Most wild animals are fascinating creatures, and although we can only admire their beauty from a safe distance, getting a chance to get closer to them feels surreal.
Well, the staff at the famous Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, an animal sanctuary located near Colorado Springs, get to be around wolves every day. What’s most, they hang out with them, and even get the chance to pet them and cuddle with them.
One of the wolves who has been born and raised in the sanctuary is gorgeous Kekoa, whose name stands for “brave one” in Hawaiian.
Although he’s very big, Kekoa is in fact a gentle giant who loves spending time with humans, particularly a woman named Danielle.
These two share a special bond which fascinates many. Watching them playing and cuddling feels surreal, especially because Kekoa is way bigger than Danielle. He weighs in at 115 pounds and when he places his front paws up on a persons shoulders he comes in at about 7 feet tall!
The video which caught the attention of many showing the two friends playing gets even better when another wolf, Sakara, comes along and asks for a cuddle.
“Since he was raised by people and bottle fed from the time he was born, he is very well socialized, meaning he enjoys the company of people. This is not the same as domesticated or tame. He is still a ‘wild’ animal, and he does tend to show it when he is around his sister. A wolf in the wild would not act this way.”
The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center gives guided, educational tours which help teach people of the importance of wolves for the ecosystem. They organize various events such as Paw Day, Meet a Wolf Day, Halw-O-Ween, and a lot more.
Colorado has not been home to wild wolves since the 1940s, but it looks like they will return soon.
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Born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, on August 28, 1965, Shania Twain and her two sisters were brought up by their mother and her husband Jerry Twain, whom they considered a real dad as their biological father didn’t have much to do with their upbringing.
They didn’t have much while growing up but despite that, Shania never really shared details of her life with anyone because she was afraid that authorities could break her family apart if they knew how bad they lived and how much they struggled.
Shania started doing gigs at the age of eight.
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She performed at rural bars, and when she reached 13, she got to perform on the Tommy Hunter Show, a legendary country music variety show that aired on CBC Television and ran for 27 years. When she was 21, she relocated to Toronto, and just a year later, when both her parents died, she almost gave up on music in order to raise her two sisters and two brothers. “I thought, my family comes first. I have to take care of them. I didn’t even think of my future… I’m lucky I got the job at Deerhurst, because it was music. I didn’t know where I was going to go from there,” the singer said.
“I feel like I’ve been this tree with good sturdy roots for 30 years, then all of a sudden someone comes along and is trying to cut me down, cut a part me off,” Shania said of the loss of her parents.
“It was a very, very difficult time. But it was also a turning point in my life that, I think, matured me, brought me up to where I should have been in the first place at that age,” she told CBC.
Eventually, her enchanting music and hits such as Come on Over that topped the charts for a very long time, helped the ‘Queen of Country Pop,’ take the world by storm.
Recently, she made headlines as she posed topless for a photoshoot done for the cover her of her latest single, Waking Up Dreaming.
Speaking of it, the 57-year-old star said she was comfortable doing the shoots.
“This is me expressing my truth. I’m comfortable in my own skin, and this is the way I am sharing that confidence,” she told People Magazine. “I think the best fashion is confidence, and whatever you wear… if you’re wearing it with that, it’s fashionable. I am a woman in my late 50s, and I don’t need to hide behind the clothes. I can’t even tell you how good it felt to do nude shooting. I was just so unashamed of my new body… It’s really liberating.”
The photo portrays Shania kneeling on the ground sporting a white skirt and tie-dyed pink boots and completing the look with a white cowboy hat. She has her arms in front of her body.
Back in 1993, she decided to go bra-less and show off her midriff for her What Made You Say That music video. “From the very beginning… the very first video… I was ditching the bra,” she shared with People.
“But, I was a lot firmer then, so as I grew older, I started feeling a different pressure of, ‘Well, your breasts are not as plump as they used to be. Your skin is not as tight as it used to be. Maybe you should start covering it up a little bit more.’”
Of course, over the years, she has faced insecurities when it came to her body but that served as inspiration for the boldness she hopes to convey in her upcoming project.
