Marie Osmond said she was a grandmother to her eight grandchildren.

The 64-year-old singer made his appearance on Wednesday The Drew Barrymore Show and said that having grandchildren is even better than having children.

“I thought I would never love anything as much as I love my children,” she told Barrymore, 49, on her show about her surprise at how much she enjoys being a grandmother.

“Oh my god, grandkids are like having kids [but] on steroids,” she said. “I mean, it’s just so cool. I can’t even tell you.’

The Paper Roses hitmaker – who told DailyMail.com exclusively earlier this year that she tries to stay in shape for her family – said that as a mother she has a lot more responsibility, but as a grandmother she can do “anything I want”.

“And as a parent you have to guide them,” she explained. “You’re not their friend; you are their parents.

“If you’re the grandma, who cares? “I can do anything I want,” she said.

In the talk show she talked about remarriage to her first husband Stephen Craig Sr. and said they prioritize spending time with their grandchildren.

Osmond and her first husband share son Stephen Jr., 40.

She shares seven children with her ex-husband Brian Blosil. She and her second husband share four daughters: Jessica, 36, Rachael, 34, Brianna, 25, and Abigail, 20.

They also share sons Brandon, 27, Matthew, 24, and Michael, who committed suicide at the age of 19.

Osmond is the grandmother of a total of eight grandchildren.

Earlier this year, in February, she exclusively told DailyMail.com that she keeps fit to keep up with them.

“When I get to the end of my life, I want to spend time with my family,” she said.

“One of the reasons I stay in good shape is because I want to go cycling with my grandchildren,” she told DailyMail.com.

“I want to be the fun grandma and you can’t do that if you’re not feeling well,” she added.

“Those are my priorities for me,” she continued. “I want my grandchildren to know me – the real me, not the Marie Osmond they see on TV – but I want them to know who I am and that’s a real-time commitment.”

By Amy Lamare for Dailymail.Com

Published: 6:36 PM EDT, March 20, 2024 | Updated: 02:12 EDT, March 21, 2024

Kirsten Dunst showed off her endless legs in lingerie as she starred in a daring new cover shoot for the latest issue of Marie Claire.

The 41-year-old movie star looked agelessly radiant as she braved a storm in a set of Miu Miu briefs and a top from the same brand.

Her Miu Miu t-shirt was tight enough to highlight her enviably lithe physique as she shot an enigmatic look at the camera.

On the pages of Marie Claireshe waxed rhapsodic about the romantic and artistic bond she shares with her husband and repeat co-star Jesse Plemons.

“Because we fell in love with a set, we fell in love creatively first,” she mused. “I think we’ll always come back to that, in a way that has nothing to do with our real lives.”

Their off-screen romance developed while they played a couple on Fargo, and they have since married and welcomed two sons: Ennis, five, and James, two.

In 2021, they played a couple again in Jane Campion’s critically acclaimed gay western The Power Of The Dog, which earned both Jesse and Kirsten Oscar nominations.

Jesse also makes a brief appearance in Kirsten’s upcoming film Civil War, in which she stars as a photojournalist covering America’s decline in armed conflict.

Despite the professional connection the part had, Kirsten revealed that “we don’t talk to each other on set. I left him alone, he left me alone.”

Nevertheless, the Marie Antoinette actress said, “I work with him. The nice thing is that we trust each other so much.’

She recalled, “He sent me a scene from the miniseries he’s working on last night to ask my opinion. If I’m having a hard time deciding on something, I let him read it. I trust his opinion more than anyone, and he cares about me more than anyone.”

Kirsten laughingly teased that she and Jesse “hate the same things,” though she declined to provide details to the public.

Although their movie tastes lean towards European art favorites, Kirsten confessed that she would also be willing to star in another superhero movie.

She first became a global name playing Mary Jane opposite Tobey Maguire in the smash hit Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi.

If asked about returning to the genre, she would agree “because you get paid a lot of money, and I have two kids, and I support my mother.”

That said, at the time of the interview she had “not worked in two years,” she said, noting that after her role as a tortured alcoholic mother in The Power Of The Dog, “every role I was offered was the sad one.” mom.’

Despite her own recent Oscar nomination, she maintains a detached disdain for awards shows, which she believes are “too many” anyway.

Her disinterest in the Academy Awards extends to the point where she honestly admitted, “I don’t know who won last year.”

Kirsten has never won an Oscar herself, but thinks it’s good to be an underdog. like you [win] Academy Awards, sometimes it’s not always good for your career.’

