Millie Bobby Brown served up a major beauty moment at Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, with a simple touch that was so unexpected and chic it was hard to miss: her simple French manicure. Yes, Brown was rocking the early 2000s fave with long oval-shaped nails. The Stranger Things actor has become a burgeoning style star at the young age of 15, and this retro move is just another example of her mastery. 

Of course, this isn’t the first time in recent memory we’ve seen French manicures paired with high fashion. They appeared on the runway this past September at New York Fashion week and models like Bella Hadid have been remixing the look with bold colors. Kate Hudson showed off the look with baby blue at a Michael Kors presentation at NYFW, as did Beyoncè, who went throwback like Brown, with white tips in a series of Instagram photos.

Brown is one of many Gen Z stars taking risks with beauty that include throwing it back. Speaking about the launch of her line, Florence By Mills, in August, she told Refinery29 her mantra is about feeling her best. “It’s not about other people; it’s about making yourself feel good.” 

Interestingly, the backstory of the white-on-natural mani is a Hollywood one and has nothing to do with French trends. Apparently, it’s all keeping continuity and saving time while making movies and shows, so, in the 1970s, the creator of Orly nail polish created the white-tip-and-natural-base look as a response to the movie productions that were slowed down by actors needing to change their nail color for costume changes. 

As for the rest of her beauty look at the SAGs, Brown’s hair was cut several inches, worn sleek over her shoulders, and parted down the middle. Her makeup was soft with a smoky eye and a nude lip, with products from her own beauty line and celebrity makeup legend Pat McGrath, according to Brown’s makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan. She prepped Brown’s skin with Doctor Babor Hydro RX Hyaluron Cream and the Doctor Babor Power Serum Ampoules – Hyaluronic Acid Serum.

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Rihanna may not have given us an album yet, but she has been keeping herself busy with a special creative project with i-D. The global superstar has collaborated with the magazine on a one-off zine to celebrate its 40-year anniversary.

Rihannazine highlights a cast of brilliant changemakers who are set to re-shape culture and their communities in 2020. For the issue, Rihanna and i-D handpicked 43 inspirational people across fashion, art, cinema, music and activism from musicians Kelela and Tommy Genesis, and models Adut Akech, Adwoa Aboah and Gigi Hadid to writers Roxane Gay and Zadie Smith, as well as activist and founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke.

The 144-page zine also features interviews with rising actress and star of HBO’s Euphoria, Alexa Demie, writer and producer Lena Waithe, and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Vanessa Vanjie Mateo.

The one-off limited edition issue was shot entirely by world-renowned photographer Mario Sorrenti and will be available to buy globally January 27 with a limited run of 5,000 copies.

Alongside the zine, i-D‘s will roll out a series of videos featuring Hadid, DJ and producer Kitty Cash, and model Paloma Elsesser answering questions from RiRi herself. The Q’s include personal aspirations for 2020 and the one thing they’ve always wanted to ask her.

Speaking on the creative project, Rihanna said: “For me, this very special issue of i-D represents change and culture. It is dedicated to some of the people who are progressively reshaping communities across fashion, music, art, and activism — creating a more inclusive and diverse future.”

“Reaching this milestone deserved something monumental. Something we’ve never done before in our 40-year history,” said Alistair McKimm, Editor-in-Chief of i-D.

“Working with Rihanna, we handpicked the people featured in this project for many different reasons; they may all represent different things but what unites them is everyone featured in these pages is incredibly inspirational,” McKimm continued. “They are artists, writers, activists, musicians and women on the front lines of the fashion industry.”

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Cori “Coco” Gauff is coming for that “greatest athlete of all time” title. 

The 15-year-old tennis star defeated her “idol” Venus Williams in Monday’s opening round of the Australian Open 7-6 (5), 6-3. This marks their second match up, the first being at last year’s Wimbledon, where Gauff also won. 

“I definitely was more confident this time,” Gauff told ESPN following her victory. A mere six months ago, Guaff was a relatively unknown Grand Slam rookie. Now she’s on a mission “to be the greatest.” 

“My mission is to be the greatest,” Gauff told The New York Times. “That’s my goal, to win as many Grand Slams as possible. But for today, my mission was to win.”

Winning as many Grand Slams as possible means Gauff will have to best record holder Serena Williams, whom she’s yet to play at this event. Williams has won the most Grand Slam titles of all time during her career, with a total of 23 Grand Slam tournament victories and has made it clear that she wants to win another at the Australian Open.

