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Gia Giudice and Bethenny Frankel may be the most surprising feud in Bravo history — and things don’t appear to be slowing down between the RHONY alum and the daughter of RHONJ star Teresa Giudice.
The unexpected drama between these two reality TV stars stemmed after it was reported that Teresa and her stepfather, Luis “Louie” Ruelas, were facing tax debt.
People was first to report the news in March 2025. The publication reported that they obtained court documents stating the couple received more than $3 million in tax liens — which the IRS states is the government’s legal claim against a person’s property if there’s a failure to pay tax debts. (They have not publicly commented on the claims.)
Gia addressed the money drama during an episode of her “Casual Chaos” podcast that same month.
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“My mom has everything under control, and there’s nothing to worry about,” she said. “My stepdad, Luis, is the most amazing stepfather. He treats my sisters and I like we are his own. He is also working on getting everything resolved as well. But there’s nothing to worry about. Everything’s going to be fine. But thank you for your concern.”
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After the news of Teresa and Louie’s reported tax debt, Bethenny took to social media to share her thoughts in March 2025.
“I cannot believe that Teresa is in another marriage with financial, legal issues,” the Real Housewives of New York City alum stated. “I’ll have to pull when I tweeted ‘If Teresa Giudice does not sign a prenup I will jump through my phone.’”
Bethenny was referring to Teresa’s past marriage to Joe Giudice, whom she divorced in 2020. Both Teresa and Joe previously served time in prison bankruptcy fraud.
“You’re watching the movie and you’re like ‘No! Do not open that closet!’ I feel terrible but like fool me once, you’re a fool. Fool me twice, I’m a fool,” Bethenny continued. “Love is blind, [and] all these things but oh my God.”
Gia had some choice words for Bethenny during a March 2025 episode of her “Casual Chaos” podcast.
“Bethany Frankel, thank you so much for your sweet video. You are a mother with a daughter. I bet you wouldn’t like [it] if somebody was saying this about you,” she said. “I hope that $1,000 TikTok paycheck was really worth it. And thanks. But we’re doing perfectly fine over here.”
The former Bravo star took to TikTok in April 2025, saying she doesn’t know Gia — and wouldn’t usually respond to comments like this.
“She would know better than I do if they’re ‘just fine,’” Bethenny said.t. The SkinnyGirl founder further explained that her social media is used to “talk to younger women about mistakes they might make if not guided.”
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She used the example of Teresa not signing a prenup when marrying Louie.
“If, in fact, they have tax issues and they’re not paying them, and she didn’t sign a prenup, it’s not about her,” Bethenny continued. “I’m talking to you young girls. … You sign a prenup.”
Bethenny also referenced Gia discussing her mother Teresa and father Joe’s past prenup. (She also clarified in a separate TikTok that there was a “fake quote” from her to Gia circulating online.)
“She’s just ill-advised and not educated on this topic. She just doesn’t know,” Bethenny claimed. “Hopefully she’ll realize when she one day gets married, if that’s something she wants, that it’s about being financially literate.”
The podcast host and her family were “not happy” with Bethenny’s second social media video, Gia said during an April 2025 interview with People.
“At this point, her statement back, she was honestly trying to gaslight me,” Gia said. “I didn’t say half of the things that she made in her statement. I was never recommending financial advice or anything along those lines.”
Gia doubled down on using her podcast to defend her mom, as well.
“I’m obviously associated with what is going on in the public eye. It is my family, but at the end of the day, I am an individual,” she said. “I obviously take care of everything that’s going on in my life, but overall, my entire family is very responsible. And like I said on my podcast, everything is getting taken care of. But at the end of the day, I will always defend my family whether people like it or not.”
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After more than 30 years of marriage, Kody and Meri Brown worked their way out of more than one major rough patch before confirming their split in 2023.
The couple tied the knot in April 1990 before Kody introduced three more wives, Janelle, Christine and Robyn Brown, into their family. Their unique home life drew nationwide attention when their TLC reality series debuted in September 2010.
Things between Kody and his spouses took a big turn in September 2014 when he divorced Meri in an effort to “legally restructure” their brood. Three months later, Kody officially wed Robyn so that he could adopt her children from her first marriage.
Kody and Meri remained spiritually married for nearly a decade. The twosome announced their split in a joint statement in January 2023.
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Kelly Stafford recently received some surprising health news — and explained her plan to hopefully turn things around.
Stafford, 35, completed an at-home blood work test which revealed her cholesterol levels were “extremely high,” she revealed on the Thursday, April 17, episode of her podcast “The Morning After.” The test indicated that Stafford “needs to seek medical attention.”
