usatoday:

This is the full op-ed from Angelina Jolie on her double mastectomy. 

“My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.”

bobbycaputo:

Photo Series of a Young Girl Dressed Up as Great Women Throughout History

Photographer Jaime Moore‘s daughter Emma recently turned 5 years old. Naturally, being a photographer, Moore wanted to commemorate the event for her daughter by putting together a cute photo shoot for her, so she turned to the Internet for inspiration.

Much to her chagrin, however, something like 95 percent of the ideas she ran into were actually the same idea: how to dress up your 5-year-old as a Disney Princess. Moore wasn’t keen on that, so she went another way. Instead of dressing her daughter up as a made up ideal, an “unrealistic fantasy” as she put it, she chose to dress and pose her daughter as some of the greatest women throughout history.

The point was to convey to little Emma that she could be anything she wants to be. As Moore explains it on her blog:

My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters.

Each photo is also captioned with an inspirational quote by the amazing woman it portrays. To see all of them in higher resolution and read more about Moore’s inspiration for the project, head over to her website by clicking here.

THIS ROCKS.

(via braiker)

Enjoy the sarcasm, the clip art, and your Mother’s Day

On the pie chart infographic of How to be a Mother, there’s a tiny little sliver of wrong. Everything else is right, or right enough that it all shakes out in the end.

How do avoid spinning your wheels (literally) over your kids’ extracurriculars and playdates?

Awwww! (via Mashable)

Astronaut Karen Nyberg is doing a 6-month stint in space — and she has a 3-year-old. What should we ask her in our interview later this week?

We love momma Sienna Miller’s Met Gala look from last night!

Happy Mother’s Day!

A mom accidentally purchased a lottery ticket — and WON the $14 million jackpot!

How could I allow this to happen? How can any woman allow herself to get pregnant? It wasn’t only a nagging thought in my brain. That was the accusatory tone I was met with over and over as we announced our earlier-than-expected pregnancy. Their eyes and their mouths and their body language shouted: How could you be so stupid?

Mariah Carey says her (super adorable) 2-year-old daughter will appear on her upcoming album. Talk about Take Your Daughter To Work Day…