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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]
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The gutsiest interview you’ll ever watch: “I’ll wear this veil for God but not for you.”
In this clip, television host Riham Said shows that she’s got serious guts. In an interview for Sabaya el-Kheir on Al-Nahar TV – an Egyptian television channel that has come into conflict with religious clerics in the past – Said clashes with Cleric Yousuf Badri. Before the interview, the two have had a discussion about [read more]
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EXCLUSIVE: The brand new Jamie Cullum album
*this is a sponsored post from Universal Music Australia. It’s not often that we get to write the word Exclusive” in a headline – but today, we do. And that’s a little bit exciting. Today, we’ve got the brand new Jamie Cullum album, Momentum, for you. It’s not available anywhere else in Australia until Friday, [read more]
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Why do we talk about our kids ad nauseam on Facebook?
By GINGER GORMAN Facebook and I recently had an altercation. I logged on at the end of the day to idly flick through a few posts before bed. One day I’m going to have kids just so I can bore my friends to death on Facebook , a ‘friend’ of mine [read more]
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Her show is ending, she’s single and she’s lost a friend. But Em Rusicano is keeping positive.
By EM RUSCIANO In its infinite wisdom, the universe has decided to clear my table. The table was set and covered in things that included being a wife, working full time, friends and family. Now I find myself single, my radio show ending and one best friend down (that is a whole [read more]
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A must-read for any mother with a son, and every girl who should know her rights.
By FINN WIGHTMAN Dear son, I’m writing this letter after watching the parents in the Steubenville Rape Trial crying over their son as he was found guilty of rape. I’ll be completely honest with you; I can’t say that I found much pity in my heart for their pain. Instead I found myself thinking, ‘yes, you should [read more]
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Onya Kevin: Rudd says he now supports gay marriage.
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has declared that he has changed his mind about gay marriage. Reported first by CLEO magazine online, Rudd wrote on his own website last night that: “I have come to the conclusion that church and state can have different positions and practices on the question of same sex marriage. I [read more]
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BEC: Since when has THIS been an insult?
By REBECCA SPARROW I’ve spent the past 10 years as a novelist and as a newspaper columnist… which naturally means I’m quite accustomed to people insulting me and ridiculing my opinion. (The first hate letter I ever received was just two words long; the admirably succinct: “You’re shit.” Whilst the longest piece [read more]
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She thought her babies were perfect. But nothing could have prepared her for this news.
By MIA FREEDMAN When your life swerves off its expected course without warning, you can be left highly disoriented. Reeling. All perspective and sense of certainty can vanish. But when you’re a parent, there’s no time to stop and recalibrate. No time to stop the world so you can pat yourself down after [read more]
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Gay people get asked this question all the time. Now we’re asking straight people. Tell me, when did you choose to be straight?
By MAMAMIA TEAM The following video flips a commonly asked question on its head. And the result is surprisingly uplifting. Gay people have often had the question asked of them – whether by family, or friends, or media, or politicians – ‘Why did you choose to be gay?’ Or, ‘When did you choose to be [read more]
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Maybe don’t read this post if you’re alone. You’ve been warned…
By ROSIE WATERLAND This guy right here is the reason I had nightmares for months as a kid. Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the main character from Stephen King’s IT, scared me so far out of my mind I actually threw up once. Seriously – I was so scared of sleeping in my [read more]
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The Size 10 model fired for being too big.
Meet Saffi Karina. She’s been a model since her late teens, and has modeled for hundreds of brands – both in her home country of the UK and internationally. She’s 5’10″ and gorgeous: Unfortunately, not everyone thought the same. Six years ago, when Saffi was 21, she was dumped by the agency that represented her [read more]
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Clare Bowditch’s new single, One Little River. See it here first.
I’ve never cried during a music video before. But I think I just did. This is a film clip for Clare Bowditch’s new song, One Little River. It’s from her latest album The Winter I Chose Happiness and it’s an album that I cannot recommend enough. Seriously. Listen to it. Love it. Share it. If [read more]
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Do women really need a prize of their own?
By AVIVA TUFFIELD In 1928, Virginia Woolf argued that a woman ‘must have money and a room of her own’ in order to write. More than eighty years later, her proposition still holds true because money gives writers some measure of financial independence and buys them the biggest luxury of all [read more]
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Why more and more married couples are choosing to live like this.
The first example that springs to mind is Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster-Blake. The Aussie couple got married earlier this year and when they did, she took part of his name. But neither Zoe nor Hamish took each other’s addresses. It’s widely known that while Hamish still lives in Melbourne where he works on [read more]
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The Hunger Games has hit our schools. And it’s not good.
By DR ALISON WILLIS Student against student, school against school, state against state, nation against nation, it seems the education hunger games has only just begun. And we’ve got data for everything – data for numeracy, literacy, cohort performance, school performance, state performance, national performance. But we don’t mention teacher [read more]
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Best and worst of the week.
By NAT JASTRZAB You know what, my lovely fellow MM’ers? Friday is my favourite day on the site. Not because it’s just before the weekend (well, that helps too) but because it’s Best and Worst time. It’s like a weekly catch-up with girlfriends over dinner… only there’s no dinner and there [read more]
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Generic brands: Why I’m just not that interested.
By KATE HUNTER. ‘Oils Ain’t Oils.’ Apart from the appalling grammar, it’s one of the great slogans of all time. (Certainly better than ‘Valvoline, you know what I mean.’) Because oils ain’t oils. And my favourite honey isn’t home brand. And Glad Wrap isn’t cling film. I had a bad baking [read more]
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KATE: Was this teenage girl being rude or gutsy?
By KATE HUNTER On Monday night, I received an email from a girl called Sarah*. I’m guessing she’s about twelve years old: I am trying to complete an English assignment for Tuesday which is tomorrow. I am reading your awesome novel, “Mosquito Advertising.” I haven’t read all of it yet but I need to know [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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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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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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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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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]
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Bumper Fluff: Jackie O interviews Gwyneth Paltrow, the MET, a marriage and a whole lot more.
From ‘What the hell’ red carpet moments to shock weddings and even more surprising custody battles , it has been a big week in all things celebrity. And when we say big, we mean get two cups of tea / glasses of wine kinda big – because there has been [read more]