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Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Wedding guest sparks outrage over 'crazy' outfit choice for black tie dress code
An influencer has been slammed for her take on 'black tie' dress codes for wedding guests - after suggesting a sheer outfit is appropriate attire. New York influencer Courtney Grow, who often shares her extravagant purchases and fashion advice on social media, is under fire for her risqué recommendation for a black tie dress. The mom-of-four shared a series of spring fashion finds to her Instagram, along with links to the the items she was posting. Sharing her favorites, the fashion influencer also posted a dress she recommended for a black tie wedding - with horrified users up in arms over the choice. 'Black tie under $300,' she cheerfully labeled the link to the frock. The ankle-length Reformation dress, which retails at $298, is not only white, but also sheer, with the models undergarments' clearly visible. It features adjustable spaghetti straps and covered in celestial objects, boasting embroidered stars and moons with sequins all over it. While fashion lovers didn't dislike the dress - especially with sheer gowns having a major fashion moment on the red carpet - they argued it was in no way appropriate for a wedding - let alone a black tie dress code. 'Calling a see through fast fashion dress "black tie" is some good s**t,' one user posted to Reddit, along with a snap of her Instagram story. 'This is crazy. Who would wear an off-white see-through fast fashion dress to a black tie wedding? 'I'm sick of the visible underpants trend,' complained another. 'Perfect for when you have a Coachella themed wedding to attend,' joked another. 'A Coachella themed black tie wedding,' joked another. New York City-based etiquette expert Myka Meier previously told the that, 'a black tie dress code specifically means floor-length gowns.' 'Anything cocktail or tea length (mid calf) is not considered black tie,' she explained. 'A black tie dress code is 6pm onward - anything before 6pm would simply be formal attire, with no tux or gown required,' Myka clarified, adding that the biggest sparkles and boldest jewelry also comes out after the sun goes down. New York influencer Courtney Grow (seen in a similar dress), who often shares her extravagant purchases and fashion advice on her social media, is under fire for her risqué recommendation for a black tie dress When it comes to footwear, it's a bit more relaxed, and guests can rock open or closed toe heels. 'Small evening bags or clutches are recommended, as the more formal the event, the smaller the bag,' Myka said. As for material, opt for silks, tulles, sparkles, and sequins, and stay away from linen or cotton. 'In terms of silhouette, as long as it's floor-length, it's likely appropriate,' Myka said, adding, 'from ball gown to fishtail, anything goes.' All sorts of tops are acceptable, from strapless to cap sleeves, but she advised: 'Keep in mind it may be a religious event and you want to be cautious about the amount of skin shown to come across respectful.' 'You also never want to upstage the bride with anything too revealing,' Myka warned. Etiquette expert Jamila Musayeva also told that it's best not to bother the bride if you're not quite sure what to wear. Jamila said that black tie optional gives women flexibility, but they should 'still aim for an elegant, polished look,' adding, 'a floor-length gown is ideal, but a formal cocktail dress or a pantsuit can also be appropriate.' 'The key is to choose high quality fabrics and keep the outfit refined,' Jamila said, suggesting 'darker tones, like navy, emerald, or black.' Jamila advised avoiding casual options like short sundresses or anything too revealing.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Over 25 Million People Are Gobsmacked After Seeing This Viral Video Showing What Happens When You Laugh During Pregnancy
Listen up, pregnant people! The babies want you to see something. So, grab your jar of pickles and — whatever you do — do not laugh at what you are about to see. You can keep the donut, but stop the giggle. I MEAN IT! STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!! Okay, fine. You can laugh. We are going to show you the ultrasound of a mom who couldn't contain her laughter while having one done. Myka Giles performed it at her business Peek At Baby 4D Ultrasound & Photography, and shared the video (with the mom's permission!) on TikTok. That video has now been viewed more than 25 million times, and people are losing it. Most are just in disbelief at what it looks like in there during a hearty cackle. Some people say it's like a rave. While others think the baby is trying to send a message. So, if you're dying for me to get to what the actual video shows, I will break it down with screenshots and a link... To encompass what was shown on TikTok, imagine the song "Earthquake" by Hardwell