Still, she believes she will eventually get the gong, when “I’ll be old, and they’ll say, ‘Let’s finally give her one.’

Marie Helvin has revealed her secret to being body positive at 71 after her latest lingerie campaign.

The supermodel was recently announced as the new face of Bluebella lingerie’s campaign as she set pulses racing during the sexy shoot.

Speaking about how she achieves her toned physique, the American star appeared on Loose Women on Monday, where she spoke candidly about how she stays confident about her body.

She said: ‘It’s my job so I have to be confident, I have no choice. When I’m not doing the work I’m not doing, I support myself this way.

‘For me, modeling lingerie is the same as modeling swimwear, so it doesn’t phase me at all.’

Revealing how she stays in such incredible shape, Marie explained: ‘Honestly, there are certain tricks I do as a model and the main one is that I cut out all sugar 10 days before the shoot.

‘I have a terrible sweet tooth so no more Kit Kats or Mars Bars for 10 days and it’s incredible how your skin tightens up a bit. It’s good for the camera.’

Host Ruth Langsford asked the star: “Do you like being seen as an inspirational woman?” as Marie replied that she doesn’t see herself as such.

‘No, but I like women to look at it and think, ‘oh, she looks good, I can look good too’, because what I do is achievable for everyone.

‘It just takes discipline. That’s really true, working in the gym has to be regular, you have to do it constantly. I’m really looking forward to it because I think I’m getting high on the endorphins.”

Marie also gave an update on her health after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, just before her 70th birthday.

Speaking about her diagnosis, Marie explained that the lump seemed to appear out of nowhere.

She explained, “I was always checking myself, and it seemed like it came out of nowhere. One week he wasn’t there and the next week he was there.

‘They caught it early, it was stage 1, but I still had to have a mastectomy, but they were able to save my skin and my nipple, so they removed everything behind that and replaced it with an implant.’

While Marie has now made the all clear, she explained that she has been put on a five-year treatment plan, which is also taking its toll.

‘I have everything clear, but now I am struggling with my treatment, I have a treatment that will last 5 years and I have just finished my first year.

‘The three drugs they use here mimic the symptoms of menopause. So it’s like I’m going through menopause again.

‘I sleep the way I want, I can’t sleep, I wake up with night sweats.’

About her breast cancer diagnosis, Marie said in an interview with the Daily Mail in December 2022: ‘I had a vision, an idea of ​​myself, I think, about how fit and healthy I was.’

‘As a model, my body was my instrument and I always took care of it. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I exercise every day, so I guess that made me think that something like that couldn’t happen to me because I didn’t fit the profile.

‘Now I know what a load of nonsense that is. It made me realize that appearances can be deceiving.’

‘Before the operation I decided to be strong. “I knew I had to get myself in the best shape possible to get through it,” she said.

‘But now sometimes I just sit in bed and cry for no reason. Even after everything, there’s a part of me that can’t believe it happened. No one can explain to me why that was the case. It’s just one of those things.’

A woman who lived next to her brother's decomposing corpse for up to five years was once a career-driven retail executive who had a strict religious upbringing.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal exclusive details about the life of the elderly woman at the center of the Victorian 'house of horrors' that shocked Australia this week.

The horrific secret was revealed on Monday when the vision emerged of the woman, known only as Marie, being arrested outside the rat-infested and rubbish-strewn public housing complex in Newtown, in Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.

Police made the gruesome discovery of her late brother Robert's body in late December 2022 after visiting the home on an unrelated matter.

Police broke a glass door panel to gain entry before officers in biohazard suits had to wade through floor-to-ceiling rubbish, rats, dead possums and human feces to reach the skeletal remains of Robert, who had not been seen since 2017.

What the police and first responders discovered was so terrible that it still haunts them to this day.

The house was so full of hoarded things that Marie had been sleeping in a small 'nest' of bedding among the rubbish.

Now a neighbor who took pity on Marie and welcomed the older woman into her home has given Daily Mail Australia an exclusive look into her background.

Belinda Holt said Marie, who is now about 74 years old, became homeless after police fenced off her public housing and ended up sleeping in a park.

Mrs Holt took Marie in just before New Year's Eve 2022 and said she enjoyed 'watching the fireworks on my big screen TV' and revealed part of her life story.

She said Marie and her brother Robert came from an Italian-Australian family who had emigrated in the 1920s and settled in Geelong, where they raised the siblings in a strict Roman Catholic family.

