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| | Dakota Johnson & Chris Martin broke up again: 'It feels final this time' | | Added 28 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In retrospect, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin have always been a more dramatic and mercurial couple, it?s just that they?re both so good at being private that most people never realized how dramatic it all was. Dakota and Chris started seeing each other eight years ago. They got engaged circa 2020, but they never managed to get down the aisle. They also seemingly broke up multiple times over the course of eight years, and they recently split up again. People Mag?s exclusive said this split sounds like the big one, the final one.
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin have broken up, ending their nearly eight-year, on-off relationship, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
It feels final this time, one source said of the split. Reps for the stars did not respond to PEOPLEs requests for comment.
The Materialists actress, 35, and the Coldplay singer, 48, who were first romantically linked in 2017, were photographed together two weeks ago when they stepped out in Malibu together on May 16. Before that, in January, the pair held hands in India, where Martin was touring with his band.
In March 2024, an insider told PEOPLE that Johnson and Martin had actually been engaged for ?years? after first sparking engagement rumors in 2020, though they were in no rush to get married at the time.
[From People]
Even if it was off-and-on, eight years together is no joke. I didn?t even realize that this had been happening for so long. There are barely any photos of them together too. I know some of that is Dakota?s call, but Chris was the same way with Gwyneth and Annabelle Wallis. I?ve always thought that it must be so difficult to be in a relationship with a guy who is terrified of being seen with you in public. At some point, don?t you just want a partnership where you can hold hands and walk down the street together? At some point, don?t you want your partner to make the effort to come out and support you at your work events? That?s never been Chris though. I?m not saying that?s why they broke up I have no idea but it must have been difficult for Dakota. Anyway, I hope that for her next boyfriend, Dakota bags a hottie who wants to hold her hand.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Brooke Shields says she interrupted 'too precious' Duchess Meghan at SXSW | | Added 29 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In March 2024, the Duchess of Sussex made an appearance at the SXSW Festival. She was invited to participate in a panel discussion for International Women?s Day. Brooke Shields and Katie Couric were also on the panel. Honestly, there was so much going on in March 2024, I don?t think I even watched the video of the panel discussion at the time (and I still won?t). Apparently, at one point in the discussion, Brooke Shields interrupted Meghan when Meghan was retelling the story of getting Procter & Gamble to change their sexist commercial. Brooke was asked about that moment in a podcast interview, and she said she interrupted Meghan because Meg was being ?too precious? and ?serious.?
Brooke Shields shared candid remarks about Meghan Markle after the two participated in a panel about womens empowerment last year, calling the Duchess of Sussex too precious. While appearing on the latest episode of India Hicks podcast, Shields said Meghans story was too serious, and she didnt think her words would resonate with the SXSW audience.
Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, Shields said, per The Independent. She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 ? and she keeps saying, ?Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women, Shields told Hicks, who is King Charles? goddaughter. And she said, ?I didn?t think only women wash dishes. It wasn?t fair. So I wrote to the company. She kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial. It was just too precious, and I was like, they?re not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.
The Mother of the Bride star told Hicks she then interrupted Meghan to try and lighten the tone.
?I go, ?Excuse me, I?m so sorry, I?ve got to interrupt you there for one minute.? I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious,? Shields said.
She then joked to the panel, I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we?re different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute, referring to her role in 1978s Pretty Baby.
Shields said ?the place went insane after her quip, and the panel was ?more relaxed after.
[From People]
I think multiple things can be true at once: Brooke?s interruption probably did lighten the mood of the panel; Brooke interrupted and talked over a woman of color on International Women?s Day, with fking sucks; Brooke was centering herself like a narcissistic ahole; Meghan was being a tad repetitive. I also think Meghan?s vibe is so teachery, especially since she?s had kids. The only way I can explain it is that you can tell that she spends a lot of time talking to people under the age of 5. Also: what in the world is Brooke doing on India Hicks? podcast? No wonder the conversation turned to Meghan.
