When you're the star of a successful HGTV show, the one thing in your life you should probably make sure you get right is real estate. Tarek El Moussa appears to be nailing it with his new bachelor pad.

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According to Page Six, El Moussa dropped $2.28 million on a Costa Mesa mega-mansion with four bedrooms and three baths — so there's plenty of room for the kids. The entire house is reportedly equipped with smart-house technology, including individualized surround sound in every room. There's also a private pool and spa and an electric car-charging station. The entire home tops out a little over 3,000 square feet. It sounds like El Moussa is going to be perfectly happy there, because honestly, who wouldn't want a house like that?

El Moussa closed on the house toward the end of February, just a few weeks after his divorce from his Flip or Flop costar Christina El Moussa was finalized. Christina got to keep the family's $2 million home in Yorba Linda, California, which is why Tarek got to go shopping for some real estate. Tarek did all right in the divorce too, though — he's keeping their formerly shared yacht, which has got to be a nice place to hang out.

Tarek and Christina will share custody of their two kids, 7-year-old daughter Taylor and 2-year-old son, Brayden. We're guessing the kids love their dad's new pad as much as Tarek probably does.

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Even amid their divorce, Tarek and Christina El Moussa have stayed friendly, successfully co-parented their kids and signed on with HGTV for another season of Flip or Flop. That's how you don't let a pesky thing like divorce get you down.

Back in 2014, you couldn't open social media without seeing the viral Ice Bucket Challenge campaign, which aimed to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It was successful on both fronts — far more people know the condition exists, and it raised so much money (around $200 million) that it has already resulted in medical breakthroughs.

Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist who recently died at the age of 76, was one of the most famous people with ALS — another, of course, being baseball player Lou Gehrig, whose name is synonymous with the condition.

So what exactly is ALS?

According to the Mayo Clinic, ALS is a progressive neurological disease that slowly causes nerve cells to break down and die, eventually causing disability because of severe weakening of muscles. While it typically starts out affecting movement of limbs, over time it makes it difficult and later impossible to eat, speak or breathe.

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Thankfully, ALS typically does not impact a person's ability to think, as was clearly the case with Hawking, who made countless scientific contributions as the condition advanced.

An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people have ALS in the United States, with around 5,000 new cases diagnosed every year according to the Centers for Disease Control.

What are the symptoms of ALS?

Like many conditions, the early signs and symptoms of ALS include many seemingly normal and harmless effects, like frequently tripping and falling, hand weakness or clumsiness and muscle cramps and twitching in your arms and shoulders. However, there are other symptoms you are less likely to experience in your everyday life, including difficulty walking or doing your normal daily activities; weakness in your leg, feet or ankles; slurred speech or trouble swallowing; and difficulty holding your head up or keeping good posture.

What causes ALS?

Scientists are still in the process of figuring out the causes of ALS but at this point know that between 5 and 10 percent of cases are hereditary according to the Mayo Clinic. Unfortunately, there is also no known cure.

There are certain risk factors that can increase a person's chances of getting ALS. They include age (it is most common in people between the ages of 40 and 60) as well as environmental factors like smoking, exposure to harmful toxins (though more research is needed to determine specific substances) and military service (though no specific reason for this has been pinpointed yet).

And despite the fact that some of the most well-known people with ALS are men, the condition is actually more common in women prior to the age of 65 (after that point, the diagnostic rate evens out). Furthermore, smoking appears to be more of a trigger for ALS in women, especially after menopause.

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Most people tend to live between two and five years after symptoms develop, which makes the fact that Hawking lived with ALS for more than 50 years even more remarkable.

How is ALS diagnosed & treated?

Because the early signs and symptoms can look like other neurological conditions, ALS can be difficult to diagnose, so doctors tend to run a battery of tests in order to rule out the other diseases. These tests can include MRI, spinal taps, blood and urine tests, a muscle biopsy, a nerve conduction study or an electromyogram.

As mentioned above, there is no cure for ALS, but there are treatments that can help slow down the progression of the nerve damage and make the person more comfortable and may help improve their quality of life.

Alicia Vikander didn't mess around while training for her role as Lara Croft in the upcoming reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise.

OK, so she messed around a little bit.

Her trainer, Magnus Lygdbäck, started her on his lifestyle diet program seven months before filming. The diet encourages eating five days a week with 17 of your meals containing good, healthy foods like lean protein and fiber-rich vegetables, while three meals are "treat meals."

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But her treat meals didn't stop her from putting on a little over 12 pounds of muscle, which is good news for us pasta lovers out there.

"She's just as passionate as me when it comes to food," Lygdbäck told SheKnows exclusively when we asked about her favorite treat meal. "Whether it's pizza or pasta or a steak, she loves food. She's a big foodie, as am I, so she didn't go to one particular meal. It was always something new."

But just because Vikander got to treat herself with food doesn't mean she slacked off in the gym.

In fact, Lygdbäck said Vikander's least favorite thing was taking a day off.

Lygdbäck said Vikander was an incredibly hard worker. She and Lygdbäck trained together about six days a week.

"We wanted to build a character," Lygdbäck said of their fitness goals for the film, "that was not too muscly but feminine [and] strong. And we wanted to also make sure that we got in all the skills that she needed, the fluidity, the movement, being able to climb, fight, jump, move like a cat. We discussed that, and I think we achieved those goals."

"She had a lot of other kinds of training: climbing training, MMA training," Lygdbäck continued. "But that was more technical stuff. We made sure to not overwork her. The hard work, that was the gym training."

He added, "In the gym, we did a lot of front squats, leg press, dead lifts, a lot of plyometrics, pull-up, push-ups, regular bicep curls, tricep press exercises. I like to cycle my training as well and switch it up."

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Lygdbäck also warned against some women's fears that lifting weights will create bulk.

"I can tell you this: You can deadlift. You can squat with heavy weights. You can do bench press. You can do pull-ups or pull-downs. You're not going to get bulky. You're not going to get big. That's not going to happen because females don't carry that much testosterone. It all comes down to the diet. I would say if you're afraid of getting too big and too bulky, it has nothing to do with the strength training."

While Lygdbäck believes in the hard work, he also thinks fitness and nutrition should be fun too.

