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Jennifer Lawrence Says Motherhood Feels "Like a Blister"
"It's brutal and incredible."
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Deepika Padukone Is Living the Dream
The global superstar has conquered film, fashion, and business, but her newest role might be the one she's had her sights on the longest: motherhood. Here, the actress opens up about how having a daughter has re-centered her universe.
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13 Books That’ll Make You Want to Call Your Mom
These must-reads come from literary mothers like Maya Angelou and Amy Tan, as well as our contemporary faves.
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Erasing My Mother's Face
How a decade of beauty treatments has both honored—and altered—my resemblance to the woman who taught me to love myself.
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Finally, a Platform Where Women Are Getting Real About Motherhood
Amrit Tietz and Lauren Levinger, co-founders of the website Spread the Jelly, are bringing radical honesty to the parenthood experiences nobody talks about.
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Your Definitive Guide to Pregnancy-Safe Skincare
Experts share the beauty items that got them through every trimester.
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My Pregnancy Obsession Became the Freebirth Subculture
In an excerpt from Amanda Hess's debut memoir, 'Second Life,' she writes about a movement that predates MAHA moms.
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Olivia Culpo Announces She's Pregnant With Her First Child
The model shared photos of her baby bump, along with the caption, "next chapter, motherhood."
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Women Are Having Fewer Children, and Global Warming Is to Blame
It’s not just the climate that’s changing. Our environmental crisis is shifting American attitudes about having kids.
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Jessie J Heartbreakingly Opened Up About Having a Miscarriage After Deciding to Have a Baby Alone
The singer was so vulnerable on Instagram.
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America Is One of the Worst Places on Earth for Maternal Healthcare
According to an eye-opening new report.
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Home Girls
They may chronicle domestic bliss, but for housekeeping underachiever Sandra Tsing Loh, housewife blogs inspire mixed feelings.
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The Modern Motherhood Conflict
In a controversial new book, firebrand French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter argues that modern motherhood is a throwback to the pastand has become a tyranny for women
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Supermom Smackdown
A new book by American journalist Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé, says that French mothers are superior to American mothers. Quelle horreur! Marie Claire gets le scoop
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My Best Friend Stole My Brother
When writer Susan Shapiro introduced her brother to her close friend, she had no idea she'd lose them both.
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What's the Best Age to Have a Baby?
Features Whether your clock started ticking early or you're feeling a time crunch at 40, deciding when to have a baby is never simple.
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Just a Typical Day of Women Inspiring Women
At the first-annual WIE symposium, such female leaders as Arianna Huffington and Sarah Brown took the stage to discuss some seriously interesting topics.
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My Amazing Milk Machine
After growing up in a frenzy of feminism and bra burning, Martha McPhee learned to embrace her breasts after she became a mother.
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Should You Freeze Your Eggs?
Trying to beat her biological clock, Sarah Elizabeth Richards turns to extreme science.
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The Mother of All Tough Choices
Baby or Job?
