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PIGLET POOCH Take a look at this 1 adorable pup... it bears a striking resemblance to Piglet from Winnie The Pooh – due to a genetic condition. The dachshund-Chihuahua mix, from Connecticut, USA, was sadly born both deaf and blind, but this makes us want to cuddle the cutie even more! Anyone else wonder if there’s a cat-like Tigger lurking somewhere, too?!

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4 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE Who wowed best this WEEK the crowd? The red carpet is the ultimate place to make a fashion statement, and these ladies did just that: star Dakota JohnsonFifty (left), Shades 28, 3 sparkled in her Gucci gown, Nicole Kidman (below), 50, wore lace and Eva Longoria, 42, proudly showed off her baby bump.

HOT PINK ON A COLD DAY Just when we think we can’t love our Queen, 91, any more, she steps out – once again – in a bold statement outfit and, this time, it’s hot pink! Looking cosy on her way to church on a chilly Sunday, 2 she’ll have brightened the day – for sure. A-list celebrities wore black at this year’s Golden Globes as a protest against the recent Hollywood 5 HAIR RAISING sex scandals Having a good hair day needn’t require the Duchess of Cambridge’s stylist on speed dial (although that would be nice). Noughty – a natural beauty brand – has added a range of products designed for curly hair, at just £6.99 each (out now). Those with limp locks will love to hear that its volumising collection will hit stores next month. START YOUR week with Tartan 6 timing With Burns Night rapidly approaching (25 Jan), the celebs have been showing their love of all things tartan. For a super-stylish take on rocking this pattern, take a tip from Jenna Coleman, 31, with this gorgeous vinyl mac. We don’t recommend clashing your colours like Miss Ora, 27, though – sack the stylist, Rita!

THE 100% HOTTER HONEY Rising to fame on 2016’s X Factor – our secret guilty pleasure – Honey G (whose real name is Anna Gilford) left behind her trademark sweatpants and With such a sunglasses on Channel 5’s Celebrity 100% Hotter. The 36-year-old rapper bold design, looked unrecognisable as she sported GETTY, REXGETTY, a fitted black number. If this is the new it’s best to look for Honey in 2018, we’re all for it!

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6 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE best this WEEK 7 PRETTY PURRRFECT! Have you ever seen such a gorgeous kitten? We don’t think we have, either. So, it’s no surprise this little one was featured in the KoShariki Cat Show in Moscow. However, while this little kitty is living the high life, around 30,000 not- so-lucky cats will be abandoned in the UK this year. After seeing this one’s face, though, we may have to adopt them all!

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was due to her suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum (acute morning sickness). Kate and Wills’ baby will be a sibling for George, four, and two-year-old Charlotte, and a cousin for Mia, and Isla and Savannah Phillips – Peter and Autumn Phillips’ daughters. And the new baby will be sixth in line to the throne – knocking Uncle Harry down a place in the pecking order. Not that Harry will mind at all. He spoke of his delight at ‘running round with the kids’ after Christmas, and in their engagement interview, he Royal confirmed that he and fiancée Meghan Markle want to start a family in the ‘near future’. Harry has been broody for years, sweetly telling an baby interviewer back in 2012, ‘I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young,’ and admitting, ‘I’m just waiting to find the right person, boom someone who’s willing to take on the job.’ With two royal babies on the he news that Zara But now, of course, he Tindall, 36, is has found his Miss Right way, The Firm is getting Tpregnant again – in the gorgeous shape of with a baby due in the Meghan, and, with the bigger than ever, much to summer – was said divorced actress turning to delight the Queen, 37 this year, the pair don’t the delight of the Queen... who confirmed she have too much time to spare, was ‘very pleased’. as it’s medically recognised The baby, who will be 18th that a woman’s fertility in line to the throne, will be declines after the age of 35. a sibling for adorable Mia All eyes will be on Meghan Tindall, who turns four this following their wedding, week – and the news is all which will be held in Windsor the happier after Zara and on 19 May. her husband, former rugby After the two impending player Mike Tindall, suffered arrivals, any child of Harry a miscarriage just over a year and Meghan’s would bring ago, announcing the sad news the Queen’s tally of great- on Christmas Eve 2016. grandchildren up to eight – to Baby Tindall will arrive add to her eight grandchildren about three months after Kate – all of whom are said to call and William’s latest addition to her Gan-Gan. Kate has the family – their third child is We’re sure the Queen can’t suffered I-IMAGES, MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK, REXI-IMAGES, MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK, due in April. Kate’s pregnancy wait to add to her brood – and Meghan and Harry with acute want to start a family morning was confirmed back in if the future royal tots are as in the ‘near future’ sickness September, but it’s believed the cute as George, Charlotte and

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8 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE best for CELEBRITY Forget Dakota Johnson’s rumoured romance with Chris Martin – it’s Mr Grey’s voice that’s got us weak at the knees Fifty shades of rock god