Ms Holt said Marie remembered wearing “a nice dress” to attend social dances as a teenager, but never married or had children.

Instead, she focused on her career and got a job at retailer Myer, where she worked her way up to an administrator role.

Devastated by the death of her grandparents, Marie began to suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental health problems, and both she and Robert moved into social housing in Russell Street, Newtown.

After quitting her job, Marie continued working for people in her suburb and cleaning up the neighborhood streets.

Ms Holt said Marie told her: 'It's a working planet, that's what you do.'

“She would clean out people's trash cans and get the gum nuts out of people's gutters and make some money doing it, $20 here and there,” Ms. Holt said.

“I've met (Robert) a few times. He was a hermit. They were both traumatized people.'

The siblings had lived in the house without a telephone and without electricity part of the time.

Mrs Holt said Marie was 'very fit' for her age but suffered from 'detachment disorder' – meaning she could co-exist with her late brother's body in the house.

However, Marie rejected suggestions that Marie 'slept next to his corpse'.

“That's nonsense,” she said, adding that she had seen the “nest” of bedding that made up Marie's bed.

After police arrested Marie on December 29, 2022, on an unrelated matter, they took her to Geelong Hospital and she walked home to find she could not enter her home.

Ms Holt said police had mishandled a 'mental health' case and Marie was effectively left on the street until she took the elderly woman in, clothed her and took her to Centrelink.

'She did not have a Medicare card and did not receive an old-age pension. I pulled some strings and agencies got her shelter pretty quickly, first in a motel. She's in a new place now,” Mrs Holt said.

Ms Holt, who was interviewed by the Victorian coroner's office about Robert's death, said the house had been cleaned and was being renovated to accommodate a new tenant.

Residents living in multimillion-dollar properties in an opulent Victorian suburb were unaware they were living next door to a gruesome house.

That is, until mentally ill resident 'Marie' was led away in handcuffs by police, revealing a horrific ordeal.

In her dilapidated home in Newtown, Geelong, Marie had lived for years not only among piles of rotting rubbish, but also among the body of her deceased brother.

From the outside the house looked well maintained, with Marie being known to her neighbors as something of a 'clean freak'.

“We saw her outside cutting the lawn with scissors,” a neighbor across the road told Daily Mail Australia.

Neighbors claimed they were unaware of the tragic conditions in which Marie and her brother lived for what some said could have been as long as five years.

Located across the road from the home ground of Geelong Football Club, the suburb is considered one of the city's most affluent.

Marie had lived in housing commission apartments, nestled in chic surroundings, for more than a decade.

Both Marie and her brother were described by her neighbors as friendly, but distinctly strange characters in the otherwise affluent neighborhood.

'She was a bit strange. We all knew her. She wasn't dangerous or anything,” said a neighbor who wished to remain anonymous.

“She was cleaning, doing things, picking up leaves. She was always so nice and clean. She was quiet, reserved, withdrawn. No one knew what was happening inside.”

Marie's brother, who had not been seen by her neighbors for years, was remembered for his inquisitive nature.

'He clearly also had mental problems. We saw him jump out and he loved looking into cars. He peered into cars, but he never did anything wrong.”

Neighbors said they didn't think much of it when they stopped seeing him in the neighborhood.

“Things are changing, people are leaving… it's just horrible,” the neighbor said.

Forensic biohazard specialists recovered the remains of Marie's brother on December 29, 2022, after she was arrested for allegedly violating an intervention order.

Today, the house still stands empty, with planks covering the property's broken rear windows.

Nicole Stratton, who has lived directly behind the “house of horrors” for the past six years, said she was ashamed of what happened to her neighbor.

“She definitely had mental health issues, but I was definitely surprised by the dead body in there,” she said Monday.

'As messy as the house was on the inside, it was neatly maintained on the outside.'

Ms Stratton said she had complained to Victoria's Department of Families, Fairness and Housing about her neighbor but they had failed to uncover the body.

“They came to see (me) and they asked about her and I complained about the smell. It was disgusting and the carport was always full of (trash),” she said.

'I always thought the smell was just garbage because she was always collecting garbage everywhere. I thought it was the old junk left under the carport.

'The blinds were always down and there was just mold on them. She never opened the house.”

The remains of rubbish and litter can still be seen at the back of the flat, where an empty beer bottle rests in the gutter of the house.

