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Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Celebrities tell all about aging, marriage and Beyoncé in these 10 bingeable memoirs
Hot weather is the perfect season for some hot gossip. Don't forget a juicy celebrity memoir in your beach bag this summer – there's nothing like a little industry drama to keep you company in the sand. Or, if nonfiction isn't your thing, check out some of the fiction titles on our summer most anticipated list. This year has seen plenty of binge-worthy new memoirs, like Jeremy Renner's retelling of his near-fatal snowplow accident, Brooke Shields' meditations on aging and Joan Didion's previously unpublished diary entries while in therapy. This list has something for everyone, with never-before-seen stories from Hollywood A-listers to content creators to sports icons. Brooke Shields' latest memoir is a vulnerable conversation about aging and womanhood. In 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,' she argues that we need to destigmatize menopause and increase options for women who 'suffer in silence,' like hormone therapy and intervention. Her memoir touches on motherhood, friendship in middle adulthood, ambition and medical discrimination, including a nonconsensual surgery she experienced. Christie Brinkley's memoir packs in a lot, from her early modeling days to her romance with Billy Joel to her survival of a helicopter crash in 1994 and finding out her ex-husband Peter Cook cheated on her with an 18-year-old. Come for the charming story behind the song 'Uptown Girl,' and stay for an intimate look at Brinkley's passions and career. 'Matriarch' gives an inside look into the life of the businesswoman, designer and mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. Tina Knowles shares her battle with breast cancer, the ups and downs of her marriage, discovering Beyoncé's talent and the early days of the 'Cowboy Carter' singer's relationship with Jay-Z. 'The Next Day: Transitions, Changes and Moving Forward' feels like 'a walk with a smart friend, one who takes counsel and shares hard-won advice,' USA TODAY's Laura Trujillo writes. Melinda French Gates takes readers through the transition period after her 27-year marriage to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates ended, also touching on motherhood, guilt and childhood heroes. The actress and content creator's debut memoir gives readers a more intimate glimpse behind her 'Days of Girlhood' social media series and transition. Dylan Mulvaney unpacks the transphobia, backlash, acceptance and, ultimately, joy in this reflection of her pre- and post-transition life. 'We All Want to Change the World' is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 20th book, and it looks back on America's protest movements through the years, from free speech and civil rights to Black Lives Matter. Read for an intimate look at Abdul-Jabbar's first-hand activism experience, including when he met Martin Luther King Jr. Perfect for Hollywood gossip lovers, this memoir from the former head of Vanity Fair has plenty of name drops and insider lore. Among the biggest revelations are the story of how the Oscars' afterparty 'institution' was born and how disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein got banned from it. If you loved 'The L Word,' check out this memoir from the actors who played Shane and Alice. In 'So Gay for You,' Hailey and Moennig write about their early auditioning days and time on the show, bringing readers into their lasting friendship and what it was like to be the faces of lesbian culture in the early 2000s. You've seen her on "Survivor" and "The Traitors,' but now reality show star Parvati Shallow reveals more about her real life. Before she won a million dollars at 25 after winning "Survivor," she grew up in a Florida commune run by a tyrannical female guru. She's endured the death of her brother, a divorce and public scrutiny. In her memoir, she aims to show readers how she rebuilt her life through radical self-acceptance and self-love. Christine Brown Woolley became famous as the third wife of polygamist Kody Brown on TLC's show "Sister Wives." In this candid tell-all, she reveals how her journey from the child of practicing polygamists in Utah, to reality TV to a new life away from polygamy and the world she once knew. Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY's Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, subscribe to our weekly Books newsletter or tell her what you're reading at cmulroy@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Beyonce's mom, Brooke Shields, best celebrity memoirs to read now
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
3 years after divorce from Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates still gets tears in her eyes watching their wedding video— Here's why
