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Does Mel Robbins’ ‘The Let Them Theory’ Work?: A Review

1 month ago | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty I first heard the name Mel Robbins and, relatedly, the phrase Let Them Theory back in January, New Year’s resolution season. It didn’t take long before I started hearing it almost daily. Comedian Mae Martin praised Robbins on their podcast. Every fifth TikTok I saw referenced her; in one, a blonde woman in a puffy Kith coat sits in her car, explaining how having “Let Them” in college could have freed her from a group of mean girls.
Who Is Gabby Windey? From Bachelorette to ‘Traitors,’ TikTok

2 months ago | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

Photo: Kobe Wagstaff “I pulled out the booty shorts for you,” Gabby Windey teases when we meet for dinner at Taix in Los Angeles. Windey’s voice, often compared to those of Jennifers Coolidge and Tilly, is distinctively breathy, her syllables drawn out and her delivery disarmingly candid. She’s dressed in a style she’s christened “ciggy mommy” — leopard-print coat, slinky black top, silver hoops, French tips, and sheer black tights — and fresh off a call with her psychiatrist.
My Breast Reduction From Hell

Dec 31, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

If I knew how depressed I’d be in the weeks after my breast-reduction surgery, I’m not sure I would’ve been brave enough to go through with it. It was the spring of 2023, two months after my divorce was finalized. I had moved to Los Angeles four months earlier, a year after my ex left me and the Brooklyn apartment she never quite moved in to.
Q&A With ‘Deck the Walls’ Hallmark Star Danny Pellegrino

Dec 11, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Jim McCambridge Danny Pellegrino oozes Christmas cheer. The author of last year’s holiday essay collection The Jolliest Bunch (and the best-selling How Do I Un-Remember This before it) and host of the Everything Iconic podcast just premiered his first Hallmark Christmas movie, Deck the Walls.
Are These Perimenopause Symptoms? Advice From Doctors

Dec 8, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

Illustration: Lia Kantrowitz Ever since I read Miranda July’s All Fours this spring, I’ve had a new category of health symptoms to worry about: possible signs of perimenopause, the sometimes-long, somewhat ambiguous lead-up to menopause. I’ll soon be 38, which will mean I can’t plausibly claim “mid-” 30s anymore and can be fairly called almost 40. Which is fine, except that I’m an anxious millennial — and I’m not alone.
I Waited 3.5 Hours for a Something About Her Sandwich. Was It Worth It?

May 23, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images In ordinary circumstances, I’m waiting 25 minutes max for a sandwich, and it had better be good. But the opening of Something About Her, a new sandwich shop co-owned by Vanderpump Rules stars Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney, is not an ordinary circumstance, so I waited in line for three and a half hours. That I got my hands on any sandwiches at all felt slightly miraculous.
Quit It

Jan 11, 2024 | slate.com | Rich Juzwiak |Katie Heaney |Amanda Knox

Illustration By Slate and Getty Images PlusA series of essays on stopping things—or not. Illustration by Slate and Getty Images Plus
The Biggest Mistake You’re Making With SPF Moisturizer

Jan 10, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Heaney

Photo: Zach Wolfe/Getty Images You might think we’re past sunscreen season now. And I’d love to agree with you, because I hate putting on sunscreen, especially on my face. But at 33 years old, I’ve already had three precancerous moles removed, and developed an apparently permanent forehead crease. These things upset me because I had hoped to be hot and live forever. I’m pretty good about putting sunscreen on every day now, in hopes I’m making up for my 20s, when I never did.
How Vintage IKEA, Farberware, and Other Vintage Housewares Went from Disposable to Indispensable on eBay

Jan 4, 2024 | ebayinc.com | Katie Heaney

Vintage furniture and home decor have always been highly sought after on eBay. From Victorian-era chesterfield couches to mid-century Eames chairs to modern furniture from makers like Roche Bobois and Cassina, eBay’s marketplace allows buyers to browse, search and collect the perfect piece. While those items are widely prized, hand-crafted designs, you might be surprised to learn that not all of the most valuable housewares on eBay are.
Actually, Not Everyone Needs Therapy! After My Divorce, I Realized I Didn’t.

Jan 1, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Katie Heaney

This is part of Quit It, a series of essays on stopping things—or not. A lot changed for me over the past two years: I got divorced; I left one job and started another; I moved cross-country from New York to Los Angeles; I fell in love. Each of these changes felt more good than bad, on balance, which is not to say I didn’t cry more cartoonishly than I thought possible.