Nora Biette-Timmons

2 days ago | jezebel.com | Nora Biette-Timmons

It seems like it was great being Meghan Markle in the summer of 2016. You’re on a hit—if not critically acclaimed—TV show. You’re 34, comfortable in your own skin, but still young and hot. (Sorry to be crass, but it’s true.) You have a fairly successful lifestyle blog; it’s nothing special, but it makes you feel like you’ve really got a passion project. You advocate vaguely for the rights of women and girls worldwide.

4 days ago | jezebel.com | Nora Biette-Timmons

That isn’t enough for a lot of people; when a journalist asks whether she thinks “protests like yours may be more effective right now than the limited care the clinic was allowed to offer under the new restrictions,” Angela retorts, “It bothers me that if I bombed an abortion clinic everyone would just get it.

3 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Nora Biette-Timmons

“It’s torture for me,” Newkirk said. “I see my daughter breathing by the ventilator but she’s not there.” Smith, a nurse, had been experiencing intense headaches for months when she went to the hospital in February. She was given medication and then released, but doctors didn’t perform tests or do a CT scan; otherwise, they would’ve noticed and treated the blood clots in her brain, Newkirk said. The next morning, Smith’s boyfriend woke up to Smith gasping for air and called 911.

1 month ago | jezebel.com | Nora Biette-Timmons

Our monthly book club focuses on new literary fiction releases. (And if you’re a Jezebel subscriber, keep an eye out for related giveaway opportunities.) Below, our books editor reviews this month’s pick, Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian. Ambivalence about motherhood feels almost overdone in popular literary fiction at the moment—whether it’s ambivalence on the part of a could-be mother, or on the part of an already-is mother.

Mar 5, 2025 | jezebel.com | Nora Biette-Timmons

Meghan Markle’s* new lifestyle reality show is not meant to be a comedy, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t make me laugh out loud multiple times while watching it.