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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New Book THE DIARY OF A BAD BITCH Empowers Women to Take Back Their Power
Unapologetic storyteller promotes radial self-awareness in new book from Palmetto Publishing The Diary of A Bad Bitch Charleston, SC, July 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Selene Ashé has always expressed herself through movement and dance—a passion that became the catalyst for a deeper journey of self-discovery. Over two years of radical transformation, she awakened her inner bad bitch and now empowers other women to do the same. Riding the wave of a new era of female empowerment, Ashé's debut book, The Diary of a Bad Bitch, is a raw and unfiltered exploration of self-awareness, sensuality, and spiritual evolution. More than just a memoir, it's a manifesto for women ready to break free from limitations, embrace their desires, and step fully into their power. Through personal reflections and hard-won insights, Ashé challenges readers to reframe self-doubt, rewrite their narratives, and live authentically. 'This book is about radical self-acceptance and owning every part of who you are,' says Ashé. 'It's for the woman who's tired of playing small, who's ready to step into her authenticity and unleash the force within.' The Diary of a Bad Bitch is a call to arms for women of all ages to rise, redefine their stories, and live unapologetically. 'The Diary of a Bad Bitch' is available for purchase on and About the Author: Selena Ashé is a writer, creator and unapologetic storyteller with a passion for exploring the intersections of sensuality, spirituality and self-discovery. With a background in empowering women to embrace their authenticity, she channels her experiences into bold narratives that challenge societal norms and celebrate individuality. Through her writing, she invites readers to awaken their inner power, transform pain into purpose and live life unapologetically. For more information about the author, please visit her social media profiles. Instagram: sutra_musa Media Contact: Selena Ashé Email address seleneasheauthor@ Available for interviews: Author, Selena Ashé Attachment The Diary of A Bad Bitch CONTACT: Leah Joseph Palmetto Publishing publicity@ in to access your portfolio
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Loose Women star Andrea Mclean is 'leaving the UK for Spain' after a torrid few months during which she dissolved her business and had a terrifying brush with death
Andrea McLean is planning a new life in Spain with her husband after a difficult few months in the United Kingdom. The former Loose Women star, 55, left the show in 2020 to pursue other endeavours, including starting her female empowerment brand, This Girl On Fire. But earlier this year Andrea made the difficult decision to dissolve the business, which had struggled to bring in money despite being boosted by funding from the sale of Andrea's £1million Surrey home. It came just months after the mother-of-two had a terrifying run-in with death after being found collapsed at her family home by her husband Nick Feeney late last year. Andrea was rushed to hospital with severe sepsis and pneumonia, and was told by doctors if she was taken in for treatment any later she could have died. Now, a source has told The Sun that McLean is moving abroad with Nick after a 'tough couple of years' as she looks to focus on her writing career. She has already published three bestselling books, This Girl Is On Fire, Confessions of a Good Girl and Confessions of a Menopausal Woman. A source told the publication: 'It's been a tough couple of years and the business never financially recovered. Andrea made the decision to dissolve the business officially earlier this year. 'Now she's planning a new life in Spain with husband Nick. After she nearly died, Andrea's focused on what really matters - family and friends. 'She's in a really good place, positive, loved up with Nick still, her kids are all grown up so she's happy and making life work for her.' Andrea has two children, Finlay and Amy, with previous partners. She admitted earlier this year that her health scare 'changed her life forever'. Andrea told The Mirror: 'I didn't realise how severe my illness was at the time. But the doctors had told my husband Nick that had I not got to hospital when I did, had we waited another 24 hours to call for help, I may not be here now.' She added: 'What happened over the next few weeks changed my life for ever.' The 55-year-old had been lying on the floor for more than an hour before she was discovered by her husband in December. She was then blue lighted to hospital where after a series of X-ray and CT scans they discovered she had severe pneumonia, an acute kidney injury and sepsis. Reflecting on the frightening ordeal in April, she added: 'It was only a few weeks after I got home that I realised the magnitude of what had happened – that if I hadn't gone into hospital that day, I may not be here now.' Andrea revealed that the scare made her want to seize the day, but admitted in February that she still wasn't back to full health. She also thanked her husband Nick who she said's 'life stopped' during that time too as he drove her to the hospital everyday, waited for her at clinics for hours at a time and cooked everyone dinner before putting her to bed. The presenter made her return to television just a couple of weeks ago, telling her Instagram followers she was heading back to the studio for the first time in a while, but had suffered 'quite a lot of hair loss'. Andrea explained: 'On my way to do my first live television for a long time. I won't lie, I'm nervous. I'm looking forward to it, because I love doing telly stuff, but because it's been a while I'm a bit scared. 'I know it's because I care and I want to do a good job and not look stupid, which is absolutely normal. I'm nervouscited.' She continued: 'We all feel like this. It'll be fine once I'm doing it. Deep down I know it will. I also seem to look permanently dishevelled! 'I have lost quite a lot of hair with Covid and the strong medication after pneumonia and it doesn't seem to behave like it used to. 'I'm embracing it as there's not much else I can do. There's a kind of freedom to that too. I'm liking the rebellion of it.'
