Ex-NFL star Kordell Stewart is going after the blogger he claims snatched a nude video and posted it online. Kordell’s suing Quentin Latham for a December 2016 post that included video of Stewart’s exposed junk and ass. In the docs, obtained by TMZ…
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Kordell Stewart Sues Blogger Over Naked Vid
Ex-NFL star Kordell Stewart is going after the blogger he claims snatched a nude video and posted it online. Kordell’s suing Quentin Latham for a December 2016 post that included video of Stewart’s exposed junk and ass. In the docs, obtained by TMZ…
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Rebecca Burger, French Fashion Blogger, Killed by Whipped Cream Dispenser
Rebecca Burger, a French fashion blogger with a large following on Instagram, was killed this week after a whipped cream container exploded and struck her in the chest.
She was 33 years old.
We know this sounds like an example of fake news, or some kind of Internet hoax.
But it is a true and sad story.
In a pair of messages posted Wednesday on Burger’s Instagram page, which currently has more than 165,000 followers, the Internet star’s family warned her fans about the dangers of pressurized capsules.
Burger’s loved ones even uploaded a picture of a can similar to the one that hit Burger and ended her life, writing as a caption to the image:
Here’s an example of the whip cream canister that exploded and struck Rebecca’s chest, resulting in her death. Let us be precise: the siphon that cause her death was sealed.
Do not use this type of device in your home! Tens of thousands of these defective appliances are still in circulation
The family also confirmed Burger’s passing, stating online that Rebecca died from an “accident in the home” on June 18.
The Associated Press reports that prosecutors are looking into the siphon that was used to create the dispenser in order to determine whether or not it was defective.
According to a French newspaper, Burger went into cardiac arrest following the incident, but emergency technicians on the scene were able to revive her heartbeat.
She remained unconscious and was transported to a local hospital… where she died the following day.
The 33-year old amassed an impressive viral following as she chronicled her life on social media over the years.
On June 10, she posted her first (and, sadly, last) travel vlog about a recent trip to Bali.
But Burger was mostly known for sharing workout tips, videos and photos on her Instagram page.
Ard’time, the manufacturer of this product, said the specific item Burger used had been pulled from the market and destroyed after an accident in February 2013.
It added that efforts had been made ever since to inform customers of potential safety hazards.
“Unfortunately, there are still lots of siphons of all brands that remain potentially dangerous as time passes,” the company said in a statement after Burger’s death.
According to BBC, one person who was hurt by an exploding whipped cream container told RTL radio in 2013:
“I had six broken ribs, and my sternum was broken. At the hospital, I was told that if the shock and blast had been facing the heart, I would be dead now.”
Meanwhile, a 2014 press release by the French economy ministry warned individuals about the potential dangers of whipped cream dispensers.
“Since 2010, several models of kitchen syphons, also called cream syphons, have turned out to be dangerous and have led to domestic accidents,” it read, adding:
“The explosions cause a high speed burst that can cause serious injuries to the hands or face.”
This story has received global attention due to the unusual nature of Burger’s death.
But that doesn’t make her passing any less tragic.
We send our condolences to the loved ones of Rebecca Burger and we hope she is resting in peace.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Dad Blogger Puts Daughter on Leash, Internet Reacts in Horror
Everybody knows that being a parent is hard.
But maybe, just maybe, putting your kids on leashes isn’t the best solution to your problems?
Clint Edwards’ blog is titled: No Idea What I’m Doing: A Daddy Blog.
That title is probably more accurate than he ever intended.
He posted the picture of his toddler daughter, Aspen, on a leash, and then defended the practice, saying that he’d never be able to keep his very active daughter safe without a leash.
The post went viral, but he’s still standing by it.
“I’ve written about leashes before and about the dirty looks we get using them, but we’d get even dirtier looks if we lost our child!” he tells People.
You heard it here, folks: you either put your kid on a leash or they get devoured by wild animals or abducted, apparently.
Look, we’re not saying that leashes are necessarily harmful.
And of course we know that there are some monstrous parents in this world who do so much worse.
We get that children are full of energy, and some are more prone to wandering off on impulse than others.
Their brains are still at very early stages of development, after all.
But parents have been holding hands with their children and even carrying them since, well, forever.
Hell, older siblings sometimes carry rambunctious younger siblings. It’s just part of being a family.