“I hit this wall and was like, ‘Whoa, my confidence is regressing. My courage is dulling. Why am I allowing this? Frig that. I am not regressing. I am embracing my body as it changes, as I should have from my childhood to my teens, as I should be from my taut, 20s and 30-year-old self… I’m not going to be shy about it. I want to be courageous about it, and I want to share that courage in the artwork that I am directing,” she said.
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If you believe that Hollywood celebrities are way different than we are, touching stories like this one are a reminder that they are just ordinary people like us who experience pain and go through things.
In her latest interview with Dr.Phill, the academy award winner Kathy Bates opens up about her illness and what she had to endure without sharing it with the rest of the world.
Out of the blue, life gave her the toughest role she ever had to play, that of a real life fighter and a warrior that had to beat cancer for the second time.
Back in 2012 she gathered the strength and told US Weekly, “It’s no secret that I am an ovarian cancer survivor, nine years and counting. But few know that several weeks ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer.” Explaining what it looks like to be diagnosed with this disease, she says, “You think American Horror Story is scary? You should’ve been in that room with me.”
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After she was told the devastating news that she suffers from ovarian cancer back in 2003, her ordeal started taking place. She had undergone multiple painful surgeries and nine months of chemotherapy but decided not to share it with anyone. She told PEOPLE:
“I didn’t tell anybody. I continued to work right after the operation, doing Little Black Book with Brittany Murphy. My agent at the time was very old-school and didn’t want me to be the poster child for ovarian cancer. I didn’t want anyone to know, but it really took a lot out of me.”
Her strong will helped her overcome the situation and be cancer free up until that moment when her doctor told her she was back on the start. She had cancer again. She wondered whether that would mean walking the same path of pain and suffering all over again.
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After she learned she had breast cancer, she wasn’t that surprised because as she says, “breast cancer runs like a river in my family.” After she shared this with her followers, she opted for a double mastectomy in hopes of preventing it from spreading any further.
This time she decided to turn her tragedy into inspiration for other women. This brave lady didn’t lose her vibrant personality along the way and in one occasion she even joked saying, “I don’t miss my breasts as much as I miss Harry’s Law,” and thanked her fans for all the support they’ve provided during her tough times.
She did her best to replace the plate of sour green tomatoes her life served her with one of Fried Green Tomatoes instead, and we are lucky she did it.
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Currently, Kathy Bates is cancer free, but the disease left her with a condition known as lymphedema which isn’t curable and affects around 30 percent of breast cancer survivors. It is a result of the removal of her lymph nodes. Unfortunately, she is experiencing pain and swelling that makes her feel uncomfortable.
“It’s a souvenir you definitely don’t want. I really felt that life was over for me. I probably wouldn’t work again, and I was angry for a long time.”
This whole experience made her speak about her condition publicly in hopes of inspiring other women to do regular check-ups and to know they are not alone in their battle. Bates also became an ambassador for the Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN).
“I’m grateful my hardships have given me a purpose. Funny how that happens.”
Below is her interview where she gets brutally honest about what it feels like to face the battles she fought.
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Seeing how flawless celebrities look all the time makes most of us lose our confidence about our own physical appearance. But then we think of all the stylists and makeup artists who work for them and when we stumble upon paparazzi photos showing their “true” faces, we realize it’s sometimes all for the public.
The good thing is that many famous people tend to go makeup free so that the world can see they are just normal people like us under all the glamour. Among the celebrities who posted no make up selfies recently are Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston.
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Goldie Hawn, on the other hand, believes that Hollywood standards aren’t that easy to fight against. This beauty, who will be 75 this year, says, “You think you’re going to fight the system? You think you’re going to prove to Hollywood when you hit 45 that you’re still a sexy, viable object? No. There’s a certain reality. Does it make me angry? No. I’m not an angry person. I’m not a militant person. Anger doesn’t get you anywhere. It’s not productive.”
Over the years, Hawn never lost the status of America’s sweetheart. She’s been on the screen for a very long time and besides her talent, it was her distinctive blonde hair and her natural looks that made her one of our all time favorites.
