That doesn't strike me as a bad deal at all if she has the money. A regular retirement home is $80,000 a year according to Google, and you don't get lobster or ballroom dancing every night at one of those.

My husband's grandmother only gained 5 pounds with her last baby, which is exactly what he weighed when he came into the world. I was like... damn, lady, why can't we all be so lucky?

Pretty much every baby before about 1975 was born to a woman who drank and smoked. You have to really drink a lot to affect the health of the child in any significant way. Not sure exactly what smoking does except low birth weight, but everyone used to smoke. It's not ideal, of course.

I feel like I'm one of the few people unimpressed by these stories, as it happened to my best friend. She was 40 weeks pregnant, on birth control, had her period, 135 lbs, thought it was her gallbladder. Had a big healthy baby who is now my 4 1/2 year old godson. She got talked into being on an episode of "I Didn't…

This more or less happened to my cousin. She gave birth 6 weeks after finding out, but she definitely made it most of the way through a pregnancy with a (eventually) 9 lb baby being none-the-wiser. Her baby just didn't move very much. She said that in retrospect, she'd noticed some movement that she attributed to gas.…

i was almost six months pregnant before I found out. I'm 5'7 120lbs soaking wet and had regular periods and no signs at all. It was a shock to say the least.

I know one person that this has happened to and there were a few things involved.

Well, all babies pre-1960's or 1970's were born with their mothers swilling beer and smoking. That alcohol/tobacco thing is pretty recent.

There's being a Christian, and there's being an Asshole. Her parents sound like Assholes.

They will. But they'll never admit it. They'll blame it on "society today" or something, say god works in mysterious ways, or that their child was mentally ill. Not mentally ill with depression, but mentally ill with sexual deviance.

This whole situation is heartbreaking, but is made even more so by Leelah's mother's inability to accept her gender in death, and worse still by the fact that she makes it seem as if this tragedy was accidental. NO LADY, you killed your daughter. If you had accepted her for who she was, she would still be here.

Putting this out here:

Oh man, do I LOVE when Jez tackles ladies in history. Thank you for this Kelly!!!

Not that long ago, I watched "Foxes" and it was pretty shocking.

As a 70s teenager from the midwest, I concur and add What Parents? They were too busy self-actualizing or getting in touch with their feelings or grokking or quoting Fritz Perls ("I am not in this world to live up to your expectations etc.") or doing stuff with macrame or street theatre or taking Valium or struggling…

Agreed—we used to get into bars at 14. The boys our age normally couldn't, because for the most part, they still looked like kids. Nothing like a little makeup and tight jeans to get you in the door back then. It was fun, but definitely fucked up.

Meh. I expected worse

Time however has been nice to Winona Ryder. (Pay no attention to the AARP background).

I think many people out there don't understand are aren't aware of asexuality. This predisposition means that one has no desire for sex, and it is not defined by abuse, depression, etc. An asexual person simply has no desire, and does not feel like experiencing it would enhance their life in any way. Unfortunately,…

As a native southerner, I consider anything below 20 "double pants weather." I literally cannot fathom the cold you all are experiencing. Best of luck to you all, especially those who are unfortunate and may lack the necessities to make it through comfortably.