Plus-size model Robin Lawley shared a photo of herself on Instagram where you can the see the stretch marks caused by her recent pregnancy. She linked to her Facebook with a statement about it, which is a little confusing, but first the pic:

You know what's also confusing? Why Robin Lawley is considered "plus-size." Anyway, her statement is below and there are a lot of twists and turns. Apparently, Lawley was quoted as saying she almost had an abortion instead of a child, because she was worried about stretch marks. This is obviously insane, but it made her do a lot of thinking about her body, women's rights and childcare:

Almost a year ago, an interview from a very honest maybe too honest conversation with a friend was manipulated and taken apart so heartlessly by a uk publication gossip page that at 7 months pregnant right after losing one of my my closest relatives, read
"Robyn considers abortion to avoid stretch marks" I was shocked not only because that is not what I said, not to mention i already had a tonne of stretch marks like 90% of the world, but to read that entire article and be already heavily pregnant, that's their angle? 

It hurt so bad, the comments that ensued were derogatory to say the least. I'm familiar with being bullied, once for not having a thigh gap (insert face palm) but to bully me for something I never said, not to mention my decision would need to be more based on the fact that I will be taking care of someone's life, a heavy decision to make, would never rest on getting stretch marks alone. I think until it was pulled it had over 500 or more very abusive comments with no help from the original publication or my friend  I personally tweeted the author of the gossip website to 'have a heart' as it was causing a huge amount of stress to me and I was worried about my unborn baby's health. 

The author was in fact Australian and she proclaimed did not write it, someone else in UK had and the article was pulled. These gossip pages do everything to get a view but to not even write your true name is cowardly. 

As for my stretch marks I knew they were coming and as they're fading into white ( like all my others) I thought I might capture them. Because they are some bad ass ‪#‎tigerstripes‬ . And I earned them. We put an unbelievable amount of ridiculous time consuming pressure on women to care so much about their flaws they forget how truly beautiful they (you) are today.

F**k them, who cares, be you, be loud, be proud. And put your efforts into skills that rely more on your physical self. And to anyone who feels bad about your body especially after a baby, you are a warrior, you created a life inside of you, that's no easy feat. 

It makes me mad seeing abortion discussed as a political agenda, women's reproduction rights are in use for votes. I will always be pro choice. No one likes to get abortion but if your not prepared their should be no judgement into getting one. Women's rights should not be used so gimmicky and spoken about so poorly. 

Right now there are millions of homeless children in America alone why don't we focus on them? We often forget those women who do have a child because they couldn't get access to an abortion because of state laws and no one is there for her when she's denied health care or becomes homeless due to staggering costs or even has to change her entire career. It's 2015 we have to urgently make women feel empowered by their bodies and minds. We should not be taking their rights and choices away. 
I love my daughter, I also love my human rights.

Love to you all xx

So, basically, no, she wouldn't have an abortion to avoid stretch marks. Robin Lawley loves her body and all it's capable of doing, like birthing a child. But yes, women should be able to have abortions if that's what's right for them, though she almost certainly doesn't mean "in order to avoid stretch marks." Also, even models get stretch marks! That's the real take-away here.

J.K. Rowling cryptically announced a few months ago that there would be a new play that's part of the Harry Potter series, and for once in her life she wasn't trolling. She also tweeted that when audiences see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, "they will agree that it was the only proper medium for the story." Everyone was like, "Okay, J.K., whatever you say, not going to bite." And now, today, there's finally some actual information about the storyline.

According to Pottermore, the play is "the official eighth Potter story," and it will take place 19 years after the events in the last book. Here's the synopsis:

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Can wizards have it all?

Here's the play's artwork, which seems to show little Albus sitting inside a golden snitch that's also a nest. It's probably a powerful metaphor.

Rowling clarified on Twitter that the play is extremely, completely not a prequel, as some people had speculated.

