Tales Of An Intersex Soccer Mom

My biggest fear? Periods. Not my own — I know I will never experience a visit from Aunt Flo. But I knew someday my daughters probably would, and that fact petrified me for nearly a decade. I mean, how was I supposed to guide them through this mystical female rite of passage when I was so clueless? Sure, together we read the doctrinal American Girl book “The Care and Keeping of You,” and they’d probably learn stuff from their friends, right? I thought I could avoid facing my fear for several more years. Shoot, they had just turned double digits. Surely I was off the hook for at least three or four more years?

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Angela Merkel Says She Will Take AstraZeneca Vaccine Amid Clot Scare

Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that she was ready to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca's coronavirus jab if offered when it is her turn to be inoculated

"Yes I would take the AstraZeneca vaccine," she told journalists at a news conference, adding however she "would like to wait until it's my turn but I would in any case".

Merkel's firm endorsement of the vaccine came after its use was suspended for several days this week by major European countries, including Germany, over fears that it may cause blood clots.

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Ann Curry Still Doesn't Know Why She Was Ousted From Today

During one of the biggest news events in history, one of America’s most prominent television journalists is not in the newsroom. Instead, Ann Curry, the former cohost of the Today show, is spending the COVID-19 shutdown in her Connecticut home, where she’s been in quarantine with her husband, tweeting.

Curry has always been more of a hard-news reporter than a TV personality, and she’s used her days at home trying to pinpoint the most verifiable information about the pandemic to disseminate to her 1.5 million followers.

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Actress Annette Funicello has died at age 70

NEW YORK — Annette Funicello, the most popular Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” who matured to a successful career in records and ‘60s beach party movies but struggled with illness in middle age and after, died today, The Walt Disney Co. said. She was 70. She died peacefully at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., of complications from multiple sclerosis, the company said. Funicello stunned fans and friends in 1992 with the announcement about her ailment. 

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Breast hypertrophy

Breast hypertrophy is a rare medical condition of the breast connective tissues in which the breasts become excessively large. The condition is often divided based on the severity into two types, macromastia and gigantomastia. Hypertrophy of the breast tissues may be caused by increased histologic sensitivity to certain hormones such as female sex hormones, prolactin, and growth factors. Breast hypertrophy is a benign progressive enlargement, which can occur in both breasts (bilateral) or only in one breast (unilateral). It was first scientifically described in 1648.

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Alicia Silverstone shares never-before-seen Polaroids of the Clueless cast in 1994: 'I'm a big goofball!'

In honor of throwback Thursday, Clueless alum Alicia Silverstone shared 10 never-before-seen Polaroid pictures of the cast circa 1994.

'I think it's funny that everyone was being normal for their continuity shots,' the 44-year-old Golden Globe nominee - who starred as Beverly Hills teen Cher Horowitz - sarcastically wrote.

'[Production] take these to match the costume, hair, and makeup. And I'm a big goofball... so not Cher approved.' 

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Bar Refaeli Shows Off Her Post-Baby BodyIn A Baby Blue Bikini 5 Months AfterWelcoming 3rd Child

There’s something about supermodels where after having a baby, their body just goes right back to how it looked before ever getting pregnant. 2009 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover girl Bar Refaeli welcomed her third child, son David, in mid-January 2020 and already she has her bikini body back and looking better than ever. The 35-year-old Israeli stunner showed off two Instagram photos on July 1, and her famed figure looks so slim and trim in a blue string two-piece.

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MILESTONES: March 4 birthdays for Chaz Bono, Emilio Estefan, Patricia Heaton

NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include TV personality Chaz Bono, who was born in 1969; former soccer player Landon Donovan, who was born in 1982; author James Ellroy, who was born in 1948; musician Emilio Estefan, who was born in 1953; actress Patricia Heaton, who was born in 1959; former basketball player and politician Kevin Johnson, who was born in 1966; actress Patsy Kensit, who was born in 1968; U.S. Senator James Lankford, who was born in 1968; actress Kay Lenz, who was born in 1953

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