In her new book Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power, exiting CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin emphasizes the importance of having a “huddle” — women you can lean on for support, inspiration and strength, and who can lean on you for the same.

One of her tips is to welcome women in your huddle who are different than you are:

“I’ll never forget the sage advice from rapper and activist Killer Mike when I was first interviewing him in the wake of Ferguson: “Make sure you have plenty of friends who don’t look like you.” It is so important to…

The Amazon delivery trucks have been stopping on my block several times a day this past year. Not to my house, though. My needs are so little right now, during the pandemic. But as I look in my closet and drawers, I realize I have so much stuff — more than I could ever wear.

Why?

“The best place to start any money conversation is to admit that money is about much more than money,” writes Anna Sale, host of the podcast Death, Sex & Money, in her new book, Let’s Talk About Hard Things.

I had never thought of…

Madonna and Halle Berry have caused a kerfuffle.

The 62-year-old Madonna posted a few selfies on Instagram in a barely there leather bra, lacy lingerie and a hat a few days ago. Berry, 53, did similarly, posting a photo of herself on Twitter in her underwear, a kick-ass pair of boots and a hat. (What’s with the hats, gals?)

So of course there were some negative comments about the inappropriateness of women like them baring so much skin because, you know, age — ew.

Similar comments were made when model Paulina Porizkova, 55, posted a nude photo of herself in…

In a recent essay, freelance writer Rebecca Knight wrestles with a contradiction. While she’s raising her daughters to be feminists like she is, she also finds herself agonizing over her fading looks at midlife. Can she really call herself a feminist if she’s a sell-out, she wonders, as her 12-year-old watches her follow her nightly beauty regimen:

“It’s too late for me. At this point, I’ve already fallen prey to the immense pressure that society puts on women to try to look a certain way. I may be a liberated, modern woman, but I am also more than a little…

Actor and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow thinks we’re getting better at tackling ageism. While promoting a new face filler, the 48-year-old says she sees that happening with her 16-year-old daughter, Apple, and her Gen Z peers.

As she tells Bazaar:

“The younger generation is embracing and deifying women like Jane Fonda and Frances McDormand. They just love cool women, whether they’re older or different to them. They’re so much less judgmental about other women of all shapes and sizes. I observe that with my daughter. They look at the whole woman, instead of some super-airbrushed, FaceTuned Instagram photo. …

Singer and actor Katharine McPhee and her husband of nearly two years, multi-Grammy-winning musician and producer David Foster, recently celebrated the birth of their first child together.

McPhee is 36; Foster is 71.

Shortly after they wed, Foster declared, “No one gives a shit” about their large age difference and McPhee has long made light of it. But recently, she felt a need to address it:

“It took me awhile to kind of come around to really want to have a real serious relationship because I was very concerned with what people would think, and also I just wasn’t there…

The Golden Globes took place last night and while I didn’t watch the show, I got caught up in some of the commentary on Twitter about how great some of the older women looked. Notably, Jane Fonda, who won the Cecil B. DeMille Award and whose beauty at age 83 is undeniable.

Then I came upon this tweet, about Fonda looking “like this at 83”:

I have been a fan of Fonda for her activism and acting, and you bet she looks beautiful at 83. That said, it’s a very narrow version of beauty. Her skin looks flawless —…

Salma Hayek and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, just celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary —a pretty long marriage for any couple, but particularly notable in Hollywood terms.

And yet recently, their marriage has again become suspect because Pinault — chief executive officer of Kering and president of Groupe Artémis — is worth about $7 billion and Hayek is only worth some $200 million, and therefore she must have married him for him money.

As if a woman worth $200 million would actually need to marry someone for money.

It came up on a recent episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, when…