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On sale Monday January 21, 2008
Princess Mary: ‘I’ve been betrayed’
Princess Mary is feeling more isolated than ever since becoming convinced that a senior member of the Danish royal household is trying to undermine her.
Katie breaks her silence: ‘The truth about my marriage and Scientology’
In a no-holds-barred exclusive interview, Katie Holmes finally speaks out about her controversial marriage to superstar Tom Cruise.
Oprah Winfrey’s weight is spiralling out of control yet again, as her devoted support for handsome presidential hopeful Barack Obama and the final collapse of her 21-year relationship with Stedman Graham take a devastating toll.
The Kernaghans’ secret family anguish
While Lee, 43, and Tania, 39, are Australian country music icons, another Kernaghan star is on the rise. Younger sibling Fiona, 34, a respected songwriter, has returned from the US with a rock-inspired album.
TV star tells: ‘Shane Warne ruined my love life’
Former The Price Is Right model Ann-Maree Cooksley will think twice before ever accepting a hug from Shane Warne again. According to Ann-Maree, her long-running friendship with the cricketing great has left some shocking emotional debris in its wake, with the breakdown of not one, but two of her relationships.
One-time childhood sweethearts Sonia Kruger and Todd McKenney have teamed up to star on Sydney’s Mix 106.5 Mornings.
The wild-child actress sets the record straight on her fun-loving life.
See the photos from Shannon’s latest trip to Hollywood.
True Life: ‘I cured my cancer by drinking my urine’
Floral Large, bold prints can camouflage your shape, and a flattering v-neck or plunging neckline draws attention to your neck, not your thighs.
Animal A striking pattern up top disguises a small bust, while a black or solid colour at the bottom will make your bottom and tummy appear smaller. A band or stripe at the waist gives definition.
Nautical Sleek, plain styles in a single colour are the most slimming, while bold monochrome horizontal patterns can help shape a boyish figure.
Stripes Stripes can change your body shape! Vertical stripes elongate the body, making you appear taller and thinner; horizontal stripes add curves. A high cut slims the hips and thighs, but if you have narrow hips, go for boy-leg bottoms.
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It’s certainly no secret that Nicole Kidman has desperately wanted a biological child of her own for many years and especially since her wedding in June 2006. After much media speculation and pictures of possible ‘baby bumps’, the happy couple have finally announced that they are expecting their first child in July this year, just after Nicole’s 41st birthday.
The Weekly’s Editor-in-Chief Deborah Thomas spoke to Nicole at length in an interview for the January issue of the magazine about the joys of motherhood and having children later in life. Read Deborah’s blog about the interview here!
Nicole has had her share of ups and downs in her love life over the years with her marriage to Tom Cruise coming to an end after 10 years together (incidentally one of the longest lasting marriages in Hollywood!). But, like the true Aussie battler she is, her career has sky-rocketed and since the days of BMX Bandits, Nicole has forged her way into Hollywood as one of the world’s most talented and sought-after actresses of her time.
The Weekly wishes Nicole and Keith all the best with the pregnancy and the baby.
When my sister and I were young, we loved going to our Nan’s place for the holidays. Nan was from England, and her house was a treasure trove of antiques that she had bought from her home country. But there was one item that stood out for me: an ancient mahogany tea chest. I could spend hours studying the swirling patterns engraved in the dark wood, making up stories about the figures and animals represented in the panels, or pretending I was a pirate, and that it was full of treasure.
My sister, Felicity, two years older, thought my fascination with the tea chest was pathetic. She spent her holidays trawling through Nan’s jewellery box, picking out, she would declare, the best jewellery she would have when Nan died. It horrified me to think of Nan that way, and I would never have dreamed to ask for the chest. But Felicity was endlessly pestering her about an heirloom engagement ring she had found. Poor Nan had wanted to give that ring to another daughter of hers — not our mother — who had daughters of her own, which meant Felicity would never have any claim on that ring at all. But fifteen-year-old Felicity, stubborn and persistent, drove her into submission with requests, outright rudeness, and full-scale tantrums. Nan was the kindest woman in the world, and she actually thought she was breaking Felicity’s heart by saying ‘no’. So she said ‘yes’.
Felicity rarely went and visited our grandmother after this. It was as though, after spending every summer of our lives entertaining us, Nan had no more value beyond the diamond ring. But it didn’t end there. As we moved into our twenties, Felicity became impatient that she didn’t have the ring yet.
“When’s the old battleaxe going to die?” she would moan, always out of earshot of anyone but me.
