Christina Montford

Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute are in hot water that even the most thought-out apology can’t save them from. Recently, Faith Stowers came out and accused Schroeder and Doute of calling the police on her. Amid riots for racial equality and the spotlight being cast on police brutality in America, this revelation was concerning to Vanderpump Rules fans.

Of course, Schroeder and Doute apologized for their actions. But while they were making amends publicly, neither of them managed to reach out to Stowers to apologize personally.

What happened between Stassi, Kristen, and Faith?

During an Instagram Live conversation with Candace Rice of Floribama Shore, Stowers talked about her experience as the only black cast member on Vanderpump Rules and how the cast treated her.

“There was this article on Daily Mail where there was an African American lady,” Stowers said. “They showcased her, and I guess this woman was robbing people. And they called the cops and said it was me. This is like, a true story. I heard this from actually Stassi during an interview. It was just funny, because they thought it was me because it was a black woman with a weave. So they just assumed it would be me, and they called the cops on me.”

Stassi and Kristen apologize publicly

Once Doute and Schroeder started getting flack for their actions, they each took to Instagram to apologize.

“Racially insensitive comments from my past have resurfaced,” Schroeder wrote. “It is important that I continue to take accountability for what I have said and done, while pushing myself to do better. I have grown significantly from the person I was then, and I am still filled with remorse and regret for the hurt I caused. I am grateful for the people in my life that continue to check me and push me to evolve into a more educated person.”

She then spoke to the situation with Stowers.

“I want to address my former castmate, Faith Stowers. My emotions over something that happened between our friends outweighed my logic, and there is no excuse for that. I did not recognize then the serious ramifications that could have transpired because of my actions. What I did to Faith was wrong.”

Doute made a similar statement on her Instagram.

“Although my actions were not racially driven, I am now completely aware of how my privilege blinded me from the reality of law enforcement’s treatment of the black community, and how dangerous my actions could have been to her,” she wrote. “It was never my intention to add to the injustice and imbalance.”

By Ella Chochrek

Rita Ora is letting fans in on her workout routine.

The 29-year-old “Your Song” songstress took to Instagram today to show off her latest gym look, a white sports bra and blush-colored leggings, teamed with white ankle socks. To complete her outfit, Ora sported layered gold necklaces, including multiple chains and a pendant reading “daddy.”

“Keep moving,” the “Carry On” entertainer captioned her Instagram post. She received over 300,000 likes on her post within the first four hours.

This is not the first time that Ora has taken to social media to show off her workout style. For instance, on April 1, the “Ritual” singer shared her post-workout routine on Instagram. She stretched out on a yoga mat wearing a black sports bra and pale blue high-waisted leggings. Ora finished off the ensemble with all-black Adidas Ultraboost sneakers.

“?? follow me on @tiktok @ritaora,” she captioned an Instagram post from the workout session.

When it comes to her gym wardrobe, the “Let You Love Me” hit maker tends to stick with sports bra and leggings combos. With regard to footwear, Ora doesn’t appear to be particularly loyal to any one brand, as she has in recent months laced up in pairs from the likes of Adidas, Asics and Nike.

Ora unsurprisingly tends to swap her sneakers for designer footwear when it comes to parties, awards shows and other public appearances. In the past, the British beauty has selected pairs from an array of high-end brands — among them Brian Atwood, Miu Miu, Atelier Versace and Sophia Webster — for the red carpet. In addition, the alum of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” film franchise is a big fan of Giuseppe Zanotti, with whom she collaborated on a capsule collection in 2019.

“The silhouettes are so kind of delicate but still hard, and I felt like my contribution to this collab was bringing that kind of hard energy, [this] sexiness and feeling powerful,” Ora told FN of the collection, revealing that she wore heels for the first time when she was just 6 or so years old, when she tested out a pair of her mom’s.

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By Kaitlyn Frey 

Supermodel Anok Yai is speaking out after CR Fashion Book founder Carine Roitfeld received backlash and apologized for posting a tone deaf Instagram photo alongside Yai in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minnesota law enforcement.