Here?s the full video of the SXSW panel discussion. You can skip to the 6:15-mark to see Couric ASK Meghan specifically about the commercial, and Meghan answering the question. Brookes interruption happens around the 7:20 mark.
Photos courtesy of YouTube screengrabs, Avalon Red.
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| | Ellen Pompeo was detained by TSA for an hour over a bag of sunflower seeds | | Added 29 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we?ve discussed, Netflix just released a six-minute preview of the new season of Wednesday. One of my favorite parts of the clip is Wednesday Addams going through security at Newark Airport (who knew how prescient setting a horror show at Newark would end up being, amirite?). After unloading all manner of instruments (weapons) Wednesday has packed to use against the Kansas City Scalper, what is the item TSA agents end up dinging her for? A sunscreen bottle larger than three ounces! As someone who had to surrender my own sunscreen at JFK just a few months ago, the bit spoke to me. This preamble brings us to Ellen Pompeo. The Grey?s Anatomy star just revealed to Travel + Leisure that on a recent flight, TSA agents detained her for an hour while they called in the bomb squad? to inspect her bag of sunflower seeds! What, were they worried she bought them from the same dealer who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?
?I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy,? she told Travel + Leisure in an interview published May 29. ?They literally held me for an hour, and they brought the bomb squad in.?
And Pompeo couldn?t believe that her seeds?purchased from the upscale Los Angeles grocer known for the Hailey Bieber smoothie?prompted such a serious response.
?And I was like, what is happening? Is this a joke?? she recalled. ?They said it was most likely a chemical on the packaging of these super expensive, fancy, organic, clean sunflower seeds. My protein on the plane!?
Even when the actress offered to throw away the seeds, she said officials needed her to remain put while they investigated the unopened bag.
?I almost missed the flight,? the 55-year-old shared. ?It was really like no one would ever believe this! I was texting my publicist saying, ?I might not get on this plane, and you?re never gonna guess why.??
And while Pompeo?s protein-packed snack certainly set off alarms, it?s not the only time her dedication to her health has sparked controversy.
In fact, she recently recalled that she was once ?so skinny? that ?everyone thought I had an eating disorder.?
?The tabloids would say horrible things,? she told People in February. ?I just remember being so anxious on red carpets, and the comments about my weight and my body.?
?It was a whole situation with how skinny I was, and there was so much negative attention,? she explained. ?Girls today can be gorgeous and thin and thank God we?re not allowed to comment on women?s bodies, even though people do. But I just had so much anxiety and lacked self-esteem because people were so critical of my physicality.?
[From E! News]
I know this isn?t the point of the story, but a bag of overpriced organic sunflower seeds was her entire protein for the flight? Dare I say, that is literally eating like a bird! Anyway, I ribbed the TSA agents earlier, but kidding aside, this exact same thing happened to me. Only it wasn?t a bag of sunflower seeds but a big burrito tightly wrapped in tin foil. And I wasn?t detained for an hour while bomb squad came in to assist, but instead had to suffer through the withering gaze of the agents whose facial expressions loudly said, ?Damn lady, that is one big ass burrito.? (It was a cross country flight! I need more protein than Ellen!) I can?t believe they didn?t just let her throw the seeds away like she offered. That seems needlessly crazy on the TSA?s part. Personally, I would sooner sit down in place and eat my burrito than trash it, but I guess that?s the difference between me and Ellen. (Or a burrito and sunflower seeds.)
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| | Kylie Jenner detailed her cosmetic surgery in a TikTok comment | | Added 29 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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While she denied it for years, Kylie Jenner began getting cosmetic work in her teens. It wasn?t just lip injections either, although the lip injections were and are some of the most noticeable work. The lip injections were also the only thing Kylie admitted to in interviews. She never ?fessed up to work on her body or whatever they did to her eyes/browline. Well, a TikToker just asked Kylie to explain how she gets her girls? to sit up the way they do. Kylie ended up commenting on the video and explaining the details of her implants.
