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While we all hope to find love and be with someone for our whole life, some of us unfortunately lose our partners, husbands and wives and become widows and widowers. It's a painful experience that is often worsened by the insensitive things said by other people when someone is in the midst of grief. Here, widow Nicky Wake, founder of widow dating apps Chapter 2 and Widow's Fire reveals some of the worst phrases other widows and widowers have heard since losing their partner, taken from a recent survey she conducted...

Lying on the hospital trolley as I was wheeled down to the operating theatre, I was overwhelmed with a sudden sadness.Today was the day I’d say goodbye to my beloved boobs – forever. Lots of women have double mastectomies, I know that. But my situation was different – because I’d made the decision to have the surgery myself.

If you're going travelling next year, you may have already started to plan your trips and are brimming with wanderlust. But not everyone finds it quite so easy, realising that they are not sure where to start when it comes to going away and making an itinerary.

She’s found fame as one of the most popular cash-saving Instagram influencers and Gemma Bird – aka Money Mum – says there are plenty of ways we can feel festive for less. Instead of putting herself under pressure to dish up a lavish spread, Gemma – who lives in Essex with husband Adam and children Brody, 11, and Bronte, four – avoids the temptation to go crazy. “I view the meal as a Sunday dinner,” she explains.

In the run-up to Christmas, you may be feeling some pressure to get your family and friends extravagant gifts.The festive season is often a time of excess, with people buying lots of items for their festivities, from fancy decorations and lights to alcohol. If you're in a shop tempted to spend hundreds of pounds on items you might only use for one day, think again.Try and get crafty and make decorations or even reuse yours.

With its bright lights, cheery music and messages of goodwill, Christmas is meant to feel like the happiest time of the year. But for some it’s also a time of financial hardship and worry, with even more strain on already stretched purse strings. And this year, the nation’s households are going to be a staggering £3 billion worse off compared with the 2022 festive season.

While domestic abuse can often include violence, this doesn’t always mean physical harm. In some instances, it can appear, from the outside, to be entirely 'invisible' – but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Emotional abuse can happen to anyone, with high-profile women such as Reese Witherspoon, Mariah Carey and Fearne Cotton all having spoken out about it.

During a recent episode of The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian revealed that she’d hired a ‘manny’, that’s a male nanny, to provide some balance to her “female-dominated” household. “I do think that my household — and even in our family — it’s, like, very female-dominated,” she said. “I really wanted a male around that was going to be picking him up and taking them to sports.” Having split up back in 2021 with Kanye West, with whom she shares North West, 10, Saint, seven, Chicago, five, and Psalm, four, the TV personality also added that she had been “scared out of my mind” to tell the musician about the nanny.

Denise Fergus is happy. You can hear it in her voice, see it in her eyes and feel it in the easy, loving banter between her and husband Stuart. Little wonder, given that the pair have just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a renewal of their vows in the same church they got married in, followed afterwards by a big party for family and friends.

Faith, 38, from Wales, adopted three children with her husband Stuart after they were told she would not be able to carry a child naturally and here she tells her story... "I'd gone to Norway with my husband on honeymoon to see if I could have IVF because I'd had four traumatic miscarriages at 12 weeks and while we were over there, I was told I had thyroid issues and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Denise Fergus is happy. You can hear it in her voice, see it in her eyes and feel it in the easy, loving banter between her and husband Stuart. Little wonder, given that the pair have just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a renewal of their vows in the same church they got married in, followed afterwards by a big party for family and friends.

Denise Fergus has opened up about her relationship with husband Stuart, admitting that when she first met him she told him that he “had an opportunity to walk away”. Denise, who is the mother of James Bulger, has spent decades fighting for justice for her son after he was led away from her and murdered by two 10-year-old boys in 1993.Three decades on, Denise has reached a level of acceptance about what she and her family have gone through. “I feel the happiest I have been for some time and that’s been the case for a while,” she told OK! .

In the new Channel 4 show In Love and Toxic: Blue Therapy, five couples explore their relationship problems with two professionals Denise and Jo, and try to come up with solutions. It remains to be seen if the participants manage to get their romances back on track but viewers will find out the outcome at the end of the series.

Channel 4 reality show In Love and Toxic: Blue Therapy is a rollercoaster ride of a show about couple's counselling as five couples try to fix their relationship problems with the help of professionals Jo and Denise. Annah appeared on the show with boyfriend Lucky as she wanted him to be more intentional in their relationship. She reveals in an exclusive interview with OK! that it was a difficult, raw, and emotional process for both of them.

Stuart Armfield and Francis Haugen have amassed 1.2 million followers on TikTok, and have recently won an award in the Best Parenting at the Influencer Awards.They use their TikTok page Stuart and Francis to share snippets of their lives as a happily married gay couple who are parents to newborn baby daughter Rebel and son Rio, two, via their surrogates Sam and Carly. On the social media platform, they have also talked candidly about their journey to becoming fathers of two over the last three years, with all its highs and lows.

