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| | Prince William & Kate will 'never reconcile' with the Sussexes after the racist scandal | | Added 149 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Since 2020, we?ve heard that Prince William ?absolutely fking hates? the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. We?ve heard it over and over again, that William despises them, that he will never forgive them, that he follows their movements obsessively because of his hatred, that he will travel to America more often because he loathes Harry so much, that the next time William will speak to Harry, it will be at their father?s funeral. The problem is that William clearly has no more threats left, no more punishments, nothing more to withhold. If he?s been a violent, simmering ball of rage for years, why does it matter if he?s particularly mad this week over Omid Scobie?s Endgame? Welcome to Tom Sykes? Royalist column in the Daily Beast, where ?sources close to William? once again meet a crisis with nothing but rage.
The naming of Kate Middleton as one of the alleged ?royal racists? means Kate and Prince William will never reconcile with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, a friend of William and Kate?s told The Daily Beast.
While King Charles is expected to continue to maintain cordial relations with his son, and contact with his grandchildren, William and Kate will have ?zero interest? in ever seeing Harry and Meghan again, the friend said.
The friend admitted they had ?no idea? before this week?s revelation that Kate was being referred to by Meghan Markle when she told Oprah Winfrey that a family member had raised ?concerns? about ?how dark? Archie?s skin might be.
They said they were ?as shocked as everyone else? by the dramatic developments this week, which saw the king and Kate named as the individuals in question in a Dutch-language version of Omid Scobie?s new book, Endgame.
However they added, ?It has been clear for a long time to anyone who knows them that they don?t want to see Harry and Meghan. Now we know why. They will have zero interest in ever seeing them again.?
Although Meghan?s camp have briefed the Telegraph that she did not leak the letter to Scobie, the suspicion that she did is widespread among royal insiders.
One former courtier told The Daily Beast: ?It is pretty obvious that detail on the contents of a letter between two people would have to come from one of those people, and it?s hard to see Charles sharing it.?
The Sun has previously reported that palace insiders believe Meghan did share the contents of the letter, citing sources as saying: ?That letter is under lock and key and no one from within the king?s circle would?ve briefed anyone about its contents. In all likelihood, it must have been the Sussex camp which leaked the names. It?s a nasty and deliberate attack.?
[From The Daily Beast]
I?m a broken record about this, I know, but how fking stupid are all of these people? Are they legitimately this dumb, or is it all some kind of elaborate feint so the peasants don?t catch wind of what?s actually happening? As Omid Scobie and Piers Morgan have said, the names of the royal racists have been known by British journalists for some time, I would imagine for years. Journalists knew the names before we even heard any reporting on the letters exchanged between Charles and Meghan the letters were exchanged in 2021, and we learned of the existence of the letters in April of this year. Meghan didn?t leak the existence of the letters Buckingham Palace did. Besides that, my larger point is that the knowledge of the identities predates the letters. Someone could know the identities of the royal racists without seeing the letters exchanged by Meghan and Charles. As for Peg & Buttons hatred snooze. Its sad that even in the middle of a racist storm, they come across as desperate for attention.
Note by CB: Get the Top 8 stories from Omid Scobie?s Endgame when you sign up for our mailing list! I only send one email a day on weekdays.
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| | Angie Harmon on menopause: I wake up and my face is four times its size | | Added 152 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 152 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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| | Millie Bobby Brown: 'I like fake trees. It's a huge debate in the house' | | Added 153 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Millie Bobby Brown loves the holidays. Depending on who you ask, the Christmas holiday season either started on November 1 (cough, Mariah, cough) or right after Thanksgiving. I know some people who have had their trees and decorations up for weeks and others (like us) who are just doing them now. When I was growing up, my parents always got a real tree. When Mr. Rosie and I were first living together back in our dating years, we caused a slight scandal by buying an artificial one. At the time, our reasoning was we were living in an apartment with a rambunctious kitten. I just wanted the convenience of having the fake tree that I didn?t have to water and constantly sweep up needles from.