Also, in a really crazy twist, the play will be shown in two installments so you have to sit through two shows in a row or go on consecutive nights. Which is another solid power move by J.K. Rowling.

Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, a maker of compounded drugs, will begin selling a $1 version of a drug similar to Daraprim, the medication used for AIDS and cancer whose price was famously hiked by the vilified Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. A compounded drug (the combination of two or more drugs to creates a tailored medication for individual patients) can offer a cheaper alternative, similar to generics. After his public relations disaster, Shkreli eventually said he would lower the price of Daraprim, but provided few specific details for that plan. Also, what else was he going to do? He'd already been embarrassed by an ex-girlfriend, embarrassed by a stranger on Tinder, and embarrassed by Bernie Sanders. This recent tweet by Martin pretty much sums it up:

The CEO of Imprimis plans to implement the compounding strategy with other drugs that have experienced extreme price increases:

We are looking at all of these cases where the sole-source generic companies are jacking the price way up. There'll be many more of these.

This means there is actually a pharmaceutical company that is intentionally doing good instead of evil. And, in a fun twist of irony, the same free market regulations that enabled Shkreli to jack the price also allow for a competitor to swoop in and eat his lunch. Capitalism is a harsh mistress! Hopefully, the solution put forward by Imprimis enables healthcare providers to administer more affordable treatments for patients on the road to recovery.

Singer Adele has finally, FINALLY released her first single, music video and all, from her upcoming album '25.' And people are flipping over her flip-phone. Get it?

It's a weird detail, but everyone is freaking that Adele hasn't iMe'd herself yet in 2015. But the whole video seems like a testament to old phones and outdated modes of communication that make it really hard to get in touch with someone. Someone from the past...OMG. It's a metaphor.

Adele, you sly dog.

Like any big series, the Benghazi hearings got the live-tweeting treatment for its 8th (and hopefully final) episode last night. While the whole exercise was an embarrassing use of time, yielding no new information on the attack and wasting millions of taxpayers' dollars, we did get some dope jokes and memes out of it. Here are the highlights:

Le Sigh. 

You again. 

Crazy hair, don't care.  

 That face. 

Literally.

Deal with it.

So much derp.

Don't sweat it.

Politcally motivated?

The clothes make the man.

Happy Labor Day.

The most hours spent caring about one, too.

Give 'em the finger.

We all learned something.

It's unhealthy:

It was #ThrowbackThursday, after all.

You should be very proud of yourself for making it through almost five whole days of grueling research to figure out the optimal place in your office to take a nap. As a prize, please enjoy the best ecards of the week.

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Kate Hudson shared an Instagramphoto showing what she dressed up as last year for Halloween: a Wildling from Game of Thrones. She and her very cool-looking clique all showed up to her GoT-themed party as ladies who live beyond the wall. (Well, if the wall had a warmer, L.A. climate.) These are your six top Wildling crushes after Ygritte:

Kate's brother, Oliver Hudson, also known as the hot dad on Scream Queens, told People that the two of them have a joint "epic" Halloween party every year. He explained their different takes on costume decisions:

If I have an idea, I will pursue that idea, aside from the theme. She's a hot, little number, and she's going to do things that are going to make her and her friends look as sexy as can be. So it's always like, airline stewardesses, or there was a Game of Thrones theme where they were all like Khaleesi. So there's been many, many themes.

Uhh... What's worse? That he called his sister "a hot, little number" or that he thinks Khaleesi would ever wear fur boots. It's like he's trying to destroy everyone's celebrity crush on him.

This picture of a giant rat is going viral, and the only thing more baffling than the picture itself is trying to find out where it came from. It first went viral in July, with someone claiming that his sister's friend caught it in the U.K. This was allegedly debunked, though, with reports that it was found in Germany. It then went viral again a few days ago, with someone claiming again that it was "just caught" in London. And again, people were like "nah, it was in Germany." On top of that, a reverse Google image search finds that instances of the image cropped up as early as January, but those could easily be forged. 