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umour has it Chris, 40 – so the comparison Dakota Johnson between Dakota’s two men R is stepping out on the rock-star credentials with Chris Martin – but front could have proved a tad her Fifty Shades co-star embarrassing for Jamie. Jamie Dornan could But it turns out the Belfast give the Coldplay rocker hunk’s offering is anything a run for his money! but cringeworthy. Jamie Northern Irish hunk Jamie, contributes to the bonus track 35, who plays the handsome- on the soundtrack, which is but-damaged Christian Grey scheduled for a Valentine’s in the Fifty Shades franchise, Day release like the film and Jamie was the frontman in adapted from EL James’s includes songs from Sia, Ellie Sons Of Jim erotic novels, is not only set to Goulding and a duet by Rita get hearts all aflutter (again) Ora and Liam Payne. in the film, but also lends his And it’s gold. The father hope them to be. surprise that Jamie, who is voice to the soundtrack. -of-two sings a gorgeous The track includes heartfelt married to British actress Dakota, 28, who plays his cover of Paul McCartney’s lyrics like, ‘Baby, I’m a man, and musician Amelia Warner, wife-to-be in the third and classic love song Maybe Maybe I’m a lonely man who’s can hold his own on the film’s final film in the trilogy, Fifty I’m Amazed – and amazed in the middle of something soundtrack. He has a musical Shades Freed, is reportedly we were! Jamie’s vocals that he doesn’t really past, and before shooting to dating Coldplay frontman are everything you’d understand,’ and ‘Maybe fame in Belfast-based thriller I’m amazed at The Fall, the former model the way I really was in a rock band called need you.’ Sons Of Jim. And if you’re So just to recap, the man thinking it sounds with the amazing abs doesn’t pretty Fifty Shades only smoulder with intent – – in fact, it’s the he can sing, too! Any more very song twisted, hidden talents we need to domineering Grey know about, Mr Grey? chooses to sing to Anastasia. ● Fifty Shades Freed is in Perhaps it’s no cinemas from 14 February Jamie sings a gorgeous cover and his vocals are everything you’d GETTY EYEVINE, GREGORY, DOANE Dakota is Will it be a rumoured to be happy ending want them to be dating Chris for the Greys? PICTURES:

FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE 9 Dark secrets of the DOI stars Some of the Dancing On Ice stars are haunted by more than a fear of the contestants falling

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back with a whole new look. HOLLY WILLOUGHBY A Torvill and Dean have returned as judges, alongside ‘panto villian’ Jason Gardiner and new boy Ashley Banjo. It’s perfect Sunday night family viewing. But three of our favourite faces fear more than just a nail-biting move…

Afraid of dying in a plane crash While this year’s fresh batch of celebrities are flying through the air, the daring ice stunts will, no doubt, leave Holly Willoughby – along with the rest of us – feeling anxious. But the 36-year-old has for years battled with the far greater fear of dying in a plane crash. The mother-of-three often shares posts of her family on exotic holidays and has even had treatment from This Morning regulars The Speakmans to try to cure her phobia. Ironically, Holly’s mum was an air hostess, and she had no such fears when she was young, even accompanying her mum to work. But, after taking part in the TV show Fear Of Flying at the start of her career, where she was filmed nose-diving in a plane, she developed anxiety over flying, confessing, ‘When I go on a plane, I feel like we’re going to go towards the ground.’ Recalling Holly’s fear was triggered that terrifying flight, she explained, ‘It wasn’t the after appearing on TV plane’s fault, it got me down safely, it did its job. show Fear Of Flying It was me that pegged on that I was going to die.’ For someone who often has to hop on a plane, that fear is something poor Holly must contend with regularly. And, as she revealed in an interview recently, she’s more fearful as a person than last INSTAGRAM, ITV time she hosted the show four years ago. SHELLEY MARSDEN AND RACHEL CUNNINGHAM ‘I’m scared of everything now,’ she confessed. ‘I think it’s just getting older and being a mum.’ WORDS: PICTURES:

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Suffers crippling asthma attacks She won Olympic Gold in 1984, making her the undisputed Queen of the Ice, but Jayne Torvill, 60, harbours a secret health fear. She suffers from asthma, a common, yet potentially dangerous, condition. Instagram/@jaynetorvill_official A simple skate around her local rink, which must feel like Jayne with her two children, second nature to the mum-of- Kieran and Jessica two (she has adopted children Kieran, 15, and Jessica, 11, with husband Phil), could provoke a terrifying attack. Jayne didn’t have asthma as a child. It developed in her late 20s, and she remembers her first attack with clarity. ‘I was suffering badly with hay fever and the pollen count was particularly high when I suddenly began to wheeze,’ she said. After visiting the GP, she was diagnosed with asthma, and found in the years that followed that skating was a trigger – linked, she thought, to the sudden drop in temperature. JAYNE TORVILL During the mid-90s, poor Jayne contended with at least one attack a month. When she gave up skating professionally in 1998, the asthma abated, but she had trouble again around the time she was doing Dancing On Ice in 2007. These days, she uses inhalers to keep the condition at bay, but appearing on Dancing On Ice – without even stepping on the ice – puts Jayne at risk. It must be terrible, knowing that what you love could be the very thing making you ill.