"The fun part is that we have been to every part of the world working out in every environment you can imagine," he explained. "Anything from a trailer in the middle of South Africa to a fancy five-star hotel in London. It was pretty interesting to be in the middle of wine country in South Africa and having your own luxury gym in a trailer. That was kinda cool."

Yeah, NBD.

Tomb Raider hits theaters March 16, 2018.

Why are periods the worst? Even when they're normal, they're a major buzzkill. And when they're not normal, well, it's just unfair. The good news is that an abnormal period is not always a cause for concern. A heavy flow or a longer period one month shouldn't necessarily send you running to the doctor.

"Slight changes in the menstrual cycle are normal and do not require medical attention," says Lakeisha Richardson, an OB/GYN in Greenville, Missouri. Anything from new medications to changes in your diet to varying activity levels and weight could result cause some variations in your period.

So, when is it time to ring the abnormal period alarm with your gynecologist? According to Richardson, prolonged bleeding (longer than a week) and excessive flow are the two most common signs that something is up. While they could be caused by something minor like changes in birth control, they could also be signs of fibroids, polyps or endometriosis.

In even more serious cases, excessive bleeding could also be the result of infection or cancer. "If someone is having a heavy flow the entire duration of their period, they should see their doctor," Richardson says. "Normally, you will have one to three days with a heavy flow, and then it should decrease."

So, let's talk about pain. It's normal to be in pain that time of the month, right? Well, not always. You shouldn't be too quick to write off your discomfort as "girl problems" because severe pain could mean endometriosis or fibroids. Drawing the line between normal period pains and abnormal ones comes down to answering this question: Does the pain affect your quality of life?

"If menstrual cramps respond to over-the-counter medications and you can continue with your daily activities, then the cramping is normal. However, if menstrual cramps confine you to the bed for several days and you miss school or work, then it is abnormal," explains Richardson. In other words, if your body is saying, "This sucks, but I'm still gonna go to the movies," you're probably fine. But if it's saying, "This must be what death feels like," better call the doc, who can tell you if everything is OK or not.

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There's also stress level to consider. According to the American Psychological Association, nearly half of all women say they've laid awake at night in the past month due to stress. And women are 8 percent more likely than men to report high levels of stress.

As if lying awake in bed in the wee hours of the morning isn't enough, stress can also take a toll on our menstrual cycles thanks to those little things called hormones. "When the body is stressed, it produces excess hormones such as cortisol," explains Richardson. This can result in irregular, missed and even heavy periods.

Bottom line: While your period woes could be a simple matter of managing stress better or evaluating your diet and exercise, listen to your body. If something sets off an alarm, it's better to take the time to go get it checked out. And definitely don't be afraid to get a second opinion.

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There's no doubt about it: 2015's Everest is an amazing piece of work. The film brings to life the emotions and action surrounding the real-life tragic events in 1996 and provides a grueling and heartbreaking look into the Mount Everest climb that claimed the lives of eight mountaineers over 20 years ago. The movie is pretty realistic — and at times hard to watch — but it didn't even capture all the details of the event. That's right: The movie about Mount Everest is missing quite a few facts.

After watching the movie, we — like so many other people who were intrigued and saddened by the Everest disaster — were curious about what else went down on that fateful trip that is still considered the worst loss of life ever to occur on a mountain on a single day.

We found 11 true events that didn't make it into the movie.

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1. Rob Hall climbed Everest a whopping five times

Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) actually summited Everest five times before he died on the mountain in 1996, more than any other climber (at that time) who wasn't a Nepalese Sherpa. Hall's body remains on the mountain to this day.

2. Jan Arnold, Rob Hall's wife, was supposed to be on the '96 climb

Rob Hall and his wife, Jan Arnold (played by Keira Knightley), climbed Everest together in 1993. She would have gone again in 1996 but instead stayed at home in New Zealand because she was pregnant. Two months after Hall tragically died, she gave birth to their daughter, Sarah.

More: Rob Hall's Wife Jan Arnold Reveals Her Feelings About the Film

3. Body nicknamed "Green Boots"

The above body is commonly referred to as "Green Boots" and also serves as a trail marker. This corpse is believed to be that of Tsewang Paljor, who was a member of the first team of Indians to summit Everest from the northeastern passageway. He was one of the eight who died on May 10, 1996.

4. More than 250 bodies on Everest

Because conditions are so dangerous, and there is so little oxygen near the top of the mountain, if someone dies while climbing Everest, there is no safe way to bring the body down. Most deaths are due to an avalanche or falling off the mountain.

5. Beck Weathers' eye surgery

In the film, climber Beck Weathers (played by Josh Brolin) begins to get blurred vision and can only see a couple of feet in front of him. His vision problems in real life were because of overexposure to ultraviolet radiation on his eyes that had recently undergone radial keratotomy surgery to correct his myopia or nearsightedness.

Next: Beck Weathers lost more than just his nose

A version of this article was originally published in September 2015.

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6. Beck Weathers lost more than just his nose

After being exposed in the harsh and freezing blizzard, Weathers suffered terrible frostbite. He lost the bottom half of his right arm and all of the fingers on his left hand. He also lost parts of both his feet. His nose had to be amputated but was later reconstructed from tissue from his ear and forehead.

7. Author Jon Krakauer wishes he'd never climbed Everest

In the film, Jon Krakauer (played by Michael Kelly) is a journalist invited to climb Everest so he can write an article for Outside magazine. In a 2015 interview, Krakauer said this to The Huffington Post: "Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest."

8. Rob Hall's body found by Imax expedition

Less than two weeks after the deaths of the eight explorers on Everest, a team of filmmakers from Imax discovered Rob Hall's body on their way to the summit. They were there to shoot the 1998 documentary, also called Everest.

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9. Beck Weathers was not the first helicopter rescue that day

Because of the lack of oxygen, helicopters cannot fly safely up to the top of Everest. The situation was so desperate, however, Nepalese Lt. Col. Madan Khatri Chhetri took the risk and managed to evacuate a climber named Makulu Gau ahead of Weathers. The helicopter was able to take only one passenger at a time and successfully returned to rescue Weathers.

10. Home of a goddess

Buddhists believe the Goddess of Inexhaustible Giving, Miyolangsangma, lives at the top of Mount Everest. Some climbers pray to her for a safe trip up and down the mountain.