“How can you say that?” I would respond furiously, to which Felicity would always begin taunting me that I was going to get nothing, and I was jealous. I couldn’t believe my sister had grown into such a greedy woman, who cared for nothing but possessions. I hoped my Nan was lying about giving her the precious piece of jewellery.
When I was in my late twenties, my beloved Nan passed away. I was inconsolable for the loss, and didn’t want any of her things, but at the reading of the will found out that, after all these years Nan had remembered my childhood love of the tea chest, and left it to me.
“Ha!” Felicity smirked. “All you get is a chest full of mouldy old sheets. Nan must have loved you!”
But there was a snag in Felicity’s own long-held plan. The ring had gone missing. Felicity had raced to the house before anyone else could “get their mitts on it”, but it was already gone. Fuelled by Felicity’s rage, the whole family spent hours turning precious Nan’s house upside down, but the ring could not be found. Felicity got nothing.
I took Nan’s tea chest home, and found that Felicity was right — it was full of old and mouldy blankets and sheets. Most of them, I knew, would have to be thrown out, but that didn’t bother me; my memories belonged with the chest itself.
A few weeks after my father and partner had heaved it into my living-room, I decided I was up for the challenge of cleaning out the chest. I made two piles of linen: those good enough to keep, and those that needed to be discarded. There were only a small number of items not affected by years of moths and being kept in a musty, airless box. As I took this pile into the laundry to be washed, something fell onto the tiles with clink. I saw, with great astonishment, that it was my Nan’s lost ring!
I sat with the ring for hours, wondering what I should do with it. It had been wrapped in a lace tablecloth that was right at the bottom of the box, so it had obviously been there for a long time. Perhaps, I thought, ever since we were teenagers, and Felicity had begun pestering her about getting the ring? I wanted to believe that Nan had intended for me to have the ring too — why else would it be in the chest she left me — but I also knew that Felicity was the last person on earth who deserved it. I was going to keep it!
Felicity spent years moaning about the loss of her ring, and viewed the whole family with bitter suspicion — except, ironically, for me, who she knew had never had any interest in the ring. When my boyfriend Dan proposed a few months after Nan’s death, we tidied the ring up a bit, and had the diamonds reset in a new band — the original was ancient, scratched and bent. I suppose in this way, the ring ceased to be the one that Felicity had pined over for most of her life, and lost, but I still got great pleasure every time I flashed my left hand and she had no idea I was wearing the ring that was supposed to be hers!
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Johnny Depp has donated £1million (AU$2.2million) to the London hospital that saved his daughter’s life last year.
Eight-year-old Lily-Rose was treated over nine days at the Great Ormond Street Hospital and nearly lost her life after her kidneys failed from an E.coli infection.
“It was the most frightening thing we have ever been through. It was hell for all of us,” Johnny said soon after his daughter’s recovery. “But the magic is that she pulled through beautifully. She was amazing — a strong, strong kid.
“Great Ormond Street was terrific — such a great hospital.”
Johnny arrived unexpectedly and in secret to make the donation to staff at the hospital this week. But this isn’t the first time he’s expressed his thanks. Last week he invited five doctors and nurses from the hospital to the premiere of his film Sweeney Todd and last November he spent four hours at the hospital reading stories to sick children, dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow.
An enraged Tom Cruise is threatening a $100million lawsuit over a string of shocking claims in author Andrew Morton’s new unauthorised biography of the star.
The book includes bizarre allegations about the paternity of baby Suri and suggestions that Nicole Kidman was blackmailed during her divorce negotiations with secret sex tapes.
In the explosive book, titled Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, the controversial author claims that Tom has reached the position of “World Number Two in Scientology”, and that his daughter Suri was conceived with the frozen sperm of the religion’s long-dead founder L. Ron Hubbard…
Read the full story in Woman’s Day (on-sale January 14, 2008)
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Taryn Johnson cradles her baby boy in her arms, looking just like any other proud mum. However, the road to motherhood has been a long and painful one for the first-time mum, who was told she might never become pregnant — because she was too fat.
After drastic surgery to curb her ballooning appetite, Taryn became a mum this year, and she says all the pain and heartache has been more than worth it.
“I’d definitely encourage other overweight women who are trying to fall pregnant to explore the idea of surgery,” says Taryn. “Talk to other women who have had it, then just go for it. It’s so worth it.”
Taryn, 29, and her partner Dave McGarvie, began trying for a baby four years ago, but after two miscarriages and month after month of unexplained infertility, her doctor sat her down for a brutally frank discussion.
“The doctors ran through lots of possibilities for my problem, but the main one was my excess weight. It was heartbreaking and I blamed myself for the miscarriages. I felt so guilty that my weight was stopping me having a baby…”
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