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Tim Gunn slams fashion industry for not making clothes for plus-size women.

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In an essay written for The Washington Post, Project Runway host Tim Gunn slams the fashion industry for refusing to acknowledge the fact that they are alienating plus size women by only designing up to a size 12, even though the average American woman is between a size 16 and 18.

I love the American fashion industry, but it has a lot of problems, and one of them is the baffling way it has turned its back on plus-size women. It’s a puzzling conundrum. The average American woman now wears between a size 16 and a size 18, according to new research from Washington State University. There are 100million plus-size women in America, and, for the past three years, they have increased their spending on clothes faster than their straight-size counterparts. There is money to be made here ($20.4billion, up 17 percent from 2013). But many designers — dripping with disdain, lacking imagination or simply too cowardly to take a risk— still refuse to make clothes for them.

Gunn has even spoke directly to designers to ask why women above a size 12 are being ignored. Their answers are extremely disheartening.

I’ve spoken to many designers and merchandisers about this. The overwhelming response is, “I’m not interested in her.” Why? “I don’t want her wearing my clothes.” Why? “She won’t look the way that I want her to look.”

Gunn, best known as a mentor on Project Runway, is also critical of how the show handles designing for plus size women.

Every season we have the “real women” challenge (a title I hate), in which the designers create looks for non-models. The designers audibly groan, though I’m not sure why; in the real world, they won’t be dressing a seven-foot-tall glamazon.

However, there was a huge shift when plus size designer Ashley Nell Tipton won the competition show this year.

She was the first Project Runway contestant ever to show a plus size collection at New York Fashion Week, but Tim Gunn revealed that he was not a fan of her work, and rips her apart by calling her collection "hideous" in the essay. Ouch.

Someecards recently interviewed Ashley Nell Tipton. You can read that here.

The good news is that although some designers are slow to get on board, plus size fashion is becoming more and more mainstream.

With the body positivity movement gaining traction every day, it is in the best interest of the designers to create fashion forward clothes for all women, not just the skinny few.


Just when you thought 'Stranger Things' couldn't get any better, here's an all-pug version.

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You know your new favorite show, Stranger Things? It's basically perfect, right? Nothing would make it better, right? WRONG. Meet canine social media celebrity, Doug the Pug. Doug loves Stranger Things.

"Netflix is my soulmate" -Doug

A photo posted by Doug The Pug (@itsdougthepug) on

In fact, he loves the show so much, he recently starred in a remake of it, aptly titled Stranger Pugs. It's the best thing you'll watch today.

Stranger Pugs > Stranger Things

Posted by Doug The Pug on Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Doug plays every single character in Stranger Pugs. (He's a very versatile actor. Such range. Such talent.) Here he is as Eleven:

"Eleven is my spirit animal" -Doug • Can you guess what Doug The Pug video comes out tonight?

A photo posted by Doug The Pug (@itsdougthepug) on

And as the show's most beloved character, Barb:

"Long live Barb" -Doug

A photo posted by Doug The Pug (@itsdougthepug) on

Also, here's an unrelated bonus pic of Doug getting ready for Fall. (He has such a star quality about him, doesn't he?)

"Me at the first sign of Fall" -Doug

A photo posted by Doug The Pug (@itsdougthepug) on

Happy Friday, internet!

Natalie Portman is pregnant with either a baby swan or future Jedi.

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According to US Weekly, Natalie Portman is pregnant again. Portman and her choreographer husband Benjamin Millepied met while making Black Swan, and the couple is now expecting their second cygnet baby together.

A cygnet is a baby swan, by the way.

Portman showed off her tiny baby bump at the 73rd Venice Film Festival while wearing a Dior gown, so she is hands down the most glamorous pregnant lady ever. Her pregnant belly looks like what most of us look like after eating Chipotle.

Baby or burrito?

Portman and Millepied have a 5-year old son named Aleph together. I wonder what letter of the Hebrew alphabet baby number two will be named after.

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Stephen King explains why people are so afraid of clowns.

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South Carolina is currently experiencing some sort of scary clown invasion, freaking out the residents and taxing local law enforcement. While coulrophobia (the actual full-blown phobia of clowns) is relatively rare, it is undeniable that a lot of people find clowns pretty goddamn creepy. And who better to talk to about the reasons we fear sinister clowns than author Stephen King, creator of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from his 1986 novel It?