Image credits: Getty Images Melinda French Gates , the former wife of American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, has recently been in the news for a variety of reasons. From finally opening up on her divorce from her husband of 27 years Bill agates to being spotted with her new boyfriend Philip Vaughn , Melinda has been actively making headlines one after another. Currently, Melinda, 60, is in the news due to the launch of her new book 'The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward' which was released on April 15th, 2025. 'There's a lot that's happened in my life over the last few years that I didn't see coming," she wrote at the start of her book. In the book, Melinda has revealed various personal details that the world was not privy to until now. From the trip to Mexico where she told Bill that she wanted to start living separately to the panic attacks she faced after the divorce, she seems to have written a tell-all that is making new headlines by the minute. While writing about her life post-divorce in the book, Melinda shared an interesting and emotional anecdote about her wedding video. She shared that she used to watch her wedding video every year around her wedding anniversary with Bill Gates, which was on January 1st, 1994. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo In the clip, the couple is standing in front of a tiered wedding cake but "Bill doesn't know what he's supposed to do" wrote Melinda. 'Instead of cutting one piece and feeding me a single bite like every other groom in history, he thought he was supposed to cut a piece for everyone. When I figured out what he was doing, I burst out laughing so hard I couldn't talk," she continued. Although he initially appeared confused "because he can tell he's gotten something wrong," eventually he started laughing as well, just because she was. 'It captures so many of the things I loved about him," she wrote, noting that "watching it now brings me to tears." Why did Bill and Melinda Gates get divorced? Image credits: Getty Images Recently, in an interview, Bill Gates shared that his divorce was the "biggest regret" of his life. However, for Melinda, the divorce was "something that was necessary." "If you can't live your values out inside your most intimate relationship, it was necessary,' she told The Times. The couple's divorce was finalised in 2021 with the reason being that they could no longer "grow together as a couple in this next phase of life." Bill later admitted to causing "pain" in his family whereas Melinda hinted in an interview with CBS Mornings that Bill's meetings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were a factor in her decision to leave. Bill is now rumoured to be dating Paula Hurd , widow of the former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Meanwhile, Melinda too has moved on in life and she has been spotted with Philip Vaughn, a tech entrepreneur and founder of Tavour, a craft beer delivery company.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Melinda French Gates on the 'Courage' it Takes to Go Through Divorce in Midlife
In the last decade, Melinda French Gates has experienced one major midlife transition after another. In 2021, she became an empty nester when the youngest of her three children went off to college; two years later, she became a grandmother. And then last spring, more than twenty years after co-founding the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, she stepped down from the nonprofit organization to launch her own philanthropic endeavor, Pivotal Ventures, focused on protecting and strengthening women's rights. As she reveals in the April 14th issue of People magazine, however, perhaps the most dramatic change she has lived through was the end of her longtime marriage to the billionaire Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. 'Transitions can be scary, exhilarating or both,' she told the publication in a cover story about her new memoir, The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward, out April 15th. 'But anything's possible. And when you get to the other side, you're going to be okay.' More from Flow Space Marcia Gay Harden Gets Real About Menopause, Midlife Divorce, and Aging The couple were married in 1994, after meeting at work—she was a product marketer at Microsoft—and over the course of their relationship integrated the personal and the professional, raising their family and starting their foundation. But by 2019, French Gates was having panic attacks, and as these episodes grew in intensity, People magazine reports, she knew she had to make a decision about how she wanted to live. This kind of crossroads is becoming increasingly common for couples in midlife: In 2010, 27% of divorces involved people over 50; by 2019, it was up to 36%. In addition, a staggering one out of every four divorces now occur among those aged 65 and older. This phenomenon is now so prevalent researchers have a name for it: 'Gray divorce.' And while French Gates, 60, acknowledges to People that her circumstances are vastly different from most people given her wealth and influence ('I'm not trying to give advice to anybody') she does hope that talking about her divorce is 'helpful to someone else.' 'It takes courage forging a different life,' French Gates says. 'When you change paths you realize, oh, it's a big opening.'
