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Actress who played Barb on 'Stranger Things' gets real about her history of self-harm.
Shannon Purser, the actress who captured our hearts as the gloriously bespectacled Barb on Netflix's Stranger Things, is not just a national treasure—she is also a normal 19-year-old girl.
Purser, who made her film debut on Stranger Things, is a real teen who has dealt with real problems that many young people are facing today. She recently opened up on Twitter about her history of self-harm, something that one in 12 teens admit they struggle with.
Purserfollowedupwitha messagetoanyonewhomaybestruggling.
Not many actors have spoken publicly about self-harm and cutting, especially in conjunction with their personal experiences. Through her honesty, she is helping to de-stigmatize mental illness in a non-judgmental and supportive way. Judging by the response to her tweets, that is just what some people needed to hear.
Just another reason why Barb is the best.
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Woman who spent $22,000 to look like Kim Kardashian: "It ruined my life."
27-year-old Claire Leeson from Essex, UK went viral on the internet years ago for her resemblance to reality show star/empress Kim Kardashian. In 2007, at the age of 18, friends told her that she looked like the star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, then in its first season. The insecure young Leeson decided to embrace the resemblance. She spent £18,000 (roughly $22,300) on breast implants, prosthetic butt pads, cosmetics, and clothes to look more like Kardashian. Then she started a side hustle as an impersonator.
But that was before the internet got wind of her. As soon as people became aware of this faux-Kim, they started harassing her non-stop. She got the worst of both worlds—Kardashian fans hassling her for trying to be like their queen, and Kardashian haters subjecting her to the same merciless abuse they give to the real thing. Nine years later, she tells the Daily Mail:
It's ruining my life, I'm just being ridiculed. People don't understand that it's not a compliment for me to be compared to Kim, it really upsets me. I feel like a bit of an idiot and I regret saying I wanted to be like her. I am my own person and I wish I hadn't have gone along with it at the time.
Leeson continues:
I only started watching the show a couple of seasons in after people said I look like Kim Kardashian. I liked her make-up and the clothes she wore so I took it as a compliment. She's really pretty and everyone was trying to look like her. I was so low and insecure at the time, I felt like I should take it [the publicity] because it was there.
What's more, Leeson is fed up with trolls who refuse to believe she hasn't had plastic surgery on her face. She insists the only work she's had done is the boob job, but they won't believe her. What's more, her natural resemblance to Kardashian is hurting her career as an actress (the same career it helped start).
Let's hope Ms. Leeson can escape from the shadow of Kim Kardashian and her butt. She deserves the chance to pursue her acting career on her own terms.
Now there's only one question left: why do people think she had facial surgery? She doesn't even look that much like Kardashian.
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Woman accidentally added to guys' group chat objectifying her, so she puts it all on Facebook.
A 22-year-old law student at Melbourne University was mortified after her peers accidentally added her to an outrageous group chat objectifying her.
The men added Eleanor Henry to their message thread apparently by mistake and quickly removed her, but they didn't realize that she could still access everything they had said up to that point.
What she saw was more than enough to make her shudder in horror and take to Facebook to make herself heard.
Let's all wave hello to my fellow peers at Melbourne University. This is why I'll die a feminist. It's 2016.. Let's get back to that conversation on equality.
Oh and for those asking, they accidentally added me to their chat group without realizing I could read everything prior.
Henry told the Daily Mail Australia she wouldn't "publicly name and shame the men."
Her restraint, and compassion, is even more impressive considering what they wrote.
All that and they also said, "Bring her to Thailand. We need a bike."
"Aside from this contact, I have never really engaged with them on a social level," Henry told the Daily Mail. "The other two boys in the chat," she explained, she had never even met before.
After feeling physically sick reading the messages, Henry's sister suggested she expose the "kind of rape culture" in the messages by posting them to Facebook.
Apparently after Henry posted the messages, one of the men involved begged her to take them down:
On her decision not to name the people involved, Henry explained "it's not particularly relevant in achieving the outcome I wish to pursue on a larger scale, which ultimately is to bring awareness about the issue and have people understand that it should not be merely written off as 'boys being boys.'"
Just more proof that locker room talk has nothing to do with the locker room.
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24 of the funniest predictions about what would happen if Donald Trump wins.
For some, a Donald Trump win is unthinkable, but that doesn't mean it's unpredictable. Those who still have their senses of humor have created some predictions as to what a Trump win would look like. Get out your wall-building tools, here are the 25 funniest ideas:
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7 things you missed today while you were at your boring adult job: Bruce Springsteen, Lindsay Lohan, Netflix hacks.
Happy Monday, internet! How was your Election Eve? You were probably very busy trying to focus and get all your work done even though you didn't sleep very well last night, what with all the night terrors of a possible Trump presidency jolting you awake every two hours. (Oh, was that just me?) Anyway, here are seven things you missed today while you were at your boring adult job.