'Apparently it was horrible inside. I just find it all terribly sad. It's shocking,” said another neighbor.

Marie, believed to be in her 70s, was released without charge last year in connection with her brother's death, while the coroner continues to investigate the exact circumstances of his death. Herald Sun reported.

The recent attention has opened old wounds for those who knew the elderly couple across the street.

“It happened a year ago… She was mentally ill and they just slipped through the cracks. If anyone talked to her, she would have portrayed that everything was fine. It's sad,” said a neighbor.

Het komt niet vaak voor dat ik wordt uitgenodigd om de borsten van een andere vrouw te voelen. En toch doe ik hier precies dat. Marie Helvin, het supermodel uit de jaren zeventig, heeft zojuist haar beha losgemaakt om mij haar nieuwe linkerborst te laten zien, gereconstrueerd na een borstamputatie in 2022.

Ze moedigt me aan om een ​​prik te nemen. Het is inderdaad een kunstwerk.

Perfect afgestemd qua textuur, vorm en rechtopheid op de juiste, zonder zichtbare littekens. 'Nou, je had vooraf moeten zien hoeveel foto's van mezelf ik naar mijn chirurg heb gestuurd', zegt ze. 'Hij liet zijn hele team op zijn tenen lopen en zorgde ervoor dat ze het precies zo kregen als voorheen.'

We ontmoeten elkaar in Zuid-Londen, vlakbij de hoogbouwflat aan de rivier waar Helvin nu woont. Ze is van top tot teen in het zwart gekleed en haar ebbenhouten haar is achterover geschraapt in een strenge paardenstaart. Ze heeft zojuist een lingeriecampagne geleid waarin de stukken zo laag zijn uitgesneden dat ik alles moest afscheren, zegt ze nuchter.

Maar Helvin, die tijdens zijn jeugd op Hawaï vrijwel in bikini leefde, is nooit preuts geweest. Ze was in de jaren zeventig en begin jaren tachtig getrouwd met David Bailey en was een muze van de controversiële Duitse fotograaf Helmut Newton. Ze werd voortdurend naakt gefotografeerd. Ze ziet geen reden waarom, juist omdat ze nu een bepaalde leeftijd heeft bereikt, ze zich ineens zo moet gedragen.

Niettemin voelt ze zich pas sinds afgelopen zomer echt op haar gemak genoeg om de seks te hervatten, en zelfs dan is het onder voorbehoud.

'Allereerst doet het nog steeds pijn', zegt ze terwijl ze met haar hand reflexmatig op haar borst klopt, 'en ten tweede is het moeilijk om tegen iemand te moeten zeggen: 'Je kunt me zo niet aanraken', en om uit te moeten leggen waarom. .' Daarom, zegt ze, geeft ze er de voorkeur aan dat geliefden 'anoniem' zijn.

'Maar als ik de term 'anonieme seks' gebruik, bedoel ik niet seks met een volslagen vreemde, zoals iemand die je misschien oppikt in een restaurant of op een feestje, maar iemand die je misschien ontmoet via een vriend of kennis en jij beiden zijn het erover eens dat het ‘relatievrij’ zal zijn, maar informeel en hoogstwaarschijnlijk alleen voor die ene keer.

'Ik onderzoek ze altijd zorgvuldig', voegt ze eraan toe, 'en het zou altijd heel veilig zijn. Ik kan me niet herinneren hoe seks is zonder condoom! Het is al een tijdje niet meer gebeurd, maar afgelopen zomer had ik een heel korte ontmoeting met een Fransman die ik ontmoette via een vriend van een vriend van een vriend.

Ik kon zeggen: 'Ik wil niet dat mijn borsten worden aangeraakt', omdat ik heel erg betwijfel of ik hem ooit nog zal ontmoeten.'

Als je, net als ik, begin jaren zestig geboren bent en van tijdschriften hield, zul je je herinneren wat een fenomeen Helvin destijds was. En hoe het onmogelijk was om een ​​exemplaar van te kopen Mode zonder haar of haar beste vriend Jerry Hall op de cover.

'De verschrikkelijke tweeling', zo kregen ze de bijnaam, terwijl ze over de catwalk liepen voor ontwerpers als Valentino en Kenzo. 'Ja, we kregen £ 5.000 per show, wat in die tijd een enorm bedrag was', zegt Helvin. 'Natuurlijk, dat is nu peanuts.'

