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BY Julia Craven Peptides are having a moment. They’re on your feed, in your group chats, and, increasingly, in unlabeled vials people buy from an obscure WhatsApp number and inject at home. The pitch is intoxicating: cutting-edge science is being shot straight into your body, helping you sleep better, build more muscle, lose weight, and…

By Laura Norkin Kristina Wright, of Richmond, VA, married young and was positive she didn’t want kids. “People would say, ‘you gotta have them,’ but I would see that they were not necessarily the happiest people in the world,” she says. And on her husband’s Navy salary, they couldn’t really afford it. When an unplanned…

By Holland Sweet Belle Burden's bestselling memoir Strangers has struck a nerve. The book follows the sudden collapse of Burden's 20-year marriage after a tip-off about her husband's affair — and his announcement the next day that he was walking away from her and their kids. What has readers gripped, though, is his financial betrayal.…

By Caroline Hatchett  In the Met’s current Costume Institute exhibition, Costume Art, the museum pairs works from its permanent collection with clothing as commentary on the dressed human form. Within the new Condé M. Nast Galleries, the show is subdivided by body types as social construct: the naked and nude body; the classical body of…

By Julia Craven Kerry Krauss didn’t take the decision to start a GLP-1 lightly. She exercises regularly. She eats nutritious, whole foods. She’s trained for and run marathons. And she became prediabetic anyway. Krauss wore a continuous glucose monitor to try to find a solution. In spite of her best efforts, her fasting glucose levels…

By Camila Ball I’m a business owner, a writer, a mother, and a citizen — a doomscroller pained by politics who, until that morning, had failed to show up beyond likes, shares, and elections. When I learned of a Miami-Dade County commission meeting taking place on June 26, 2025, where an item regarding our county’s…

By Rachel Sugar Marley Barzen, who is 30 and lives in Ottawa, did not set out to enter the estate-sale industry, but the thing about estate sales is that the industry finds you. “My background, professionally, was reselling ethical slow fashion,” she explains over Zoom, “and then I pivoted to doing fashion styling, but my…

By Alessa Martin, as told to Jill E. Duffy This interview has been edited for length and clarity. I am a woman who “blew up” her life. Or rather, I am a woman who watched her idealized future disappear and then chose to change everything else. At 41, while working as a luxury marketing executive,…

Jacqueline Newman, a divorce lawyer in New York City, starts every meeting with a new client by seeing if she can get rid of them. “The first thing I do is ask them if they’re sure. If they even pause for a nano-second, I say go see a marriage counselor,” Newman says. “Divorce is emotionally…

By Sheri Radel Rosenberg Heavens to mergatroid. My hair sucks. The cut and color are good, but the texture is not. Is it the GLP-1? Or menopause? Whatever the cause, I am inching ever closer to the sprayed helmet I swore I’d never have. I used to look at older women with that very particular…

By Laura Norkin Perhaps you’ve also seen the posts. “Nervous system resets,” belly-fat myth busting, face-depuffing, and guides to reversing gray hair — because of something-something cortisol! For spring, beauty site Byrdie recommends a “cortisol closet”: comfy clothes in the colors of oatmeal and moss. On a recent episode of Las Culturistas, Californian comedian Blair…

By Leslie Price Can you give an overview of what hormones are? Hormones are the way we get our 30 trillion cells to talk to each other so the body is working in harmony towards a common goal. Hormones are chemical signals. They are released by a gland. You’ve heard of the thyroid gland, the…