If anything, Edwards’ insistence that this is his only option — when, again, hand-holding has been an option since humanity’s ancestors first evolved hands — might be even more controversial than the leash itself.
His blog isn’t all like that.
One post shows him waiting in the car with a crying Aspen — who was upset that she wasn’t allowed to throw chicken nuggets in the restaurant.
We feel you, Aspen.
But he used it as an opportunity to talk about kids crying in restaurants to the irritation of other patrons.
It’s a super common occurrence — you go to a busy restaurant and there are just periodic shrieks from a small child.
Some restaurants advertise that they don’t permit young children. Some restaurants might drive up business by offering a single night a week where they don’t admit small children.
But his point is that they all at some point were shrieking children in restaurants who had to be told “no,” and that if little kids didn’t go to restaurants at all, they wouldn’t be learning restaurant etiquette.
And then wouldn’t go on to be adults who judge parents who bring their loud children into restaurants. It’s a beautiful cycle, right?
We see his point, but we’re still going to exchange grimaces with our companions the next time that we hear a piercing shriek when we’re trying to binge eat with friends.
Loud noises aren’t fun, okay?
As the internet collectively recoiled from his pro-leashing stance — it’s usually the sort of thing that you see on People Of Wal-Mart, not real life — his defenders came out of the woodwork.
Leashing your kids is apparently more common than any of us would like to think.
In general, the best parenting advice is that you shouldn’t be a parent if you aren’t ready to have children — and all that having children entails.
It sounds common sense … but sense isn’t terribly common.
That’s nothing new.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Abby Wambach Marries Christian Mom Blogger Glennon Doyle Melton
Abby Wambach and Christian mom blogger Glennon Doyle Melton got hitched Sunday … and the retired USA soccer star rocked a flashy red jacket down the aisle!! The couple made their marriage public Monday morning with pics from the ceremony ……
Monday, March 13, 2017
Jill Smokler, Scary Mommy Blogger, Announces Divorce; Gay Husband
Jill Smokler is best known for writing about her children.
But the blogger behind wildly popular website Scary Mommy made news over the weekend for a heartfelt message she shared with readers about her marriage.
Specifically, about the surprising reason why her marriage is coming to an end.
Via an emotional post on Facebook, Smokler said on Satuday her husband is gay.
The soon-to-be former couple has three kids and has been involved romantically for over two decades.
“Yesterday, Jeff and I told our children that we are divorcing, after more than 17 years of marriage and 23 years of togetherness,” Smokler wrote.
“We also told them that the impetus for the divorce is the fact that Jeff is gay.
“Without getting into too much personal detail, this is a reality which we have faced together for many years.”
She added:
“For a very long time, the deep love we had for one another sustained us through the more difficult moments that our increasingly diverging sexuality created.
“We have spent more than half of our lives inseparable, and we are very proud of the life and family we have built together. We have been true partners and friends; we are a kickass team.
“And while we will no longer love each other as husband and as wife, we remain deeply committed to one another as partners and co-parents to the three most incredible kids we could ask for.
“It’s our greatest hope that this experience translates into raising empathetic, caring and open-minded children who learn to embrace their differences… and respect and appreciate that which makes others different, too.”
Jeff, meanwhile, went ahead and shared his side of this story on Scary Mommy.
Explaining that he knew he was gay for about the last “four or five years,” he wrote the following:
“I always knew I was different, but when you meet your soulmate when you’re 18 years old – only five years older than my own daughter is now – and that person is a woman, you simply think ‘thank God then, I can’t be gay.”
Jeff and Jill are parents to a nine-year old, an 11-year old and a 13-year old.
“One thing I’ll say about my own journey is this: What should have been an easy choice — a no brainer — was the hardest decision I’ve ever made,” Jeff also wrote.
“Once I came to terms with the fact that I was gay, I figured I had two options:
I could die — either from my intentional neglect of my health and well-being, or perhaps from something even more tragic — leaving my children fatherless, or I could come out and hope that I remained surrounded by the love of my friends, family, wife and children.”
During an interview with the Today show on Friday, Jill talked about breaking the news to the kids.
She said her and Jeff’s 13-year-old daughter reacted with sympathy and even offered to hug her father, while their boys had more trouble with the announcement.
Jill said they have “weepy moments” but have still been “incredibly mature” given the situation.