OCD makes life a living hell He seems perfectly at ease in when he was forced to deal with getting his role as the harshest judge his hands dirty. And Jason’s OCD side on British TV. But Jason Gardiner, truly kicks in as judge, he says, because under that catty, cool-as-ice he’s focusing on the smallest details of demeanour, is battling internal contestants’ performances. demons that he has revealed have He said of his first run on Dancing made his life an utter misery. On Ice, ‘On the one hand, my personal Australian Jason, 46, lives with life was kind of a living hell, but my obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), professional life was doing really well a mental disorder where people feel the because of that ability that I have with need to repeatedly check things, perform it.’ Let’s hope he’s since managed to get certain routines, or have particular it under control off-camera, too. thoughts – and they just can’t control it. He confessed in 2016 that his OCD, which he describes as a ‘daily struggle’, once got so bad that it was almost taking over his life, and – hard as it is to believe – stopping the gregarious TV star from functioning socially. JASON GARDINER ‘It gets to the point where it’s so crippling and suffocating that you just think, “If this is how I’m going to spend the rest of my life, I’d rather not, quite frankly,”’ he said. All you need to do is recall his abject torture on Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, Jason struggled with his OCD on Bear Grylls: Mission Survive Left: Polo neck, £19.99, Zara Skirt, £49.50, Autograph at M&S Scarf, £17.99, Zara Tights, £8 for three pairs, M&S Shoes, £35, M&S Right: Jacket, £33.30, JD Williams £19.99 Blouse, £39.50, Autograph at M&S Trousers, £79, Phase Eight Shoes, £49.99, New Look Bag, £10, New Look

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Hi, Kaye. So, tell us… what are you up to? Well, the most exciting thing is that Nadia and I have a cookbook coming out in March called Disaster Chef. If anyone had told me this beforehand, I’d have dropped down in shock, because cooking isn’t my skill. I keep saying I’m Nadia’s muse. It was born out of her frustration for my terrible Just another normal cooking skills – I just don’t day at the office! have that flair. Nadia does

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It’s important to Kaye and Nadia have a laugh, with their girls though, isn’t it? You can get to an age, somewhere in your 50s, where you have lots of responsibilities, and you can become a bit careworn. So to do something Kaye with her juvenile sometimes youngest, Bonnie is great. As I get older, it becomes more and more important to not Are the Loose take myself seriously. Your mum hasn’t Women a great support? Would you say you live been so well Absolutely. Sometimes, I think a healthy lifestyle? recently. That about the fact I have so many I make an effort to keep fit, must be tough... demands between the kids and eat well and I don’t drink My mum and dad, work. I also have a radio show that much. I know there’s until recently, were up in Scotland that maybe I no guarantee – many people amazing and such a shouldn’t do, but I love it so have led healthy lives and huge help with the much. Nadia, in particular, was illness still comes knocking, kids. But because the most incredible support but I’m doing what I can. I had my first to me last year. You don’t keep How do you really feel baby at 39, Mum a tally between friends, but I about ageing? and Dad were hope I’ll be there for her in the Oh, I worry, just like everyone obviously older. same way if she needs me. else. I can’t pretend that My dad sadly What are your most I haven’t thought about passed away memorable Loose getting work done. But it’s last year, and Women moments? never been about looks for my mum was That’s a tough call. Normally me, professionally. I’m not amazing at the ones where I’m cringing worried it’s all going to fall looking after inside! It’s a remarkable apart if my looks go! I can him. Now, show, because you could be see if it’s been your calling though, she’s discussing heavyweight topics card how difficult that could not very like sexual harassment and be. Sometimes, I look in the well, so she then – as I have done – find mirror and shake my head, needs my yourself lying semi-naked but that’s where having that support. in a bed of cabbage leaves. slightly teenage attitude to I can’t even remember why I laugh and inwardly go, ‘to was doing that, but I was! hell with it’ really helps!

