A woman who has been on television for more than 50 years entering a West Hollywood restaurant in a white suit, a butterfly brooch, and heeled camel boots—looking, by most accounts, like she hasn’t aged past 1983—has a subtle allure. On a Saturday night in late June, Donna Mills did just that. She went out at Craig’s and attracted the kind of second looks that are typically reserved for women half her age. Mills is eighty-four. She’s also finished discussing her appearance. In a recent We’re Knot Done episode, however, Mills finally outlined her accomplishments and, more intriguingly, her shortcomings…
Author: Michael Martinez
The internet is still unsure of how to interpret Louise Redknapp’s face, despite the fact that she turned 48 last year. The same arguments can be found repeatedly in any tabloid comment section. Some claim she’s “just aged well,” while others are certain there’s more going on beneath the surface than she’s disclosing. Any woman who has been in the spotlight long enough will recognize this pattern, and Redknapp has been visible in one capacity or another since the early 1990s. She was open about her stance on surgery when she met with Stylist in 2014 to discuss a jewelry…
The internet can’t seem to leave Sheridan Smith’s face alone for some reason. Every few months, a new picture appears with a slightly different silhouette or a different hair color, and the comment sections are filled with the same question that has been going around for years: has she had work done? Here, it’s important to separate a few threads because they’ve been intertwined in ways that don’t always benefit Smith. She had reconstructive surgery in her early 20s after having a jaw ailment from birth. That is corrective medical intervention, not cosmetic work in the traditional sense. However, it…
The short answer is no. Jill Biden is not a physician. She is unable to perform surgery, write prescriptions, or diagnose illnesses. She completed a dissertation on student retention at the community college level before earning her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Delaware in 2007. Even though it’s a crucial distinction, it gets lost every time someone on TV neglects to bring it up. The confusion peaked in early 2020 when Whoopi Goldberg called Jill Biden “an amazing doctor” on The View and implied that she would make a fantastic Surgeon General. After that, Goldberg had to…
Watching Natalie Alyn Lind in Dutton Ranch has an almost disorienting quality. For someone who is only in her mid-twenties, her portrayal of Oreana Jackson has an air of cold calculation that seems overly practiced. It begs the question of how much of her current facial features are inherited and how much of her poise was developed in front of the cameras she has been in front of since she was six years old. As expected, the internet has drawn its own conclusions. A lot of time has been spent analyzing before-and-after pictures in Reddit threads and TikTok comment sections,…
You remember the moment that Baylen Dupree talks about. Her Tourette syndrome symptoms are getting worse every day as she sits in a neurologist’s office. Instead of suggesting a course of action, the doctor looks at her mother and says bluntly, “She will do nothing.” It’s not a query. Not a problem. a decision. The kind of declaration that is meant to sound like a door shutting. For Baylen Dupree, it didn’t close anything. However, nobody should have said it. In the May 26 episode of Howie Mandel’s podcast Howie Mandel Does Stuff, Dupree—now 23 and the face of TLC’s…
Alison Hammond has discussed a certain moment multiple times, and it sticks with you. Before she died in 2020, her mother, Maria, sat with her daughter and told her bluntly, “Alison, sort out your weight.” Not in a cruel way. Not in a big way. To be honest, moms sometimes can say things that no one else will. It was heard by Hammond. She carried it for a while. Something changed when a pre-diabetic diagnosis was made. Type 2 diabetes affected her mother. Hammond was familiar with that route. She told Good Housekeeping, “That was frightening,” and there’s no reason…
Dan Aykroyd acknowledges, almost joyfully, in a 2004 NPR interview with Terry Gross that he feels naked without a police badge. Not literally nude. Incredibly uncomfortable. He always has one with him. That would be nothing more than a peculiarity that most people would find amusing. However, Aykroyd saw it as an indication to himself, his physicians, and ultimately the general public that the mind behind some of the sharpest humor in television history was also negotiating something more complicated underneath the surface. In the 1980s, Aykroyd was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome after his wife urged him to visit a…