Amy Schumer Responds To Swimsuit Shaming With A Slew Of Bikini Photos

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No woman needs to defend her right to wear a bathing suit. But if you’re going to do it, you might want to take a page out of Amy Schumer’s clap back playbook.  

Schumer posted a series of bikini photos to her Instagram stories section over the weekend. She didn’t directly mention Dana Duggan, a Massachusetts swimwear designer who responded to Schumer wearing a one-piece bathing suit on the cover of InStyle magazine last week by writing that “not everyone should be in a swimsuit,” but the message was pretty clear. 

I feel great. No haters can F with my baseline,” Schumer wrote on one of the photos, according to US Weekly. 

Duggan’s opinion was widely criticized by both fellow Instagram users and the media, but clearly, it has made little to no impact on Schumer’s life.

They say you should let your haters be your motivators, and Schumer did just that. After all, there is no better way to slap back ignorance than by living your life, doing exactly what they think you shouldn’t. 

Keep twirling, Amy. 

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DON'T LOOK DOWN! You're 500 Feet Over Houston In This Glass Bottom Pool!

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Last one in is a rotten egg ― or maybe someone who’s afraid of heights.

Houston’s Market Square Tower showed off its stunning sky pool on Instagram Thursday, featuring a swimmer walking on the plexiglass-bottomed extension 40 stories up.

It’s as if the floor just drops out and you’re stepping on wet air. Imagine playing Marco Polo and opening your eyes 500 feet above city streets.

Living at the luxe apartment complex is no drop in the bucket. Monthly rental prices range from $1,805 for a studio to $18, 715 for a penthouse, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Come live the tower life,” the social media copy beckons.

No thanks, we just want a dip in that pool!

h/t Refinery 29

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Kylie Jenner Remembers She's 19, Crashes High School Prom

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Kylie Jenner attended a high school prom over the weekend, which may be the most age-appropriate thing the “Keeping up with the Kardashians” star has ever done. 

It’s not entirely clear why or how, but California teen Albert Ochoa of Sacramento’s Rio Americano High School showed up to his prom on Saturday night with Jenner and her BFF Jordyn Woods on his arm.

Students at the school shared video updates and reactions on social media, and proceeded to lose any semblance of chill, including Ochoa’s own sister, who apparently had no idea her brother’s got it like that.

“TELL ME WHY MY BROTHER TOOK KYLIE JENNER TO PROM 2NIGHT !!!!!!!” his sister tweeted. She later posted a video of her brother and Jenner hugging, as the crowd cheered on, writing, “Proud to say that’s my brother.”

Just because it was a high school prom doesn’t mean Jenner wasn’t going full-glam. The 19-year-old stunned in a one-shoulder mocha-colored gown, complete with a traditional white corsage. 

Apparently, the world’s luckiest high school student scored Jenner as a date to the festivities after he was turned down. According to a student’s account in the local newspaper, Sacramento Bee, the reality star caught wind of Ochoa’s plight by way of social media. Jenner decided to show up and surprise him, and the rest is prom night history. 

Maybe this is Kylie’s way of sniping her much-older ex, Tyga, or maybe she just wanted to feel like a normal teenager again. But when she entered the dance, the crowd went wild. 

Jenner didn’t attend a traditional high school after ninth grade, opting to be home-schooled instead. She did graduate in 2015, however, but never went to prom, which has been a longtime dream of hers. 

“I really do want that boyfriend prom experience,” she told Seventeen magazine. “I would want to go with someone who’s not afraid, or doesn’t think that he’s too cool, to show up at my house with a rose corsage. It would be nice for the guy to come over and be respectful and nice while my mom takes prom pics.”

Oh, we can only imagine … 

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Some Zero-Calorie Sweeteners Have Calories, And Everything Is A Lie

When you see the label “zero calories” or “no calories” on certain food products, you probably take it literally and assume the product in question doesn’t contain calories. But according to a new video, certain labels can be deceiving. 

The YouTube channel Technicality recently explored products that advertise with “zero” or “no calories” labels ― like Diet Coke, Splenda and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. In the eight-minute clip, the host breaks down just how many calories the products actually have and why they’re allowed to obtain that somewhat deceiving label.

“How can a food or drink, that we ingest and then turn into power, have literally no calories?” Alex, the host, asks. “Yeah, that’s not a thing.” 

Basically, it all comes down to the FDA’s labeling practices for nutrition labels. The Huffington Post reached out to a spokesperson for the FDA’s labeling practices, who helped break it down even more. 

