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She has an 80 per cent chance of getting breast cancer. This is how she’s dealing with it.
by HANNAH DOWNEY Hearing the news about Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy has inspired me to share something close to my heart, that until now has been a struggle to share. A family tree shows that almost every woman in my mothers line has fought breast cancer at some stage. As a [read more]
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Open post: Come and tell us what’s on your mind.
Ahoy! Welcome to the week’s open post. It’s the place where you come and tell us ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that’s happening in your world. We’re mixing things up a little bit this week and handing the reins over to Mamamia Editorial Assistant, Rosie Waterland. Rosie’s written a recap of last night’s episode of The Voice. [read more]
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Sneak peek: Rebel Wilson’s hilarious new tv show.
Sneak peek: Rebel Wilson’s hilarious new tv show. Could Rebel Wilson possibly be any more awesome? Yes, yes she can. Take a look at the new trailer to the tv show she wrote and stars in, Super Fun Night. The premise of the show is three nerdy female friends decide to have ‘super fun’ every [read more]
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A new medical test that has midwives and expectant mums fuming.
By MAMAMIA TEAM “Excuse me, ma’am, can you please get out of the vehicle and breathe into this device?” “Um, of course but hold on a moment, I’m heavily pregnant.” “Oh we know. This is a smoking breath test.” Okay, so although it’s unlikely that the police force will be involved, a [read more]
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MIA: ‘I’m surrounded by people who are breaking up. And I’m confused.’
By MIA FREEDMAN I’m surrounded by people who are breaking up. They are sad and I am confused because their relationships aren’t bad. I don’t even mean they’re kind of tolerable. Their relationships are actually great. They are deeply in love with their partners who are deeply in love with them. [read more]
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Wednesday’s news in just two minutes.
1. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has officially introduced legislation to help fund The National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Prime Minister was brought to tears as she said:”Over the past six years, the idea of a national disability insurance scheme has found a place in our nation’s heart. In March, we gave it a place in [read more]
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UPDATED: Angelina Jolie reveals she had a double mastectomy.
UPDATED: Yesterday, in an exclusive article for the New York Times, Angelina Jolie revealed that she had a double mastectomy. Since then, celebrities have come out to express their support for the 37-year-old mum of six. Guiliana Rancic – an E! News presenter who also had a double mastectomy just over [read more]
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‘Not getting paid – and loving it.’
by MIKE NICHOLSON If it’s true that the Australian economy has hit the skids and my industry (media) is dying, then why am I championing unpaid work? That’s because I’m talking about giving my time away to volunteer organisations that thrive on unpaid workers for their good causes. This week marks [read more]
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JAM: We sure hope Julia Gillard is reading this one.
By JAMILA RIZVI Tonight is a big night for Julia Gillard and her Government. It’s tempting to say that this Budget is Labor’s last chance to gain enough goodwill to have any shot of winning the September 14 election. But in all good conscience, I can’t. Despite the dramatic effect that [read more]
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Why don’t more magazines run images like THIS?
By NICKY CHAMP Okay, I confess I’ve bought countless magazines that promise advice on how to get the perfect ‘beach body,’ – a quest akin to finding the Holy Grail – but this has to be advice I’ve ever seen: How to get a bikini body: Put a bikini on your body. It’s springtime in [read more]
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What a female fan did to this rapper was sexual assault, right?
By MELISSA WELLHAM Meet hip hop artist Danny Brown. Originally born Daniel Dewan Sewell, he’s a rapper from Michigan and has been described by MTV as “one of rap’s most unique figures in recent memory.” And recently, when performing on stage in Minneapolis, a female fan pulled down Brown’s pants [read more]
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‘The hardest and most rewarding thing I’ve done this year.’
By JO ABI. I am aching from head to toe. I am aching in places I didn’t know I could ache. But I did it. I ran 8 kilometres in the Mother’s Day Classic at The Domain in Sydney on Sunday and I feel fabulous; fabulous but incredibly sore. Here I [read more]
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‘You think Wayne Swan’s budget is tough? This is what’s happening at my place.’
By KATE HUNTER Family, the purpose of this budget, is to maximise the opportunities that flow from the hard work of your father and I. So please, put down that iPod Touch and pay attention or that thing will be auctioned to fund education reforms. This budget is not intended [read more]
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Reader story: “Today my heart broke just a little bit.”
By ANONYMOUS Today my heart broke just a little bit – the tiniest little crack that I’d put aside especially for this moment. It was the day of her first period. I knew it was coming, the writing was on the wall and maybe I even felt it just a little [read more]
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Tuesday’s news in just two minutes.
1. Sara Blakely, the self-made billionaire who founded Spanx, has announced that she’ll donate 50 per cent of her fortune to charity. It’s part of the Bill Gates’ created Giving Pledge, which asks the worlds most wealthy people to donate part of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Forty-two-year-old Blakely own 100 per cent [read more]
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Is this the most frustrating thing on the Internet?