Fortunately, Williams thinks Gauff is more than capable of being a champ, declaring that she’s a “big fan” of hers. 

“I think there are some 15-year-olds, like me, who wouldn’t know what to do at Wimbledon,” Williams said back in 2019. “Then you have a 15-year-old like Coco who knows what to do. I think she’s definitely on a different level.”

Oh, to be in the stands when this match finally does happen.

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Ever since Maria Grazia Chiuri began her tenure as the creative director of Dior in 2016, she’s routinely used the runway as a platform to speak about women’s issues. From celebrating female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Niki de Saint Phalle, to sending models down the runway in t-shirts that said, “We should all be feminists” and “Why have there been no great women artists?” the brand’s first female artistic director isn’t afraid to make her clothing pointed, and political.

As was the case in Paris yesterday, when Dior showed its Spring 2020 Couture, which featured a collaboration with landmark feminist artist Judy Chicago (the creator of the famed “Dinner Party” installation). As WWD reported, Chicago designed the set of the show at the Rodin Museum, and it will be on view to the public through January 26. Together, Chicago and Chiuri brought to life what was meant to be a public sculpture from 1977 — a birth canal, according to Vogue, where a group of models-as-goddesses descended down a womb-shaped runway. According to Dior’s Instagram, Chiuri saw the runway show as an opportunity to “recall the unstoppable creative force of women.”

Vogue reports that during a six-month period, the designer’s conversations with the artist brought about the idea of “pagan worship of goddesses and the struggle of women artists to find their own means of expression within the female-excluding patriarchal system of western art.” This sparked Chiuri’s memories of Italian statues in Rome: On Instagram, the brand shared that the collection drew “inspiration from classical representations of goddesses, such as Athena. Her majestic allure is a neo-platonic allegory of beauty, combining intellectual strength and aesthetic harmony.” Influenced by Greco-Roman peplos, drapey details were applied to flowy golden gowns, tailored suitings, and skirts, with models wearing crowns and strappy Roman-style sandals. 

“The collection’s key motifs — wholesome, golden ears of wheat — recall the unstoppable creative force of women,” the Instagram post continued. Another one detailed how Chiuri updated Dior’s iconic “Bar” jacket by tricking out tailored looks in “precious metal shades and draping worthy of a goddess.” With a finale dress that incorporated a sequined moon — an ancient symbol of femininity — the runway was lined with embroidered banners created by Chicago and a women’s group in India, with one at the end that asked: “What if Women Ruled the World?” In a time when women are fighting for equal pay and representation across all industries, this is a solid inquiry, but not necessarily a new one.

Though Chiuri’s unwavering dedication to discussing (and posing valid questions about) women’s issues through the runway is noble, her couture is still only ever donned by young, thin, and able-bodied models. In order for Dior to truly transition into a brand that stands for sisterhood, it would be smart to take a note from brands like Chromat and Savage x Fenty, who recognize that feminism in fashion only works when it embraces everybody — with the runway as the ultimate source of inclusivity. As it stands now, the collection — while gorgeous — isn’t doing much to upend couture’s status quo approach to women, and their bodies.

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Simon Porte Jacquemus knows how to put on a show. His Spring 2020 presentation, set amongst a field of lavender flowers in the South of France, is proof of that. But his latest production, while not quite as over-the-top as the last, had an air about it that seemed bigger and more important than any of the previous ones.

On Friday, the French designer presented his co-ed Winter 2020/21 collection for a limited group of fashion elite during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. Unlike his other shows, which have been praised for their bold and extravagant sets, this one was stripped clean, with off-white floors and dark walls acting as the sole backdrop for the collection, which he named “Année 97.” 

“I was 7 the day I cut a skirt for my mum out of a linen curtain. Here is the collection L’année 97,” the designer wrote in an Instagram caption. L’année 97, which translates to The Year ’97, pays homage to Jacquemus’ beginnings, most notably, the simplicity of his first designs. Look number one from the show, which features a linen skirt not far off from the one he designed for his mother, acts as a reminder of how he got his start in design. The classic fabric goes on to play a star role in the remainder of the collection.

As for the clothing itself, Jacquemus returned to his southern roots, creating simple, beautiful clothing for the people. He even made a point to cut the prices, with many pieces, dresses included, selling for around 500 euros, rather than his usual 700 to 1,000+ euro price range. On the women, you’ll find fuzzy bloomers; subtle, yet sexy dresses; over-the-knee boots paired with micro shorts; and bright pops of color. The men’s looks included everything from ombre denim to linen puffer coats to exposed boxers.