“I have had probably 70 people message me or email me privately who are in the same situation,” she said on Today, adding:
“This has been really good for me. For as many nasty comments as we get on the internet, every time I have put something out there that has made me feel super vulnerable or that was painfully honest, the response has always been amazing.”
Scary Mommy has over 2.8 million Likes on Facebook.
It is a go-to website for parenting tales and advice.
Added Jeff in his Scary Mommy entry, focusing on what’s most important:
Our children are amazing. They are all digesting the information in their own ways, but, boy, are they all also showing their true colors.
Brush away all of the worst characteristics and idiosyncrasies one would expect from kids their ages, and we’re left with compassionate, thoughtful, wonderful children.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Kim Kardashian Gets DESTROYED by Angry Mom Blogger
Let’s get this out of the way up front: Kim Kardashian loves her kids.
We don’t doubt that for a second.
What follows is not about that.
It has nothing to do with whether Kim Kardashian is actually a good mother to North West and Saint West. We freely admit that she is.
Instead, this is all about the image Kim projects to the world; the example she sets for millions of other parents.
Because whether Kim Kardashian wants to admit it or nor (and we wish this were NOT the case, trust us), but she’s a role model.
When she’s going on and on and on about her needto shed 70 pounds after giving birth, she is making it seem as if all new mothers should be focused on their baby weight.
She is coming across as the anti-Anne Hathaway and anti-Blake Lively.
And we aren’t the only ones who think this.
A Facebook post from mom blogger Tova Leigh has gone viral because she spells out her critique of Kim as clearly as possible.
Consider yourself warned: This is VERY long.
But also consider everything it says… because it comes from a regular mother, someone with first hand experience in this important area, and it gets right to the heart of why Kim Kardashian can truly suck sometimes.
Take it away, Tova Leigh!
Dear Kim,
A few nights ago on ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ (yes I’m a fan), you said how happy you were to be in Fergie’s new music video M.I.L.F$ (which is supposed to have some sort of ‘pro mom’ message).
You said that you are “all about” empowering other moms but later added that you are not like one of those “mom moms”.
When you said ‘mom mom’ I can only imagine that what you meant was the ‘average mom’. A mom like me – who works hard, raises her kids to the best of her ability and who just can’t see the point in prancing around in stilettos if she doesn’t really have to.
Without getting too much into what I think about Fergie’s music video, (I have never seen such a misrepresentation of moms in my whole life), I have a little request from you Kim: Please stop.
As much as I am ‘team Kim’ (even from before it became popular), I have to be blunt here and say that nothing you do actually empowers the average mother, and you yourself admit that you are not one of us, so I wonder who it is you think you are representing?
For one, the average mom doesn’t have time to go to the gym five times a week. She works her ass off all day long and if she manages to do a sad thirty minute workout in her living room on a Tuesday night before crashing at 21:00 pm, she feels like a f***ing rock star.
Secondly, the average mom can’t afford plastic surgery, lip fillers and Botox so she has a few wrinkles from laughing when her kids are being silly or from frowning when her husband pisses her off.
Her boobs might be saggy, she’s got stretch marks and she wears yoga pants whenever she can, cos they are super comfy and when you’re an ‘average mom’ that’s important.
Sure, she wants to workout more, she wants to go out more, she wants to have more money and go on more holidays, but she also thinks high heels are stupid and although she wants the best for her kids, she sometimes gives them chicken nuggets for dinner cos she doesn’t always have time to cook the organic wild salmon and kale she bought (which are currently rotting in her fridge).
But she is doing her best.
Some days she feels like sh*t, some days she feels like a winner. Some days she just eats ice cream. She worries, she gets on with life, she is being real. Are you?
You see Kim, after a long day of working, looking after the kids, cooking, doing the laundry, cleaning the house, helping the kids with their homework and walking the dog, this lady does not need to see your glossy face on a magazine and read how you Kim think you are representing her.
How you are empowering her and helping her feel better about herself and her body. Do you see how absurd that is? As an average mom I can tell you this Kim: there are days that I wish I looked younger, slimmer and more beautiful.
There are days that I wish I could wear a bikini again and that my skinny jeans which I am still holding on to for when I finally go on a diet, fit me again.
But most days, I remind myself that looks, although important, are not everything. I also know that your looks will one day fade too. Even with all the help and money in the world, one day your boobs will be saggy and you will no longer be able to hide the wrinkles.
