Who could be against promoting breast cancer awareness? Well, some high schools in California and Washington state are banning the stretchy, plastic bracelets that say "I love boobies" or asking students who wear them to turn them inside out. Apparently the fashion statement encourages inappropriate behavior on campuses.
The bracelets, sold by the Keep a Breast Foundation in Carlsbad, CA, sell for $3.99 and help to provide information and boost awareness of the disease among a teen audience.
The foundation has released a statement of its website: "We fully...continue reading
Matt Lauer and wife Annette are vehemently denying that they've broken up. The Today host of calls the allegation that he's moved out of his family's apartment "a work of fiction".
"I am living in my apartment with Annette and my children as a family and a couple," Lauer tells PEOPLE exclusively in an interview from France, where he's been co-anchoring the NBC morning show from the Cannes Film Festival. "I have never moved out. I am not moving out. There is no truth to that."
In another interview with PEOPLE, Annette Lauer said, "...continue reading
New research shows that exposure to pesticides used on common foods that kids eat -- frozen blueberries, fresh strawberries, celery, and the like -- increases the risk that children will be diagnosed with ADHD.
Scientists in the US and Canada found that kids with a high level of pesticide residue in their urine, particularly from widely used types of insecticide such as malathion, were more likely to have ADHD, the disorder that makes it hard for people to focus on schoool and social life activities.
Kids with higher-than-average levels of one pesticide marker were nearly twice as...continue reading
Many parents -- and especially dads! -- dread the day their baby girl starts dating, but not Antonio Banderas! The super cool dad says he's totally comfortable with the whole idea: "My daughter, at 13 years old, is way more mature than me," he admitted to PEOPLE.
Stella, Banderas' daughter with wife Melanie Griffith, is "very selective, she knows exactly what she wants," Banderas, who turns 50 this August, says. He promises he's "not going to jump [in] unless there is [something] that's going to damage her."
Stella's loving daddy...continue reading
Meet the new Miss USA: 23-year-old Rima Fakih, who represented Michigan in Sunday's Miss USA competition. Fakih is the first Arab-American -- and Muslin -- to be given the crown.
Fakih was born in Lebanon, moved to the States as a baby, was raised in New York, and relocated to Dearborn, Michigan with her family in 2003, according to the Detroit Free Press. She told pageant officials that her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths.
How did she feel after winning the crown? "Ask me after I've had a pizza," Fakih joked after she almost fell in her evening...continue reading
Claudia Schiffer welcomed a baby girl this Friday! The baby is a little sis to Caspar, 7, and Clementine, 5, Schiffer's children with husband Matthew Vaughan. The couple have been married since 2002.
According to PEOPLE, the German publication Welt am Sonntag reported Schiffer is expected to reveal the baby's name in the coming week. I wonder what it will be? Should we expect the supermodel and her hubby to go with something crazy and different?
Claudia recently posed nude and pregnant on Vogue's cover. She looked amazing!
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A group of young girls performed a remake of Beyoncé's 2008 hit "Single Ladies." The danced was taped last month at the World of Dance Competition in Pomona, Calif. And it has gone viral. America has started to question whether young girls are "over-sexed." The video has over 2 million hits online.
The video displays the girls' extremely raunchy dance moves and their satin-and-lace, barely-there costumes. Is it crazy in this day and age to expect 7-year-olds to look and act like 7-year-olds? At 7, I was still happily hula-hooping and hop-scotching my...continue reading
The one and only "Field of Dreams" in Iowa is for sale. The asking price? A whopping $5.4 million- well over the $1 million that an average field its size (193 acres) in Iowa would currently sell for.
So why the extra expense? Well, in addition to the obvious, (the ghost of James Earl Jones) the field attracts 65,000 visitors a year. The current owner of the field, Becky Lansing states, "We love the field, but it is time for us to head to the locker room. We are getting up there in years, and it is time to think about retirement."
Cute analogy.
There are no...continue reading