11. 2014 avalanche during shooting preparation

On April 18, 2014, an avalanche killed 16 people on Everest, twice as many as the 1996 disaster that took eight lives. The filming of Everest had to be put on hold until conditions were safe.

A version of this article was originally published in Sept. 2015 and updated in Mar. 2018.

Over the years, the Disney channel has given us some of our most prolific pop stars. Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez all came from Disney beginnings. And so did Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato, who might be going back to their roots and giving us the former Disney star collaboration of our dreams. Both stars have been teasing that they might have something in the works together, and we already know we're not worthy of whatever it is.

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Rumors have been flying about a possible Aguilera-Lovato collab for a while, and when TMZ caught Aguilera getting into her car last week, a reporter was quick to ask about them.

"I love Demi! She’s my girl. Great things to come!" Aguilera said before closing the car door. That sounds about as close to an admission that they're working together as is possible without completely spilling all the details.

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Lovato, who performed a show on her Tell Me You Love Me tour in a stadium where she saw Aguilera perform as a little girl, gave fans there a clue that something might be on the horizon after relaying an epic story about how seeing Aguilera perform live helped pushed her toward pursuing music.

"I turned around — I was obviously facing the stage — I turned around and I started singing to everybody, and I looked crazy," Lovato told a crowd of concertgoers, as seen in the Twitter video below. "Everyone was like, ‘What is this girl doing? She’s at a concert singing to the audience,’” Lovato recalled in a video shot by a fan. “But I did that because I wanted to perform here some day, and now I’m here performing. I just want to show you that dreams really do come true."

She went on to add, "And now Christina’s my girl and big things are coming!" she yelled to the crowd from onstage.

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While Lovato has been active in touring and making new music, Aguilera hasn't released an album since 2012, so she's long overdue even though she's been teasing a comeback for a few months now. And collaborating with Lovato would only make whatever she's been saving for over five years even more worth the wait.

Gary Chapman's 1995 best-selling book The Five Love Languages has become a go-to guide for people looking to discern how their partner displays his or her love. Based on his 30 years of experience as a couples counselor, Chapman breaks down the five love languages as the following: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service and physical touch.

The love languages are a hot topic of conversation, so it's certainly natural and fair to ask if sex on its own should be considered a love language.

Kelly Connell, the sexuality and relationship expert for My First Blush tells SheKnows that it first depends on the type of sex you're having. "We have sex for many different reasons," Connell says. "Sometimes because we want to express our love for someone and sometimes because we just need to get laid and sometimes it is in between these two."

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However, when sex is directly connected to an intimate relationship, Connell says that it can be part of love language. "We use our bodies to give the person we value and often love pleasure, acceptance, touch and connection," she explains. "How we touch someone in that situation, whether we look into their eyes during sex, can convey a lot to the other person. When we love someone, it is natural to want to express that through sex."

Raffi Bilek, a licensed clinical social worker, couples counselor and director of the Baltimore Therapy Center explains to SheKnows why he believes sex shouldn't be categorized as its own love language. Bilek points out that virtually everyone likes sex, and it's a connecting experience for most people. But he raises the important point that by saying sex is the primary way to make a person feel loved, it can lead to relationship problems down the line.

"What happens when one partner can't have sex for an extended period for medical or other reasons? What do you do in the beginning of a relationship when you may not want to have sex to feel loved?" Bilek says. "I think physical touch as a love language encapsulates the way certain people feel about sex, but it also allows for people to express and receive love in physical but nonsexual ways."

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Afton Strate, licensed clinical marriage and family therapist and owner of Anchoring Peace Therapy in Overland Park, Kansas, has similar concerns about categorizing sex as its own love language. "Physical touch, which can include sex, is a valid love language. However, the intention behind the gesture is what is most important," Strate tells SheKnows.

"It's important that the motivation to show your love and affection toward your partner — whether that be through touch or one of the other languages — be with the intention on giving that love to your partner from a place of giving, without the expectation of receiving something in return," Strate says.

She adds that if we haven't invested time and energy into building trust and respect in a relationship, a partner's gestures may feel as though they are "going through the motions to get something in return." (And that is decidedly unsexy.) 

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Although sex is an important part of a relationship, Strate emphasizes that viewing physical touch as purely sexual undermines the importance of "all the other forms of physical connection couples share, like holding hands, hugging, cuddling, kissing, running your fingers through your partner's hair and massages."

Of course, sex can certainly still be an important part of the love language of touch. "With a sexual partner — not just someone you met, but someone who knows you and has a deep knowledge of you, that touch is not only healing, it is necessary," Merle Yost, a licensed marriage and family therapist tells SheKnows. "That intimate touch both validates us as well as soothes, excites and fulfills us on multiple levels. That is the best kind of touch, and that is at the core of what touch as a love language does for us."

Most are probably in agreement that a great sex life can only bolster an already healthy, stable relationship. But, as Bilek points out, it's not uncommon for couples to go through extended periods when one person can't engage in sexual activity due to medical or other reasons. And that's why physical touch, which has a far broader definition, is so important.

A healthy relationship must be able to withstand a short or long break from sexual activity if necessary — and luckily, there are plenty of other ways to feel physically close to your partner during those times.

Within 48 hours of #MeToo going viral on social media, around 15 million people had already engaged, sharing their own experiences with sexual harassment. But despite the widespread reach of the movement and hashtag, Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, wants the focus to be on the people who have been affected by sexual harassment and violence.

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“Every one of those hashtags is a human being that has a story that took courage to type their story or even to write the words ‘me too,’ — that people now feel like the world can hear them in a different kind of way,” Burke told SheKnows president Samantha Skey in a recent interview at our New York offices.

A significant component of the #MeToo conversation, Burke explained, is that it has lifted the “veil of shame” to the point where more people are talking about what happened to them. This is definitely a step in the right direction, but right now, she says that the focus is still squarely on the sexual predators, like Harvey Weinstein, rather than the women he attacked and harassed.

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"What do we know even about the women who he attacked? Those women who came forward in Hollywood so bravely and just put their selves on the line not knowing what would happen — they also need resources,” Burke added.

Though #MeToo went viral in October 2017 after actor Alyssa Milano encouraged social media users to share their own stories of sexual harassment, Burke had started the movement 10 years prior.

