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Why would a woman want to bleach her private parts? Possibly because the culture in which she lives demands it. That appears to be the (sad) state of affairs for many dark-skinned gals in India, or so suggests a recent commercial for a vaginal whitening product directed at Indian consumers (via Time.com).

Melissa McCarthy faces yet another misguided rant at the hand of one of New York's oldest film critics.

When Christopher Reeve fell from his horse, suffering catastrophic injuries that left him paralyzed, he forever altered not only the course of his, and his family's, life but he also assumed a public persona distinct from his identity as an actor and celebrity.

Vogue writer Dara Lynn-Weiss ignited a mini-firestorm in media circles among last week when her essay for the April issue of the fashion magazine hit newsstands.

The recent Time magazine cover depicting an attractive 26-year-old mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son with the headline ‘Are you Mom Enough?’ hanging over the image has re-ignited the perennial (some might say, interminable) argument surrounding the subject of breastfeeding and the new school of ‘attachment parenting,’ a term that mom/cover model Jamie-Lynn Grumet seems to take literally.