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David Archuleta stepping back from Mormon Church: “I need to just live my life, because I already know I’m okay how I am.”
Finishing second on the seventh season of “American Idol”, 31-year-old David Archuleta, who grew up in Utah as a devout member of the Mormon Church, told People in an interview that he had to “take a break from religion” for his own sanity.
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2022 Doodle for Google competition winner: “Not Alone”
The winner of this year’s Doodle for Google competition is Florida high schooler Sophie Araque-Liu, titled “Not Alone”:
Sophie Araque-Liu’s winning Doodle: Not Alone.
This year’s theme was “I care for myself by…” Sophie’s answer to go with her doodle:
“I care for myself by accepting others’ care for me. Often, I struggle to... Continue reading
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Bride goes viral for rocking her natural gray hair on wedding day
Like Taylor Hicks, the American Idol winner of the fifth season of “American Idol” known for his prematurely gray hair besides his bluesy pop voice, Kadeja Jackson Baker started getting grey hair at the age of 16. Now 38, after dying her hair in her 20’s, because she thought she had to, starting from 7 years ago she decided she would go with her natural color. On her wedding day, she decided she was going to keep rocking her grey hair.
Miami-based makeup artist Tia Codrington posted behind-the-scenes bridal glam TikTok videos starring... Continue reading
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Spain Says ‘All Bodies Are Beach Bodies’ – Enjoy life!
“Summer is ours too,” says Spain’s equality ministry in a creative summer campaign launch which aims to encourage all women to go to the beach and enjoy life.
The promo showcases five women with different body types. ages, and ethnicities, including a topless woman who has had a mastectomy, all having fun on the sandy beach by the coast.
“All bodies are beach bodies,” Ione Belarra, the minister for social rights in Spain’s Socialist-led Podemos party,
24-year-old who can’t smile due to rare condition signs with modeling agency
Tayla Clement was born with underdeveloped facial nerves that control some eye movements and facial expressions, called Moebius syndrome.
She is known online now as “The Girl Who Can’t Smile” and is the role model she needed growing up, moving past her bullying days when she was made fun of for being different:
“My eyebrows don’t move, my eyes don’t track, and my upper lip doesn’t move, which means I can’t smile, hence the name, ‘The girl who can’t smile,'” she said. “People would bring plastic bags to... Continue reading
Be free spider!
“She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone, I hope I greeted with the same kind of mercy.”
-Rudy Francisco
We are in the “relocate the spider – don’t hurt them” club,
Amy Schumer feels free after sharing about her teenage hair-pulling
Amy Schumer in “I Feel Pretty”
Love Amy Schumer movies, like “Trainwreck” and “I Feel Pretty”; they are so funny! Now Schumer is sharing something more serious, her real life-long struggle with trichotillomania, the compulsive urge to pull out her hair. She has shared about her struggles with endometriosis,... Continue reading
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Oakland woman 1st transgender contestant to qualify for ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’; Hopes to show trans kids they can too

Update on Amy Schneider: 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy! from November 2021 to January 2022, the second-longest win streak in the show’s history, behind only Ken Jennings, who hosted the show as she competed.
Oakland computer programmer Amy Schneider has won 6 Jeopardy! games so far, totaling $207,800. Kate Freeman was the first out transgender contestant to win in December of 2020, and Schneider is the first to qualify for the Tournament of Champions.
“The handful of trans contestants that had been on before, I had seen them, and it was really meaningful... Continue reading
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