As millions of Americans voiced their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and vowed to stand in solidarity with the Black community, Roitfeld, 65, posted a photo hugging Yai, 22, with the caption “Miss you.” Fashion industry watchdog Instagram account Diet Prada also reported that the editor replied to a comment on the post writing, “Anok is not a black woman, she is my friend.”

Roitfeld’s post has since been deleted, along with a public apology shared on Instagram. And now Yai is sharing her own insight on the situation.

In a candid essay written for O, The Oprah Magazine titled, “Anok Yai Says Black Models Shouldn’t Have to Educate the Fashion Industry About Racism,” the model opens up about Roitfeld’s “insensitive” and “jarring” remark.

“A lot of people have asked what my reaction was to an insensitive post from a friend of mine on Instagram last week,” Yai wrote. “Of course, it was jarring — and it was just one of many similar microaggressions I’ve experienced during my time in fashion. But the bigger point I’d like to focus on is thatthe fashion industry needs to become educated…and fast.”

Yai continued by explaining that many people in the industry expect Black individuals to educate them about Black history, racial injustice and microaggressions. But that shouldn’t be the case.

“Educate yourself and come prepared. It’s your job. The world is changing right before our very eyes, and we won’t be tolerant of intolerance any longer,” she said.

Yai, an Egyptian-born fashion model of South Sudanese decent, grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and made history in 2018 when she became the first black model to open a Prada show in 20 years. (Before Yai, Naomi Campbell opened the runway in 1997.) At the time she called it an “honor” and a moment “bigger” than herself.

Roitfeld issued a lengthy apology on her Instagram after posting the photo with Yai and said she understands how it caused “further pain and hurt” in the Black community.

“I am learning from this experience and will continue to use my platform and voice to create opportunities for change,” Roitfeld said. “Anok you are a beautiful, strong and talented Black woman and I meant absolutely no harm. I only meant to send a message of support to you and your family. I vow to continue to focus my efforts and stand up to these injustices to support and further create opportunities that amplify the black community and their voices in the fight against systemic racism.”

“Please know that I have read all of your comments and I hear you,” she continued. “I made a grave error and ask not to be judged by my words, but by my actions now and going forward.”

Yai commented on Roitfeld’s apology Instagram post with a prayer hand and two heart emojis.

Roitfeld also gave a statement to PEOPLE. “I was devastated by my misjudgment and the comments, but completely understand my mistake and why it was inappropriate,” she said. “I apologized personally to Anok and then afterwards to the world on social media. I learned a lot from the comments and they will help me to keep fighting for opportunities to support the Black community, both immediately in fashion and our greater world moving forward.”

The statement continued: “As a mother, grandmother, sister and fashion editor, I have been proud of my efforts in celebrating the beauty and importance of Black voices through past shows, covers, campaigns and stories, but I now realize that’s not enough. I am taking this experience very personally and thinking of more meaningful ways I can further support and create opportunities to amplify the Black community and their voices in the fight against systemic oppression, racism and police brutality. The fashion world is fueled by the creativity and culture of the Black community and credit needs to be given where it has always been deserved. I have platforms I can use for this and it must be done. I hope that people can judge me by my actions and not my words. My language was wrong, but my heart knows what is right.”

https://people.com/style/anok-yai-address-carine-roitfeld-insensitive-instagram-photo/

by Katherine Schaffstall

The actress told Jimmy Kimmel that she will be joined by African American Policy Forum founder Kimberlé Crenshaw to discuss the film, “talk about how people can be part of the solution [and] raise money for AAPF and Say Her Name.”

Kerry Washington spoke about the “resurgence” of her Netflix film American Son in light of the worldwide protests against racial injustice when she virtually visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday.

Based on the Broadway play of the same name, the 2019 film follows a black mother and white father as they desperately look for their 18-year-old son when he doesn’t come home.

