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Woman's before/after pics of eating disorder recovery prove 'happiness isn't a size.'

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We've all seen a million weight loss success stories on the internet. And even though it can be cool to see people lose weight and get healthy, society's obsession with thinness can make us forget that sometimes it's healthier to be heavier.

U.K.-based blogger Megan Jayne Crabbe proved this with "reverse" before-and-after photos that show her physical transformation after she recovered from an eating disorder. Can you spot the major difference between the two photos?

"Wait so you just decided to RUIN your body?" Nah, I just stopped torturing myself every day for not fitting an image I was never supposed to be. · "But you look so much healthier to me before." That's funny, you looked so much more intelligent to me before you equated health with weight and forgot that mental health is health too. · "You could have stayed the same and loved your body, you didn't need to get fat." I could have stayed the same and spiralled back into the eating disorder that almost killed me when I was 15. I could have kept starving myself and obsessively working out for hours everyday but it never would have lead me to self love. No matter how much weight I lost there was always still something to hate. And sure, people don't NEED to gain weight to find their self love, this is just what my body needed to do to match up to my mental freedom. THIS IS MY HAPPY BODY. · "But surely you can't be happy looking like that now, I could never be happy in that body." I didn't think I could either, but as it turns out, happiness isn't a size. And I wasted far too many years believing that it was. Now I'm not going to stop letting people know that they deserve happiness exactly as they are. They deserve to live now, not 10 pounds from now. They deserve that mental freedom. So to every person reading this: I hope you get your freedom too, however it might look. I'll be cheering you on every step of the way. 💜💙💚🌈🌞 P.s. these are all comments I received on my last before/after picture, luckily for me, they just make me want to keep going even more 👊

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Yep—she looks a LOT happier in the one on the right. (Also: LOVE THE HAIR)

In the caption, the 23-year-old addressed some misguided (and straight-up rude) comments she received after posting earlier before/after pics of her recovery.

She wrote:

"Wait so you just decided to RUIN your body?"
Nah, I just stopped torturing myself every day for not fitting an image I was never supposed to be.


"But you look so much healthier to me before."
That's funny, you looked so much more intelligent to me before you equated health with weight and forgot that mental health is health too.

"You could have stayed the same and loved your body, you didn't need to get fat."
I could have stayed the same and spiralled back into the eating disorder that almost killed me when I was 15. I could have kept starving myself and obsessively working out for hours everyday but it never would have lead me to self love. No matter how much weight I lost there was always still something to hate. And sure, people don't NEED to gain weight to find their self love, this is just what my body needed to do to match up to my mental freedom. THIS IS MY HAPPY BODY.

"But surely you can't be happy looking like that now, I could never be happy in that body."
I didn't think I could either, but as it turns out, happiness isn't a size. And I wasted far too many years believing that it was. Now I'm not going to stop letting people know that they deserve happiness exactly as they are. They deserve to live now, not 10 pounds from now. They deserve that mental freedom. So to every person reading this: I hope you get your freedom too, however it might look. I'll be cheering you on every step of the way. 💜💙💚🌈🌞
P.s. these are all comments I received on my last before/after picture, luckily for me, they just make me want to keep going even more 👊

Crabbe's post went viral, and is wracking up thousands of supportive comments. Like these:

MORE OF THIS PLEASE, INTERNET.

Kudos to Crabbe on sharing her important story and for starting a positive, supportive discussion about body image on the internet.


Twitter is going wild with memes after the GOP announced their new healthcare plan.

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Since its inception, the GOP has rammed against the Affordable Care Act—also known by its loving Republican-given pejorative, "Obamacare." As a candidate, Donald Trump ran on the promise that Obamacare would be repealed and replaced with a better option, though that option was never revealed until now. On Monday night, Republicans presented a 123-page bill outlining the new American Health Care Act. Behold, "Trumpcare."

Critics of Trumpcare are quick to point out that while it keeps some features of its predecessor, such as not discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions and letting young adults stay on their parent's insurance until age 26. However, Vox.com explains, it would seem that the GOP substitute will be more expensive and cover less people. The bill also will cut funding to Planned Parenthood, TIME pointed out, which could lead to 2.5 million women losing their access to birth control and mammograms.

Of course, it didn't take long for Twitter to start mocking the Obamacare replacement. Here are the 12 funniest "Obamacare vs. Trumpcare" memes that Twitter could come up with.

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You can check out the entire bill here.

George Michael's cause of death has been revealed.

