This incredible story starts with a call to the Marion County Sheriff Office about a vehicle spotted in a large lake in Marion County, Texas. Some fishermen were at the lake when they noticed the submerged Jeep and alerted the authorities. However, what they didn’t know was that they would save the life of a missing woman that day.
It took around 18 minutes for the deputies to arrive, and the tow truck took a little longer to get to the scene. The vehicle was away from shore, some 40 feet out in the water from Woody’s Camp Boat Ramp.
However, once the tow truck came and they started pulling the Jeep out, they realized there was a moving person inside. This was an incredible sight to witness. They had no idea how the woman could still be alive.
She was taken to the hospital and it was then that it was discovered she had been listed as a missing person from the Longview Texas Police Department. “We do not know how long the Jeep was in the water,” Capt. Chuck Rogers, an investigator at the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, told NPR.
The identity and the condition of the woman in question remain unknown.
There are still a lot of questions authorities need to find answers to, such as how the Jeep ended up in the water and how long it was there before it was spotted.
“There was nothing uncovered during the investigation to suggest this case was anything more than an accident,” Capt. Chuck Rogers said.
This woman is lucky to be alive. She had her guardian angel looking over her.
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Allison Fisher, a 20-year-old woman from Florida, is lucky to be given the chance for a ‘second life,’ after she was diagnosed with a huge ovarian cysts.
Her health issues started in 2020, when she started experiencing constant stomach pain. Along with that, her periods became unpredictable and irregular. This raised a red flag. It was obvious something was wrong, but she was hesitant about visiting a doctor because she believed they would tell her it is related to her weight.
“I let myself believe that if I ignored it, it would go away,” Allison told Action New Jax. “I was scared. I was just really scared.”
“[Growing up,] regardless of what I was there for—whether it was a cold or an ear infection, I was always told, ‘you need to lose weight. You need to lose weight,'” she explained. “If no one’s going to listen to me, if they’re always gonna tell me I need to lose weight, then what’s the point of going? What’s the point of listening to my body?”
Over time, she noticed something growing on her stomach. Having stumbled upon articles about ovarian cysts before, she assumed her ‘rock hard’ stomach could be a result of one, and she was right.
“I felt like I was pregnant with 10 kids,” she explained. “I couldn’t lay on my stomach. It felt like all my organs were being crushed.”
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Sadly, the cyst grew so big that it started putting pressure on her lungs, affecting her breathing.
Eventually, somewhere around Christmas, 2022, a gynecologic oncology surgeon at Ascension St. Vincent’s, Dr. Martin Martino, told Allison that she was carrying a cyst which was 100 pounds big. It needed to be surgically removed as soon as possible.
“What was really interesting, is that once we removed it, we looked at the other ovary because now we could see it, and the left ovary was twisted three times. That [the left ovary] was about 10 centimeters that really helped us to be able to untwist it and save [Fisher’s] future fertility, and the chance to have kids.” Dr. Martino explained.
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Luckily, the surgery was successful and Allison was given a second chance.
I can see my feet again; I haven’t been able to do that in years, I can stand a little bit longer. I feel so much lighter, like a person, I can wear clothes; I can do things that normal people can do. Now, moving forward, I am in the beginning stages of weight-loss surgery, and I am really excited for what life has in store for me,” she shared. Allison hopes her story will serve as a reminder that we should see a doctor whenever we feel unwell. “There are other people out there who are in my shoes, other bigger people, who are just so scared to go to the doctor because of their weight,” she added. “I just want them to know that they shouldn’t be scared.”
We are happy everything turned out for the best for Allison.
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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are one of the most beautiful celeb couples we know. They have been married for 26 years now and have three stunning daughters who are now all grown up and resemble their stunning mother a lot.
Gracie Katherine is 25, Maggie Elizabeth is 24, and Audrey Caroline is 20.
Fans of the musicians say they are glad the stars installed in their daughters the life values they themselves live by, and that’s love, honesty, devotion, and helping others.