Danni Moore was just 30 when she discovered a lump in her breast as she fed her baby son. But as shocking a discovery as that was - the lump turned out to be an aggressive stage 3 breast cancer tumour which led to a double mastectomy - her journey has afforded her some amazing life changing moments including a chance to pose topless for a new campaign.The mum of two hasn't stopped there though and has also completed a charity trip to France with former TOWIE star, Pete Wicks and plans to turn her story into a book to inspire others.

You've passed the flirting and messaging stage, you're connected on social media and you've sailed through the first date, but it's date number two that's key to a successful and long-lasting love connection - and what you wear is crucial. When it comes to love, there's a lot of us looking for it.The UK alone has five million Tinder users, making Brits the second most common users on the app.

Lindsay Edwards, 38, is a personal stylist and much like David Beckham she keeps her wardrobe neat and tidy. Here, she explains why to OK! "Growing up, I found it really frightening because I believed something awful would happen if I didn't do things a certain way. Some of my traits included having to repeat things a lot and feeling like somebody was going to die when I went to throw something in the bin if I didn't get it in in a certain number of shots.

If you've got a child, you probably know who Blippi is.The larger-than-life character was created by Stevin John in 2014 to provide fun educational entertainment for kids. With millions of subscribers on YouTube, the character dons a blue shirt with orange slacks as well as a blue and orange hat. He's also got his own very distinctive theme song and has friends who help him along the way with his videos while he goes on adventures.

With Big Brother set to return after five years off air, a whole new host of contestants will experience life isolated from the outside world in the famous house. Throughout the show’s 18-year history on our screens, Big Brother brought us plenty of iconic moments and introduced us to some memorable personalities. Here, former contestant Sophie Reade, who won the show in 2009, talks to OK! about her own experience on the show… “Growing up, I watched Jade Goody on Big Brother and thought I’d apply as soon as I was old enough.

With Big Brother set to return after five years off air, a whole new host of contestants will experience life isolated from the outside world in the famous house. Throughout the show’s 18-year history on our screens, Big Brother brought us plenty of iconic moments and introduced us to some memorable personalities. Here, former contestant Penny Ellis, who appeared on the show in 2001, talks to OK! about her own experience on the show… “While on a break from my job as an English teacher, I called the number to what I thought was The Big Breakfast.

In 2023, more and more Brits are choosing to celebrate the happiest day of their lives in unusual ways. From different themes to striking music, the days of traditional weddings are long gone for many.

Becoming a mother changes your life forever. While it's wonderful to have a little person to take care of and love, there are so many other factors to motherhood that are challenging. One of the areas that some mums struggle with is body confidence, as going through pregnancy and birth changes your figure completely.

EastEnders’ Lily Slater surprised viewers earlier this year when she discovered that she was pregnant during a trip to the hospital. Just months after she celebrated her 13th birthday, Lily gave birth to her daughter, who she called Charli after the singer Charli XCX, earlier this month and viewers of the BBC soap have seen her adjusting to life as a mum. For Bridie Walker, Lily’s ups and downs as a teen mum is one she can relate to.

It’s a tale as old as time – and yet stranger than fiction. A young woman meets the love of her life in unexpected circumstances. Forced apart, they face battle after battle, defying adversity in order to be reunited.

It’s not just parents who are worrying about the cost of living crisis – now children are all too aware too. With more than half of UK parents unable to contribute to their kids’ financial future, and many families slipping into debt, children as young as eight are now taking matters into their own hands by starting to save up for house deposits and university fees.

When Big Brother made its debut in 2000 on Channel 4, the show marked the start of a new genre of TV. It promised contestants the chance to take part in a “social experiment”, and involved hopefuls entering a custom-built house where viewers at home could watch their every move. Over the course of 18 years and 19 series, the reality show turned competitors such as Alison Hammond, Jade Goody and Adele Roberts into household names, with the series three finale amassing an impressive 9.9 million viewers.

Sienna Miller is pregnant again at 41 and will have an 11-year age gap between her two children, already being mum to daughter Marlowe, ten, with her ex Tom Sturridge. Like her, I also had children born over a decade apart from one another, and it was certainly a challenging experience, to say the least - here are my top tips for Sienna.

It was only a simple paddle in the sea on a family holiday in Crete but for Vicki Paris it changed her life. After catching her foot on something sharp beneath the waves a slight infection set in. A month later she was battling sepsis.

Her actions shocked the nation to its core. How could a trusted and seemingly dedicated nurse kill seven babies and attempt to murder six more in a hospital’s neonatal unit? But as we try to understand the depths of Lucy Letby’s depravity, the questions remain about her motive and how an apparently “ordinary” young woman turned into a cold, calculating killer.