And a Jacquemus collection wouldn’t be complete without a handbag moment. This season, the designer introduced a record number of new bag silhouettes, from surprisingly normal-sized tote bags to wicker versions of his ubiquitous Le Chiquito mini bags. Cross bodies, belt bags, and harness-style bags were also scattered throughout. 

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But if watching Bella and Gigi Hadid (both going completely au naturale) strut down the runway in near-matching linen midi dresses wasn’t enough to get the Internet riled up, the collection also introduced a sustainability aspect. After ten years of working with one fabric manufacturer, Jacquemus finally decided to push them to create a sustainable fabric for him. “They didn’t have a sustainable fabric that we wanted. Now, they do — because of the size of the order I can make,” Vogue reported. “It isn’t just for ecologie, [though,] it’s also people — their rhythm of work also has to have sense. I don’t say I’m a green brand or anything like that; it’s not marketing. But I think we have to think more like my grandparents did: like, we have tomatoes in the garden, so we eat tomatoes.”

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On the first day of Trump’s senate impeachment, the politics Gods gave to us a re-hashing of the 2016 election (go figure). This throwback arrived in the form of Hulu’s historic docuseries Hillary: a four part series about the life and 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Set to premiere at Sundance and stream on Hulu on March 6th, the documentary series features exclusive interviews with Hillary Clinton as well as her daughter Chelsea, staff, friends, journalists, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. It also has exclusive behind-the-scenes moments from her 2016 campaign. While the series mainly focuses on Clinton herself, she also speaks candidly about her feelings towards her former opponent and current presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders — and she did not hold back.

Ahead of the premiere at Sundance, Clinton gave an exclusive interview to The Hollywood Reporter detailing her feelings in Sanders during the 2016 democratic primary race. “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done,” Clinton says. “He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” When asked if her assessment of the presidential candidate still holds as we enter the 2020 caucuses, she said it does. 

Overall, she expressed concern about the “culture” around Sanders, including his supporters’ attacks on women candidates. “You either don’t know what your campaign and supporters are doing, or you’re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren],” Clinton told THR, adding, “I think that that’s a pattern that people should take into account when they make their decisions.”

Since last week’s news cycle hashed out the he-said she-said between Sanders and Warren, which included a heated debate moment where Sanders was confronted about saying that a woman could never be elected as president, both Sanders and his campaign staff have unequivocally denied all of it. While Warren maintains that he did say this, even going so far as to confront him after the debate and potentially break their long-time non-aggression pact, the discourse has taken on a life of its own in the last week, particularly for Sanders. Now, Clinton says we must “all say loudly” that the sentiment that a woman can’t be president is untrue.

“I think that both the press and the public have to really hold everybody running accountable for what they say and what their campaign says and does,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s particularly true with what’s going on right now with the Bernie campaign having gone after Elizabeth with a very personal attack on her.” This, Clinton sees as “part of a pattern” for Sanders, subsequent to previous statements on Clinton being “unqualified” to be president.

As the news of Clinton’s take on Sanders comes in the height of the 2020 Democratic race, the internet, in true form, had their own words for both Hillary and Bernie.

Hillary Clinton: People won’t vote for Bernie Sanders. Nobody likes him.

America: We love Bernie. Nobody likes you.

Hillary: pic.twitter.com/nSo8YHTzjk

— Connor Stone (@connorstonehere) January 21, 2020

I proudly voted for Hillary Clinton, and if Bernie Sanders should win the nomination, I will campaign my heart out for him and believe he would make a great president.

I don’t see how any other opinion on this is helpful to anyone. At some point, we gotta come together, folks.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) January 21, 2020

But, during the debate, Sanders actually defended Clinton’s record, reminding everyone that she beat Trump in the 2016 election with the popular vote. Sanders, who recent reports have named as America’s most popular Senator, decidedly chose not to engage in Clinton’s remarks and focus on Trump’s Senate hearing.

“My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: the impeachment trial of Donald Trump,” Sanders said to press. “Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”

Clinton’s interview is, of course, meant to rack up excitement about the docuseries being released in the coming months. If nothing else, it’s certainly causing conversation. Ultimately, the docuseries will examine Hillary Clinton’s fame and how she became so simultaneously admired and scrutinized. “Hillary is a deeply personal, reflective and unflinching look at the woman who is arguably the most recognizable female political figure in history,” said Randy Freer, the CEO of Hulu, in a statement.

