Don't feel too bad for her (Photo by Getty Images)Poor Kim Kardashian. So sad. So lonely. So heavily pregnant.

At least, that's the impression you'll get if you walk by a newsstand or log onto the Internet. According to Radar magazine, she and boyfriend Kanye West (who the magazine observed was "noticeably absent during her pregnancy") parted ways after spending only three days together (three days!) so Kardashian could join her family on a vacation to Greece. "She's eating her feelings," one "insider" confided. While "In Touch" declared Kardashian "pregnant and alone" after Kanye ditched her. Yahoo! Shine did a little research and concluded that it's physically impossible for Kim (much less anyone with the last name Kardashian) to be lonely. That girl's entourage is larger than that of POTUS. Here's the photographic evidence from this week alone.

There's Kardashian (via her Instagram, natch) at an event hosted by E! and flanked by her mom Kris, E! presenter Giuliana Rancic, Fashion Police co-host Kelly Osbourne, and assorted

food addiction"I'm seriously addicted to those cookies. I can not stop myself from eating them."
"Be careful with those brownies, they're totally addictive."
"Oh, I just can't have food like that in the house. I'll eat it all at once. It's like I'm an addict or something."

These statements, which are pretty typical these days, may be slightly hyperbolic but they all point to the same thing: there is something about food, or certain foods (sugar, I'm looking at you!), that triggers behavior we associate with addiction. Perhaps there is a certain snack we seek out everyday, feeling incomplete and anxious until we've had it. Or maybe there are times when it's not until we're licking the crumbs off our fingers that we realize we've eaten a whole bag of chips.

Certainly these behaviors are unsettling, but are they really addictive? Food "addictions," though often discussed, are only beginning to be studied. Just recently the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

by Amy Wicks


Fairchild ArchiveThe latest trend in healthy eating involves cutting gluten out of your diet (if you've been to Whole Foods lately, you've probably noticed how the whole store is basically gluten-free). I'm a fan of gluten (pizza and beer are my friends), but I'm thinking about eliminating it from my diet--at least, temporarily--to see how it affects my skin. It turns out many of us could have a sensitivity to gluten, and this could lead to skin inflammations, such as acne and eczema.

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The Mayo Clinic reports that wheat--home to gluten--is one of the most allergenic foods, so it makes sense that many of us are adversely affected by wheat and gluten.

"In addition to frustrating skin problems, those with gluten sensitivity may have a host of other symptoms that include gas, bloating, fatigue, and joint pain," reports the Huffington Post. "Even those who don't experience gas and bloating may suffer from other digestive issues that stop our bodies from

Have you ever worn a corset after giving birth?I don't know about you guys, but I break out in sympathy sweat even when I see women in the appropriate garb at a summer Renaissance fair (yes, my nerdiness is showing: Let's just say I see this more often than most people see it). So Jessica Alba's confession to Net-a-Porter's The Edit magazine that she wore two corsets day and night for three months to try to get back to the weight she was at before she had her daughters Haven and Honor sounds, well... horrible.

By Anna Breslaw

"It was sweaty, but it was worth it." She admitted: "It was brutal; it's not for everyone."

FYI, Honor and Haven were born at the beginning and end of summer, respectively: Even worse. I'm imagining trying to sleep in 95 degree heat wearing that straight-jacket they wrap Hannibal Lecter in from Silence of the Lambs.

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Regardless, let's go ahead and ask the inevitable question. Is this awful-sounding three-month torture sesson actually an effective post-partum weight

The story appears in the latest New York Times Magazine. (Image courtesy of The New York Times Magazine.)Are mammograms useless? That’s just one of the turn-your-world-upside-down questions raised in a provocative and personal New York Times Magazine piece about the fight against breast cancer, published online Thursday and set to hit newsstands this weekend.

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In “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer,” Peggy Orenstein—thoughtful writer and translator of marketing strategies, known for her takedown of princess culture in 2011’s “Cinderella Ate My Daughter”—turns her analytic eye on pink-ribbon mania, the possible over-diagnosis of breast cancer, and yes, the idea that the sacred mammogram may be barely making a dent in the fight against the disease.

Orenstein, herself a breast-cancer survivor, begins by pointing to a recent three-decade study. It found that, while mammography does reduce, by a slight margin, the number of women who develop late-stage cancer, it is is far more likely to result in overdiagnosis and

By Spencer Cain, StyleCaster

Jessica Alba Stars-they aren't really like us. When we're looking to drop a few fast pounds, we head to the gym for a quick workout a few times a week (or at least we say we will, then sit on the couch watching "Law & Order" instead), but celebrities spend a good part of their lives focusing on intense fitness regimens and diets in order to appear perfect at all times, but sometimes, they take it to extremes that are just plain crazy. Below, we've complied the 10 most shocking (and downright weird) celebrity weight loss tricks and secrets.

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1. Jessica Alba: The 31-year-old actress confessed to Net-A-Porter's magazine The Edit that she had difficulty bouncing back body-wise after giving birth to her children Haven and Honor. "I wore a double corset day and night for three months. It was sweaty, but worth it." she said. "It was brutal; it's not for everyone." Yeah, definitely not for us.

2. Gwyneth Paltrow:

Some employees at Rapid Realty are getting logos inked on. (Photo: Rapid Realty via Twitter)Real estate agents at a New York-based broker are showing their company pride — and getting an extra 15 percent in commission — by having their company's logo tattooed onto their bodies.

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Thirty-seven men and women at Rapid Realty have gotten the green-and-black "Double R" tattoos so far, the company's CEO and founder, Anthony Lolli, told Inman News.

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“They wear it like a badge of honor,” said Lolli, who is also a real estate agent in their South Park Slope office. “They get a lot of respect from the other agents with the amount of commitment that they have.”

There are other benefits as well: "Talk about marketing — they're walking billboards!" he tweeted.

On Facebook, Rapid Realty has a photo album filled with pictures of their "brand ambassadors" getting inked. The designs range from tiny ankle tattoos and behind-the-ear ink to body art that blends in with existing sleeves and bold logos on

Amanda PeytonNorthwestern college sophomore Amanda Peyton wanted to decorate her dorm room wall in 2003. "As a result of having outgrown my freshman year style, I decided that the go-to room decor option, allposters.com, was officially lame. I could do better than an XXL Bob Marley poster draped over my bed," Peyton wrote this week on the website Medium.com.

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Peyton, who was inspired to blog about her experience after reading a story about art and technology published in a recent issue of The New York Times, recalled how she had been browsing a British website when she found a cool print of a girl hugging a bomb. Impulsively, she purchased it for around $100, the most she had ever spent on a wall decoration. When the print arrived in a poster tube, it was signed and hand-numbered by an artist named Banksy.

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At the time, Peyton didn't know that Banksy is a world