THIS Kaye: WEEK I’M... REX, TWITTER IMAGES, PA GETTY, BACKGRID, ADDICTED TO The Marvelous PICTURES: Mrs Maisel on Amazon Prime. It’s about a housewife in 50s New York DREAMING OF who becomes a ANNOYED BY Anywhere with a blue sky! comic after her Flight delays. I travel lots, Maybe skiing on a snowy MARSDEN SHELLEY marriage collapses. and they drive me mad! mountain somewhere… WORDS: best for REAL LIFE Both Jessica and big sister Nicole suffer with Batten disease

Gail with husband Matthew and children Nicole, Louis and Jessica ‘My daughters are changing the world’ Gail Rich’s daughters, Nicole and Jessica, both have an incurable genetic disorder, but they’re also giving hope to thousands…

atching my because Jessica is in a off. When Matthew and I (electrocardiogram) daughters play pioneering clinical trial that married in February 2014, confirmed Nicole had ‘Wprincesses on could slow or even halt the Louis was our ring bearer and epilepsy. Doctors said there the floor, for a moment I devastating symptoms, while Nicole was our beautiful flower was a link between Nicole’s feel like every other mum. Nicole is receiving treatment girl, running around with the lack of speech, small size, Then I remember that I’m that is continuously improving biggest smile on her face. epilepsy and developmental not because my little girls her life. We truly believe that When Nicole started delay. More tests followed. are special. our brave girls are making nursery, teachers struggled to ‘If she’s delayed, she’ll Two years ago, my miracles happen. engage her, and speech and catch up,’ we reasoned. ‘If husband, Matthew, and From an early age, I wanted language therapy got nowhere. she’s small, she’s small. I found out that both our to be a mum. After I met A paediatrician diagnosed There’s medication for girls, Nicole and Jessica, Matthew, now 30, in a pub in global developmental delay, epilepsy. We can handle this.’ have the neurodegenerative Newcastle in 2007, we which meant she was behind Jessica was born in disorder Batten disease. couldn’t wait to start a family. in everything, but we tried to September 2015 and, during It’s a heartbreaking, cruel Our son, Louis, was born in remain positive. the next year, Nicole kept disease that eventually 2010, and was so talkative as a Nicole had her first seizure deteriorating. She became means they’ll lose their toddler that when Nicole, now when she was three, in 2015 wobbly and unsteady, losing sight, and ability to five, was born, we thought she’d when I was pregnant with her adventurous confidence. walk, swallow and pick be a chatterbox, too. But, by Jessica. Sitting beside me on Matthew started carrying things up. In time, they’ll two, she hadn’t uttered a word. the sofa, her leg twitched, her her everywhere. suffer all the symptoms Nicole also had a short body stiffened and her lips In September 2016, we were of dementia. attention span, and if you tried turned blue. It was terrifying. invited to the Royal Victoria Our world turned upside to read her a story, she’d flick An ambulance rushed her to Infirmary, Newcastle, for down. But we now have hope through the pages and sprint hospital, where an ECG some test results. As we

16 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE fortnight... everysurgery for Germany to goes Jessica that couldbefunnelled intoa developed asynthetic enzyme us thatresearchers had Association (BDFA) informed Batten DiseaseFamily feelings ofhopelessness, the we feltweak. Despiteour to blast thenaughtyaway.’ fighter jets intoNicole’s head I’ll beChiefPusher!Let’s put then hesaid, ‘Can Ipushher? need awheelchair,’ Itoldhim. run smoothly. Oneday, she’ll missing anenzymetomakeit his bravery. ‘Nicole’s brainis then five, Iwas bowled over by her. We were heartbroken. oblivious towhatawaited happily withhertoys, this horrendous news. out intears, unabletofathom into herteens. We stumbled wouldn’t beexpected tolive neurologist toldusthatNicole I stuttered. Gently, the incurable geneticdisorder. explained thatitwas an the neurologist said. He waiting forus. My heartsank. neurologist andanursewere room, theconsultant stepped intothedoctor’s O He gave usstrength when Louis lookedlost inthought, Breaking thenews toLouis, Back home,Nicoleplayed ‘What’s herlifeexpectancy?’ ‘Nicole hasBatten disease,’

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Head chef Laura Goodman resigned from her job at Carlini restaurant after receiving death threats for posting on social media that she’d lied to a vegan about the contents of their meal. Her post, saying, ‘Spiked a vegan a few moments ago,’ led to a backlash online, with people expressing their disappointment and even fury towards her. If it’s not going to harm the person, would you ever tell a white lie about ingredients used for a meal? Or is it just a We’re disaster waiting to happen? ALL TALKING Let us know your thoughts... WHAT DO YOU THINK? Tell us at facebook.com/ about bestmagazine

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Best friends Alan (left) and Cedric worked on the railways together in the 50s

