Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Every Memorial Day, I take out a scrapbook my grandmother made over 40 years ago. Each page is filled with headshots of young men with stiff Air Force hats clamped to their heads, their newly-buzzed hair just visible above formal collars. Some gaze at the camera confidently, their broad shoulders...

If you've ever seen an elderly couple strolling in matching tracksuits or mistaken for twins a hipster couple in skinny jeans and matching cardigans, then you may believe the old saying that couples resemble one another. The phenomenon has actually been scientifically proven, though it's still not understood if

I'll never forget my first brush with "Romantica," that subgenre of romance novels with just enough sex content that you wouldn't want to be caught reading it in the DMV. I was 11, rifling through my Mom's closet looking to borrow some shoes (I was a tall kid),...

"Say...they told me you were stupid. You don't sound stupid to me." -Mr. Esmond
"I can be smart when I want to." -Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

"Whether it's Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated."

Thus Jon Hamm,...

The gym's new ad features a rail-thin, nude model...

Robin Hood wore them. Prince Charming probably had a pair or two. But what would you do if you saw a man walking down the street in tights today? In her New York Times op-ed column on Sunday, Maureen Dowd mused on an email from a male friend calling into...

Though there has been a lot of discussion in the news about who gets to make decisions about and for women these days, a new product is promising to relieve women of at least one "complicated" choice: what they drink. Little Black Dress Vodka's mission statement is to...

You may not recognize Alejandra Gaitan’s face, but her voice and especially a certain area of her body have won her millions of views (and a number of sponsorships) on YouTube. Gaitan, who calls herself “The Reply Girl,” has carved out a career making YouTube videos commenting on...

Got a minute?" asks the cover of the April issue of Real Simple magazine: "No, we know you don't." KJ Dell'Antonia, who interviewed Kristin van Ogtrop, the magazine's editor-in-chief, for the New York Times recently, suggests that women's lack of "free time" is self-imposed. I couldn't agree more.

A new bra shopping site, Brayola, launched yesterday, and the press release bills the online outfit as "the Zappos for bras." After giving it a whirl -- filling out a profile that asked for my cup size, the bras I've bought in the past, what I'm...

One of the joys of living alone is that no one is around to stop you from doing the things you really want to do. You know, like yelling at the TV when Bachelor Ben says something sweet about Courtney or eating cottage cheese standing up in the kitchen in...

Even if you are not an Indy racing fan, you've probably heard of Danica Patrick. She is the first woman to win an IndyCar race. She finished higher than any other woman in history at the Indianapolis 500. (She placed third in 2009.) Her

My first bra was the grayish-white of recycled paper, and it's only conceivable purpose was to add warmth beneath my matching tunic and stirrup-leggings ensembles -- there definitely wasn't anything to support back then. My mom took me to buy it with a mix of motherly pride and the somber...

You may have noticed that if you searched for "bachelorette party gifts" online recently, the ads on the right bar of your Facebook page after your search may have been full of anatomically-accurate "male" drink stirrers and neon boas, or perhaps teasers for the NBC show "The Bachelor." For over...

For most of us, visiting the gym is pretty straight forward; we work out, shower (if we're cool with the all-in-one shampoo and conditioner) and move on with our lives, hopefully feeling a bit fitter , or at least less guilty about shelling out close to $100 dollars a month...

As much as fans looked forward to the second season finale of "Downton Abbey" on Sunday night, it was also a day of dread; season three won't appear on PBS until 2013.

To cope with the withdrawal, fans have a few unexpected options (besides watching Season 1...

What do you say to someone after you just watched them perform -- and you thought their time on stage was a total train wreck? If you’re one TMZ camerman talking to Nicki Minaj, you go for a little white lie -- or two. In this clip,...

I hope everyone had this moment at some point before age, oh, thirteen: You're reading a chapter book in the library or on the school bus or in bed with a flashlight after lights out, and suddenly you recognized in the heroine someone who thought how you thought and saw...

"Missed Connections" aren't just limited to subway platforms, indie rock concerts and Applebee's (?!) anymore. Now, just in time for Valentine's Day, comes WeMetOnAPlane, the website that allows you to find the passenger that charmed their way into your heart before exiting through customs.

The...

The Internet knows you are in a relationship. Really. Everyone saw the vacation pictures and the late-night proclamations of love you two shared on your Facebook walls.

Today, with Facebook and Twitter feeds across America lighting up with images of candy, roses and slightly creepy teddy bears received from doting...