The documentary trailer also refers to her as the most vilified woman in America. Considering her accomplishments and that, objectively, she is one of the most qualified people in U.S. politics, the documentary will be an interesting look into how that vilification of a woman who made it so far into the 2016 election came to be.

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Katie Sowers knows a little bit about making history. After a recent win, the assistant coach is officially taking her team, the San Francisco 49ers, to Super Bowl LIV. But whether they beat the Kansas City Chiefs in February or not, Sowers’s name will be going down in the books as both the first female and the first openly-LGBTQ coach to work the sidelines at the big game. 

When her team beat the Green Bay Packers 37-20 on Sunday evening, Sowers shared a confetti-filled video on Instagram of her team celebrating. “Takin our talents to south beach [sic],” she wrote in the caption. 

The 33-year-old coach is here to win — while changing history for the better. Here’s what you need to know about her leading up to the Super Bowl on February 2. 

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Sowers came out publicly in 2017, becoming the first openly gay coach in the NFL.

Sowers isn’t new to notable “firsts.” She was the very first openly gay NFL coach. Ever. She gave an interview with OutSports about this in 2017, in which she said she wanted to encourage other people in the world of sports to be themselves. 

“No matter what you do in life, one of the most important things is to be true to who you are,” she told Outsports. “There are so many people who identify as LGBT in the NFL, as in any business, that do not feel comfortable being public about their sexual orientation.” 

Sowers is also only the second woman in the NFL to be in a full-time coaching position, and the first to go to the Super Bowl with her team. (The very first was Kathryn Smith, who was hired by the Buffalo Bills in 2016.)

Sowers told People Magazine that isn’t what defines her, though. “When you ask any of the coaches who work with me, often they’ll get asked about working with a female,” Sowers told People. “To them, it’s not even something that they think about — and it’s not something that I truly think about. They see me for who I am as a coach, and not a female coach.”

Refinery29 has reached out to a representative for Sowers for an interview.

Sowers says she’s overcome being discriminated against in the workforce.

In her interview with OutSports, Sowers explained that she’d lost out on a job because of her sexual orientation.

“As I was finishing college, I actually got turned down from a volunteer coaching job because I was a lesbian,” she told OutSports. “That moment really impacted me because it was the first time I truly felt judged because of my sexual orientation. I was so passionate about coaching and to feel like my opportunities were limited because of who I loved was hard to deal with. However, without that experience I would not be where I am today.”

Sowers has played professional football.

Like many great coaches, Sowers has played football at an elite level herself. ESPN reports that she was a quarterback for the Kansas City Titans, which is in the Women’s Football Alliance. In 2013, Sowers was a member of the USA Women’s National Football Team and helped her teammates earn gold, CBS News reports.

It’s no surprise she took her talents to the field. When she was growing up, the Hesston, Kansas, native wrote a letter about loving the game when she was only 8 years old. “My mom wants me to play basketball. I don’t want to. I want to play football,” she wrote, according to OutSports. “My favorite part of football is tackling.”

Sowers has a twin sister.

A love for tossing around the pigskin runs in the family, ESPN reports. She coach has a twin sister named Liz, who’s also played football in the WFA.

Sowers is in a relationship. 

Sowers has posted on social media about how her girlfriend and her family are major parts of her support system.

In September 2019, Sowers shared on Twitter that her girlfriend came out to her family about dating a woman for the first time. Sowers accompanied the post with a picture of a heartfelt, hand-written note from her partner’s grandmother. 

“If you want to know the meaning of unconditional love, read this letter my girlfriend received from her grandma after she recently came out to her family about dating a woman,” Sowers tweeted. “Just be a good person and BE HAPPY”. That’s all we should ask of our children.” 

If you want to know the meaning of unconditional love, read this letter my girlfriend received from her grandma after she recently came out to her family about dating a woman..”just be a good person and BE HAPPY”. That’s all we should ask of our children. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/vK2xTbvcQG

— Katie Sowers (@KatieSowers) September 23, 2019

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In an emotional new interview in Variety, Taylor Swift, 30, reveals that her mother Andrea, 62, has been recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. This news comes four years after Swift first shared that Andrea had been diagnosed with cancer. In that statement, posted to Swift’s Tumblr page, Swift wrote, “I’d like to keep the details of her condition and treatment plans private, but she wanted you to know.”

