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1. 1. SHOW SKIN STRATEGICALLY Looking truly sexy involves knowing what to bare-and what to keep under wraps. Otherwise, where's the mystery? "Choose one-only one-body part and show it off," advises Jen Rade, stylist to Jenna Fischer and Angelina Jolie. "If it's cleavage, don't show your legs. If it's your legs, stay covered on top." EVERETT COLLECTION 2. 2. ROUND UP WHITE BUTTON-DOWNS Take a classic cue from Marilyn Monroe ! They elevate jeans and keep ball skirts from drifting into fantasy-land. But all that mileage comes at a cost: a short shelf life. So buy three, don't overbleach (which can cause yellowing), and refresh regularly. DYAD PHOTOGRAPHY 3. 3. ACCESSORIZE IN BRIGHTS If you've got a closet full of neutrals-be they navy, black, camel, or gray-add energy with boldly hued shoes and bags. Not only is a hunter green satchel more lively than ho-hum black, but it's also surprisingly versatile. Feeling really...

The oldest woman in the world has revealed her secret to a long life as she turns 117 this week. Emma Moran - who has survived two World Wars , claims eating three eggs a day has helped her reached the record milestone. She has eaten one cooked and two raw eggs each day since a doctor recommended doing so when she was diagnosed with anemia at the age of 20. PROMOTED STORIES She also credits eating small amounts of minced meat and only having milk for supper. However, she also used to eat 500 grams of Gianduiotti every week (chocolates made with the hazelnuts), and glasses full of honey. As the huge milestone approaches, Emma cheerily accepts presents, before telling reporters: "I’m doing really fine, but my legs are weak." Emma was born in Civiasco, province of Vercelli, in 1899 as the first of eight children. As a teenager, she enjoyed dancing, loved waltz and tango and adored music - but she suffered hard times throughout her life. During the First W...

In the 1999 interview, Melania, 47, spoke on the phone to notorious American radio presenter Howard Stern, 63, after he had already chatted to Donald, 70, over the phone too. Whilst Donald spoke about a presidency bid he was pursuing at the time, Melania’s interview had a more naughty overtone. The interview has emerged as the truth behind Melania slapping Donald's hand away in a now famous video clip has been explained by a body langauge expert. Stern asked her a series of intimate questions about what she was wearing and her sex life with Donald. Their interview begins with Melania saying: “Hello, hi, how are you?” Is Melania Trump taking style inspiration from Kate Middleton? Melania Trump: Pope's foodie joke to First Lady creates STORM RELATED ARTICLES Jumping straight in, Stern exclaims: “You are so sexy!” Melania thanks him, and Stern continues: “I’ve seen pictures of you and I can’t believe it, you’r...

"A 15-year-old girl that calorie restricts and excessively exercises is not goals." Originally posted on November 02, 2015, 18:58 GMT Updated on November 04, 2015, 15:51 GMT Stephanie McNeal BuzzFeed News Reporter BuzzFeed Home Sitemap © 2017 BuzzFeed, Inc. This is Essena O'Neill, an 18-year-old from the Sunshine Coast of Australia. instagram.com Over the past several years, O'Neill has built a social media empire. She explained that when she was in high school, she started posting on a blog, YouTube , and social media, and soon became consumed by it. instagram.com "I fell in love with this idea that I could be of value to other people," she wrote. "Let's call this my snowballing addiction to be liked by others." View this photo on Instagram She soon became an online sensation. She said she at one point now had more than half a million followers on Instagram and more than 250,000 YouTube subscribers alone. instagram.c...

Resolutions are notorious for falling by the wayside a few months or even days into the New Year. A 2012 University of Scranton study revealed that only 8 percent of people who make New Year's resolutions are successful in achieving them. This low success rate may relate to the fact that many of us are more inclined to center our resolutions on self- criticism than on real aspirations or desires. Rarely do we set a goal to spend more time joking around with friends or listening to music we enjoy. Rather, our resolutions tend to focus on "fixing" our flaws or "correcting" our failures. This negative viewpoint comes from a "critical inner voice" we all possess that alerts us of what we need to fix, while reminding us that we won't succeed. Filtering our personal goals through this critical lens only sets us up for failure. With that in mind, this year, I want to propose a new list of deeply rewarding and reachable resolutions. The...

There are people who like being alone, maybe even love it. What do you think they are like? Does your mind immediately leap to the misanthrope or the dreaded loner hiding away somewhere plotting his next murder? As Anneli Rufus told us in her wonderful Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto, those stereotypes don’t capture real loners. True loners are people who embrace their alone time. Those who lash out are typically alone against their will. They want to be included. They want to be loved by the objects of their desire. But they’ve been excluded and rejected instead. That exclusion and rejection (among other things) fuels their hostility and rage. What’s the truth about people who like being alone? Thanks to some newly developed scales for measuring attitudes toward being alone, we now have research-based answers. First, though, we need to understand what it means to like being alone. One sense of “alone” refers to spending ...