Ze zegt dat ze uit elkaar zijn gegroeid, vooral omdat Hall verwikkeld raakte in het moederschap. 'Ik voelde me nutteloos bij haar', zegt Helvin. Ze herinnert zich een uitstapje naar het theater in 1984 toen Hall, die net haar dochter Elizabeth had gekregen, zich tot haar wendde en zei: 'Ik lek'. Helvin was totaal verbijsterd. 'Wat moet ik daarmee? Hoe kan ik u helpen?'

Helvin, de dochter van een Amerikaanse soldaat en een Japanse vertaler, werd geboren in Tokio en groeide op in Hawaï en heeft een aantal geweldige verhalen te vertellen. Zoals de keer dat ze als vroegrijp tienjarig jongetje op de knie van Marlon Brando mocht zitten. T

De acteur was een vriend van haar vermeende peetvader geweest en was op de terugweg van Tahiti naar LA een tussenstop gemaakt. 'Wie ben jij, schatje?' gromde hij blijkbaar, terwijl hij haar op zijn schoot nam. Als kinderen werden zij en haar zus Suzon (die later omkwam bij een fietsongeluk) stoned met de surfers en maakten ze slingers van plumeria-bloesem, waarbij toeristen 25 cent in rekening werden gebracht voor een foto.

Een idyllische jeugd dus, maar Helvin was altijd wanhopig om de wereld in te gaan. Tijdens een reis naar Japan met haar moeder werd ze ontdekt door een modellenagent en op 15-jarige leeftijd werd ze overal in reclameborden in het Verre Oosten gepleisterd als het gezicht van de cosmeticagigant Kanebo.

Ik weet niet wat mijn favoriete verhaal is. Misschien die waarin ze met Jackie Onassis in een lift zat en zich plotseling zo misselijk voelde dat ze in de Yves St Laurent-handtas van de voormalige first lady moest overgeven. Of de keer dat ze met Bailey in een nachtclub in Rome was en besefte dat er van haar verwacht werd dat ze een triootje zou hebben met haar man en mode-doyenne Loulou de la Falaise. (Dat deed ze niet.) Maar iedereen zat toen achter haar aan.

Ze herinnert zich in haar autobiografie de onophoudelijke telefoontjes van Warren Beatty, de woede van Eric Clapton toen ze hem aanvankelijk afwees, de vreemde sfeer die ze kreeg van Aristoteles Onassis, die ze ontmoette in St. Tropez: 'Hij kwam op me af en ik voelde gewoon , nee, deze man is veel te gevaarlijk.'

Haar volgende grote liefde, nadat ze in 1985 van Bailey was gescheiden, was Mark Shand, de onstuimige overleden broer van koningin Camilla. Het was een grappige botsing van culturen. Ze herinnert zich de keer dat ze bij zijn familie op het platteland ging logeren, waar ze in volledige make-up en een zijden peignoir voor het ontbijt verscheen, geschokt toen ze hoorde dat de Britse hogere klassen ontbijten in hun smerigste kamerjassen.

Ze zijn nooit getrouwd, deels omdat Helvin nooit kinderen heeft gewild. Ze bleef door de jaren heen daten, met haar exen, waaronder Peter Gabriel, Marco Pierre White en acteur Neil Pearson.

Toen Helvin en ik elkaar voor het laatst zagen, misschien vijftien jaar geleden, was ze een vaste waarde in de Londense sociale circuits, zowel in de mode als in de literatuur (Helvin had de hele Dickens gelezen tegen de tijd dat ze zestien was).

Tom Stoppard, die ze via Mick Jagger ontmoette, was een partner, net als Salman Rushdie, voor wie ze in de jaren tachtig in huis zat. Ze was destijds vrijgezel en mijn partner en ik probeerden haar te matchen met een bevriende theaterproducent.

'Mensen wilden mij vroeger altijd opknappen', zegt ze, en voegt er geheel zonder wrok aan toe, 'maar dat doet niemand meer.'

Tegenwoordig ziet ze er heel anders uit. Magerder. Meer gebeiteld. Nog mooier zelfs, het doet me denken aan hoe ze er in de jaren zeventig uitzag. Ze heeft absoluut geen lijnen. Het moet een facelift zijn, zeg ik, nadat ik eerder achter haar oren had geïnspecteerd (helemaal geen littekens).

