Australian actress Teresa Palmer has had her first child, a boy named Bodhi Rain Palmer
Teresa and her husband, American actor Mark Webber, welcomed their son on Monday and the 27-year-old actress confirmed the news on Instagram.
“Thank you God for blessing us with the most divine gift of our baby son,” the Warm Bodies actress wrote, alongside a pic of her baby boy’s hand.
“Introducing Bodhi Rain Palmer, born safely, lovingly and naturally last night – 8 pounds even.”
“Bodhi means ‘Enlightened one’, Rain means ‘Abundant Blessings From Above’ and we chose Palmer as his last name as Mark’s son Isaac didn’t take his dad’s name either. Thanks for all the blessings and love, everyone!”
The unwritten rules of fashion have taken an unexpected turn with new research revealing that unconventional outfits make a better impression than simply fitting in.
A Harvard Business School paper published in the Journal for Consumer Research says that a non-conformist approach to your wardrobe makes you come across as more powerful and accomplished.
Dubbed “The Red Sneakers Effect”, clothes that have some flair and are even a bit wacky can signal that you have “the autonomy needed to act according to (your) own inclinations.”
The report said that “when it looks deliberate, a person can appear to have a higher status and sense of competency.” Even dressing down can earn you more credit.
Some stars are known for their unconventional senses of style. While Elton John and Matt Preston rely on signature pieces like coloured-lens glasses and cravats, style icons Sarah Jessica Parker and Michelle Obama prove that high risk can bring high rewards.
Christie Brinkley looked sexier than ever and decades younger than her 60 years as she walked the red carpet this week in an outfit that revealed plenty of skin.
Wearing a plunging orange pencil dress that clung to her toned and trim figure and revealing a lacy black bra, the supermodel stunned onlookers and showed everybody she is truly defying her age.
She wore a pair of orange, white and black striped heels and a cropped black cardigan which she used to tease the photographers with the chance of a striptease.
Brinkley was at the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated swimsuit party, the publication that made her famous as its cover star in the seventies. The magazine featured her on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers through 1981.
Christie Brinkley
Photo: WireImage
She stood alongside Russian and Czech models, Irina Shayk and Petra Nemcova, aged in their 20s and 30s looking just as fabulous.
Petra Nemcova and Irina Shayk
With a career spanning almost four decades, men’s magazinesMen’s Healthhave named her one of the most attractive women of all time.
It’s been a long weight-loss road for Jessica Simpson, but the mum of two couldn’t be happier with her new body!
Showing off her slimmed-down figure in a new Weight Watchers ad, the 33-year-old yummy mummy says she’s proud of her new body, but isn’t about to deny how hard it was to get.
“I was so insecure – I couldn’t believe what I weighed,” she told Good Morning America of her weight gain during her first pregnancy.
“I don’t think I ever expected myself to see the numbers I’ve seen on the scale.”
The fashion designer lost 22kg after the birth of her first child, daughter Maxwell, in May 2012. Five months later she got the surprise news that she was pregnant with her second child, son Ace, now seven months.
While she says she isn’t the type to bounce back to her old body straight away, she’s proud of the body she has worked hard for and says she’s proof that everyday mums can do it, too.
She added that women shouldn’t be ashamed of pregnancy weight gain.
“You’re creating a life, and honestly it’s not easy,” she said.
“It’s a really hard thing to go through. And you deserve to eat your ice-cream, you deserve to have your pancakes. Do whatever you want to do and then afterwards just know that you have to work really hard.”
She says the secret to her weight loss is the support and motivation from her fiance Eric Johnson and her healthy meal plan.
“For breakfast I’m an oatmeal girl,” she said. “Lunch – I do like bread, so I’ll have a sandwich or something. But for dinner I try and keep it super-clean.” And while she says her favourite job is being a mum, the former singer says she would love to go back to her roots.
“I want to sing again,” she said. “I want my daughter to see me on stage. My fiance has never even watched me perform, which is crazy. It’s my passion, that is my love – that is everything that I am.”
Cricket legend Shane Warne and British supermodel Elizabeth Hurley look like they’ve rekindled their romance.
After they inadvertently confirmed their split on Twitter last month with a series of cryptic tweets, Shane, 44, and Liz, 48, have reunited in London – and on social media.
Shane was seen unpacking a number of bags at Liz’s home on Sunday as he smiled for waiting photographers.
Not only are the former couple once again in each other’s company, they have also started following each other on Twitter again after their split in September.
Despite Shane recently being linked to 29-year-old Persian princess Zanbagh Khalili, it looks like the unlucky-in-love cricketer is trying to patch things up with his ex-fiancee.
We’re not sure Liz feels the same, though, judging from her latest Instagram post which read: “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Sigh…”
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Jee Heon A was in a North Korean detention centre where babies usually did not survive pregnancy and birth due to the extraordinarily harsh conditions.
