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Onya Jennifer Lawrence: Why this actress is winning some serious fans.
By JAMILA RIZVI Jennifer Lawrence, star of the Silver Linings Playbook, tripped up the stairs as she went to collect her Best Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards: As a total Oscars tragic, my immediate reaction was one of pity for the poor girl, who had just had the biggest night of her life buggered up [read more]
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Open Post: What’s happening in your world?
By MELISSA WELLHAM What a week it’s been in the Mamamia office. There were the Oscars. We’ve had our new group of Semester 1, 2013 interns starting work. And there was an excessive amount of cake consumed in honour of Nat’s birthday. For those of you who have only just started [read more]
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Mia Freedman addresses the Sydney Institute.
by MIA FREEDMAN On Wednesday 27th of February Publisher Mia Freedman addressed the Sydney Institute on the topic of the Changing Face of Female Communication. This is what she had to say. PART 1: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AND ONLINE COMMUNICATION It’s become the en vouge thing to trash the Internet [read more]
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The most ridiculous job titles of all time.
by KAHLA PRESTON When I was little, I dreamed of becoming an animator for Disney. It seemed perfectly achievable at the time. Sadly, the cruel world came along and thwarted my ambition with all its talk of “realistic occupations”. Our conversation went a little like this: World: ‘What are your actual chances of working at [read more]
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BLOG: Medical myth: Sex does not induce labour.
By REBECCA SPARROW Tired, cranky, uncomfortable pregnant women who are past their due date will pretty much do anything to bring on labour. I should know. I was one of them. At 41.5 weeks pregnant in October 2008, my daughter Ava wasn’t about to budge. No twinges. No Braxton Hicks. Nada. She [read more]
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KATE: Choosing only ‘quality’ friends for your kid.
By KATE HUNTER Meet the woman who makes the Tiger Mother look like a pussycat. Katie Hopkins, star of ‘The Apprentice’ in the U.K. has told the world she engineers her kids’ lives to avoid ‘undesirable’ children. For example, if Katie’s daughter daughter receives a party invitation from a girl called [read more]
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Thursday’s news in 2 minutes.
1. An Afghani woman who had her face brutally mutilated by her husband in 2010 has revealed her new face following extensive reconstructive surgery. Aesha Mohammadzai was just 18 years old when her husband cut off her nose and ears because she had tried to escape their marriage. 2. Japan’s new fisheries minister [read more]
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Free Hair Products? Don’t mind if I do.
By JO ABI Hi, it’s me again. I’m Jo Abi, Mama Mia blogger and massive over-sharer (or so my family and friends tell me after my most recent post!). Anyway, here I am in my new role as Occasional Official Product/Service Tester. Or it might just be a one off. Today [read more]
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BLOG: Heaven. The 5 big questions, starting with ‘what do you DO there?’
by KATE HUNTER When I was at school, we were taught that after we die, we go to heaven. Heaven was presented as a cloudy (but not rainy) place where everyone wore white and got to look upon the face of God. Back then, no correspondence was entered into, either in the classroom or [read more]
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BLOG: “My failed attempts at copying MKR”.
By JO ABI I am a food show fan. I love them all. I love My Kitchen Rules, all of the Masterchef series except the one where kids cried and cooked better than I do and Top Chef. I even love Cupcake Wars and Cake Boss. And need I add My Reservations [read more]
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BLOG: “Yesterday I went with the bitch for a piknik” + other things my kid wrote in her journal.
By BERN MORLEY They’re great aren’t they? Those special, one off art pieces your child brings home from school, seemingly on a daily basis. Or how about those words they lovingly write in their journals, describing their weekend activities. The ones that often paint a completely different picture to their own reality. I have [read more]
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Australian Swimmers: was this the weirdest press conference ever?
By DAVE THORNTON Let’s be honest, Australia: our national sporting colours are Green and Gold. Green and Silver just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? Still, that’s what we were at the last Olympics. Silver for our second places and Green for the envy we felt towards the countries [read more]
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JAMILA: “I’m good at work but bad at life”
By JAMILA RIZVI Okay, so I’m going to admit from the outset that this post may get me arrested. Or at the very least, draw the attention of the NSW police to a number of things that I’d prefer they didn’t know. So for the purposes of any law enforcement agencies reading [read more]
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Best and Worst: How’s your week been?
By MARY WARD Welcome to another week of Best and Worst. Best and Worst (or B’n’Dubz if you want to help me popularise it’s gangster nickname) is a little spot on the site where you can tell us the best and worst things that have happened in your week. I’ll start us [read more]
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Friday’s news in just 2 minutes
1. A first-time mum has been forced to give birth unassisted at a Sydney hospital. Christie Jones told Channel 9 News: “I was left alone just to be in pain and deliver my baby myself.” Ms Jones said she called out to hospital staff bot none responded. The Blacktown hospital is now investigating the incident. [read more]
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Step away from the razor. Pubic hair grooming injuries on the rise.