being blasted while the following screenshots move around... The beginning of the video shows a typical-looking ultrasound: Then we see what I am assuming is the mom's abdominal muscles contracting toward the baby: The muscles start moving quicker and faster and pretty soon the baby disappears: Here you can see the mom's abdominal muscles contracting on the other side: The mom pauses and then appears to laugh harder and the baby completely vanishes: POOF: By the end, the muscles have completely taken over and the baby has gone into hiding: HERE IS THE FULL VIDEO OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LAUGH DURING PREGNANCY. BuzzFeed spoke to Myka, who specializes in non-diagnostic, luxury obstetric ultrasound imaging for babies at Peek At Baby 4D Ultrasound & Photography in Oklahoma. She also offers newborn photography once they arrive. She said she decided to share the ultrasound on TikTok because everyone in the room was laughing seeing it in real-time on the monitor. "It was too funny not to share! The mom was 13 weeks at the time of the ultrasound." And, even though it may look dangerous, it is not. "No, laughing does not cause any harm to the baby. Babies in the womb feed off of the mother's emotions, so laughing is actually beneficial and perfectly safe," shared Myka. Sneezing can also look very similar on ultrasound, as well as coughing, walking, running, and any other normal physical daily movement, according to Myka. In fact, any physical movement really can shake things up in there, lol. And, who knows, you might even find an unexpected surprise while doing so! 😳 Myka has been sharing a lot of other unexpected things she sees during ultrasounds — like this baby who decided to stare at them during its video debut. "I never expected my TikTok videos to reach such a wide audience, but I love that so many people all over the world are getting to join in on the joy of my career, even if it's just for a moment. Being a light in what can often be worrisome times and being able to provide exciting moments to expecting families is my true passion. I encourage anyone to take a peek in on their baby in the womb, or join an expecting mama at her ultrasound. You never know what cute things you might encounter!" Special thanks to the expecting momma and Myka!!!
Buzz Feed
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Over 25 Million People Are Gobsmacked After Seeing This Viral Video Showing What Happens When You Laugh During Pregnancy
Listen up, pregnant people! The babies want you to see something. So, grab your jar of pickles and — whatever you do — do not laugh at what you are about to see. You can keep the donut, but stop the giggle. I MEAN IT! STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!! Okay, fine. You can laugh. We are going to show you the ultrasound of a mom who couldn't contain her laughter while having one done. Myka Giles performed it at her business Peek At Baby 4D Ultrasound & Photography, and shared the video (with the mom's permission!) on TikTok. To encompass what was shown on TikTok, imagine the song "Earthquake" by Hardwell being blasted while the following screenshots move around... The beginning of the video shows a typical-looking ultrasound: Then we see what I am assuming is the mom's abdominal muscles contracting toward the baby: The muscles start moving quicker and faster and pretty soon the baby disappears: Here you can see the mom's abdominal muscles contracting on the other side: The mom pauses and then appears to laugh harder and the baby completely vanishes: POOF: By the end, the muscles have completely taken over and the baby has gone into hiding: BuzzFeed spoke to Myka, who specializes in non-diagnostic, luxury obstetric ultrasound imaging for babies at Peek At Baby 4D Ultrasound & Photography in Oklahoma. She also offers newborn photography once they arrive. She said she decided to share the ultrasound on TikTok because everyone in the room was laughing seeing it in real-time on the monitor. "It was too funny not to share! The mom was 13 weeks at the time of the ultrasound." And, even though it may look dangerous, it is not. "No, laughing does not cause any harm to the baby. Babies in the womb feed off of the mother's emotions, so laughing is actually beneficial and perfectly safe," shared Myka. Myka has been sharing a lot of other unexpected things she sees during ultrasounds — like this baby who decided to stare at them during its video debut. "I never expected my TikTok videos to reach such a wide audience, but I love that so many people all over the world are getting to join in on the joy of my career, even if it's just for a moment. Being a light in what can often be worrisome times and being able to provide exciting moments to expecting families is my true passion. I encourage anyone to take a peek in on their baby in the womb, or join an expecting mama at her ultrasound. You never know what cute things you might encounter!"