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George Michael's cause of death has been revealed: According to UK publication the Mirror, the pop superstar died of natural causes. The official cause of his death was dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, Oxfordshire's senior coroner, Darren Salter, has said.

In a statement, Salter explained:

Inquiries into the death of George Michael have been concluded and the final post mortem report received. As there is a confirmed natural cause of death, being dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, the investigation is being discontinued and there is no need for an inquest or any further inquiries.

George Michael died in his bed on December 25, 2016. Originally there were rumors of possible drug use involved in his death, but that possibility has now been ruled out, according to the coroner's statement.

RIP, George Michael. You are sorely missed.

Emma Watson is mortified by her Hermione moment in a 'Harry Potter' outtake.

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Emma Watson is so method. Sitting down with Jimmy Kimmel to—presumably—keep batting away haters of her Vanity Fair photo shoot, Jimmy Kimmel surprised her with an outtake from the very first Harry Potter film. Watch her lips.

Such a know-it-all, just like Hermione. Not to mention the fact that Emma Watson also learned to perfectly embody her character from Beauty and the Beast. Hopefully she never plays a serial killer.

But also, hopefully Emma Watson plays a serial killer.

Emma Watson responds after Twitter calls her a 'hypocrite' for old comments about Beyonce.

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Emma Watson took a braless photo for Vanity Fair, causing a lot of ridiculous fuss over whether she's a hypocrite. "Can a feminist show underboob?" asked the always thoughtful internet. "Feminists can wear anything they fucking want," answered feminist icon Gloria Steinem, in an interview with TMZ. Emma Watson herself expressed the same to Reuters.

"Feminism is about giving women a choice," said Watson. "Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with."

But this did not please Beyonce fans—aka the Beyhive—who forget nothing.

Yes, in an interview with actress/journalist Tavi Gevinson in a 2014 issue of Wonderland Magazine, Emma Watson gave her "conflicted" feelings on Beyonce's eponymous 2013 album and the accompanying music videos.

"As I was watching [the videos] I felt very conflicted. I felt her message felt very conflicted in the sense that on the one hand, she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, but then on camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her," said the 2014 Watson, impressively extending her foot through three years of space time to place firmly in the mouth of 2017 Emma Watson.

Cut to the very same 2017 Watson, who addressed the Beyhive with a single tweet on Tuesday, in which she provided the full context of her comments from the interview.

Here's what Watson tweeted—it's just a photo of the written interview, with some parts highlighted. Everything below in bold is what Emma Watson chose to literally highlight for the Twitterverse.

So one last question, it's a big one and I'm quite nervous to bring it up because I still haven't really formulated my own ideas about it but [both laugh] Beyonce's new album. I don't know whether you have spoken to anyone about it, but my friend and I sat and we watched all the videos back-to-back and I was really conflicted. I so admire her confidence to put her music out in that way, in amidst all these very sensationalist MTV performances, I was so psyched about that. On the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, this very strong woman - and she has that beautiful speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in one of her songs - but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her and I just wondered if you had thoughts about that?

I would say two things. One is that in her position, and for a lot of young musicians, actors or people in our industry, it's as though you get a memo: don't be seen with your boyfriend or your wife or your child because you still want your audience to believe or male fans of Beyonce to believe that they could possess her; that in some alternate universe they could be with her. So by publicly exposing her marriage, that she is in a committed relationship, that she has a child, is probably really against that kind of memo and she does make it clear that she is performing for him. And the fact she wasn't doing it for a label, she was doing it for herself and the control that she has directing it and putting it out there, I agree is making her sexuality empowering because it is her choice.

The second is that I would say you do get sense of, "I can be a feminist, I can be an intellectual, I can be all these other things, but I can also be ok with my femininity and being pretty and with all these things that I thought might negate my message or negate what I am about." That really is the most interesting thing about the album. It is so inclusive and puts feminism and femininity and female empowerment on such a broad spectrum.

Emma Watson seems to be pointing out that while her initial comments in the interview were problematic, she eventually got to the same conclusion she's offered in defense of her own sexy images. Yeah, the Beyhive might still want an apology.

Sean Lennon releases a never-before-heard song that he wrote with Carrie Fisher.

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Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, just released a never-before-heard song he co-wrote with the late Carrie Fisher.

Lennon, who was very close Fisher, noted that the two wrote "Bird Song" years ago, but he was inspired to share it with the world after Fisher's death. Fisher provided the lyrics while Lennon wrote the music, and Willow Smith even lent her vocal talents to the song. He released the hauntingly beautiful tune on his SoundCloud on Sunday.

