The biggest fight in UFC history will end in a loss for Conor McGregor – ‘cause he’s NEVER fought a dude with strength like Khabib … so says UFC star Kelvin Gastelum. Kelvin tells TMZ Sports he’s heard all about Khabib from other fighters…
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Showing posts with label Strength. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Saturday, August 4, 2018
The Mountain From "Game of Thrones" Becomes KFC Colonel for Fried Feat of Strength
It looks like KFC’s found its next Colonel Sanders — The Mountain from “Game of Thrones” … and he’s in the Colonel’s duds doing something very Mountain-esque. TMZ got video of Hafthor Julius Bjornsson – aka Thor, the 2018 World’s…
Friday, September 8, 2017
Selena Gomez Graces Time Magazine: I Think Strength is Being Vulnerable
Unlike, say, a certain reality star-turned-President who keeps fake Time covers of himself posted in frames at his resorts — a move that sounds like a parody even though it’s real, Selena Gomez’s Time cover is the real deal.
The actress and singer, though she’s produced some of the greatest music in human history, isn’t on the cover for her art. Not directly, anyway.
Selena made the cover of Time Firsts. In her interview, she talks about how she got to where she is — and about the struggles that young people are facing today.
Seriously, she’s in great company: Madeleine Albright, Gabby Douglas, Shonda Rhimes, Candis Cayne, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Barbara Walters … the list goes on.
And they’re in great company, too. Because Selena Gomez is extraordinary.
Selena’s reason for making Time‘s list of Firsts is that she is the first person, in the world, to reach 100 million followers on Instagram.
She is actually well beyond that — currently at about 126 million followers.
(Her sheer volume of followers is probably why she made such an appealing target for her account to be hacked when old Bieber nudes were posted)
How Selena manages that isn’t clear.
She’s not especially controversial but she gets people’s attention.
She’s always relevant but never overexposed.
She’s beautiful but none of her posts seem like a plea for attention.
Whatever her exact recipe for social media success, it’s worked, and Time sat down to interview her.
Time interviewed Selena Gomez, of course.
One of the things that the 25-year-old singer discussed was how social media creates new challenges for young people.
“I think it’s really hard to be a kid now, especially with social media.”
That’s true. As useful of a tool as it can be, it can be a huge source of misery for kids who might already feel isolated.
“I can’t imagine what it would be like to grow up with that. It’s already difficult to get up every day and just feel good about yourself without seeing the highlights of everyone else’s life.”
But part of Selena’s social media strategy is remaining aware of this.
“That’s why I like being vulnerable with my fans on social media. I like that they’ve seen my mistakes. I try to use that as a way to connect with them.”
She’s so good, you guys.
“Strength doesn’t mean that you have to put on a facade. I think strength is being vulnerable.”
That’s one form of strength, absolutely.
As for Selena’s career, she credits her mother for helping her to become her current, magnificent self.
““When I started working, my mom was the person in my life that helped guide me through most of that.”
Awwww!
“She was 16 so we kind of grew up together. Everything that I am has kind of become a little bit of what my mom’s gone through.”
When you reach the ages that your respective parents were when you were born, you realize how much they were just making it up as they go along, because there’s no magical age at which adulthood suddenly comes naturally.
(You fake it ‘til you make it)
Having a child at 16 is even more dramatic.
But it looks like Selena’s mother did an extraordinary job.
“She made me feel like I was capable of doing anything I wanted.”
And she is. To paraphrase Selena’s “Stars Dance,” we’d say that she can do anything she puts her mind to.
Selena took to Instagram, of course, to announce her Time Firsts cover.
“Sometimes it’s incredibly difficult to wake up every day knowing there is so much going on in the world. At times I feel selfish, I ask why, I ask how can this change? Will it actually ever change?”
We all hope so. Even if it’s little-by-little.
“I try to contribute my heart before anything because it can be so easy to lose the desire to have hope when sometimes all I want to be is angry.”
That’s relatable.
“When I read about the beautiful women who wake up consciously every day to make a change, it inspires me to want to do so much more.”
Women like the other names that share her cover.
“Not really sure how I got so lucky @time but thank you for highlighting the power of what we can and will always strive to be.”
She didn’t just get lucky — she’s amazing.
“I believe in the goodness in the land of the living. I hope this is just the beginning of more change.”
She’s so poetic, you know?
Every day, since that fateful day in January 2010 when I was visiting my mother and a random On Demand channel in an otherwise empty room happened to play “Naturally” right when I walked in, I have been thankful for Selena Gomez.
It’s good to see that she dominates Instagram so thoroughly.
Whether she shares another snap of her resting between appearances or a rare pic of her with The Weeknd, her Instagram account is worth following.
