Since 1000-Lb. Sisters began, the cast of the TLC series has grown significantly. Meet the rest of the Slaton Sisters’ siblings who appear in the show, including Chris Combs, Misty Slaton, and Amanda Halterman. Plus, get to know more about Amy and Tammy Slaton‘s husbands. Amy and Tammy Slaton are the stars of ‘1000-Lb. Sisters’  1000-Lb. Sisters first premiered in January 2020. At first, the show followed Amy and Tammy, two siblings whose weight totaled 1000 pounds.

Redeem now Jubilee Alexander was assigned male at birth and transitioned in 2019. Despite the two having different genders, she still feels identical to her twin. This is Jubilee's story, as told to Kelly Burch.  This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jubilee Alexander. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My identical twin brother, two sisters, and I were homeschooled and raised in a religious household in Indiana, Idaho, and later Washington.

Jeanne Dean, a stage and screen thesp who was the original Varga model for Esquire magazine, died Aug. 20 of emphysema. She was 68. Born in Chicago May 30, 1925, Dean was well-known as the original model for Alberto Varga, who used her exclusively from 1940-47 for many of his paintings.

Nursing chairs are one of those items when you're preparing to have a baby that you'll likely ask yourself, “Are nursing chairs worth it?” Every parent you speak to will likely have a different answer and, annoyingly, the true answer is that it varies from mum to mum and dad to dad. In reality, some babies sleep better than others, while some require a car drive, stroll in the pram or, in this case, rocking to sleep in a chair.

BooksReviewRyan Grim provides an exhaustive account of challenges faced – and sometimes failed – by the US progressive stars Ryan Grim’s sprawling new book is called The Squad, but it is about much more than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive allies in the US House. It does provide mini-biographies of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, but it should have been called The Squad and Its Enemies, given the amount of space it devotes to their adversaries.