Margaret married her first husband, Alan, in 1962 A second chanc Margaret Smith had to make a difficult phone call when her husband died. But it was one that was to change everything…

ightning never the 50s with his best friend Pembroke in 1996. We spent and, in August 2010, we were strikes twice, Cedric Smith. our time gardening and going given devastating news. ‘Lor so the saying Job opportunities had for walks with our dog, Bella. Alan had cancer of the goes anyway. But when been scarce in their home Then, one day, in the summer oesophagus, and it had it comes to love, I’ve been town of Pembroke, so of 2008, we bumped into spread to his bones. As he very lucky to have had Alan and Cedric headed Cedric’s sister. ‘Pat!’ Alan said. bravely fought his illness, two bites at the cherry. My to London, where they ‘How’s Cedric?’ he told me to marry again first love was Alan Morgan, worked stoking the coal Pat explained that Cedric when he was gone. who I met in March 1962, on steam locomotives. now lived four hours away in ‘I won’t do that,’ I told him. when I was 20. When they were both Colwyn Bay. He had four sons, ‘I can’t be with anyone else.’ Alan, then 24, was so called up for National Service but was a widower after his That October, doctors handsome, and we quickly they were posted to different wife, Glenys, died in 2006. warned us that the end was fell for each other. After a camps – and, sadly, didn’t see She gave Alan Cedric’s near. The kids and I gathered whirlwind 14-week courtship, each other again. phone number and, when around Alan’s bed and I read we married and settled in Alan was often nostalgic we got home, Alan called his a beautiful letter that Cedric Hereford to raise our children, for those days, and he talked long-lost friend. They spent had written to Alan. Tracy, now 54, Sarah, 45, and about tracking Cedric down. hours reminiscing and, after When my husband died, I our foster son, Richard, 49. Only, it was long before that call, spoke on the phone was devastated. Telling friends Alan was a wonderful Facebook, and we had no idea every few weeks. and family was difficult but husband and father. He loved how to go about it. Only, things weren’t all the toughest phone call I had telling the kids about his time After the kids flew the rosy. Alan had been suffering to make was to Cedric. He working the steam trains in nest, Alan and I retired to painful indigestion for months was so sad he’d never been

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Are your hands suffering from the effects of time and weather? Well, most clinic treatments can be applied to this area, so here’s how to restore them to baby softness… THE HAND TIGHTENER Our hands start to age in tightening those fine wrinkles. our early 30s, and changes Devices using radio frequency, in hormone levels can also like Forma, can also work for cause the skin to become hands. Depending on the thinner, making veins more depth of the treatment, it can visible. For improved skin take up to a week to recover,

tone, a SmartXide CO2 laser but the results can last for up procedure will stimulate tissue to three years if you exfoliate below the skin to produce regularly and wear sunscreen. more collagen and elastin, From £300 per session. ZAP AGE SPOTS Sun exposure and collagen breakdown show earlier on hands’ thin skin. A course of IPL (intense pulsed light), using new system Lumecca, can zap marks and improve skin tone. It’s quick, with little downtime and, when compared to other laser systems, is inexpensive. The IPL is absorbed by red or brown pigment, which is then absorbed by the body. You’ll see instant effects after one treatment. It’s vital to use SPF 30 afterwards, to protect the new skin. From £80 a session. THE HI-TECH HAND LIFT The 60-minute scalpel- stimulate the regeneration of LET THERE free Vampire Hand Lift skin cells. Using your own BE LIGHT involves having blood blood is safe, natural, and ‘It’s been found that drawn from the arm. This highly effective. Results are exposure to bright is then spun in a centrifuge to immediate, and three sessions light in the morning, separate the platelets, and will keep your hands looking while avoiding it at injected into the hands to beautifully young. From £450. night, leads to more testosterone,’ says Dr Morrison. ‘Try to get up early, and don’t go to bed late. AND DON’T FORGET… Ideally, you should sleep between 10pm and 6am. ● Always put sun protection ● Products for your face When you get up, spend some time outdoors, so on the back of the hands to are just as good for your that you’re exposed to natural sunlight.’ The prevent spots and wrinkles, hands, so exfoliate and use vitamin D your body makes via the stimulus even when driving, as ageing a plumping mask. Protect UVA rays can penetrate glass. them with Nourish London

of sunlight prompts your genes to keep all of BIGSTOCK, GETTY, ISTOCK, NICKY JOHNSTON ● Don’t wash your hands in Kale Anti-Ageing Hand your hormones in a healthy balance. very hot or cold water. Use Cream, £12.50, or O’Keeffe’s lukewarm water and a mild Working Hands, £6.

