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Winter ice cream. Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.
By PHOODIE I’ve always preferred eating ice cream when the weather is cold. Don’t get me wrong, winter, spring, summer or fall, all it’s gotta do is call and I’ll eat it, yeah, yeah, yeah, ice cream’s my friend. But my preference is to devour it when it’s chilly outside. Vanilla, strawberry, [read more]
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H&M use plus-size model for swimwear campaign. No biggie.
By NICKY CHAMP Meet Jennie Runk the model fronting H&M’s new beachwear campaign. Runk features on the front page of the fashion chain’s website in advertising presented simply as “This season’s new swimwear” – it just happens to be plus-size swimwear and she just happens to be a plus-size model. If you regularly surf fashion [read more]
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The three kinds of mascara. And the only one you actually need.
By NICKY CHAMP This week I chatted to Mamamia Facebook fans about their beauty and style dilemmas and oh, what fun we had. One question that came up was about the best tubular and waterproof mascaras so I thought the wider MM audience could benefit from a mascara refresher. 1. Mascara [read more]
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“I’m a gay man. I want kids. And I want to use a surrogate.”
By SAMUEL LEIGHTON-DORE I’ve wanted to be a parent since I was five years old. I remember stuffing cushions under my t-shirt and announcing to the entire household that I was expecting, before, minutes later, sitting on the toilet and screaming to my parents that I was in a long and [read more]
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The things that the world Googles most regularly will break you heart.
We all have hang ups. The tough questions we wouldn’t dream of asking our friends. The things we are too scared to admit to anyone. For some of us life isn’t all that easy and we don’t always have someone to go to for help. Confessing these things to anyone is unthinkable, but luckily [read more]
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Sunday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to urge internet, radio and TV broadcasters to agree to a ban on the promotion of betting odds during live sports matches. If broadcasters do not agree, it is likely that the legislation will be pushed into parliament, before the federal election in September. [read more]
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Bumper Fluff: Brad is giving up sex + the Kardashians have morphed into Barbie.
It’s cold outside, and most probably raining – so why don’t you grab a blanket and settle down on the couch to see what outrageous things celebrities have been up to this week. 1. Commando’s ex-partner: ‘Michelle Bridges stole my husband’. The former partner of The Biggest Loser trainer Steve Willis aka ‘Commando’, has revealed [read more]
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NICKY: How to get the leather look for less.
By NICKY CHAMP Five years ago you would never have thought we’d be associating ‘leather’ with ‘wardrobe staple’. And had I have told our Publisher, Mia Freedman you’ll wear leather hot pants on the cover of a national magazine, I dare say she would’ve scoffed at the very suggestion. But here we are. So let’s [read more]
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“I went back to work 6 days after my baby was born.”
By SARAH MEGGINSON When I saw Claire Danes “back at work” (if you can call it that) just a few weeks after giving birth to her little boy, I was judging her a little. Admittedly, she wasn’t working in any sense that us mere mortals could relate to – she was trotting [read more]
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Our teens have discovered a new type of blackmail: ‘Sextortion’.
By ANONYMOUS My teenage daughter has recently fallen victim to a Cyber danger known as Sextortion. Sextortion - No, I’d never heard of it either, nor had the local police. But thanks to Susan McLean - CyberCop – we soon had a wealth of information and case studies to back up our concerns. The first [read more]
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Fitness trends: The good, the bad and the CRAY CRAY.
By NATALIA JASTRZAB You know what I love about living in Sydney? It’s so fitness-y and health-focused. On weekends, the beaches and parks are always packed with people enjoying the great outdoors – volley-balling, kayaking, walking their dogs. It’s got a buzz about it that is unparalleled in any other city. You [read more]
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Saturday’s news in 2 minutes.
1. Forbes have released their annual list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, featuring 100 women who have a considerable impact on the world – including politicians, billionaires CEOs and celebrities alike. The “No. 1 Power Woman” is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Chancellor Merkel has topped the list no less than seven times in the [read more]
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BEC: “Michelle Bridges, I have something to say to you …”
By REBECCA SPARROW If there’s one thing I could say to The Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges today it’s this: Girl, stay off the internet. And for the love of all things low-fat, low-carb and low-taste — do not Google yourself. Because this morning MB (as I’ll call her) admitted on Kyle and Jackie O’s [read more]
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The one thing every dinner party needs.
By JO ABI I love having friends over for dinner and we have just moved into THE PERFECT house for entertaining. When it comes to dinner parties one of the hardest parts is deciding what food to serve and thanks to Australia’s obsession with cooking shows the bar [read more]
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This is what it’s like to have a medical abortion.
by ANONYMOUS Two years ago, I had an abortion. And I’ve struggled with the internal dilemma and ‘what if’ scenarios ever since. One of my best friends recently confided in me that she’d suffered a miscarriage two weeks prior. Among the tears and heartbreak, she expressed her anger towards women who have abortions [read more]
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What’s wrong with this picture?