The Bangor Daily News asked King his thoughts on why people are so scared of clowns, and in an email, he responded:

I chose Pennywise the Clown as the face which the monster originally shows the kiddies because kids love clowns, but they also fear them. Clowns with their white faces and red lips are so different and so grotesque compared to "normal" people. Take a little kid to the circus and show him a clown, he’s more apt to scream with fear than laugh.

I suspect it’s a kind of low-level hysteria, like Slender Man, or the so-called Bunny Man, who purportedly lurked in Fairfax County, Virginia, wearing a white hood with long ears and attacking people with a hatchet or an axe. The clown furor will pass, as these things do, but it will come back, because under the right circumstances, clowns really can be terrifying.

Lon Chaney said (or is reputed to have said), "There’s nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." Meaning, I suppose, a clown seen outside of its normal milieu, in the circus or at the fair. If I saw a clown lurking under a lonely bridge (or peering up at me from a sewer grate, with or without balloons), I’d be scared, too.

Mom marries her adult daughter after they reunite and 'hit it off.'

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Oklahoma mother and daughter Patricia Ann Spann, 43, and Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 25, were arrested together last month after police discovered the two were married.

Awww so cute they're wearing matching mommy-daughter outfits!

What happened was this: Patricia Ann lost custody of her three children when they were young. Patricia Ann told investigators she hadn't been reunited with Misty until 2 years ago, when she and her daughter immediately "hit it off."

Cue the banjos.

Genetic Sexual Attraction is a very real situation that can be common when estranged relatives are reunited. So common, in fact, that before Patricia Ann married Misty, she married her son in 2008.​

Yes. Breathe deep.

This is Patricia Ann's second marriage to one of her offspring. According to investigators, her son filed for an annulment 15 months after being married to mommy dearest, citing "incest."

But that didn't stop Patty Ann from sharing vows with her next next of kin this year. Police discovered the unblessed union last month and brought them both up on incest charges. According to Oklahoma state law, marrying a close relative is considered incest whether or not a sexual relationship exists. Patricia said she thought a marriage was OK because her name wasn't on her daughter's birth certificate.

Both women are being held on $10,000 bonds in addition to bonds they share as mother and daughter and wife and wife.

The 9 best times Donald Trump was trolled by TV graphics departments.

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It's hard not to notice the countless times Donald Trump has contradicted himself, spread misinformation, and just plain lied during the presidential campaign. But while his dishonesty is bamboozling the country, at least it's provided a lot of fun for the people who write chyrons (the text on the lower third of the screen) for cable news networks. These anonymous heroes have turned clowning on Trump into an art form. Here are their nine greatest works:

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Italy's new 'Fertility Day' campaign ads are a sexist nightmare.

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Women who don't have kids get reminded of this on the reg, especially by aging family members (looking at you, Aunt Martha). And now in Italy they can't even walk down the street without seeing an ad reminding them, essentially, that their eggs are drying up. This is thanks to a campaign for a new national holiday called "Fertility Day," which is coming up on September 22. The posters and televised ads include slogans like this one, which translates to “Beauty knows no age. Fertility does."

Blergh.

Another is an image of baby shoes and reads: "The constitution [sic] protects conscious and responsible procreation."

The campaign was started in an effort to boost the country's birth rate, which has been in decline. But the ads have been criticized for being sexist as well as ageist. Others have pointed out that they harken back to Italy's fascist past in the 1930s, when posters were put up around the country urging women to "give more children to the fatherland."

Many have pointed out that these ads are offensive to women who don't want to have children, or those who can't for physical or financial reasons. Italy has been in a recession for many years, so many people simply can't afford to procreate.

The hashtag #fertilityday has become a trending topic on Twitter as people have responded to the sexist ads in outrage.

But maybe Tina Fey said it best: Blerg.

Neil Patrick Harris's twins looked ready to conquer the world on their first day of kindergarten.

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Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka's twins Harper and Gideon are objectively two of the most adorable creatures on planet earth. Whether posting adorable singing videos on"bookface" or being the cutest at Christmas, these little blonde munchkins give you hope for the future, and they're ready to take on kindergarten.

Kindergarten fits these two well. #firstdayofschool

A photo posted by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph) on

They're also ready to join the band in School of Rock.

Now that we're all here, let's look at more of their cutest moments. My obsession with the Burtka-Harrises isn't creepy, I promise.

Merry Christmas Eve!!

A video posted by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph) on

A long time ago in a Halloween far, far away....

