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Blood & Beauty By Sarah Dunant, Virago $29.99. With a new pope charged in part with cleaning up the image of the Catholic Church, Sarah Dunant’s delicious epic delving into Renaissance Italy and the lives and lusts of Rodrigo Borgia and his extended family couldn’t come at a more pertinent time. While we are most […]

Ricky Nixon’s former fiancée has opened up about the night last July when the former sports agent viciously attacked her in their Port Melbourne home. Tegan Gould, 28, tells the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly that she still has nightmares about Ricky coming towards her brandishing a kitchen knife. “I thought he was […]

Seven-year-old Jack Woog loves dancing, Taylor Swift and wearing dresses. His mum, Kayte Woog, of Sydney, reveals her journey from niggling unease, to total acceptance of his flamboyance. The day before my son, Jack, started Big School, I went to him with my nail polish remover. I told him that I had to remove his […]

Women Australia-wide are buying an illegal tanning substance and injecting themselves. They are putting their health on the line, writes Clair Weaver. When Kelly McDonnell developed a golden tan, lost weight and experienced a surge in her libido, she thought she’d found the Holy Grail of bronzing products. On the recommendation of a friend, the […]

Providing a rare glimpse into the carefully-guarded private life of her family, Sarah Murdoch tells the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly why — after much deliberation — she agreed to be photographed with her daughter, Aerin. Though Sarah has spent the better part of her childrens’ lives shielding them from the scrutiny that […]

Last month, Australian Women’s Weekly News Editor Bryce Corbett travelled to Bali to meet with convicted drug smuggler and Bali 9 member, Renae Lawrence in Kerobokan Prison. This is an edited transcript of that interview: How are you coping? Alright I suppose. I still wake up every morning and think: “Wow, I am still here. […]

For the eight years she has been in Kerobokan prison, convicted drug mule Renae Lawrence has been mostly ignored, her plight overshadowed by that of fellow inmate, Schapelle Corby. But, when The Weekly visited her, it was to discover a young woman ashamed of what she’s done, embarrassed for her family — and terrified to […]

Gwyneth Paltrow has sparked concern after she endorsed a range of bikinis aimed at girls as young as four. The mother-of-two has been accused of sexualising little girls after she featured the new range of two-pieces designed by Melissa Odabash’s on her lifestyle website Goop. The halter-neck bikini comes in sizes for girls aged from […]

The Duchess of Cambridge delighted fans in Manchester yesterday, looking obviously pregnant for the first time. Until this week, Kate’s baby bump could just as easily have been the product of a big lunch and not the unborn heir to the British throne but there’s no mistaking her state now. Kate looked absolutely lovely in […]

The ex-boyfriend of murdered Sydney girl Kate Malonyay plunged to his death this afternoon after being chased by police seeking to arrest him. Elliot Coulson leapt from 26th floor balcony of a luxury Gold Coast hotel this morning as homicide detectives were trying to get into his hotel room. The tragic twist comes the same […]