”As a parent, you do not want to stand in the way of their dreams,” Faith told AOL a few years ago. ”You want to protect them; you want to make sure they aren’t disappointed…Sometimes, it’s better to let your children go through things on their own and let them experience it instead of saying, ‘Don’t do it this way, or you must do it this way.’”
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In 2022, Gracie was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), which is a very common hormone problem for women of childbearing age, and she has been updating her fans of her condition every now and then.
“I just wanted to share really quick that I have recently been diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). To get the correct diagnosis you would need 2 out of the 5 characteristics of PCOS and I had 3,” she shared on her social media.
“During my appointment with my endocrinologist I realized that may had been a factor in my issues with weight, so we decided to try a medicine to regulate my body more normally and create the tools to continue to keep my body and myself healthy as I get older,” she added.
Further, Gracie explained, “I’m learning to navigate the new blemishes but I don’t think that I would have ever allowed myself to go to a doctors appointment like this unless I had taken the correct steps toward my mental health, because as much as physical health is important, mental goes hand and hand.”
Some of the symptoms of PCOS are lack of ovulation, small cysts on the ovaries, irregular menstrual periods, excess hair growth, acne, infertility, and weight gain.
“I share my experience to hope my situation has reached someone who can relate. P.S The medicine I’m taking has given me a body I haven’t had in years (maybe ever?). It’s weird to navigate but I’m finding ways to love her,” Gracie wrote, and her fans praised her for speaking up of the condition. And as most of her fans believe she’s beautiful, there have also been those who mock her for her body shape and her weight. But Gracie knows exactly what to tell her haters.
“Today I looked in the mirror and was feeling fine about myself. I ended up going to a store and picked up a the largest size they had in a dress, which was an 8 btw (bs) I wear a 10, and the lady who was working in the store literally took the dress out of my hands and said ‘that’s not going to fit you’,” she wrote in the beginning of the caption. “Well first, duh because idk it’s not my size??, and second the fact that she literally took the dress out of my hands and verbally told me that I was too big for it really made me upset,” she wrote on Instagram.
“It didn’t only make me upset that she was basically calling me too big but it mostly made me upset because so many stores do this, they only put smaller sizes out and then when you try on their bigger sizes they don’t even go above your knees,” she continued. “I’ve been wearing the same jean size for two or three years now and every time I try a new brand OR EVEN THE SAME ONE I PREVIOUSLY OWN, the size 30 is somehow smaller even if my own body has stayed the same size. It’s not just pants, it’s literally EVERYTHING.”
Gracie doesn’t only receive support from her fans, but from her family too, especially her father whom she is really close to. “Gracie, our oldest daughter, is an actress in L.A., and she makes me proud every day because she’s such a strong, independent young lady who speaks her mind,” Tim said of his daughter.
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Nowadays, people get offended by anything. Sometimes, they have all the right to be, but other times, they just exaggerate and act like attention-seekers. It is up to you to decide whether the people who got offended by these store signs were right or not.
A liquor store in Oklahoma, Midwest Wine, and Spirits, faced some backlash after they put up a sign which read: “Pull your pants up or don’t come in.”
This made many angry because they believed the store didn’t have the right to tell people what to wear.
The sign vent viral quickly and media outlets asked the owners to tell them what made them put such a sing, to what one of the managers of the establishment, Chad Gilbert, said. “I realize wearing pants low is a fashion statement for some, but it doesn’t work for me and I find it somewhat offensive.”
The sign further read, “Try to have some decency and respect for others. No one wants to see your underwear.”
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One of the customers, Sunshine Weatherby, said, “I can see that if it was like a church. There are families there, you might have a problem with that, but this is a liquor store. I’ve seen worse at a liquor store.” However, and employee mentioned that wearing low-hanging pants raised security concerns as well. “Usually, when people come in with their pants sagging, it’s easier for them to steal bottles,” she said.
Other stores faced similar backlash in the past because of their signs which many weren’t fond of because of one reason or another.
A store put up a sign saying they were closed because they were forced to fire both of their cashiers who happened to be teenagers so the owners were now looking for boomers instead of someone who belonged to the Generation Z. “News flash: All teenagers have always acted this way. It’s nothing new. Even the boomers when they were young,” a Reddit user commented. “Cracks me up that they think boomers would be less entitled than Gen-Z,” another added.