The NFL wife said her results could partially be due to “genetics,” but the levels can also be attributed to “sugar in your diet and processed foods.”
Stafford, who is married to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, acknowledged her family has a history of high cholesterol — but said her own dietary habits aren’t helping.
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“If you guys know me very well, I go to bed with 10 Swedish Fish in my hand every night, or hot chocolate, or something,” Kelly explained.
She added, “Compared to my father or my mother or whoever has high cholesterol, my sugar intake is more,” she said. Everything I tend to eat has sugar. And if it doesn’t have sugar, if I eat a little chicken and rice for lunch, I’ll pour a little Yum Yum sauce on top, which is filled with sugar.”
Rather than wallow or get concerned, Kelly decided to look at her results as a sign.
“I needed that, though,” she said. “I needed that kick in the ass.”
Kelly added, “From the outside, I feel very in shape. I feel like I’m somewhat in the best shape of my life. On the inside, those numbers say differently.”
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However, Kelly said she still has one last sugar high on the horizon before she commits to her new lifestyle.
“I told Matthew, I was like, ‘Once we get back Spring Break,’” Kelly spelled out. “I can’t do it now because honestly, Spring Break I’m going to have to have my sugar. That’s my happy place, which is the problem.”
Kelly and Matthew share four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, Hunter, 6 and Tyler, 4.
“I’m going to spend like a month and get rid of all the sugar at night and go back in and test,” Kelly said. “Once I do that, I’ll let you guys know if it changes. If it doesn’t change, then I definitely think it’s just genetic and I’m going to have to figure out a way to work on it.”
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Jason Knauf, who was the royal aide behind the Meghan Markle bullying claims, has a new gig with Prince Harry‘s estranged brother, Prince William.
On Thursday, April 17, Knauf was announced as the new CEO for William’s charity, The Earthshot Prize. He was appointed by the Board of Trustees.
“I am honored to be appointed as the next CEO of The Earthshot Prize and look forward to working with our exceptional team and incredible Earthshot community to advance our mission of urgent optimism for our planet,” Knauf said in a statement. “The Prize has already achieved so much and the future potential is vast. I can’t wait to get started.”
Knauf is taking over for Hannah Jones, who will officially step down in the summer. After four years with The Earthshot Prize, Jones will continue to advise Kensington Palace for innovation and sustainability measures.
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William, 42, also addressed the leadership change for the nonprofit.
“As the first CEO, Hannah has built The Prize into a world class organization with an incredible team delivering an annual Prize, powering a platform for speeding solutions to scale, and catalyzing a movement to encourage young people, spark imaginations and infuse urgent optimism across the world,” he said in a statement. “As we look ahead to the future of The Prize and the urgent work needed to scale more inspiring solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, I look forward to working with Jason to chart the course for the next five years of The Earthshot Prize and beyond.”
Knauf previously worked as a communications secretary for William and Princess Kate Middleton in addition to Meghan, 43, and Harry. In 2018, Knauf filed a complaint that accused the Duchess of Sussex of bullying. The complaint claimed that Meghan drove two personal assistants out and undermined the confidence of a third staff member. Meghan denied the allegations.
“The Duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to supporting those who have experienced pain and trauma,” a rep for Meghan said in a statement to Us at the time.
Us reached out to Meghan’s rep following Thursday’s news about Knauf’s appointment.
Two years later, Meghan and Harry stepped down as working members of the royal family. The couple left the United Kingdom and moved overseas to Montecito, California. Meghan and Harry put down roots with their two children Prince Archie, now 5, and Princess Lilibet, now 3.
In June 2022, Buckingham Palace announced that its investigations into the claims against Meghan had concluded and their findings would not be made public. A source told Us at the time that Meghan was happy that her name had been cleared.
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“Meghan is a fair boss and never bullied anyone who worked for her at the Palace in the first place. She’s happy that her name has been cleared from the defamatory claims,” the insider said. “She and Harry are looking forward to putting the incident behind them and are happily moving on with their lives in Montecito.”
Last fall, several of Meghan’s current and former staffers exclusively spoke to Us about what it was like to work for the duchess as she worked on her entrepreneurial and philanthropic initiatives in the U.S. Ashley Hansen, then head of communications for Archewell, recalled how supportive her bosses were when she needed to take time off for a serious surgery.
“When I told them, I was met with the kind of concern and care a parent would express if it were their own child,” she told Us in September 2024. “I was asked what I needed, how and if they could help, and told to take as much time as I needed.”
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After watching the season 2 premiere of The Valley, Tamra Judge has a big question about the cast.
