সোমবার, ১৪ নভেম্বর, ২০১৬

Demi Lovato and Luke Rockhold are official - well, Instagram official!

Demi Lovato is rumored to have been spending a lot of time with UFC fighter Luke Rockhold in recent weeks, and this weekend they certainly made the most of their time together.


More: Demi Lovato's hanging out with yet another guy who isn't Wilmer Valderrama


On Saturday, Nov. 12, Lovato and Rockhold were spotted holding hands outside Madison Square Garden, and then just a day later on Nov. 13, they decided to make their relationship official. And by official, we just mean they took to Instagram to share photos of each other.


On Sunday night, Lovato shared a photo of herself and Rockhold taken during the UFC 205. The black and white snap shows her and her rumored new boyfriend looking pretty cozy as she places her hand on his leg. However, Lovato was careful not to give too much away with the caption, simply writing, "About last night…"



Demi Lovato Instagram

Demi Lovato Instagram




Rockhold shared the same photo on his own Instagram account, choosing not to caption it.


Lovato's fans have reacted to the relationship, and it seems they have a lot to say about it. Among the reactions includes one from _wtfcamzi, who wrote, "So happy for u my bae."


Graciela26 commented on how good the pair look together, writing, "They look so hot together," while xhappydreamerx wrote, "So happy for you two." However, not everyone is happy about the match, and many fans have taken to the comment section of Lovato's post to express how much they miss "Dilmer" - the celebrity nickname for Wilmer Valderrama and Demi Lovato. But, if you were still holding out for a reunion of the former couple, we think now would probably be a good time to stop!


While just last week there were reports claiming that Lovato was "not looking for something that serious" -having recently split from longtime love, Valderrama - judging by her eventful weekend with Rockhold, it certainly appears the pair like each other.


More: Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama are never, ever getting back together


What do you think of Demi Lovato and Luke Rockhold as a match? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.


Before you go, check out our slideshow below.


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বুধবার, ৯ নভেম্বর, ২০১৬

Why everyone is talking about getting an IUD right now

No one really knows what, exactly, last night's news means for women's health and reproductive rights yet, but we have some hints. We know Donald Trump is pro-life and wants to defund Planned Parenthood. We know he's pledged to ask Congress to end the Affordable Care Act on his first day as president-seriously, here's a quote from his website: “On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare.” Couldn't be clearer than that.


The ACA is vital for thousands of reasons, one of which is that yearly visits to the gynecologist and birth control are covered without a copay. Also, it did away with annual or lifetime dollar amounts on healthcare benefits, which is vital for those who have chronic health conditions, and also ended the insane guideline that allowed insurers to deny healthcare to those with preexisting conditions. And the list goes on.


More: Benefits of an IUD


If he's successful in nixing the ACA-and he likely will be-it may no longer be free (with insurance) to access many aspects of women's healthcare, and it might become exceedingly difficult to get an abortion. And that's why Twitter is blowing up today about the importance of going out and getting yourself a lasting birth control option ASAP-namely, an IUD.



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Trump has gone on the record to say he's pro-life. “I'm totally against abortion, having to do with Planned Parenthood,” he said during a CNN-Telemundo Republican debate on February 25. Though he acknowledged that Planned Parenthood is important-“Millions and millions of women-cervical cancer, breast cancer-are helped by Planned Parenthood,” he said-in the next breath, he denounced it. “I wouldn't fund it. I would defund it because of the abortion factor, which they say is three percent. I don't know what percentage it is. They say it's three percent. But I would defund it, because I'm pro-life. But millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood.” 


Yep. Those are the illustrious words of the president-elect. So-if you were thinking of securing some lasting birth control, now's the time to consider an IUD.


More: Everything you ever wanted to know about the IUD

বৃহস্পতিবার, ৩ নভেম্বর, ২০১৬

Tim Gunn was right to save Cornelius Ortiz on Project Runway

Cornelius Ortiz is arguably the least-liked guy on the current season of Project Runway, and for good reason: He's abrasive, he's overly confident and he has a tendency to trash talk his fellow contestants. It's hard to cheer for somebody who throws that much shade, which is perhaps why, when both Mah-Jing Wong and Ortiz were mistreated by their respective teams during tonight's episode, viewers really only spoke out in Wong's favor.


More: There's more to Project Runway's Cornelius Ortiz than his bad attitude


Believe it or not, we're here to defend Ortiz. He was on top of this week's team challenge, which involved creating a collection for a pop-up street display, all while abiding by a specific color scheme. Ortiz was grouped with Dexter Simmons and Erin Robertson, and once again, it was obvious that he was the odd one out. His vision did not match the vision of his fellow contestants, who were way too into the head-to-toe red look.


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Ortiz voiced his concerns, but his opinion was disregarded. Not only did his fellow teammates fail to give his viewpoint the consideration it deserved, they were willing to sit back and let him do the bulk of the work while they goofed off together.


More: Brik Allen did not deserve his early Project Runway elimination


Despite all of Ortiz's hard work, the red group performed poorly both among pedestrians viewing the pop-up booth and with the judges. The judges didn't think the red group's looks were terrible; they just didn't live up to the other groups. The teammates were then given the opportunity to share who they thought should go home, and of course, both Simmons and Robertson threw Ortiz under the bus. Not cool - Ortiz's instincts were on point and he was clearly not responsible for the team's loss.


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Thank God for Tim Gunn, who came through with the save. Gunn can see past Ortiz's abrasiveness to the natural fashion instinct that he has consistently demonstrated. He delivered the good news backstage and put a stop to what could have been this season's most dramatic stand-off.