If you’re frustrated with Zuckerberg and his team playing with the layout of your life – oops, we mean Facebook profile – just think about how much worse it could be if it was your real life getting revamped privacy settings. US sketch comedy group Extremely Decent have created a viral Youtube video depicting exactly [read more]
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‘Describe your mum,’ he said. This is what happened next.
We can all see the beauty in the women we love – but sometimes we have difficulty seeing it in ourselves. You may remember a video that went viral just recently, which we bought to you exclusively on Mamamia — Dove’s Real Beauty Sketches. (And if you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting [read more]
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The one thing no woman wants to do at work.
By ROSIE WATERLAND The interwebs has churned out at least two stories this week, which offer tips on how to make pooping at work easier. And a further search (don’t ask me what I was originally googling that meant I ended up there) reveals thousands more posts on the subject. Now. I know what most [read more]
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It’s the only life lesson that really matters. And I’m still struggling with it.
By BEC SPARROW When you experience an event that brings you to your knees – it’s supposed to irrevocably change the way you live your life. Actually, even if you don’t experience a life-shattering event, just the mere act of getting older is meant to do that. By the time you turn [read more]
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This is an anonymous post. Because it has to be.
By ANONYMOUS This is an anonymous post. Why? Because I’m a woman working in the media and what I have to say is perfect fodder for an online lashing. But why the cloak and dagger of a no-name post? Well, I have a belief that women in the Australian media landscape have [read more]
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Angelina Jolie reveals she had double mastectomy.
BREAKING: Angelina Jolie reveals she had a double mastectomy. Angelina Jolie has revealed she had a double masctectomy in a piece titled, My Medical Choice written exclusively for the New York Times. The 37-year-old wrote that she has a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer which [read more]
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“Carbon Monoxide killed my kids.”
BY VANESSA ROBINSON Three years ago I lived every parent’s nightmare when I lost my two sons to carbon monoxide poisoning. I want to share some information that will hopefully prevent your family from suffering a similar tragedy. My sons Chase and Tyler were aged eight and six years at the time [read more]
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Gender roles in advertising: Flip it and reverse it. Awesome.
By MAMAMIA TEAM It is a truth universally acknowledged that representations of gender in advertising are completely and utterly ridiculous. Women are highly either sexualised objects used to sell handbags and men’s fragrances (often with super oiled up skin and bodies photoshopped to buggery), OR smiling, Uptown-girl style mums who are just so, so excited to have [read more]
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Isla Fisher nearly drowns filming an underwater stunt.
1.Isla Fisher nearly drowns filming an underwater stunt. Isla Fisher nearly drowned while filming an underwater stunt for her latest movie, Now You See Me. The 37-year-old plays an escapologist and feared for her life while trying to free herself from shackles in a tank of water. The scene required her [read more]
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Monday’s news in under 2 minutes.
1. An image of the moment Amanda Berry emerged from the house where she’d been held captive for more than 10 years has been released. The image was taken by two women who said they were driving past Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue house when they saw a commotion. Jasmine Baldrich and Ashley Colon said they [read more]
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This Mother’s Day, let’s recognise ALL mothers…
By KATE BOCCA “A mother is not defined by how many children you can see, but by the love that she holds in her heart.” - Franchesca Cox This Mother’s Day I will not wake up wondering how long I have to pretend I’m still asleep until someone remembers what day it [read more]
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‘My youngest sister was cutting herself. So I made her run.’
by MELINDA HIATT I still remember the first time mum told me my youngest sister Courtney was cutting herself. I was pretty shocked and a little puzzled about why she would be doing such a thing. I am the eldest of three girls and Courtney is 13 years younger than me. [read more]
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The ‘Mother’ is finally revealed in How I Met Your Mother.
SPOILER ALERT: If you are a fan of the show and do not want to know who the Mother is DO NOT KEEP READING. Drum roll please… This is your last chance to click away. After eight seasons and 183 episodes of How I Met Your Mother the MOTHER of all secrets has been revealed. [read more]
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SHOP: 13 not awful (or beige) bras for size DD and above.
By NICKY CHAMP Bra shopping is the worst, am I right? If you’re on the smaller side your size is always snapped up first at sale time and if your cup runneth over, your choices are fairly limited to beige, beige, black, granny, white, beige and more beige. But things are ch-ch-changing, Berlei and Triumph [read more]
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When she was a little girl, people would say she looked like her dad. But that was impossible…
By CHRISTINE ROGERS When I was a little girl and people would say that I looked like my father, I was filled with an incredible sense of happiness. Alongside this, and just as powerful for me, was the belief that I was actually a princess, and one day my ‘real’ [read more]