Now you and your significant other have one more thing to bond over whilst roasting chestnuts over your faux fire and wearing matching Burberry slippers this season: new research has found that seeing pictures of beautiful models actually make the men folk feel badly about themselves, just like it does to us women! Porn purveyors …
Check out my guest post on Gym Rage over at Cranky Fitness today!
Gym Buddies Andrea (who will never ever get hit by a car while running at night), Sarah, Allison, Sunshine, Me, and Serena People sometimes ask me, “How on earth do you find motivation to workout every day? Don’t you get bored?” The next time someone says this to me I’m going to whip these pics …
Girl 1: Ugh, do these stripes make my thighs look big? Quick, do the 3/4 Paris Hilton pose! Girl 2: Whatevs, you can totally see my ribs. That’s why I get to wear this teeeeeeny little bra. I just hope my girls don’t get showy.Girl 1: What I love is how it says “sportswear” and …
This will not surprise you: I spend a considerable amount of my life trying to convince people to try new things. It ranges from small things like trying to get a stranger at the grocery store to try the free yogurt sample with me to big things like voting in a primary election (you! Vote!!) …
By most accounts, our economy is in the crapper, and yet the day after President Bush revealed his “bailout” plan, Google Search trends reported that “cupcakes” was a more popular search term than “financial crisis,” “bailout,” or even “economy in the crapper.” In case you are curious, “puppies” topped the list. The Boston Globe thinks …
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My friends paid a boy to kiss me. I was sweet sixteen and never been kissed – a fact that I remain unapologetic about to this day – but my friends decided that the best birthday present they could give me would be a soft-lipped hottie to revoke my VL membership. It didn’t quite turn …
You are the current U.S. Open Champion and her equally-as-talented sister. People the world over adore you. You’ve made unprecedented strides in both of your athletic careers and at the same time managed to keep your personal lives on an even keel. Kudos all around. So what do you do? If you are Venus & …
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Dear Men, I owe you an apology. All these years I had thought that women had the lock on self-hate in print form a la Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Even “health and fitness” magazines often aren’t much better in terms of building self worth and establishing realistic standards. But I had no idea until this weekend …
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Hobbits are real! Or a Brit. Or a Minnesotan. Or, if you’re really cool: a Masai. In addition to their ability to jump like they’re on a pogo stick, minus the stick, the Masai are famous for their ability to walk and run long distances with significantly less overuse injuries than the rest of us. …