soap that contains nourishing ● Regular use of a retinoid PICTURES: TRY FASTING and moisturising oils. (vitamin A) cream can help ‘Studies have shown that increasing ● Wear protective gloves boost collagen and thicken the interval between your evening meal when doing housework. the outer layer of the skin. and breakfast can help boost testosterone

levels,’ reveals Dr Morrison. ‘Try having For more information on Lesley and her team of doctors, MILLAR LAURA dinner early, then delay eating breakfast please visit harleystreetskinclinic.com until you’re actually feeling hungry.’ WORDS: WORDS: HELEN PIKE Meno-proof your beauty buy Have your hormones caused upheaval? Here’s how to ease the effects of ageing…

he menopause can be a turbulent time FACE UP TO SAGGING Tfor your health, and Collagen levels slowly decrease over time, but it can have an effect on they really take a hit now. ‘Hormonal changes your looks, too. It's due mean the skin doesn’t replenish itself as quickly. The1 skin reacts differently and needs additional your hormone levels going haywire. ‘Oestrogen rapidly hydration and plumping,’ says Cathy Kangas, CEO decreases and women and founder of PRAI Beauty. Its Pink Diamond 3D experience the most Volumizing Creme, £49.99, has been designed profound skin changes,’ specifically for use in the menopause and beyond. It has an ingredient that, when applied topically, can explains Sharon Hilditch, optimise fat production for a plumper face. founder of Crystal Clear Skincare. While we can see the signs of ageing already, ‘the menopause exacerbates these changes,’ WELL OILED explains Sharon. Find out A fall in sebum TAP how to manage the most production, plus THE APP noticeable symptoms. Menopause View 2 a lower water helps you track, content in the skin, can monitor and analyse result in a seriously dry typical symptoms. complexion that can feel Free for iPhone Fake it yourself delicate, too. ‘This dryness and Android. can also lead to itching and even ezcema,’ warns Brightening consultant dermatologist Daniel Glass. An oil is the most efficient way to face mask restore comfort to your If the menopause has left behind a dull, tired-looking skin, and Boots Botanics complexion, give it a healthy boost. We know oranges are 100% Organic Nourishing great for their vitamin C content and, when applied to the Facial Oil, £11.49, is rich in face, have a brightening and acne-reducing effect – great skin-plumping rosehip and x.xx for easing those classic menopause symptoms. Follow this omega oils. Apply straight£ recipe and apply a rich moisturiser afterwards to restore to skin, or mix a few drops hydration levels. Mix 2tbsp orange juice, 1tbsp lime juice into your usual and 1tbsp honey together in a bowl, then apply to your face. moisturiser. Leave it on for five minutes before rinsing well. Use once a week for best results. HAPPIER HAIR It’s not just our skin that takes a hit 3 during menopause. ‘We often see changes in the hair cycle at this time, with more in the “resting or falling” stage, leading to thinner, finer hair,’ says consultant ys dermatologist Justine Hextall. ‘Scalp skin can become dry and sensitive, too.’ While supplements and a healthy diet will help in the long term, targeted hair care, such as Viviscal Gorgeous Growth Densifying Shampoo, £9.99, can also boost limp locks.

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Ulrika suffered Hot flushes, mood anxiety and swings, night sweats memory loss... - the menopause can be so miserable that even celebrities are done keeping quiet about it. In fact, more and more famous faces are sharing how they’re dealing with ‘the change’...

very woman will face the menopause at some point. Some Esail through it, while others – like former party girl Meg Mathews, 51 – say it feels like they’ve been flattened by a steamroller! Last week, Meg launched her own awareness campaign on the subject – #megsmenopause – using her fame as a platform to speak out and help others know there’s no need to suffer in silence. Visit www.megsmenopause.com

Ulrika: ‘I thought I had Alzheimer’s’

or TV presenter Ulrika The Celebrity MasterChef most unimaginable anxiety leading her to fear she was FJonsson, now 50, the early 2017 finalist revealed, ‘I felt that I’ve not known before.’ suffering early-onset side-effects of menopause like I was going into a dark At one stage, she thought her Alzheimer’s. ‘Being mid- were so extreme that she was episode… and then came the ‘head was going to explode’. sentence… that was the worst left fearing for her sanity. After seeking medical advice thing. Forgetting the word.’ Experiencing symptoms and being informed she was She confided in a friend, of perimenopause (the ‘pre–menopausal’, Ulrika’s who quickly ensured her it transition period) at just first reaction was denial. was the effects of menopause. 46, at first, the possibility ‘I was like, no! I thought ‘I went, “What, that as of the condition didn’t this was my time to have well? How long is this list?! even occur to her. my body back after Why don’t we know about Having suffered having four children!’ all these things?”’ from depression she said. Let’s hope the Swedish in the past, Ulrika On top of all that, beauty sharing her own scary thought she was the TV star detailed experience means other REX, SPLASH XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM NEWS,

SHELLEY MARSDEN, RACHEL CUNNINGHAM CUNNINGHAM RACHEL MARSDEN, SHELLEY facing a new battle the extreme memory women are more informed with mental illness. loss she suffered, going in than poor Ulrika was. ... which she didn’t WORDS: PICTURES: realise were symptoms of the menopause best for CELEBRITY