Now, Swift is sharing a little more about her mother’s journey. Her mother’s health will be included in the upcoming documentary Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, in a reportedly light-hearted scene featuring mama Swift’s “cancer dog”.

“Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom,” Swift told Variety. “But for me, she’s really the guiding force. Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first. So obviously it was a really big deal to ever speak about her illness.”

“While she was going through treatment [for her previously diagnosed cancer], they found a brain tumor,” she explained. “And the symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we’ve ever been through with her cancer before. So it’s just been a really hard time for us as a family.”

On Swift’s most recent album, Lover, there’s an entire song dedicated to Andrea titled “Soon You’ll Get Better,” that lets us into the singer’s private family life more than ever before.

“We as a family decided to put this on the album,” Swift said during a live stream in August 2019. “It’s something I’m so proud of. I can’t sing it, it’s hard, emotionally, to deal with that song.”

The lyrics are intimate and revealing. “In doctor’s office lighting, I didn’t tell you I was scared,” sings Swift in the song. “That was the first time we were there / Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you / Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus, too.”

The song’s chorus features the exact title, “Soon you’ll get better,” which is a message to her mom.

Normally, Swift says that she’d be on the road performing for almost nine months at a time to promote her new album. Due to her mother’s health, however, she decided to abbreviate her Lover tour to just five stadium dates in the U.S and a month-long stint in Europe this summer.

“I mean, we don’t know what is going to happen,” the singer revealed. “We don’t know what treatment we’re going to choose. It just was the decision to make at the time, for right now, for what’s going on.”

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Update: After sharing that she wore a $15,000 Tiffany & Co. bracelet to cover her grown-in roots, Charlize Theron followed up her SAG Awards appearance with another hilarious revelation: “Such an amazing night – thanks for having me SAG Awards!” the actress and nominee wrote on Instagram. “And yes, getting that bracelet out of my hair was a disaster.” Adir Abergel, who sewed the piece through her braided part with needle and silver thread, reposted her caption to his own Instagram Stories with a laughing emoji saying, “Sorry boo.”

This story was originally published January 19, 2020.

The next time you don’t have time to get to the salon to refresh your hair color, you could reach for a temporary root fix — or you could raid your jewelry box like Charlize Theron.

For the 2020 SAG Awards, the actress walked the red carpet with her hair pulled back into a sleek bun with a straight row of diamonds anchoring her strong center part. During her red carpet interview, Theron revealed that her glittery hair accessory was intentionally placed to cover up her grown-in roots. “I didn’t have time to do my roots,” she said. Instead, her longtime stylist, Adir Abergel, suggested redirecting people’s attention with a diamond Tiffany & Co. bracelet.

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“First off, I saw her incredible Givenchy gown, and it reminded me of the 1920s, so my brain immediately wanted to give her short haircut a new twist,” Abergel told Refinery29. “We had no time to dye her roots, so I was like, Ok let’s put on a bracelet.“

To secure her diamond jewels, Abergel phoned a friend who was skilled at teeny cornrows to create a single plait along Theron’s part. “Then I sewed the bracelet onto the actual braid to secure it in place,” he says. To finish the look, Abergel smoothed his client’s hair with Virtue Healing Oil (Adir is the creative director for the brand) and locked it in with the Dyson Supersonic diffuser. The final look is further proof that skipping a salon appointment or two isn’t the end of the world once you have a Tiffany’s bracelet (or a cute knockoff).

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Sex Education season 2 finale, “Chapter 8.”

Sex Education’s Season 2 finale opens on a sex scene. After Lily (Tanya Reynolds) admitted that she doesn’t want to be “just friends” with Ola (Patricia Allison) at the end of Episode 7, Episode 8 opens with the new couple in bed together. But while Ola is in a striped top and jeans, Lily is decked out in a sexy alien costume (reminiscent of the costumes in the school’s outer-space Romeo & Juliet musical), complete with tentacles attached to her fingertips.  

All is going well until Ola slides a hand under Lily’s silver miniskirt. “Ow!” Lily yelps, and explains to Ola, “It’s not you, it’s me. I have something called vaginismus. My vagina’s like a Venus flytrap.”

Lily gives Ola a quick explanation of her condition, showing her a kit of five different-sized dilators that she’s supposed to insert into her vagina — though so far, she can only use the smallest one. “I think it’s because I put too much pressure on myself,” Lily says. After Ola asks, Lily explains that she does masturbate. “I just keep to the outside,” she says, which gives Ola an idea: mutual masturbation. Cut to the couple gasping in bed together as they both come.