“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare of wondering where your teenage kid is with the added layer, the added complexity, that so many of us are understanding now of being a black parent and knowing that your kid isn’t just up against knucklehead adolescent behavior, but up against systems of, you know, racist institutions that put your kid’s life at risk,” Washington explained of the film. 

“The film is really so close to my heart,” she said. “Because there’s been a huge resurgence of people watching it and saying, ‘Oh, now I get it’ or ‘I have so many more questions,’ we’re going to do a live tweet.”

The Twitter event will take place on Thursday, June 12. The watch live event will be followed by an Instagram Live conversation between Washington and African American Policy Forum founder Kimberle Crenshaw, who helped create the Say Her Name campaign. The actress explained that the campaign focuses “on the mothers and the loved ones of women who have been killed by police officers.”

“Kimberle and I are gonna do a discussion about American Son, talk about how people can be part of the solution [and] raise money for AAPF and Say Her Name,” she said. The discussion will also educate viewers on the characters in the film including the titular son, as well as “a lot of the women that haven’t been mentioned” like Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor, Washington said.

Earlier in the appearance, Washington gave suggestions on how to teach kids about racism.

Noting that white privilege allows people to learn about racism, she said that black families “don’t have the privilege of ignoring what’s going on and pretending that it’s not happening.”

“Kids are introduced to race at Black History Month or in the context of change makers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks,” she said. “I think it’s really important that we start to introduce the idea of race with a black history that begins before teaching kids about what black people were told they couldn’t do.”

Washington shared that she wants kids to learn about Maasai warriors, the kingdoms of Ghana, Queen Nefertiti and the Egyptian pyramids.

The actress said it’s important to teach kids that “black history and black people were a lot of things before segregation and Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement so that we understand the beautiful complexity and elegance and richness of black history” before the community had to fight for equal rights.

Speaking about the recent protests, Washington said that she wasn’t surprised that so many people have showed up to support the black community. “It fills me with so much hope and encouragement,” she said. “I feel like we as a nation, and as a world in some ways, we’re just done having our governments work in ways that don’t reflect our values.”

“I think for a long time some people thought that you could just be a passenger in this train called democracy, but that’s not how it works,” she added. “A democracy works if we all show up and we all express our values, whether it’s voting or in the streets protesting.”

Washington and Kimmel both spoke about giving speeches during the Dear Class of 2020 virtual graduation ceremony. Both the actress and ABC late-night host wrote and filmed their speeches before the protests started.

While Kimmel told the graduates to not “show up late with coffee in your hand,” Washington shared a more inspirational message to “create your new normal.

She said that she was “freaked out” because she wrote her speech before the protests, though added that her message was still “apropos.” 

“Then like a week ago, President Obama put a post up about all the protests saying those words,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh, now everybody’s gonna think that I just stole the president’s Twitter and turned it into a commencement address. That sucks.'”

“On a lot of levels, whether we’re dealing with the pandemic of racism or the pandemic of COVID, we are in the moment of a new normal,” she added. “We cannot go backwards. We have to figure out how to take better care of each other going forward.”

Watch Washington’s full appearance below.

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A seemingly ageless, 62-year-old woman from Birmingham, U.K., claims that men in their twenties have regularly reached out to her via Instagram as if her profile were a Tinder account, the Sun reports.

Sheila Kiss, a fitness buff, model and mother of three who now lives in Bali, Indonesia, has often been confused for being younger due to her youthful appearance and physique. The secret appears to be in her workout regimen, she revealed to the newspaper.

“I started my health and fitness lifestyle when I was about 30 after my second child,” Kiss said. “I resumed tennis again twice a week and also started aerobics. Aerobics was really popular in the ’80s and I could go five days a week, even with three children.”

At the age of 40, the mother joined a gym and started weightlifting in an effort to tone her body.

“I’ve never focused on weight and I don’t weigh myself but rather focus on tone, and I don’t consider a skinny body to be a healthy or a well-shaped body — I’d much rather have a sporty, well-toned look,” she explained.