1. Trump supporters don't even trust Bruce Springsteen anymore. (Via The A.V. Club)
2. Lindsay Lohan was fired by her PR manager for being "radioactive." (Via Page Six)
3. Someone made an all-hamster version of Seinfeld. It was still about nothing, just cuter. (Via Mashable)
4. Drew Barrymore supported her ex-husband Will Kopelman as he ran the NYC Marathon. (Via People)
5. Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is getting his own spin-off. Bazinga. (Via Hello Giggles)
6. Here's how to watch tomorrow night's election madness unfold if you don't have a TV. (Via Refinery29)
7. Now that it's getting colder, here are 15 helpful Netflix hacks you probably didn't know about. (Via Thrillist)
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Lady Gaga and entire internet slam Melania Trump for hypocritical ‘anti-bullying’ stance.
Melania Trump announced last week that, as First Lady (a truly horrifying thought), she would pledge to combat cyber-bullying. The announcement was met with a massive internet eye roll, as many people pointed out the hypocrisy of the wife of one of the worst cyber-bullies of our time taking a stand against cyber-bullying. Among those to call her out was pop star Lady Gaga. Because if there's one thing Gaga hates, it's bullying (also, sensible shoes).
"To say u will stand for 'anti-bullying' is hypocrisy," wrote the pop star, who is a long-time vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton. "Your husband is 1 of the most notorious bullies we have ever witnessed."
You can watch Melania's truly bizarre speech here:
She said:
Technology has changed our universe. But like anything that is powerful it can have a bad side. We have seen this already. As adults, many of us are able to handle mean words — even lies. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and forces them to hide and retreat. Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough especially to children and to teenagers. We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other.
Gaga was far from the only one to point out the absurdity of this declaration, given Donald Trump's extensive bullying legacy:
In Melania's defense, maybe what she meant is she plans to take away her husband's social media access? (If so, his own aides apparently already beat her to it.)
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This talking fish hack is 'the future.' And it's terrifying.
A viral tweet from inventor/mad scientist Brian Kane is blowing up online because it asks the question: has technology gone too far? Then it answers it: yes. Kane hooked up a talking Big Mouth Billy Bass prop to an Amazon Echo (an AI digital assistant that you can talk to). If you have a fear of helpful intelligent fish robots, you might not want to watch.
Kane's tweet has been retweeted and liked more than 3,000 times. It was also reuploaded to YouTube, where it's been viewed more than 2,600,000 times. Everyone seems to agree: this fish really is 'the future.'
God help us all.
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Girl shares note her dad sent to her mom on the day of their divorce. Now everyone's crying.
This is 17-year-old Morgan Lynn from Pearland, Texas. Her parents had been married for 19 years, but just finalized their divorce.
The day the divorce became final, Morgan's dad sent her mom her favorite flowers, along with a gut wrenching note.
The note reads, "Always going to be you."
Morgan explains that her dad was always sent flowers when her mom was having a bad day.
But even more heartbreaking is the story behind the note.
And now we are all crying.
Morgans tweet instantly went viral being shared over 76K times, and the love and support from internet strangers just started pouring in.
People were so moved by her story that they went through her timeline, saw this tweet, and started sending her hundreds of pictures of their dogs.
So many dogs, it broke Twitter.
This story really hits on how confusing the pain of a breakup is, and how thankful we are that you can never get divorced from a dog.
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You would freak out too if the AOL 'You've Got Mail' guy was driving your Uber.
Anyone who was old enough to operate a computer in the '90s will remember those magical four words: "Welcome! You've got mail!" I get goose bumps just thinking about it. So you can imagine how excited a woman was when she learned her Uber driver, a man named Elwood Edwards, was the voice of the AOL welcome message from two decades ago.
Brandee Barker, from California, was in Ohio canvassing for Hillary Clinton over the weekend when Edwards picked her up to take her to the campaign office. When he told her about his claim to fame, she was so excited she tweeted a video of him saying the famous phrase, which of course went viral. If you have any doubts that this guy is the real deal, the video is definitive proof:
WOOOAAAAAHHHHH. Sorry, was just time traveling through the '90s. I'm back now.
A lot has changed in the world since the early days of email, but Edwards' voice has not changed at all. According to CNN, the 67-year-old is a longtime voice actor who recorded the AOL welcome message (as well as other life-altering messages, like "File's Done" and "Goodbye") in the late '80s because his wife worked for Quantum Computer Services, the company that later became AOL. He reportedly told Barker he was paid $200 to record the message, which would become globally recognizable and even inspired a movie by the same name.
No big surprise, Barker rated him five stars.
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Coolest aunt ever steps in so her niece would have a partner at a father/daughter dance.
Sydney Lawrence, 17, from Crosby, Texas, didn't have a dad to bring to her high school's father and daughter dance. Luckily, what she does have is the coolest aunt of all time. Her mom's sister Kristen Roulet, a police officer, stepped in as her niece's dance partner and fully embraced the role of dad, including wearing a fake mustache.
Lawrence posted photos of the "father/daughter" duo on Twitter and they have already been retweeted over 12K times.
"When u don't have a dad for the dad/daughter dance so ur aunt wears a fake mustache and dances w u anyways," wrote the teenager, who clearly is not lacking in the love department.
