone other than yourself.

NKN: Yeah, no pressure.

What are you most proud of about each other?

KN: Neha left her country as an adult to move here for marriage, and I really commend her on her ability to start a company, to make friends outside of my circle of friends, to make a life here on her own, where redefining herself [as an adult] in a new country, she’s been very good at. It takes a lot of courage. It’s not easy at all.

NKN: I think the fact that he doesn’t necessarily play his professional life out too much to people, and how humble he stays, especially with how big the show is, and how far and wide the fans are spread. He just completely stays committed and humble and dedicated and hard-working.



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