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Tammy Slaton says she feels “beautiful” as she ditches the photo filters and her oxygen support. “6 beautiful photos of myself without filters,” the “1000-Lb. Sisters” star — who has lost more than 300 pounds — captioned a carousel of selfies on Instagram Saturday. In the snaps, the reality star showed off her natural face…
Tina Turner was still battling kidney issues just two months before her death. The “Best” singer said in March that, despite receiving a kidney transplant from her second husband, Erwin Bach, her body went to battle to attempt rejecting the organ. “The months after the transplantation were marked by a never-ending up and down,” she…
Wendy Williams is not hospitalized despite a report claiming she checked into a medical facility in New York twice in the past two weeks. “I can confirm that Wendy Williams is not in the hospital, as reported. I can also confirm she is not in New York, as reported,” the former “Wendy Williams Show” host’s publicist,…
Wendy Williams has reportedly pulled out of an upcoming appearance due to her ongoing health concerns. The former “Wendy Williams Show” host, 58, has canceled her $25,000 speaking engagement at the Atlanta Women’s Expo, which is set to take place on Saturday and Sunday, according to the US Sun. “There is a video from Wendy…
Back in December, the once-respected Scientific American did a piece on the stigmatization of black women’s bodies. We noted in that post that obesity hadn’t cost pop star Lizzo her share of fame and fortune. The heightened concern about black women’s weight reflects the racist stigmatization of their bodies. It also ignores how interrelated social…
June “Mama June” Shannon is reportedly helping out daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell amid her cancer diagnosis – despite the two not having much of a relationship. “June and Anna were slowly working on building back their relationship about a year ago, but Anna’s recent stage 4 adrenal carcinoma diagnosis has rapidly brought the pair even…
Carrie Ann Inaba revealed that she was recently hospitalized and had to have surgery for an “emergency appendectomy.” “Special shout out to the wonderful staff of doctors, nurses and aides at @cedarssinai for taking such good care of me,” the “Dancing With the Stars” judge, 55, captioned an Instagram reel of her hospital stay on Thursday. “I…
One person dies every 34 seconds in the U.S. from cardiovascular disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and this means each of us has to be mindful of our heart health so that we are not one of them. I firmly believe we all need to be mindful of our overall health. Being…
Lisa Rinna’s eldest daughter, Delilah Belle Hamlin, is getting candid about the “painful” seizures she experienced while shooting a music video for her debut single, “Nothing Lasts Forever.” “On the second day of filming the music video, it was, like, nine hours into the day and I suffered from seizures,” she told Entertainment Tonight Friday. “We…
Deaths of pregnant and postpartum women in the U.S. spiked to a six-decade high in 2021, according to recently released federal data. In 2021, 1,205 U.S. women died of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, up from 861 in 2020 and 754 in 2019, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease…
If the 10 occupations with the most women workers paid the same average wages as the top 10 fields for employing men, about 12 million women might’ve taken home an extra $96 billion in 2021, according to a new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families. “Women’s work has been undervalued for generations…
Hailey Bieber is celebrating one year since her “life-changing” mini-stroke took place. “Can’t believe it’s been 1 year since I suffered a mini stroke that led to my PFO [patent foramen ovale] diagnosis,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories Friday. “Given that it’s the 1 year mark from such a life changing event, I wanted…
Pink has helped her children navigate two difficult losses in recent years. Not only did the “Trustfall” singer’s dad, Jim Moore, die of prostate cancer in 2021 after battling the disease for eight years, but her kids’ beloved nanny, Trish, also succumbed to cancer. Pink, 43, revealed in a new interview that Willow and Jameson’s…
Chrishell Stause spent her Wednesday in a hospital, revealing she underwent a “minor surgery” to have an ovarian cyst removed. The reality TV star, who is best known for starring in the hit Netflix show “Selling Sunset,” shared a snap from the hospital bed shortly after the operation took place. Stause told her 3.6 million…
Gina Gershon says she’s had a lot of sapphic interest since the movie “Bound” came out. The actress, 60, joked that “countless” women have proposed to her since the neo-noir thriller was released in 1996. “I’m always amazed at how different men are from women, as far as being a groupie,” she told Page Six…
Peloton’s Leanne Hainsby has been quietly battling breast cancer since August, she announced on social media Friday. Hainsby described at length the treatments she’s been receiving after one doctor first dismissed the lump she discovered, sharing that she’s been through 12 weeks of chemotherapy and will begin radiation. “I would teach my Wednesday morning LIVE…
Selma Blair says she finally “stopped having regression” after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in August 2018. In an interview with “Self” magazine, the 50-year-old got candid about how the autoimmune disease still “haunts” her daily life despite undergoing a stem cell transplant a few years ago. “I’m so much better, but it haunts…
Wendy Williams is just “happy to be here” after a year full of health scares and legal drama. The former daytime talk show host shared a video on Instagram Saturday to promote merchandise for her forthcoming podcast, “The Wendy Experience,” and showed her fans just how well she’s doing after a stint in rehab. “Hey!…
Pregnant Heather Rae Young, who is in her third trimester, has been placed on bed rest. The “Selling Sunset” star, 35, gave her Instagram followers a health update on Thursday after leaving a routine checkup, explaining that her sciatica pain had become “unbearable.” “Baby update: I just left the doctor,” she began the selfie-style video…