Thank you for the great explanation! I feel like I have all the smarts now.

The dead cells are eaten by macrophage white blood cells, like all other cells that die or go cancerous in your body. But in guess in rare cases, The dead cells fragments trigger a really strong inflammatory response and your body freaks out a little bit—leading to that hyperplasia.

I know that we should no longer be surprised when a Kardashian completely transforms themselves into someone else, but I just cannot get over how Khloe looks almost nothing like she did 5 years ago. Not just the body, but the face. Not sure I can totally blame her since being known as the “ugly Kardashian” is pretty…

I really don’t understand the science behind CoolSculpting at all. What happens to the cells once frozen? Where do they go?

This. Something about rice and beans really hits the spot for me. It’s one of the few convenient, cheap lunch dishes I’ve been able to find that’s filling yet doesn’t put me in a mid-afternoon food coma. (And EVERYTHING makes me food coma, so that’s not nothing.)

I really like the rice.

Apparently Jia thinks it is the best.

Not quite pertinent, but I’ve been following Jezebel for years (even interned here in early 2010)... can I get out of the greys? Pretty please?

My favorite Jezebel ghost story:

i like it and you can pry my burrito bowl from my cold dead hands!

“Woke”ness is a continual process, not a state of being.

oh no, its far simpler than that - i’m full of shit.

So she did give her eight weeks paid maternity leave? That’s actually very good by US standards.

Divorce is a TV show. Jezebel has covered it quite a bit, actually.

Tretinoin is fucking MAGIC.

Ugh, skincare and lipstick are my weaknesses! I just got this a couple of weeks ago and my skin has never been softer and it might be the best 10 dollars I’ve ever spent on skincare?

Get a Retin-A rx. It’s pretty much the only thing all derms agree on for actually preventing and TREATING (i.e., existing) wrinkles. With health insurance, my monthly prescription only costs $10 a month. (It’s also great for treating acne.)

Yeah, there are surely bad nurses, but I’ve only seen a small handful. Not nearly as many bad nurses as bad police, bankers, professional athletes, apartment managers, etc. My experience has been that bad nurses are far more rare than unethical, narcissistic people in other professions. I say this as an experienced…

Totally. This is the obvious reading. I’m flummoxed people are going out of their way to assume he meant it as “he has given her permission” when that is not how people talk - especially to the media.