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
An Update on Our Family review – these influencers' murky tale makes you long to end the internet
Those of you who already feel that the world is too much would be best advised to stay well away from all three parts of the documentary An Update on Our Family. The family in question are the Stauffers – married couple Myka and James and their children – who were, until very recently, colossally successful family vloggers. Director Rachel Mason's series starts slowly, spending most of the first hour introducing the uninitiated to the world of YouTubers who specialise in filling their channels with videos of their gorgeous homes, gorgeous children and perfect lives, and to the fans who glom on to these affectless yet somehow intimate and generally wildly aspirational portraits of domestic bliss. 'I was literally a part of their life every day,' says former devotee Hannah Cho. She and around 700,000 subscribers to The Stauffer Life channel watched as Myka revealed positive pregnancy tests, had babies, a miscarriage, gave house cleaning tips, appraisals of her post-partum body and altogether so much desirable content that she began to accumulate sponsorship deals and the family's videos became the family's (very) lucrative business. Related: An Update on Our Family: the utterly shocking tale of the 'family vloggers' who 'rehomed' their adopted son This set-up could and should have been whipped through in half the time. The real meat of the documentary is what happens when you need to keep feeding the beast you have created. When your income depends on monetising your family, where does that lead? And can it possibly be anywhere good? Engagement with their channel goes through the roof when the Stauffers decide to adopt a three-year-old boy with special needs from China, whom they call Huxley. Myka has the name picked before she meets him, though no one around her seems to note that renaming a three-year-old child, and especially one with special needs, from a different culture, who is about to be yanked from it, is an extraordinary thing to do. But on they went, exhaustively documenting the process, including the first disastrous meeting with Huxley. Or 'Huxley'. It dawns on a tearful James that the boy 'had a full-blown mom' in his foster carer. 'Poor kid,' he whispers. The determinedly cheerful journey back to America is filmed and packaged for their waiting, avaricious online audience. The demand for updates thereafter is insatiable, and for a couple of years they keep coming, including ones about the behavioural issues caused by Huxley's autism and at least one from Myka noting that 'he grieved so hard' and that she was 'unprepared for what trauma truly looked like'. Then Huxley disappears from the family videos. Then previous videos containing him are deleted. Subscribers bombard the channel with questions. In 2020, the Stauffers posted a tearful video entitled An Update on Our Family explaining that though they love him with all their hearts, Huxley has had to be placed with a different 'forever family' better able to cope with his needs, the extent of which they had not fully understood at the time he was adopted. Their subscribers, and then – when the story went viral – the rest of the internet, took this news about as well as you would expect. A small amount of compassion was swamped by horror and disgust, by insults, anger, vitriol (directed mostly at Myka as a foul perversion of the maternal instinct), then death threats, then raging conspiracy theories that the Stauffers had sold him, killed him and God knows what else. Mason's film raises questions about just about every compelling issue of the internet age. It looks at the ethics of parents filming children who cannot give consent and who would in any professional, paid context be subject to myriad safeguarding regulations. It looks at the parasocial relationships that develop between content creators and followers, and the dangers of 'betraying' those attachments. It poses questions about the purity of creators' motives, and when a line is crossed between the natural human impulse to share, even show off, the good things in one's life and the need to curate an impossible perfection, especially once it becomes sponsored by rich brands. It looks at the optimism, arrogance and entitlement that can play a part in transnational adoptions. And it looks at those who jump on to an emotional bandwagon not because they were invested in the original story but because they are malevolent trolls dedicated to spitting into open wounds wherever they find them. The Stauffers refused to be involved with the film and their family channel has been offline since the backlash became uncontainable. So we will probably never know how many of their actions were driven by the greed for clicks, or whether it was simple benevolence throughout. But it is hard not to be reminded at every turn that the internet is the greatest unregulated experiment ever performed on humankind. And even harder not to conclude that, if it were possible, now might be a good time to end it. • An Update on Our Family aired on Sky Documentaries and is on Now.