“According to federal regulations, the terms ‘calorie free,’ ‘free of calories,’ ‘no calories,’ ‘zero calories,’ ‘without calories,’ ‘trivial source of calories,’ ‘negligible source of calories,’ or ‘dietarily insignificant source of calories’ may be used on the label or in the labeling of foods, provided that food contains less than 5 calories per reference amount customarily consumed and per labeled serving,” the spokeswoman said. 

To learn more about another common myth ― negative-calorie foods ― tune in to the video above. 

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This Little Girl Wanted A Poop-Themed Birthday Party, So Her Parents Threw Her One

When a Missouri mom named Rebecca asked her daughter, Audrey, how she’d like to celebrate her third birthday, the toddler had only one theme in mind: “poop.”

“For months, every time we mentioned her party, Audrey requested ‘poop balloons and a poop cake,’” Rebecca told The Huffington Post. “I tried suggesting other themes, but she always insisted on poop.”

Ultimately, she and her husband decided to “embrace the weird” and give Audrey the party she wanted. 

The unconventional party took place in October at the family’s home in St. Louis.

The guests played “pin the poop,” enjoyed a poop emoji-shaped piñata filled with Tootsie Rolls and Hershey’s Kisses, and received whoopee cushion favors. Rebecca even dressed in a poop costume.

The mom said everyone loved the party and thought it was hilarious. “I expected the grandparents to question it, but they all just laughed when I told them,” she added.

Rebecca believes the birthday party embodied her daughter in many ways. “Audrey is definitely her own person,” she explained. “I hope she always has the confidence she has now. She is so funny and the best big sister.”

Rebecca hopes Audrey’s party can inspire other parents in the throes of birthday planning. 

“I feel like in this time of Facebook and Pinterest, we sometimes get caught up in trying to impress other adults,” she said. “This party wasn’t for me, it was for Audrey. I love that we will look back at pictures, and it will represent her at 3 ― my funny and quirky little girl.”

Keep scrolling for more photos of Audrey’s “poop”-themed third birthday party.

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What It Takes To Retire: The 3 A’s [Video]

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We all know that building the kind of retirement we hope to have requires solid financial planning during our working years. But what exactly should that plan entail? We teamed up with Fidelity Investments to explore how three A’s can be the key to building a solid financial future. It’s all about the Amount, Account, and Asset Mix.

Retirement planning can be confusing. But at Fidelity Investments, we’re working to help make that process clearer, so you always know where you stand as you build the retirement you imagine. The first step is getting your Fidelity Retirement Score. By answering 6 quick questions, you’ll get a simple numerical score that shows you how well you’re doing as your save for retirement. Get started today.

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Female Peacekeepers Fight Militants And Prejudice In Somalia

The number of women joining military and police ranks across Africa is rising. As part of our “Women and Jihad” series, we meet the female peacekeepers in Somalia who are taking on al-Shabab, both on the front lines and in the battle against extremist ideology.

AFGOYE, SOMALIA – Arabiska Forward Operating Base in south-central Somalia is unlike any battleground Captain Agnes Anywar had experienced. Here, the landscape is dotted with Ali Garob trees, a drought-resistant shrub that invaded Somalia in the 1980s and has claimed more of the country than any living organism, and the sun glares down so strongly the officer in charge doesn’t just offer visitors a glass of juice, but the entire box.

Originally from northern Uganda, Anywar had been through war first as a child whose family members were targeted by the violent Lord’s Resistance Army guerrilla group, and later as an internally displaced person. In that time, Anywar heard her mother being raped inside their home, squatted for months inside a police compound and commuted to school at night for over a year for fear of being abducted. When she finished school, she decided she was done being a victim.

“When I finished secondary school, I immediately enlisted in the Ugandan Military Academy,” she says, brow dotted with droplets of sweat. “I wanted to go back to northern Uganda and fight for my people suffering during the war.”

Though often depicted as the victims of violent conflict, women across Africa are increasingly making up military ranks, by some estimates comprising 30 percent of soldiers across the continent. In Somalia, women have taken up arms both in the nascent Somali National Army and as part of the 17,000-strong African Union Peacekeeping Force, AMISOM, where Anywar is one of 500 women in the Ugandan contingent. Unlike most peacekeeping forces, where the majority of women serve in support positions, in AMISOM women are tank engineers, drivers, and gunners fighting on the front lines in the battle against the al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization al-Shabab.

One of Anywar’s fellow servicewomen at Arabiska, Irene Nabulire – a gunner in AMISOM’s Ugandan contingent – sits in the shade of a tree outside her olive-green tent. A few weeks after Nabulire arrived in May of last year, she sat in the shade of the same tree discussing the climate – so different from the weather in her hometown in Uganda – with her colleagues. Now about to return home, Nabulire shares her delight in finishing her deployment and reminisces on the more exciting moments of her experience in Somalia.