A photo posted by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph) on

Happy Easter from the Burtka-Harris bunnies and one lil' chick!

A photo posted by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph) on

Happy Halloween from Gotham City!!

A photo posted by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph) on

Good to have the family all together again.

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BFFs Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon played 'The Newlywed Game' and got surprisingly intimate.

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Sorry Justin Timberlake, looks like Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon are BFFs now. And why wouldn't they be? They 23-year-old singer and 41-year-old comedian have so much in common, like that they are both humans who breath air and have bones and wear shoes.

The two best friends wanted to prove how well they know each other by playing a best friends version of The Newlywed Game. Sure it seems like Ariana would rather be anywhere but answering questions about Jimmy Fallon, but the game is fun.

Also, we cannot ignore the fact that Ariana is wearing the love child of cargo pants and JNCO jeans. Jimmy, as Ariana's best friend, you're supposed to stop her from such fashion faux pas, especially ones that combine two of the worst trends from the late 90's.

Peer pressure may explain why the UK has shockingly low rates of breastfeeding.

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Why does the UK have the lowest breastfeeding rate in the world? According to Amy Brown of Swansea University, the answer may lie in social pressure to get babies quickly sleeping through the night and on a regular feeding schedule so new mums can get back to normal.

Brown spoke at the British Science Festival, suggesting an explanation for why just one in 200 British women are still nursing their babies after 12 months. First of all, the idea that women should get their babies on feeding schedules "is really incompatible for breastfeeding," she told The Guardian. Babies need to nurse a lot to get their moms' milk supplies up.

Simply telling women that "breast is best" (or as they say in the UK, "breaust is beust") doesn't necessarily translate into an understanding of how breastfeeding works or a support system to make it happen.

Couple that with pearl-clutching at public breastfeeding and so-called experts assuring new moms their newborns can go 12 hours without milk, and more and more women are turning to formula. On a public health level, this has serious consequences, both in terms of infant mortality and government health costs.

New moms need more support to turn breastfeeding from something that sounds nice but seems impossible into a reality. Maybe Kate Middleton could do some public breastfeeding or something?

Sean Lennon defends Kanye and Kim against Kardashian-hating 'snobs' on Facebook.

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Sean Lennon is mad as hell about your anti-Kardashian bigotry and he's not going to take it anymore! After the musician (and son of John Lennon) and his mom, Yoko Ono, attended a Kanye West show at Madison Square Garden earlier this week, he posted a pic on Facebook of Ono with Kim Kardashian:

Backstage at the Saint Pablo Tour this just happened... #surreallife #saintpablotour #kimye #lifeofpablo @yokoonoofficial @kimkardashian

Posted by Sean Lennon on Tuesday, September 6, 2016

The post received over 400 comments, many of them questioning why royalty like Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, son of JOHN LENNON, would be in the same photo as a reality star who became famous from a sex tape. Or, as stated more subtly by one commenter: "And the Kardashians are mentioned in the same sentence as the Lennons, why?"

Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon

Lennon then came to Kim and Kanye's impassioned defense in the comments section, saying they were super nice to him and Yoko, and calling out the haters for being "snobs." Lennon wrote, "Im not such a snob that I think I'm too good to take a photo with someone who is being nice to my mother."

Here's the full comment:

Wow I didn't realize how many snobs were on my page. Kimye invited us to a concert. We attended. We met backstage. I took a photo. They were very nicer to my mother making sure she had escorts in and out of MSG. I like people who are nice to my mother. You guys think you're so fucking great? I bet none of you would say no to a photo with a nice lady who invited you to her husband's concert. You think Kanye is an asshole? Well he is a big fan of mom's knows a lot about her performance art. He was certainly more respectful to her than many of you are to me and my family. Im not such a snob that I think I'm too good to take a photo with someone who is being nice to my mother. If you guys think you're above a simple photograph, your morals are so high that it's beneath you to take a fucking photo, then please leave my page I'm obviously not good enough for your superior disposition. Either chill the fuck out or piss off. Love, Sean

Oh, and there's more! In another comment, Lennon responded to someone named Sheryl who apparently believes Kanye is what's "wrong with America." He pointed out that America has way bigger problems than Kanye:

Sheryl, You think Kanye represents what's wrong w America? He's just a rapper, and a good one at that. There is sooooo much more that is wrong w america besides an arrogant and talented rapper. He's not bombing Iraqis or assassinating foreign heads of state, nor is he pillaging the third world with impunity. Honestly I hope you didn't really mean what you just said. We make peace with our enemies not our friends, a photo of kim and my mom is a beautiful symbol of disparate universes not colliding but getting along for once. I do think you're being a snob if you think there's anything wrong with this photo or if you think you're somehow better than Kanye or Kim. We're all just humans, we're all equal. And you should save your disdain for the real killers. And there are tons of them running this country and running this economy. So wake up please.