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Yet another similar story comes from KFC Ohio who posted a sign back in 2016 saying, “All uniformed police officers eat free every day all day.”
This way, they wanted to show their gratitude to the police officers for everything they do for the community, but many found this inappropriate because as they said, firefighters, who have similar impact on society, were excluded from the list.
To address the public outrage against this alleged ‘offensive sign’, the admin of Ohio Going Blue responded, “This is a positive post, but some of you can’t see the bigger picture. As an officer, I do not go into any establishment expecting/wanting ANYTHING to be free or let alone even a discount. Whether I’m in uniform or not, I can tell you other officers feel the same way. We don’t like “special treatment”. The fact is that KFC is acknowledging law enforcement, which is why this was posted. To those who stated that other first responders should also be acknowledged. My answer? ABSOLUTELY.”
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After much anticipation, the sequel of the iconic film Top Gun was finally released in May, 2022. Top Gun: Maverick came to life 36 years since we first saw Tom Cruise in the role of Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, and surpassed the original film both critically and commercially.
To the delight of many, most of the roles were reprised by the original actors, and that included Val Kilmer in the role of Lt. Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.
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During the last years, Kilmer suffered some serious issues.
In 2015, Kilmer underwent a surgery due to throat cancer and lost his natural voice. When asked what he truly misses about his old voice, he said, “That I had one! That I didn’t laugh like a pirate.”
Sadly, he’s still suffering consequences from the cancer treatments.
Kilmer was supposed to appear in Disney+’s relaunch of Willow, in which he would have reprised his 1988 portrayal but his health prevented him from doing so.
Speaking of filming Top Gun: Maverick, Kilmer said he was excited to be on-screen with Tom Cruise again, adding that meeting Tom again “was like no time had passed at all.”
As his fans were eager to see their favorite actor’s performance in the cult action film, it looked like Kilmer’s children, Mercedes and Jack, were most excited of all.
His daughter posted pictures from set with the caption, “Finally allowed to post these pics from the @topgunmovie set. Maverick out now!”
This isn’t the first time for the Heat star’s children to share photos of themselves and their famous father. What’s most, the resemblance between Jack and young Val is uncanny.
It is always a pleasure to witness our favorite celebrities sharing precious moments with their families.
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The number of school shootings taking place in America is outrageous and alarming. In 2022 only, there were 51 school shootings that resulted either in injuries or deaths, and parents out there are afraid for their children’s safety.
On March 27, 2023, a deadly shooting took place at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in the Green Hills area. Sadly, three nine-year-old students and three staff members lost their lives. The shooter, who has been identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was fatally shot by responding police officers at the scene. Hale was armed with three guns, including a semi-automatic rifle.
The news of the tragic incident took the country by storm and shocked millions of people who were deeply saddened.
One of the people who took to the social media to share their condolences and express their concern over the tragedy was Caroline Bryan, the wife of country singer Luke Bryan. She said how she starts every day with a prayer together with her children and the children of her late sister and her late brother-in-law whom she and Bryan took under their care.
She spoke of the uncertainty many parents feel when they send their children to school, or as she stated, to an unknown future.
“Every morning, I hop into the car with my boys and we always say our morning prayers,” she wrote. “As soon as the kids are out of the car at school, I always say another prayer to keep the kids safe from any harm…and my brain is always thinking about a shooting,” she continued. “This is horrific that parents, teachers, kids…anyone working at a school has to worry about shootings every damn day. Something has to change. Now.”
Before speaking of the shooting, she shared a photo of the Covenant School and a passage from Psalm 34:18, “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
She added that we should not allow to make children feel unsafe and insecure when they go to school.
Other celebrities who have expressed their concern and condolences, as well as their outrage because of the tragic shooting are Reba McEntire, Carly Pearce, Randy Houser, Sheryl Crow, and others.
We are so very sorry for the loss of innocent lives.