Kylie Jenner broke down her boob job in exact detail in a TikTok comment Monday after a fan praised her ?most perfect, natural boob job ever.? The social media user asked the makeup mogul, ?Help a girl out @Kylie Jenner, I just want to know how to get them to sit like that, respectfully.?
Jenner, 27, replied, ?445 cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!!!! Silicone!!!?
According to London?s Centre for Surgery, 445 cc is estimated to be between a D and DD cup depending on the starting breast size. A moderate profile, meanwhile, is meant to appear the most natural.
The ?Keeping Up With the Kardashians? alum went on to provide the name of her Beverly Hills, Calif., doctor, Garth Fisher, in her candid confession. Kourtney Kardashian and Khlo Kardashian have worked with Fisher over the years for a breast augmentation and a cancerous facial tumor removal, respectively. Jenner concluded, ?Hope this helps lol.?
The Kylie Cosmetics creator?s fans raved over her reply, labeling the ?Kardashians? star a ?girls? girl? and a ?queen.?
The Hulu personality has reacted to plastic surgery rumors multiple times over the years, even denying in a September 2015 blog post that she had ever gone under the knife. ?I haven?t gotten breast implants! Everyone is obsessed with that,? she wrote on her website at the time. ?Truth is, as I?ve gotten older, I?ve gained 15 pounds and my body has changed; I?ve definitely filled out.?
The following month, the then-18-year-old tweeted, ?I haven?t done anything except my lips but nobody seems to believe that.?
[From Page Six]
For what it?s worth, I don?t think Kylie did have implants circa 2015, or if she did, they were smaller. It wouldn?t surprise me at all if she had everything redone after she had her two kids, because I swear, I think her ?girls? look relatively new at this size. The TikToker is right they?re pretty natural looking and they don?t have that hard, bolted-on look. You can still tell that they?re fake though!
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Kylies IG.
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| | Kate Hudson: Mindy Kaling was giving script notes within an hour of giving birth | | Added 30 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kate Hudson is in the midst of a career resurgence with Netflix?s Running Point. Running Point is the show loosely based on the life and times of Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, and the show is executive produced by Hudson, Buss and Mindy Kaling. It?s having a phenomenal run on Netflix, peaking at #1 and staying in the top-ten most watched shows since its premiere. The partnership between the three women is so cool, and in press, Kate, Mindy and Jeanie all seem to adore each other and enjoy working together. At an event for Running Point last week, Kate revealed something crazy: Mindy was putting the first season together in the last trimester of her third pregnancy. Meaning, Mindy was giving script notes just hours after giving birth.
Mindy Kaling is officially the GOAT ? at least according to Kate Hudson! Hudson, 46, spoke about her immense love for Kaling, 45, while attending an Emmy consideration event for their Netflix show Running Point on Friday, May 30, at the UCLA Lakers Training Center in Los Angeles.
?I have to say, Ive fallen in love with this woman,? Hudson said of Kaling, who co-created and executive-produced the show. ?And shes just not only so brilliant, but so trusting ? she puts the best team together,? she said.
?And she was pregnant,? she continued. ?We had a script, like our first table read. Shes on Zoom. She then has the baby and is sending notes like an hour after she has the baby. I was like, ?Isn?t Mindy literally in labor?? ?
?She is a powerhouse and delivers what she says shes going to deliver,? Hudson continued.
Kaling, who quietly welcomed her third baby in February of 2024, created the show with Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen.
[From People]
It?s crazy that Mindy was working as she was giving birth, and it?s crazy that Kate was one of the few people to even know that Mindy was pregnant. Mindy?s pregnancies have been so secretive and most people didn?t even know she was pregnant again in 2023-24. Anyway, I haven?t actually watched Running Point yet but I will give it a shot. Netflix already greenlighted a second season, and I bet they try to put everything together pretty quickly, given the interest in and love for this series.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images and Getty Images for Netflix.