Fans of the show are calling its portrayal of vaginismus groundbreaking — especially because it shows that the condition doesn’t have to mean the end of sexual pleasure. 

Vaginismus “is a spasm or contraction of the muscles around the vagina,” the nonprofit medical center the Cleveland Clinic explains. While it can happen during sexual activity, it can also happen while inserting a tampon or during a Pap smear. 

While the condition — including how common it is — isn’t well understood, the Cleveland Clinic notes that it’s “thought to be a psychological condition, although some physical conditions can contribute to it.” The list of potential causes includes anxiety, fear of sex, past sexual trauma, and negative emotions towards sex, as well as physical conditions including yeast infections, UTIs, vulvar vestibulitis (an inflammatory condition) and atrophic vaginitis (a painful condition caused by lack of estrogen after menopause). 

Vaginismus is treated both physically and psychologically, with counseling, Kegel exercises, pelvic floor physical therapy, and vaginal dilators. More rarely, Botox treatments are used to ease the painful spasms.

Dilators like the ones Lily uses aren’t meant to “stretch” the vagina, the Cleveland Clinic says. Instead, they help patients get familiar with the sensation: “The goal [is]… to give a woman the comfort of being able to place these safe devices both outside and inside her vagina, in the privacy of her own home.”

In 2014, Chloe Schildhause wrote a personal essay for Refinery29 about her experience with vaginismus. “While I didn’t go the Botox route myself, I did invest some time in meeting with a physical therapist who guided me through breathing techniques while I inserted dilators,” she wrote. “I then took this practice home with me; a few weeks later, I found that I was able to wear tampons for the first time. About four months later, I was able to undergo a vaginal exam. And, the following year, I was able to have sex without pain.” 

And though it’s not true for everyone, some people with vaginismus also maintain great sex lives by following Lily’s technique: focusing on the clitoris rather than penetrating the vagina.  As sex blogger Sasha Kazantseva, who is a lesbian, previously wrote for Refinery29 UK, “[I’ve had] vaginismus for the majority of my life, and I had no problems with it; I just practiced non-penetrative sex and explained it to my partners.”

Near the end of the episode, we see Lily in her bedroom by herself. After considering the smallest dilator, she instead picks up the second-smallest. To her surprise, this time, she’s able to insert it. As for what this means for her and Ola’s sex life? We’ll have to wait until Season 3 to find out.

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With days to go until the Iowa caucus and the four frontrunners of the Democratic primary polling within an implausibly close range, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has reinserted herself into the fracas by deploying the time-honored political strategy of “just suing Hillary Clinton for defamation and seeing what happens.”

On Wednesday, Gabbard  — who is still running for president, despite polling at around 1% — filed suit against the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State on the grounds that Clinton falsely characterized her as a “Russian asset” during an October 2019 podcast appearance. 

In a statement given to The Hill, Gabbard’s lawyer, Brian Dunne, said that while his client’s political campaign “continues to gain momentum… [Tulsi] has seen her political and personal reputation smeared and her candidacy intentionally damaged by Clinton’s malicious and demonstrably false remarks.”

During her appearance on an episode of Campaign HQ With David Plouffe, Clinton claimed that the Russians were “grooming” a third-party candidate, suggesting that they had “their eye on somebody who’s currently in the Democratic primary,” who she insinuated was Gabbard. 

“She’s the favorite of the Russians, they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not, because she’s also a Russian asset,” Clinton added. “Yeah, she’s a Russian asset, I mean totally. They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate.”

In the lawsuit, lawyers for Gabbard claim that Clinton is a “cutthroat politician” who “sought retribution” for Gabbard endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016, when he was Clinton’s primary opponent. 

“Clinton’s false assertions were made in a deliberate attempt to derail Tulsi’s presidential campaign,” the lawsuit says. “Tulsi brings this lawsuit to ensure that the truth prevails and to ensure this country’s political elites are held accountable for intentionally trying to distort the truth in the midst of a critical Presidential election.”

The lawsuit comes on the heels of an explosive interview Clinton gave to The Hollywood Reporter in which she announced a four-part Hulu docuseries called Hillary. The series will focus on the 2016 presidential campaign, but Clinton doubled down on the assertion she makes in the film that “nobody likes” Vermont senator and 2020 presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders.

While Gabbard seems determined to throw the book at Clinton for her perceived sleights, Sanders brushed off Clinton’s comments about him on Tuesday with little fanfare, simply offering, “On a good day, my wife likes me.”