Maar nee, dat zweert ze niet, alleen een 'tweejaarlijkse injectie' Botox rond de ogen, veel ricinusolie en een klein metalen steentje waarmee ze religieus haar kaaklijn masseert. Als ze er dunner uitziet, komt dat waarschijnlijk omdat ze vlak voordat ze de leeftijd van 60 jaar bereikte, de beslissing nam om het op het gebied van sporten te doen en de alcohol op te geven.

'Diana Vreeland zei al vroeg in mijn carrière dat ik moest stoppen omdat het regelrecht in mijn kaak terechtkwam', zegt ze, 'en uiteindelijk heb ik haar advies opgevolgd.'

Maar de gebeurtenissen van de afgelopen jaren hebben duidelijk hun tol geëist. Ze is als een stuk porselein dat kan breken als je te hard tikt. Het algehele effect is dat ze fragiel overkomt, en helemaal niet de springerige glamourpoes met appelwangetjes die ik me herinner uit het midden van de jaren negentig.

Nadat ze vier decennia lang in haar levensonderhoud had voorzien sinds ze uit elkaar ging met Bailey, werd Helvin financieel zwaar getroffen door de pandemie. Hoewel haar modellencarrière opnieuw werd opgestart toen ze vijftig werd ('Dat is wat klanten plotseling wilden, dat hele 'tijdloze schoonheid'-gedoe'), droogde het werk op zodra de lockdown eenmaal was doorgevoerd.

Al snel merkte ze dat ze een beroep moest doen op haar spaargeld; het geld dat ze van plan was uiteindelijk te besteden aan haar terugkeer naar Hawaï, de plek die ze altijd als haar thuis heeft beschouwd. Het was net toen het werk weer binnen druppelde, de zomer vóór haar 70e verjaardag in 2022, toen ze het knobbeltje in haar borst ontdekte.

'Ik lag op de grond en deed mijn buikkrampen en ik voelde het plotseling', herinnert ze zich. 'Het deed geen pijn, maar het was groot, en toen ik in de spiegel keek, kon ik het echt zien.'

Anderhalf jaar later prijst ze zichzelf gelukkig. Ten eerste slaagde haar chirurg erin haar tepel intact te houden (bij veel borstamputatiepatiënten wordt de tepel verwijderd en wordt er een nieuwe getatoeëerd).

Ten tweede had ze, omdat de kanker stadium 1 was, geen radiotherapie of chemotherapie nodig, wat geen haarverlies betekende. 'Dat was mijn eerste gedachte toen ze me lieten zitten,' zegt ze, terwijl ze zachtjes de zijkant van haar hoofd aanraakt. 'Omdat mijn uiterlijk mijn levensonderhoud is. Als ik ze kwijtraak, kan ik de huur niet betalen.'

Tegelijkertijd zorgde de medicatie die haar NHS-oncoloog haar voorschreef, anastrozol, ervoor dat ze zowel lichamelijk als emotioneel geïmmobiliseerd werd, dat ze zes maanden lang nauwelijks kon bewegen zonder te huilen van de pijn.

'Eerlijk gezegd gaf de pijn in mijn gewrichten me het gevoel dat ik duizend jaar oud was', zegt ze, 'en ik ben het soort persoon dat 's ochtends uit bed springt.' Sindsdien is ze overgestapt op een lage dosis tamoxifen, wat de gewrichtspijn en het sombere humeur heeft verlicht, maar ook constante opvliegers veroorzaakte, waardoor haar slaap drastisch werd onderbroken.

'Gelukkig heb ik geen baan van negen tot vijf. Het is oké als ik laat ga slapen. En ik heb een ventilator naast mijn bed. Het enige dat ik hoef te doen is sporten, en gelukkig is er een sportschool in het gebouw.'

Voor nu in ieder geval. Het overkoepelende plan is om terug te gaan naar Hawaï en, ja, misschien met iemand te settelen – maar misschien ook niet. 'Kijk, ik hoop dat ik niet alleen zal zijn als ik sterf', haalt ze haar schouders op. 'Maar ik heb zelf kanker gehad en hoewel het geen fluitje van een cent was, was het prima.

‘De pandemie heeft voor mij veel waarheden aan het licht gebracht’, vervolgt ze. ‘Mensen waarvan ik dacht dat ze vrienden waren, waren eigenlijk kennissen, en ze vielen min of meer weg tegen de tijd dat de lockdown eindigde. Maar ik ben graag alleen, vooral in de winter, als ik graag een winterslaap houd.'

Ze voegt eraan toe dat ze geen emotionele band heeft met Londen en dat ze hier pas de komende vier jaar echt is dankzij haar NHS-oncoloog, die haar begeleidt totdat ze kan stoppen met het gebruik van tamoxifen.