She never floods your timeline but you’re always glad to see her posts.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
James Harrison vs NFL Rookie in Savage Strength Showdown
James Harrison is the KING of crazy strength training videos … but an NFL rookie might be comin’ for the throne. In the blue corner … 39-year-old Steelers LB pushing a sled weighing OVER 1,800 POUNDS — that’s one plate for each year of his…
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Lakers Hire Kim Kardashian"s Ass Guru As Strength Coach
The Los Angeles Laker’s asses might be bustin’ out the back of their shorts next year … ‘cause the team just hired Kim Kardashian’s personal trainer (ass guru) Gunnar Peterson as their new strength coach. Kim ain’t the only famous client Gunnar…
Friday, December 16, 2016
Khloe Kardashian: Lamar Odom"s Overdose Gave Me Strength!
Khloe Kardashian has been through a lot in the 32 years she’s been on this planet.
She’s gone through many very public struggles with Lamar Odom, she’s struggled with body image and self confidence, she’s related to both Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner.
Horrors upon horrors, right?
But another thing about Khloe is that she’s always been an open book, ready and willing to share her feelings and her experiences, no matter how personal or how dumb they may be.
And that’s admirable. So admirable that we’re kind of loving her after reading this new interview she did with Health magazine.
Khloe kicks off the interview by talking about her denim line, Good American, and how important it was for her to offer a wide range of sizes without referring to any of them as “plus size.”
She says that she did that because when she was bigger — she was a size 12 at one point, “god forbid!” — people would “shun” her when she was trying to shop for clothes.
She then inexplicably added that her denim line offers jeans with contoured waistbands for women with smaller waists and bigger hips, because “We have booties and hips, and that’s what being a woman is all about.”
Sure, girl, whatever you say.
But then things get a little more personal. Khloe reveals that she started going to the gym in the first place because “I was going through my divorce, and I just really needed an outlet.”
“I would go there and put my headphones on and get on the elliptical or the stairs,” she says, “and no one would bother me or ask me questions — because even at Starbucks, I would get ‘I’m sorry …"”
She says that she “escaped” to the gym while she was having issues with Lamar Odom, and “as a by-product, I started losing weight.”
Poor Khloe got some hate from people who told her “It took you so long to lose weight,” and she also got it from people who told her “I liked you better when you were fat.”
Hilariously and/or depressingly, she adds that “I get body-shamed now that I work out!”
It turns out that running is Khloe’s least favorite activity, even though, as she says “I don’t even have big boobs!” She explains that “Losing weight, I’ve lost my little chichis. But that’s OK.”
But then the interview took a different turn when Khloe was asked about a different kind of strength — the strength she showed when Lamar overdosed and nearly died last year.
On that subject, she says “This is kind of dark, but after that, my whole family changed all of their wills so that I would be their medical adviser, because you don’t know how someone reacts until you’re put in that situation — God forbid.”
“No one should be put in those situations, but with that, I found strength from within. I was super calm, and I was more like, ‘It’s greater than you,’ and you just get strength.”
“I pray a lot,” she adds. “And I talk to my dad a lot.”
That’s not the only time during the interview that she got personal though — she also talked about her boyfriend, NBA player Tristan Thompson.
“My boyfriend’s a cutie, so I do like big men,” she explains. “I’m five-ten, and he’s six-nine. I love athletes.”
“Someone who has the same interests as me, who likes to work out, like that’s their hobby or their job, that’s fine. Tristan is who I’m into. He’s a little cutie.”
So that’s sweet, right? It sounds like, after all she’s been through, she’s feeling peaceful and happy these days.
Let’s just hope it lasts.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Bindi Irwin"s DWTS Win: Dad"s Strength "Is What Keeps Me Going"
It was a well-deserved win.
Bindi Irwin and her dance partner, Derek Hough emerged victorious on last night’s Dancing With The Stars, something Irwin will not soon forget.
“I am so speechless right now! I can’t believe it!” Irwin told Us Magazine when the showed ended. “The glitter all over the floor may be from my mind just exploding into glitter!
“I am so honored and so blessed to be here. And this entire experience has felt like the most beautiful gift.
Talk turned to Irwin’s late father, Steve, who died in 2006.
“I couldn’t even imagine if Dad was here right now!
“Honestly, I hope that he’d be proud of me and I hope that I’m able to carry on in his footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on, because his strength is what keeps me going.
“And life is filled with so many challenges and beautiful moments and to be able to share them with my family and to be able to share them with the ones that you love the most, that’s what’s the most important thing in life.”
Irwin took to Instagram after her win, and summed up her experience on the competition.
“I am speechless,” Iriwin wrote. This is a gift and I can’t tell you how much love I have for all of your support throughout this beautiful journey. My life has been changed.”
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