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What we believe distinguishes humans from animals is our ability of complex reasoning, the use of language, and the ability to feel and express different emotions, and although this is true, animals are in fact able to experience many emotions too. This has been proven to be accurate many times, and this story which comes from Punjabi, India, is yet another example of that.
India is known as a country with a huge number of stay dogs and they seem to be unable to resolve this issue.
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One day, two stray puppies wondered off and lost their mother. Unfortunately, they fell into a deep pit and were unable to get out. There, in the pit, was a huge king cobra. This sounded trouble because everyone believed that the snake would kill the puppies, but to the surprise of many, the opposite happened. The cobra stayed by the puppies side making sure they don’t end up to the more dangerous part of the well.
The puppies stayed at the same spot for 48 hours before someone came to their rescue.
The rescuers were afraid that the cobra could hurt the doggies when they would try to take them out, but once the cobra spotted the humans, it just moved politely, making a way for them to do their job.
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This stunned many and showed everyone that day that animals do have the ability to stand for one another when needed.
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Jacqueline Bisset, who has been considered one of the most beautiful women of Hollywood and whose career spans nearly six decades, is still active filming besides being 78. What’s most, she doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.
Most recently, this gorgeous lady appeared in the French thriller The Lodger where she portrayed a role of a sassy femme fatale, and in the film Loren & Rose in which she played the role of Rose, an actress who’s trying to re-establish her career but is considered to be a “little zany and a bit unreliable.”
Jacqueline Bisset in a publicity shot for the film ‘The Detective’, 1968. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
Over the years, Bisset played in a number of movies, most of which still hold the status of being iconic.
Among the rest, she played the sultry seductress Miss Goodthighs in the spy parody Casino Royale (1967), a devoted mother in Sleepy Time Gal (2001), First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003) and Anna Karenina (1985) in the love story of the same name.
Other prominent films Bisset appeared in are Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Deep (1977), Wild Orchid (1990), her Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated role in Joan of Arc (1999), her Golden Globe-winning role in the miniseries Dancing on the Edge (2013), Miss You Already (2015) and Birds of Paradise (2021). The list goes on and on and it’s safe to say that Bisset has a lot to be proud of when it comes to her rich career.
Jacqueline Bisset in a the film, ‘Bullitt’, 1968. The thriller, directed by Peter Yates (1929-2011), starred Bisset as ‘Cathy’. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
When it comes to her love life, what we know us that Bisset has never been married because as she says, she’s too independent in order to be able to commit. However, over the years, she has been linked to some very handsome men. Rumors are that Frank Sinatra had a crush on her, but she dated Bullitt co-star, Hollywood bad boy, Steve McQueen at the time. The two, however, were too different to be able to function as they wished to.
“He was attractive, but a little scary. I was very English and he was a hip American. The way he talked would have driven me mad–I didn’t know what a dude or a soul chick was!” she told The Daily Mail, referring to McQueen.
Jacqueline Bisset and Frank Sinatra going to a premiere on May 28,1968 in New York, New York. (Photo by Santi Visalli/Getty Images)
“I’ve had some very interesting men in my life. They have been a handful. I don’t choose easy men, I’m told,” the actress who also dated Canadian actor Michael Sarrazin, the ballet dancer Alexander Godunov and actor Vincent Pérez said. “Sometimes you get too much information when you spend time with people. You start to see things–bad habits. You start to discover them and then you have to marry bad habits and I’m not sure I can cope with them. I don’t ever have bad relationships. I haven’t broken up angry. I’ve just moved out of situations that have been overwhelming.”
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When she was 69, and after 47 years since her first ever nomination, Bisset won the Golden Globe for her portrayal as Lady Cremone in the BBC series Dancing on the Edge.
Even today, Bisset looks as stunning as ever and she definitely defies age. She has aged naturally and has never undergone a plastic procedure to enhance her looks as she believes there is nothing better than the natural. “I believe, if you want to look good, you’ve got to forgive everybody. It’s the best beauty treatment,” she said during her Golden Globe award acceptance speech. “I don’t think [plastic surgery] makes you look younger. It makes you different,” she said.