'Als ik de loterij zou winnen, waar ik af en toe aan meedoe, zou ik hier weg zijn', zegt ze. En haar libido? 'Ik moet toegeven dat het tegenwoordig komt en gaat', zegt ze. 'Ik heb het gevoel dat ik nog veel meer fysieke genezing te doen heb. Maar ik geloof dat je je nog steeds sexy kunt voelen en denken, zelfs als je geen seks hebt.'

Terwijl ik vertrek, hoop ik dat Helvin terugkomt naar Hawaï. Ik heb een beeld in mijn hoofd van haar op haar gelukkige plek, terwijl ze mango's eet met de schil er nog aan (heerlijk, zegt ze), op blote voeten rondrent en zee-egels kan kraken met haar hakken. Dat is waar ze in deze fase van haar leven thuishoort.

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Regisseur van de film: Ester Mlegering.

Moderegisseur: Sophie Dveroordelen.

Stylingassistent: Jessica Carroll.

Haar: Alex Szabo AT Carol Hayes met Hair Rituel van Sisley.

Make-up: Sarah Reygate bij Carol Hayes met Lisa EldriDge.

Two mums who started a home organizing business after being inspired by celebrity organizer Marie Kondo say they now earn £925 a day from their celebrity clientele.

Gemma Abraham and Hayley Harrison, both 42, founded Organise-d in 2020 after watching Kondo's Netflix show Tidying Up.

Since launching their business, the friends have achieved continued success, working with the likes of Tamara Ecclestone, John Terry, Kimberly Wyatt and Billie Shepherd.

Gemma and Hayley, from Guildford, Surrey, advise their clients on how to make the best use of the space they have, whether it is large or small.

They also post regularly on social media – with a recent clip of Tamara Ecclestone's organized snack drawer racking up 85,000 views and countless comments on TikTok.

“Tamara was great fun and we'll be back next week,” mother-of-three Gemma explained.

'Her house had the wow factor: it's probably the most valuable house we've ever lived in. Every week we are impressed by where our customers live.

'John and Toni Terry's home is incredible and wonderful to work with. John ended up having more in his wardrobe than Toni!'

Gemma and Hayley, mother of two, charge a basic daily rate of £925 to organize one space. That price covers eight hours of work.

Gemma was previously retail director and Hayley was marketing director.

Neither of them was working when they came up with the business idea, so they threw themselves into developing it.

“We started this business because where we live in Surrey is a very affluent area,” Gemma said.

“We knew people here would have the disposable income to afford a service like ours. We've been working hard on Instagram, doing free jobs for friends for content.

“Then our following started to grow and we were approached by a number of celebrities.”

The @organise-d Instagram page now has 22.1k followers.

Despite the majority of Gemma and Hayley's clients living in large homes, the friends have tackled smaller spaces where hoarding can be a bigger problem.

They experience a greater sense of achievement in these spaces where they have to work harder.

The duo's personal lives have also played a role in their organizing talents.

“I have 10-year-old twins and a nine-year-old son,” Gemma said.

“My natural organization became stronger after I got the boys because I had no choice but to be organized.

'Hayley has an 11-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter, and her son has ADHD, so organization plays a huge role in our family life.'

Gemma also thinks this country is not used to the idea of ​​professional organizers.

'In Britain people are ashamed to admit they have a gardener or cleaner.

“Even when we say we are home organizers now, people don't understand what that is.

'Our followers on Instagram are usually in their early forties, so not entirely from the TikTok generation.

'Some people love to hate – we've had mixed reactions – but we posted a video from Billie Shepherd's house and had really nice reactions saying they were goals.'

Gemma and Hayley work closely with their clients to get the most out of their space.

They are aware that some people find it emotionally difficult to get rid of possessions.

“Many of our customers do have domestic help, such as butlers or housekeepers, but they are not involved in the organizational side,” Gemma explains.

'We work closely with them and get them on board.

“When we arrive at a house, it's a fact-finding mission: How is the space being used and who is using it?

'Men are the hardest to get on board – they don't think of it as a real profession, but then they see their partner's space ready and they think, yes, that needs to be done.

'There is an element of psychology behind many things that make each item valuable to a person.

'We are strict but gentle with it, especially when it comes to women's clothing.

'Many women are yo-yo dieters and have wardrobes ranging from size 8 to 16, so we are passionate about how we approach that and we focus on explaining what happens to the items next.