Fast-forward to 2021 when we ponder, ?Should we get a real tree now that we?re in a house?? Well, we have now somehow ended up with THREE Christmas trees in one room. It?s absurd but it?s also quite nice. Anyways, back to MBB. She?s a 19-year-old powerhouse and is engaged to Jon Bon Jovi?s son, Jake. From what we?ve seen publicly, Millie and Jake appear to have a healthy, drama-free relationship. But even they cannot escape the usual holiday disagreements. In their case, they are split between types of Christmas trees. In an interview with Eating Well, MBB shared that she likes fake trees while Jake favors the real ones.
EatingWell: What are your holiday plans looking like?
Brown: I love the holidays, its definitely my favorite time of year. [My fianc] Jakes more into real trees, I like fake trees. Its a huge debate in the house. I love hot cocoa and my tea, and I love the fire being on. I love it being freezing cold outside and the puppies and dogs are all comfy and cozy. Winter time is definitely my hibernation time, and I absolutely love being able to just be inside with the family.
[From Eating Well]
It?s so relatable that an otherwise drama-free couple debates what type of tree to have in their home. I?m genuinely curious where everyone stands on the real vs. artificial tree debate! That topic reminds me of the Bringing Back Christmas song from the excellent musical, Spirited. As I said above, our quest to get a live tree ended up with us now having three trees. It?s ridiculous but it?s also lovely because each tree represents a different part of us. We have the artificial one that hosts all of the homemade and kitschy ornaments, a real one that we use for ?fancy? ornaments, and another tiny real tree that the kids pick out to decorate themselves (and thus far they?ve tried to imitate the fancy tree by picking the tiny ball ornaments and very twinkly lights from Target). I know it?s overkill, but honestly, it makes each of us happy and grateful. To me, that?s what Christmas is all about.
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| | Taylor Swift's publicist claps back on the Swift-Alwyn 'secret wedding' story | | Added 153 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Back in May, Taylor Swift released a new edition of her Midnights album, and the new edition included a new-to-fans song called ?You?re Losing Me.? Swifties soon put the pieces together that Taylor was explaining why she and Joe Alwyn broke up he didn?t want to marry her, she didn?t want to conform to whatever image he had of what ?his girlfriend? should look like, etc. I covered the song here it came out when Taylor and her team were in the trenches over Tay?s relationship with Matt Healy, and the song absolutely had the feel of a convenient distraction from that PR mess. It?s also worth noting that while we only found out about the Swift-Alwyn split in early spring, I absolutely had the vibe that Taylor and Joe were on the rocks for a while before then. Enter Jack Antonoff (Taylor?s friend and producer), who posted this epic ?clue? this week:
| @jackantonoff shares new/old pic of @taylorswift13 on his IG story!
"you're losing me is out today. a very special track from the midnights sessions that's finally steaming! written and recorded at home on 12/5/21 right after taylor ate these raisins" pic.twitter.com/R7ICfbpqcu
Taylor Swift Updates ? (@swifferupdates) November 29, 2023
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| | A barely-recognizable Jessica Simpson stepped out in NYC to receive an Icon Award | | Added 154 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Over the summer, Jessica Simpson did a big exclusive with Bustle an editorial and an interview. I hadn?t seen new photos of her in a while and I was startled by how different she looked in those pics. She said, in the interview, that she?s not on Ozempic, but her face tells a different story. Well, Jessica stepped out this week in New York, and here are some photos of her appearance. She was honored at Footwear News? Annual Achievement Awards and she received the Icon Award for her successful footwear and clothing company.
I?m not sure how much I want to get into it or try to figure out what Jessica has done to herself. After her third child and after Jessica got sober, she steadily lost weight and that changed her face. But? yeah, I also think she?s gotten some work done and it?s not good quality work either. She was always so beautiful, but it?s actually on-brand for Jess that she sort of looks like a Real Housewife now.