Nine years later, Kiss decided to additionally take on Bikram yoga, which she practiced continuously for 13 years.

“Bikram is tough mentally and physically and really makes you lean,” she said. “It is one-and-a-half hours of yoga in 41-degrees heat.”

Though she hasn’t practiced yoga in the years since, Kiss said she still works out two hours a day and six days a week, all while maintaining a healthy diet.

“Basically, I don’t buy anything in a packet and all my food comes from the fresh produce section,” she said. “We eat out a lot in Bali, but I will still make healthy choices.”

As a result of her sprightly appearance, Kiss, who has over 60,000 followers on Instagram and models in Australia from time to time, said that she has frequently gotten stares from interested men.

“I laugh to myself as I am old enough to be their mother,” she said. “They totally confuse my Instagram page with Tinder — men who private message me would be from 20 to 70. I just hit delete.”

Still, the fitness buff has taken it all in stride, adding that she has also gotten compliments from women at her gym.

“They always say that I am such an inspiration to them, and I really love that … you just realize how important it is to keep strong, healthy and fit and how confident it can make you feel,” she said.

By Mark Savage

Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock says she “doesn’t care” if she loses fans by talking about black rights.

“This is something you can’t ignore, this is something you can’t be quiet about,” she told ITV’s This Morning.

The singer was talking after a video about her personal experiences of racism went viral over the weekend.

“Some people that have posted [similar videos] have lost a lot of fans,” she said. “I think it’s disgusting – but it just proves what we’re saying.”

The star’s Instagram video went up on Saturday as people around the US and the UK protested against the death of George Floyd.

Pinnock, whose parents are mixed race, said she had “the biggest awakening of my life” when filming the video for Little Mix’s 2012 single Wings.

On the set, black director and choreographer Frank Gatson told her: “You’re the black girl. You have to work 10 times harder.”

She said: “Never in my life had someone told me I would need to work harder because of my race.” Later, the words rang true.

“My reality was feeling lonely while touring to predominately white countries where I sing to fans who don’t see me, don’t hear me, don’t cheer me on,” Pinnock said, holding back tears.

“My reality is constantly feeling like I have to work 10 times harder and longer to make my case in the group, because my talent alone isn’t enough.”

She concluded the video by encouraging others to discuss their experiences of racism, in the hope of raising awareness and change.

Speaking on This Morning on Tuesday, the star said her experiences had often been downplayed by the predominantly white team who work with Little Mix.

“People would say to me, ‘It’s in your head. Of course people love you, what do you mean?'”

That led to a sense of “misplacement” and “feeling not like I really belonged”.

However, she said she had been encouraged by the global response to Mr Floyd’s death, and how that had opened up the conversation about race.

“I don’t care if I lose fans,” she said. “Now the whole world is speaking about it and hopefully there is going to be a change. I feel hopeful.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52976652

by Abid Rahman

Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Swank and Julia Roberts, as well as authors, fashion designers, athletes and politicians, are sharing their social media platforms on Wednesday to magnify Black women’s voices.

A host of Black stars, writers, businesswomen and activists are set to take over the Instagram accounts of A-list white actresses, authors, fashion designers, athletes and politicians as part of the #ShareTheMicNow social media campaign.  

On Wednesday, for one day only, Oscar-winners Julia Roberts, Hilary Swank and Gwyneth Paltrow will be among the Hollywood names in a campaign that will see white women with large Instagram followings using their outsized platforms to magnify the voices and work of Black women. 

The brainchild of Endeavor CMO Bozoma Saint John, bestselling authors Luvvie Ajayi Jones and Glennon Doyle and fashion designer Stacey Bendet, the #ShareTheMicNow campaign comes as the U.S. grapples with the repercussions of nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism in society.

