For Megan (names and
some details in story have been changed), a 37-year-old with a
16-month-old daughter, the road to parenthood was a rocky one.
Married for nearly five years to the man she calls her best friend,
Megan says, "Greg and I struggled with infertility, and it
strained our marriage." The endless temperature taking, the
months of not conceiving, a miscarriage—all of it, she says, took a
toll. Then came the pregnancy, which, surprisingly, did not bring
the hoped-for relief: Megan felt ill throughout, and physical
intimacy fell by the wayside. "What I missed most was the
lounging in bed, simply being silly and joking." Things
didn't get better after the baby, either. "I'd come
home from work exhausted. Any energy I had left, I saved for my
daughter."
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It makes a tasty pie,
but the rotund gourd is also a great pick for your skin.
"Pumpkin contains antioxidants such as vitamins A and C, as
well as phytonutrients that help keep you looking young," says
Michelle Schlekewey, spa director at Rancho Bernardo Inn in San
Diego. Harness the veggie's revitalizing properties with this
face and body mask, an adaptation of a treatment offered at the
inn. It's as easy as pie!
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Women everywhere are making
healthy changes. Now we’ve found the people doing it best: With the
help of an expert panel and BestPlaces.net, we crunched 7,700 bits
of data from 100 metro areas to find the 10 top spots for
women. Read More »
I once fell in love with a
man. Or rather, I fell in love with what that man did to me. During
the two years of our on-again, off-again affair, he introduced me
to a kind of sex I'd never known I wanted—rough, emotionally
and physically risky, and dependent on power and the taking away of
that power. Sadomasochism, essentially. When our relationship
ended, I felt ashamed of the domination I still coveted. Worse, I
didn't know what frightened me more: the dangerous desires I
now knew I possessed or the fact that they were now doomed to
remain unfulfilled.
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This was not a tough
assignment: We got to spend a day in Malibu with the stars of
New Moon--including Kellan Lutz (Emmett
Cullen), Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen) and Rachelle La Fevre
(Victoria)--to shoot our
November fashion feature on cozy knits! Read More »
Reveal a
healthy, gorgeous glow with our easy fixes for sun spots, stretch
marks, scars and other nagging nuisances.
Taking care of your skin is a little like playing a
pop-up arcade game. The minute you squelch one eruption, a sun spot
appears. And when that splotch fades, another mark shows
up—uninvited. Yes, 84 percent of women have at least one complexion
complaint, indicates a survey by Obagi Medical Products in Long
Beach, California. Ready to take control of the action? These
at-home tips, pro treatments and camouflaging how-tos will arm you
with strategies to outsmart unwanted guests and get the smooth skin
you deserve.
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