More: Project Runway's swimsuits are not the way to inspire body confidence


It's crazy how quickly contestant perception can shift on this show. Robertson was the darling just a few weeks ago, and Ortiz was the villain. Now, we're cautiously rooting for Ortiz, if only because he was so clearly wronged by his teammates and by the judges.


Do you think Cornelius Ortiz should have been on the chopping block? Did Tim Gunn use his save wisely? Comment and share your opinion below.


Before you go, check out our slideshow below.


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সোমবার, ৩১ অক্টোবর, ২০১৬

Kelly Ripa couldn't decide on one Halloween costume so she wore them all

Kelly Ripa clearly faced the similar difficult question as the rest of us: With so many great, topical Halloween costume options, how do you choose just one?


More: Jerry O'Connell loves Kelly Ripa so much


So she didn't.


On Monday's Halloween episode of Live!, Ripa pulled out all the stops and wore pretty much every costume. First, she came out dressed as Beyoncé in Lemonade, clearly a popular choice for this year.


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While Ripa rocked her Bey look, guest co-host Jeffrey O'Connell was dressed as Negan from The Walking Dead, before Ripa herself donned that costume - and a barbed wire bat, of course, to swing it at one of her co-hosting prospects: Neil Patrick Harris, Jimmi Simpson or O'Connell.


In a nod to the epic cliffhanger on TWD, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan, made a brief appearance to help Ripa choose, though the camera cut away without revealing his choice. Guess we'll find out next season.


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Next up was Hamilton, and Ripa's chance to joke about her indecision when it comes to picking out a Halloween costume.


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"My game is Kelly Ripa's Halloween and there's a million wigs I haven't worn," she sang, dressed as the founding father from the famous musical. "But just you wait! Just you wait!"


More: Christian Slater as Kelly Ripa's Live! co-host? OK, we can see that...


Other costumes Ripa tried on during the show included Mr. Robot's Elliot and Harley Quinn.



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Kelly Ripa Halloween Harley Quinn




But easily one of her best looks was Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. For that look, Ripa wore a bad combover wig, a black suit and way, way too much bronzer.


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"I brought my smoking hot wife Melania," she said in a Trump impression during a Family Feud sketch featuring the candidate and his wife. "My gorgeous daughter Ivanka - isn't she beautiful, folks? We are going to make game shows great again!"


More: Ashton Kutcher had a slight freak-out over Laura Prepon's engagement on Live!


Before you go, check out our slideshow below.


Kelly Ripa Live! co-hosts slideshow
Image: WENN

বুধবার, ২৬ অক্টোবর, ২০১৬

More than 15 million children in high-mortality hotspots in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers find

A new spatial analysis from Stanford shows that progress in combating child mortality has been highly uneven, even within countries where overall declines are substantial

8 things moms say that totally gaslight their kids

We often hear about boyfriends or girlfriends gaslighting their significant others by saying things and denying their feelings in a way that actually begins making them question their own sanity. But the young men and women who gaslight often become the same dads and moms who use this effective and disastrous form of psychological torture to maintain the control and power they so desperately associate with their worth.


Parents who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, many of whom remain clueless that they even have a sense of entitlement and feed off of attention and drama as ways to feel important, are often the same folks who put their kids through gaslighting hell. At the root of it all, they'll do almost anything to be right, maintain their influence over the people in their home and to ensure they are the center of their kids' universes.


No matter how much it may not seem like it at times, kids listen when their parents speak. One of a gaslighter's most potent weapons is her words - and these eight classic phrases are often used by a parent in an attempt to gaslight her child so that she feels better about herself:


1. "You're just being sensitive": Because the narcissistic parent has a lot of trouble empathizing with her child, it's a lot easier to label her kid "sensitive" and call it a day than to actually have to address the fact that her little one may be reacting for a perfectly logical reason - that perfect reason being that she feels an emotion and has a right to it. Period.


2. "You owe me an apology": It makes no difference if the parent started an insane fight over something small and then exploded and called her child a name. At the end of the day, a parent who gaslights insists on her kid apologizing for all grievances, because she's the parent, and it's her way or the highway.


3. "That never happened, and you're making it up": Selective memory, anyone? The gaslighting parent has no problem dictating to her child, verbatim, what he said to her that was so hurtful, but if her child insists on telling his version of things, she'll simply deny it ever happened and possibly accuse him of lying.


4. "I don't want to hear this anymore": The parent who gaslights always has the honor of deciding when a conversation has ended and when her child's thoughts and feelings are no longer welcome.


5. "Are you seriously angry about that?": As if there is no rational reason her child should be mad that Mom decided at the last minute to not take her to the park as promised. A kid who constantly hears this from a parent grows up doubting his right to assert himself.


6. "You're not really going to wear that, are you?": You disapprove of your child's wardrobe and wish she would stop wearing peasant blouses or dyeing her hair orange. Instead of accepting her for her choices, you leave that little question lingering in her head to make her feel like she's crazy for wanting to wear something so obviously hideous or so unflattering on her.


7. "Stop crying": Other ways parents stifle their kids include telling them to wipe that pout off their face and to toughen up - usually not because they want them to become strong individuals, but because they can't handle their kids' emotions or the feeling that they have somehow failed them.


8. "It's not always about you": Nope, it isn't. And that's because 99 percent of the time, it's always about the parent who gaslights, leaving no room for the child and his emotions to exist.

শুক্রবার, ২১ অক্টোবর, ২০১৬