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Thursday’s news in just two minutes.
1. The families of US kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus have asked for privacy from the media after the two women returned home. Amanda Berry returned to her sister’s home with her 6-year-old daughter and Gina De Jesus returned to her family’s home. Michele Knight is reportedly still in hospital but [read more]
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4 relationships that you might not remember started with cheating.
By ROSIE WATERLAND Are you a member of Team Aniston or Team Jolie? I know, I know – not exactly an important (or timely) question. It’s not like I’m asking if you’re Team Abbott or Team Gillard. I only ask because what team you identify with may depend on how you [read more]
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Soap opera queen dies after nearly 40 years on screen.
1. Young and the Restless star, Jeanne Cooper dies age 84. Jeanne Cooper who played Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless for nearly 40 years has died aged 84. She died in her sleep according to son and former L.A. Law actor, Corbin Bernsen. “She has been a blaze her entire life, that [read more]
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A happy ending for Disney’s toughest Princess?
By MAMAMIA TEAM UPDATE: It looks like Disney have listened to the backlash surrounding their ‘subtle’ makeover of Brave character Merida. The new and ‘improved’ version has quietly been removed from their website. More than 114, 000 people signed the Change.org petition we linked to in this post below, urging Disney to rethink the GHD-style [read more]
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“I take selfies, I own an iPad and I’m sick of everyone bashing Gen Y.”
By MELISSA WELLHAM They’re selfish. They expect adults to do everything for them. They don’t know the meaning of hard work. They’re easily distracted by iPads and iPods and all things starting with ‘i’ that have touch screen capability. They don’t understand it when things don’t go their way, and they [read more]
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MIA: “I’m defending Tony Abbott. Let’s go.”
By MIA FREEDMAN Tony Abbott doesn’t need me to defend him. But I’m going to do it anyway. Yesterday, he made some comments about why he remains committed to his Paid Parental Leave scheme whereby new mothers would be paid their full salary for six months, a scheme funded by a levy on [read more]
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UPDATED: ‘My name is Amanda Berry. I’ve been missing for 10 years.’
The girl on the left is Amanda Berry. She was last heard from 10 years ago when – on the 21st of April, 2003 – when she called her sister from the Burger King restaurant where she worked in Cleveland, Ohio, and told her she was on her way home. At the time, [read more]
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Beautiful: A father’s letter to his little girl about who her future husband should be.
By DR KELLY FLANAGAN Dear Cutie-Pie, Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.” It startled me. I scanned several of [read more]
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Sick of clichéd diet ads? Watch this.
Are you sick of clichéd advertising? Diet food brand, Kerry Low Low is. The company have released a hilarious parody ad which takes aim at the three female stereotypes, Smug Gal, Ditzy Gal and Muffin Gal, usually portrayed in diet food advertising. You know the ones; they’re usually dancing around in white underwear, struggling to zip [read more]
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SHARE: This is what overwhelming anxiety really feels like.
Anxiety. It’s something that affects one in four Australians. And most of them don’t actually recognise it. Which isn’t particularly surprising, when you consider how often we hear about it in everyday life. (Hint: barely ever.) We already know that there is a stigma attached to many mental illnesses – and anxiety is no different. [read more]
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Wednesday’s news in less than 2 minutes.
1. Three American women, who all went missing in separate incidents around a decade ago, have been found alive in a residential home in Ohio. Two of the women were just children when they were allegedly kidnapped. Three brothers have been named as the women’s suspected captors and it is believed that several [read more]
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Jennifer Lawrence photobombs SJP, wins the Met Gala.
1. Jennifer Lawrence photobomb’s SJP, wins the Met Gala internet. Met Gala wrap-up: It’s the only red carpet event of the year where a ‘safe’ nude, tulle strapless gown will earn you a fashion police fine. By now you’ve probably heard of the Costume Institute Gala at the Met. Vogue magazine threw the punk-themed bash and [read more]
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Open Post of the week. What’s happening in your world?
By ROSIE WATERLAND Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this week’s Open Post. This is the little corner of Mamamia where we let our readers take the reins and talk about whatever it is that takes their fancy. I’m Rosie Waterland and I’ll be your host today, so without further ado, [read more]
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Why cancer research is important this Mother’s Day
By DAVID ARCHER May 2011 was the very last Mother’s Day my children ever celebrated with their mother. Two months later we said our last goodbye. Now two years have passed and time has perhaps softened our pain… but only a little bit. This is Danielle’s story. This is my family’s [read more]
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Stop it. Weddings are officially out of control.
