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    • Ronald Reagan: My Disappearing Dad

      By MORE Magazine | Healthy Living – Wed, Nov 23, 2011 12:30 PM EST

      First Daughter Patti Davis, left, with her First Family.by Patti Davis, MORE.com columnist


      In 1994, when my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, we became the most famous family dealing with this disease. At that time it was shockingly new to release such a thing publicly. There was a shroud of secrecy and shame over it. It is, after all, an embarrassing illness, rife with unknowns. You simply can't predict what parts of a person will vanish, or what unexpected and awkward things they might say or do. 

      But my parents decided to tell the world, and my father wrote a heartbreakingly lovely letter to America. I had the salve of both friends and strangers offering my family prayers and sympathy. But because Alzheimer's was still not openly discussed, I had no one to talk to about suddenly becoming a daughter who was losing her father to this mysterious and relentless conqueror. Obviously, there had to be other people out there in the same situation, but I didn't know who they were.

      My sister Maureen and I began talking more

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    • Madoff Daughter-In-Law Tells Her Story

      By MORE Magazine | Work + Money – Tue, Oct 25, 2011 4:50 PM EDT

      Photo courtesy of Blue Rider PressPhoto courtesy of Blue Rider Press

      By Nanette Varian, MORE Magazine editor

      On, December 10, 2008, Stephanie Madoff Mack was seven months pregnant and busy planning the baby's nursery when she got a call from her husband, Mark. "It's my father," he said. "My father has done something very bad, and is probably going to jail for the rest of his life." The quiet world she shared with Mark and their two-year-old, Audrey, was about to shatter.

      Mark's father, Bernie Madoff, had just revealed to his sons that his multibillion dollar investment fund-the part of the family business managed solely by Bernie-was nothing but a huge Ponzi scheme, a massive fraud. Mark and his brother, Andy (both of whom worked in a different part of the firm) immediately notified the authorities and turned their father in. Neither son has been charged with a crime, and both maintained they had no knowledge of the fraud (as has their mother, Ruth).

      Still, the family was vilified by the public, hounded by the press and subject to civil

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    • Closeup look at the day Target shoppers lost their minds

      By MORE Magazine | Fashion – Wed, Sep 14, 2011 7:53 PM EDT

      Missoni flats: TargetMissoni flats: TargetI can't fault others for getting to Target before me. No matter how tempted I was to make the kids be late to school this morning so I could be at the store right at 8 a.m. to snag me some fab low-priced Missoni swag, arriving half an hour after it opened didn't seem like that big of a deal. Reason took over.

      Much to my dismay, however, reason was already totally out the window. Here's the thing - clearly, many, many, many women were over-the-moon psyched for a chance to buy the Missoni for Target line, released on September 13. Reports show women were camped out overnight in Chicago. In Dallas, one Denver shopper told me, her friend waited more than two hours in line for the store to open. If you tried to buy something online from the 400-plus-piece collection, you were totally shut out - the Target site crashed early this morning.

      I mean, a Missoni sweater for less than $50? Who can blame us for getting a little bit giddy?

      By the grace of the fashion gods I managed to

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    • Stars Who Went from Rags to Riches

      By MORE Magazine | Work + Money – Thu, Aug 25, 2011 9:49 PM EDT

      They're the definition of a Hollywood success story. See all 20 stars with a Cinderella story on MORE.com!



      Gallery by Daniela Jelaska and Samantha Lear


    • Gloria Steinem Looks Back—and Forward

      By MORE Magazine | Work + Money – Tue, Aug 16, 2011 12:41 AM EDT

      While a new HBO documentary focuses on her past achievements, the feminist icon is very much in the present.
      Photograph: Annie Leibovitz ©, 2010/ HBOPhotograph: Annie Leibovitz ©, 2010/ HBOBy Susan Toepfer

      She is one of the most charismatic figures in our lifetime-and yet one of the most down to earth. Perhaps that's the reason Gloria Steinem holds a special place in the hearts of women she has supported and inspired since she first devoted herself to the feminist movement in the '70s. Now, a new HBO documentary, Gloria: In Her Own Words (premiered August 15 at 9 PM EST), focuses on Steinem's-and our own-remarkable journey.

      On camera, Steinem speaks movingly of the loss of her father; a difficult childhood caring for an emotionally damaged mother who was "always lying down with her eyes closed, talking to herself"; and the cruel illness that took away her first and only husband, whom she married at age 66. Though she acknowledges that her physical attributes (she is still dazzling at 77) might have helped "break a false

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    • Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help' Turned Down 60 Times Before Becoming a Best Seller

      By MORE Magazine | Power Your Future – Tue, Aug 9, 2011 3:02 PM EDT

      Katherine SockettPhotographed by Ben HoffmannIf you ask my husband my best trait, he'll smile and say, "She never gives up." But if you ask him my worst trait, he'll get a funny tic in his cheek, narrow his eyes and hiss, "She. Never. Gives. Up."

      More from MORE: Three More Women Who Never Gave Up

      It took me a year and a half to write my earliest version of The Help. I'd told most of my friends and family what I was working on. Why not? We are compelled to talk about our passions. When I'd polished my story, I announced it was done and mailed it to a literary agent.

      More from MORE: The Woman Who Inspired 'The Help's' Feisty, Pie-Baking Maid, Minny

      Six weeks later, I received a rejection letter from the agent, stating, "Story did not sustain my interest." I was thrilled! I called my friends and told them I'd gotten my first rejection! Right away, I went back to editing. I was sure I could make the story tenser, more riveting, better.

      More from MORE: Kris Jenner on Creating The Kardashians

      A few months

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    • Elizabeth Berkley, At 39, Turned Advice Queen

      By MORE Magazine | Work + Money – Wed, Jul 20, 2011 11:58 PM EDT

      Forget Dear Abby and Oprah--girls turn to this "Saved by the Bell" star for advice. Here, she talked to More.com about Ask Elizabeth, the organization she set up to answer young girls' questions about life and growing up, and even shares her secret to staying and looking young. An edited version of our interview with her follows.

      More: Not fair. How is it that you still look the same as-or should I say even better than-you did when you starred on Saved by the Bell?
      Elizabeth Berkley: I have been a dancer since I was four years old, so fitness and a healthy lifestyle is how I live my life. I don't drink, smoke or sit in the sun. I eat healthy and get enough sleep. If you don't take care of yourself, you will be off balance, and it will show in your appearance.

      More: How do you keep your youthful appearance?
      EB: I am a girl who loves her products. Senna products-especially their Barely base, which is a tinted moisturizer with SPF-are my favorite. I also use the Proactiv

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