Jada Pinkett-Smith's fans assumed she wore colorful turbans to protect her natural tresses from the stress of excess heat and hairstyling. The truth is the 46-year-old mother-of-2 is losing her hair.
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Singer FKA Twigs underwent surgery to remove six fibroid tumors from her uterus in December. The "Video Girl" star, real name Tahliah Barnett, made the revelation on Instagram on Wednesday.
We should all exercise daily whether we are pregnant or not. Doctors say exercising is good for both the pregnant woman and baby. Pictured above is rapper Cardi B "twerking" while performing onstage during day 3 of Coachella music festival in Indio, CA. Cardi is reportedly 8 months pregnant.
Mariah Carey and boyfriend Bryan Tanaka are seen exiting Mastro's steakhouse restaurant after celebrating Bryan's 35th birthday. Mariah recently revealed her battle with bipolar disorder in an interview with PEOPLE.
“I didn’t want to believe it,” tells PEOPLE of her diagnosis in 2001 after a mental breakdown.
The World Health Organization has hit the panic button about a disease that doesn't even exist yet. The WHO has added the so-called "Disease X" to its list of 9 deadly diseases including Ebola, MERS and Zika.
Gina Rodriguez is the latest star to reveal her struggle with thyroid disease. On Tuesday, talk show maven Wendy Williams said she was taking 3 weeks off from her talk show because of severe depression and fatigue caused by Graves' disease (overactive thyroid).
Wendy Williams is taking 3 weeks off from her popular daytime talk show after announcing she has thyroid disease. The 53-year-old talk show host made the announcement on the Wendy Williams Show on Wednesday morning.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 1 in 68 children in the U.S. is autistic. 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls.
In 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that doctors begin screening babies for autism as early as 18 months. But doctors agree that there are very few behaviors or telltale autistic or Asperger's signs that babies exhibit at 18 months.
Comedienne Leslie Jones may be going through a midlife crisis.
On Tuesday, Jones, 50, tweeted a message that looked like a desperate cry for help.
When Cardi B performed a duet with Bruno Mars during the 2018 Grammy Awards on Sunday, her fans lit up social media questioning her real age due to all the cellulite hanging off her thighs. Social media users wondered if the rumors were true that she is really 35.
According to Google.com, Cardi was born Belcalis Almanzar in the Bronx, NY on October 11, 1992, which makes her 25.
Cellulite is not a disease. It is unsightly subcutaneous fat that clings under the skin causing dimpling of the skin that resembles cottage cheese or orange peels. Cellulite affects 90 percent of women and only 10 percent of men (more on that later).
This post, originally written on Feb. 24, 2016, is being bumped up because one of my loyal readers suffered a heart attack a few days after the New Year. She requested a Medical Minute post to warn her fellow Rose Garden members about the warning signs of a heart attack.
Please heed the warning signs. Black people are at greater risk for heart attacks due to the prevalence of high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes in the black community.
It can happen to you.
Statistics show over 60 percent of adult black women are overweight and more than 40% of black women are obese. Obesity is defined as having considerably more body fat than is optimally healthy.
Designer Mychael Knight passed away in Atlanta last week at age 39. His family asks for privacy as they bury their loved one today.
Knight's cause of death has not been released to the public. As a result the public continues to speculate about how he died.
Aubrey O'Day's fans were horrified by her distorted facial features in an ad posted to her Instagram.com page on Thursday. The 33-year-old former Danity Kane member is barely recognizable in the ad for an eyelash kit.
Fans of talk show queen Wendy Williams were shocked by her emaciated appearance in paparazzi photos that surfaced on Wednesday.