In this case, the baby was born alive.
“The baby was crying as it was born; we were so curious, this was the first time we saw a baby being born. So we were watching this baby and we were so happy,” the woman told the commission.
“But suddenly we heard the footsteps. The security agent came in and this agent of the Bowibu [the North Korean State Security Department] said that … usually when a baby is born we would wash it in a bowl of water, but this agent told us to put the baby in the water upside down.
“So the mother was begging. ‘I was told that I would not be able to have the baby, but I actually got lucky and got pregnant so let me keep the baby, please forgive me’, but this agent kept beating this woman, the mother who just gave birth.
“And the baby, since it was just born, it was just crying. And the mother, with her shaking hands she picked up the baby and she put the baby face down in the water. The baby stopped crying and we saw this water bubble coming out of the mouth of the baby.
“And there was an old lady who helped with the labour, she picked up the baby from the bowl of water and left the room quietly. So those kind of things repeatedly happened.”
Michael Kirby. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Michael Kirby. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Michael Kirby. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
The United Nations panel gathered evidence for almost a year and heard hundreds of shocking stories as over 300 witnesses testified about murder, torture, rape, abductions, enslavement and starvation under the North Korean dictatorship.
The panel, led by Australia’s former High Court Justice Michael Kirby, has today released the damning report that catalogues systematic and appalling human rights abuses in North Korea.
It describes a vast network of secret prison camps where hundreds of thousands of North Koreans are believed to have died through starvation, execution or other means and recommends that the UN refer the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court.
When releasing the report, Kirby referred to the atrocities committed in world war two and the world’s failure to stop the atrocities committed by Hitler’s Germany and claims that it did not know the extent of the crimes.
“Now the international community does know,” Kirby said.
“There will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn’t know. It’s too long now. The suffering and the tears of the people of North Korea demand action.”
The aerial skier has won a silver medal at Sochi – Australia’s first Olympic medal in the event.
Australia regularly sees lesser known figures produce breakthrough results and surpass media darlings and medal hopefuls and Sochi is no different.
Morris, a 29-year-old former gymnast from Melbourne, is the country’s only male aerial skier.
He was so excited at winning his first Olympic medal that he thought he was going to be sick.
“It means so much. I am the only boy in Australia doing this. I was told at the start I wouldn’t be good enough and now I have a silver medal at the Winter Olympics,” he said after the event.
Photo: Getty Images
Morris has played second fiddle to the better established women’s aerials for the last eight years, travelling the world with an all-female team and dealing with repeated rejections from scholarship applications at the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA).
Landing four straight jumps perfectly while his competitors crashed, he won with style yet retained his modesty.
“I have imagined this for a long time and it panned out like I imagined.
“You saw the quality of those guys. If they had landed their best jumps there, no way I would have come second. I know that I am not the best jumper out there. I got lucky.”
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images
This is Australia’s third medal at the Sochi Games, already equalling Australia’s record Winter Olympics tally from the Vancouver Games four years ago.
Move over Pandora, there’s a new charm trend in town.
The Duchess of Cambridge has been snapped sporting an adorable gold charm necklace by UK jeweller Merci Maman to honour her new baby boy.
According to US Weekly, the pendant was a gift from sister Pippa to mark the birth of Prince George in July last year and retails for just A$168.
Catherine’s necklace features three charms: a gold disc engraved with “George Alexander Louis” as well as a mini heart engraved with “W”, for husband Prince William, and a little boy charm.
Click through for more images of the piece and the little prince himself.
Kate snapped wearing the necklace while shopping in London.
The customised piece purchaced from Merci Maman.
The necklace came in an orange box with a personalised card from the jeweller.
The pendants also come in silver and a little girl charm is available.
Proud parents and Prince George at his October 23 christening.
Prince George wearing a replica of the royal christening gown.
Britain's finest actors flocked to Buckingham Palace last night for an extraordinary event hosted by the Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge to celebrate the dramatic arts.
The 250 guests headed up by the queen of British acting Dame Helen Mirren included an incredible throng of stars from Uma Thurman to Helena Bonham Carter, Roger Moore, Hugh Laurie, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Joan Collins, John Hurt, Richard E Grant, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Lenny Henry and even Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Each were greeted individually by the Queen in the State Dining Room and then seated in the Ballroom for a fabulous programme of performances kicking off with students from Britain’s world famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, of which the Queen is Patron, performing songs from the musical Oh! What A lovely War.
Further performances included Sir Tom Courtenay in a recitation from The Dresser, a role he performed on stage and in film, Sir David Attenborough paying tribute to the work of his brother Sir Richard Attenborough, who was too ill to attend and is the President of RADA, and a truly mesmerising turn from Shakespeare’s The Tempest from Dame Helen Mirren.
