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Newsweek
5 days ago
- Health
- Newsweek
Heartbreak as Woman Captures Pregnancy Excitement Fade With 'Every Loss'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A couple from Georgia have shared the extreme highs of a positive pregnancy test—and the heartbreak that comes with losing the baby. Loren and Sean Rosko began trying to conceive shortly after their honeymoon. "A year of trying naturally and, one loss later, we found ourselves at ACRM [Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine] fertility clinic in Atlanta," Loren told Newsweek. Split view of Loren (left) finding out she is pregnant for the first time; and with Sean crying and holding each other (right). Split view of Loren (left) finding out she is pregnant for the first time; and with Sean crying and holding each other (right). @lorenrosko Tests revealed she had polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), mild endometriosis and a septate uterus—a wall of tissue dividing the uterus. Despite undergoing surgery, one egg retrieval and two successful embryo transfers, both pregnancies ended in heartbreak. "My first IVF loss was at 11 weeks, which was such a gut punch, thinking we were almost past that first trimester," Loren said. The embryo had been genetically normal. The couple had seen a strong heartbeat, and the odds were seemingly in their favor. But, at the next scan, there was no heartbeat. "We were so certain that we had made it," Loren added. The second loss was even more rare—and devastating. "The embryo split late, and there were twins sharing a fetal pole and sac," Loren said. "This is very rare and considered high risk. There was no heartbeat at 8.5 weeks. Two first trimesters back to back with no baby to show for it is a personal hell." Loren explained how loss doesn't just rob you of a child—it erases an entire imagined future. "Loss isn't just heart-shattering because you're grieving a baby you already loved, but it's also grieving the timeline you created in your mind," Loren said. "It's having to go back and telling your loved ones, 'Never mind!' "Deleting all the apps off your phone so you stop getting notifications like, 'Congrats! You're nine weeks today!' Three losses later, it's hard to even get excited about being pregnant again. I'm afraid to dream of names or baby showers. I feel like, if I get to happy, it's all going to be ripped away from me." Loren shared the heartbreaking moments as the excitement fades with 'each loss' in a reel on Instagram (@lorenrosko). Sadly, many other moms could relate to her experience. "I've had 1 stillbirth at 36 weeks, 1 medically necessary termination at 20 weeks and now I'm pregnant again. I feel this soooo much. Don't lose hope," one user wrote. "6 losses. Finally pregnant, 22 weeks. I felt so much of your pain as if it were mine from all those times. I pray the next one, you get to hold in your arms," another commented. Now 37, Loren and Sean are preparing for their next embryo transfer. "We're getting back on the horse," she said, hopeful but cautious. "My family, friends and online community has been such a tremendous blessing for my mental health."
Irish Independent
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Wicklow woman opens new nail salon in Wexford
The studio offers clients with a variety of services including nail, eyelash and eyebrow treatments. Loren said she wants to offer something 'different than other salons - that's a bit more inclusive to an alternative style'. She said she wanted to cater her business to those who were interested in more gothic and dark styles, as she feels the alternative style is often forgotten about. Loren wanted to ensure everyone felt welcome to come to her studio. 'The amount of people that have said to me: 'Oh you're opening a salon' and assume pink and glitter, but I'm not into all that.' The nail studio is situated above The Wine Buff on Gorey Main Street and is open from 10am to 5pm Monday to Saturday. Loren spoke about her journey as a nail artist starting in during the COVID pandemic. 'I've always been quite artsy. I started off in my house, believe it or not in my sitting room doing little nails on people and just taking in a few clients' she said. Loren shared that she started working in a nail salon in October 2024 but felt the urge to have her own studio, which led to her grand venture to Gorey Main Street. Discussing the grand opening of the mysterious salon, Loren said: 'It might not suit everyone, but I think a lot of people are quite excited about it.'
