Agreed - clearly something is off with Amanda - but what do you expect Nikki to say? "Yeah, she's on a bunch of drugs, I think she has serious problems?" Her career would be even deader than it is now (unless I've missed a comeback - I know she was on Huge for a little while but that was canceled, wasn't she last…

Oh lord, that incident barely rates in comparison to various others. The only comparison I can make that comes even close to explaining HG is that it was like the worst food poisoning you can imagine, only it lasted eight months. It started when I was 5 weeks pregnant and I quite literally could not stop vomiting all…

Yep, plenty of people have disabilities that aren't obvious just by looking at them. When I was six months pregnant I parked in one of those "expecting mums and families with young children" spots. My "bump" was barely obvious then - I had hyperemesis gravidarum and struggled big time to gain weight - but those spaces…

Ha ha! I understand feeling wasted, I've been holed up caring for my toddler son since he was born and haven't worked or traveled (except home to Australia, for my family) in a while.

Ha ha! I couldn't possibly give you a list - that's why I get to stay "in." But if you have any, ahem, "special interests" I can very likely tell you "the word around town"... i.e. what I know for sure... and I know a lot. I'm the quiet one who just takes it all in...

Oh so true. Browse the boy's list and you'd think Ayden isn't THAT popular... unless you count all the Adens, Aidans, Aidens, etc. Then it is clearly #1. Not to mention the Haydens, Jaydens, Caydens, Raydens, Braydens etc... for girls the major trend now seems to be names ending in an "a' sound. Hence Sophia, Emma,…

Ugh, yes. It's like when people survive a plane crash where other people died and say things like "I could have died so easily, now I KNOW God has a purpose for me and my life." How lovely, you special flower! So the people who were randomly assigned the unlucky seats and died didn't have a purpose or anything to keep…

So true. I am widely known as the person you can tell your deepest, darkest secrets too, and never fear that I'll tell. I only "tell" if you use the "s-word" (suicide) because sadly I've lived through too many tragedies to ever assume that's an empty threat. I think I got to be a hero once... a friend who we all…

It's okay, I like a good ramble too! I think you've really hit the nail on the head. He was stuck in his Peter Pan world and everyone around him indulged that, probably mostly because he was rich and famous but also maybe because most people knew his life story and felt sorry for how his childhood played out. I know…

Ugh. I'm so, so sorry for you. What a shitty situation. And he wants you to call her mom? Is he insane? My husband's parents amicably divorced when he was about 12 and both remarried lovely people, 2 and 4 years after the divorce; it's the best "divorced parents" situation you can imagine, they're so civil together…

I like this take. You've introduced a whole new idea for me. I've always said "who cares what a politician does in their private life, unless they misuse public funds or shirk their responsibilities to do it." (I'm looking at you John Edwards and Mark Sanford!) I've never thought about the idea that someone who would…

Yes! He's so young and so good, and he's done so much with his talent... a little more research, guys. (Actually, then they'd probably just have called him "a choreographer once linked to Britney Spears," so at least they referred to something involving his actual work... we should probably be thankful)

Yes, he's still a very big deal in the dance world... not a "15 seconds of fame" guy at all. The Wade Robson Project was years ago, he's worked a ton since then.

The sad thing about this is that when my now-husband was unemployed for five months (during the writers strike in Hollywood in 2007-08; everyone was unemployed! I have no idea how all the "industry couples" I know survived, especially because housing was starting to tank - thank god I worked outside the business) I…

Well said Lindy, but... the purity bullshit does not just come from men. By pure accident (trust me, I had no intentions of finding "the one" so young, I was planning on a big exciting adult dating life) I met my now-husband at 18 and my grand total of sexual partners at age 28 is 2. I have very, very close girl…

In California, on a misdemeanor? He'll be sentenced to a year, max, and serve 2 months if he's really unlucky. The prisons here are way overcrowded, that's how Paris and Lindsay get sentenced to multiple month stints and are home by the end of the week (or the day, in one case!)

Yes she was definitely embarrassed, poor thing! I told her I knew that I look young and I thought she'd done the right thing by asking, so hopefully she didn't feel too bad. But you are right, sometimes it is judgy and hard on dads and uncles... my good friend is a doting dad to his five-year-old daughter, and loves…

Or the opposite... when you notice someone is becoming alarmingly thin. I have a few friends with major anorexia battles in their past, and I know (because they've told me) it's still a constant battle to overcome their disordered thinking, even after many years of "physical" health. The current thing for two of them…

I bet we can compare horror stories. I worked for a federal member of parliament in Australia (the equivalent, I guess, of the US Congress, only she was also the minister for aboriginal affairs and a few other things.) We had the misguided callers ("the Federal government cannot fix your cracked pavement. I strongly…

I'm in Hollywood (both the place and the "industry") and know plenty of early 20-somethings that get Botox for "prevention." I've never considered it (I'm 28 and still get carded everywhere, and when I'm out with my 1 year old son older women constantly make snide comments about how I must have been hoping to get on…