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1 week ago | 
elle.com.au | Alexandra English
Home Life Sex & Relationships Teens are forgoing an important rite of passage: falling in love Asides Valentine’s Day, 2004. Using the $10 of mobile phone credit I’d given him as a gift, my first-ever boyfriend (16M) sent me (15F) a text.
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2 weeks ago | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
Picture this: it’s just the two of you. You’re in a dimly lit bar or a covert corner of the office, maybe you’ve found a quiet spot at a crowded party. Whatever the scene, something is in the air, you can feel it. They lean in towards you – the moment is finally here – and in a low voice say those three magical words: “Just between us …” To be on the precipice of a good piece of gossip is electrifying. Are you about to hear of a friend-of-a-friend’s illicit affair?
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2 weeks ago | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
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1 month ago | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
The last “normal” meal Plestia Alaqad had in “normal” Gaza was hot chocolate and pizza on the evening of October 6, 2023. Hot chocolate and pizza: it’s an odd combination, she admits, but looking back, it’s one that would seem utterly, well, normal.
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2 months ago | 
elle.com.au | Alexandra English
Joey King can spot a former child actor from a mile away. It’s as though there’s a secret code invisible to the rest of us that only they can understand. “Even if we don’t all necessarily know each other, you can always spot a freaking child actor!” she says. “It’s beautiful — having success as a child is so incredible — but it’s also really hard to transition into a young adult actor, then an adult actor. It’s a journey.
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2 months ago | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
On a bright winter’s day in January – Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to be exact – the former reality-TV star, convicted felon, sexual predator and multi-billionaire Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States, again. It was an absurd and sinister display of pomp and ceremony.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
elle.com.au | Alexandra English
One summer’s evening in early 2024, as the sun was beginning to set, a handful of women strolled across Sydney’s Moore Park with bows in their hair. While a cloud of bats loudly set off for their nightly flight, hundreds more women adorned in silky ribbons quietly poured off the tram and gently stormed across the grass, gathering in a polite crowd outside the Hordern Pavilion on the other side. To the outside world, it looked like a very nice cult.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
A small problem arises every time a new Bridget Jones film starts production: no-one seems to know who the real Bridget is. Is it the Oscar-winning actor Renée Zellweger, who has portrayed the adored Brit on screen for four films in 20-something years, or is it the award-winning author Helen Fielding, who created the character for a newspaper column in the early ’90s?
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
In June 2024, the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award – the highest honour in American cinema, bestowed upon an actor “whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art and whose work has stood the test of time” – went to a rookie. Actually, that’s not entirely true.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
marieclaire.com.au | Alexandra English
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to prioritise your relationships—congratulations, you’re in the right place. We sought the counsel of psychologist, and founder of The Relationship Room, Rachel Voysey, to share her practical tips for those wanting to improve their relationships. Whether you want to reconnect with friends or reignite your intimacy with your partner, here’s some free advice from a professional. 1.