Straight-talking Nadia opened up about her ltdowns! mood swings... Nadia: ‘Mark considered divorcing me’ adia Sawalha, 53, who has Things must have been bad Nbeen married to TV for Nadia’s husband to consider producer Mark Adderley since such a drastic measure. After 2002, admitted recently during all, the pair have been through one of her regular podcasts with hell and high water together, Loose Women partner-in-crime including Mark’s recovery Kaye Adams, entitled How To from alcoholism and Nadia’s Stay Married So Far, that her heart-breaking miscarriage. husband had dropped a huge But Nadia is commendably bombshell about how close honest about how much strain he came to calling it a day. the menopause put on ‘I’ve come in here into the her marriage. The bathroom so that Mark can’t mum-of-two recalled hear me,’ she said as the making comments camera rolled. ‘But we were like, ‘I could smash just filming our podcast and this whole house he said that there was a point up’ or ‘I could kick in my menopause where he the car with rage’. thought about divorcing me… Safe to say, the ‘Apparently, I was being duo weathered that ... and how much of very, very difficult. Me? particular storm a strain they put on Difficult? In my menopause? and are now happier her marriage What the hell does he mean?’ than ever!

Zoë: ‘I felt so hot - and hairy!’ he may be younger on air, ‘I’m menopausal. joked, asking listeners, Sthan some I am hot and hairy.’ ‘Is it going to get better? experiencing all the Menopause itself is Do I do HRT (hormone trials and tribulations unpleasant enough, but replacement therapy) or of menopause, but Zoë add to this the fact that, do I have the funny tea?’ Ball, 47, bravely opened at the time, the radio Some recommended up last year about her DJ had not been long Zoë pursue HRT, while own struggles. separated from her others matched her The BBC Radio 2 husband of 18 years, cheeky humour, one presenter didn’t hold musician Norman Cook even suggesting that back as she confessed (aka Fatboy Slim), and ‘sex is a great cure’ for Zoë would be forgiven menopause symptoms! for feeling down. ‘OK, that is a good tip,’ Rather than wallow, Zoë replied. ‘HRT and Zoë used her down-to- sex, I will take that.’ earth sense of humour We love Zoë’s glass- to turn her menopausal half-full approach… adventures into if you can find it in The down-to-earth something altogether yourself to laugh, radio DJ asked her listeners for advice more positive. ‘It’s like then a giggle’s always Zoë was going through the menopause when my last hurrah,’ she preferable to a mope! she split with hubby Norman Cook Our 80 Twins Brandi and Kandi Dreier have always struggled with their weight. Can they turn their lives around before it’s too late?

‘Food was a happy place for us,’ admit the twins

ith cases of journeys of Brandi and Kandi sores developing in their folds time for the twins, because obesity on the Dreier, 31-year-old twins from of skin. ‘Life is miserable,’ they were addicted to drugs. Wrise around the Vancouver, Washington. Brandi says candidly. ‘We only had each other – world, it’s no wonder that It’s clear from the off that At times, it’s difficult and food,’ Brandi says. They more light is being shed the twins are each other’s best viewing, but the women try to also talk about abuse they on how to lose weight friend and support system. explain their food addiction. suffered at the hands of an and live a healthier life. They’ve always lived together ‘We started gaining weight acquaintance and that the Rightly or wrongly, society and even share a double bed. when we were young – as only person they could rely is often quick to judge people ‘The first few steps of the soon as we were able to eat on was each other. who are overweight, but day are just agony. It’s so hard solid food,’ Kandi says. ‘Our In an environment that there can be hidden reasons to do anything,’ Brandi says. biological dad used food as they say was dominated by behind over-eating. At 41st 13lb, she is more a “babysitter”.’ anger, violence and fear, Now, a US TV show, My than a stone lighter than Brandi heartbreakingly ‘food was a happy place for 600lb Life, follows the Kandi. ‘There are times that explains, ‘When we cried, he us, it was comforting’… journeys of obese people, both of us want to give up,’ the would dump a whole box of By the time they were looking at how their weight twins admit. It’s easy to see cereal on the table because he 12, Brandi and Kandi were makes them feel and whether what a struggle it is for the didn’t want to deal with us.’ already pushing 14st and were they have left it too late to young women day-to-day. They go on to say that bullied. They had a difficult change their lives for good. After showering, they have neither of their parents were relationship with their mum, The first super-sized to help each other apply baby really around when they were Bobbie, who was an alcoholic. two-hour episode follows the powder to their bodies to stop growing up, nor had much At 16, Brandi and Kandi

