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| | Angie Harmon on menopause: I wake up and my face is four times its size | | Added 385 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angie Harmon called herself a liberal republican in 2013 so Ive side eyed her for some time. Shes also spoken, at length, about how shes discriminated against in Hollywood for being a republican. She has made some progress recently, so maybe shes changed. In a recent interview with People Magazine Angie was spitting truths which were timely for me to read. Angie is 51 and shes going through menopause. She told People magazine that exercise isnt working like it used to, that she gets so bloated all the time, and that shes basically struggling. OMG same.
Angie Harmon, 51, opened up to PEOPLE about how her body hasn?t been feeling like her own since hitting her 50s and going through menopause.
?The thing that I hate the most is when youre going through menopause, your body just isnt yours anymore,? she tells PEOPLE while explaining the changes and symptoms she?s experienced.
?The workouts that you used to do, they dont work anymore. And I love salt so much, and I swear to God, if I even smell it, I wake up the next morning and my eyes are almost swollen, closed. My face is four times its size,? she said. ?I mean, I have to think about all of these things now that I didnt used to have to think about.?
Harmon says there are even times her face gets so ?puffy? and ?gross? that she doesn?t recognize herself in the mirror.
In addition to the changes in her body, Harmon admits that her energy levels have started to decrease and she?s just been accepting it.
?I think the beauty of being in my fifties is that I definitely have those days where I dont feel like getting out of bed,? she says. ?Im exhausted. I just want to lay there and read a magazine about fashion or decorating and thats it.?
?Ill get up and make my daughter?s lunch and get her to school and do the whole thing and blah, blah, blah,? she adds. ?But I feel like Im coming back home and its one or two things, either laying down or working out. Whichever way the scale tips that day, thats where I go and I dont feel bad about it.?
As she tries to adjust, Harmon said that she?s turned to hot yoga to regulate the bodily changes that have come with menopause.
?I started hot yoga? and I mean you literally sweat out of your eyeballs and it is awesome,? said the Baywatch Nights star. ?Hot yoga. Im telling you, you get in there and you just sweat. I used to be a runner. I used to do all that stuff and I do still, but it just doesnt do what it used to do to my body.?
?Its just a StairMaster and hot yoga and three to five pound weights if Im feeling really good that day,? Harmon continued.
[From People]
As I go through this annoying sh-t, I think back to Viola Daviss interview on Fallon where she said shes angry and hungry all the time. (Shes talked about menopause in other interviews.) I can relate so much to that. Also, I have noticed that my face and hands are swollen frequently and that my joints hurt way more than they used to. I didnt make the connection that the puffiness was due to menopause so it helped me a lot to read this. I cant take hormones because I get high blood pressure from even the lowest dose birth control. I may sound exceptionally negative here but I blame that on menopause it is an absolute bitch. My only advice, and Im saying this mostly for myself, is to just force yourself to exercise if you can because it helps. I have to drag my ass to the gym but once I do a workout I never regret it. Or just stay home and say screw it, like Angie mentioned. Thats better advice, to do whatever you need and not stress about it.
I forgot that she has a pet squirrel!
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| | Felicity Huffman: I thought I had to break the law to 'give my daughter a future' | | Added 385 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Remember Operation Varsity Blues? Several high-profile/celebrity parents in the LA area got caught in an FBI sting. The crimes included changing SAT answers, bribing college admissions officials, faking athletic backgrounds to get college admittance and scholarships and a lot more. Felicity Huffman was one of the moms who hired for Rick Singer to ?arrange? for an SAT monitor to change her daughters? SAT answers so the daughter would get a higher score. Felicity pleaded guilty to the federal charges and she got a two-week prison sentence, and she ended up getting released after one week. She also got sentenced to community service, and she?s still working with the same charity, which is why she?s given a big interview. While these are not her first comments on the whole ordeal (circa 2019-2020), this is the first sit-down interview I?ve seen with Felicity since all of it went down.
People assume that I went into this looking for a way to cheat the system and making proverbial criminal deals in back alleys, but that was not the case, Felicity Huffman said. I worked with a highly recommended college counselor named Rick Singer. I worked with him for a year and trusted him implicitly; he recommended programs and tutors and he was the expert. And after a year, he started to say, Your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to. And so, I believed him. When he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seemed like ? and I know this seems crazy at the time ? that that was my only option to give my daughter a future. I know hindsight is 20/20 but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didnt do it. So, I did it.?
It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future, she said. And so it was sort of like my daughters future, which meant I had to break the law.
The actress ? who says she did not tell her daughter Sophia about her plans ? recalled having second thoughts about what she had done as she drove her to the exam. She was going, Can we get ice cream afterwards? Im scared about the test. What can we do thats fun?? And I kept thinking, Turn around, just turn around, Huffman told the news outlet. To my undying shame, I didnt.
She served 11 days of her 14-day prison sentence in October 2019. The star was also sentenced to 250 hours of community service and was on supervised release for one year. Huffman completed her full sentence by October 2020. Her husband, Shameless star William H. Macy, was not charged in relation to the event. Her daughter Sophia later retook the SAT and was accepted into Carnegie Mellon Universitys theatre program, where she is currently studying.
[From People]
Yeah? it was such a sleazy thing to do, but at this point, I do believe that she was just one of those obsessive helicopter moms who thought she could throw money at ?the problem,? the problem being that she didn?t have faith that her daughters could get into college on their own merit. I hope this whole thing was a wake-up call for Felicity with her parenting style too, that she was actually being a sh-tty mother who treated her daughters like they were too stupid to do anything for themselves. Beyond that? she served her sentence, apologized, admitted guilt and she?s spent the past three years doing a lot of charity work. The best way to handle it.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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