The Sun
09-07-2025
- Business
- The Sun
Loose Woman QUITS UK to move to Spain after losing £1m investment and almost dying
LOOSE Women star Andrea McLean has swapped the UK for Spain after selling her £1m home and nearly dying. The successful author and TV star, 55, has had a tough time of it since quitting the ITV daytime show in 2020 to run her female empowerment brand, This Girl Is On Fire. 3 3 The business was dissolved in February of this year after failing to make money, despite a hefty investment from the sale of Andrea's Surrey home. Around the same time the business was wound down, Andrea revealed she came terrifyingly close - just 24 hours - to dying after being struck down with pneumonia and sepsis. Now she's seeking a fresh start and focusing on her writing career, having already published three bestsellers - This Girl Is On Fire, Confessions of a Good Girl and Confessions of a Menopausal Woman. A source said: "It's been a tough couple of years and the business never financially recovered. Andrea made the decision to dissolve the business officially earlier this year. "Now she's planning a new life in Spain with husband Nick [Feeney]. After she nearly died, Andrea's focused on what really matters - family and friends. "She's in a really good place, positive, loved up with Nick still, her kids are all grown up so she's happy and making life work for her." The Sun has contacted a representative for Andrea for comment. A television favourite for more than two decades, Andrea previously told how her endorsement deals dried up overnight when she announced she was quitting Loose Women to focus on her business. Suddenly, the money she was planning on using to fund the early days of the brand disappeared. She said: ''On the day that I announced I was leaving, every brand dropped me... so I went from, 'OK I knew I had this amount of money coming in and this much work that will see me through to the next six to eight months,' it disappeared overnight. ''That's how big a deal moving away from TV is. It was financially like a punch in the stomach, my safety net was gone. I was like, 'Oh my god I only have my savings. I can't turn back and change my mind. I have no other income.'" Andrea turned to the stock market after selling her home and moving into a six-bedroom rental, but it remains unknown what sort of return she made. The most recent accounts for her former business published in December 2023 showed it had just £292 in assets. Her decision to leave Loose Women behind came after she suffered a nervous breakdown. Announcing her exit live on air, she said: "Last year I had a nervous breakdown and what I felt was this year, collectively, the world had a breakdown and the experience I had means that this year I was mentally really strong to deal with everything that the pandemic threw at us. "But it made me stop and think: 'What do I actually want?' If there is anything that can show us you only get one life… "Are you living it the way you want? Doing everything you want to do? Being brave and taking chances? And I realised no." Through all her hardship, Andrea has had husband Nick by her side and now the pair are committed to starting a new chapter in sunny Spain.
The Sun
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
‘Style and class is lacking' – ‘Sexy' football TV presenter slammed by female colleague over ‘vulgar' outfits
A "SEXY" football TV presenter has been called out by a female colleague over her "vulgar" outfits. Valentina Maceri, who presents Champions League coverage on Swiss broadcaster Blue, was critical of DAZN Italy presenters. 10 10 10 A group of broadcasters have attracted attention in recent weeks at the Club World Cup. They include Loris Karius ' wife Dilette Leotta, Giusy Meloni, Marialuisa Jacobelli, and Eleonora Incardoni, whom Maceri named specifically. The criticism comes after Maceri published her new book - "F*** Female Empowerment: The Great Mistake of Modern Feminism". In the book she writes: "Personally, I would say that the way female reporters present themselves on the sidelines in Italy is sometimes borderline. "I think women should be sexy, but always with style and class. That's sometimes lacking in Italy. Here, the principle that sex sells applies strongly." Maceri, 31, then doubled down in an interview with Bild, slamming Incardoni for "vulgarity". She told the German outlet: "If you want to speak on an equal level with players and officials, it's not conducive. "Incardona mainly deals with DAZN BET – meaning she presents the betting odds. And she does it very sexy. Sometimes vulgarly." Incardoni has stunned in America with her outfit choices. The 34-year-old wore a bra and three-piece suit for one match, and wowed over the weekend in a one-strap brown dress. DAZN host Diletta Leotta puts on a leggy display in bold Club World Cup outfit 10
CNN
07-07-2025
- Health
- CNN
The hidden physical powers that help women outlive men
EDITOR'S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of 'The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,' which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish Potato Famine, enslavement in Trinidad and Icelandic measles epidemics all have something in common: Women outlive men in dire circumstances. That's because the female body is built for resilience and longevity, as I found while researching for my new book, 'The Stronger Sex.' Despite having more complex reproductive organs and the burdensome, sometimes fatal, functions that come with them — menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding — female bodies tend to outlast male bodies. And that's the case even though girls in many parts of the world have access to fewer resources, such as food and medical care, than boys do. That female toughness holds true in extreme circumstances, as Virginia Zarulli, now an associate professor of demography at Italy's University of Padua, found when she analyzed survival data across seven historical populations experiencing famines, epidemics and enslavement. Under these brutal conditions, women outlived men across almost