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When I’m on my period, all I want to do is curl up with a heating pad and eat an entire bag of Goldfish. But as satisfying as that might sound, it’s not the best thing I can do for my raging symptoms — at least from a nutritional standpoint, says Tracy Lockwood Beckerman, RD, author of The Better Period Food Solution.

“The food you choose to eat has a direct impact on the health of your period,” she says. According to her, certain dietary choices can heal your body, while others can stress it.

Many period-related symptoms like cramping, anxiety, moodiness, breast pain, and acne are caused by hormonal fluctuations, Beckerman says. What you eat can make those swings better — or worse.

“I always recommend avoiding caffeine, alcohol, high sodium foods, refined sugars, and low fiber foods to women who experience uncomfortable period symptoms,” explains Hillary Cecere, RD, nutritionist at Eat Clean Bro. So my salty Goldfish might taste like relief in the moment, but they may be working against me in the long term.

Okay, so I shouldn’t dine out exclusively on crackers and chocolate during this time. But what are the best foods to eat? I asked the experts for their suggestions, so I can spend a little less time under the heating pad this month. 

Oats 

Oats are rich in heart-healthy fiber, whole grains, and vitamin B1, known as thiamin, Beckerman says. “That’s a water soluble vitamin that can essentially bring you back to life when PMS is in town,” she says. “That’s because thiamin-rich foods break down carbohydrates in the body, so more mood-boosting neurotransmitters become available in the brain. This process can help combat PMS-related moodiness and anxiety.”

Sure enough, women with a higher dietary intake of thiamin had a lower risk of developing PMS, according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

To integrate more of these nutrients into your diet, make overnight oats or lighten your coffee with oat milk. 

Watermelon 

Staying hydrated can help you control bloating and prevent constipation, Cecere says. But guzzling plain H2O isn’t the only way to up your water intake. Juicy foods like watermelon contain plenty — plus, a dose of other good-for-you nutrients like vitamin B6, which studies show can ease the irritability, bloating, and anxiety associated with PMS, Beckerman says.

Throw some watermelon into a warm grain salad, or eat it picnic-style, plain and sliced, she suggests.

Flaxseeds: 

You’ve heard about omega-3s, but omega-6s are a thing too. The latter, which are found foods such as cashews and sunflower seeds, are believed to be inflammatory, and may contribute to cramps, Beckerman says. But omega-3 fatty acids may counteract that inflammation to reduce pain.

A good source of omega-3s: flaxseeds. Grind them up and sprinkle them over your morning parfait, or mix a few tablespoons into a smoothie, she suggests. 

Mushrooms 

Many mushrooms are rich in vitamin D, which plays a critical role in reproductive health and mood regulation. “When estrogen drops right before your period, it also takes down vitamin D, which can send your energy and mood south,” Beckerman says. “That’s why the couch looks more desirable leading up to your period than ever.” 

Saute some mushrooms in an omelette or chop them up and mix them into a pasta sauce to get an extra shot of this nutrient. Other good sources include fish, cheese, and egg yolks, or supplements.

Salmon

“We know this fish is a top source of inflammation-fighting omega 3s, and it’s also high in calcium,” Beckerman says. “Low amounts of calcium in the diet is thought to contribute to PMS, so eating three servings of salmon the week [leading up to] your period may be the ticket to easing period symptoms.”

Nuts, seeds, and beans

These are all good sources of magnesium, which Cecere says can help prevent irritability. Beckerman adds that the nutrient may also help relax muscle contractions coming from the uterus during PMS. 

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Royals — they’re just like us! They wrestle with tough family problems. They experiment with highlights. And they’re vulnerable to the stress of parenthood. In fact, Kate Middleton opened up about her own new-mom struggles during a visit to Ely and Careau Children’s Centre in Cardiff, Wales this Wednesday.

“It’s nice to be back in Wales,” Middleton said, according to People Magazine. Both the duchess and her husband, Prince William, had previously lived in Wales when he was stationed there during his time in the Royal Air Force. His position required extended time away from home and night shifts. Not ideal when you have a newborn.

“It was the first year and I’d just had George — William was still working with search and rescue — and we came up here and I had a tiny, tiny baby in the middle of Anglesey. It was so isolated, so cut off,” Middleton said. “I didn’t have any family around, and he was doing night shifts. So… if only I had had a center like this.”