Hawn, who is a grandma of six, was featured on the cover of People Magazine’s “Beautiful Issue” and everyone agrees she looks as stunning as ever.
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Speaking of her looks, she says how she learned how to love herself as she took parts in more and more movies. Of course, she doesn’t expect everyone else to love the way she looks and says, ”Some people think that you’re beautiful; some people think you’re ugly. They voice a lot of opinions, so you then have to become resilient to it – and to do that you have to learn and to understand who you are and what you really think about yourself. And that’s where I think I learnt about my inner beauty.”
Some time ago, she was in the spotlight because of a photo taken by the paparazzi showing her without any make up on in broad daylight. A lot of people said she looked unrecognizable. Others praised her for her carefree attitude.
Hawn says she takes great care of her skin. ”One of the most important things of all is sleep. Getting enough sleep is so important – as are things like ingesting good oils, making sure you keep your face soft by removing dead skin, and using sun guard every day. I also take the time to really massage my creams into my face.”
“There are great creams out there. Creams with this and creams with that, but I ingest oil,” said Hawn revealing her beauty secret is olive oil. “The skin is our biggest organ, and as you get older, you get drier. I ingest two tablespoons of olive oil before bed and massage my face.”
So, according to what she told Pop Sugar, her secret is in applying two tablespoons of olive oil on the face before going to bed and massaging it.
In an interview with BE Ageless, Hawn said, “I don’t know if I’d call it beauty, or more just ‘taking care of.’ I wash my face every night and I massage it for about three minutes and then I put creams on my face and I go to sleep. And then I wake up in the morning and do the same thing!”
She continued, “I put on a little sun guard in the morning when I remember and the rest of it is just making sure that you’re hydrated and that you eat a lot of oil-based foods or oils, and smile a lot.”
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I think Hawn looks awesome the way she is. She has a great life, a rich career, and a partner who loves her unconditionally. She and Kurt Russel have been together for almost four decades but never got married, and according to her, that’s the secret to a long relationship.
The two played in some films together, including the romantic comedy Overboard. Recently, they starred in The Christmas Chronicles in the roles of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.
Makeup or no, Goldie Hawn is a real beauty. You just have to love her!
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Donald Trump became the first ever U.S. president in American history to be indicted for his role in a hush money scheme prior to the 2016 elections.
The investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which began while Trump was still serving as president, is related to a $130,000 payment made by Trump’s then-personal attorney Michael Cohen to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Allegedly, Trump tried to prevent Daniels from going public about an alleged affair with him years earlier. He has denied ever having an affair with Daniels.
As a response to the grand jury vote, Trump wrote, “This is an attack on our country as we’ve never seen before,” according to the social platform Truth Social.
The 76-year-old property-tycoon-turned-politician entered the Manhattan Criminal Court just after 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, which was cleared out ahead of his arrival, and he was then put under arrest.
Before entering the courthouse, Trump posted on the same social media that the encounter was “surreal,” adding, “WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. I can’t believe this is happening in the United States!”
Trump’s team argued that requests for cameras in the courtroom should be denied “because it will create a circus-like atmosphere at the arraignment, raise unique security concerns, and is inconsistent with President Trump’s presumption of innocence.”
On March 18, after announcing his impending detention, Trump sent a passionate rallying cry to his supporters and wrote, “Protest, take back our country!” Ahead of his arraignment, some of his supporters gathered on the streets of New York City. Among them were controversial Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos.
Trump is currently facing 34 felony counts for falsification of business records.
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Nowadays, a great number of people would go to great lengths to enhance their appearance and that is the reason why plastic surgeries are becoming a common practice everywhere in the world.
Valeria Lukyanova is not an ordinary woman. This Ukrainian beauty is dubbed ‘Human Barbie,’ and the truth is that her resemblance to the most famous doll is uncanny.
Valeria first caught the attention of the people of Russia, where she lives, when she won the worldwide beauty contest ”Miss Diamond Crown of the World” in 2013. All of a sudden, she found herself in the center of attention and everyone wanted to learn more about her. She was featured in various magazines and did plenty of commercials, but she only gained worldwide attention after she started posting photos and videos of herself on the social media and her story was covered by Huffington Post and ABC News.
