Janet Jackson, asked about her “seriousness” about her clothes, says in a new interview [Hollywood Life magazine, Nov/Dec 2006] “It just looked that way. It wasn’t about pleasing myself. I was always too rushed and too willing to let someone tell me what to do.”
She describes herself as “a chameleon. Part of me is [...]

Much of the media attention on the topic concerns cosmetic surgery enhancements, but in a new Redbook magazine article, Salma Hayek recalls another kind of body image issue: the impact of being short.
“I am 5-2, and in Mexico it was very important to be tall. People used to say that the short thing was a [...]

In her celebritysatan.com post “Celebrity Concept As Barbie Doll” the author, Katie, brings up the potential emotional health consequences of our culture’s untiring emphasis on the sort of blonde centerfold standard of beauty shown by… blonde centerfolds [such as Hugh Hefner's companions "The Girls Next Door"], and so often seen on tv, in films and [...]

Marylou Kelly Streznewski - author of Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential - says in our :
“The creative process is so mysterious, and the muse comes and goes when she will. And we as writers all know the process of sitting in front of the piece of paper and nothing is happening, or [...]

[Question: What's the single biggest cause of overdrive?]
Nora Isaacs: A lack of unstructured downtime. As women, we take on too many projects, believe we have to fill up every ounce of our time, and can’t think of anything that we are willing to give up.
So we are doing everything, but many of us are not [...]