“We let someone else love the item by passing it on to a thrift store or a women's shelter.”

Gemma and Hayley believe that a messy, messy home life can make people tense and tense, and that an organized home brings a sense of calm.

Riley Keough talks about a very emotional challenge: completing her late mother's memoirs Lisa Marie Presley.

“It was just something I thought I should do for her and help her complete that project,” Keough, 34, said Variety at the Emmy Awards on Monday, January 15. “It's very bittersweet and I love doing that for her. I feel honored that I can help.”

Then the only daughter of Elvis And Priscilla Presley died in January 2023 at the age of 54, having worked on her book for more than three years. Now, a year later, her eldest child is completing the memoir, and she's happy to continue Presley's legacy.

“It's extremely emotional and also very therapeutic,” Keough continued. “It makes me feel like I'm very close to her. So it's a bit bittersweet and difficult, but also very special.”

The long-awaited memoir will be released on October 15. Lisa Marie previously asked her daughter to help her with the book. After her mother died, Keough began listening to tapes Lisa Marie had recorded.

“Few people had the chance to know who my mother really was, other than that she was Elvis' daughter,” she said in a statement to the newspaper. Associated press on January 11. “I was fortunate to have had that opportunity and working to prepare her autobiography for publication was a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I'm so excited to share my mother now, at her most vulnerable and honest, and in doing so, I hope readers will love my mother as much as I do.”

Lisa Marie died after suffering a heart attack at her home in Calabasas, California. Her death was caused by a small bowel obstruction, according to an autopsy report obtained by We weekly in July 2023. She is survived by her mother, Priscilla, 78, Riley, whom she shared with her ex-husband Danny Keoughand twin daughters Finley and Harper, 15, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

After Lisa Marie's death, Riley became the sole administrator of her mother's estate. Priscilla contested the will that gave her granddaughter control of the estate. Us confirmed that the settlement included provisions naming Riley's younger half-sisters as sub-trustees and giving Priscilla a lump sum of $1 million.

January 12 marked one year since Lisa Marie passed away. Riley remembered her mother through a throwback Instagram photo of herself as a child, sitting next to Lisa Marie. She captioned the photo. “.”

Priscillawrote via X (formerly Twitter): “Today is a very solemn day. It's been a year since you passed away and not a day goes by that I don't think of you and miss you. Rest in peace, Lise. You are now in the arms of your beloved father. That alone…gives me comfort. Mom .”

Priscilla Presley And Riley Keough have a special place in their hearts for it Lisa Marie Presley one year after her death.

“Today is a very solemn day. It's been a year since your passing and not a day goes by that I don't think of you and miss you,” Priscilla, 78, wrote via X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, January 12, on the one-year anniversary of her daughter's death. “Rest in peace, Lisa. You are now in the arms of your beloved father. That alone…gives me comfort. Mom .”

Lisa Marie was the only daughter of Priscilla and the legendary rock star Elvis Presley. She died in January 2023 at the age of 54. Her death was caused by a small bowel obstruction, according to an autopsy report obtained by We weekly in July 2023. Lisa Marie is survived by Priscilla, daughter Riley, 34, whom she shared with her ex-husband Danny Keoughand twin daughters Finley and Harper, 15, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

For her part, Riley shared a throwback photo of her and her mother Instagram and captioned the post with a heart emoji.

A day earlier, Riley announced that she would posthumously release her mother's memoir. The book hits shelves on October 15. (Lisa Marie wrote her memoirs before she died.)

“I'm honored to help get my mom's book out for her,” she captioned a throwback photo of herself and Lisa Marie via Instagram on Thursday, January 11. “Her autobiography will be published in October by @randomhouse and you can pre-order it now.”

Riley talked about her decision to become involved with Lisa Marie's story because “few people had the opportunity to know who my mother really was.”

“I was fortunate to have that opportunity and working to prepare her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one,” she said in a statement to the newspaper. Associated press on Thursday. “I'm so excited to share my mother now, at her most vulnerable and honest, and in doing so, I hope readers will love my mother as much as I do.”

After Lisa Marie's death, Riley became the sole administrator of her mother's estate. Before things became official in May 2023, she was embroiled in a legal battle with her grandmother, who filed to contest her daughter's will. Us confirmed that the settlement included provisions naming Riley's younger sisters as sub-trustees and giving Priscilla a lump sum of $1 million.