Irish Times
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Queer romance at the end of the world: the best new young-adult fiction
The title gives it away, to a certain extent. Vesuvius (Atom, £9.99), the debut from Cass Biehn, is set in Pompeii just before that fateful eruption. For modern readers who may feel as if our own world constantly teeters on the brink of disaster (or has perhaps toppled over), there's an immediate appeal here in this tale of two star-crossed boys – one thief, one temple attendant – whose paths cross when the former steals a sacred relic. Mercury's helmet is said to contain tremendous power, but when Felix steals it, he's mainly concerned with its monetary value. In a reverse Pascal's wager, he holds fast to one rule: 'magic isn't worth the cost of belief'. Loren, on the other hand, is all too aware the supernatural exists – all his life he has seen flashes of the future, though he's been cautioned not to share them publicly. When he encounters Felix, he instantly recognises the boy from his apocalyptic visions – 'the living counterpart of the nightmarish ghost who caused the destruction' of the city. There's adventure, political intrigue, and reflections on what it means to be a hero – all wrapped up in a love story that reminds us, as Biehn notes in their preface, 'queer people existed in ancient times as they exist today'. The umbrella term is useful here, acknowledging the historically and culturally specific ways in which sexuality is conceived of and spoken about, and Biehn pleasingly resists the urge to impose modern labels. Loren confesses he is 'not… for women', a certainty that comes 'as a bright shock' to Felix, who understands the fluidity when one wants a 'dalliance' but is all too aware that settling down involves a woman. A wealthy man may have 'a boy on the side', but never an equal; to want a 'companion' is impossible. Other concepts are slightly shakier for the period; there are conversations about virginity, historically policed for women but not men, that don't quite ring true, and there's a fuzziness over what 'childhood' might mean. These are nitpicks, of course, and more forgivable is the dialogue that moves between faux-archaic and contemporary idiom – if we are to be relentlessly purist, we would not be reading this text in modern English, after all. READ MORE This gripping adventure is part of a wave of classical-myth-inspired YA fiction and pop culture more generally, and one suspects the generation of kids who grew up on the Percy Jackson books and are now writing their own novels have more than a little to do with this. There are tropes and indeed some phrases that will be too familiar to readers – within two lines we have 'Loren's thudding heart skipped' and 'Felix's copper curls tangled like a storm-tossed ocean' – but if you are inclined to swoon over a queer romance at the end of the world (raises hand) you'll let it slide. That sense of queer history, and a historical Italian setting, is also at play in Brian Selznick's Run Away With Me (Scholastic, £19.99), albeit a tad more recent. Rome, the summer of 1986. Danny wanders the streets while his mother works on old books, and meets a strange, beautiful boy. 'Angelo and I expanded and contracted across the city, a murmuration of two that shifted and changed shape but always felt complete and alive, no matter how big or small the space between us.' It is like being in a myth, though he is aware how unhappily most end – 'People were usually transformed against their will into trees or constellations or deer killed by their own hounds'. Angelo is 'all sweat and cherries and rain', and together they will uncover the secret of the Monda Museum and its founders. Selznick, best known for his illustrated children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret , bookends the lyrical text with charcoal drawings, lending to the dreamy, delirious first-love feeling of it all. Gorgeous. Abdi Nazemian Slightly later in the 1980s we might move to New York and find ourselves in the world of novelist and screenwriter Abdi Nazemian's Like A Love Story (Little Tiger, £8.99), featuring three teenagers in a quasi-love triangle against the backdrop of the Aids crisis. Reza has just moved to the city, and is sure of two things – he is gay and it will kill him. He will not let his mother bandage a minor wound: 'Just in case my blood is toxic. Just in case you can get it from having too many thoughts of boys in locker rooms.' Meeting Art, out and proud at school, is a jolt, but even Art sometimes wonders: 'I don't know how I'll ever begin to live while this disease is raging. Who will love me when all they'll see when they look at me is the