Miami Herald
16-04-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Melinda French Gates takes a big shot at Elon Musk's DOGE cuts
Melinda French Gates has dedicated her life to giving away billions of dollars. She's not just throwing money around, however. The ex-wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to make sure her billions help transform the world. That mission is explained on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website: "We wake up every day determined to use our resources to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life. Most importantly, we believe this: All lives have equal value. That's why we made the decision to donate our wealth from Microsoft to help others," the website shared. Gates has also pushed for other billionaires to follow in her footsteps by helping to found the Giving Pledge. That's something she explains in her new book "The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward." "So we set out to role model for society with The Giving Pledge – founded by Warren Buffett, my ex-husband Bill Gates and myself – to say, if you're of this level of wealth, join us and commit to giving half away. None of the three of us would have thought that we would have over 240 families now that are part of The Giving Pledge, and we have not just first-generation givers, but now we have second and some third-generation givers," she told NPR. Gates has generally avoided politics, but she has recently spoken out about cuts made by Elon Musk as part of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a semi-official government agency headed by the Tesla CEO. Melinda French Gates has generally been very careful about speaking out against any government. That's because she believes that while philanthropists can take risks that governments can't, the two sides must ultimately work together. "I didn't realize that it takes philanthropy in concert with civil society and government - massive government funding - to change things," she told NPR. That's a lesson she learned when working on projects with massive scale, like getting vaccines distributed around the world. "If you really want to affect children's lives around the world and get vaccines out, that takes enormous government funding. Philanthropy cannot do it on its own. If you want to affect maternal health around the world, you really have to have philanthropy, again, taking on the experiments, trying things, figuring out what works, doing the research, but then it really takes government funding to scale those things up," she added. That's a model that's also spelled out on the foundation's website. "We typically hear about two sectors, the public and the private. The private sector - business - is good at developing products and services, while the public sector -government - is good at delivering solutions to all the people who need them. In many cases, the private and public sectors, acting either separately or together, meet people's needs," the Gates Foundation website shared. "But there are gaps, spaces where some people don't get what they need to live healthy, productive lives." Melinda French Gates, by the nature of her philanthropic work, generally does not make political statements. Even when she clearly calls out Musk and Trump, she chooses her words very carefully. "The cuts of things like USAID are absolutely devastating for families all over the world. Let's be honest: 16 million women will not have access to maternal health services because of these cuts," she shared. The philanthropist tries to be very careful in what she's saying, but her blunt message is very clear. "Everything that philanthropy does is…we take risks where a government can't with taxpayer money and shouldn't. But then once we know something works, it's really up to government to scale it up. So to see that women won't have health services or there'll be 17 million more cases of malaria next year, it's almost unimaginable to me," she added. Basically, French Gates has thrown down a gauntlet and made it clear that many deaths will be on the administration's hands, but she said it in as kind a way as possible. Melinda French Gates no longer plays an active role in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Melinda French Gates Says Ex-Husband Bill's Affair Taught Her What She Wants in a Marriage: ‘I Had to Go'
Melinda French Gates opened up about what her ex-husband and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates' affair helped teach her about what she wants in a marriage, and it starts with trust. 'I learned to have a trusted relationship, which is what I wanted in marriage,' French Gates explained during a Monday night appearance on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.' At the time, the late night host asked her what lessons she learned from her former relationship with the billionaire businessman. 'Both partners have to be honest with one another, and if you can't, you can't have intimacy and you can't have trust,' French Gates continued. 'And so in the end, I had to go.' French Gates and Gates were married for 27 years, from 1994 to 2021. In 2021, Microsoft launched an investigation into a relationship with an employee at the company in 2000. The probe was inconclusive, but Gates ultimately stepped down from his position from the Microsoft board. 'There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,' Bridgitt Arnold, a spokeswoman for Gates, previously told The New York Times. 'Gates's decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter.' In June 2025, during an interview with the The New York Times, Gates took responsibility for how he damaged the marriage, saying his divorce was a 'mistake I most regret.' Together they welcomed three children: Phoebe Adele Gates, Rory John Gates and Jennifer Gates. Since their divorce, French Gates has gone on to continue her philanthropic efforts, including committing $1 billion toward the betterment of women and girls. 'This is a hole that has existed for a long time. And by putting my resources there, and my voice … I think I can shine a light,' French Gates told NPR in October 2024 of her mission to fight systemic issues that impact women and girls. But in the meantime, she also hasn't given up on love. French Gates said she's been testing the waters in the dating pool. 'I am,' French Gates, who just released her book 'The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward,' told Colbert. 'It's been pretty great. It's been pretty great.' The post Melinda French Gates Says Ex-Husband Bill's Affair Taught Her What She Wants in a Marriage: 'I Had to Go' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
