When You Have Your Period, This Is What Happens To Your Body Shutterstock By Korey Denton/July 12, 2020 10:30 am EST Whether you dread your period’s arrival each month or celebrate it and what your menstrual cycle means for your health, it’s a tricky little thing to deal with and keep track of. But no matter how you feel about your period, there are certain physical and emotional effects it has on your body that you just can’t deny....
Joe Biden has been a staunch military supporter throughout his career Patrick Smith/Getty Images While Biden came into office toward the tail end of the Vietnam War, he really came into his own as a foreign policy expert during the Cold War era. The Guardian notes his numerous visits to the then-Soviet Union before it rebranded as Russia, at which time he was involved in brokering high-level arms control treaties. During his tenure as VP, Biden played an even more hands-on role, serving as adviser-in-chief to the Commander-in-Chief (another non-veteran) on all matters military in nature....
Why Everyone Is Talking About This Unusual Succulent Shutterstock Even if you’ve never thought of yourself as a succulent person, you’ll change your mind after seeing this gorgeous plant. Succulent novices may think that all succulents are little green sprouts, but not all succulents are created equal. One of the most popular succulents that succulent newbies and those with a green thumbs alike can’t stop talking about is the Haworthia cooperi....
Why Patrick Mahomes May Need Surgery After Super Bowl Loss Patrick Smith/Getty Images By Phoebe McRae/Feb. 8, 2021 2:24 pm EST Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ turf toe is likely to need surgery. Despite telling the NFL Network that it was feeling a “lot better” just last week — and playing in the Super Bowl over the weekend — the athlete is expected to book in an appointment with a foot specialist in the near future....
Why You Should Be Eating More Sweet Potatoes Shutterstock By Paige McBride/Nov. 4, 2020 12:24 pm EST The last few years have witnessed a mass-conversion of potato lovers to sweet-potato lovers. From fries to the mashed varieties, the orange root vegetable has seemingly taken hold across the board. When it comes to our health, this is a very good thing. One of the most notable benefits of eating sweet potatoes comes from their high concentration of magnesium....
You Shouldn’t Throw Out Your Avocado Pits. Here’s Why Shutterstock By Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez/Sept. 28, 2020 9:48 am EST As one of the most Instagrammed foods of all time, avocados have gone mainstream in our food culture (via Spoon University). According to Statista, U.S. annual consumption of the popular fruit experienced a six-fold increase since 1985, from 436 million pounds to more than 2.6 billion pounds last year. That’s a lot of avocado toast — and potentially a lot of waste....
Kate Winslet and Allison Janney smooched at the 2017 Hollywood Film Awards Kevin Winter/Getty Images One of our favorite surprise celeb kisses caught on live TV has to be the amazing kiss between Kate Winslet and Allison Janney at the 2017 Hollywood Film Awards (via Time). It all started when Winslet joked in her speech, “Allison Janney is in this room. Allison, I know I don’t really know you, but I just want to be you....
Details You Didn’t Know About Jimmie Allen Steve Jennings/Getty Images By Audrey Michels/Sept. 11, 2020 3:40 pm EST You might know him as a sudden breakout artist, but the truth is Jimmie Allen, 34, has been working towards his musical goals for a long time. His story reads like the classic American rags-to-riches tale: He moved to Nashville with almost no money and even spent some time sleeping in his car and dreaming of being a country singer, according to The Washington Post....
Repetitive sounds can help offset anxiety Shutterstock According to Psychology Today, “mantra” means “tool or instrument of the mind” in Sanskrit, and mantras can help quell racing thoughts. Since music can benefit various processes in the body as well, adding your favorite songs or mantras to your self-care routine can make a difference in your mental and physical health. The automatic processes it positively impacts include your heartbeat, your breathing, and your parasympathetic nervous system, Yoga Journal explains....
Erica Herman Goes To See Boyfriend Tiger Woods After Frightening Crash Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images By Angela Andaloro/Feb. 25, 2021 9:53 am EST Tiger Woods is lucky to be alive after a terrifying car accident in Los Angeles. TMZ reported that the legendary golfer had to be removed from his wrecked SUV after it rolled over while taking a turn. It’s far from the first accident for Woods, but certainly the scariest....