Professionally, Jessica is seemingly in a good place, so at least there?s that. She and her mother have basically bought back full control of Jessica?s eponymous clothing line and brand, and Jessica is maybe/probably still in debt up to her eyeballs. It honestly feels pretty tenuous, so I hope everything works out in the end.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Jennifer Garner has so many bags of nuts in her backpack it's embarrassing | | Added 154 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jennifer Garner has really built up her whole brand on being a ?relatable mom.? I like Garner going back to her Alias days. I know she and Ben Affleck used to do those church and farmers market type family walks for the paparazzi, but since they?ve been divorced, she seems to be a lot more lowkey. I could not even tell you who her new boyfriend is or what he looks like. Part of Jennifer?s public persona is doing videos on Instagram. In a recent video, she showed her followers what?s in her backpack. It starts out innocent, with pens, books, an iPad, and candy. Then, things start to get a little nutty.
?What?s in my bag? I?m embarrassed to even show you ?. ,? Garner, 51, teased via Instagram on Saturday, November 25. The actress proceeded to pull everything out of her backpack for her followers to see. The contents started out normal enough, with a notebook, glasses case and ?a little pouch of pens because pens are life.?
However, the Family Switch actress quickly learned that like a squirrel she hoards nuts ? and candy ? for the winter.
?A little tiny bag of nuts,? she said while pulling a plastic bag out of her carry-all. ?I?m gonna keep these ? just kidding.?
Garner was then surprised to see that she had another plastic bag of nuts and multiple prepackaged varieties of the food item, including two pistachio snacks, in her bag as well. ?Nuts. Nuts. Nuts. Nuts,? she said as one by one she unveiled another bag.
The 13 Going on 30 star broke into laughter and started to cry as she kept finding more nuts. ?I?m so scared I?m not going to have any nuts,? she joked through her tears, revealing that she counted eight bags in total.
Garner?s second biggest bag revelation was that she had both empty and full bags of candies hidden deep in her backpack. ?Gotta have your candy handy,? she joked after finding two bags of the same brand. While Garner also carried two books and an iPad, it was her food choices that caught the attention of her fans and friends.
?You are adorable ,? Courteney Cox replied in the comments, while Mindy Kaling agreed, ?Pens are LIFE.?
Reese Witherspoon, meanwhile, wrote what many of Garner?s followers were thinking, commenting, ?So many nuts!! Are you a squirrel? .? One fan went as far as to call Garner ?the Mary Poppins of nuts.?
[From Us Weekly]
?The Mary Poppins of nuts? is absolutely hilarious. The entire video is a really fun watch. It?s also relatable to someone like me, who carries around a tote bag full of ?What if I need these?? items when, really, I would get by just fine with only a clutch, lol. I am also a person who believes that pens are life and The Giver (in her bag because she?s reading with her son) is one of my favorite books. The bag is, well, a Relatable Mom bag.
But back to all the nuts! You never know when you?re going to get hungry and nuts are a good snack option. The immature part of me wonders if she was also giggling at saying the word ?nuts? so many times. My kindergartener once brought home a school library book that was about a squirrel hunting for nuts and by page four, I was crying from laughing so hard. Every sentence was something to the effect of, ?I love nuts! Nuts are yummy! I want to eat some nuts!? I truly burst out laughing every time I said the word. Then, my nine-year-old heard me laughing and came into the room and started chanting ?Deez nuts.?
Also, I may be the last person to know this but just in case I?m not, heres a little PSA: Last night, I discovered that Alias is on Disney+ and Amazon Prime. It really gave me a hankering to do a rewatch. I love the first three seasons of that show and it?s been a good 15 years since my last rewatch. (It was possibly right after The Hangover came out.) It may be time to revisit the world of Sydney Bristow and the yummy Michael Vaughn.
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| | Jessica Chastain calls SAG-AFTRA deal 'fair and just and historic' | | Added 156 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Union-Supporting Role 2023 goes to Jessica Chastain. Throughout the SAG-AFTRA strike, Jessica was articulate on the issues at stake and why they were vital to working actors. She also had more opportunity to talk than her fellow thesps, as her latest film, Memory, received an interim agreement which allowed her to attend film festivals and give interviews. She dutifully explained how waivers worked and asked if independent studios could meet actors? needs, then why couldn?t AMPTP? Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is over, Jessica is touting all that?s good about the new contract. She?s currently serving as jury president at the Marrakech International Film Festival (where Memory is screening but not in competition) and talked to reporters about the film and the new deal:
Fair and just and historic: ?I?m glad that our SAG leadership has gotten to a deal they think is fair and just and historic in its own right,? said Chastain on the red carpet? ?We?re still waiting to find out what the voters are going to choose ? if they?re going to ratify the contract. I?ve looked through it. I do think personally it?s a good deal, but of course, I only have one vote. It?s important to me what everyone else thinks as well. The beautiful thing about taking a vote is that everyone gets to have a say,? she told a reporter with Deadline.