“We go on to Michelle [Saniei], who moved out of the house she shared with Jesse [Lally], which I don’t know what’s going on here,” Tamra, 57, shared on the Wednesday, April 16, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast. “Why are the women moving out of the houses when they get separated from their men?”
Cohost Teddi Mellencamp quickly shared her theory, which wasn’t complimentary to the males in question.
“My guess is that the men own the houses under their names,” she explained. “And they’re being douche lords.”
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Shortly before season 1 of The Valley premiered in March 2024, Us Weekly exclusively confirmed that Jesse, 43, and Michelle, 36, were separating and choosing to end their marriage. In season 2, cameras are expected to document the pair’s divorce as they coparent their 4-year-old daughter Isabella.
“I just feel like Michelle moving out was a very interesting choice,” Tamra explained, “because usually if you have children, the man might possibly move out so they don’t interrupt the child’s normal life.”
Teddi, 43, however, believed that a child will be affected no matter which parent moves out.
“I think the reason that she moved out is because she’s the one that moved on,” Teddi explained, alluding to Michelle’s new romance with financial advisor Aaron Nosler. “I think [Jesse] would have stayed married to her.”
Another couple going through a public divorce this season is Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright. During the season 2 premiere, viewers learned that Brittany, 36, had moved into an Airbnb.
After watching the episode, Tamra continued to question why the women of The Valley feel the need to pack their bags instead of the guys.
“Again, this is another situation where Brittany moves out and Jax stays in the house,” she said. “What in the male Chauvinist pig is going on in The Valley?”
Teddi replied, “I don’t know, but I’ve heard rumors that this is pretty common.”
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Previously, Brittany revealed that she chose to move out to take some space for the sake of her mental health.
“I don’t know what the future holds, but right now, my focus is on being the best mom to Cruz,” she shared on a February 2024 episode of her “When Reality Hits” podcast. “I love you guys. Pray for us. And everything will be just fine.”
The Valley airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. Catch up on old episodes by streaming anytime on Peacock.
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Nick Viall is in awe of how his wife, Natalie Joy, handles calls with customer service agents.
“Every household has their things that people do,” Viall, 44, said on the Thursday, April 17, episode of his eponymous podcast. “For example, Natalie does the laundry [and] I’m allergic to laundry. I do the dishes, Natalie’s allergic to doing dishes. It works out for us.”
He added, “Historically, when it comes to calling customer service, it’s something I take great pride in, and I feel like I excel in. I honestly think the key to life is anyone’s ability to deal with customer service. It’s great practice for life.”
According to Viall, Joy “took it upon herself to start making calls” about a furniture order this past weekend.
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“I heard her in the background, and I was turned on,” the former Bachelor quipped. “It was awesome, and it made me so in love with her. I felt like, ‘Wow, she really learned something from me, like, I’ve added value to this person’s life.’”
Viall was especially proud of Joy, 26, for standing her ground with the customer service representative.
“She took it upon herself [to call] and I was quite turned on,” he mused. “I found it to be very sexy. I appreciated your help.”
Joy then teased how she responded to Viall’s admission.
“And then we had crazy sex after that because he was so turned on,” she quipped.
Viall and Joy, a former nurse, have been together since 2021. They tied the knot in April 2024 after welcoming daughter River Rose that February.
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“I was telling Natalie the other week she’s really the first partner I’ve ever had where I feel like we’re in a relationship,” Viall told Bustle in January. “We do things together, we talk through things. We’re a team.”
Since getting married and having a baby, Viall and Joy have been candid about the challenges of postpartum sex.
“It’s logistically hard ‘cause you have this little baby and she’s an angel and all of that and she’s obviously always by our side,” Viall said on “The Viall Files” in April 2024. “Part of that, we had Natalie’s mom [living with us too]. The best we could have done was, ‘Here, we’re going to go into the bedroom,’ and that feels odd. So, we haven’t [gotten] that comfortable with her mom yet.”
He added, “The spirit is there, but logistically we haven’t quite cracked that code.”
Given Viall and Joy’s update on Thursday, it’s likely they very much cracked that code.
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While Chicago Fire has yet to be renewed for a season 14, two of it’s main stars Daniel Kyri and Jake Lockett are not set to return.
On Wednesday, April 16, Deadline reported that Kyri, 30, and Lockett, 40, are planning to leave the long-running series due to possible budget cuts. The outlet noted that several Chicago Fire regulars contracts are up, which hints at the possibility of more exits.
Kyri has played firefighter Darren Ritter in the NBC drama since 2018 while Lockett has portrayed firefighter Sam Carver since 2022.
