The swimming champ is happily engaged after years of heartache. Jonica Bray reports. Walking hand-in-hand and sharing a very public kiss with her mystery man, marathon swimmer Susie Maroney can’t hide her joy at having finally found love again. Susie and her new man have been spotted out and about in Cronulla, in Sydney’s south, […]

Acclaimed celebrity biographer Ian Halperin accurately charted Brad and Angelina’s troubles in his best-selling book about the pair long before break-up reports hit world headlines last week. Here he exclusively writes for Woman’s Day about the troubled couple’s disintegrating relationship, and Ange’s ugly exit plan. While Brangelina fans are mourning the news that a split […]

As her octuplets celebrate their first birthday, their famous mum has a present for herself – a fantastic new body. Francesca Moisin talks to Nadya Suleman. She’s got the perfect breasts and washboard tummy of a pin-up model, but mum-of-14 Nadya “Octomum” Suleman says the secret behind her fabulous new body is ab crunches in […]

Hunky Avatar star Sam Worthington is Hollywood’s hottest new property, yet as the former bricklayer tells Elaine Lipworth, he’s determined to hang on to his roguish ways. Just after his 30th birthday, Sam Worthington woke up early one morning in his rented Sydney house and had a revelation. “I looked around and thought, ‘I need […]

Was Leanne Edelsten just a pretty trophy bride who soaked up “millionaire medico” Dr Geoffrey Edelsten’s money and fame, but left him when the going got tough? Michael Sheather reveals a very different story. There are two Leanne Edelstens. One is a beautiful 21-year-old woman draped across the bonnet of a bright pink European sports […]

Once a bullied under-achiever living on the wrong side of the tracks, Lisa Wilkinson is now at the top of her game as a TV host, adoring wife and hard-working mother – and her own harshest critic. It’s 4am on a Friday and Lisa is sitting in a make-up chair backstage at the Today show […]

Eight years on from JFK’s assassination, the widowed First Lady had forged a new life as Jackie Onassis. Nowhere was she better able to leave the past behind than on her husband Aristotle Onassis’ private island of Skorpios. Settimio Garritano, an Italian paparazzo, captured her new freedom – yoga at the beach, shopping trips, even […]

Liberal leader Tony Abbott is a self-confessed attention seeker, who polarises women’s opinions. It’s a trait that has got him into hot water, yet he is surrounded by women who are fiercely loyal and admire him. Helen McCabe reports. Tony Abbott slides into the back of a government car at Townsville airport. “Sorry,” he says, […]

After her success on hit show MasterChef, artist and cook Poh Ling Yeow tells Larry Writer it’s not fame and fortune but fulfilment that drives her. When something wonderful happens in Poh Ling Yeow’s life, she will take her Scottish terrier, Zed, and whisk him in a jig of joy around her flat in Adelaide’s […]

The past returns to the present in this story by Catherine Lyons, the 2009 winner of The Australian Women’s Weekly/Penguin Short Story Contest. Download the unedited version of Catherine’s wining story The Ghosts Of The Williows here.