Joni Edelman

When I heard about accusations that Lena sexually abused her sister, I was astonished. And my visceral emotional reaction prompted powerful questions.

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

More and more programs are offering services to help companies support and retain women during their maternity transition.

They will 

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

If you decide pit or leg hair isn't a big deal, then bam! It's not a big deal.

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

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I said (on TV, to Rachael Ray, so there are a few million witnesses): If you want a bikini body, put a bikini on your body.

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.