Now to Love

It looks like Sophie Monk’s been on a break-up diet following the split from her cosmetic surgeon boyfriend, who she devastatingly caught in bed with another woman. The 30-year-old Australian singer, who’s now pursuing an acting career in Hollywood, appeared painfully thin at the premiere of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in LA on Monday night. Her […]

The risk of miscarriages and fertility problems increases with age in both men and women, says geneticist Dr Judy Ford, author of a new e-book Starting your family after 30. But that doesn’t mean parenthood isn’t possible for older couples. To increase your chances of a successful conception and healthy pregnancy — particularly after age […]

Do you know which disease kills four times as many women as breast cancer? If you don’t, you’re not alone – heart disease in women is often dangerously overlooked. This is something young Aussie Olympian Cate Campbell hopes will soon change. “Normally when I hear the words heart disease I think of a middle-aged man […]

I hate to say this, but I’m sick of the atmosphere at home which is mainly caused by the kids not getting on. You name it, they’ll bicker over it. It isn’t helped by my wife and I disagreeing over the best way to discipline them – she shouts and I prefer to ground them […]

With a title as homely as this, you might expect a midday movie about the indefinable bond between a mother and her child. But what you get is something much more amazing. Mother and Child begins with a montage of a young mother who gives up her child for adoption, before cutting to Karen (Annette […]

The MasterChef favourite missed out on the title, but has won a much greater prize, writes LUCY CHESTERTON. Marion Grasby might not have won MasterChef, but as she looks adoringly at her boyfriend Tim Althaus across a windswept South Australian beach it’s obvious she has won something even sweeter – his heart. As Marion leaps […]