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| | Taylor Swift purchased the masters from her first six albums for nine figures | | Added 31 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In 2019, Scooter Braun?s Ithaca Holdings purchased all of the masters held/owned by Big Machine. Those masters included Taylor Swift?s first six albums. Swift was furious. Swift and her fans went to war with Braun for a while, and within a year of the sale, Braun off-loaded the Big Machine property to Shamrock Capital for a tidy profit. In the past six years, Taylor ended up taking Kelly Clarkson?s advice Clarkson randomly tossed off a tweet back in 2019, advising Taylor to rerecord those albums and ask the Swifties to buy the re-recordings. Taylor did just that, and the ?Taylor?s Version? re-rerecordings were massively successful too. Well, after all of that, Taylor has now bought back her masters for her first six albums. The dramatic announcement came on Friday:
In one of the more dramatic business developments in pop music history, Taylor Swift has purchased her catalog of recordings that were initially released through Big Machine Records, after six years of transfers and turmoil. She acquired those six albums and associated visuals from their most recent owner, Shamrock Capital, for an undisclosed nine-figure sum, a price tag that is being characterized by Swift as exceptionally fair and reasonable.
The singer will be reissuing her old Big Machine albums, which were first sold by Big Machine against her wishes in 2019,. But now there will be two fully authorized versions of each of those albums in the marketplace, since she?s saying the re-recorded ?Taylor?s Versions? will continue to be available alongside the originals. Two of those bonus-filled editions have yet to come out, including the long-awaited ?Reputation (Taylor?s Version),? and her statement declares this deal won?t keep the remaining pair of do-overs from still being released.
News of a possible sale by Shamrock to Swift was first reported by the New York Post, but a source close to the negotiations disavowed elements of that story, saying the price tag reported was grossly inflated, and that there was no involvement of Scooter Braun. His Ithaca Holdings bought the catalog in 2019 before Shamrock acquired it from him a year later; he no longer participates in any profit from a sale, and Swift?s camp is adamant he had no part in Shamrock?s decision to sell.
Said the source close to the sale: ?Contrary to a previous false report, there was no outside party who ?encouraged? this sale. All rightful credit for this opportunity should go to the partners at Shamrock Capital and Taylor?s Nashville-based management team only. Taylor now owns all of her music, and this moment finally happened in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him.?
The source added, ?The rumored price range that was reported is highly inaccurate.? While no price tag will be publicly forthcoming, insiders say the seller was interested in making a good-faith deal and the ultimate price was far closer to the $300 million Shamrock was reported to have paid in 2020 than the far more extravagant $600-million-to-$1 billion the Post hypothesized in its story.
Prior to this week, Swift fans were certain an announcement for ?Reputation (Taylor?s Version)? would be forthcoming on Memorial Day or thereabouts. But for those who still have that as their primary concern, the singer assured fans that her plans to reissue her original albums will not affect plans to put out the final two ?Taylor?s Version? editions, the other of which would be a new version of her debut album ? though she hedge a bit. Don?t expect the new ?Reputation? or ?Taylor Swift (Taylor?s Version)? any time soon, she cautioned in the note, even though songs from a partially re-recorded version of the former album have already been licensed for television (recently appearing in ?The Handmaid?s Tale?).
As she explains in her letter: ?I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency. I haven?t even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while Feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it?s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn?t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you?re into the idea) for the unreleased Vault tracks from that album to hatch. I?ve already completely re-recorded my album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But if it happens, it won?t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.?
[From Variety]
Variety mentioned something which I didn?t know about the 2019 Big Machine sale not only did Taylor lose the rights to/ownership of her masters, she didn?t own the rights to her music videos, artwork and concert specials from that era. So now she has the rights to ALL of it, she owns all of it free and clear. As for the money? as Variety notes, their sources are saying that it was closer to $300 million. Page Six?s sources say the final figure was around $360 million. Which sounds like a lot, but consider this: she likely made around $2.5 billion just from the Eras Tour. So, she has the money and she used that money to buy her own work back. Good for her.