By MAMAMIA TEAM When you’re the Prime Minister of Australia, everyone wants a piece of you, a piece of your time. Every day, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) fields dozens of requests from journalists and media organisations, who want to interview the Prime Minister. Add in all the requests from cabinet [read more]
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This is a life skill, kids. Mastering it is not negotiable.
By KATE HUNTER For someone like me – a child of the seventies whose scarred knees tell the story of poorly judged corners, the idea of an Australian kid not being able to ride a bike was inconceivable. Riding a two-wheeler was considered a skill as essential as walking. Today, it seems riding a bike [read more]
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Why 30 is NOT the new 20.
By JAMILA RIZVI Two years ago, I got on a plane and flew to the other side of the world in search of the crazy 20s I was convinced I’d been missing out on. After years of focusing (read: obsessing) over some fairly lofty career goals, working my butt off balancing full [read more]
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The Awesome Parenting Hall of Fame.
By ROSIE WATERLAND Some parents are just awesome. And I don’t mean in the perfect, 50′s commercial ‘pancakes for breakfast every day’ kind of way. I mean in the kind of way other adults can appreciate. Remember when you were a kid and your mum or dad dished out a punishment that [read more]
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Best and worst: Come and tell us what’s happening in your world.
By LUCY ORMONDE You know what’s tricky? Imposing a media black out when you work on the internet. I had to record the first episode of Offspring on Wednesday and now I’m desperately trying not to find out what happened. It’s proving to be very difficult though – it seems to the [read more]
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Friday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The victim of the horrific murder in the streets of London has been named as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby. On Tuesday, Drummer Rigby was run down by a car and then hacked to death by two men with butcher’s knives. The men were shouting ‘Allah Akbar’, which means ‘God is [read more]
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Hazel Hawke passes away aged 83.
The former first lady of Australian politics, Hazel Hawke has died at age 83. She was disagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2001 and has been in a high level care facility since 2009, when her family reluctantly decided they could no longer care for her at home. Hazel was formerly the [read more]
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Michelle Bridges gives details about her new relationship with the Commando.
1. The Biggest Loser’s Michelle Bridges has revealed in an exclusive interview with Who magazine (on stands today) that she is in fact in a relationship with fellow Loser trainer ‘Commando’ (Steve Willis). Talking about her Who tell-all with Kyle and Jackie O this morning, Michelle said “We have always been [read more]
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This is not harmless childhood fun. This is sick.
By MARY WARD UPDATE, 3PM: As of this afternoon, Fairfax news are reporting that RGDance have ceased trading, effective immediately. Grant Davies will remain in custody until he faces court in July. “Yeah! Work it Milly*!” A Ke$ha song begins to play. A girl struts across the stage, hands on her [read more]
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Group Therapy: ‘I’ve been married 2 months. And feel no passion for my husband.’
By ANONYMOUS My husband and I hit it off from the first moment we met (at work). We were finishing each others sentences in a weird mind-reading way after knowing each other only one day. He was married but separated when we met and while that hasn’t caused a single problem [read more]
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Enough is enough. Will you sign our letter to the PM?
Dear Prime Minister Gillard, We’re writing to you because we want to see change when it comes to gambling and sport. We’re writing to you about live odds, about televised betting advertisements, and about punter’s updates. We’re writing to you because we don’t understand how gambling is allowed in TV programs that are rated PG [read more]
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Victoria’s Secret? You rarely impress us but this has got to take the cake. Ugh.
By NICKY CHAMP Argpphhfff. That’s the sound I made when I learned lingerie giant, Victoria’s Secret had rejected a Change.org appeal to manufacture a special line of bras for women who have undergone mastectomies. You may remember the petition went viral last month garnering 120,000 signatures in less than two weeks. [read more]
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MIA: Leather hotpants and cystitis. Behind the scenes of this shoot.
By MIA FREEDMAN “Hello Mia, nice to see you. If you’d like to step this way, you’ll see your comfort zone over there on that couch covered in rainbows. Yes, I know it’s far away isn’t it? Squint and stand on one leg and tip your head sideways and you might be able to make [read more]
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If you only watch one viral video today, you should really make it this one.
What you are about to watch, is a triumph for digital cinema. It is why Youtube was invented. Heck, it is why the internet was invented. But, you can never appreciate fine art at face value. So, to help you understand the intricacies of this complex cinematic construction, here is a brief synopsis: The piece [read more]