Carrie and I wrote this song years ago. When she died I just felt I had to record it. This is only a demo unmixed, we only had a few hours to record it. But the lyrics she wrote with me I think are marvelous. Carrie and I used to stay up til dawn chatting and pontificating about life. They were my best moments. Anyway... we wrote a song about staying up too late and hearing the birds sing. Willow Smith is a prodigal angel and was generous enough to lend her golden voice to this little tune.

Lennon also provided a text copy of Carrie's lyrics along with the unmixed song.

Love comes on cat's feet
It circles the corners
It sits by the window and whispers...
'Mine! Your mine! all mine!'

My arm fell asleep
And dreamt it was your arm
Hush lest we break the spell, oh well, oh well..

It's all so wrong
To greet the dawn
The birds sing that awful song saying
'You don't belong here!'

After Fisher passed away in 2016, Lennon posted many tributes to the woman he called "one of the best and closest friends I’ve ever had in my life." In the caption of this picture of the two together, Lennon wrote that he hopes Fisher would be reunited with all the artists she loved who have also passed away, adding "and I hope my dad greeted you at the door."

Alec Baldwin wants to stop impersonating Donald Trump for an unexpected reason.

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Alec Baldwin has been getting a lot of attention for his Donald Trump impersonation (and not just from Donald Trump himself). But speaking to Extra's Mario Lopez, Baldwin admits that he might not do the impersonation for much longer.

Alec Baldwin tells Lopez:

His policies aside, which you can hate, I thought he would have just relaxed. . . The maliciousness of this White House has people worried, which is why I’m not going to do it much longer, the impersonation, I don’t know how much more people can take it.

Baldwin says that Donald Trump “just overwhelmingly lacks any sportsmanship. He says Trump is "bitter and angry,” and that “you just want to look at him and go, ‘You won!’”

Alec Baldwin also admitted that he doesn't think he'll be hosting the White House Correspondents' dinner. He explained, “I don’t think it’s going to happen. I honestly don’t think that they want that."

He continued,

I think that for their prestige and their integrity… I think a lot of people are thinking that if Trump himself doesn’t come and face the music, as it were, I don’t know what kind of program they’re going to have. If they wanted me to do it, I would probably do it, but I’m not quite sure they’ll do. I think they may have a whole other idea.

Not doing the Correspondents' Dinner is one thing, but not doing the SNL impersonation anymore is another thing altogether. Someone's gotta play Trump!

Chelsea Clinton, Samuel L. Jackson, and other celebs slam Ben Carson for slavery comment.

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In case you missed it, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is facing criticism after he referred to African-American slaves as "immigrants" in his first speech to HUD employees.

"That's what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity," Carson said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters, might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”

I know what you're thinking: "Wait a minute. Did he just...?" And the answer is yes, dear reader. Ben Carson did imply that the slaves came here from Africa willingly, in order to pursue the American dream.

Go ahead, repeatedly bash your head on your desk for a few seconds. I'll wait.

All set? Great.

As you might imagine, people were furious about Carson's comment. A lot of celebs took to Twitter to express their outrage.

Samuel L. Jackson really nailed down how we're all feeling.

Ben Carson later responded to the criticism on his Facebook page.

I’m proud of the courage and perseverance of Black Americans and their incomprehensible struggle from slavery to...

Posted by Dr. Ben & Candy Carson on Monday, March 6, 2017

Can I get a collective eye roll?


GOP congressman roasted for saying poor Americans may have to choose between iPhones and healthcare.

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The GOP unveiled their proposed Obamacare replacement on Monday night, to distract from the Muslim Ban 2.0 to distract from Trump's wiretapping claims to distract from Jeff Sessions lying about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to distract from the investigation into Russian interference with the election.

The new plan, according to The New York Times, "would cut funding for the poor and taxes on the rich."

To further insult low-income Americans, Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah framed their difficulties in accessing healthcare as just needing to curb their own greed.

Can't afford chemo? That's your fault, kiddo. Should have thought about that when you decided you wanted to keep in touch with your children.

“Americans have choices. And they’ve got to make a choice,” Chaffetz said, “So maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”

Hmm. Twitter pointed out that no, a cost of an iPhone is not the same as the cost of health insurance.

The congressman, who doesn't have to worry about healthcare himself because taxpayers pay for his, is clearly in touch with the American people.