Whether you witnessed or experienced violence as a child or your caretakers emotionally or physically neglected you, when you grow up in a traumatizing environment you are likely to still show signs of that trauma as an adult. Children make meaning out of the events they witness and the things that happen to them, and they create an internal map of how the world is. This meaning-making helps them cope. But if children don't create a new internal map as they grow up, their old way of interpreting the world can damage their ability to function as adults. While there are many aftereffects of childhood emotional trauma, here we'll look specifically at four ways childhood emotional trauma impacts us as adults. 1. The False Self As a childhood emotional trauma therapist, I see many patients who carry childhood emotional wounds with them into adulthood. One way these wounds reveal themselves is through the creation of a false self . As children, we want ou...

Viola Davis's success story is a true testament that shows one's past circumstances does not dictate one's future. In the cover story for the new issue of People magazine, the Oscar winner shared her rags to riches journey, movingly detailing the one photo she has from her childhood and how she persevered through her scarce early years. "The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten," she said, mentioning that her family did not have enough money for a camera. "I have this expression on my face — it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'" The actress spent her early childhood years in an impoverished environment consisting of a one-room shack on her grandmother's farm which served as a former slave plantation where her grandfather wo...

If you can say yes to most of these, it's very likely you're in a healthy relationship: 1. You can name your partner’s best friend and identify a positive quality that the person has. 2. You and your partner are playful with each other. 3. You think your partner has good ideas. 4. You’d like to become more like your partner, at least in some ways. 5. Even when you disagree, you can acknowledge your partner makes sensible points. 6. You think about each other when you’re not physically together. 7. You see your partner as trustworthy. 8. In relationship-relevant areas such as warmth and attractiveness, you view your partner a little bit more positively than they view themselves or than most other people view them. 9. You enjoy the ways your partner has changed and grown since you met. 10. Your partner is enthusiastic when something goes right for you. 11. When you reunite at the end of the day, you say something positive before you say som...

CHERYL and her One Direction boyfriend Liam Payne are settling into life as new parents. The pair have a big age gap – but does this REALLY make a difference? Liam and Cheryl have been together for over a year How long have Cheryl and Liam been dating and what’s their age gap? Cheryl and Liam first met when a young wannabe popstar Liam auditioned for her on The X Factor back in 2009. He then went on to mega stardom thanks to his time in One Direction . The pair got together while Cheryl was going through her divorce to second husband Jean- Bernard Fernandez-Versini at the beginning of 2016, and made their red carpet debut in May. Cheryl, 33, showed who wears the trousers in their relationship as she opted for a head turning sequinned jumpsuit, Liam, 23, looked dapper in a black tie as he posed alongside his girlfriend. liampayne Follow MARCH 25 2m likes 148k comments My close friends and family know there are very few times when I'm left speechl...

Lunch dates, long chats, and sharing dreams. Do you experience this more with friends than with your spouse? It’s something to take note of during your marriage. Consider the following five signs that you’re closer to a friend more than a spouse. 1. Sharing Your Life: Do you share what is stressing you are keeping you up at night. Maybe it is stress at work or a struggle that you’ve been dealing with for a long time. Who do you go to first a relative, a friend? There is nothing wrong with this, but is there a pattern of not confiding in the person you live with? 2. Communication: Who do you communicate with more? If your friend knows about your week or day than your spouse it’s time for a check. 3. Check In: Try to make time and see how your spouse is doing during the week. Schedules can make it hard to stay connected, if you make an effort with your pals despite tough work weeks, it’s time to prioritize. 4. Value Your Spouse: Do you...

Our most special relationships are those that bring us closer to others– our friends partners, spouses, parents and children. Such a intimacy is the most rewarding and often the most demanding of human involvements. The giving of ourselves to others, sharing thoughts, feelings, experiences, and sexual pleasures touches the essence of what it means to be human. Like physical well-being,  psychological health is important too. Psychological health refers to both emotional and mental states, our feelings and thoughts. For a good mental health, we have to be involved in a good relationship which has a lot of care , love and respect. Find out whether the relation that you are sharing today, matches with our characteristics: 1. Trust: Partners are able to confide each other openly, knowing their confidences will be respected. 2. Togetherness: In a healthy relationship, two people create a sense of intimacy and autonomy. They enjoy each others company but also...

CELEBRITY Big Brother star Kim Woodburn has shocked the other housemates by opening up about the ‘secret husband’ she was married to before meeting Peter. The TV star called him a “horror” in an emotional confession with her co-stars as she finally spoke about her tragic past. Kim Woodburn told the other housemates about her rocky first marriage Kim, 74 , suffered an abusive childhood and a miserable first marriage, which ended in divorce after just three years. She has previously described her former partner, named only as Ken, as a ” Jekyll and Hyde” character and she shocked her fellow housemates with her sensational confession. Kim made the confession in the smoking area as she finally opened up about her past Kim said: “My first husband was a horror.” The How Clean Is Your House star has previously revealed Ken left her for a a girl who was just 17 years old. But she went on to find true love when she met former...