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It is beautiful when people love and accept themselves the way they are, just like Bisset. She is true representation of the glamour Hollywood once possessed and remains one of the best and most successful actresses ever who has a lot more to give to the world of film.
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A tragedy is a terrible thing, and Latana Chai, a mother from California, knows all about tragedy having suffered a terrible blow recently.
The most terrible and completely unexpected happened one day when she was at home with her seven-month-old baby girl Masailah.
Masailah incidentally is around about the size of the family’s pit bull, called Sasha, who is eight months old.
Approximately midnight on the June 3rd, all of a sudden, mum heard Sasha barking and scratching furiously at the back door.
The dog’s barking was really loud and she was trying to tell them something important, she started to feel a rush of urgency and the panic started to set in. She knew that there was something wrong, this was quite unlike the dog and there must be a real and urgent problem…
The dog was usually quite placid and a really great member of the family, loving, gentle, kind and playful…
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She opened up the door and saw black smoke and flames coming out of the neighboring house. The fire was spreading fast to Latana’s house, too.
In an attempt to get her baby out of the house before the flames spread even further, Latana ran to Masailah’s room as fast as she could. However, Sasha was already there. Latana watched in complete amazement and shock at how the family pit bull bit he baby’s diaper and dragged her to safety.
Mom couldn’t believe her eyes, but she grabbed the baby and the dog and went outside. Without their wonderful Sasha’s warning it could well have been too late, and they could have been caught in the flames.
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Sasha has been a lovely dog, and there since Masailah’s birth, so it’s very clear that the two share a special bond together, very sweet!
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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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Donald Trump, the property-tycoon-turned-politician who served as the 45th president of the United States, was indicted on Thursday for his role in a hush money scheme prior to the 2016 election. He is the first U.S. president in American history to be indicted.
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 prior to the 2016 elections. 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.
Trump is now facing 34 felony counts for falsification of business records.
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Following the indictment, Trump released a statement, describing it a “witch-hunt” that will “backfire massively” on President Joe Biden.
“The American people realize exactly what the Radical Left Democrats are doing here. Everyone can see it. So our Movement, and our Party – united and strong – will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to throw every last one of these Crooked Democrats out of office so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he wrote.
The former president has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the matter and pleaded “not guilty.”
A source “who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president” told Yahoo that Trump was not put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell, or forced to have a mugshot taken.
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.”
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While Trump is facing all these charges and his family is there to provide support, the world hasn’t heard a peep from his wife, Melania, who according to reports, won’t be supporting him in the courtroom.
“Melania is leading her own life and still feels happy being at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by people who love her and who never talk about reality or bad things about her husband,” a source told People.
People close to her claim she’s far from happy with the situation her husband has found himself in. “She remains angry and doesn’t want to hear [the alleged hush money payment] mentioned,” the source told People. “She is aware of who her husband is and keeps her life upbeat with her own family and a few close friends.”
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Stephanie Grisham, former White House aid, told Inside Edition, “I would be very, very surprised. I would be very surprised to see her in court. Because it has to do with Stormy Daniels. It’s just not in her to stand by her man for something like that.
“She’s not lending him a whole lot of moral support, and I’m sure she’s still thinking: ‘You got yourself into this mess. I’m certainly not going to walk beside you and support you as you try to get out of it,’” she added.
Grisham recalled the time Melania learned of the affair and was disgusted with Donald. “She always said to me, ‘this is his problem,’” Grisham recalled.
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Besides this, Melania has also spoken to people close to her that she doesn’t want to be a First Lady again and that she’s not happy with Donald’s plans to run for president in the 2024 elections.
“Being the first lady again is not what she wants,” one person close to the Trump family told CNN back in September. “For her, it was a chapter — and it’s over, and that’s that.” One of the main reasons for this is that Melania loves living a life out of the spotlight and away from the public eye.
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The tragic passing of the well-known DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, 40, who was part of The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2014 to the show’s conclusion earlier this year, left many in devastation.
With his passing, the world of dance lost a legend.