Roulet, 34, said she had to work the night of the practice, so she learned the dance moves from a video. “They videoed it for me, so we went over it the day of the dance and crushed it," she told Buzzfeed.“The mustache was just a little touch to make it more fun and memorable.”
Lawrence said her aunt helped raise her, and despite not having a dad in the traditional sense, she is doing just fine. “I never really knew my father, he never had a part in my life, and my mother is like my best friend," the teen told Buzzfeed. "[She] and my aunt solely raised me. And I think having two women who love you insanely is better than having a father.”
Sounds pretty great to me.
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Patriotic porn stars offer ultimate bribe to anyone who votes against Donald Trump.
Trump sucks. In fact, he sucks so much that these two porn stars are following in Madonna's footsteps by offering up free blow jobs to anyone who votes against him. Yes, really. So if you're still undecided as to who to vote for (looking at you, Ken Bone), maybe this will help you decide. Or maybe not. It all depends on what you're in to.
Porn stars Angelina Castro and Maggie Green, like many of us, hate Donald Trump. “I mean, the man doesn't like nasty women, and he wants to deport all those sexy, fiery Latinas," says Green in a video about their campaign plan (below). "We can't have that!" So they decided to get involved, using their industry skills: giving blow jobs.
It's all explained here:
They seem pretty serious. If Trump loses on election day, they both promised to “give all of you BJs." Says Castro: "It's very simple. All you have to do is vote against the orange clown, and you will get a BJ. No brainer."
"All of you" sounds like a lot of blow jobs (hopefully more than half the country). But to help them narrow it down, there are some rules. According to their website:
To qualify for a BJ fans must follow both Angelina Castro and Maggie Green on Twitter and vote against Trump. Details on how to collect the BJs if Trump loses the election will be posted on TeamBJ.com three days after the election day. The girls are tentatively planning Inauguration Day to deliver on their promise.
This doesn't sound entirely legal or realistic. But hey, no judgment here. Whatever gets people to the poles, err, the polls tomorrow!
Vote wisely.
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The funniest reactions on Twitter to America's final presidential election.
Election day is finally here, which means that we are all finally allowed to laugh and experience happiness again! The past year and a half has been filled with stress, anxiety and rambling Facebook rants from family members you wish you weren't actually related to, but now all we can do is cast our ballots and hope our candidate wins. And if they don't, well, we will just complain about how the election is rigged or something.
Now relax, stop refreshing FiveThirtyEight, and read Twitter's funniest reactions to the election.
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Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart want you to vote so badly they made up a song about it.
Stephen Colbert really, really wants you to vote today. Like, really bad. So bad that he would make Jon Stewart come out of retirement for a night to sing an embarrassing song called "Now is the Time" to urge people not to sit this one out. It all went down Monday night on The Late Show, and they pulled out all the stops for this one—it had a singing street urchin, a Hamilton star, and not one but TWO glorious spit takes.
In their magnificent final takedown of Donald Trump, Stewart sings, "He was endorsed by David Duke! His tiny hands might get a nuke!" as an ensemble of working class people march behind him à la Les Miserables. If that won't get you to the polls today, nothing really will.
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Donald Trump managed to mispronounce Beyoncé's name at a rally and it was hilarious.
During a rally on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, Donald Trump decided to make one final, powerful case against his rival... Beyoncé? And of course her husband, Trump's longtime political foe—Jay Z?
Oh well. Anyway, his pronunciation was amusingly off.
"Bey-on-see."
This is the second time in as many days that the musical power couple has forced hilarious mispronunciations from the Trump camp, as a Trump surrogate was widely mocked Monday for referring to a "mazel tov cocktail" in reference to a Jay Z music video.
Keep it up, guys.
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Benedict Cumberbatch read James Corden the world's scariest bedtime story: the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
Okay, folks, this is it, today's the big day—time to vote. And to steer you in the right direction, on Monday night's Late Late Show, Brit Benedict "Not a U.S. Citizen" Cumberbatch read his "son," Brit James "Also Can't Vote" Corden, a terrifying bedtime story about this year's election. Too bad these guys can't vote, because I like the way they think.
The story might be too scary for a child's bedtime until we finally do find out the end—whether or not the Lady in the Beige Pantsuit gets through the scary Computer Forest and defeats the big Orange Monster with a very, very big head and very, very tiny wisdom (and hands).
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Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga are livin' on a prayer that Hillary Clinton will win. But you should still vote.
At Hillary Clinton's last rally, Monday night in Raleigh, NC, America's sweethearts Jon Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga, and Lady Gaga's cowboy hat performed the classic 1986 Bon Jovi hit, "Livin' on a Prayer" (which is what most of America is doing today).
The rally also featured a performance by Bruce Springsteen. (Wow, endorsements from The Boss, Adele, Beyoncé, Jay Z, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi—all the cool kids are voting for Hillary.) Who's Trump got, Kid Rock and the Nuge?
And as if all that wasn't enough, Lady Gaga also gave a rousing speech, ending with "Why don't you put your voting shades on, practice your walk to the polls, and go out and vote for Hillary Clinton. I think it's time to come to mama."
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