You belong with me.?
Letter on my site pic.twitter.com/pdb6kGDcVO
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 30, 2025
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| | Nick Lachey's rule for marriage is 'don't bring your work home with you' | | Added 31 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I remember when Nick and Vanessa Lachey first got together. It was after they met on the set of the music video for the song he wrote about his divorce from Jessica Simpson. It was so clich and I admit that I was skeptical that it would last. They have definitely proven me wrong! Nick and Vanessa have been married since July 2011 and have three kids, Camden, 12, Brooklyn, 10, and Phoenix, eight. They also work together as co-hosts of Love Is Blind. Nick just popped up on this week?s episode of SoFi?s financial podcast, Richer Lives. During his appearance, he had some advice for a successful marriage: ?Don?t bring your work home with you.?
Nick and Vanessa Lachey have been happily married for nearly 14 years ? and it?s likely thanks in part to following what Nick calls the couple?s ?golden rule.?
In an appearance on Richer Lives, SoFi?s branded financial podcast, Nick, 51, revealed the lesson he and Vanessa, 44, keep close to heart.
The best thing you can do is not bring your work home with you. Which is tricky when you work with your spouse,? Nick said on the episode, which premiered on Tuesday, May 27. ?I think we do a really good job of doing that, for the most part, but it?s not easy working with your spouse sometimes.?
The couple, who have been together since 2006 and married since 2011, have hosted the Netflix hit Love Is Blind together for the past five years.
?Sometimes you show up for work and there?s an argument at home that you brought with you to work and you dont want that to bleed over. And sometimes there?s arguments at work that bleed over,? he explained. ?You don?t want that, so, you know, it?s kind of good to compartmentalize and recognize that you?re here doing a job. Yes, you?re a married couple, and we?ve been together almost 20 years now, so I think that?s our golden rule, is don?t bring work home, don?t bring home to work. Try and keep it as separate as you can.?
In an interview with BRIDES in February, Nick and Vanessa revealed another secret to keeping their relationship strong: dedicating a day of the week to being intimate.
He?s like, What, schedule a sex day?' Vanessa said of Nick?s reaction. It sounds weird when you say that, so we decided: Wednesday ? hump day.
Though the NCIS: Hawaii star admitted they have fallen out of the routine after moving back to Los Angeles from Hawaii in August, Vanessa said she hoped to get back into it soon.
?I don?t want the time that we have for intimacy and connection to be taken over by logistics, but that?s our life,? she added. ?I think we?re coming into an age of having to have a hump day and a logistics day.?
The couple also talked about the benefits of couples counseling, with Nick noting that it?s normal to have disagreements after nearly two decades together.
?Anything that?s worth having takes work,? he said. ?To me, that?s a cornerstone of life, and marriage is no different. There?s no shame in that. There?s no perfect person. There?s just your person.?
[From People]
I would bet good money that not taking your work home with you was a hard lesson that Nick learned after he and Jessica filmed Newlyweds. There were probably no lines drawn during that time period to separate their professional and personal lives. Hes said as much. I get what he means in terms of, ?If you have a bad day at the office, leave it there.? I don?t think he?s saying not to talk to your partner about a problem; he means don?t take whatever happened at work out on your loved ones at home. It?s solid advice and should be a golden rule in all relationships.
