Belinda Jepsen

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Belinda Jepsen

"I am about to chuck it in the bin," Adam recalled. "She says, 'Oh no, no! Don't do that! He needs to open it.'"Confused, but not asking questions, Adam hands the woman's partner a pair of latex gloves and the egg. When the man opens it, there's a ring inside. The couple became engaged, right there in cubicle three. Adam Kay's career: from the labour ward to the stage. Adam walked away from his career in medicine in 2010. It was a matter of "death by a thousand cuts".

3 weeks ago | mamamia.com.au | Belinda Jepsen

Over the next six years, Amanda and Raffaele were hauled through the Italian legal system. They were acquitted and released on appeal, retried and convicted again, then finally exonerated by Italy's Supreme Court in 2015. The court found that the pair had been twice convicted, despite "stunning flaws, or amnesia, in the investigation", and noted the lack of motive or physical evidence. It also pointed to a "sudden acceleration" in the investigation courtesy of all the international media attention.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Belinda Jepsen

Listen to Riley Hemson on No Filter here. Post continues below. In 2016, she started an Instagram profile: @healthychick101. She posted pictures of meals, workout routines, and her disappearing body. Soon, thousands of people followed along with her. Riley was achieving her goal, but she was far from healthy. "I remember I went on a trip with my friends, and I was doing a protein shake for breakfast, protein shake for lunch and only having dinner," she said.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Belinda Jepsen

Ellie Harrison was at a university party when she started chatting to one of her classmates. They were celebrating the start of the school year, the third and final of their degree. When the classmate led her to his room, away from the thrum of the party, Ellie welcomed the chance to properly catch up. But then he leaned in to kiss her. The feelings that overwhelmed Ellie at that moment were dark: panic, fear, shame.

2 months ago | mamamia.com.au | Belinda Jepsen

"She did a really good job of making our childhood as normal as possible under the circumstances, which very un-normal," Tyler said. Tyler and her siblings spent the next few years in relative stability. They went to school and saw their father every other weekend. Still, Tyler was old enough by then to tell they had something to hide. She knew the name called out on roll call each morning didn't match the one on her passport.