Kris Jenner has spoken about her daughter Khloe Kardashian’s split from her husband.
Kris said Khloe, 29, was in the midst of a “cleansing time” following her divorce from former basketball player Lamar Odom on December 13.
“What Khloe is going through is definitely challenging, I’m not going to lie,” she told People magazine.
“It’s also a very interesting time for her because it’s very cleansing.
“She’s also showed this side of her that I didn’t know she had. I always knew Khloe was strong, but I never dreamed that she had this kind of strength.”
Court documents filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court cite “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.
Khloe is not asking for spousal support, but requested that “Odom” be removed from the end of her name.
Khloe had remained silent on the split until Wednesday when she took to Twitter, saying: “This, in and of itself, is heartbreaking and torture to my soul. Please, I don’t need the extra rumors and BS right now.”
The rumours she referred to are reports she has begun dating American professional baseball player Matt Kemp.
Khloe and Lamar, who married in 2009 exactly one month after meeting, have been surround by split speculation since Lamar’s alleged drug abuse began putting a strain on the marriage.
William and Kate are planning to bring their son Prince George, who will be nine months old, but will make a final decision closer to the time.
The royal couple will also visit New Zealand but an itinerary won’t be released until the New Year.
If George does accompany his parents, it will echo William’s own first overseas tour. Charles and Diana took him to Australia when he was the same age in 1983.
William has visited Australia several times, the most recent being shortly before his wedding in 2011. This will be Kate’s first official visit.
Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, who has just had her third child, is threatening to sue rights group Fathers4Justice after they launched an advertising campaign negatively targeting the actress.
The group had prepared to launch an advertising campaign which featured a photo of Kate with the tagline: “Kate, every child deserves their father this Christmas.”
The bizarre ad came in response to comments Kate made in an interview with Vogue magazine, where the 38-year-old said her children had a stable home life living with her rather than being passed “from pillar to post”.
In the interview, Kate says her two children Mia, 13, and Joe, 9, by ex-husbands Sam Mendes and Jim Threapleton, are not victims of her divorces and have good relationships with their fathers.
“People go, ‘Oh, my God! Those poor children! They must have gone through so much.’ Says who?” She said.
“They’ve always been with me. They don’t go from pillar to post; they’re not flown here and there with nannies. That’s never happened.
“My kids don’t go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads – my children live with me; that is it. That is it!”
While Fathers4Justice says Kate’s private life did not form the basis of their campaign, they have used her situation and image to further their campaign for fathers’ access to their children after separation or divorce.
Kate’s solicitors have issued the group with a legal letter claiming that the campaign is “misleading and seriously defamatory”.
Sam Mendes, Kate’s former husband, has also written to Fathers4Justice saying in a statement: “It is inappropriate for this organisation to involve my family and I when they know nothing of our personal circumstances.”
“Whilst I fully support fathers’ rights, I can happily state this has never been a concern for me or my son.”
Fathers4Justice campaign director Nadine O’Connor said the organisation was simply re-stating comments about Kate’s children/parenting arrangements which she brought into the public domain herself.
“We believe the content of the advert is accurate, balanced and reflective of the comments she made,” she said.
“We do though welcome Mr Mendes’ comments supporting fathers’ rights and find it regrettable that instead of resolving this dispute as we had agreed, Kate Winslet has sought redress through legal action.
“I would like to re-iterate that Fathers4Justice has not made any comment in our advert about the personal arrangements of Ms Winslet and the fathers of her children,” she said.
“What we have referred to in the advert is a direct quote from Ms Winslet herself, a statement she put in the public domain through a lengthy self-promotional interview in October’s Vogue magazine,” she said.
“Ms Winslet’s comments on shared parenting were then quoted worldwide by numerous newspapers, who also took issue with them.
“Of course if Ms Winslet is now saying, through her legal team who are threatening Fathers4Justice, that the Vogue article is inaccurate and that Vogue misquoted her, then that is something she needs to take up with them and not us.”
Ann Sherry and her son Nicholas. Photography by Nick Cubbin. Styling by Jamela Duncan.
Ann Sherry – head of cruise line Carnival Australia – is one of Australia’s most respected CEOs.
She is the woman credited with introducing maternity leave to corporate Australia in the mid-’90s when she was an executive at Westpac, the former head of the Bank of Melbourne and the first woman to run a bank in New Zealand.
But her greatest achievement is seeing her son, Nicholas, flourish.
Nick, 37, is Ann and her husband Michael’s only son and he has Down syndrome. He also has his own apartment alongside Anna and Michael’s home, west of Sydney, and a growing independence.
