Author: Jack Ward

Some faces become well-known for the right reasons, such as talent, beauty, or accomplishment, while others become well-known just because everyone is staring at them. Jocelyn Wildenstein was aware that she fell into the second group. She was born Jocelyne Alice Périsset in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1940. According to most accounts, she was an attractive young woman who was a hunter, a pilot, and someone who exuded a certain level of continental confidence. Only photos and the recollections of those who knew her long before the surgeries started contain that version of her. It’s hard to say when exactly things…

A generation that plans a ten-step skincare routine before bed but hasn’t made an appointment for therapy in years is subtly telling. It’s probably not denial either, nor is it laziness. It is more akin to a workaround—a convenient, reasonably priced, and socially acceptable method of taking care of oneself when everything else seems overwhelming. Cleanser, toner, serum, eye cream, and moisturizer are the steps in the ritual. Occasionally, on a particularly difficult Wednesday, a sheet mask. Every item is thoughtfully arranged on the bathroom shelf, every action is carried out in a precise sequence, and for a short while,…

When you reach your 40s, a certain type of frustration sets in. Not the philosophical, abstract kind, but the kind that appears on your face. In actuality. Every time the bathroom light catches them at the wrong angle, dark patches that you can’t quite recall earning appear along your cheekbones or close to your temples, becoming slightly more noticeable. The odd thing is that the majority of them weren’t brand-new. Dermatologists have a pretty good explanation for the situation. When you’re in your teens and twenties, sun exposure doesn’t always show up right away. While your younger cells regenerate fast…

Five years ago, most Medspa waiting rooms had fairly uniform clientele. Women in their forties and thirties, leafing through magazines, talking about downtime between work meetings and school pickups. That image is evolving. Men have begun to appear quietly, steadily, and without much fanfare, inquiring about things like microneedling, enlarged pores, acne scars, and skin texture. It’s important to consider why this makes biological sense rather than merely cultural. Men’s skin produces a lot more sebum, is about 20 to 25 percent thicker than women’s, and is subjected to a daily assault that most women just don’t deal with: shaving.…

“She’s bad” was the photo’s two-word caption, and the comments took care of the rest. After spending the majority of the summer away from WWE television, Nia Jax shared a carousel on Instagram that revealed a version of herself that fans had never seen before: she was obviously stronger, leaner, and having fun. In a matter of days, X was the subject of a side-by-side comparison, and the woman who had previously been billed at about 270 pounds became popular for reasons unrelated to a match. The best part was her response. She wrote, punctuating it with a laughing emoji,…

Since the crucial information often gets lost beneath the search results, let’s start with it: Timothy Olyphant has never reported having a serious illness. No cancer, no stroke, no diagnosis of any kind. From Justified: City Primeval to The Mandalorian universe to Alien: Earth to his new series Lucky, the 58-year-old actor is by all accounts one of the busiest men in television. Nevertheless, “illness” follows his name like a shadow when you type it into a search bar. How did this occur? The trail mostly traces back to 2023’s City Primeval, when some viewers thought the actor’s portrayal of…

Two days before his passing, Lindsey Graham was answering questions from reporters in the sweltering summer heat while standing next to a display of destroyed Russian military vehicles in central Kyiv. It was his tenth trip to Ukraine during the conflict. He met with President Zelenskyy on Friday and reported developments regarding a package of sanctions against Russia. He called Donald Trump from his Capitol Hill residence on Saturday night, sounding, according to the president, a little worn out but otherwise flawless. A cardiac arrest call was being routed to the same address by emergency dispatchers hours later. Within a…

It’s difficult to accept because of the timing. Sam Neill sounded almost ecstatic when he declared in late April that he was cancer-free, citing an Australian clinical trial that had accomplished what years of chemotherapy had failed to. He passed away on July 13 at the age of 78 in a Sydney hospital, and the cause of his death was not the uncommon blood cancer that he had notably survived. Pneumonia was the cause. Every day, doctors treat an infection. In an oddly cinematic turn of events, his illness started in March 2022 while he was on the press tour…

Two summers ago, Martinique received the first serious warning. Mid-tour and seemingly unstoppable, Fantan Mojah was taken to the hospital complaining of shallow breathing and tightening in his chest. Everyone nearby was alarmed by what the doctors discovered: his heart was only functioning at about 15% of its typical capacity. For background, anything less than 40% is regarded by cardiologists as a sign of heart failure. The area where the body is silently running out of road is fifteen. Nevertheless, he returned. This is the part of the story that hurts. Fans reasonably believed the crisis had passed when Owen…

The way this played out was almost predictable, and that’s what made it so depressing. In interviews last year, Olivia Cooke, a 32-year-old actress from Oldham who has played Alicent Hightower in three seasons of House of the Dragon, revealed that she had gained weight for the first time in her life. It was essentially liberating, according to her description. She claimed that she had been fortunate enough to never consider her body in that manner in the past and that navigating the current atmosphere of scrutiny surrounding women’s bodies, which was heightened by the Ozempic era, was exhausting. It…