I read Nick and Vanessas interview back in February when they talked about scheduling sexy times, and I really appreciated their honesty. They?re not the first couple to admit to doing that and they won?t be the last. No judgment here! You gotta do what you gotta do to stay connected as a couple. For a couple that has managed to stay pretty private, we do have some insight into their marriage: scheduled sex and keeping work sh-t at work. Good for them.
photos courtesy of Netflix and credit: Greg Gayne/Netflix
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| | Natalie Portman on Parisians: 'I find the people here are actually incredibly friendly' | | Added 32 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Natalie Portman has a ?cover interview? in net-a-porter?s in-house magazine, all to promote her role in Guy Ritchie?s Fountain of Youth. Portman hasn?t given many print interviews since her divorce from Benjamin Millepied, and while she doesn?t directly address the collapse of her marriage, she does make some subtle references. Like, she?s still living in Paris most of the time and she plans to maintain a home there, I would assume because Benjamin works in Paris almost exclusively now and they coparent their kids. A big chunk of her interview is about how much she enjoys living in Paris too, and how it?s better for her. Some highlights:
Why she loves Paris: ?Even when it?s cold and gray, there?s always some incredible exhibit or concert or dinner party or writers in town; something fascinating and stimulating happening? and the frequent vacations are so clutch!?
She doesn?t buy into the typecasting of Parisians as rude. ?I find the people here are actually incredibly friendly ? you just have to know how to interact, so that we?re not the ones being rude. Now, when I go back to the US, I?m like, oh, I would go into a store and not say hello to everyone there? It?s weird.?
She admires the French attitude to child-rearing. ?All the kids that come to my house are, like, ?bonjour Madame? ? and give me the bise [cheek-to-cheek kiss]. And before they leave, they are, like, ?thank you for having me? ? and if I?m not nearby, they?ll come and find me to say it.?
Cultural differences: ?I think we have an assumption that western cultures are all the same ? and kind of evened out by all this pop culture that everyone consumes. It?s not true: it?s extremely specific here; and the culture is very different in both deep and surface ways.?
Working with Julianne Moore in May-December: ?Julie and I had a beautiful, non-dramatic shoot; it?s so nice when your heroes live up to everything that you dream about them.?
Being a child actor: ?Listen, I had a really lucky trajectory. I do feel like working as a child was an amazing experience for me ? and I was very lucky that I was not harmed. [But] so many kids are harmed. And there are aspects of being publicly known and publicly seen as a kid? that turn you into an adult in a certain way. You become a woman in people?s eyes when you?re on screen.?
Whether #MeToo has made changes to Hollywood: ?Yeah, it?s changing but it?s a process? You know, things don?t change overnight, and there?s a backlash, there?s regression, all sorts of things. If anything, our current political moment shows us progress is not a straight line.?
It?s easier to be famous in Paris: ?They?re very good at privacy here. I feel like the biggest compliment is ?elle est trs discrte? [?she is very discreet?].?
Take a nap if you need it: ?My cousin and I always say that Ali Wong quote back to each other: ?I don?t wanna lean in, I wanna lie down!? You gotta lie down, you gotta take away everything you don?t have to do and then do nice things for yourself. Whether that means taking a nap ? like, literally ? or whatever it is. So much of being a woman who?s trying to do it all is just being tired and overwhelmed and not having any time to yourself. So, you have to demand it for yourself ? and you have to give it to yourself. If you?re too bent on being a perfect mom, being the perfect wife, being the perfect friend, perfect at your job, you?re going to crumble. Like, the number one thing about being a successful, happy, doing-it-all woman is being pretty cool with? ?I suck at everything?.?
[From Net-a-Porter]
?You just have to know how to interact, so that we?re not the ones being rude. Now, when I go back to the US, I?m like, oh, I would go into a store and not say hello to everyone there? It?s weird.? Remember that Oprah story from 2013? She said (and I believed her) that a fancy boutique in Switzerland refused to serve her, and that story became part of a larger conversation about how Americans interact with Europeans, especially in shops. Remember that Oprah story from 2013? She said (and I believed her) that a fancy boutique in Switzerland refused to serve her, and that story became part of a larger conversation about how Americans interact with Europeans, especially in shops. I mean, there were several conversations, but I remember the one about ?the customer is not always right in Europe?.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Hailey Bieber sold her beauty company Rhode to e.l.f. Beauty for $1 billion | | Added 35 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I fully admit that, for years now, I?ve believed the celebrity beauty/makeup/skincare industry is oversaturated, overhyped and overvalued. Kylie Jenner and Rihanna were the pioneers of ?beauty start-ups which turned into massive companies,? and all of the other ladies have been trying to copy them for the past decade. But while I?m a curmudgeon on these ventures, the actual beauty industry is bullish on these celebrity endeavors. Kylie Jenner sold the majority of her brand to Coty six years ago, Rihanna & LVMH split Fenty Beauty (a multi-billion dollar brand), and now Hailey Bieber has sold Rhode. Hailey started her skincare/beauty company Rhode in 2022, and it grew really fast really quickly, with several ?hero? products. Hailey has been exploring her options and wanting to sell all year, and now she?s found a buyer: e.l.f. Beauty.