Tl;dr Stay in your lane. Don't be a snob (Sheryl). Imagine all the online commenters living life in peace.

This glittery cat will inspire you to live your best life.

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If you've ever owned a cat, you know they enjoy a good romp in an empty bathtub. So then imagine how appealing that same bathtub must be to a kitty after a glittery Lush Intergalactic bath bomb. This is the situation Salem the cat encountered, and he embraced it with a passion.

Amanda Barron, Salem's owner, captured Salem's bathtub roll of glittery glory, followed by all the giggles.

She told Buzzfeed...

There is glitter EVERYWHERE. You don’t get rid of glitter, it stays with you forever.

The glitter got so out of hand that Barron had to give Salem a bath. Prepare for wet kitty cuteness.

And don't worry, the glitter is made from seaweed and is kitty safe. Roll away Salem!

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'The Daily Show' was back to its old self as Trevor Noah ripped Matt Lauer for not doing his job.

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If you (wisely) missed the Commander in Chief Forum between Clinton and Trump this week, Trevor Noah and The Daily Show​ did an excellent job of capturing how exactly Matt Lauer screwed it up, and not just in the big ways. Lauer, the bald don of morning psuedo-news, got to venture into night-time, big kid TV and once again came off as unserious and unprepared.

Most importantly, Lauer missed a bunch of pretty obvious questions the country needed asked. All that seems unfunny, but fortunately, The Daily Show is back to do what it does best: explain all the ways real TV news lets us down.

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/pb3s6x/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-matt-lauer-botches-the-commander-in-chief-forum

The internet is fascinated by these creepy dolls that demonstrate a breech birth.

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Sometimes babies come out backwards. Medical professionals call it "breech birth." The best way to experience that is by watching it happen to a plastic doll.

For those of you wanting kids... Like Mitchell Wiggs for new videos daily!

Posted by Mitchell Wiggs on Saturday, September 3, 2016

This video posted to Facebook by Mitchell Wiggs has given almost 2.5 million people a rare glimpse into this difficult delivery. First, the infant's butt emerges.

This is not was Mos Def mean when he rapped "ass so fat you can see it from the front."

An actress simulates the sounds of a woman in labor with uncomfortable moans, rather than the banshee screams you'd expect.

Then the legs pop out, and the doctor wraps the bottom half of the baby in a towel, twisting it around like that girl's head in Poltergeist.

This is also what it would look like if the baby was climbing back in.

Next, the infant's arms punch their way out, and the doctor rotates the baby again. They pause to take a breather.

Hang in there, baby!

A few more breaths, and the head comes out.

Congrats! It's a horrifying plastic demon!

Lady Gaga releases 'Perfect Illusion,' her first single in 3 years.

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Time to get excited little Monsters, Mother Monster (aka Lady Gaga) has released "Perfect Illusion," her first single in three years. And it's catchy AF.

The track, from her upcoming album, was co-written and co-produced with Mark Ronson, Kevin Parker, and BloodPop. It's a pop-rock-disco fusion reminiscent of 80s David Bowie and Queen.

We're pretty psyched her new song is finally here. We've waited through Gaga's thing with Tony Bennett and her foray into acting on American Horror Story. We're ready to dance again. (Meat dress optional.)

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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook had their own little 'She's All That' reunion.

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The internet submitted itself to the pleasure of a full-blown nineties-gasm on Thursday when She's All That co-stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook decided to have coffee together.

They even recreated the film's poster in their pic! (Kind of. He's on the right and she's on the left. Close enough.)

Get you a man who looks at you the way Zack looks at Laney without her glasses.

Over 3,000 people were psyched to see the stars of their favorite Pygmalion adaptation (that isn't My Fair Lady) reunite, and then continue to be cute as they joked about a brownie.

The movie that gifted us with pube pizza,hacky sack, and "Woah, she's super hot without her glasses!" is as 90s as it gets, and gave hope to near-sighted hot girls everywhere.

Hopefully she didn't just ask him to coffee for a bet.

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