The saddest part of this loss is the fact that this man who brought laughter and joy wherever he went was suffering in silence and was battling depression. Sadly, not many were aware of his condition as he hid it behind his gorgeously infectious smile.
tWitch’s unrivaled energy and creativity made him a vital part of the dance community and those who knew him will never forget him and his choreography which was known and recognized far and wide.
Many celebrities who knew tWitch took to the social media to share their condolences and show love and support to his family, wife Allison Holker and his three children.
Nigel Lythgoe, the creator and judge of the show So You Think You Can Dance, tWitch was part of, said he was “heartbroken and grieved” and “at a loss to understand how someone as adored and inspirational to so many people as Stephen was would feel they are in such a dark place that they have no choice but to take their life.”
“With Twitch, it’s incomprehensible to me,” he stated. “He was always cheerful and smiling. Every person he met admired him. Today will be a terrible day for the dance community, but my thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Allison and their children.
Ellen DeGeneres was among the first to post of her friend’s passing. “I’m heartbroken,” she wrote alongside a photo of her and tWitch hugging on the stage of her show. “tWitch was pure love and light. He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children – Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia.”
Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States, who frequently appeared on the Ellen show, posted an Instagram photo of Boss’s family with the caption, “I was heartbroken to learn about the passing of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, who I got to know over the years through my Let’s Move! Initiative and visits to The Ellen Show.”
Among those who were left devastated by this loss was singer and actress Jennifer Lopez.
Lopez shared plenty of photos of her and tWitch with whom she worked in the World of Dance. “Twitch has such a beautiful and shining soul. Astounded and heartbroken. “Love and strength to @sir twitch a lot, his wife, and their children,” she wrote.
We are so very for this loss.
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The Coronavirus pandemic which was at its height in 2020 affected the way we live and staying positive and optimistic seemed like the only reasonable thing if we didn’t want to crush mentally. Many people lost their jobs and were struggling to make ends meet as a number of businesses closed. Today, the virus isn’t as spread, but sadly, that doesn’t meant its not there.
Unfortunately, many of those who were affected by the virus were left with prolonged symptoms, such as problems with their lungs and breathing.
At the time, not many doctors listed back pain as one of the symptoms, but recently, they discovered that people experiencing such pain could likely be related to the coronavirus.
One of the people who struggled with back pain after contracting the virus is host Ellen DeGeneres.
She was the host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show for almost nineteen years before she decided it was time to end it in 2022. “I truly have felt like next season was the right time” to bring it to a close, she said, and added: “The truth is, I always trust my instincts. My instinct told me it’s time.”
Ellen contracted the virus although she followed “proper precautions.” Back then, in December 2020, she declared that she was “100%” before going on to explain something about the condition that medical professionals “don’t tell you.”
During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” along with Billie Joe Armstrong and musical guests Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley, Ellen opened up about her health condition and said, “I feel fantastic. What they don’t tell you is that you will have severe back pain. I had no notion that was a symptom until I spoke with a few other people.
“Who would have thought?” “How so?” Ellen wondered. “I’m having back pain.”
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) did not formally include back pain as a Covid symptom at the start of the pandemic. Interestingly, one of them was “muscle or bodily aches.” Other symptoms listed included fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath, tiredness, headache, the new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea.
However, more and more people declared they have also experienced severe back and muscle pain.
According to the NHS website, “many patients will have had some aches and pains before becoming unwell with Covid.
“Illness may have resurfaced or worsened these difficulties.”
Luckily, Ellen was able to get well quickly.
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Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman star, experienced yet another health scare after he was forced to undergo multiple operations over the years because of skin cancer.
Jackman was first diagnosed back in 2013 when he visited a doctor after a makeup artist on the crew of X-Men spotted an abnormality on his nose. From that moment one, Jackman was diagnosed with the same form of cancer five more times and he has now revealed that he is once again undergoing tests.
In a video that he posted on the social media, on which Jackman could be seen wearing a bandage on his nose, he says, “The doctors saw something that was a little irregular, so they took a biopsy and they’re getting it checked.”
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, basal cell carcinoma is one of the two most common types of skin cancer. It begins in the basal layer of the skin and can usually be cured, but can also be disfiguring. In people with this form of non-melanoma skin cancer, the treatment is successful at 9 out of 10 of them.