As for the question on many people's minds about what's next for the movement, Burke — who was recently honored with a Voices of the Year Award at our BlogHer Health conference for being an important spark for change — says we're not done with this aspect of it yet. Before moving on to discussing what's next, "We have to keep unpacking this," she explained. "We haven't really dealt with the full spectrum of gender-based violence. We could have gone through completely different things. If you tell me something and I say, 'That happened to me too,' or 'I understand — yeah, me too,' there's a way that I know that I recognize the trauma, but I also recognize the triumph."

For more, watch our complete interview with Tarana Burke above.

On Saturday, Khloé Kardashian celebrated her baby shower in serious style. The festivities, held at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, were hosted by celeb wedding and event planner Mindy Weiss and sponsored by Amazon Baby Registry.

The room was decorated in every shade of pink one can imagine and filled with life-size elephant topiaries. It definitely wasn't your typical baby shower, so one would expect that Kardashian's registry would be nothing short of extravagant — right? Well, surprise, surprise: It's actually full of normal and totally practical items.

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As reported by People, the 50 items on Kardashian's registry included toys, baby wipes and an air purifier.

WaterWipes sensitive baby wipes, nine packs of 60, $31 at Amazon

“I know I’ll go through wipes like crazy on my baby’s tushy,” Kardashian told Amazon. “So I wanted to make sure I had the best possible for her sensitive skin!”

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And of course, no registry would be complete without some fun toys for Baby Kardashian.

Boon Chomp Hungry Whale, $10 at Amazon

Kardashian also requested items that will help her keep her household clean and healthy, including an air purifier.

"Everyone knows I like my house super-clean and organized!” she said. “I am counting on these products to help. It’s more important than ever now to keep the air in my home free of allergens and pollutants."

Dyson Pure Hot+Cool Link Air Purifier, $499 at Amazon

Now, if only we could get a sneak peek at the entire nursery. Something tells us it'll take the pink bedazzled theme to the next level.

It's always wise to have a backup plan — even if you're third in line for the throne. Prince George may only be 4 years old, but he's already keeping his career options open. At The Met Excellence Awards on Tuesday, Prince William shared that George would love to become a police officer. (Being king is so overrated, right?)

During the gala, which honors London's Metropolitan Police Service, PC Jayne Richardson told William that the Kensington and Chelsea districts are in need of volunteers. "We're only based just down the road in Kensington and I said to him, 'Perhaps Prince George and Princess Charlotte could join the police cadets,'" Richardson said after the event.

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If word of this opportunity gets back to George, the London Metropolitan Police Service should expect to receive their first-ever application from a preschooler. “[George] is obsessed, actually, by the police… cars, toys, everything,” William told Richardson.

This isn't just a passing phase, mind you. Last year, George wrote a letter to Santa asking for a police car. William hand-delivered the note to Santa himself during a visit to Finland (the perks of being a royal). "I've seen you and I had to give you this letter. He hasn't written down many requests, so I think one request is probably OK," William told Saint Nick.

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A "PoLICE car" was George's only request, and he noted that he'd been "nice" in 2017. But don't take his word for it; William confirmed that his son "has been a nice boy" indeed.

There's no word on whether George ever received that police car he so badly wanted. But if he did, we're confident he'll put it to good use if he ever decides to go the cop vs. king route.

As if a lavender or Disney-themed Dutch oven wasn’t enough of a draw, Le Creuset has added another beautiful item to their collection. The Clover Cocotte is the newly released Le Creuset Dutch oven, and we are completely enamored.

The charming clover-shaped dish is 12 inches in diameter and holds up to 2-1/4 quarts. It is, in fact, made from cast iron, but thanks to the enameled exterior, it doesn’t need to be seasoned before use. Oh, and it’s completely dishwasher safe.

More: Which Is the Best Instant Pot for You?

This new Dutch oven is priced at $225, which may seem steep. However, this is a typical price for a Le Creuset product given that their Dutch ovens range in price from $130 to $350. Plus, if you shop on their website, you can get free shipping on any order above $99.

Le Creuset’s website points out that this “cheerful shape” is “just right for springtime.” In particular, this cute cocotte will make cooking St. Patrick’s Day dishes like this corned beef and cabbage even more festive.

Given that Le Creuset has released quite a few Dutch oven colors and designs since the beginning of the year (including a heart-shaped Dutch oven for Valentine’s Day), should we expect to see more of these cleverly shaped products as spring really approaches? We can only hope!

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Speaking of St. Patrick’s Day, have you figured out your menu yet? These 40 green foods are perfect for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this year.

Originally published on Taste of Home.

March is Women's History Month, a paltry 31 days set aside to honor the nearly endless contributions of amazing women on this planet, all of whom deserve recognition 365 days a year. This month, we hail all women who stand — and stood — for progress, even by sitting (on an Alabama bus, that is). We honor women who refuse to back down despite threats and danger. We remember women who created or continue to create safe spaces for others through powerful words and courageous actions. In fact, we're determined to celebrate women's history and the women around us every day.

Of course, it's impossible to write about all of history's wonderful women at once (we'd be writing until the end of time). But just for fun, here's one shortlist (do you know how hard it is to come up with a shortlist?) of must-know women to teach your kids about, from yesterday's envelope-pushers to today's game-changers — all of whom continue to inspire and empower us and our daughters every day.

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The O.G. activist

Harriet Tubman

Tubman — that is, Araminta Harriet Ross — was born into slavery but made a stunning escape in 1849. She became a leading abolitionist, rescuing innumerable others from slavery by operating the Underground Railroad. This secret route of tunnels, back roads and safe houses led from the South all the way to Pennsylvania. Many don't know Tubman also dedicated her life to helping the elderly and indigent and founded her own Home for the Aged.

In 2016, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a plan to replace Andrew Jackson's likeness on $20 bills with Harriet Tubman's. As of early 2018, though, under the Trump administration, that still hasn't happened. (Why are we not more surprised?)

Famous words: "I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."

The civil rights trailblazer

Rosa Parks

Born in Alabama in 1913, activist Parks is perhaps most famous for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955, a time of violent racial segregation. She was arrested, leading to bus boycotts and nationwide protests. Parks is credited as being the catalyst for the eventual ruling that segregation laws were unconstitutional. And? Her courage led to the subsequent rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was elected head of the brand-new Montgomery Improvement Association shortly after Parks refused to give up her seat.

