53 h. ago Woman 'feels so much better' after losing more than 4 stone by doing one thing

Jessica Daniels, 45, lost over four stone in five months and has become more active and energetic as a result

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2 d. ago BEL MOONEY: How can I live with my old and wrinkled husband?

I'm feeling now like a young woman still with much of my life ahead of me and do not want to live in what increasingly feels like hell. How can I find a way to stop feeling like this? BEL MOONEY

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5 d. ago Trans woman who joined University of Nottingham women's hockey team hits back at online trolls

Rachel Saunders, 42, a rights researcher at the University of Nottingham 's School of Law, transitioned when she was just 17 years old.

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5 d. ago Trans woman who joined University of Nottingham women's hockey team 'sues online trolls'

Rachel Saunders, 42, a rights researcher at the University of Nottingham 's School of Law, transitioned when she was just 17 years old.

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5 d. ago Stench that 'made police feel ill' led to horror discovery in woman's garden

She got rid of evidence and the murder weapon has not been found

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6 d. ago Woman 'feels so much better in my clothes' after shedding 4.2 stone with simple change

"I feel so much better in my clothes"

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9 d. ago Intrusive thoughts have convinced me I’m repulsive to look at

This inner critic isn’t you, it’s just a voice that has been given far too much authorityThe question I am struggling with intrusive and increasingly critical self-talk around my appearance. So much so that some days I struggle to look in the mirror. I’ve recently had a baby and assumed that my long history of feeling ugly, lesser and fundamentally inadequate would be surpassed by being a mother and having an external concern other than myself but, if anything, it’s worse.It has become so bad I have convinced myself that my partner will find someone else despite him being lovely, reassuring and committed. I know this cognitively, but emotionally I feel deeply flawed as a woman and ugly in the world. I judge myself constantly when I’m around other women. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Intrusive thoughts have convinced me I’m repulsive to look at | Ask Philippa

This inner critic isn’t you, it’s just a voice that has been given far too much authorityThe question I am struggling with intrusive and increasingly critical self-talk around my appearance. So much so that some days I struggle to look in the mirror. I’ve recently had a baby and assumed that my long history of feeling ugly, lesser and fundamentally inadequate would be surpassed by being a mother and having an external concern other than myself but, if anything, it’s worse.It has become so bad I have convinced myself that my partner will find someone else despite him being lovely, reassuring and committed. I know this cognitively, but emotionally I feel deeply flawed as a woman and ugly in the world. I judge myself constantly when I’m around other women. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Single sex homeless accommodation is needed in Scotland to keep women safe

Record View says no woman should feel it is better to return to an abusive husband than to stay in a dingy hotel or sleep on the street.

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1 week ago Pervert contacted me on SpareRoom and offered to be my sugar daddy in 'sex for rent' deal

Jasmine Emery, 20, from Lowestoft, Suffolk, is calling for more stringent laws to be put in place to protect people from being taken advantage of by rogue landlords

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1 week ago Woman who flew to Turkey for £4.6k 'mummy makeover' left feeling like 'Frankenstein's monster'

Christina Ozdag wanted to feel confident in a bikini, but was left regretting her 'mummy makeover'

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2 w. ago ‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit Myself With. The song revisits a time before Aya Sinclair was one of the UK avant garde’s most exciting talents – when she was still a Huddersfield teenager, newly into Christian rock. The music gave her “this tingly, bubbly sensation”, she says. “And someone said: ‘This is the holy spirit.’” The experience led her to join a Pentecostal congregation for a couple of years, but after confiding in a church friend about some “feelings” – Sinclair would later come out as a trans woman – she was “kicked out for being queer, essentially. I was given an ultimatum, to either closet myself or leave.” As she whispers in this track, over the quickening click of a Geiger counter, “they had me out on a witc...

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2 w. ago Mum 'annoyed' by friends' reactions after choosing singer's name for baby boy

A woman, who's eight months pregnant, has been left feeling irritated by her friends and family's reaction to the name she's chosen for her baby boy, after struggling to come to a decision for months

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2 w. ago Monklands Women’s Aid and Cumbernauld and District Women's Aid join forces to support women across North Lanarkshire

Service users can still expect the same "warm, respectful, and confidential support because every woman deserves to feel safe, supported, and understood".

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3 w. ago Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book“No woman leaves a man like me,” Pablo Picasso is supposed to have declared to Françoise Gilot, his partner and the mother of two of his children, in the spring of 1953. The couple had by this point been together for a decade, their first encounter having taken place in 1943 in a black market cafe in Paris (Picasso, who was then 61, had approached the 21-year-old Gilot bearing a bowl of cherries). But now he’d become involved with Jacqueline Roque, the woman with whom he’d go on to spend the final years of his life.What to do about this? Gilot would not confront him. Better simply to call his bluff. “I am very secretive,” she said in an interview in 2016. “I smile and I’m polite, but that doesn’t mean that I will do as I said I will do He thought I would react like all his other women. That was a completely wrong opinion.” The following ye...

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3 w. ago Big Brother star Chantelle Houghton's secrets to five stone weight loss without the gym

Former Big Brother icon Chantelle Houghton has revealed the simple method she used to achieve her stunning five stone weight loss that did not include the gym

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3 w. ago 'I was 30 stone but shed half my weight by making one simple change'

Harry Spacagna has swapped his 5XL tops for a large instead after shifting nearly half his 30stone bulk by stopping eating between meals and taking up football with Man v Fat

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3 w. ago Man, 24, reveals astonishing 14 stone weight loss he achieved by changing one simple habit

Harry Spacagna, from Southampton, Hampshire, said he had struggled with his weight for as long as he could remember and had used food as an 'emotional crutch'.

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