Issue 10 August 2023 - You South Africa (2024)

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NEWSWINNING LETTERI DON’T think I’d describe myself as a perfectionist. Yes, I do push hard to get things right and I expect the same from others, but I don’t spiral if things happen to be different from what the textbook says.As I’ve grown older I’ve realised there’s actually no such thing as being perfect. If you think about it, what does that word even mean?If I bake a chocolate peanut butter cake that’s slightly lopsided, my husband is still going to eat every crumb with relish. If I take a photograph that’s a bit off-centre, my sister is still going to adore the image of her beautiful boys. If I buy a book that’s scuffed in one corner, my friend will still love the words of wisdom it contains.Perfection – whatever…8 min

NEWSIN THE NEWSX MARKS THE SPOTTwitter says bye to iconic blue birdELON MUSK’s plan to rebrand Twitter as X got off to a rocky start when police stopped workers from removing the old name from the sign at the company’s San Francisco head offices. The tech boss recently announced plans to replace the platform’s distinctive bird logo with the letter X, which will also become the new name of the app.Elon has long been obsessed with the letter X – his space manufacturing company is named SpaceX (short for exploration), his son’s name is X AE A-XII (pronounced X-Ash-A-12) and he’s renamed conference rooms at the social media company’s headquarters to incorporate the letter X. According to The New York Times, one room has been renamed s3xy, while another is called eXposure.The…5 min

NEWSHARRY ON A MISSIONA SECRET deal between Buckingham Palace and senior media executives, a duke claiming his beloved grandmother was in on it – and a judge telling him he was basically making it all up.All this and more played out in a London court recently and Prince Harry didn’t emerge a winner as a judge laid into him.Harry brought a case against News Group Newspapers (NGN) claiming, among other things, that his phone had been hacked by reporters working for the group’s publications The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World.But a recent ruling went against him – and it was the latest blow for the duke whose life is somewhat in limbo as Brand Sussex battles to find purchase in an increasingly competitive world.WHAT THE JUDGE SAIDIn his 40-page ruling,…5 min

NEWSHER ONLY ‘WAY OUT’BY THE time she fell pregnant with her eldest daughter she’d already endured several rounds of in vitro fertilisation and had experienced a traumatic miscarriage at 22 weeks. As a result she was constantly worried as she carried little Liané to term and she battled to form a bond with her unborn baby – something that seemed to carry on long after the birth.Lauren Dickason’s pregnancy journey certainly wasn’t easy, a New Zealand court heard when forensic psychiatrist Dr Erik Monasterio provided his statements as an expert witness for the prosecution.Although her mental health suffered when she tried to get pregnant she didn’t want Liané to be an only child so endured more IVF until twins Karla and Maya came along, Monasterio shared.In about nine hours of interviews, he assessed…9 min

NEWSA FRIEND SPEAKS OUTAdele* went through the IVF process at the same time as Lauren Dickason (who had 17 rounds) and recalls how happy Lauren had been when she finally conceived her first child, Sarah.“I recall the regular updates about how the baby was growing,” she tells YOU. “But then came the message I couldn’t believe: ‘I’ve been in hospital for the past two days. Things aren’t looking good. The baby isn’t going to make it.”Sarah was stillborn at 22 weeks and it “broke” Lauren, Adele says. Then she conceived Liané and it “gave her the will to reclaim her life”.Lauren quit her job as a doctor to focus on the IVF process, Adele says. “She told me, ‘I love my job, but I desperately want to be a mother’.”She couldn’t believe it…1 min

NEWSUNDER THE KNIFEONCE upon a time she was a slip of a thing with an almost flat chest and thin lips and – well, everything was just so different to the Kylie Jenner we now know.This one has been plumped and pumped and sculpted in all the strategic places, transforming her from a pretty girl next door into a voluptuous bombshell.For years the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan denied she’d had work done, saying reports of her having gone under the knife were greatly exaggerated.“People think I completely reconstructed my face, which is completely false,” she said. “They don’t understand what good hair and makeup and, like, fillers can do.”She never said anything about getting her chest enhanced though, and it remained one of the many things people speculated about.But the…5 min

Issue 10 August 2023 - You South Africa (2024)

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