Famous words: "Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome."

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The power teens

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, a Taliban-controlled area. By the time she was 11, she was the author of a blog for BBC Urdu, which detailed life for girls and women under the crushing Taliban occupation. She became the subject of a New York Times documentary and began giving interviews despite threats to her life by the Taliban. Yousafzai was soon nominated by Desmond Tutu for the International Children's Peace Prize. In 2012, the Taliban retaliated with an assassination attempt on Yousafzai, who nearly died from her bullet wounds. Ultimately, she recovered in Birmingham, England, and remained there, resuming her tireless advocacy for human rights, especially those of women and children. Now she is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the founder of the Malala Fund, and the coauthor of I am Malala, an international best seller.

Famous words: “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

Jazz Jennings

Jazz Jennings is an American LGBTQ activist and YouTuber who garnered worldwide attention in 2007 after she was interviewed by Barbara Walters. Born in 2000, Jennings is a transgender teenage girl who, according to her parents, spoke out about her female identity as soon as she could begin talking as a child. She's considered the youngest person to become a well-known transgender figure and is a cofounder with her parents of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, an organization created to provide support for transgender youth. Jennings hosts a series of candid YouTube videos about her life and stars in a reality TV series, I Am Jazz, focusing on the challenges of her life as a trans teen.

Famous words: "Change happens through understanding, and one of my biggest hopes is that our next generation of kids will grow up in a world with more compassion.”

Emma González

Emma González, now 18, is making history right now as a courageous and outspoken advocate for gun-control reform. She survived the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 of her friends and classmates were murdered by a gunman. In the aftermath of the shooting, González cofounded gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD and stunned the nation with her powerful speech condemning gun violence in schools. On Twitter, she has more than 1 million followers — more than the National Rifle Association — and she and other Stoneman Douglas students are now organizing a March 2018 protest nationwide, March for Our Lives. Glamour Magazine called González "the face of the #NeverAgain movement" and "a recognizable icon." We can't agree more.

Famous words: "You're either funding the killers, or you're standing with the children."

The scientists

Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson & Dorothy Vaughan

White men Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn get all the credit for space race glory in the 1960s — not a shocker. But behind the scenes at NASA, black women Jackson, Johnson and Vaughan were key players who brainstormed how to put American astronauts on the moon safely. They were known as "human computers" for their incredibly complicated equations calculating orbital trajectories, but were rarely credited for any of their stunning successes. Only recently were their stories heard in the 2016 film Hidden Figures starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe.

Famous words: "Know how to learn. Then, want to learn." — Katherine Johnson

Marie Curie

In 1903, Curie — born Marie Sklodowska in Poland in 1867 — became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her groundbreaking work in physics. And get this: She also became the only woman to win the prestigious award in more than one category. Curie is arguably the most famous woman scientist in history — especially for her dangerous work with radioactive materials.

Famous words: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

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The farmers' fighter

Dolores Huerta

It's disappointing that Dolores Huerta, despite her tireless work over the past 50 years, is not yet a household name. She should be. Huerta has devoted her life to championing fair social and economic conditions for farmworkers. She founded the Agricultural Workers Association in 1960 as well as the organization that would become the United Farm Workers. Though Huerta stepped down from the UFW in 1999, she continues her advocacy by speaking out on immigration, income injustice and Latino and women's rights, not to mention encouraging the disenfranchised to take the right to vote seriously.

Famous words: "Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world."

The champion of future historymakers

Michelle Obama

The former first lady and mother of two continues to make her mark — especially when it comes to education for girls. After meeting Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama created Let Girls Learn in 2015. Michelle Obama has become a champion to the 62 million girls who do not currently have access to education. The Let Girls Learn initiative supports and invests in efforts to extend and enrich educational ops for girls around the world, particularly in areas where conflict and crisis are rampant. Obama is also the force behind the Better Make Room/Reach Higher Initiative, focused on encouraging students to strive for higher education beyond high school.

Most recently, Michelle Obama made news by having a playdate and impromptu dance party with 2-year-old Parker Curry, a toddler who captured the internet's heart with a photo of her standing in awe before the official Smithsonian portrait of Obama. Obama reached out to Curry's family after learning of Parker's admiration of the portrait. Video and photos of the former FLOTUS interacting animatedly with the young girl pretty much sum up Women's History Month for us — this tiny dance party is the stuff that future history is made of. Michelle Obama tweeted a thank-you to Parker, saying, "Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself... and maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you!"

Famous words: "When they go low, we go high."

By now, you're probably already familiar with the notorious wage gap between men and women. A study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research of full-time workers between 2015 and 2016 showed that white women earn 79 cents to a white man’s dollar. Black women earn 62 cents. Hispanic women just 54 cents.

But the stark financial differences don’t end there. There’s another less widely recognized discrepancy at work when it comes to women: the wealth gap.

The wealth gap is the lack of equity between men's and women’s net worth. “Your wages are really your day-to-day, how you get by, how you take care of day-to-day responsibilities, pay your bills, anything that comes up during the day how you move through life,” says Rebecca Wiggins, executive director of AFCPE, a nonprofit organization training finance pros to understand the gap. “Your wealth is the long-term security.”

Examples of wealth include saved money, a 401(k), a home you own, stock investments — any net-positive assets you own that could bail you out of a bad situation should you lose your job after you've subtracted any debt.

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Women are living with vastly less wealth than men. According to a 2015 study by Asset Funders Network, the median wealth for all single men was $10,150. The median wealth for all single women was just $3,210. The data gets even starker when broken down by race. While single white men had a median wealth of almost $30,000, single black women had a median wealth of just $200. Single black mothers? $0.

How did this happen? The existence of the the wealth gap is partly to do with the wage gap — women not being paid equally means “they’re not able to put as much away,” said Wiggins, “and that drastically impacts things like compounding interest”— and it’s also a historically systematic issue.

Women didn’t have substantial rights to own property until 1900 or to vote until 1920, giving them little power to control their finances or petition their government to change it. Consider too 250 years of slavery in the United States and the discriminatory laws that followed. “That’s essentially the difference in the wealth gap from a racial perspective is that many years,” Wiggins said. “Even things like the GI bill, where black veterans were left out… after they put their life on the line for this country,” Wiggins said. [Editor’s note: The GI bill provided World War II veterans college funding, unemployment insurance and housing.]