”At first, I really didn’t like it because there was too much attention. Some people even followed me, secretly taking my photo. That I don’t like. But then, with time, I got used to it. People always want to take my photo. I don’t refuse it now,” she told Cosmopolitain.
Once her photos vent viral, many assumed she had undergone surgeries to alter her appearance or that she at least used photoshop, but Valeria denied those claims. Instead, she explained how she keeps her figure fit in aYouTube video, titled “Doll’s appearance is not everything.”
“It is hard work for many years and good genes… I do not drink, I do not smoke, and I lead a healthy lifestyle, my goal is powered by prana,” she said.
Valeria’s diet consists of plenty of fruits and vegetables, mainly raw, because she is a vegetarian. ”I really like all kinds of vegetables and especially broccoli. And regular cabbage and cauliflower. I always make myself salads out of them. I also really like nuts, but I don’t eat many of them because they are very high-calorie. For fruit, it’s grapefruit and apples,” she told Cosmopolitan.
Today, this 29-year-old human doll has plenty of social media followers and is involved in modeling. In 2017, she starred in the horror film The Doll alongside celebrities like Mindy Robinson and Ron Jeremy. At the same time, she holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture.
Valeria is married to Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Shkrabov.
Asked if he gets jealous of all the attention she gets, Valeria says, ”No, he’s fine with it. He treats it as my aesthetic image. He’s totally fine with it.”
Although she goes with the nickname ‘Barbie’ on social media, Valeria believes that the comparison to the doll sometimes feels ”a little degrading and insulting,” but she’s also aware that her resemblance to Barbie was what made her famous. ”When people look for me, they look for me with that hashtag, so. I’m the most popular [Barbie] copy in the world. When people say ‘Barbie,’ it’s clear that it’s associated with me, not anyone else. So that’s why I use that hashtag — so people can find me this way,” she explained back in 2015 in an interview with Cosmopolitan.
She also said that her goal has never been to promote an unrealistic body image. ”For me, beauty is the harmony of features and lines. Subtlety and sophisitication. Harmony of the external and internal. It is sincerity, kindness, power, and generosity that comes from within. All of these qualities are inspiring, and it changes your exterior. It’s a charisma”, she told InStyle.
Following the release of Harry’s book Spare and all the stir it caused, it seems like the dust has settled down and the members of the Firm are continuing with their regular duties. Among the rest, they have their hands full getting ready for the day Britain hasn’t seen for over seven decades, the coronation of the new monarch, King Charles and his wife Camilla, who will become Queen Consort.
The much-awaited coronation is set to take place on May 6, which happens to be the birth date of Archie, Harry and Meghan’s son.
When late Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1954, over 8,000 guests were in attendance at the coronation, and 129 nations were officially represented. King Charles is now allegedly planning to significantly reduce that number on his coronation, according to reports.
The coronation, which is given the code-name “Operation Golden Orb,” will take place at Westminster Abbey, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
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Camilla would be crowned with Queen Mary’s Crown which is set with 2,200 diamonds and was worn by Queen Mary for the coronation alongside her husband, King George V, in 1911.
The crown will be altered for the upcoming coronation and is set to honor the late Queen Elizabeth with the headpiece being planned to be replaced with diamonds Cullinan III, IV, and V, all from the late monarch’s personal jewelry collection.
It was previously planned for Camilla to wear the Koh-i Nûr diamond, one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, in her crown, which came into British possession in 1849 when the East India Company took it from a 10-year-old boy named Maharaja Duleep Singh, a ruler of the Sikh Empire. However, that diamond is now considered to symbolize conquest, and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have claimed ownership of it.
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“The coronation of Camilla and the use of the crown jewel Koh-i-Nûr brings back painful memories of the colonial past,” a source from the Bharatiya Janata Party in India told The Telegraph last year.
“Most Indians have very little memory of the oppressive past. Five to six generations of Indians suffered under multiple foreign rules for over five centuries. The coronation of the new Queen Camilla and the use of the Koh-i-Nûr do transport a few Indians back to the days of the British Empire in India,” the source added.
