Ladies, you know how sometimes, it's really hard to turn on a computer? Like, where is the ON button? And how do you "click" on something if there's not a man nearby to help? What if you really need a recipe and dinner is a few hours away and you...

I spotted my first You Are Beautiful sticker on the blue inside lip of a U.S. Mailbox. I opened it to send a bill and was greeted by a small, silver pick-me-up. "You Are Beautiful," the mailbox told me. And I smiled inside.

Later that day, I Googled...

2013 will be the year of the liver.

That's David Grotto's prediction, anyways.

The Chicago dietitian stumbled upon the detoxifying organ while researching his forthcoming The Best Things You Can Eat: For Everything From Aches to Zzzz, the Definitive Guide to the Nutrition-Packed Foods That Energize, Heal, and...

What? You didn't get the memo? Ladies, you are supposed to be unnaturally thin -- but with full Cs and a round, tight butt, and bounce-a-quarter-off-you, all-over muscle tone. But we know this may be difficult to achieve, so just starve yourself down to a size 00 and let your...

Last week, I had the chance to relive my sorority days just a wee bit when the women of Delta Phi Epsilon invited me to keynote their annual conference in Miami. The speech I prepared was a confidence-themed talk in which I deftly managed to use Sex and the City...

Life is good when you're a Dolce & Gabbana underwear model. Blindingly hot women, invites to the most exclusive clubs, your name shouted at red carpet events. Luxury Italian sportswear fills your wardrobe and Moet flows with hip-hop video vigor. Your abs are shredded; pecs, rock-hard. It's only natural that,...

As someone who spends approximately 38% of the day with her boob in someone's mouth, I took particular interest in the recent TIME magazine kerfuffle over attachment parenting. "Three years is too old for a child to still be nursing!" screams one camp. "Nursing on demand, even until toddlerhood, makes...

A person's name wields an incredible amount of power. Consider mine, for instance: the name Leslie nearly turned me gay. I vividly recall sitting on my parent's bed in the fourth grade and gently breaking it to my mother that I was a lesbian. "What makes you think that's the...

Why is there an 11-year-old on the elliptical next to me?

Last week, from the sweaty comfort of the StepMill at my gym, I watched Real Housewife Nene Leakes attempt to navigate a gravel parking lot in six-inch Louboutins. Halfway through her second glass of iced moscato, a membership...

"Ugh."

That was my husband's reaction when he opened our mailbox last week and pulled out the new US Weekly, plastered with a sad photo of Khloé Kardashian alongside the desperate headline, "I'll do anything for a baby." (A few months earlier, it had been Giuliana Rancic, revealing how a...

If you're anything like me, you spent the latter half of Thanksgiving week gorging yourself on turkey and cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, a few bricks of stuffing and assorted pies for dessert. But you know who is nothing like me? Victoria's Secret Angel Adriana Lima. I know this because A)...

Three years ago, the time came to sell my trusty red Mercury Cougar. She'd lasted me a full decade, ever since my parents bought her for me as a college graduation gift. At the Honda dealership, we were given a large garbage bag to empty out our trunk before trading...

In high school, I swore I would never, ever date someone who was shorter than me. I was 5'10"-and-a-half, felt 6'2", and believed only a man of Shaquille O'Neal's stature could make me feel dainty, feminine and non-Amazonian. I suffered from a major Bea Arthur complex, and was...

US Weekly fans are familiar with the weekly "What's in My Bag?" style and beauty feature, in which readers gain an insider's peek at celeb's purses. One week we might learn that Whitney Port carries a Miu Miu wallet, an apple, blush and a Blow Pop.

Is it any shock that the creator and executive producer of Oxygen's Dance Your Ass Off attended her first Weight Watchers meeting at 12, struggled with bulimia throughout college and spent decades submerging herself in crazy workout regimens and weight loss schemes to nab roles in films such as The...

This weekend, I enlisted my most stylish friend, Amanda, to help me Stacy & Clinton my closet. My instructions for Amanda were simple: Be ruthless and purge my wardrobe of any outdated, ill-fitting or just plain ugly sartorial sins. The fact was, I owned button-downs I hadn't worn for six...

Much like the great pyramids of Egypt, the USDA Food Pyramid has been around forever. And much like those grandiose Egyptian structures, people have stared, slackjawed, marveling at this formidable construction and wondering, "How is that even possible?" Do I really need to take down 11 slices of...

Yesterday, I received the following email from a producer at ABC:

Hi Leslie, I am looking for a body image expert to comment on Kirstie Alley and her weight loss struggles. Specifically, she's said she is down to a size 4 - but she seems more like a size 14...

Le sigh.

Is there anything that doesn't make us women feel like monstrous, overstuffed cows?

We know pictures like this and this do the trick.

High school cliques bulldoze body image, sororities are breeding grounds for anorexia...

When Stephanie Izard, of "Top Chef" fame, hands you a plate of goat goulash sprinkled with crumbled potato chips and served over creamy, cool potato aioli, you don't ask questions. Just grab a fork and dig into the comforting deliciousness that has propelled her Girl...