It's like the scene in The Dark Knight when they capture the Joker but can't get any information on him. We need answers, dammit!

Taylor Swift is probably the whitest celebrity we have right now, so it's almost too obvious that she would immediately react to meeting a black man with interesting hair by petting it without permission for 15 minutes. If you haven't heard, touching someone without their permission because their hair is different from yours is bad. Singer Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, talked about the experience with Rolling Stone. He doesn't seem too mad about it?

The Weeknd admits he grows his hair in a very specific style and it certainly gives him a recognizable silhouette:

I want to be remembered as iconic and different. So I was like, 'F**k it -- I'm gonna let my hair just be what it wants.' I'll probably cut it if it starts interfering with my sight. I can kind of see it right now. But if I cut it, I'd look like everyone else. And that's just so boring to me.

But it's an invitation to look in awe, not an invitation to pet like a cat. Taylor Swift probably doesn't ask for permission for much, though! Tesfaye describes first meeting her at a Grammy after-party celebrating Sam Smith's many wins:

Everyone was hammered. Sam had just won, like, every Grammy, so he was having the time of his life. Max Martin actually left because everyone was so drunk. Unfortunately, that was the one month I decided to stop drinking. Everybody was having a great time, all these cool things were happening, and I was shaking, like — 'Fuck, I really want a drink.'

She [Taylor Swift] actually schooled me on my own s**t. She was like, 'I've been listening to 'The Morning' for years -- it's one of my favorite songs ever!' I mean, she might have just Googled it. But she seemed genuine.

The whole time she was talking, she was kind of, like, petting my hair? I think she was just drawn to it -- she must have been a little gone off a few drinks. And of course I'm not going to be like, 'Hey, can you stop?' I mean, it felt good! But when she started petting my hair, that's when I was like, 'I definitely need a drink.'

Hey, if two people are having a moment and one of them is drunk and the other is tolerating it, who are any of us to judge...

A guy saved a woman's life and didn't even stick around to take credit for it, which kind of makes him the best person in the world. Ellie Farnfield was on the train from Surrey to London on Wednesday when she began to suffer an epileptic fit.

When the seizure subsided, she awoke to find a coffee, 10 British pounds, and a handwritten note from a man named Tom.

The note reads:

Hi Eleanor. I hope by the time you read this you are feeling better. You had a seizure on the train and I took you off.

You didn't hit your head but I may have hurt your leg as I walked on it before realising you were on the floor having a fit! Sorry!

I'm also sorry I can't stay with you now but here is a coffee to perk you up later and £10 to make sure you get a taxi home.

Sorry I don't have anymore money so I hope you don't live far away.

I've contacted people from your phone and medical help is on its way and you're with train staff.

Wishing you all the best and a quick recovery.

Love Tom

The search for Tom is on: Ellie told London's Evening Standard: "I have no idea who this man was or if he was sitting next to me but I wanted to show how grateful I am to him. If Tom does come forward, first of all I would like to give him back his money and then thank him for what he did. He deserves a lot of praise."

She adds, "It was so nice of him, it's one thing helping people but doing additional things like what Tom did is something else."

Finally, a happy version of Strangers on a Train. 

A 3-year-old boy took the wheel of a pickup truck and managed to drive himself and his twin brother around for several blocks after his drunk mother fell out of the truck. The good news: both boys are completely safe and unharmed. Witnesses reported that after the drunk mom fell out of the truck, the boy stood up on the seat and steered the vehicle across the highway until it came to rest on a curb. It's clearly reprehensible to get behind the wheel when intoxicated if there are children in the car. But you have to be really, really drunk to fall out of a moving car — the kind of cartoon drunk where you hiccup bubbles and each of your eyes is looking a different direction.

The mother told police that one of the boys had undone his seatbelt, and she was attempting to refasten it when she fell out of the truck. That still doesn't explain how on earth she fell out, or even which door she fell out of. It was a two-door truck, and hopefully the boys were in the back in proper car seats (probably not). Maybe she told the dog to take the wheel, even though there wasn't one in the truck and they don't own a dog. That's how drunk she must've been.

