Have a Good Weekend.

OMG does it take you 1,000 coats of the Essie polish to make your nails look pretty? I have that color at home and it’s so lack-luster with just 1-2 coats! What am I doing wrong? :)

I haven’t watched Motherland, but would highly recommend “The Letdown” (which is available on Netflix in the UK, not sure about the US) unless you haven’t had a baby (particularly if you’re pregnant, RUN AWAY). My second is now 7 months old, and apart from the movie Tully, it’s the most accurate depiction I’ve seen of early parenthood, and it’s SO funny. My husband could only last about ten minutes because it was too real for him. I watched the whole thing in a couple of days.

In addition to Stand For Kids, I would love to plug talentpledge.org. It is a website where you can turn any activity, interest or talent into a simple fundraiser to raise money for any US-registered nonprofit. You can fundraise for the ACLU, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and many other nonprofits. (You can always request to have a registered nonprofit added if you don’t see them too.) It’s a welcoming community of women who are standing up for injustices around the world in various ways.

“What your favorite rock band says about you” parts 1 and 2, is the the funniest thing ever. ?

I agree. A touching story.

Hello! Thank you soooo much for sharing about having a lemonade stand (I really loved when I read the post about the one you did with your kids awhile back!) I was just looking up the info on the #standforkids website–can you tell me how/where to find the ‘local rules’ for hosting one in NYC? Do you know if I could just go for it anywhere?! And thank you so much for all the information you have been sharing–the update I read about donations for the children who are now in East Harlem brought me tears of joy this afternoon and some hope that if we keep fighting, these families may get to be reunited. xx

I love the storq article. I also hear the perspective in some of the comments about “skinny shaming”. Perhaps part of the problem here is that we are coming from a historical place of only skinny models and skinny women having “value” and as a society we are trying to show that rounder/ broader/ softer women do too…
I don’t think the intention was to “skinny shame” but to be much more inclusive. I don’t know the statistics but I think the percentage of “I swallowed a basketball” pregnant women is probably VERY low compared to the “regular” gain weight everywhere and not 6 ft tall preggers, and if we are trying to have representative models then many more of them need to be more average.
Another perspective is that a huge difference btwren the shots are “glamour preggo” vs “I’m sitting on the floor in my nursing bra with my baby”.
I wonder how different the reactions would be if the photo shoots were more apples to apples but with more size inclusion.
I have noticed that as a 5’2, 130lb woman (after two babies, still nursing one), that I am actually noticing that I feel different (better) when I look at size inclusive models. Recently I was looking at the Athleta catalog and saw a plus size model sporting a bikini. It’s crazy but it takes my brain a minute to adjust to how she looks compared to what I’m used to. While I’m not plus size, my body shape and height make clothes fit me more similarly to the plus size models than the regular models.. and it was a big mind shift to say to myself “that’s how that bikini might look on you” and actually feel ok about it.
I don’t think Storq was trying to exclude anyone but I think the people who are naturally thin perhaps don’t realize how hard it is not to have representation of how the rest of us look in 98% of the ads we see.

Julie’s comment made me chuckle, because I had a similar situation with my husband…except he was the virgin! Granted, we were more like 23, but I had no idea and he was too embarrassed to tell me until the very last second. I felt so bad! I certainly hadn’t thought to ask, and he was (unnecessarily) mortified that he didn’t have experience. Never easy, I’m sure, but I can imagine the cultural shame around virginity is so much harder for guys to deal with given our crazy cultural expectations for them.

Hmmm…. what if you’re 6 ft tall, skinny as a string bean and six months pregnant? Sad to think that my body is “off putting.”