While Kyri and Lockett are not expected to return for season 14, sources close to production told Deadline that Kyri and Ritter “may still get proper endings for their characters” as season 13 is still airing.
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Kyri took to social media to confirm his upcoming departure from the series after seven years.
“I’ll miss this character, and it’s time to move on,” he wrote via his Instagram Story on Wednesday. “Thank you to the cast, crew, & the awesome fans.”
Lockett has yet to comment on the news.
Chicago Fire, which has been airing on NBC since 2012, is currently in its 13th season and follows the professional and personal lives of the Chicago Fire Department at the fictional Firehouse 51. The series currently stars Kyri, Lockett, Taylor Kinney, David Eigenberg, Joe Miñoso, Christian Stolte, Miranda Rae Mayo, Hanako Greensmith, Jocelyn Hudon and Dermot Mulroney.
The NBC show recently made headlines when news broke that Eamonn Walker would be returning as Wallace Boden in season 13, despite exiting Chicago Fire in May 2024 after 12 seasons.
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“[We are] so excited to have our beloved Chief Boden back, and the episode, titled Post-Mortem, is a thrill ride unlike any we’ve done before,” showrunner Andrea Newman teased in a March press release. “Told with flashbacks and unique POVs, Chief Boden leads our team on a search to discover the how, who, and why of a fierce firefight that ended in disaster.”
Walker, 62, shared that “it was not easy” coming back to the show again as a guest star in a single episode which aired on Wednesday, April 16.
“So the first week out, I had this [thought], ‘How do I get Boden’s voice back?’” Walker, who is British, explained to Collider in an interview published on Monday, April 14. “So I called up Tanera Marshall, who is my voice coach in Chicago, and I was like, ‘I need three days with you to get Boden’s voice back. I can work on the physicality later, but let’s get his voice back. That’ll be the start of the journey.”
The actor shared that it was “amazing” to work with Marshall again and put Boden’s costumes back on.
“It was fantastic to be back with the people I love and who love me back, and the welcoming was amazing,” he gushed to the outlet. “They have a very, very special place in my heart.”
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Following Prince Harry’s exit from Sentebale, drama ensued — including a man falsely claiming to be the brother of cofounder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho.
After the man’s inaccurate claims made headlines, Us Weekly learned that Principal Chief Khoabane Theko is not Seeiso’s brother and has no connection to the charity.
Among the allegations Theko claimed to The Telegraph on Wednesday, April 16, was that Harry could have visited Lesotho “more often.” Harry’s 2024 visit to Lesotho marked his first in six years (including two years at the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic). He had previously traveled there four times between 2010 and 2015.
Theko, for his part, claimed he was “perturbed” to see Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, taking a trip to Africa in September 2019 without going to Lesotho. (During the trip, the couple had a busy itinerary with meeting Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a tour of the District Six Museum, a trip to Monwabisi Beach and planting trees at the Chobe Forest Tree Reserve, among other things.)
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“When [Sentebale] was launched, I remember his words quite vividly, because he was very strong in saying ‘my mother, [Princess Diana], this place, her passion about Africa’ and all that,” Theko alleged. “He’s a loved figure because of his openness, but his loss of interest has totally killed the spirit of the Sentebale’s survival. I haven’t seen [Harry] since he got himself married.”
Us Weekly reached out to Harry’s rep for comment.
Harry tied the knot with Markle in 2018, with the couple going on to welcome son Archie, 5, and daughter Lilibet, 3.
Harry and Seeiso launched the charity in 2006 to support children in Lesotho dealing with poverty and HIV/AIDS. The charity included a nod to Diana, with the name translating to “forget-me-not” — her favorite flower. (Diana died in 1997 at the age of 36.)
In March, Harry and Seeiso announced they stepped down from the charity. The move was in solidarity with several trustees, who had announced their exits amid tensions with chair of the board Dr. Sophie Chandauka.
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“It is devastating that the relationship between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation,” Harry and Seeiso said in a joint statement obtained by multiple outlets.
Harry and Seeiso alleged that Chandauka sued the charity after being asked to leave her position.
“We are in shock that we have to do this, but we have a continued responsibility to Sentebale’s beneficiaries, so we will be sharing all of our concerns with the [U.K.] Charity Commission as to how this came about,” the statement added.
Chandauka, for her part, accused the charity of “poor governance, weak executive management [and] abuse of power” in a statement to Us.
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“There are people in this world who behave as though they are above the law and mistreat people, and then play the victim card and use the very press they disdain to harm people who have the courage to challenge their conduct,” Chandauka said. “Discerning readers will ask themselves: why would the Chair of the Board report her own Trustees to the Charity Commission? Why would the High Court of England and Wales accept her application to hear the matter at all if the case had no merit?”