When that happens, many, many years from now, I have no doubt that you will look back on your life and the fact you were once ‘hot’ will not be what you are proud of. It will not be your biggest ‘achievement’ in life.
And you may even suddenly realize what an utter waste of time it was to obsess about it.
Please know that I am not trying to ‘body shame’ you. I think it’s great that you take so much pride in how you look and you are very lucky to be able to afford the luxury of having private trainers, private cooks, best cosmetic products etc that help you look the way you do.
I also have no doubt that you have a strong will and that looking the way you do takes a lot of work and effort and I honestly am happy for you, because I see how very important it is to you.
I am not trying to be mean or judgemental. As a woman and a mother – I would never do that. All I am trying to say is that, as an ‘average mom’ ( a ‘mom mom’ as you called it), I want you to stop thinking you empower women.
Because you don’t. But if you really want to empower other moms, I’ll tell you what you could do.
Next time you take a selfie, don’t hold the camera in that high angle that makes your waist look even smaller than it already is. You don’t need it and we don’t need to think you are THAT fit. Make sure you don’t have any make up on so we can see that you are not perfect. But most importantly, tell us about how your kids kept you up all night or how they threw a tantrum at the supermarket.
Show how messy your house looks before the cleaner arrives and tell the millions of average moms like me that’s it’s okay not to have it together all the time and that even the great Kim K looses her sh*t sometimes. That would be a good place to start.
We already live in a world that feeds off people’s insecurities (especially women). Whole industries rely on this to exist.
The cosmetic industry want us to think ageing is something we can actually stop so that they can sell us facial creams and makeup to cover up our skin “imperfections”. The plastic surgery industry want us to believe that a woman’s body should look the same as it did when she was 16, even after giving birth, breastfeeding and c sections.
How crazy is that?! And the diet and food supplements industry want us to believe that if we are skinny – we are happy. This is how they make their money. Feeding off our insecurities, and I’m sorry to say this, but it’s people like you that help them do it.
I know it’s a lot to ask to not take part in this vicious game, especially since it’s also how you make your own living, but I do have to ask you to at least try harder.
It’s one thing to pose for fashion magazines and sell millions of women the illusion of slim=happy, or shove in their faces the fact that after having two kids you look even better than you did before.
But it’s a whole other level when you think you are actually ‘representing’ other moms. Your body is something you are proud of and that’s awesome, but you might want to try and show some sensitivity to those who are struggling to loose weight after having kids and regain their confidence and their ‘old self’ back (whatever that is). After all, they are the ones you claim to be ’empowering’.
Sincerely, An Average Mom x.
Friday, July 1, 2016
Lori Alexander, Christian Blogger, Under Fire For Saying Men Should Never Do Housework
Lori Alexander, a devout Christian and conservative blogger who is no stranger to controversy, has stirred up some again this week.
She’s made headlines numerous times in the past for her views on relationships, like that it’s a sin for a wife to deny her husband sex.
Or, by expressing how deeply troubled she is by modern women being interested in careers than getting married and bearing children.
Now, the mom of four has come under fire for her belief that women should not “expect” men to pitch in with duties around the house.
She wrote in a June 18 Facebook post that went viral:
“Do you ‘expect’ your husband to help w/ household chores? If you do, you won’t have a happy marriage b/c expectations destroy relationships.”
“If he helps, great and if not, do your housework cheerfully as unto the Lord. Remember, you didn’t marry your husband to help w/ the household chores.”
“You married him to be your protector and provider. You should also have married him b/c you deeply loved him,” she adds.
“You [wanted] to make his life better, not worse and put more burdens upon his shoulders than he already has to carry in providing for his family.”
Channeling her inner Anna Duggar, Alexander concluded by urging women everywhere to “make his life as easy and as happy as you can!”
The post has been shared nearly 94,000 times and has almost 10,000 comments … not all of which have been overwhelmingly positive.
“With a nope, nope, here and a nope, nope, there. Here’s a nope, there’s a nope, everywhere I look are nopes!” commented one critic.
Other detractors were far less kind and polite than that.
Yet Alexander, who has been married for 35 years, tells Us Weekly she isn’t upset about the backlash on her blog, Always Learning:
“I have been getting it since I began my blog over five years ago. It’s part of having a ‘voice’ in our culture that doesn’t adhere to biblical roles as I do.”
