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Christie Brinkley, a gorgeous and successful 59-year-old former supermodel who still poses in swimwear, must have confidence through the roof, right? Well, that wasn’t always the case.

The blonde stunner revealed in an interview with Haute Living today that even she felt uncomfortable in her own skin when her legendary career began. Feeling nostalgic, Christie confessed:

“I came across an older picture of me that someone had posted on Facebook and I totally remember squirming and feeling very fat while I was shooting it,” she says with a laugh. “And I look at it now and think, I was actually really thin! How is it possible that I felt so uncomfortable in that body?”

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LeapFrog’s latest tablet just couldn’t wait to show off for the camera, making its on-screen debut over at the FCC’s site a few weeks back. The kid-friendly tech company was finally ready to show the thing off for real this week, almost exactly a year after letting us take a look at the previous-generation device. The slate, naturally, maintains the kid-friendly software and rugged design that have become customary across LeapFrog’s hardware offerings, while adding enough new features to let the company confidently refer to the LeapPad Ultra as “the ultimate kids learning tablet.” Though they might be just a tad biased when it comes to such overarching statements.

The Ultra’s got a 7-inch, 1,024 x 600 touchscreen display that works with an stylus to help kids learn to write with something other than their fingers (making it not too unlike the LeapReader in that respect). There are front- and rear-facing cameras for its built-in imaging programs and 8GB of storage for downloading some of the 800-plus LeapFrog-approved apps downloadable from the company’s App Center (which wasn’t ready to demo when we looked at the hardware). The choices include proprietary apps and selections from partners like Pixar and Sesame Street. The tablet’s got all kinds of parental protection, including secure WiFi and a four-digit code for updating. And while there’s an included chat app (Pet Chat), communication is limited to other LeapPads, using a limited number of canned responses.

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The U.S. government should help to develop a market for student loan borrowers to refinance high-cost debt in order to allow younger households to benefit from the Federal Reserve’s efforts to provide cheaper borrowing, a senior regulator has suggested.

Rohit Chopra, the official responsible for student loans at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is due to tell lawmakers on Tuesday that if harmful market practices such as poor loan servicing or structural impediments such as a concentrated credit sector are not addressed, “there may be a negative impact not just on consumers, but also on the broader economy,” according to prepared remarks he plans to make at a Senate Banking Committee hearing.

Chopra’s suggestion and warning follows a year’s worth of mounting evidence from officials at the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank of New York that record student debt levels threaten economic growth, depressing consumption, investment, savings and entrepreneurship. Other side effects, such as the lack of doctors in rural areas, also may result from increasing student debt burdens, Chopra said.

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A group of women in Beverly Hills say smoking pot is the secret to their parenting success. Cheryl Shuman recently joined HuffPost Live to share her story. She said swapping prescription pills for pot helped turn her parenting skills around.

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Adidas has another new running shoe, this one even more divergent than its Boost shoe and its new foam. It’s a bunch of springs, basically, strapped to your foot. And it sort of makes a lot of sense.

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