The Ely and Careau Children’s Centre offers care, education, health, wellbeing, and development services for children and their parents, their website says. Places like these can be a crucial asset to people who need support while raising kids.

In a recent survey of new parents conducted by Refinery29, we heard a similar message to Middleton’s. “If I had known how isolating those first few months at home with a newborn would be, I would have planned for it,” Sandy, 43, said. “I would have reached out to other soon-to-be moms beforehand, so that I had those connections. I know you can join mommy groups after you have the baby, but I just felt so tired and not myself — not exactly in the best headspace to meet new people.”

Middleton was at the center to promote an early child development survey called “5 big questions under 5.” The hope is that the results will help shed light on the experiences of both children and parents in this stage of life — something that could be a helpful resource for new parents in the future.

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Last week, in an emotional video titled “I’m Coming Out” that has since garnered over 32 million views, beauty vlogger Nikkie de Jager — better known on YouTube as NikkieTutorials — revealed publicly for the first time that she is transgender. On today’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Dutch makeup artist conducted her first interview since the announcement, sitting down with Ellen to discuss her journey as well as the reported blackmailing that forced her to come forward with her story earlier than planned.

“A couple of weeks ago, I got emails from a certain person, and he was not okay with the fact that I was ‘lying’ and wanted to expose that,” de Jager revealed of the unnamed person who she said threatened to out her to the press. “He had a very pressuring tone of voice, and he was like, ‘If we don’t get an answer by tomorrow, it’s out.’ I feel like his entire goal was to destroy my life. But, plot twist, that didn’t happen.”

When DeGeneres asked the YouTuber if she would’ve ever revealed that she was transgender had she not been blackmailed, de Jager opened up about her thought process. She recalled crying as she uploaded the video, and her fiancé, Dylan, encouraging her every step of the way. “I always wanted to come out with it, but it is such a thing that it’s like, how do you find the timing? There’s never the perfect timing,” she said. But, she added, “Now I get to be free.”

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The content creator also took the opportunity to acknowledge her privilege as a white, blonde, cis-passing woman who started her transition at a young age, and whose parents offered her love and support throughout the process. It’s with this new understanding — that not everyone is so fortunate — that she hopes to inspire others. “I want to take this opportunity to hopefully inspire a lot of transgender people out there, even when you’re starting later on in your journey, that we need to accept that,” she says.

Before the interview was over, DeGeneres — with the help of Shutterfly — surprised the YouTuber with a $10,000 donation made in her name to The Trevor Project, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth.

As de Jager looks towards the future, she says she’s ultimately grateful for the support she has received, and the timing of when she was able to speak her truth. As she said to DeGeneres, “I was so happy that it’s 2020, and the acceptance is real.”

If you are a trans person in need of information and support, please call the Trans Lifeline at 1-877-565-8860.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry aren’t at Windsor Castle anymore, a fact proven by their recent choice of headgear. 

Just days after the couple resigned from their royal duties in favor of a more low-key lifestyle in Vancouver, Canada, both Harry and Meghan were spotted participating in “normal” activities: Markle went for a hike in the woods with Archie and their two four-legged friends, Oz and Guy. Harry flew commercial… and carried his own bag off the plane (shocking, I know). But if the duo’s new lifestyle isn’t sign enough that a new era has begun, their casual beanies totally are.

Before we examine Meghan and Harry’s respective winter accessories, though, it’s important to first take a look back at their beginnings. It was October of 2016; Prince Harry was giving his new girlfriend, then-Suits actress Meghan Markle, a tour of his hometown. Highly publicized paparazzi photos of the date documented the couple sporting a now-familiar set of matching beanies. 

Of course, when you’re attending charity galas and polo matches on any given Tuesday, you can’t exactly show up wearing a regular old beanie. But now that Meghan and Harry have started fresh as non-royals, meaning that they can do whatever they want and wear whatever they want, it seems that they’ve returned to their old sartorial ways: wearing beanies, that is. 

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Markle’s cap of choice was a hunter green slouchy style courtesy of Madewell, which she paired with a long-sleeved black workout top, leggings, and lace-up hiking boots. Harry recycled a navy blue beanie that he’s been spotted in before, wearing it this time with a black puffer coat and jeans during his trans-Atlantic flight from the UK to Vancouver. 

And since winter’s only just begun, we’re predicting a long season of beanie action from the once-royal couple. Join them in celebrating their newfound fashion freedom by shopping the four Meghan Markle-approved beanies below.

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