“I believe [the post] struck a nerve because housework is a big issue now that women work outside of the home,” Lori continued.
Even those who don’t, she says, believe that gender roles have flipped so much that men are unduly burdened. Their view, as she sees it:
“Husbands should do their fair share since they believe in a marriage where there is no difference between the role of the wife and husband.”
Alexander feels that a lot of this belies a fundamental problem, which is that “women have a tendency to want to try to control their husbands.”
Do you agree? Is she totally off base? Or might we all learn something from the shift away from traditional marital and gender roles?
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Plus-Size Blogger Goes Off on Instagram for Bikini Photo Removal
Call Aarti Olivia Dubey a bus driver, people.
Because she just took Instagram to school!
A Singaporean-Indian plus-size fashion blogger, Dubey uses her social media account to share pictures of outfits, makeup, quotes and over 16,000 Instagram followers.
Fair enough, right? That’s what many people do on Instagram these days.
But Dubey was forced to call out the service after seeing that a photo of her and her friends in two-piece bathing suits had been aken down.
How come? Because Instagram said it “violated community guidelines.”
Interesting. Instagram did not delete that recent photo of Kim Kardashian’s naked butt.
It’s hard not to see this as an issue centered around how much Dubey and her friends weigh.
“Take a good look at us three. Do you know what we have in common? The belief that Any Body deserves to look good in what they wear,” Dubey write as a caption to the supposedly scandalous image.
“Be it a swimsuit, a pair of jeans, a dress, lingerie, a crop top. We have seen and heard the shaming directed towards us.”
After nearly two weeks of contacting Instagram about the photo removal, sending out a series of photos and calling on her followers to re-post the above photo in question, Dubey said Instagram did restore the image.
As you can see below, a Community Operations employee e-mailed her an apology, citing the photo’s removal as “a mistake” that happened “accidentally.”
Hmmm… sorry if we’re suspicious over that claim.
And we’re not the only ones.
For Dubey, the mea culpa came “a little too late after I had to deal with all the bloody trolls and haters last week.”
She added, via her account:
I accept your apology Instagram but it does not change a thing. You have placed the image back but at what cost? …
You are answerable to ALL of my plus size friends for removing their images or accounts on Instagram or Facebook.
Check your latent fatphobia. Check your guidelines and policies. Take better care of the people who use your services as a means of staying connected to oceans of people who just want to exist as people.
Fatphobia? We love it!
We wish it didn’t exist and a term didn’t need to be invented for it.
But we hope this at least catches up and prevents future similar incidents from occurring.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Pregnant Fitness Blogger Shows Off Abs, Taunts Mothers-To-Be
Sia Cooper is eight months pregnant, still has a six-pack and also has one simple question for other expecting mothers around the world:
Why don’t you look like I do?!?
The fitness blogger has stirred up a storm of controversy with her run of Instagram posts and photos, all shared from the account “diaryofafitmommyofficial.”
In the chronicling of her second pregnancy, Cooper doesn’t just talk about what motives her to stay in such amazing shape.
She wonders why other women aren’t doing the same thing.
“I want to inspire other moms out there that you can get a little creative and find ways to fit your workout in,” Cooper tells Us Weekly.
“One of the most common excuses that I hear is, ‘I do not have time.’
“The truth is that we all have time – you just have to make it and not feel guilty about doing something for yourself.”
Critics, of course, would object to this line of reasoning.
Does Cooper really want to tell a pregnant woman with two jobs that she has has time to work out furiously?
Cooper says she exercises for an hour five days a week while her two-year old son, Greyson, 2, takes a nap.
Her routine includes squat jumps, lunge kicks and lifting weights and her meals include oatmeal, salmon and homemade burrito bowls.
“Many people will say it’s unhealthy or that I am hurting my baby, but everything is perfect as I am currently at a 20lb weight gain,” she tells the tabloid.
“With my first son, I worked out as well and I ended up gaining 30lbs.”
Cooper is expecting girl in May.
Of her critics, Cooper says the following:
“It used to affect me, but over time I grew a backbone and realized that I can either sit there and listen to the negativity from people who have no idea about my pregnancy or my body, or I can let it go and not think twice about it and just keep doing what works for me.”
And that’s totally fine, many would say.
But what works for you may not work for everyone… and perhaps you should not presume that it would.
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