“Having Nicholas in our lives is one of the most important, wonderful things that has ever happened to us,” Ann tells The Weekly.
“He has taught us so much, not just about disability and what it is to live with it, but also about ourselves, about love.”
Having grown up in a world she describes as “neat”, Ann says welcoming g Nicholas was “probably the greatest wake-up call of my life”.
When Nick was born in September 1976, with what doctors said was an “unidentifiable disability”, Ann was devastated. She was 21 didn’t know what to do. She went through 24 hours of deep mourning. But a ward sister who came to her bedside shocked Ann back to reality.
“She sat down with Ann and said, ‘You have a baby. You are a mother. He has a disability. He needs you. And you need him. Get on with it’,” her husband Michael tells The Weekly.
From the time she brought home the baby, Ann was determined that Nick’s disability would not stop him having a wonderful life.
“I want to tell you something about my mum,” says Nick, 37.
“She loves hugs. She loves Christmas. She loves her mum. She loves big family get-togethers and she loves telling jokes. But most of all, she loves hugs, which is just fine by me because I love hugs, too.”
Read more of this story in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Jodhi Meares. Photography by Justin Ridler. Styling by Mattie Cronan.
Jodhi Meares is at a really good time in her life.
Not only is she poised to say I do to her rock and roller fiancé Jon Stevens – in the past three months, the one-time bikini model, who went on to become the first Mrs James Packer, has unleashed unto the world her latest business venture, the yoga-inspired activewear company, The Upside.
It’s the industrious Ms Mears’ second foray into the world of fashion retail. Her first business, the swimwear company Tigerlily, was sold to surfwear multinational Billabong back in 2007 for an undisclosed sum, thought to be between $3 million and $5 million.
At the time and despite the high-profile role Jodhi played in the business from its creation to its sale, there were those who wrote off Tigerlily as the vanity project of a newly minter former billionairess divorcee (she split from James in 2002, almost three years after they had wed, two years after Tigerlily was set up and five years before the sale of the company to Billabong).
Jodhi’s business advisor, Mark Calvetti, was one of those who knew all along the fashion entrepeneur’s success was no fluke.
“If you were to talk to the man on the street, they would think Jodhi was bankrolled into the fashion business by James and continues to be bankrolled by James. And that is so far from the truth,” he tells The Weekly.
Now, having put all her own money into The Upside – “I have a lot of skin in this game,” Jodhi says – she’s again out there having a go, building business and putting her fortune on the line, when she could easily not have done so.
“How many women can leave a high-profile marriage like she did, build a business, sell it and then build a second one?” asks Mark Calvetti.
“She didn’t have to launch The Upside. She could have spent half a year in Hawaii and half a year here. But she did it again – built another business.”
Read more of this story in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Three years after she shot to fame as Miss Universe Australia, Jesinta Campbell has found a boyfriend worth taking home to meet the parents.
For the past few months, Jesinta has been dating Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin and recently took the AFL superstar to meet her mum and dad.
The meeting went extremely well, as Jesinta tells the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly and the blonde beauty is now excitedly looking forward to their future together.
These pictures trace Jesinta’s transformation from beauty queen to new chief WAG.
Jesinta in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Photography by Justin Ridler. Styling by Mattie Cronan.
Modelling swimwear while competing to become Miss Universe Australia in June 2010.
Newly-crowned Miss Universe Australia in June 2010.
Jesinta seemed shocked to win the national title.
Jesinta in LA on her way to the Miss Universe pageant in August 2010.
Looking spectacular in swimwear in the Miss Universe pageant in August 2010.
Jesinta was crowned Miss Congeniality at the Miss Universe pageant.
Jesinta in an unusual outfit in September 2010.
Looking sexy in leather in April 2011.
At Derby Day in Melbourne in October 2011.
At the races in Sydney in March 2012.
At the 2012 Melbourne Cup.
Looking sultry in Sydney in April 2013.
With new boyfriend Buddy at Derby Day in November.
Jesinta confirmed their romance by posting this image on her Instagram account.
Jesinta in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Photography by Justin Ridler. Styling by Mattie Cronan.
Jesinta in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Photography by Justin Ridler. Styling by Mattie Cronan.
There is an old saying, sometimes attributed to Dr Seuss, about how you should give up pretending and just be who you are because: Those who mind don’t matter
And those who matter won’t mind.
Easier said than done, of course, especially when you’re keeping a secret as significant as the one that Lieutenant Colonel Cate McGregor AM – formerly Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm McGregor AM – kept for nigh on 50 years.
Cate was born a boy but she always felt like a girl. She tried to hide it, mainly by flexing what she saw as the masculine side of her personality as a soldier in our armed forces but, she says, “it got to the point, in my mid-50s, where I could not stand it anymore”.