Hopefully the boys will be able to stay with some caring family members or friends while this gets sorted out. As for the boy that drove, he is going to have a sibling rivalry trump card to play on his twin for the rest of their lives.

McDonald's will now begin serving sweet potato fries in the U.S. The chain has been serving them at international locations for quite some time now, but this is the first time they've been featured in America restaurants. McDonald's will start by testing them out at Texas locations, and should that prove successful, they'll be rolled out across the U.S. 

Holding true to the principles of American democracy, it's being left it up to the people to decide whether we can live in a society that accepts and supports more than just one type of fry. If the fries are popular enough, they'll be offered permanently. It is everyone's duty to get out there and make this happen. One person buying sweet potato fries doesn't do much, but if a lot of people do it, well, change can actually occur, as our great nation's forefathers intended.

Sweet Potato Fries 2016. 

It's easy to get distracted by sexy costumes and razor-blade-filled candy, and forget all about the true meaning of Halloween: ghosts! So to put you in the spook-tacular spirit, here are a collection of spine tingling horror stories posted on Reddit. Best of all, they're only 2 sentences long, so you can get fully creeped-out in the time it takes you to wait in line for a pumpkin spice latte.

1. bentreflection

The grinning face stared at me from the darkness beyond my bedroom window. I live on the 14th floor.

2. justAnotherMuffledVo

I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”

 3. KeresMagnus

Sleep did not come to me easily that night in the cabin in the woods for the portraits on the wall only portrayed the deformed, the decrepit and the damned. Sleep has never come easily to me ever again, for when I had woke I found no portraits, only windows.

4. guztaluz

There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone. 

5. Mikeyseventyfive 

They delivered the mannequins in bubble wrap. From the main room I begin to hear popping.

6. blaqkmagick 

The longer I wore it the more it grew on me. She had such pretty skin.

7. skuppy 

My daughter won't stop crying and screaming in the middle of the night. I visit her grave and ask her to stop, but it doesn't help.

8. kryptonianCodeMonkey

Carol never wore her safety goggles. Now she doesn't need to

9. imperson 

The last thing I saw was my alarm clock flashing 12:07 before she pushed her long rotting nails through my chest, her other hand muffling my screams. I sat bolt upright, relieved it was only a dream, but as I saw my alarm clock read 12:06, I heard my closet door creak open.

10. cobaltcollapse

After working a hard day I came home to see my girlfriend cradling our child. I didn't know which was more frightening, seeing my dead girlfriend and stillborn child, or knowing that someone broke into my apartment to place them there. 

11. i-am-the-assbutt  

My sister says that mommy killed her. Mommy says that I don't have a sister.

12. ADGE_S

When I finally grabbed her in the darkness, I swam back to the surface. It never occurred to me how fast the ice could freeze over.

13. AnarchistWaffles

Don't be scared of the monsters, just look for them. Look to your left, to your right, under your bed, behind your dresser, in your closet but never look up, she hates being seen.

14. Gagege 

The doctors told the amputee he might experience a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moments though, when he felt cold fingers brush across his phantom hand.

15. comparativelysane

You hear your mom calling you into the kitchen. As you are heading down the stairs you hear a whisper from the closet saying "Don't go down there honey, I heard it too."

Donni Saphire has favorited over 600,000 tweets on Twitter and he loves them all equally. He reads every tweet so you don't have to. 

This was a big week for baseball as the Cubs performed their traditional "losing dance" to the Mets, Trey Gowdy dropped a hot new Benghazi track (ft. Hillary Clinton), the season is getting spookier, a new Star Wars trailer forced people to wake up to the fact that the release date is getting closer, and Adele used a flip phone: These are the Top 43 Tweets Of The Week!

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Wanna time travel? Check out last week's top tweets.