Watch Chaffetz's full interview over at CNN.

Official tries to keep Laura Muir from taking a victory lap, forgets she's fast.

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On Saturday, 23-year-old Scottish runner Laura Muir broke a 32-year-old European Indoor Championships record in the 1,500-meter race. Understandably, she was excited. But as shown in a video that's going viral all across the internet, one race official was determined to keep her from celebrating the way she wanted to.

Afterward, a jubilant Muir said:

I had to fight for that didn’t I? They said: "We don’t have time." I thought, "It’s my first medal. I’m not going to lose out on my lap of honour. I’m going." Andy, my coach, was saying: "Do it," so I got there in the end. I couldn’t really believe what she was saying. But I thought, "At the end of the day, she won’t be able to catch me."

And she was right. With a spectacular fake-out, Muir was able to ditch the narc and take the victory lap she deserved.

As this inspiring clip has gone viral, it's added to Muir's legend. This young veterinary student isn't just a rising star in the world of running—she's also the internet's newest hero.

Here's Muir's full race from Saturday:

Let's treat ourselves to a little credit card debt.

I want to stay on my parents' health insurance until I'm 65.

Chrissy Teigen lets you scroll through her iPhone and see the good, the bad, and the sexy.

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Most people shiver at the idea of letting someone else snoop through their phone, but the world's most refreshing celebrity Chrissy Teigen was totally game to rifle through the depths of her cellular device on camera for Glamour. The model revealed everything from her favorite app, to her most-used emoji, to her sexiest picture, and she didn't even frantically delete a bunch of things beforehand like the rest of us would!

Oh, look! A surprise John Legend! Arguably the best kind of John Legend!

The model and mother isn't just an open book when it comes to her phone, either. Teigen recently penned an extremely personal essay about suffering from postpartum depression after her daughter Luna was born in 2016.

Headed to Beauty and the Beast! @laurapolko @allanface @monicarosestyle ❤

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Casey Anthony speaks out for the first time since being acquitted of her daughter's murder.

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It's been nine years since Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee, went missing, and six years Anthony was acquitted of murder charges.

"I'm still not even certain as I stand here today about what happened," she told theAssociated Pressin West Palm Beach, Florida. It was her first interview since Caylee's death and the widely-followed trial.

"Casey Anthony knows that much of the world believes she killed her 2-year-old daughter, despite her acquittal," writes reporter Josh Replogle, "But nearly nine years later, she insists she doesn't know how the last hours of Caylee's life unfolded."

The public remains skeptical of Anthony's innocence despite her acquittal. During the trial, she could not account for the month her child was missing before the remains were discovered. Anthony's defense later insisted that Caylee accidentally drowned in a pool, for which there were no eyewitnesses.

Anthony told Associated Press that she views herself as "Alice in Wonderland, with the public as the Red Queen."

"The queen is proclaiming: 'No, no, sentence first, verdict afterward,'" she says. "I sense and feel to this day that is a direct parallel to what I lived. My sentence was doled out long before there was a verdict. Sentence first, verdict afterward. People found me guilty long before I had my day in court."

Prosecutors proved Casey Anthony to be a liar, convicting her of four counts of lying to police (two counts were later dropped), but failed to prove her guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter, and aggravated child abuse.

However, the Florida Department of Children and Families later concluded that she was responsible for the death of her child, with the circuit judge later theorizing "that Anthony may have killed Caylee accidentally when she was using chloroform to calm her."

Today, Anthony admits that she lied to the police about a whole bunch of things pertinent to the case including "telling two people, both of them imaginary, that Caylee was missing."

"Even if I would've told them everything that I told to the psychologist, I hate to say this but I firmly believe I would have been in the same place. Because cops believe other cops. Cops tend to victimize the victims. I understand now ... I see why I was treated the way I was even had I been completely truthful."

She said, "Cops lie to people every day. I'm just one of the unfortunate idiots who admitted they lied."

Anthony now lives "lives in the South Florida home of Patrick McKenna," the lead investigator from her defense team who works as a private detective. She also works for him, doing online investigative work. McKenna was the lead investigator for OJ Simpson, with whom Anthony sees "a lot of parallels."

"I don't give a s--- about what anyone thinks about me, I never will," she said. "I'm OK with myself, I sleep pretty good at night."

Read the whole revealing interview over at Associated Press.

The best ‘Get Out’ memes that make a scary movie hilarious.

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WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the movie Get Out. Don't read unless you've seen Get Out. And if you haven't seen it, go see it!

