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Vicky McClure: ‘I’ll have a fry-up for dinner when I can’t think what to cook’
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Vicky McClure
4-min read - CelebrityThe Telegraph
NHS maternity care gave me PTSD – 20 years on, nothing has changed
At least the baby’s healthy – that’s the main thing. If I heard that sometimes well-meant, sometimes passive-aggressive, always dismissive phrase once, I heard it a dozen times in the hours, days and weeks after the traumatic birth of my first baby.
9-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Kathy Lette: ‘I’m glad I found a bloke who doesn’t think mutual orgasm is an insurance company’
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Kathy Lette
3-min read - CelebrityThe Telegraph
The real Saltburn: Inside Lady Lola Bute’s decadent birthday party
A 19th-century ancestral pile transformed into a surreal wonderland with giant inflatable mushrooms; banquet tables groaning with lobster and oysters; black-tie-wearing revellers dancing in front of stained-glass windows while sipping Moët through a straw; Land of Hope and Glory accompanying a jumbo fireworks display; and a guest list comprising Hollywood stars, fashion icons and royalty.
9-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
The best period pants of 2024, for stylish but effective absorbency
Period underwear is a game changer. Like many, I was unsure and tentative at first. Could they work? Would they leak? Might they smell? But when I tried period pants, all my concerns melted away, replaced by a new question: where have these been all my life? I wish I could travel back in time and gift them to my younger self. The best period pants I tried made periods so much more comfortable and easier to manage.
16-min read - CelebrityThe Telegraph
Exclusive Gina Ford interview: ‘I’ve never advised parents to let babies cry it out’
Three weeks ago, I wrote an article for The Telegraph about my search for Gina Ford, the baby sleep guru and Queen of Routine. Desperate for my own baby to sleep, I described my fruitless attempts to impose Ford’s methods – in the middle of the night, as the baby monitor flashed red, or at lunchtimes when she woke up 40 minutes after I’d put her down for a nap – and my fantasy that Ford herself might offer me some advice.
15-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Karen Millen: ‘I miss the cleaner I had before my bankruptcy’
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Karen Millen
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