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June 30, 2010
NO LOOKING BACK
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June 27, 2010
Feel Better About Your Post-Baby Body
How to love and appreciate your post-baby hot mama body
By Stephanie Dolgoff, Parenting
So you're toting a few extra pounds and sagging in some places you weren't before. So what? Your body is still sexy and incredible. Here's how to believe it!
"Mushy tushy, mushy tushy!" I remember giggling as I jiggled my mom's cottage-cheesy butt. I couldn't have been more than 3...
June 26, 2010
You go, Marisa Tomei!
I'm not a starf**cker, generally speaking. As Us magazine takes pains to point out each week, they're just like us: gas-pumping, coffee-buying, child-schlepping bipeds, wading their way through marital swampland, wearing hats to hide bad hair days and probably freaking out about weird dermatological abnormalities that are hopefully not cancer.
On the occasions that I've met celebrities, usually to interview them for magazines or because I live in New York City and even stars need to wait...
June 25, 2010
Is it really FORMERLY/FINALLY FRIDAY again?
How'd that happen so fast? 
I had to (pay my very brilliant tech guy to) move Formerly Hot over to a new server, which is good news–the old server couldn't support the gazillions of visitors the site has been getting. But in the process I think I lost a few user submissions. So if you sent your Formerly/Finally story within the last month and you don't see it here, please resend, if it's not too much trouble. My apologies.
This week's is from my friend Kristin, who you may recognize from the...
Desperate, much?
The above ad on the New York City subway is part of a series of Lumix ads that are all too clearly aimed at snagging the young consumer. Others in the series say, "Fits perfectly in those skinny jeans pockets," and "With GPS, it remembers where you were last night better than you do." It's like, "See?? We get you! You're precisely the hip young demographic we're targeting! We've noticed what you wear! Buy our camera!" It's downright horny, it's so unsubtle.
I don't know why this ad series...
June 18, 2010
Whoa! Hey, hi! It's FORMERLY/FINALLY FRIDAY again!
Lauren is not even a Formerly yet–she's a pre-Formerly, but the specter Formerlydom looms large. Here's all she wrote:
"I recently had cocktails with a business associate. She's very fun to work with and have a really great energy about her so I always look forward to our meetings. We were at a posh Chicago bar, throwing back Prosecco, half discussing business. I felt good that day: good hair day, fab shoes, a skirt I didn't have to secretly unbutton when I sat still for more than five...
June 15, 2010
Get psyched!
My second post for Psychology Today–hope you enjoy!
June 15, 2010, HappinessCareening into Cliché
Resisting becoming a cliché is a cliché in itself, so why bother?Published on June 15, 2010
Sometimes I think getting older gracefully simply means not bridling too much against the fact that most of us, at midlife, find ourselves drifting inexorably into cliché.
I mentioned this, my latest theory on this bizarro transition I and my agemates are undergoing, to a dad at my kids' school, as he gave ...
June 13, 2010
Ass bras and other implements of torture
Ever since I posted this little video, in which I posited that if there were a such thing as an ass bra, I would wear one, several of you have sent me links to actual ass bras.
I was a bit horrified, although not really surprised. If they have Spanx for one's bingo arms, why wouldn't there be an actual ass bra?
Now that I see them, though, there's no way I'm strapping one on. This one looks like a harness that you'd use for belaying down the side of a rock face, and this one, well, there are...
June 11, 2010
It's Formerly/Finally Friday!
It's week two of this grand old tradition, and since no one sent in a picture of him- or herself holding up their Formerly–no guilt, just a fact–I was about to declare the tradition a bust.
And then I looked and saw this in my in-box. She's not holding up a sign, but was crystal clear about her Formerly. Jen writes that she is Formerly Bald. "I survived six months of life-sucking chemo after my cancer diagnosis at the age of 32," she wrote. "I lost my hair and my sense of optimism but I have n...
Formerly Fertile
LAURA ANN WROTE: Formally Fertile!!! After spending my 20's trying not to get pregnant, I was dumbfounded to be informed it would be difficult to get pregnant after 40. We succeeded (after much intervention from fertility drugs) but instead of 3 children, I have one very spoiled little girl. I would not change a thing though!
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