The Queen and Kate during the performances.
Following the performances, the Queen – who wore a kingfisher blue dress adorned with a sapphire and pearl brooch given to Queen Victoria on her wedding day – and Kate – who recycled a red Alexander McQueen dress previously worn at The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations – chatted to the performers.
Dame Helen Mirren has met The Queen before but told The Weekly: “I am always astounded by her aura, her twinkle, her presence. It never fails to surprise me.”
The actress met The Queen’s grandson Prince William for the first time last night when he presented her with the Fellowship Award at the Baftas and it was the dashing Prince that was the subject of conversation between Dame Helen and the Duchess of Cambridge tonight.
Dame Helen Mirren and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Dame Helen Mirren and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Kate was in excellent spirits at the event.
Kate was in excellent spirits at the event.
Kate was in excellent spirits at the event.
“I was really taken with him. I thought he was absolutely lovely. He wasn’t like a prince at all. He’s a really nice bloke,” Dame Helen told The Weekly.
Prince William had affectionately called Dame Helen “Granny” in his presentation speech, referring to her performances playing the Queen, something Mirren thought was “very sweet” adding: “I’ve also been called ‘Mummy’ by Prince Charles.”
When Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates' daughter was named Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily and orphaned at the age of four, grave concerns were held for the daughter of these famous and troubled stars.
When Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates’ daughter was named Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily and orphaned at the age of four, grave concerns were held for the daughter of these famous and troubled stars.
Her father’s family wanted her to live in Australia with them, but Tiger Lily was instead adopted by the father of her three half-sisters and Yates’ ex-husband, Sir Bob Geldof.
In an interview at the time of the custody request Hutchence’s mother Patricia Glassop said: “I think he (Geldof) is Satan. I think he is cruel, very cruel to keep her from her family. I am not allowed to speak to her on the phone. He’s even changed the phone number.”
But hindsight has shown that Geldof, who Tiger Lily calls ‘Dad’, managed to calm those initial tumultuous years and raise a healthy and self-assured young woman, guiding her to live a relatively normal life.
Against the odds, he managed to keep his adopted daughter out of the media spotlight, however this reportedly meant that Tiger Lily did not attend her grandmother Glassop’s funeral in 2010.
Tiger Lily, now 17 years old, attends a private school in south London close to her home in Battersea where she lives with Geldof and his partner of 16 years, French actress Jeanne Marine. She reportedly has very close relationships with Jeanne and her three older sisters.
In an interview with New Idea magazine, the INXS star’s brother and uncle to Tiger Lily, Rhett Hutchence, revealed that she is quietly pursuing her dreams of acting and performance and plans to study acting in New York when she finishes school.
“She’s extremely beautiful and stylish, charming to be around, and she’s very much into music and acting, just like her dad.”
Photos of Tiger Lily reveal a beautiful young woman with her father’s features and charisma.
The telemovie INXS: Never Tear Us Apart portrayed Hutchence and Yates’ tragic love affair with a baby Tiger Lily at the centre.
Hutchence’s last night was dramatised in the film with a night of drinking, taking cocaine, phone calls with Yates and Geldof about Tiger Lily’s custody and looking at photos of Paula and Tiger before tragically taking his own life the next morning.
Michael Hutchence, Paula Yates holding Tiger Lily and Fifi Trixibelle Geldof in 1996, the year Tiger was born. Photo: WireImage
Left, Paula Yates carrying their daughter into Michael Hutchence’s funeral on 27 November 1997. Right, in London in 1999. Photos: AFP/Getty Images
Yates, Tiger Lily and Pixie Geldof in the early 2000s. Photo: FilmMagic
At movie premieres in London in 2003 and 2005. Photos: Getty Images
Bob Geldof’s daughters Fifi Trixiebell, Pixie and Peaches with Tiger Lily in 2004. Photo: Getty Images
The sisters attending ‘Ducktastic’ in 2005. Photo: Getty Images
Bob Geldof with his adopted daughter in 2005. Photo: Getty Images
The Geldof family in Dublin in 2006 as he receives the ‘freedom of the city’ honour. Photo: Getty Images
Tiger Lily and Geldof’s partner Jeanne Marine. Photo: Getty Images
Bob Geldof and Tiger Lily in 2008. Photo: Getty Images
Spotted in 2008. Photo: FilmMagic
At Naomi Campbell’s Fashion For Relief Haiti London London Show in 2010. Photo: FFR/Getty Images
Bob Geldof, Jeanne Marine and Tiger Lily. Photo: FFR/Getty Images
Tiger Lily Hutchence. Photo: Instagram
Tiger Lily Hutchence. Photo: Instagram
Tiger Lily at Peaches’ wedding in 2012. Photo: YouTube
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