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Camilla is carrying royal duties and accompanies her husband to special occasions. At the same time, she’s heavily involved with a number of charities close to her heart. Among the rest, she’s interested in reading, drawing, gardening and riding horses. Following Queen Elizabeth’s passing, Camilla became responsible for the royal stables, and reportedly always finds peace in her Highgrove House garden.
“I love the vegetable garden. I’m very proud of my white peaches. My husband is an excellent gardener, and we’re quite competitive about our fruit and vegetables,” Camilla shared with Vogue magazine. And when it came to gardening, the Queen Consort revealed, “It was a sort of spiritual experience for them, they discovered a sort of affinity with the soil – you can go into a garden, and you can completely lose yourself, you don’t have to think about anything else, you’re surrounded by nature, you’ve got birds singing, you’ve got bees buzzing about – there is something very healing about gardens.”
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Camilla is a patron of a riding school in south London, and she is a passionate about riding horses, but as she has reached certain age, this hobby becomes harder and harder to keep up with.
The Queen Consort shared this information with a group of schoolchildren from Germany where she and King Charles were for a visit. “I used to have horses I rode but sadly I don’t ride any longer. I think I’m too old, but I have racehorses,” she said, according to the Daily Mail.
This, of course, doesn’t mean she won’t be spending time around her horses. In fact, while on the trip to Germany, she watched one of her horses giving birth through video.
“Last night, I watched on my screen one of the foals being born, which was very exciting,” Camilla said.
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As Todd and Julie Chrisley began serving their prison sentences last week, their children don’t seem to have it easy without their parents by their side.
Todd and Julie Chrisley of Chrisley Knows Best, a reality TV show revolving around the lives of Georgia real estate tycoon Todd Chrisley and his wealthy family, were sentenced to respective 12 and 7-year sentences after they were found guilty in a tax evasion case.
The prosecutor was reported to have said, “The Chrisleys have built an empire based on the lie that their wealth came from dedication and hard work.
“The jury’s unanimous verdict sets the record straight: Todd and Julie Chrisley are career swindlers who have made a living by jumping from one fraud scheme to another, lying to banks, stiffing vendors, and evading taxes at every corner.”
Having lived a life of luxury provided to them by their parents, the Chrisley’s children feel their mom’s and dad’s absence, and their second daughter, Savannah, is leaning to faith during these hard times for her family.
In an Instagram story that she shared on Thursday, Savannah re-posted a quote shared by the After Breakup account, which reads, “But who will I call when something good happens? Happiness isn’t the same without you here.”
A day later, the 25-year-old shared another Instagram story, this time of a video of an interview given by Kevin Hart, which was originally posted by @buildalpha, in which he spoke about letting go of grudges and understanding that life has to move on. “No matter how much emotion and feeling you may have or how much hurt you may have, life has to go on. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. So if you don’t process and understand that, you’re stuck in whatever time period you got hurt forever,” he said – adding there’s no time for grudges, anger, and negativity.
On a recent episode of her Unlocked podcast, she spoke of what she and her siblings did and how they felt like in the wake of their parents’ imprisonment. “So for those of you that are familiar with my family and have followed our lives and have also followed my podcast, you know that last week was an extremely difficult week for my family as a whole and for each of us individually,” she said.
“We kind of had to say goodbye to my parents for a little bit of time, for the foreseeable future. And that was really, really, really tough,” Savannah added.
Savannah also posted a brief video of herself, Chloe, and Grayson at a restaurant in which Chloe could be heard saying how she ‘ain’t no snitch, and snitches get stitches’ before turning to Grayson and saying, “so you have some stitches on you.’ Grayson rolled his eyes.
Recently, Savannah shared, “The other night, I had a full-on breakdown. I was trying to find Chloe proper clothes to go and visit my parents and find her hair stuff. I just sat down on the floor and started crying.” This just shows that although raising her brother and sister is indeed rewarding, Savannah does experience hard time playing the role of a mom.
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