According to a January 2017 report by the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap Initiative, systematic issues like this are still at play. For example, women are more likely to be denied a mortgage or pay more for their mortgage despite better repayment history, women of color and low-income women aren’t as likely to benefit from U.S. tax incentives and the “three-legged retirement stool” — Social Security, employee pensions and personal savings — is broken for women, who often have lower-paying jobs (making their Social Security payouts smaller) without pensions or 401(k) options.

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If women — who, as of 2015, were the sole or primary breadwinners in 42 percent of families — aren’t financially secure and able to weather setbacks, that’s an issue for families and for communities.

The solution is both a matter of personal change and policy change, Wiggins said. “I don’t think we’ll have policy change until we take a look at gender bias and gender norms in this country and how those need to change,” she said. But “there are things being done.”

She mentioned paid family leave becoming a hot topic in her home state of Ohio. The Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap’s report also agreed paid family leave is a top priority as well as making tax subsidies more accessible for women and generally advocating for women to achieve pay equity, coaching women on financial security and reducing barriers to women saving.

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While you petition for change in the government, take a look at your own financial plans. How is your credit score? Do you have emergency savings? “Women need to take ownership and be advocates for themselves in their financial lives,” Wiggins said. If your finances make you nervous, read up on good budgeting and saving practices or talk to a professional. If your budget has room to put more money away, learn about long-term investment opportunities.

You can also make a difference by advocating for your fellow women at work. "If you’re in a leadership position, it helps everyone when you help others," Wiggins said. You can advocate on someone's behalf or you can encourage your coworkers to speak up for themselves when it comes to pay and fair treatment.

Finally, continue to challenge your ideas about men and women’s roles, responsibilities and how they deserve to be compensated. "This is really about building better communities and making sure that our society as a whole is thriving," Wiggins said. "We can’t thrive if we’re holding people back from their full potential.”

Updated, March 14, 2018, 1 p.m. PT: Richard Simmons just took a big hit in his legal battle against tabloids that falsely reported he was in seclusion because he was transitioning from male to female.

A judge just ruled Simmons is responsible to pay $130,000 in legal fees to the National Enquirer and Radar Online, six months after his lawsuit was dismissed. The judge agreed with arguments made in past cases that reporting a person is trans is not libel because it is not (or should not be) inherently damaging to a person's reputation to be associated with the LGBTQ community.

Original story, published May 8, 2017: Richard Simmons' days of sweatin' to the oldies may be over, but the 68-year-old is still plenty spirited — he's now getting his blood pumping by going toe-to-toe with tabloid magazines.

Although speculation surrounding the former fitness star has run wild over the last few years, Simmons clearly hasn't lost his capacities as has been suggested. Rather, he moved forward on Monday with a multi-complaint lawsuit against National Enquirer, Radar Online and American Media, Inc. for "unflattering" and "hurtful" reports.

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The libel complaint, which focuses on a series of "cruel and malicious" articles published between June 2016 and March 2017, takes specific issues with claims Simmons was secretly undergoing a sex change or transitioning.

Calling the conduct of the publications "particularly egregious" for cynically assuming Simmons wouldn't sue out of fear for being pegged as disapproving of the trans community, the lawsuit made some salient points about truth, privacy and the problem with exploiting LGBTQ issues.

A copy of the complaint obtained by The Hollywood Reporter reads, "The National Enquirer and Radar Online have cheaply and crassly commercialize and sensationalized an issue that ought to be treated with respect and sensitivity. Principles of freedom of speech and press may protect their prerogative to mock and degrade the LGBTQ community. But freedom to speak is not freedom to defame. Mr. Simmons, like every person in this nation, has a legal right to insist that he not be portrayed as someone he is not. Even the most ardent supporter of sexual autonomy and LGBTQ rights is entitled to be portrayed in a manner that is truthful."

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Of course, the suit wades into tricky territory, as it could be misconstrued as implying it is shameful to be associated as a member of the trans community. In 2012, in fact, a New York appeals court ruled defamation suits centered on sexuality are "based on the flawed premise that it is shameful and disgraceful to be described as lesbian, gay or bisexual."

To Simmons' credit, perhaps what he is trying to do is underscore that the more tabloids sensationalize transitioning and setting it apart as something worthy of salacious headlines, the more shock-value it will have — and the harder it will be for members of the trans community and trans advocates fighting tirelessly for normalcy.

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Update:

Radar has now responded with a scathing condemnation of the law suit on their website. In it they chastise Simmons saying, "For Mr. Simmons to now claim that his privacy has been invaded is hypocritical when his entire livelihood is based upon the public consumption of his image." That's a pretty serious policing of someone's actions. Radar and The National Inquirer are clearly on the defensive.

They also go on to threaten Simmons, "We stand by our reporting about Mr. Simmons, and intend to vigorously defend this lawsuit and win public vindication of our reports. We will also aggressively pursue our ongoing investigation into his life and who is really behind this bizarre and meritless lawsuit." That's a pretty intense double down. The insinuation that Simmons also isn't directly behind the lawsuit, and is perhaps a puppet, or not aware of what he's doing, is a bit condecending.

Lastly, the publications also made it a point to weaponize Simmons' suit against him, suggesting he is the one who is transphobic, "Indeed, it is ironic that Mr. Simmons claims to be an avid supporter of the LGBTQ community while at the same time alleges that he was defamed by Radar and The ENQUIRER report that he had transitioned into a female." There's a difference between being against a certain idea, and not simply wanting to be called something because it's just not true. We'll have to stay tuned to figure that out as the scenes unfold in court. Stay tuned for updates.

James Franco, who has basically been in hiding since multiple women went to reporters to accuse him of years of sexual misconduct, doesn't have a lot of people in his corner right now. And that's not surprising. Women in Hollywood have had enough of men who abuse women and get away with it because of their patriarchal power to do so.

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One person is in Franco's corner, and that's his former costar, Sharon Stone. But there's a problem — she appears to be quite misinformed about the allegations against him.

On an episode of WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, Stone was asked whether she enjoyed working with Franco.