Hollywood strike poster girl: Asked if she had planned to be the poster girl for Hollywood strikes, she said that she was put in that position by accident, and the move wasn?t orchestrated. ?I became public by default ? I didn?t choose to be so public about it. It just so happened because my film had an interim agreement, and because so many actors were nervous, I think, to speak out, I just ended up being one of the first, and I think when you end up being one of the first in that case, you really have a big spotlight on yourself,? she said.
An actor prepares: ?I did my homework. I spoke to the leadership at SAG. I asked them, ?How can I best support this acting community?? because SAG is the most important community that I?ve ever been a part of. I would never want to do anything against them, and I only wanted to support them. It was kind of like I became public by default, but I was very happy to support in every way I could.?
Working with Memory director Michel Franco: ?The way Michel works is transfixing. He shoots in a way where you feel as a voyeur rather than an audience falling into a scene ? He doesn?t cut within a scene. Actors are given the freedom of doing whatever we feel like. While we stick to the script, everything is done in one take ? It is like doing theatre where you get freedom, creativity, and inspiration,? said Chastain.
[From Gulf News]
I have to confess that my aunt cant stand Jessica Chastain! I think it started when Jessica won the Critics Choice Award for Zero Dark Thirty in 2013 and quoted Bertolt Brecht. (Which was so silly to me, because if I were to hate Jessica Chastain it would be for her having natural red hair, my dream.) Jessica was exceedingly earnest back then, but remember, she was just breaking through after years and years of being broke on the sidelines. But all of that is why she was the perfect ?poster girl? for the strike ? she knows the cost of building a career from the ground up. She?s been there, having had no connections or family in the industry. And now that she?s comfortable, she loves nothing more than to advocate for her peers on the other side of that trajectory. Still earnest, but also just good, clean kindness. Backed by a killer wardrobe.
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| | Jamie Foxx accused of assaulting a model at a NYC restaurant in August 2015 | | Added 160 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Wednesday, November 22 was the last day of the ?window? for the New York state?s Adult Survivors Act. Meaning, it was the last day for survivors of sexual assault or harassment to sue the people who harmed them without running into any statutes of limitations. It?s more than likely that Cassie had that timeline in mind when she sued Sean Combs. Then, another victim came forward and sued Bad Boy Records? former president Harve Pierre of harassment and assault. A former model has also sued Axl Rose, saying that he sexually assaulted her in 1989 in a New York hotel. And now this: a woman going by Jane Doe at this time has filed a complaint against Jamie Foxx.
Jamie Foxx has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a New York City restaurant, according to court records. The womans complaint, filed in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, and obtained by PEOPLE, alleged that the incident took place in August 2015 at Catch NYC.
The alleged victim, referred to as Jane Doe, claimed she entered the establishment where she saw Catch Hospitality Group co-founder Mark Birnbaum seated ?one table away having drinks? with Foxx, 55, whose real name is Eric Marlon Bishop.
Doe alleged that at approximately 1:00 a.m., she and a friend approached Foxx?s table to ask for a picture with the Academy Award winner. She claimed he replied, ?Sure baby, anything for you,? and proceeded to take ?several photographs.?
In the complaint, the woman alleged that Foxx ?seemed intoxicated.?
She claims The Burial actor told her, ?Wow, you have that super model body?, ?You smell so good? and ?You look like Nickie.? When she asked ?Who?s Nickie?,? Foxx replied, ?Gabrielle Union.? She alleged he then grabbed her by her arm and pulled her to the back area of the rooftop.
The court filing alleged that once she and Foxx were in a secluded area, he ?placed both of his hands on her waist, moved them under her ?crop top? and began rubbing her breasts.?
