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Frantic mornings with kids can wreak havoc on a mom's attempt to prepare for the day. Makeup artist Beth Carter shows Easy Does It host Ereka Vetrini how to go from frumpy to fabulous in just five minutes.

-Step one: Choose a foundation or a concealer to spot treat red areas on the face. Spot treating saves time and doesn't require as much blending into the skin. Carter recommends using your ringers to apply the foundation or concealer because it's the weakest finger on your hand, "so you won't stretch or pull the skin in any way."

-Step two: Apply a bronzer. "Some of the bronzers that you find out there have a lot of shimmer and a lot of glitter in them," explains Carter. "They serve a different purpose. But for this, we just want to use a nice, matte, natural bronzer." Women with olive or dark skin tones should use a bronzer that has gold tones and use it as a highlight.

No time for make up? Get fabulous in five minutes.-Step three: Apply eyeshadow in a subdued hue, one that's more of an every day color, across the top lid.

Parents can't help but say ridiculous things to their kids. Away We Grow host Diane Mizota chats with funny ladies Dani Modisett, Sarah Maizes and Nikki Boyer about hysterical and embarrassing parenting moments. And we find out just how silly parent-child conversations can really get.

Related: 5 things parents should never say to their kids

Boyer, host of Yahoo's "Daytime in No Time," is a step mom to two children. She's definitely questioned some of the statements she's made to her kids. "I think one thing I never thought I'd hear myself say, really in my life, because they're not my biological kids so I didn't have that training session, but I never thought I would say, 'Who didn't flush the toilet?' And then I make them come back in, and I make them stand there, and look in the toilet. And as I'm doing it I'm like, "This is not okay!"

Moms can easily share embarrassing parenting moments with each other.Maizes is a comedienne and author of "Got Milf?: The Modern Mom's Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great and Rocking a Minivan." The

REUTERS - Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (C), stands with other spectators as she and her husband, Britain's Prince William (center, L) attend the men's singles tennis quarterfinals match between Britain's Andy Murray and Spain's Nicolas Almagro at the All England Lawn Tennis Club during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 2, 2012. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler (BRITAIN - Tags: OLYMPICS SPORT TENNIS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ROYALS ENTERTAINMENT)By Martin Rogers | Yahoo! Sports
LONDON - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka Prince William and his wife Kate, surprised fans at the Olympic Games tennis tournament at Wimbledon by sitting in the cheap seats on Thursday.

The royal pair, whose wedding last summer prompted a mass outpouring of patriotic delight in London, decided to shun the VIP seating available to them in favor of a regular spot in the stands while watching Great Britain's Andy Murray play Nicolas Almagro of Spain.

William and Kate would have been eligible to sit in Center Court's Royal Box, which is reserved for special visitors to the All England Club. But as Murray was playing his quarterfinal on Court One, they instead opted for a normal pair of seats to the left of the players' box.

Olympic organizers made significant changes to the allocation of ticket levels in the lead up to and during the Games. However, it is believed that the seats where William and Kate sat were in the "B" category and

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Olympic soccer star Hope Solo is grabbing headlines - but not for her performance on the field. The goalie is releasing a memoir the week after the London games end, and she's not holding anything back, including the shocking revelation that she was conceived in jail. Solo's father Jeffrey John Solo was imprisoned for an embezzlement conviction in Walla Walla, Washington, and after a conjugal visit with his wife, baby Hope came along nine months later. But although her father was later released from jail, she says he could not shake his criminal mind.

"One spring, when I was a Brownie, the Girl Scout Cookie money went missing," Solo, who turns 31 on July 30, writes in Solo: A Memoir of Hope . "Sometimes my father went missing. One morning, my mother went out to get her car and it was gone: repossessed for lack of payment." Still, Solo was Daddy's Little Girl. "He showered me with love; he just didn't know how to be a husband or a father

By Sheryl Nadler | Team Mom

Valentina Guerrero is not even a year old and she's already a swimsuit cover model with a designer campaign under her elasticized belt.

But perhaps more impressively, she has Down syndrome, making her the first person with Down syndrome to ever be featured as the main model in a notable designer's fashion campaign.

Valentina, who hails from Miami, is the face of the 2013 DC Kids children's line from Spanish designer Dolores Cortes, reports the New York Daily News. Her smiling face graces not only the cover of the line's catalogue, but several interior shots, as well.

Related: The Importance of Cheering on Your Kids

"People with Down syndrome are just as beautiful and deserve the same opportunities," Cortes says in a statement that was reprinted in the Daily News. "I'm thrilled to have Valentina modeling for us."

Cortes, who has pledged to donate 10 per cent of the profits from the DC Kids line to the Down Syndrome Association of

By Kim Hookem-Smith | Yahoo Lifestyle

While British Olympian Victoria Pendleton has cycling in her genes -- her father, Max, was an elite grass-track cyclist -- she wasn't always an obvious champ to her mom. Now a record breaking, world-class athlete, Pendleton's sporting abilities are no longer in question.

"Her father raced for many years and the rest of the family followed in his footsteps. I personally never realized she had particular talent on the bicycle," admits her mom Pauline Pendleton, whose eyes opened when her daughter often beat her brother when they raced.

As Victoria Pendleton grew up, she became a fierce competitor. Her mom always tried to remind her that as long as she did her best, that was good enough. When her daughter failed to bring home any medals from the 2004 Athens Games, the disappointment was clear. Says Pauline Pendleton: "When she got home she got very upset. She threw the racing kit that she had used into the dust bin. I thought that was a little

By Kim Hookem-Smith | Yahoo Lifestyle

Jeanette Kwakye is champion British sprinter, in part, because she listened to her mom. Despite her daughter's talent, sensible mom Rose Kwakye insisted she finish her education before she took on running full time.

"I wasn't really keen on her running at the beginning because I advised her all the time that she needed something to fall back on," remembers Kwakye. "I told her to go to secondary school, go to uni [university], get her degree and then she could do what she wants." While her daughter didn't appreciate her mom's tough love, she persevered with both her education and her training. "She was a bit upset because she thought that I didn't want her to do what she wanted to do but when she finished… she said 'I've done what you wanted mum, now mum, can I do what I want?'"

Click for more photos of Jeanette Kwakye.The pair became firm friends, and it was Kwakye who helped her daughter through the aftermath of the serious knee surgery she needed after reaching the 2008 Olympic final

By Kim Hookem-Smith | Yahoo Lifestyle

For Alison Rushgrove, sending her son, Ben, away to school at age 10 was the hardest decision she ever had to make. But it gave him the opportunity to become a world-class athlete. The British runner, who has cerebral palsy, will be going for gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

Related: Raising an Olympian: Kortney Clemons

"When you have a disabled child you have no idea what's going to become of them," explains Alison. "You tend to err on the side that life's not going to be that great. But he was always a fighter, always determined."

Wanting to give her son the best possible chance of doing well, Rushgrove and her family made the difficult decision to send him away to a specialist school. "We knew he was bright and we knew he wasn't thriving in mainstream education," says, and admits it was a heart-wrenching moment when Ben needed to be physical restrained as his family left him at the school."How I got home that day, I don't know. I