In an interview in this month’s The Australian Women’s Weekly, Cate explains how she had to tell the truth about herself, which in turn meant giving up her name, her marriage, and ultimately her military career, to live as a woman.
It meant having the toughest conversations of her life, with her then-wife (she’s now a great friend); her sisters and other family members; with her boss, the hyper-masculine, khaki-clad Chief of Army, David Morrison AO; and with one of her closest friends, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.
“I knew I’d have to tell him,” she says, “because our friendship is one of the oldest, most continuous friendships of my life.’”
And what did Abbott say?
“I got the most loving response,” says Cate, delighted. “He said, ‘look, it changes nothing’. Then he said, ‘what’s your preferred name now?’ And ever since, he’s called me Cate.”
Cate tells The Weekly that she had misgivings about her gender from the earliest age, but could not find a way to express the idea.
“I was fascinated with women’s clothes, but I’d tried on Mum’s dresses and I’d gotten into awful trouble, so I never did it again,” she says.
Her sister, Mary Saunders, who is 16 years older, says her memory of Cate as a little boy are that “she was very shy and quite timid. But I never suspected her troubles with gender”.
Cate’s father died when she was eight. He had fought at Kokoda, and her grandfather fought at Fromelles. As a way of connecting with them, she joined the Army.
“I had an idea about the military being the ultimate expression of masculinity,” she says, “But I wasn’t thinking, this will make me a man. It wasn’t as conscious as that.”
She was diagnosed as ‘transgender’ (somebody who feels they’ve been assigned the wrong gender at birth) in 1985 but decided to ‘white-knuckle’ through the diagnosis.
In 1995, she met the woman who became her wife and says “from that day on, I was deeply in love. I had met my soul mate, the person I was meant to be with, and I adored her to bits.
“But by 2011, I was in very bad shape,” Cate says. “I was boiling over with the idea that I was living the wrong gender. I can’t convey – I don’t have the language – to explain what it was like to live in that turmoil, but it was a nightmare.”
She went back to the psychiatrist who said: “It’s a no-brainer. You are transgender.”
“I was waiting for somebody to say, here, take this pill, and it will all be fine,” says Cate, “and he said, it won’t be fine. Can’t you see that? I said, but I’m an infantry officer, I’m married, it’s too late, I’m 50-something years old, it’s not an option. He said, I’m puzzled you’ve got this far.
“But I was still so scared. I thought, my fate is to be a tragic figure, socially ostracised. And that was frightening, but the greatest loss would be my marriage. I knew I would lose my wife, and I was completely in love with her, and it broke my heart.”
Read more of this story in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
The Aussie beauty queen opens up about their budding romance in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, revealing their relationship is so serious Buddy recently met her parents.
“It’s the first time I have felt strongly enough about someone that I wanted my parents to meet him,” the 22-year-old blonde tells The Weekly.
“I was never going to bring home someone I was just dating or someone I was having a fling with.”
The meeting was a huge success, much to the relief of Jesinta who had been worried Buddy’s bad boy reputation would cloud her parents’ view of him.
“It went really well,” she says. “It was nice for Lance to finally meet the people in the world who are most important to me, and for them to meet the person who is most important in my life right now.
“We decided to do brunch and, at 5pm, I was ushering Mum and Dad out the door. I think it’s safe to say he was a hit.”
The couple aren’t yet living together but are spending “pretty much every night” at Buddy’s Bondi bachelor pad.
Jesinta says they’re “very happy”, hinting she hopes marriage and children are in their future.
“In five years’ time, I definitely see myself starting a family,” she says.
Asked if there might be someone in her life right now Jesinta would consider doing that with she replied: “Maybe! I’m not going to let you put words in my mouth, but that’s definitely a position I’d like to be in!”
Read more of this story in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Prince William drove the couple in for the Queen’s annual festive feast where royals and distinguished guests arrived en masse to welcome in the season.
Kate wore a cherry red coat to the traditional family affair, but appeared to have left the youngest royal at home with an apparently empty baby seat sitting in the back of the Range Rover, the Daily Mail reports.
Crowds lined the Mall outside the palace to welcome royals as they arrived en masse.
Her Majesty welcomed Prince Charles, Camilla, Prince Edward, Princess Anne, Princess Beatrice, the Duchess of Kent and other members of the royal family.
Prince Harry was absent from the annual celebration, having just completed his charity trek to the South Pole.
The 29-year-old royal is expected to join the Queen and other family members at Sandringham for Christmas.
William, Kate, and baby George will reportedly spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in Sandringham for the five-month old Prince’s first Christmas.
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