“It List”

By Chloe Cornell

 

#youknowme

Actress Busy Philipps started this viral social media campaign to encourage women to publicly share their abortion stories to eliminate any shame around it. With statistics that 1 in 4 women undergo an abortion, the actress believes that everyone likely knows someone who has had an abortion, and she shared her own story with the hashtag. She has also teamed up with the ACLU on a “You Know Me” ad campaign to combat the new legislation in a number of states that are aiming to restrict abortion access.

 

 

Read a New York Times article about Busy Philipps here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/style/busy-philipps-abortion-youknowme.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

 

Some other celebrities who are speaking out to defend a woman’s right to abortion:

Gal Gadot

 

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That simple.

A post shared by Gal Gadot (@gal_gadot) on May 16, 2019 at 2:26pm PDT

Gigi Hadid

 

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No one knows what happens behind closed doors. Often things we can’t even imagine. Late term abortions are usually only performed in case of a medical emergency, and in early stages of pregnancy, no one else’s opinion matters if a woman does not feel that she can safely bring a child into this world. Every child deserves to be born into love & stability.

A post shared by Gigi Hadid (@gigihadid) on May 18, 2019 at 8:10am PDT

Chris Evans

This is absolutely unbelievable. If you’re not worried about roe v wade, you’re not paying attention. This is why voting matters!! https://t.co/gZ5lrj7tQ1

— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) May 15, 2019

Carine Roitfeld, Fashion Editor

 

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Men will not govern a woman body!🌹#shameonalabama #abortionisawomansright

A post shared by Carine Roitfeld (@carineroitfeld) on May 16, 2019 at 1:56pm PDT

 

Mackenzie Bezos

Mackenzie Bezos, who became one of the wealthiest women in the world upon receiving over $35 billion in her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, signedon to Warren Buffett’s “Giving Pledge,” indicating that she will donate more than half of her wealth to charity and philanthropic causes.  In her announcement, she stated, “In addition to whatever assets life has nurtured in me, I have a disproportionate amount of money to share.” Read her entire letter here:

https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=393

 

 

Kodi Lee On America’s Got Talent

Gabrielle Union is our heroine for hitting the golden buzzer for Kodi Lee, a blind and autistic singer and piano player on America’s Got Talent. New judge and new mother Gabrielle said that she believed Kodi was going to change the world, and was so happy that he was her first golden buzzer and the first one of the season. Fellow judges Simon Cowell, Julianne Hough and Howie Mandel were also moved to tears by Kodi’s performance and joined the entire audience in a standing ovation for his phenomenal rendition of Donny Hathaway‘s “A Song For You” which you can see here:

Hear Gabrielle’s thoughts on the performance and moment here:

There is no feeling quite like hitting your first #GoldenBuzzer.@itsgabrielleu breaks down why she chose to use hers on @Kodileerocks. pic.twitter.com/vJbEhCZOj1

— America’s Got Talent (@AGT) May 29, 2019

 

 

Sarah Jessica Parker

Parker decided to finally fight back against The National Enquirer for their apparently annual agenda falsely reporting that her marriage to Matthew Broderick is on the rocks. She posted the letter the publication sent to her publicist requesting a comment to their “sources” who supposedly witnessed the couple fighting in London. Her Instagram fans rallied to her support.

 

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Just like clockwork. Over a decade of the same untrue, disgraceful nonsense.  As usual, days ahead of our anniversary on May 19th, The National Enquirer is making its annual best effort to fabricate and undermine, this time a blissful 4 days with my husband in London. There was no “screaming match” as alleged in a restaurant or on the street, nor was there a confrontation as alleged about his time in London. My children and I are enormously proud of the work he is doing.  After much thought I have decided to share a typical letter of “inquiry” from these people. As if the truth, a response or any comments from me or my publicist had any bearing on what they threaten to “report” .  Hey National Enquirer and your sister publications, why not celebrate a marriage of 22 years and relationship of 27 years? Because, despite your endless harassment and wasted ink, we are nearing 3 decades of love, commitment, respect, family and home.  There’s your “scoop” From a “reliable source”. #tabloidharassment

A post shared by SJP (@sarahjessicaparker) on May 15, 2019 at 8:36pm PDT

 

 

 

New Hershey’s Chocolate Bar

We love this new Hershey emoji chocolate bar!!!

https://people.com/food/hersheys-redesigns-chocolate-bar-emojis/

 

 

SNL On Alabama Abortion Ban

Lesley Jones gave her take on the Alabama abortion ban on SNL. Watch it here: