UGH! My mother-in-law as done this thing, too—several times. It's so hard because she's a really sweet woman, and she's not stupid, but she seems to have a big blind spot where fad diets are concerned. I was seriously concerned for her health when she told me what this HCG thing was. 500 calories a day is…

Lupita and her brother!!! That just reminded me of when I went to the wedding of one of my husband's childhood friends. He was marrying a woman from Ethiopia, and she and every single one of her family members who came were just the most stunning human beings I'd ever seen. Her siblings, parents, aunts,…

I love Cory Booker so much for being an unabashedly licensed joyologist, but it's also refreshing to see him being a lil' sassy there!

Yep, happens a lot. I'm not a big drinker, but I was swept off to Palm Springs for a 40th birthday girls' weekend in the first few weeks of my pregnancy—before I knew I was packing a fetus. I drank way more than normal that weekend. A week or two later, after I'd peed on a stick and was at my doctor's office, I was…

Bingo. This perfectly sums up how I feel about it—and my own pregnancy experience.

This makes perfect sense to me. In countries where there isn't such intense fear-mongering over women ingesting SMALL amounts of alcohol (across Europe, for example, where many doctors tell their pregnant patients that a glass of wine or less per day is no bigs) while pregnant, their children seem none the worse for…

Proactiv actually works pretty well for me. I still get occasional breakouts right around the lovely PMS time, but other than that, Proactiv has done a great job of keeping my skin clear. I like it because it doesn't make my skin feel horribly dried out the way other products have.

yes yes yes! i downloaded the Aloe Blacc version over the holidays. although i can't stand the Avicii version, i couldn't get the singer's voice and that amazing tune out of my head. take out the same old same old dance electronica overlay and the song is stellar. Aloe Blacc FTW!

I am just sad that I stupidly got married years ago, before I was aware that Stevie Nicks was a potential officiant.

Not that I'm going to add anything particularly enlightening to the discussion, but plantations-as-resorts in the first place? What in the actual fuck? Is there an actual market for people wanting to vacation by lounging beside the pool and sipping pina coladas in a place where, a mere couple of hundred years ago,…

I'm trying to wade through all the pro-Bey/anti-Bey rhetoric to see if anyone is commenting on the REAL news in this Dirt Bag, e.g., Luke Grimes, my imaginary boyfriend, leaving True Blood. Luke, where are you goiiiiiiing? Seriously, he's pretty hot. (He's also hotly pretty. Almost too pretty for a boy. My word,…

Well, but you kind of have to admit she has a point. Men can pee in an arc, but all we can do with our bodies is grow, give birth to, and feed new human beings. I mean, compared to peeing standing up, that's so lame.

Safe to say that Lawrence has pretty much zero choice about what gets done to her photographic image once she steps away from the photo shoot.

thanks for the kind thoughts! we hope that, too.

I can't even with the Charlie Sheen. It makes me sick to my stomach that that walking, talking hemorrhoid continues to talk like that about his exes in public.

I hear you and I have a ton of empathy for dads who get screwed over in divorce situations. My husband had a horrific situation with his ex. She abruptly rescinded all visitation and contact with the child he had helped raise from infancy, but to whom he never had legal custodial rights. He was the only dad the…

So far I'm giving this SNL a solid A

Well then, let me add to your enjoyment. He *also* recently bought a blood sugar meter test thingy. (He's not diabetic.)

This made me laugh because this is the typical scenario with me and the husb. For the past few days I've been struggling with some seriously annoying head cold/sinus-y thing, and then of course he started to complain of all the same symptoms. But it turns out his sitch is legit. I can hear the congestion in his…

I don't know all the details. I was curious when I read this reply, though, and looked it up. It sounds like Threapleton made comments following the divorce alluding to the difficulties of being married to a "movie star". The speculation was their marriage fell apart because he was largely unemployed during the…