“It was in November we went to al-Bowe [in south-central Somalia] for four days to support the contingent that was in a battle with al-Shabab,” she says sitting on a makeshift bench with some male colleagues, next to a large pack of once-feral dogs that have taken up residence at the base. “I was firing the 120mm mortar, 14 rounds in those four days. And then they [the militants] left their position.”

But women in security forces in Somalia aren’t just confronting al-Shabab on the battlefield. Their mere presence across the country may play an equally important role in influencing how Somali women view the positions they can fill in society, which, as a result of the militant group’s extremist Islamic ideology, have mostly been restricted to the household.

“Having female peacekeepers empowers the local women around them by giving them a role model,” says Riana Paneras, senior researcher on peace operations at the Institute for Security Studies. “Once you have female peacekeepers, women in that country see there are other avenues for women apart from what they are used to, that there is also a way they can get involved in military or police.”

In post-conflict societies like Liberia, this inspiration had a tangible impact. In 2007, an Indian all-female Formed Police Unit was credited with motivating Liberian women to join the national police force, boosting its female representation from 12 to 21 percent in just five years.

In Somalia, though figures have not been released due to security concerns, members of the Somali National Army and police force have noted an increase in the number of Somali women serving in both forces. It could be that women are inspired by the presence of female peacekeepers, they say. But some of the credit should also go to an outspoken 24-year-old, Captain Iman Elman, currently the highest-ranking woman in the Somali National Army.

After moving to Canada with her family during the height of Somalia’s civil war, Elman returned to Mogadishu in 2009 and enlisted in the national army in a conscious effort to inspire other women to do the same. There, she was one of two women in her battalion and the only woman asking to serve on the front lines. In return, she was subjected to verbal abuse from her male colleagues, who told her she didn’t belong in the military and that she was too weak to serve. Before civil war broke out in 1991, a number of women had served in the armed forces in positions such as fighter pilots and foot soldiers, but the emergence of al-Shabab nearly destroyed the perception of women as capable of fighting on the battlefield.

“We’re missing an entire generation here of anyone from 30 to 45 because of the war,” says Elman. “So you’re dealing with the older generation who are very familiar with women in the military and with young men under the age of 25 who grew up in a time when terrorists had such huge control over the country and had never seen peace or real governance, who don’t know anything about gender equality.”

Elman hopes her presence in the Somali National Army and the growing number of women joining her there can begin to change the mentality instilled by al-Shabab. In her tenure, she’s already seen the men’s attitude toward women in the military beginning to shift.

“I didn’t realize that I was making a difference in terms of the way the guys were thinking until a few years ago when I was put in charge of new recruits,” she says. “At first the negativity started again, they were calling me names. But then the male colleagues who knew me told them to back off. They said, ‘You don’t know what she’s capable of.’”

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Selena Gomez And '13 Reasons Why' Actors Get Powerful Matching Tattoos

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One week after “13 Reasons Why” debuted on Netflix, series executive producer Selena Gomez now has matching tattoos with two stars of the show: Tommy Dorfman, who plays Ryan, and Alisha Boe, who plays Jessica. 

The trio’s matching ink is a semicolon, which has a powerful message behind it.

Dorfman explained over Instagram how the semicolon ― the symbol of the mental health care nonprofit Project Semicolon ― represents the end of one thought and the beginning of another. In the context of the show, which revolves around a high school student’s decision to kill herself, the symbol represents the “beginning of another chapter in life, in lieu of ending your life.”

Dorfman also shared his personal experience with addiction and depression in his Instagram post, making the tattoos all the more meaningful:

“I struggled with addiction and depression issues through high school and early college. I reached out and asked for help. At the time, I thought my life was over, I thought I’d never live past the age of 21. Today I’m grateful to be alive, in this new chapter of life in recovery, standing with my colleagues and friends, making art that helps other people.”

Boe shared a moving caption of her own to explain more about Project Semicolon, which was founded by Amy Bleuel in 2013 with the stated goal to provide “hope for those suffering from depression, thoughts of suicide, addiction, and self-injury.” Bleul died by suicide on March 24, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WBAY reported.

“I have received so much love and support from all of you who are watching 13 Reasons Why,” she wrote, directing anyone in need toward the short documentary “Beyond the Reasons” and other mental health care information.

“13 Reasons Why” Season 1 is now available on Netflix.

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