possibility that I may kill them?' The terror, which may feel melodramatic for contemporary readers – as I write this there is news of yet another medical breakthrough in the prevention of HIV transmission – is legitimate, as we learn when we meet Judy (Art's best friend, who falls hopelessly for Reza) and her dying, fiercely activist uncle Stephen. It's hard not to veer toward cliche when writing about truly awful historical moments, but Nazemian earns every single activist slogan, every entreaty to both fight and celebrate. There is nuance and care here, as various issues are explored; novels offer space beyond the simple binary of with us/against us that is so prevalent in our polarised society. Stephen noting, 'there's a difference between denying sick people access to life-saving drugs and expressing an opinion about how to define queer film' is a particularly welcome line. Thoughtful, emotional, haunting – I loved it. Josh Silver British author Josh Silver is always good on sideways glances at contemporary treatments for mental health, approaching the topic with tremendous empathy and knowledge but unafraid to squint a little at panaceas. In his latest, Traumaland (Rock The Boat, £8.99), the new silver bullet is 'optogenetics', a 'cutting-edge neuro modulation' that is 'a quick, effective and innovatory new therapy, set to revolutionise mental healthcare'. Eli is unaware of all this at first – but he does know he has been through something traumatic, and it's left him unable to feel anything. Seeking out dark thrills at an underground club leads him into a tangled web of conspiracies (don't go clubbing, kids), and makes him determined to uncover the truth of his alleged accident. Silver's pacy writing and twisty plot makes this a delicious read as well as providing much food for thought. Finally, sometimes one just needs a sapphic rom-com involving a princess and a scholarship student at a boarding school in a tiny fictional European country. This premise, too, is part of a broader trend in YA and romance – glamorous escapism, but make it gay. It's a little bit progressive and a little bit conservative, a repackaging of old ideas with a rainbow ribbon, often with little reflection, but in the best hands, it's tremendously pleasing. And we are in good hands with the always-reliable Sophie Gonzales, whose Nobody in Particular (Hodder, £9.99) offers a sharp eye on public scrutiny – 'The media has been writing incessantly about me since six months before my birth,' Princess Rose recalls – while also providing a sweet, hopeful love story.
USA Today
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Lauren Sánchez Bezos ditches 'sexy' garb for Sophia Loren-inspired wedding dress
Lauren Sánchez Bezos ditched her typical "sexy" garb for a traditional Sophia Loren-inspired gown to tie the knot with billionaire Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder and children's book author wed in Venice, Italy on Friday, June 27, and Sánchez Bezos wore a dress that mirrored iconic Italian actress Loren's look from the 1958 film "Houseboat." Loren starred in the beloved feature opposite Oscar nominee Cary Grant. Sánchez Bezos wore a Dolce & Gabbana silhouette dress with a high-neck, adorned with 180 silk chiffon-covered priest buttons paired with a tulle-and-lace veil, inspired by a similar veil that Loren wore in "Houseboat," according to a Vogue magazine exclusive. Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez tie the knot in controversial wedding ceremony "It went from 'I want a simple, sexy modern dress' to 'I want something that evokes a moment,' and where I am right now. I am a different person than I was five years ago," she told Vogue. "I went into a lot of therapy, and it's changed me in a bunch of ways. But it's really Jeff," she continued. "Jeff hasn't changed me. Jeff has revealed me. I feel safe. I feel seen. He lets me be me. Like I said about Sophia Loren being unapologetically free, he lets me be unapologetically free." Sánchez Bezos chose to imitate Loren for the occasion after she "researched pictures of brides in the 1950s" and "wanted to reflect back, and I saw Sophia Loren and her hands were" in a prayer position and "she was in high lace, up to the neck, and I said, 'That's it. That's the dress.'" The dress Sánchez Bezos wore for the fête was much anticipated because, at times, her tight, showy wardrobe has caused controversy. She wore a lingerie-inspired all-white look to President Donald Trump's second inauguration in January, which ignited both fierce criticism and applause. "It is a departure from what people expect. From what I expect, but it's very much me," the former "View" guest cohost told Vogue.