She continued, “Well, because beneath all the victim narrative and fiction that has been syndicated to press is the story of a woman who dared to blow the whistle about issues of poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny, misogynoir — and the coverup that ensued.”
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As actress Andie MacDowell’s and former model Paul Qualley‘s daughter, Margaret Qualley’s movie-star good looks are in her genes; however, she admitted that in 2024’s The Substance, her other, ahem, assets all but stole the show.
”I think my butt got more screen time than my face,” the actress joked in an Thursday, April 17, cover interview with i-D magazine.
Ironically, The Substance delves into the disturbing self-torment women endure in pursuit of an unattainable ideal of perfection. Through a blend of camp, body horror and feminine rage, the film starkly reveals the ugliness underlying our culture’s obsession with beauty.
The narrative centers on Elisabeth (Demi Moore), an aging TV fitness instructor offered the chance to transform into a superior, younger and more “beautiful” version, Sue (Margaret).
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In the film, the change necessitated a bi-weekly alternation between the two selves. However, the process intensifies the dysphoria of both women, igniting envy and initiating a destructive cycle of self-punishment with no victors.
To become Sue, Margaret, 30, explained that her preparation for the role was predominantly physical, which involved working with a trainer. As she told the publication, she did “a lot of yoga to try to get my body to be as symmetrical as possible, to feel almost newborn.”
The actress’s description came off as all the more apt considering that her character crawls out of Moore’s spine, much like the act of childbirth.
Margaret went on to say that the film’s unvarnished depiction of overt eroticism helped her embody the role, even as Sue functions as a pointed satire of the unattainable beauty norms.
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“I was 28, having to play perfect,” Margaret noted. Adding: “It’s a part of a larger story. It’s OK if you hate me. In fact, you’re meant to.”
Not that Margaret isn’t accustomed, or rather trained, in the art of perfection, having spent much of her youth practicing to be a professional ballerina before pivoting to modelling and eventually acting. “Ballet, specifically, is so much about being perfect. It’s about control, and there really is a right way to do things,” she shared with i-D.
“I feel like my part in The Substance was my Saturn return,” she continued. “It was dealing with everything I’d grown up dealing with for my entire life in this big, meaty way, but having the chance to do it differently than when I was 16 and modeling. I wasn’t nice to myself.”
The performance was ultimately a full-circle moment, as it led her back to the world of dance, with her featuring in a choreographed number onstage at the 2025 Academy Awards in March.
“It was nuts because Mandy Moore — the choreographer, not Mandy Moore the actress — is somebody who [growing up] I would drive three hours to Atlanta to take her class and I used to dance my little ass off trying to get her attention so that she’d bring me up on stage,” she explained.
“Then, cut to 20 years later, I finally got her attention, and it was just so surreal and so f***ing fun.”
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Christie Brinkley got candid about the work she’s had done.
Brinkley, 71, opened up about what cosmetic procedures she’s tried while chatting with People on Thursday, April 17. “I’ve dabbled with fillers and I go to my doctor in the city,” she shared, noting, “I don’t want to look ‘done’ or anything.”
The actress added that she had just done Fraxel, a laser treatment used for skin resurfacing. “I had skin cancer and that helps get rid of precancerous cells,” she explained. Fraxel also helps reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and sun damage by promoting new skin-cell growth.
“It’s mainly about health for me now,” Brinkley said.
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As Brinkley gets older, she loves to see more representation of the “seasonal gals” in the media.
“The most beautiful thing that’s happened in our industry of beauty is the expansion of what we consider beautiful,” she said. “Age is the last frontier. You see older women on runways and in magazines but it’s still not enough.”
Brinkley recalled returning to CoverGirl twenty years ago in 2005 as a spokesperson, after being the face of the magazine in 1976.
“When I went back to CoverGirl, it was specifically [for products] with light reflecting things that get inside the wrinkle and reflect out so it blurs,” she said, gushing about the makeup at the time. “I’m not saying that you can’t have wrinkles, but it’s a little less is more.”
This isn’t the first time Brinkley has been real about embracing aging. In July 2024, she posted a sexy photo of herself on Instagram, lying on a bed and wearing a plunging dress.
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“All this talk about age! But I think 70 is the new 40,” she captioned the post. “[It’s] a great time to take on new challenges, volunteer, travel, or start a new company.”
The model added, “Now is a great time to make your dreams and goals a reality! Here’s to loving the age you’re in!”
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