Alysia Montano runs in the Women’s 800 Meter during Day 1 of the 2017 USA Track & Field Championships on June 22, 2017 in Sacramento, California.Photo: Andy Lyons (Getty Images) Protections for their pregnant athletes? After facing criticism for not including allowances for maternity and postnatal leave in its sponsorship contracts, Nike has decided to […]
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(l-r) Diana Ross (L) and Tracee Ellis Ross attend the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones on February 24, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, poses with her newborn son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor on May 8, 2019 in Windsor, England; Sandra Layne (l) and KiKi Layne attend the 91st […]
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The queen Alfre Woodard has played a host of iconic moms on the big screen. But the Emmy Award winner says being a real-life mom is the role of a lifetime. “Being a mother—it is the deepest most significant task that I have ever had the privilege of taking on,” said Woodard. “There is nothing […]
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Photo: iStock Did you forget? Freeze up? Been feeling broke? Or have options just been feeling flat when it comes to honoring the mother(s) in your life? Whatever your reason, if you now find yourself scrambling to find a Mother’s Day gift that makes an impact, never fear: The Glow Up is here! If you’ve […]
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Our ’90s faves, Salt-N-Pepa and SWV love music but they really love being mothers. For Mother’s Day, the R&B and hip-hop veterans shared their favorite things about motherhood with The Root. Both groups have a new reality show on BET, Ladies Night. Check out the music icons in the short video above.
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MTV/YouTube Of the many ways in which the United States has long been considered a global leader, there is one which is deeply shameful. “In the past three decades in the U.S., the number of women who die from pregnancy-related complications has more than doubled,” says Lena Waithe, in a new PSA . “Over half […]
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The story has to be told in such a way where we’re not making people lose hope. The specific “story” Chanel Porchia-Albert is referring to is that of the black maternal mortality crisis. She knows all about the daunting statistics surrounding black motherhood as a mother of six and the CEO of Ancient Song Doula […]
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Lorraine Toussaint is an actor, writer and producer. But being a mother is a responsibility that is unmatched. “Motherhood is … it is the greatest part of my life,” Toussaint said. The star of NBC’s The Village is the mother of a teenage daughter, Samara, a person for whom the actor’s love is indescribable. “My […]
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Image: Emmy McIntyre (Getty Images) For most of my adult life, I’ve been the kind of slim that inspired a stranger to tell me “If you could just eat a pork chop sandwich, you’d be alright!” In the fall of 2017, when my husband and I learned I was pregnant, I figured this baby would […]
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(l-r) Quincy, Jessie, Christian, Diddy, Chance, D’Lila and Justin; Center cover, clockwise from top center: D’Lila, Diddy, Chance and Jessie.Photo: Dana Scruggs (Essence Communications) “Puffy, take care of my babies.” Sean “Diddy” Combs tells Essence that longtime love Kim Porter said those words three days before her sudden death from pneumonia last November, after sending […]
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Image: Getty Images Guillermina Rodriguez, a mother of four, found space to pull over after it took her about an hour to get from 42nd to 30th street in midtown Manhattan. She had a crying three-week-old baby crying in the back seat. “Even though I saw it was a commercial area I’m like, ‘I’m not […]
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Screenshot: Pampers (YouTube) True Confession Time: Sometimes, when we’re having a particularly terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, we’ll skim the Instagram feeds of some of our favorite famous families for a pick-me-up—and Serena Williams and daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian never disappoint. Everyone recognizes Serena as a fierce competitor and savvy entrepreneur, but her […]
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I have written before about the challenges children face, and the lessons they can learn, when one of their parents is dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In this post I’d like to focus more on moms who have OCD, and the difficulties they might deal with. I won’t be focusing on postpartum OCD, but rather on […]
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In the early hours of a Sunday morning last autumn, the week before her 18th birthday, Beth told her dad that she was in “absolute agony.” She’d been having stomach cramps so intense that she collapsed in school on Wednesday, but she put the constant need to go to the bathroom down to IBS. She’d […]
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When it comes to keeping up with good habits, sometimes it’s about having them right in front of you. For example, using that fancy anti-aging serum you bought by leaving it on the counter, making a nutrient packed smoothie by keeping your blender out, hitting the gym after work by keeping your workout clothes in […]
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Who said that life ends after giving birth? And furthermore, why are adult children so damned ungrateful to their mothers in the first place? I’m no mother, but if Beyoncé can head a clothing line, a production company and sit on top of an empire, all while having have three kids, then your kids can […]
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This post is written by BIA contributor Chelsea Becker First up, I want to address the fact that no matter WHAT you do, you’re likely going to go through flows […]
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When you’re a working mom, it can easily feel like you have no time for genuinely restorative breaks—or any break for that matter. Which can quickly lead to everything from resentment to burnout. But mothering doesn’t have to be one massive hustle without any respite. We just think it does. And these narratives dictate how […]
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They say that when you finally get into a rhythm with your bebe, everything changes, and boy are they right! After months of making, trying, adjusting and building on purees, I finally had a really good handle on what my child loved. I figured out how how to efficiently make […]
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