all ages and locations, including among the 'high-mortality' populations who confronted famine in Ukraine, Ireland and Sweden; enslavement in Trinidad; and measles epidemics in Iceland, according to her 2018 study, published in the journal PNAS. Even newborn girls in these environments had a higher survival rate than newborn boys — a hint that the female survival advantage is rooted in biology. Essential female strength also shows up today in places where women experience fewer extreme physical stresses overall: 'When we analyze the empirical data, for modern people it shows that death rates for men are higher than for women, pretty much at every age,' Zarulli said. Recognizing and building on these sex-based differences can help transform how we approach health care, including treatments for cancer and vaccine protocols — making medicine more precise, personalized and effective, especially for women. People assigned female at birth have two X chromosomes, a fundamental advantage over XY, the chromosomes males have at birth. That's because the X chromosome is much larger, containing roughly 10 times more genes. Female bodies therefore have access to a wider range of immune genes, making their defense system remarkably strong and diverse. As neurogeneticist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Sharon Moalem wrote in 'The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women,' his book about the XX chromosome advantage, 'Women have immunologically evolved to out-mutate men.' Since viruses and bacteria are always mutating, an immune system that can quickly adapt is more resilient. Estrogen, generally higher in female bodies, also confers a variety of immune advantages. As a result, female mammals — including humans — have better-equipped immune systems, in both their innate, generalized responses and their adaptive, specialized responses. Female bodies also have higher counts of active neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell that fights infections. Scientists have also found that female bodies have more robust B cell activity — the action of white blood cells that adapt to fight off viruses or bacteria. This advantage may also be due in part to estrogen, and researchers are trying to tease apart what is mediated by hormones, what is affected by genes and what might be attributable to other causes. Women produce more targeted antibodies to fight infections and also retain immunological memory longer, making their bodies more adept at responding to future infections, according to researchers. This all leads to 'the very well-known phenomenon that males tend to be more susceptible to a lot of diseases than females — though not in every disease or every individual, of course,' said Marlene Zuk, a Regents Professor and evolutionary biologist at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. Since female bodies mount stronger immune defenses, they generally have a stronger vaccine and virus response, a greater ability to fight off sepsis and a decreased risk of some cancers. The downside of this powerful system, however, is that women get more autoimmune diseases than men do. Women are also more likely to live with chronic illness after surviving diseases that would have killed male bodies. Testosterone also seems to be an immune disadvantage, and males have more of that hormone than females do. Zuk said that in early experiments scientists found they could 'neuter male animals and their immunity would get better or inject female animals with testosterone and their immunity would get worse.' Why? It may be that the testosterone enables male animals toward greater reproductive success by 'living hard and dying young,' Zuk said. Some of the female immune advantage may be male immune disadvantage, and while it's accepted that hormones affect immunity, determining to what degree is an ongoing research question. Some scientists argue that lifestyle and culture lead to a significant part of the male longevity disadvantage. As a population, men tend to smoke more, drink more alcohol and engage in riskier activities than women, and men tend to exclude most women from more physically dangerous jobs. Studies focused on what happens when women adopt some of the unhealthy habits traditionally more likely among male populations, such as smoking, still show that women live longer than men, Zarulli said. 'In populations where men and women had the same lifestyle, there was still a difference in mortality — women had a higher life expectancy than men.' The female advantage is likely due to more than genetic and hormonal factors, according to new research: It's also found in the very structure of women's bodies. At North Carolina State University, a team led by microbial ecologist Erin McKenney and forensic anthropologist Amanda Hale conducted a landmark study measuring the lengths of the small intestines in cadavers for the first time since 1885. The team discovered that women's small intestines were significantly longer than men's — an advantage that allows women to extract more nutrition from the same quantity of food. This finding, published in the journal PeerJ in a 2023 paper, might be explained by the extra demands on female bodies throughout human history: 'The vast majority of the nutrients you need to replenish your system — especially during reproduction and nursing, like protein and fat — that's what's being absorbed by your small intestine,' Hale said. This could be a key piece of the 'Female Buffering Hypothesis' — the idea that female biology evolved to withstand environmental and physiological stress better — according to Hale. Traditional medical research has long ignored the complexities of the female body. As these genomic and physiological functions are better studied and understood, the drivers behind the strength and resilience of the female body will come into focus. This knowledge will inform more targeted treatments for infection and immunity—for all bodies. Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN's Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being.