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Before surgery, Dr Nowzaradan Brandi (left) and told Brandi (left) Kandi each lost more and Kandi they than 14st in a year needed to lose some weight on their own weight-loss surgery. Over the following months, the twins experience good and bad spells, like when Kandi is told her heart may not be strong enough for the operation. Brandi has surgery first, were kicked out of home. admitting she feels like Both describe anxiety ‘My weight is killing me, she’s left her sister behind attacks from fear of not being and, for the first time, feels able to take care of themselves but it’s an addiction ‘disconnected’ from her. and, despite working, along But, as she recovers, Kandi with some support from their and I can’t stop’ is approved for surgery. grandmother, Sherry, food However, she suffers heart was their biggest comfort. failure after the operation. As they got bigger, their survive without the other. Dr Younan Nowzaradan, in ‘I don’t want my sister to anxiety grew and they had to ‘We’re each other’s worst Houston, Texas. die,’ Brandi sobs as her twin is give up work, but food was a enabler,’ the twins admit. It involves moving away put into an induced coma. constant. ‘My weight is killing ‘But we’re also each other’s from their family and their Bobbie and Sherry rally me, but it’s an addiction and support system.’ comfort zone, but Brandi round to support the girls, I can’t stop,’ Kandi says. They The moment their lives and Kandi don’t want to be and you can’t help but feel say that fast food calms them change is when their miserable any more. for them. Thankfully, after down, although they don’t like grandmother offers to help It isn’t easy, though. The a week, Kandi pulls through, eating in front of people, as them financially so they can surgeon gives the twins the and the twins are later they fear being judged. see a weight-loss surgeon, task of losing 3st 8lb each seen attending gym classes Both in a month. together, and counselling Bobbie By changing their to try to work on their and Sherry diets and trying to relationship with their mum. admit they walk as much as After 12 long months, worry that possible, the sisters Brandi and Kandi have lost FACEBOOK, TLC each time manage it. a considerable amount of they visit In four weeks, weight. As they continue

the identical Brandi loses 5st their weight-loss journey, PICTURES: twins, it’ll and Kandi drops you find yourself spurring be the last 4st 12lb, but they them on. It just goes to show time they see have to prove they that anything is possible. them alive, are committed

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60g chorizo, diced 1 red onion, thinly sliced 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 1tsp ground cumin 1tsp dried oregano 1tsp smoked paprika 400g boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 4-5) 400g can chopped tomatoes 100ml water Salt and pepper 1 red pepper, chopped into chunks 1tsp olive oil 2 small courgettes, chopped into chunks 1 bunch of flat leaf parsley, finely chopped to garnish

1 Heat a large saucepan over a medium heat, add the chorizo and fry for a few minutes to release the tasty juices. There’s no need to add extra oil here, as enough comes from the chorizo. Reduce the heat to low, add the onion and garlic and sauté for a few minutes, stirring to make sure the chorizo doesn’t burn. 2 Add the cumin, oregano and paprika and stir until everything is coated. Increase the heat and add the chicken. Stir briefly, then add the tomatoes, water and season. Cover with a lid, bring it to the boil briefly, then reduce the heat and simmer gently for 40 mins, or until the chicken is super-tender. Five minutes before the end Diet of cooking, add the pepper. 3 Meanwhile, heat the oil in a separate pan over a medium heat, then sauté the courgette for 10 mins until golden on all sides. Add the courgette to the dinners chicken just before serving. 4 Divide the broth between Try one of these delicious recipes from 2 bowls and garnish with Channel 4’s How To Lose Weight Well parsley. Enjoy!

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Cheryl says she fears getting hurt… protect your back? I do, yes, under my costume. I forgot to take it to my … but she’s rehearsal so that put me giving it her all into another panic! so as not to let Did your family try to talk partner Dan down you out of it? No, not at all! I audition You’re obviously quite for loads of things and brave, though – you went normally I don’t get on TV show Drop The them. That’s why Celebrity, where you broke when I didn’t hear your ankle, didn’t you? back from Dancing I did, yes – but it was my own On Ice for over four fault. I was on a parachute months I thought jump and yet again I was I wasn’t wanted worried about landing on my – so when I got back so I tried to land on my the call I was feet and broke my ankle. It’s so excited and the same old subconscious so were my fear of breaking my spine. daughters. Do you now fear being But like eliminated from the show? me, I don’t Of course – someone has to go think they every week. It’s Eurovision all considered over again! I want to stay in; the I’m doing this for me but I also implications want women my age to think, of the dangers ‘If she can do it, so can I.’ It’s on the ice. important to try to instil a bit Who do of confidence in older women. you see as Is getting old something a possible that worries you? winner of Actually, no. I don’t fear the show? getting old at all! Which I think Jake I suppose is why I am doing [Quickenden] is a show like Dancing On Ice. very good – he’s I do have something to prove, really confident but I don’t believe it has and I think he anything to do with age. I just raised the bar like competitions. I do fear in the first show. letting my family – and, of Donna [Air] looks course, Dan – down. so elegant on the ice – I think she stands a good chance of O Dancing On Ice is on getting to the final, too. Sundays, 6pm, ITV best TRAVEL Welcome t Washington, DC

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