Hailey Biebers rhode is celebrating a major milestone. On Wednesday, May 28, it was announced that e.l.f. Beauty had signed a $1 billion dollar deal to acquire the brand.
Per a press release, Bieber, 28, will continue her role as founder and additionally serve as rhode?s chief creative officer and head of innovation, overseeing creative, product innovation and marketing. She will also act as a strategic advisor to the combined companies.
The release also states that rhode was the No. 1 skincare brand in Earned Media Value in 2024, representing 367% year-over-year EMV growth.
?We can?t wait to bring rhode to more faces, places, and spaces. From day one, my vision for rhode has been to make essential skin care and hybrid makeup you can use every day,? Bieber shared in a statement. ?Just three years into this journey, our partnership with e.l.f. Beauty marks an incredible opportunity to elevate and accelerate our ability to reach more of our community with even more innovative products and widen our distribution globally.
The entrepreneur added that she looks forward to the brands new exciting chapter alongside co-founders Michael D. Ratner and Lauren Ratner, who have helped bring my vision to life from the start.?
Bieber also spoke to Allure about the news, saying, ?When youre launching a brand, youre just so focused on whats right in front of you at the time. And of course, you always have really big dreams and really big goals for it. This is definitely one of those things being realized. I could have never anticipated that it would happen at this exact time.? She added about her decision to pair with the e.l.f. team, Vibes matter!
[From People]
This is another reason why I rolled my eyes at the months of speculation about Justin Bieber?s finances one, I think the reports are coming from Justin?s former team because they?re mad that they?re not on the Bieber gravy train anymore. Two, I think Justin is more than fine with Hailey making money right now, and Hailey is absolutely the family breadwinner at the moment. Hailey?s a billionaire three years after launching her company. It?s insane. Good for her, honestly.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Backgrid.
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| | Cassie welcomed her third child, a boy, with husband Alex Fine | | Added 35 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Two weeks ago, Cassie testified against Sean Combs in his federal trial. Her testimony was a multi-day affair. Cassie was heavily pregnant at the time, and there were concerns that she would go into labor during her testimony, especially because of the stress of having to speak about everything Combs did to her. But she got through it with an enormous amount of bravery. Cassie gave birth to her third child this week:
Cassie Ventura is a mom again! The singer, 38, welcomed her third baby, a boy, with husband Alex Fine, a source confirmed to PEOPLE. TMZ was the first to report the news.
The news comes after a source confirmed with PEOPLE that she was taken to a New York City hospitals labor and delivery unit.
[From People]
I?m so happy for Cassie and her husband Alex Fine. Alex seems like such a decent man, and I?m so glad that Cassie was able to get a fresh start with her life.
Concurrent with Cassie welcoming her third child, Combs? attorneys requested a mistrial. I actually thought the two things were connected, like Combs wanted a mistrial because the prosecution?s star witness gave birth during the trial. But the now-rejected mistrial request had to do with Kid Cudi. Cassie dated Kid Cudi after she left Combs, and Combs (allegedly) fire-bombed Cudi?s Porsche in retaliation. Combs? legal team didn?t like some of the evidence submitted in the fire-bombing situation, that?s why they asked for a mistrial. The judge said: nope.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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