#ShareTheMicNow organizers said the campaign had four stated goals: “To form a social media campaign that magnifies Black women’s lives and stories. To form relationships among Black women and white women – so that our future activism is born from relationships. To create a network of disruptors who know and trust each other. To create action that could make change.”

In all 46 Black women will take over the accounts of 46 white women, and the total audience reach for the inaugural #ShareTheMicNow campaign will be 300 million on Instagram, according to the organizers. 

Amongst the notable take overs, fashion and beauty editor Kahlana Barfield Brown will work with Roberts, actress and transgender activist Angelica Ross will work with Swank, Mama Glow founder Latham Thomas will work with Paltrow, human rights activist Opal Tometi will work with Ashley Graham and Saint John will work with Kourtney Kardashian. 

A full list of the Black women taking part: 

Alencia Johnson, Alexa Idama, Angelica Ross, Austin Channing Brown, Bozoma Saint John, Brittney Cooper, Candace Marie, Cari Champion, Christina Rice, Deesha Dyer, Devi Brown, Elaine Welteroth, Elle Hearns, Eunique Jones Gibson, Fresco Steez, Gia Peppers, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Jessica O. Matthews, Jovian Zayne, Julee Wilson, Justina Omokhua, Kahlana Barfield Brown, Keah Brown, Kimberly Blackwell, Latham Thomas, Lauren Wesley Wilson, Lindsay Peoples Wagner, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Melina Abdullah, Miatta Johnson, Monique Melton, Myleik Teele, Naima Cochrane, Nikki Ogunnaike, Nimotalai Ganiyu, Opal Tometi, Rachel Cargle, Activist,  Seun Adigun, Stephanie Thomas, Stephanie Young, Tai Beauchamp, Tarana Burke, Thasunda Brown Duckett, Tiffany Aliche, Yaba Blay, Yvette Noel Schure.

A full list of the white women taking part: 

Abby Wambach, Ali Krieger,  Arianna Huffington, Ashley Graham, Ashley Judd,  Ashlyn Harris, Barb Schmidt,  Brandi Carlile, Brené Brown, Busy Philipps, Cameron Esposito, Chelsea Handler, Cheryl Strayed, Chrissy Metz, Debra Messing, Diane von Furstenberg, Elizabeth Gilbert, Esther Perel, Glennon Doyle, Gwyneth Paltrow,  Hilary Swank, Jen Hatmaker, Jenny Mollen, Jessica Seinfeld, Julia Roberts, Julianne Hough, Kathryn Budig, Katie Couric, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kourtney Kardashian, Liz Plank, Mandy Moore, Megan Rapinoe, Melissa Urban, Michelle Monaghan, Nina Tame, Sara Bareilles, Sarah McBride, Sarah Paulson, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Seane Corn, Selma Blair, Sophia Bush,  Stacey Bendet, Sue Birda.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/black-stars-activists-take-a-lister-instagram-accounts-sharethemicnow-campaign-1297645

By Rachel McRady‍ 

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Amanda Bynes might be looking to kickstart her rap career. The 34-year-old former child star-turned fashion student took to Instagram late Monday night to share a rare video. 

In the clip, Bynes is wearing a grey collared shirt with her dark hair down, showing off her septum piercing and heart face tattoo. 

Without any explanation, she raps a verse of A$AP Rocky’s “Forever” while holding the camera. 

Some of the lyrics include, “In love with my b**ch ’cause she bi | My ice like the stars, I tell that b**ch, ‘Cover your eyes ’cause smoking’ with me, you go blind.'”

Bynes captioned her post, “Shout out to a$ap rocky.”

Back in late May, Bynes gave her fans a life update, revealing that she’s back at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, working on her Bachelor’s degree. She added that she’d spent the last two months in treatment to help with her social anxiety, which caused her to drop out of school. 

She also noted that she’s in “transitional living” and continuing therapy during the week. Bynes said at the time that she’s “Still engaged to the love of my life Paul.” 

https://www.etonline.com/amanda-bynes-raps-to-aap-rockys-forever-in-instagram-video-147815