Women

I just painted freehand straight on to the wall using household emulsion paint and acrylic paints. Giving myself free rein over the wall was an incredibly liberating experience. If I made a mistake, I simply painted over it in white emulsion and started again, so it was enormous fun.  … [Read more...] about We brought the outdoors indoors! Are you being driven up the wall by the coronavirus lockdown? These women decided to paint them instead – and gave their families a whole new world

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Then she fell in love with Billy Zane, who she met while filming Survival Island in 2004, and they got engaged in 2007 before she entered Strictly, but split in August 2008. … [Read more...] about How old is Kelly Brook and does she have a boyfriend?

Kelly lives in a stunning 600-year-old apple and pear farm and loves growing her own vegetables, cooking and lounging by her outdoor pool on sunny days. … [Read more...] about Who is Kelly Brook’s boyfriend Jeremy Parisi and when did he propose?

Throughout Duffy’s post, the many ways in which women are made to suffer for years (more than a decade, in her case) are detailed. It was a male friend saying that “most men would run a mile if they knew you were raped” that triggered her decision to go public. Along with feeling afraid in her own home, Duffy was fearful that the experience “would hinder her future romantic life” and that she would be “forever single”. She had been warned by loved ones that she shouldn’t speak out as they believed that doing so would harm her career. Such comments from her friends in particular are difficult to read, not just because they seem harsh, despite presumably being intended to protect her, but because their concerns are by no means far-fetched. They reflect the reality of a society where even the well meaning see survivors of rape as “damaged goods”. The stigma Duffy and her friends feared was not unfounded – after the post … [Read more...] about Duffy’s brave account highlights why so few rape victims speak up