When you think about it, putting a razor anywhere in the vicinity of your most sensitive parts is… well, a little bit bonkers. Risk-wise, it’s up there with walking on the ledge of a 50-storey building: one little slip and it’s all over. Okay, so a grooming injury probably won’t leave you [read more]
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The 9 weirdest things people search for online
Google is fantastic. We know this. You know this. This site would probably be nowhere without the opportunity to Google terms like “fisting hotel” and “The Great Wall of Vagina”. But the absolute BEST thing about Google? Seeing what other people have Googled. You see, when enough people search a term, Google [read more]
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MIA: Lena Dunham is not ‘too ugly’ to sleep with this guy.
By MIA FREEDMAN Girls creator, writer, director and star, Lena Dunham continues to spark important and controversial conversations with her show. This week, in a brilliantly crafted episode, Lena’s character Hannah had a spontaneous 48-hour fling with an older man who was rich and very very hot. Did you pick [read more]
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If you watch one viral video today make it this one. Extraordinary.
It happened off the coast of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. A pod of around 30 dolphins were frolicking in the waves when they suddenly beached themselves in the shallows. What happened next seriously shows how awesome people can be. (If you’re impatient, skip to the 30 second mark) Click through this gallery for more [read more]
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Open post: comment about ANYTHING
By MIA FREEDMAN You guys. You asked for Open Post to return – a chance to talk about ANYTHING in the comments - and so here we are. I forget why we stopped publishing it each Wednesday. We thought you were sick of it. That you’d moved on. Found other posts to love. [read more]
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Wednesday’s news in just 2 minutes.
1. A review into the Australian swimming team’s performance at the London 2012 Olympics has detailed a “toxic” environment. The Bluestone review outlined a culture of prescription drug taking and bullying that supposedly contributed to the team’s disappointing result of just 10 medals. 2. During a bail hearing in South Africa, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius [read more]
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This is the way some Australian uni students are paying their fees.
If you’re a time-poor or just generally-poor student who is struggling with a mounting HECS debt, then there is a website that can help you! Soon you could be cashed-up and loved-up: all you need to do is register as a ‘sugar baby’ and hope you’ll find ‘sugar daddy’ who is willing to [read more]
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KATE: The hardest part about working from home.
By KATE HUNTER Since leaving the full-time workforce 9 years ago, there has been no need for me to go to an office. I have a great home study at home that looks out onto a leafy courtyard. Our street is peaceful, and my three kids are at school, so [read more]
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‘OK, I admit it. I am a hipster.’
OK, I admit it. I own a vintage style bicycle with a wicker basket and no gears. I trawl op shops on the weekend looking for oversized cream knits. I own two type writers (neither of which I use). I live in Redfern. And I was listening to Bon Iver “way before you”. Yes friends, [read more]
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The best Big-Night-Gone-Bad story ever.
What did you get up to this weekend – a spot of tennis? Quick trip to the beach or park with the kids? Perhaps a wine or four? Either way, we’re willing to bet you didn’t attempt to have sex with an ambulance. But someone did. Englishman Calum Ward, 25, [read more]
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We promise you’ll watch this video twice.
See this unassuming little video? It’s about to blow your mind in a way you’ll never expect. Just you wait. How did you go?
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How to become a non-confident, dependent woman. Fast.
By WENDY LANG There comes a time in a girl’s life when she must move back home with her parents. It’s all part of growing down, moving backward and becoming a non-confident, dependent woman. But it also comes with copious amounts of food and widescreen TVs. So I recommend it to everybody. I [read more]
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KATE: Why would anyone buy THIS as a pet?
By KATE HUNTER One of the ways I get my daughters to come to the supermarket with me – you know, so I don’t drop them at the library – is to promise them 10 minutes poking around the pet shop. They look at rubber toys I won’t buy for our dog, and [read more]
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What were the best and worst bits of your week?
By NICKY CHAMP Welcome to Best and Worst; Mamamia’s long-standing tradition. If this is the first time you’ve ever stumbled across this post, it’s where we share the highs and lows of the week that was. Think of it as one big sounding board for advice, problems, a place to share your good news and [read more]
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Rob Mills: “The word that’s changing my life”.
By ROB MILLS It’s February, and by now I’m sure most of us have already tried and failed at making our New Year’s resolutions happen. I can relate. My resolution of ‘go to the gym every day’ quickly turned into, ‘well, okay, not every day but at least every [read more]