She said she attempted to step away from him and noticed a security guard ?some distance away who saw what was happening but walked further away.?
[From People]
The complaint goes into further detail, about how Foxx groped her genitals and he didn?t stop until Doe?s friend found her on the rooftop and got her the hell away. It?s so believable a popular celebrity, drunk and partying, agrees to take a photo with a fan and then feels entitled to put his hands all over the fan. It truly happens all the time. Foxx?s spokesperson responded to the complaint/lawsuit:
On Thursday, a spokesperson for the actor, 55, told PEOPLE in a statement, The alleged incident never happened. In 2020, this individual filed a nearly identical lawsuit in Brooklyn. That case was dismissed shortly thereafter. The claims are no more viable today than they were then. We are confident they will be dismissed again.
And once they are, Mr. Foxx intends to pursue a claim for malicious prosecution against this person and her attorneys for re-filing this frivolous action, the spokesperson added.
[From People]
Is this malicious prosecution? A woman sues, the case gets dismissed, and the woman hops jurisdictions and refiles three years later? Eh. It will be interesting to see what happens here Sean Combs settled with Cassie in record time, but from Foxx?s statement, I?m getting the vibe that he?s confident he won?t have to settle. For now.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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| | Jamie-Lynn Sigler thought 'people are only attracted to you when you?re perfect' | | Added 163 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler, aka Meadow Soprano, is now 42 years old and has two sons with her husband Cutter Dykstra, Beau, 10, and Jack, five. After originally presenting symptoms in 2000, Sigler was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2001, when she was just 20 years old. Jamie-Lynn first revealed her diagnosis in 2016, sharing that she?d been careful to hide her condition from her coworkers for 15 years. In fact, Jamie-Lynn was so nervous about making her MS public that she was too scared to look at her phone after the news dropped. Those fears were quickly alleviated when the reaction was one of overwhelming support. That was a watershed moment for Jamie-Lynn that led to self-acceptance and unlocked her superpower: vulnerability.
On the morning of Jan. 20, 2016, Jamie-Lynn Sigler was a nervous wreck. She had just married her fianc of almost three years, baseball player Cutter Dykstra, and was awaiting the new issue of PEOPLE, in which they had shared exclusive photos and details of their big day.
But she was also revealing an even bigger secret. For almost 15 years the Sopranos alum had been quietly dealing with the debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), a degenerative autoimmune disease that damages the central nervous system.
When the issue hit newsstands, Sigler was afraid to look at her phone but quickly discovered an overwhelming outpouring of positive support.
?It was a big moment for me, because it was the beginning of this journey of self-reflection and self-acceptance,? she says. ?I grew up with this idea that people are only going to be attracted to you when you?re perfect, and it?s quite the opposite. MS gave me my superpower, which is vulnerability, because the more raw and real and open I am ? and this has forced me to be that ? the more beautiful connections are.?
While she has trouble walking for long periods of time and cannot run, ?I can still accomplish the things that I want to do, whether it be at work or at home,? she says.
[From People]
That is such a wonderful attitude, and sign of maturity. I know this doesn?t apply to everyone, but I think when we?re younger, we tend to have this nave worldview about standards, expectations, and what constitutes ?perfection.? We put a lot of pressure on ourselves as a result. When we?re kids, we care about pleasing our parents. As we get older and into our teenage years, we want our friends to like us. As young adults, we might stop caring so much about what others think about us, but we still may privately compare ourselves to our peers in terms of looks, career, relationships, fashion, etc.
When my older son was born, I suddenly felt like I had to stifle parts of my personality because I was a loud-mouthed NY native who was still fairly new to living in the South. I didn?t want to embarrass him or have other moms think I was weird. It took me years to work out that honestly, we?re all a little bit weird in our own ways, lol. I?m happier just being myself and theres no set rules on what people are or arent attracted to. There really is something to be said about that moment when you accept yourself for all of your strengths, flaws, and vulnerabilities. It?s very empowering. I?m really glad that Jamie-Lynn is in a good place now and wish her all of the best in the years to come.
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