When I started this site three years ago, I was still reeling from about a decade of what I would commonly refer to as Living in Hell. I just wrote a bit about this on xoJane as an article about why it’s been a bit traumatic for me to lose the last 20 lbs, but [ Read More ]
My birthday was on June 9th and I spent the majority of it on an airplane coming back from Los Angeles where I was a guest of an incredible press trip (more on that later.) I wrote this to myself on the plane. Maybe you’ll be inspired to write a letter of your own: Dear [ Read More ]
So, this coming Saturday, June 9th, is my birthday. I’m about to turn an age that at some point seemed unfathomable in my brain and yet, now that I’m staring it in the face, it feels so incredibly young. There are certain surprises around every corner as you age. Some of them are sort of [ Read More ]
It’s the end of a holiday weekend and that means that most of us woke up this morning with a reeling to-do list in our heads. From all the emails we know will be coming the second we get to work to the multitude of issues that we expect will befall us the minute we [ Read More ]
Before I take off for Memorial Day, I wanted to drop a quick thought. When I asked most people about what they were doing this weekend, a whole slew of plans came forth: cookouts, brunches, getting together with friends, travel plans, etc. When people asked me what I was doing this weekend, for the first [ Read More ]
“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but [ Read More ]
So, a month from now, I will celebrate a rather landmark birthday. Well, let’s be honest: LAST year was the big landmark birthday – the end of a decade and the entryway into a new decade, one that makes people gasp for air when I tell them how old I am. One of the greatest [ Read More ]
Our lives are literally fraught with worry on a daily basis if we let every single thing that could be wrong, not exactly perfect or fearful creep into our lives. Well, I want to relieve some of your stress. Ready? Here are 5 things that you never have to worry about again: What size you [ Read More ]
This was the week, I said. The week I would ask this really amazing and beautiful man on a date. “Screw your courage to the sticking place,” the famous line kept repeating in my head. And so I did. I asked one of the best-looking men I’ve ever seen (we’ll call him “Steve McQueen” as [ Read More ]
This is a photo of Lizzi Miller, a plus-sized model that caused a media maelstrom (I had another “storm” reference here but it started with an expletive and I’m trying to keep it clean as of late) in 2009 when said photo was published of her in Glamour magazine. Lizzi is a size 12-14 and [ Read More ]