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
An Update on Our Family review – these influencers' murky tale makes you long to end the internet
Those of you who already feel that the world is too much would be best advised to stay well away from all three parts of the documentary An Update on Our Family. The family in question are the Stauffers – married couple Myka and James and their children – who were, until very recently, colossally successful family vloggers. Director Rachel Mason's series starts slowly, spending most of the first hour introducing the uninitiated to the world of YouTubers who specialise in filling their channels with videos of their gorgeous homes, gorgeous children and perfect lives, and to the fans who glom on to these affectless yet somehow intimate and generally wildly aspirational portraits of domestic bliss. 'I was literally a part of their life every day,' says former devotee Hannah Cho. She and around 700,000 subscribers to The Stauffer Life channel watched as Myka revealed positive pregnancy tests, had babies, a miscarriage, gave house cleaning tips, appraisals of her post-partum body and altogether so much desirable content that she began to accumulate sponsorship deals and the family's videos became the family's (very) lucrative business. This set-up could and should have been whipped through in half the time. The real meat of the documentary is what happens when you need to keep feeding the beast you have created. When your income depends on monetising your family, where does that lead? And can it possibly be anywhere good? Engagement with their channel goes through the roof when the Stauffers decide to adopt a three-year-old boy with special needs from China, whom they call Huxley. Myka has the name picked before she meets him, though no one around her seems to note that renaming a three-year-old child, and especially one with special needs, from a different culture, who is about to be yanked from it, is an extraordinary thing to do. But on they went, exhaustively documenting the process, including the first disastrous meeting with Huxley. Or 'Huxley'. It dawns on a tearful James that the boy 'had a full-blown mom' in his foster carer. 'Poor kid,' he whispers. The determinedly cheerful journey back to America is filmed and packaged for their waiting, avaricious online audience. The demand for updates thereafter is insatiable, and for a couple of years they keep coming, including ones about the behavioural issues caused by Huxley's autism and at least one from Myka noting that 'he grieved so hard' and that she was 'unprepared for what trauma truly looked like'. Then Huxley disappears from the family videos. Then previous videos containing him are deleted. Subscribers bombard the channel with questions. In 2020, the Stauffers posted a tearful video entitled An Update on Our Family explaining that though they love him with all their hearts, Huxley has had to be placed with a different 'forever family' better able to cope with his needs, the extent of which they had not fully understood at the time he was adopted. Their subscribers, and then – when the story went viral – the rest of the internet, took this news about as well as you would expect. A small amount of compassion was swamped by horror and disgust, by insults, anger, vitriol (directed mostly at Myka as a foul perversion of the maternal instinct), then death threats, then raging conspiracy theories that the Stauffers had sold him, killed him and God knows what else. Mason's film raises questions about just about every compelling issue of the internet age. It looks at the ethics of parents filming children who cannot give consent and who would in any professional, paid context be subject to myriad safeguarding regulations. It looks at the parasocial relationships that develop between content creators and followers, and the dangers of 'betraying' those attachments. It poses questions about the purity of creators' motives, and when a line is crossed between the natural human impulse to share, even show off, the good things in one's life and the need to curate an impossible perfection, especially once it becomes sponsored by rich brands. It looks at the optimism, arrogance and entitlement that can play a part in transnational adoptions. And it looks at those who jump on to an emotional bandwagon not because they were invested in the original story but because they are malevolent trolls dedicated to spitting into open wounds wherever they find them. The Stauffers refused to be involved with the film and their family channel has been offline since the backlash became uncontainable. So we will probably never know how many of their actions were driven by the greed for clicks, or whether it was simple benevolence throughout. But it is hard not to be reminded at every turn that the internet is the greatest unregulated experiment ever performed on humankind. And even harder not to conclude that, if it were possible, now might be a good time to end it. An Update on Our Family aired on Sky Documentaries and is on Now.