Weddings weren’t always such formal affairs Shutterstock We love a formal affair as much as the next girl. And while we’re not ashamed to admit we were drooling over the grandeur and very expensive look of the wall of flowers that was the backdrop at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s 2014 wedding ceremony, we’re also aware that celeb weddings aren’t the norm. As explained on an episode of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, weddings were historically informal events held in homes or at community functions like barn raising events....
Good Bones’ Mina Starsiak Reveals The Most Challenging Part Of Renovating Homes - Exclusive Michael Kovac/Getty Images By Taylor Marsh/Feb. 5, 2021 2:25 pm EST Though Starsiak Hawk is also a business owner, mom of two, and a children’s book author, she is perhaps best known as a home rehabber. The Jill-of-all-trades stars in the HGTV series Good Bones, which follows her and her mom, Karen Laine, as they seek to revitalize their hometown of Indianapolis one house at a time....
ABC By Christine-Marie Liwag Dixon/Sept. 3, 2020 2:11 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you were alive in the 90s, there’s a good chance you spent some time watching the sitcom Step by Step. The show ran for seven seasons from 1991 to 1998 (per IMDb). Much like another beloved sitcom, The Brady Bunch, Step by Step focused on a blended family which was headed by Frank Lambert (played by Patrick Duffy) and Carol Foster Lambert (played by Suzanne Somers)....
Below Deck yachties can earn thousands in tips Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Speaking to ET, the Below Deck stalwart explained that tipping is not just for the cameras. “Our charters are a little bit shorter, just so we can make the show, [but] everything else is exactly the same,” she revealed, advising a decent tip on a big yacht would be around $5,000 per person for a week of work. “It’s prorated,” she said, “We usually get around $2,500, $2,000....
Multitasking causes stress and stress ages our skin Shutterstock The scientific article “Brain-Skin Connection: Stress, Inflammation and Skin Aging” goes into detail about the link between stress hormones and our skin. They describe how increased cortisol breaks down collagen and elastin, which in turn makes it easier for wrinkles to form. We need all the collagen and elastin we can get as we age. Collagen is what gives our skin firmness, and elastin, as you might guess from the name, is what gives skin its elastic stretch and its ability you bounce back....
Inside Fantasia Barrino’s Home Kevin Winter/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/Sept. 4, 2020 9:30 am EST If you’ve been following the rock-soul superstar, Fantasia Barrino for as long as we have, you may have already caught a glimpse inside two of her North Carolina mansions. In 2013, she signed over her $1 million, 6,600 square-foot palace-of-a-house to the bank after failing to pay her mortgage (via New York Post). According to Variety, that six-bedroom, pond-front house was in the Glynmoor Lakes development, which describes itself as a community of “custom estate homes” with “beautiful lake and golf course views,” not far from Four Mile Creek (via Piper Glen)....
Inside Rush Limbaugh’s Lavish House George Gojkovich/Getty Images By Lana Schwartz/Feb. 17, 2021 5:52 pm EST On Feb. 17, 2021, radio personality and conservative media fixture Rush Limbaugh died at the age of 70. Before his death, he had racked up an astonishing net worth of $600 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. As Forbes reported in 2018, he earned $84.5 million that year — with the only radio host to edge him out being Howard Stern, who was taking home a cool $90 million....
It was the major social event of the season Getty Images What started with dinner parties in Georgetown attended by two young, established socialites quickly became a relationship — and eventually a commitment to marriage. According to Vogue, the woman whose name would become Jackie Kennedy just a few short years later hit it off with her future husband right away after their first meeting on the dinner party circuit they both frequented....
Meghan Markle’s Former Co-Star Has Something To Say To The Royal Family Chris Jackson/Getty Images By Olivia Jakiel/March 5, 2021 4:25 pm EST Just days before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s highly anticipated tell-all interview with the other queen, Oprah Winfrey, drama surrounding Markle and her alleged bullying of royal staffers conveniently started making the rounds online. And while many A-listers and insiders have come to her defense (via US Weekly), Markle’s former co-star Patrick J....
Morning show host Hoda Kotb found success and became a mother Stan Honda, Noam Galai/Getty Images Hoda Kotb has become the BFF to many who start their mornings off by watching her divulge the latest gossip on the Today show’s fourth hour. However, she had to come a long way before landing this national gig. After graduating college, Kotb was rejected by multiple stations and drove all over the southeast for a job before one news director finally believed in her....
