Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

It's wedding photography shot with a 50 Shades of Grey filter. Some newlyweds are hiring professionals to document what happens after the guests go home. Ali, John, and actress Busy Philipps discuss on the set of "Cougar Town".

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Alba in 'Sin City.'This weekend, Jessica Alba boosted Twitter traffic when she posted a photo of her newly blonde hairstyle in preparation for her role as stripper Nancy Callahan in Sin City 2. Why do people care about Jessica Alba's hair color? They don't, they care about her stripping. Her dancing scene in the first film is still one of the first things YouTube spits out when you enter her name, so proof that more will come is the ultimate strip 'tease.'

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She's one of long list of A-list actresses, including Jennifer Aniston, Olivia Wilde, Salma Hayek and Vanessa Hudgens, playing the role of exotic dancer in 2012.

Unlike most real strippers, Alba doesn't need the money. Neither does Aniston, whose 'comedic' stripping character in the upcoming We're the Millers, has gotten national coverage before filming has even wrapped.

But stripping is to an actress what playing a super-hero is to an actor: it's a game-changer. In exchange for a well-hyped pole dance, a

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Suri Cruise with mom Katie Holmes in New York on Friday. (James Deveany/FilmMagic/Getty …
Katie Holmes may have lost out on a massive payday, but she spared her 6-year-old daughter the trauma of a lengthy courtroom custody battle.

After her divorce from $250 million ex-husband Tom Cruise was finalized on Monday, she reportedly walked away with $400,000 a year in child support and not much more, according to TMZ. The website, which leaked alleged details from an insider, claims Tom Cruise will pay the six-figure annual sum until Suri turns 18, in addition to expenses like medical treatment, dental, insurance, education, and "extracurricular" costs. It's a significant amount of money for most people. But most people aren't A-list celebrities.

Katie Holmes becomes hero of divorce

Both Charlie Sheen and rapper Nas pay about $200,000 more annually in child support. That's not counting spousal support, something TMZ's insider also insists Holmes has forgone. 

But a big bargaining chip in the couple's agreement may not have been the money. Parties agreed not to send Suri to

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Trevor MacDonald and his son in a photo posted on MacDonald's Milk Junkies blog. (Trevor MacDonald/MilkJunkies.net)Up until last week the great breastfeeding debate was centered on where to do it and for how long. But Trevor MacDonald, a 27-year-old transgender parent, has raised an ever bigger question: who gets to do it?

The Winnipeg-based MacDonald has been chronicling his unique breastfeeding experience in photos and anecdotes on his blog for almost a year. But he gained national exposure this month, after a disagreement with La Leche League, an international breastfeeding support organization, over their definition on motherhood.

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After nursing his now 16-month-old son, Jacob, he hoped to become a coach for one of the club's local support groups, but was informed only women could serve as group leaders.

MacDonald was born a female but transitioned to a male at age 23 through a course of hormone treatments and chest contouring surgery. "I retained my female reproductive organs, but I felt (and still feel) fully male, and anybody seeing me on the street would Read More »from Breastfeeding Dad Raises New Questions About Motherhood

Trend alert: celebrity chefs going on diets. First Paula Deen dropped 30 pounds in June and now Top Chef Masters' Art Smith is upping the ante. On Wednesday night's episode of Bravo's all-star cooking show, Smith stripped down to a Speedo to reveal his dramatic weight loss, not to mention his six pack. "I feel like Bo Derek," Smith joked, during the episode's pool party cooking challenge.

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The 52-year-old culinary guru has been steadily losing weight for the past two years, but stripped of his chef whites, the difference was astonishing. He's dropped a startling 120 pounds thanks to portion control and rigorous workouts.

The same guy responsible for creating Lady Gaga's favorite fried chicken and waffles recipe, a signature of his Chicago eatery Fifty-Two, turned a corner in 2010 when he began training for two marathons. Like Deen, it took a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis to motivate the cook to drastically change his lifestyle.

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There are shoe closets, and then there are shoe rooms. Monte, a retired teacher in her fifties, had scattered $20,000 worth of footwear throughout six rooms in her home. Some were organized by color, but most lay in mountainous piles of clutter in her 4,000 square foot home outside Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Over a period of 10 years, she'd spent over $500,000 on clothing, accessories and home furnishings, all of which lay strewn across her kitchen, entryway and bedrooms, tags intact.

"Some people eat themselves to death, I was shopping myself to death," Monte, who refrained from sharing her last name, told Yahoo! Shine in a phone interview Wednesday.

A self-described "high-end" hoarder, Monte makes for an unlikely subject on Sunday's upcoming episode of TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive. She doesn't have food rotting in the fridge, overgrown weeds or a vermin problem, in fact the furniture buried under piles of clothing in her home are "in perfect shape."

They're the bones of a life she had

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This past weekend 116 contestants gathered in the remote town Odros City in China's Inner Mongolia district for the annual Miss World Pageant.

Representatives from countries around the world, including South Sudan, Guatemala, The Netherlands and the U.S., formed a kind of United Nations summit on bathing suits and ball gowns.

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So it stands to reason, when China's Wenxia Yu was crowned as the winner on Saturday, not everyone was in agreement.

"I was not surprised at all to see that the winner of the pageant was Miss China given that it was held in a Chinese city with Chinese hosts and a huge group of screaming Chinese fans that erupted into applause every time she was mentioned," one commenter wrote on a Huffington Post article announcing the winner. He also added the hashtags: "#Rigged #Fake #SecondPlaceOlympicsRebound"

A Daily Mail reporter also caught the Olympic connection, cheekily congratulating China on its Miss

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Jessica Simpson takes her baby on a stroll in June.For the average new mom, it takes at least 6 months to lose the weight gained during pregnancy. For the average celebrity mom, it's more like 6 weeks.

Blame personal trainers, diet endorsement deals, vanity, and of course an impending tabloid photo-shoot deadline. If you can lose 30 pounds just three weeks after a baby (Bethenny Frankel did it!) you can sell magazines.

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Just ask Janice Min, the former editor of Us Weekly, the magazine fueled by celebrity post-baby body covers. Now a mom of a four month old, Min got a dose of schadenfreude recently when she found herself scrutinized for still carrying extra weight just months after her delivery.

"I pushed out a 6-pound-10-ounce baby girl nearly four months ago. And I'm 42 to boot. Can't I get a free pass?" asked Min in Sunday's New York Times. She knows better than anyone else, the answer, at least in Hollywood, is 'no.'

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Being

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