"I did, and I'm appalled by this thing about him that's happening where the girlfriend — I don't know how the girlfriend can say that she's offended that he asked for a blow job while they're dating — and now, all of a sudden, he's a bad guy," she replied.

Except that's not at all how the story went. Violet Paley, who accused Franco of pressuring her into performing oral sex, said she initially refused, and he physically pushed her head down. Girlfriend or not, she had the right to refuse him, and that was not consensual. Also, she wasn't his girlfriend at the time. He had her in his car under the guise of giving her notes on a script she had written, and Paley told reporters she didn't know how to safely remove herself from the situation when he took his penis out of his pants, so she gave him oral sex. That's not a relationship. That's predatory.

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Sharon Stone, a woman who claimed in the same interview to have been harassed and mistreated herself, should know as well as any woman that the power structures that allow women to be mistreated are pervasive and toxic. She should know that even men she thinks are good people are capable of doing despicable things. And she should know the details of a situation before commenting on it, especially if her comments include dismissing a victim's story.

For those who, like yours truly, have been deeply invested in Julia Louis-Dreyfus' battle against breast cancer these last few months, you'll be pleased to know we now have an inside scoop on her health and the timeline for her return to the Veep set to film its final season. According to her costar and longtime friend, actor Tony Hale, it sounds like Louis-Dreyfus' treatments are going well, and she's right on track to return to work in the summer. Yes!

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When Entertainment Tonight caught up with Hale on the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of Love, Simon, Hale was able to give an eagerly awaited update on Louis-Dreyfus' health. "She’s great!" he shared with Entertainment Tonight. "She’s going through her own journey, and man, we’ve been talking off and on. But we’re going to be ready to shoot in the summer. She’s really doing fantastic."

Of course, when he was asked if he knew what the writers on Veep were planning to deliver to the cast for the final season, Hale couldn't tease it. Not because he was sworn to secrecy, but because he didn't know — and that's what he loves about the whole process. "I'm always surprised by what these writers come up with," he told ET.

Hale has been nothing but supportive of Louis-Dreyfus during her breast cancer battle. In the initial months of her battle, Hale was one of the first of her costars to release a supportive message, set to the tune of Katy Perry's "Roar," for her. The pair has been working together on Veep for the better part of seven years, filming multiple acclaimed and highly awarded seasons of HBO's best comedy. It will be so exciting to see what their chemistry is like once they get back into the swing of things.

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In late January, it was confirmed via Entertainment Weekly that filming on Veep would be delayed so the show's star, Louis-Dreyfus, could get back in full working order. According to another one of Louis-Dreyfus' costars, Matt Walsh, they pushed production on Season 7 so it could start at the end of the summer. "We’ll start filming in August and it will air in 2019,” Walsh noted. “We’ve seen [Julia], she’s done some table reads [and] she’s doing well."

It sounds like all is going according to plan, because not only does Hale's latest scoop confirm Louis-Dreyfus has the upper hand on her breast cancer diagnosis, but he seems to be echoing what she herself said in February. On Valentine's Day, she stated she was "ready to rock" while recovering from another round of surgery.

Clearly, it sounds like her fighting spirit is intact, and Hale's news only confirms it.

Many have at least heard of Passover, but it's safe to say that most people who aren't Jewish don't know what the eight-day festival really is. And in order to fully grasp the important holiday that celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, you need to know the meaning behind the Passover Seder plate.

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The Seder is a symbolic meal that marks the passage of the Jewish people from a time of bondage to a time of freedom. This traditional meal typifies different parts of the Passover story using different foods. During the Seder, the haggadah is read to tell the story of the exodus from Egypt. Children are often called upon to explain the meaning of each item on the Seder plate and also to read the four questions, which begin with, "Why is this night different from all other nights?"

On the Seder plate, customarily presented on a beautiful silver dish, you'll find six spaces, each with its own unique meaning.

1. Maror

Bitter herbs, usually horseradish, represent the bitterness of slavery. Grated horseradish root or jarred horseradish can be used and typically eaten on a piece of matzo.

2. Chazeret

Often only one bitter herb (horseradish) is used on Passover, but there are two places on the seder plate. In the U.S., people typically use romaine lettuce as the second bitter herb.

3. Charoset

A sweet mixture of roughly chopped apples, walnuts, cinnamon and red wine, charoset represents the mortar that was used to construct the storehouses by the Jewish people when they were slaves in ancient Egypt.

4. Karpas

Here, parsley or another green vegetable symbolizes the coming of spring. In the Ashkenazi tradition, it is dipped in salt water, which represents the tears of the Jewish people when they were slaves.

5. Z’roa

The lamb shank bone is the one part of the Seder plate that is not eaten during the dinner. Instead, it serves as a visual reminder of the special Passover sacrificial lamb offered at the temple in Jerusalem before its destruction.

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6. Beitzah

Often eaten with salt water, hard-boiled eggs are a symbol of life. It is also said to represent the second offerings presented at the temple in Jerusalem, sorrow at its destruction and the hope that it will be rebuilt.

A version of this article was originally published in March 2012.

To me, for the most part, being single is not a curse or a burden. It's just what the universe has in store for me at any given time in my life. You can still have fun when you're single. You can still go on excursions and vacations and out to a fancy meal and treat yourself to some cheap tacos when you're sad and buy that one serum that will make your skin glow like a newly polished diamond. Heck, I'd argue all these things are even more fun when you're single because you can vacation where you want, eat as many dang tacos as you want and slather your whole body in that lifesaving serum because you — and you alone — bought it.

But the most frustrating part of the single life is that once that taco-and-serum haze diffuses, you're left with a bonkers-high bank statement that details every single thing you've bought with your own hard-earned cabbage. There's no going dutch when you're single. There's no, "Oh, I'll get this round if you wanna get the next round, babe." There are no treats from your significant other, even if that treat is just buying the paper towels; you're always the paper towel purchaser.

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That's honestly the toughest part about being single: the constant reminder of your relationship status by way of your bank statements and the balances on your cards. And yes, I fully understand that spending money is just a part of this thing we call life and that money is going to be leaving someone's bank account regardless of whether it's yours or your partner's.

But money, as the saying goes, talks. In the case of my romantic status, my money talks and tells me, for instance, that I'm not able to buy the gifts I want for my family at various holidays or birthdays because I have to save it for every aspect of my life and cannot rely on the pleasure of even discussing splitting the cost of say, an ultra-nice gift for my parents with a partner because I have no partner. Also, I need to save that money to make rent and function normally (thanks a lot, paper towels).