Do you think women talk more than men in the bathroom? This stereotype has persisted for years, despite the fact that the only way someone could know for sure is if they had spent a lot of time in both men's and women's rooms. But regardless of whether you believe it, evidently someone who decorates bathrooms does, as evidenced by this image shared by Reddit user supreme407:

The message of the door: men don't talk to each other in the bathroom, whereas women will share a whole door's worth of gab during a single visit. It's an obvious joke, but not so obvious that the doors don't still require stick figures to explain which is which.

As far as stereotypes go, this joke isn't that hurtful (or clever), but that didn't stop the Reddit thread about it from becoming a classic flame war. Some commenters felt strongly that the joke was sexist and unnecessary, while others felt that it was funny, inoffensive and unnecessary. But nobody thought it was necessary.

User ziemlich said:

Men actually talk longer and more often than women do so this is based off a sexist stereotype and is deemed - not funny (by me).

While turroflux responded:

No, they don't. Men do not talk to each other in the bathroom, it's not a stereotype, it's a fact. Women also spend a lot more time in the bathroom, and do talk to each other a lot more. There is nothing sexist about pointing that out.

DWPRICE just loved it:

If I could give you a million up-votes I would. I will be laughing for a long, long time. And remember, its only funny because its true.

Meanwhile, weedad14 threw ice water on everybody's fun:

Studies have shown that men and women speak basically the same amount.

In the end, tommygunz007 had the most rational assessment:

sexist or true? You be the judge

Yes. Everybody can judge this on their own. Whether it's sexist or not is all up to personal interpretation. But everybody should be able to agree that it's LAME. For bathroom sign-related humor, it's better to stick to the classics:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor Terry Crews is just about the cutest thing. And sexy, to boot. AND says he's a feminist. No wonder his wife can't keep her hands off him! Or she could, for 90 days, but it sounds like something they had to consciously choose. It wasn't like where you turn to your partner and neither of you can remember the last time you two got down. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Crews talks about his "sex fast" with his wife and how it made things even hotter:

He says (in an emphatic voice that pull quotes cannot do justice to):

I found that at the end of that 90 days … I knew who she was, and it wasn’t about ‘Let’s go out because I know I’m gonna get some sex later.’ It was like, ‘Let’s go because I want to talk to you. I want to know you’

You’re not looking for porn. You’re looking for someone to know you and love you at the same time. That’s all you want — every man out there. But he’s scared sometimes. That’s why men put up big fronts.

Knowing someone definitely can make them sexier. Or it could just be three months of foreplay.

A Reddit user's sister got married last week, and her wedding party accidentally spelled something naughty in one of their photos. The groom's name is Miles and the bride's name is Sarah.  Can you spot what's wrong with this picture?

What was originally supposed to be a wedding photo quickly became a powerful statement of acceptance and empowerment for all types of sexual preferences. 

This middle school food fight is going to be fought in court. Aliya May is a 14-year-old student at Moody Middle School in Virginia, and could be charged with assault and battery for throwing a baby carrot at her former teacher. 

After the notorious flight of the vegetable, Aliya was suspended, and hasn't been at school for a month. "I don't even know how to combat the stupidity," her mom told WTVR. 

On the fateful day, Aliya left class and saw a teacher she had last year. Not being a softball pitcher or thinking she would actually hit the teacher in the forehead, Aliya threw the carrot as a joke. The school didn't take it as a joke. 

Legal expert Todd Stone tells WTVR:

If it's a soft carrot, it may not be as offensive. But if it's a raw carrot, you don't have to have an injury or show you were hurt to prove a battery. It just has to be an offensive, vindictive touch. That's what the law says.

Documents are closely examining the carrot's length and girth to fully understand this incident of alleged assault. 

"This could go before a judge and there could be sufficient evidence to find her guilty, but I don't think it's something a judge would want to find her guilty of,” Stone said. “They may offer her counseling, sort of a carrot at the end of a stick."