By GRACE JENNINGS-EDQUIST If you weren’t already convinced that marriage proposals had become a competitive sport, then wrap your brain around this: a guy in New York recently spent $45,000 on a marriage proposal. (I bolded that in case you thought I was talking about the cost of the wedding. Nope. [read more]
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The most out-there red carpet looks you’ve ever seen.
The long (and rather boring sounding) name is the Costume Institute Gala. But it’s affectionately known as the Met Ball because it is always held at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York. We prefer to call it ‘every celebrity you’ve ever heard of on one red carpet’. And it’s like the United Nations [read more]
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Menopause at 42. Holy hell.
BY JENNIFER MCKENZIE At 42, menopause was not even a friend of a friend on Facebook. Hell, six months ago, my partner was considering a vasectomy reversal so we could try for a baby. Now, I am guzzling hormones like they’re M&Ms and extending my baby-fix horizon out to grandparenthood. My first [read more]
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KATE: The sneaky way some schools are using NAPLAN.
By KATE HUNTER Next week two of my three kids will sit the NAPLAN tests, and I couldn’t care less. Seriously, if the testing was done and I wasn’t informed of my kids’ individual results I wouldn’t be bothered at all. But I seem to be alone in my ambivalence. There [read more]
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The advertisement with a secret anti-abuse message that only kids can see.
1. A Spanish organisation that aims to combat child abuse has designed an ad that displays different messages for adults and children. When an adult looks at the ad by the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation they see a picture of a healthy looking child and the message: “Sometimes, child abuse is only [read more]
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The book that will keep you up all night.
By SARAH-JANE COLLINS I don’t remember when it started, but for as long as I can remember I’ve harboured an irrational fear of lakes and rivers. Not water, not the ocean, but the cold, still, murky depths of lakes and rivers. I’m fine in the shallows, but once I can’t feel or [read more]
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The pregnant husband blog that’s going viral right now.
Oh, internet. Thank you for giving us so many reasons to laugh. Jeffrey Bausch – known online as ‘The Pregnant Husband’ – started a tumblr when his wife was three months pregnant, chronicling the ins-and-outs of pregnancy. But because this is the internet, there’s no need to just write about pregnancy. Mere words on a [read more]
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Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme. Why aren’t feminists getting on board?
By EVA COX, University of Technology, Sydney There is an odd consensus emerging between conservative Liberals opposed to their own leader’s paid parental leave scheme and defenders of the Gillard government’s version of the same policy. Into the strange mix, we can throw the business sector, which also opposes the contentious Abbott scheme. [read more]
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The woman who wished she was mediocre. Like her friends.
By MAMAMIA TEAM “I was a straight-A student from primary school to university, where I studied journalism. I got my first job as soon as I graduated, working at a national newspaper, and was repeatedly promoted until I was the editor of a leading fashion magazine by the time I turned 28.” [read more]
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FINALLY: UK Vogue to expose magazine fakery. Hurrah.
1. UK Vogue to expose magazine fakery, hurrah! Vogue is making a behind-the-scenes documentary that will expose “the difference between fashion and reality and how a fashion image is constructed.” British Vogue editor and Equity Model Code champion, Alexandra Shulman, 55, has revealed she is making a film for schools which [read more]
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BLOG: ‘What would you have done if you’d seen this?’
By MIA FREEDMAN You’re at the beach. You see an elderly man with a little girl. He’s sitting on the beach watching intently. She’s frolicking in the water in her knickers. What do you do? Well, someone answered that question by calling the police. When you know that the old man was [read more]
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This Mother’s Day, send hope, not twin sets.
By JULIE ULBRICHT I never look at junk mail, because it’s called that for a reason. However, for the first time in a very long time, I recently flicked through the Mother’s Day edition of a certain department store and smiled/sighed as I saw pastel twin sets as an idea. I mean, [read more]
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BEC: ‘Why do married people behave so badly around single women?’
By REBECCA SPARROW I’ll cut to the chase. Last week I behaved like an arsehat. I was out at a book store event with my splendid, 40-something friend Zoe when I took it upon myself to insult her. More on that in a sec. Let me tell you about Zoe. Zoe is [read more]
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5 emotions that didn’t exist before the Internet.
By ROSIE WATERLAND Like we don’t have enough first world problems to deal with already, social media has decided to go and force itself onto the list, in the form of brand spanking new emotions that we would never have had before 1995. Oh, to be back in that simpler time [read more]
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One of the most raw, most honest stories we’ve ever published on Mamamia.
By SHELLY MURDOCH I lay here as Dan impatiently paces back and forth in front of the bedroom window, stopping only to peer anxiously through the blinds, out of the window and down our dark street. I lay here waiting, for what seems like much longer than 15 fearful minutes. I [read more]