The Irish Sun
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Britain's Got Talent stars announce shock comeback tour just three years after splitting
BRITAIN'S Got Talent legends have announced a shock comeback tour - just three years after splitting. Musical theatre group Collabro won the ITV show's eighth series back in 2014. 4 Collabro won Britain's Got Talent back in 2014 Credit: Rex Features 4 They parted ways in 2022 with a farewell tour Credit: Dan Jones - The Sun 4 The group are reuniting for some performances next year Credit: Instagram/@collabro However, they announced their break-up Three years on, the group confirmed their reunion earlier this month, with upcoming dates. They penned, in part, on Instagram: "We're BACK! Over the past few years, we've noticed you guys asking for a UK tour, and we've missed you so much that we've decided to do one! "We will be visiting stunning cathedrals across the UK in February 2026 singing our beautiful harmonies in candlelight!!" Read more on BGT One follower commented: "Best news ever! Thank you for singing my favourite song 'he lives in you' tonight. You were incredible as always." Another added: "Love love love this!!!!" A third shared: " Absolutely fabulous news !!! Woohoo xxx." While a fourth remarked: "Wow thats wonderful news . I will see which is nearest to me." Most read in News TV It comes as one of Collabro's members Singer Michael Auger, 35, shared the couple's happy news on Instagram. BGT: The Champions -'Who Wants To Live Forever' Collabro captivate with soulful Queen cover The parents-to-be struck a heartwarming pose beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris , with a kneeling Michael kissing Nicole's bare bump. He wrote on Instagram: "In the city of love celebrating our new lil love." The picture was taken on a perfect sunny day and Nicole looked down lovingly at her man. Michael's Collabro co-star Jamie Lambert said: "Lovely lovely lovely." A follower commented: "This is the most gorgeous news . I'm so incredibly happy for you both!!! Sending you, Nicole and your very precious 'lil love' all my love and huge congratulation." Another fan said: "Wow!! Omg omg omg!! The best news ever. Congratulations. What a gorgeous bambino you guys are gonna make." BGT's Best Golden Buzzer Moments BGT have handed out many Golden Buzzer's over the years, can you remember some of the most famous Loren Allred - Loren Allred, 32, from Brooklyn, New York jetted to London to audition after recording the vocals for The Greatest Showman. The stunning singer got a standing ovation and a Golden Buzzer from the judges as she delivered a stirring rendition of Never Enough from the popular film. Loren came out on stage and revealed to the judges they would have heard her voice many times before that moment. "I was hired to record the vocals for The Greatest Showman as a guide for the actors to know how to sing the songs," she explained. Loren then revealed actress Rebecca Ferguson was so stunned by her singing that she decided to let her vocals be heard in the movie. "So she lip-synced," Loren said. Chicken Shed Theatre Company - Comprised of individuals aged between 5 and 37, the group was set up to welcome anyone irrespective of background to get up on stage and perform and fulfil their dream. Chicken Shed prides itself on accepting anyone and does not hold auditions to make the group a safe and inclusive space. The group wowed as they performed Wonder by Naughty Boy featuring Emeli Sande. It meant that Alesha wasted no time as she decided to hit her golden buzzer for the young performers. She told them it was her "honour" to reward their inclusiveness with her golden buzzer. The Dancing Granny - Granny Paddy Jones and her professional partner Niko Espinosa first hit headlines when they won the Spanish talent show Tú sí que vales in 2009, before going on to appear on Britain's Got Talent in 2014 where they came ninth. Amanda Holden was so impressed with Paddy that she gave her the Golden Buzzer, which sent them straight through to the semi-finals. But things took a worrying turn when Paddy cracked a rib while rehearsing a new move and her place on the show was under doubt. She was given the all-clear to perform in the end but didn't quite live up to expectations. Bars and Melody - They will forever be remembered for their anti-bullying song on the talent show. Bars and Melody were first seen on the 2014 series of Britain's Got Talent, getting shuttled into the semi-finals when Simon Cowell pressed his Golden Buzzer. They made it to the final thanks to a performance of I'll Be Missing You but lost out on the crown to Collabro. These days Charlie Lenehan - known as Melody - is covered in tattoos, with inkings on his neck, arms and chest. But he is as close as ever to co-star Leondre Devries - who is Bars - with the pair seen enjoying themselves in exotic locations all over the world. Since winning BGT in 2014, Collabro have sold over two million albums. Their rise to stardom suffered a blow in 2016 when former member Richard Hadfield left the group due to The boys continued as a fourpiece and supported Cliff Richard on his Just Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Tour of the UK in 2017. Two years later, the boys went on a 51-date tour called Road to the Royal Albert Hall and returned to screens in 4 Group member Michael Auger has revealed his wife is pregnant with their first child Credit: Instagram/michaelcollabro