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Working through the emotional and mental obstacles that come with long-term singledom is one thing. There are plenty of holistic and therapeutic approaches to mending the broken or lonely heart. But when money — the lifeblood, the necessary tool, the thing that levels the playing field — suddenly factors into how you spend your time and what you purchase with it, escaping that single status is nearly impossible. It's soul-crushing. Going out to dinner suddenly feels a bit more somber, not only because you have to decide if it's worth it to sit at a table, alone, but also because you know you can't split the bill. You can surely go to a museum or take a long stroll through the park or maybe just casually wander through the aisles at Ikea and do furniture shopping, but there may be days you need to justify the point of spending that time and money if you're going to do it alone.

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I'm not raining on your parade too much, am I? I don't want to. I just want to highlight that yes, even though it's perfectly possible to live a full and happy life as a single person, when you're the one paying for everything, it feels like being single is being constantly thrown in your face. There's a bit more "living with abandon" that comes to being partnered and paying for things. You have a wider range of options, less of the financial and emotional guilt and the reminder of your romantic status isn't thrown in your face quite as often.

Those bad feelings will pass in time, but it doesn't mean it doesn't sting right here, right now.

The life and body of work that theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had and created has continued to fascinate the world since he first entered into the scientific and pop-culture mainstream in the mid-20th century. And while, sadly, Hawking died on March 14, 2018, he will not soon be forgotten, if only because he had such a major impact on the way humanity perceives and understands its place in the universe.

One of the best ways you can remember Hawking in the wake of his sudden death and appreciate his impact (especially if you're a fan of a good movie biopic) is by having a special viewing of the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film The Theory of Everything. Released in 2014 and starring Eddie Redmayne as a Hawking, the film follows the prodigious young man from his days at Cambridge in the 1960s, where he began some of his most important inquiries into the origins of the universe as we know it. Parallel to this, The Theory of Everything also follows Hawking's personal life, through budding young love to the tragic medical diagnosis that would change his life forever.

Of course, as is the case with many a movie, there are some things that got left out of the film, like small details about what Hawking's life was really like. So, for those curious to know, here's what got left out of The Theory of Everything that actually happened IRL.

1. Stephen Hawking's marriage to his second wife also ended in divorce

The Theory of Everything depicts the challenging marriage between Stephen (Redmayne) and Jane Hawking (Felicity Jones). Eventually, the couple divorced and Stephen married his nurse, Elaine Mason (Maxine Peake). Stephen and Elaine divorced in 2006, after 11 years of marriage.

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2. There were allegations of abuse made against Elaine

In 2003, Stephen Hawking's own daughter, Lucy, reported mysterious injuries on her father to the police. According to the Daily Mail, "Prof. Hawking declined to explain how his injuries had come about. A number of his former nurses, however, were in no doubt. They alleged that over the years his wife inflicted a catalogue of injuries on the vulnerable scientist: fractured his wrist by slamming it on to his wheelchair; humiliated him by refusing him access to a urine bottle, leaving him to wet himself; gashed his cheek with a razor, allowed him to slip beneath the water while in the bath, ensuring water entered the tracheotomy site in his throat; and left him alone in his garden during the hottest day of the year so long that he suffered heatstroke and severe sunburn."

3. He believed in aliens & was afraid of them

On the Discovery Channel show, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, the astrophysicist claimed that aliens could well and truly exist. As he put it: "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational."

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4. The way he was diagnosed is incorrect

According to Time magazine, the portrayal of doctors diagnosing Hawking with ALS after a severe fall is not quite true. His first fall happened at Trinity School, and in that fall, his front teeth were knocked out and subsequently replaced. The second fall happened in Germany, which then prompted the visit to the doctor's to figure out what was wrong.

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5. Jane & Stephen were polar opposites

While Stephen came from a highly intellectual family that some even called eccentric, Jane Wilde came from less academically minded parents. Her choice to attend university back in the 1960s was considered to be quite bold because she was a woman. However, it's this polarity in the relationship that really sparked Redmayne's interest. "They were very different people, both extraordinary yet polar opposites. The idea of two human beings completing one another and defying all the odds I found compelling — and oh, was it romantic!" said Redmayne.

6. He believed robots could one day take over the planet

Hawking didn't trust artificial intelligence, claiming in a 2014 BBC interview that they had the potential to supersede the human race at some point in the future. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” he said. "It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."

7. Jane & Stephen didn't live in Cambridge the entirety of their marriage

Again, according to Time, the Hawkings actually moved around rather than remain in Cambridge during their marriage, as the film would have had us believe. In fact, Hawking's work took the family to Cal-Tech in 1975 for a one-year professorship before they moved back home to England.

A version of this article was originally published in January 2015.

Unless you’ve been living in a foodie bomb shelter, you probably know that cold-brew coffee is pretty beloved by coffee aficionados. Made by soaking a larger percentage of coffee grounds in cold water, the result is a smoother, warmer coffee drink than a traditional iced coffee, and people can't get enough. Starbucks makes their own version, there is an abundance of recipes online to brew your own at home, and like most things they adore, foodies have been eager to turn cold brew into all kinds of recipes. There’s cold-brew barbecue sauce, cold-brew brownies, cold-brew ice cream and dozens of other remixes.

Now there’s a new cold-brew concoction on the market: cold-brew red wine.

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Created by Apothic, the blend was ideated after Deb Juergenson, Apothic winemaker, fell in love with cold brew last summer. “Quickly, I realized that many of the characteristics in cold brew coffee and red wine naturally complement each other,” Juergenson said in a press release.

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Apothic Brew has notes of mocha and red fruit, and although it’s made with coffee, the entire bottle has less caffeine than a cup of decaf coffee. Like most red wines, the team recommends serving it at room temperature or slightly chilled.

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If this sounds right up your alley, it will be available for limited release in April. Small-batch releases like this can mean it’s hard to find, so you may need to do extra legwork to track a bottle down. Apothic often sells their wines at major grocers like Safeway, Trader Joe's and Target, but no word yet if their Brew blend will be featured at these stores. You might have better luck at The Barrel Room, which carries all their wines.