As always, Jackman used the video now only to share details of his health states with his fans, but also to remind them to always take the necessary precautions when it comes to sun exposure.
“Please wear sunscreen, it is just not worth it, no matter how much you want a tan. Trust me!” he said.
“This is all stuff that happened 25 years ago and it’s coming out now. Put some sunscreen on and you’ll still have an incredible time out there. Please be safe.”
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The Wolverine star then added: “I wanted you to hear it from me, just in case someone sees me on the street or whatever. I’ve just had two biopsies done.”
This isn’t the first time for Jackman to speak publicly of his health struggles. He uses every occasion to raise awareness and warn people to take care of themselves. Back in 2021, when speaking of his health scares, he said, “It’s certainly not my first, I’ve had five or six of them now.
“It’s pretty common when you have English parents and they take you over to Australia and you play cricket out in the sun.”
According to the Skin Care Foundation, “Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) arises from abnormal, uncontrolled growth of basal cells” and is “usually caused by a combination of cumulative and intense, occasional sun exposure.” An estimated 3.6 million cases of this form of cancer are diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone.
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The results of the long-awaited DNA test which was to confirm whether the 21-year-old girl named Julia Wendell was in fact Madeleine McCann are finally here.
Julia Wendell from Poland has gone viral after sensationally claiming that she is Madeleine McCann, who went missing from an apartment in Praia da Luz, in Portugal, while her parents were out having dinner. At the time of her disappearance, Madeleine was just 4 years old, and the search for her never stopped.
Julia gathered over a million followers on her Instagram account named “Help me, I need to talk with Kate and Gerry McCann,” with the username “iammadeleinemccan.” Some of the evidence she shared in support of her claims were certain physical similarities with the missing Madeleine, like the famous rare eye defect and other facial features. As of her childhood, Julia said she remembered little to nothing.
In statements made to the Daily Star, Julia said:“I have lived a very hard life and suffered a lot of trauma, my abuser was a German paedophile who was a suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation.
“I had not heard of this case until I started asking my parents questions about my childhood as I have little to no memory of it. The memories are all very blurry and when I have had conversations with my parents, things don’t seem to add up and they always try to change the subject.”
Further, Julia said, “I don’t remember being taken away. I mean, I don’t remember almost my entire childhood… I have asked for pictures of when my mum was pregnant with me, other medical records and any pictures from my childhood and she never shows them, she just always tells me I’m crazy.
In order to draw even more attention, Julia fled Poland and relocated to the US. She even made an appearance on the popular talk-show Dr. Phil.
The results of the DNA test show that Julia is not Madeleine. It has further been revealed that Julia is of Polish heritage, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage.
Speaking to RadarOnline, Dr. Fia Johansson said: “She is absolutely 100 percent from Poland. She is a small percentage of Lithuanian and Russian but the test results show she is Polish.”
Even before the results were being published, Dr. Johansson, who has been given power of attorney over Julia, said her “gut feeling” told her that her client isn’t the missing child.
“We learned a few things, one being that Julia’s mum is in fact now believed to be her mum, so she is not Madeleine McCann,” Dr. Johansson said.
“They’re not 100% but they believe that Julia’s mum is in fact her mum. They’re questioning her father’s side. They’re checking into that, that’s part of what they’re doing with the DNA.
“But Julia’s mum is in fact her mum is what they’re believing and she is not in fact Madeleine McCann.”
Recently, the search for Madeleine has been extended to 12 more months and £302,470 funding has been approved, which gave fresh hope to her parents.
We truly hope this case will eventually be solved.
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Ever since he was diagnosed with aphasia, a condition which affects one’s ability to communicate, everyone is praying for actor Bruce Willis’ well-being. His family, including his wife Emma Heming, as well as his daughters and his ex-wife Demi Moore, are sharing updates regarding Willis’ health with his fans. Sadly, the Die Hard star has also been diagnosed with dementia and it looks like his health is deteriorating, but despite that, his loved ones make sure he feels how much he’s loved and taken care of.