George — one of Australia’s best acting exports — was delirious and collapsed on the ground. Allegations about that harrowing night will air tonight in a tell-all television interview on Seven’s Sunday Night. SUNDAY 8:30pm: Actress Melissa George breaks her silence, telling @pennells about the violent assault that ended her relationship. #SN7 pic.twitter.com/rrUnpDA8OS — sunday night (@sundaynighton7) March 16, 2017 Atique told the program he helped her into his Audi. Her blood smeared across the window and door handle. He said he kept his car spotless and always wore a suit when he worked but at that moment he didn’t care where the blood went. She allegedly said: “He hit me”. The man she was accusing was Jean David Blanc, the wealthy 48-year-old French entrepreneur she met at a BAFTA after-party in 2011 and who is the father of her two children, Raphael and Solal. Pennells meets Atique outside his father’s P...

So far so good . So far so good, How lean I think the effort I've put in seems but I feel my life's about to be seamed with the success that life thus brings. Everyday , I look up into the skies , Where they say my God resides to ask Him why as I pass by; Why is it fulfilment hasn't come to me , Why so far s o good, No keen desire seem to have come to me. Well, so far so good, So far so good, So far so good. What really is the role of the Spiritual to mans' success ? Or perhaps , the Spiritual has go t no role to that extent. Ask your instinct. it might tell you same. But as we've   a ll learned so far , Every seen thing was once unseen .. Eureka ! were made out the unseen. Yea! the seen out of the unseen . Well if this be it , to my beam I reach . For so far so good , the unseen is all some sought after And they're doing great . But some made it, yet with no spiritu al de...

Erem Emeka aka Ajebo submitted his resignation letter as an on air personality on Naija FM, effective August 1, 2016. The Ace Comedian, who has been a presenter on Naija FM since 2011(approximately 5years) has made recent announcements about his future plans. AJEBO is set to become the CEO of one of the biggest animation companies, a company he launched in 2013 to create animated skits and commercials. He is fixed to pursue his 'entrepreneurial ambitions' as he has carved a niche for himself by taking animations to another level with his hilarious made-in-Nigeria cartoon skits on almost every mobile device, TV and online platforms. It is credited to be one of the biggest/ most popular animation companies in Nigeria. Ajebo is not entirely leaving radio as he is also starting up his own show on radio and TV; The HouseOfAjebo show. He launched HouseOfAjebo JUNIOR which will produce KIDDIES animated cartoon series and educational materials; HouseOfAjeboCOMICS ...

Being cheated on by the one that told you how able, worthy and important you are can leave you an eternal feeling of rejection. People cheat for variety of reasons and it has nothing to do with you, your qualities or what you were lacking, though, it seems sad but there are some lessons to be learnt. We all learn lessons in whatever we encounter throughout our lives, some might leave us with beautiful memories and others can leave us with pain that we will forever wish and try very hard to forget, but either ways whether good or bad it will make you a better person. There are some facts that you will learn when you are being cheated on, continue reading to see; 1. You will realise that you are stronger than you thought You have always thought that your life will end without this person but when faced with the issue of break up, you will realize you have more strength than you ever thought. Pulling yourself through all this requires lots of gut and strength, though...

In a cute video uploaded on EbonyLifeTV’s Instagram page, media personality Ebuka Obi- Uchendu talks about his new life as a dad and how as a result of his new responsibilities, he wouldn’t be joining this season of “The Spot”. He gave a shout out to his co-hosts Zainab Balogun and Lamide Akintobi and he talked about how his daughter can’t wait to meet them. So adorable. He also revealed that he has named his daughter Jewel!

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh's son, King Andre is 9 months today. The proud mum who is yet to unveil her baby's face took to her Instagram to say a powerful prayer for him. Read below... "It's been 9Glorious Months with You my SON,It's been the best 9Months of my existence.... Words Fail me to describe How Precious you are to Me,My Heart holds so Much LOVE FOR YOU..It hurts in a very Good way.You give me so much Hope,Joy and Happiness. When I Hold you and Look into your eyes I Cry because I know God Loves me.I know I have been blessed,I Love you so much KING-ANDRE,I love your Cute smile,Your Giggle,The way you look at me,The way you Hold me with so much Confidence that your safety is Assured,I Love how you make me A child again..I get another chance to be a child again,And do things I never got to do..You are my Biggest Success Story. I Bless you,I speak Greatness into you,I prophesy WISDOM,BRILLIANCE,SMARTNESS, INTELLIGENCE,WEALTH,HAPPINES...

Back at the house, series of events unfolded, some negatively graced the Internet, the media went into a frenzy, actions were misinterpreted whenever the 2nd runner up of the Big Brother Naija 2017, Tboss Idowu comes up in the news. Actions were blamed on her, she was accused of witchcraft, BBN rigging intent, contempt was on her. It can be recalled that she rarely graced the Internet for the right reasons, if not that she failed to recite the National anthem then it could be because evictions were blamed on her. What message am I trying to convey, the HATE on her was/is much. A lot of people refused to campaign for her, not because she wasn't worth their campaign but just because she wasn't on their liking radar. This apparently saw to it that the 'boss lady' never smelt the trophy nor 1st runner place, a popular celebrity said she was hated because of her skin colour. One of the reasons Tboss did not clinch the trophy I think is the fact that thos...