Get Out, the horror movie created by Jordan Peele (of the comedy duo Key & Peele), is currently doing gangbusters at the box office and getting praise from viewers and reviewers alike. And now, like all good things, key moments from Get Out are being memed on the internet.

Here are some of the funniest Get Out memes social media has to offer:

When Rose wouldn't give Chris the keys. (GIVE HIM THE KEYS, ROSE!)

That teacup! The stirring!

And memes about much, much more…

But you know what? Thank God for the TSA.


Here's why one dating app is asking men to wear red lipstick.

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Wednesday March 8 marks International Women's Day, and one dating app is asking men to up their beauty routine for the day and show their support.

Dating app Happn is encouraging its male users to wear red lipstick on March 8 to show solidarity with sexual assault survivors and ladies in general. According to Glamour, when they open the app on that day, guys in the U.S., Canada, and France will see a pop-up explaining the Mettez Du Rouge ("put your red on") campaign, plus profile pictures of other men wearing red lipstick and statistics about sexual violence.

Happn's International Director of Communication explained why the app was hopping on board with the campaign:

The statistics about sexual assault toward women are frightening, scandalous, and outrageous, even more so when we think about the people behind those statistics. These are victims, real people, real women! Women's rights are human's rights—and should be celebrated every day, not only on International Women's Day.

Happn users can show off their red lips and support for women by changing their profile pictures, using the hashtag #MettezDuRouge when sharing their photos on social media, or using the app's "See You There" feature to tag themselves "available" to "put red on."

A great way to raise awareness AND a great way to weed out dudes who don't vocally support women? We think Happn's on to something here.

Let's discuss which of our friends are too gossipy.

A 4th grade teacher found a note under her student’s desk. She wasn’t mad, but the Twitter trolls are.

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Exchanging notes in class is usually highly discouraged, but no teacher could be mad after finding this one.

A note that reads, "Do you want to join a club for female empowerment. We are the leaders" was discovered under a student's desk by a 4th-grade teacher. The teacher forwarded the picture of the note to her friend, author Elly Zupko (@SMLXist), who uploaded it to Twitter.

At time of publication, the tweet has over 80k likes and 24k retweets.

However, not everyone found the note inspiring and adorable. Some argued that the note was faked, while others felt it was inappropriate. Spoiler alert: this group was mostly comprised of men.

Luckily, Zupko fought the trolls like a real pro.

But as Zupko points out, the haters only enforced the need for young girls to start clubs like this.

The future is female, indeed.

Dr. Pimple Popper pries out a bunch of hairlike 'filaments' from this man's nose.

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Just when we thought we had seen every kind of pop there is, Dr. Pimple Popper throws us a curveball. And we love her for it. In this video, she treats a patient with sebaceous filaments—basically tiny black hairlike objects embedded all over his nose. But with her trusty comedone extractor, she makes short work of them.

This patient may be grumpy, but after watching his nose get plucked, we sure aren't. Add these filaments to the Pop Hall of Fame!

Woman's boss walks her down the aisle when her father boycotts her same-sex wedding.

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This is Jennifer, a banker from Taiwan, and her partner, Sam. They recently got hitched after 11 years together. Finally!

Such an adorable couple we'll forgive the product placement.

Sadly, Jennifer's homophobic parents do not support her relationship. "My parents are strongly against it," she says in a video produced by HSBC. "Whenever my father sees Sam, he will push her out and tell her to get lost."

She said another one of her biggest fears about making her relationship public was that it would affect her job at HSBC. "I was concerned that it would stop clients banking with [us]," she said. "So I considered it very carefully

But Jennifer's coming-out seems to have had the opposite effect. Her colleagues came out in full support of her relationship and many of them attended her wedding.

However, her parents refused to attend the wedding. So Jennifer's boss, HSBC CEO John Li, walked her down the aisle instead.

The happy couple and their "dads"

"CEO John was willing to walk me down the aisle, [he even] told us not to be nervous and to walk slowly," she said.

You can watch the whole video here. It's a tear jerker.

The wedding was ceremonial, since same-sex marriages have not been legalized in Taiwan. But Jennifer hopes that being open about their relationship will inspire others. "This wedding is really for the LGBTQ community," she aid. "We hope our actions will encourage people and create respect among different communities."

LOVE WINS.

Also, if this was all a marketing ploy, it's working. I don't know about you, but I'm putting all my money in HSBC now. All $48 of it.

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