Recently, he celebrated his 68th birthday surrounded with family and close friends who could be seen smiling as they all sang ‘Happy Birthday.’ Willis himself seemed to be in good spirits.
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“So today is my husband’s birthday. I have started the morning by crying, as you can see by my swollen eyes and snotty nose. I just think it’s important that you see all sides of this,” Heming wrote.
“I do have times of sadness, every day. Grief, every day. And I’m really feeling it today on his birthday.”
The former model captioned the post, “Today is one of those days of feeling the grief and sadness. But the silver lining or the flip side is that I’m so lucky to feel your warmth and love that is directed to my husband and our family. I see your messages, your stories that you share, and all I can say is thank you.”
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Willis and Heming share two daughters to together, Mabel Ray who was born in 2012 and Evelyn Penn who was born in 2014. Recently, the couple celebrated Mabel Ray’s birthday and Heming make sure she shared some of the highlights of the girl’s birthday party with her followers.
The proud mom posted a cute video which was a collage of photos featuring special moments of their daughter’s life from the time she was still just a baby to today. On some of the photos, Mabel Ray was with her dad, including one on which they could be seen enjoying in the pool, then another one of her on his shoulders. There were also photos of the father-daughter duo walking together, and a lot more.
HOLLYWOOD, CA – AUGUST 19: Actor Bruce Willis attends the premiere of Dimension Films’ “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For” at TCL Chinese Theatre on August 19, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
“Happy 11th Birthday Mabel Ray! Your energy is infectious,” Heming wrote in the caption as she wished her daughter happy birthday and added that her daughter can “light a whole room with your smile and warmth.”
She ended the beautiful birthday post writing, “How you love and care for your family and friends is beautiful to witness. Keep shining my love and always remember to #liveitup.”
With roles in films which are considered iconic, such as Gladiator and Beautiful Mind, the New Zealand born actor Russell Crow cemented his place in Hollywood and made a massive mark in the industry of film.
Back in March, 2021, Crowe lost his father, John Crowe who was 85 years old at the time of his passing. He passed away in his home of 25 years in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales in Australia.
This was a huge blow for the actor who shared a tribute to his late father on the social media and wrote, “I’m posting this because I know there are people all over the world who’s heart he touched and who’s ribs he tickled with his sparkly eyes and his cheeky attitude to everyone, and everything. And this is probably as efficient a method as any to pass on the news.”
Further, Crowe added: “I arrived back in the bush last night. Today, although the sun is shining and the torrential rain has abated, this date will forever be tinged with sadness. My dear old man, my beautiful dad, the most gentle of men, has passed away.”
This year, on the second anniversary of his father’s passing, the actor who will appear in the 2023 movie The Pope’s Exorcist, shared another heartbreak, the death of his dog, Louis the Papillion.
I’m not at all a fan of dressing dogs up, but, a friend bought little Louis a @RalphLauren polo so he can match with dad. I think the other dogs on the farm are going to get jealous. Pretty funny. pic.twitter.com/odmCZwfvA8
Although Crowe tends to keep a low profile and is not very active on social media, he would share photos of Louis. Once, he posted a photo of himself and his dog wearing matching shirts.
Under the cute photo, he wrote, “I’m not at all a fan of dressing dogs up, but, a friend bought little Louis a @RalphLauren polo so he can match with dad. I think the other dogs on the farm are going to get jealous. Pretty funny.”
This is Louis the Papillion. 16 months old. Tiny, cheeky, brave. He won my heart. Unfortunately today, on the second anniversary of my fathers passing, Louis was hit by a truck. We tried to get him to the vet, but he died in my arms while I was telling him how much we loved him. pic.twitter.com/zIwzUz8Ljx
Sadly, Louis got hit by a truck and didn’t manage to survive despite the efforts by Crowe and the veterinarians. “This is Louis the Papillion. 16 months old. Tiny, cheeky, brave. He won my heart. Unfortunately today, on the second anniversary of my father’s passing, Louis was hit by a truck. We tried to get him to the vet, but he died in my arms while I was telling him how much we loved him.”
We are so very sorry for Crowe’s loss.
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