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Miley Cyrus compared having a baby to having a makeup line
Plus: 😇 Good Girls Gossip 🎬 LOLLIPOP 😬 'likeability labour'
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Nice girls finish exhausted
Plus: 💸 money survey 💪 Sydney Sweeney 📱 phones and fertility
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JLaw's postpartum comments hit hard
Plus: 😵‍💫 'Silent' perimenopause 🍼 Hailey Bieber's baby era 🎶 female festival acts
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Young women would prefer a world without internet
Plus: 🎥 Jennifer Lawrence 💉 Ozempic pregnancies 🌅 'miracle mornings'
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AI has a boob problem (and it's not what you think)
Plus: 🩺 TikTok doc 🥰 Aimee Lou Wood 🧠 facts about MS
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I saw a rare health condition on TikTok. It turns out I had it.
Plus: 💍 marriage decline ✨ magic circle plot 🚀 confidence jump-starts
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Young women are ditching social media
Plus: 🎤 Chappell Roan 🎬 ageing in Hollywood 🤬 menopause fury
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The sentence in Adolescence that broke me as a parent
Plus: 😡 repressed anger 🤦‍♂️ baldness studies ⚡ power intros
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Rihanna dropped some wisdom on ageing
Plus: 👵 modern grandparenting 👯‍♀️ women of the year 🩻 looking after your posture
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Grandparents are secretly fuelling women’s careers
Plus: 🎤 Rihanna on ageing 🥇 hire your way to success
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Twinning is in 📈
Plus: 💸 radical finances 👀 trustworthy accents 💌 age gaps
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Are you in your 'millenopause' era?
Plus: 💡 creativity 🎤 Sabrina Carpenter 🗣️ fighting well with friends
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