The video is almost aggressively unremarkable. Wearing a men’s blazer, Tyra Banks sits for a Harper’s Bazaar food diary in the spring of 2020 and lists her typical daily meals. She then casually remarks, “I am twenty-five pounds heavier than I was on that swimsuit cover,” which will be quoted for the next six years. She laughs at herself and changes it to thirty a beat later, describing long workdays spent comparing fast-food burgers. One day, she says, it will come off. But not right now. That has a disarming quality as well as a complex one. Because the same…
Author: Tiffany Vincent
Tiffany Vincent
Tiffany Vincent is a food and lifestyle writer with a particular weakness for anything that comes out of a British kitchen. She's spent years eating her way across the UK — from roadside chippies to countryside gastropubs — and writing about what she finds there with the kind of honest enthusiasm that doesn't require a Michelin star to appreciate good food. At Friar Street Kitchen, Tiffany covers everything from everyday cooking questions and British supermarket staples to the bigger conversations happening around food, health, and how we eat. Her writing tends to start in the kitchen and end up somewhere more interesting — because that's usually where food takes you if you pay attention. When she's not testing recipes or digging into the latest food trend, she's probably debating the correct way to make a proper cup of tea.
Most athletes experience a point in their lives when their bodies become a burden rather than a tool. When Gina Carano later acknowledged that she had difficulty just walking, that moment came quietly, sometime in September 2024. There was no press release. No big announcement. Just a woman who was once referred to as the face of women’s mixed martial arts—possibly the most recognizable female fighter on the planet prior to Ronda Rousey becoming well-known—finding it painful to move around a room. In contrast to how these stories are frequently simplified, Carano’s weight gain didn’t occur overnight and wasn’t primarily…
The majority of people first heard Teddy Swims’ raw, bottomless voice blasting out of “Lose Control” somewhere in the parking lot between a grocery store and a gas station. At least initially, fewer people followed the physical narrative that ran concurrently with the musical one. The mass. The modifications. The way his body quietly became another topic of discussion on the internet. It first gained popularity a few years ago when Teddy made an appearance in a DDP Yoga video. He was noticeably lighter and had that self-satisfied smile. At the time, he was 28 years old, had lost more…
A picture of Lizzy Yarnold hurling headfirst down a ribbon of ice at speeds most people would never experience in a car, her helmet strapped tight and her jaw set with a certain kind of determination that appears almost serene from a distance, occasionally makes the rounds on the internet. For years, she was defined by this image. The story that follows that picture is much less talked about but far more fascinating. Immediately following her Olympic title defense in Pyeongchang in 2018, Yarnold announced her retirement from competitive skeleton racing, a feat never accomplished by a British Winter Olympian.…
There are times in professional wrestling when real life spills into the arena and has nothing to do with staged drama. One of those moments came when Montez Ford entered an NXT house show in early February 2026 and grinned, saying, “I got my weight up,” in response to the crowd’s whispers. unplanned. Sincere. Strangely charming. Ford hadn’t appeared on WWE television in a few months, so when video of him at that live event started making the rounds online, people reacted right away. Fans couldn’t stop discussing it on Twitter and Reddit. The majority appeared genuinely curious about what…
Erin Moriarty writes, “Within 24 hours of beginning treatment, I felt the light coming back on.” This is the moment in her Instagram post where she finally identifies what had been subtly destroying her from the inside out. It’s a brief statement. However, it carries a weight that is difficult to describe for anyone who has witnessed this actress being torn apart online over the past few years. To put it plainly, the discussion surrounding Erin Moriarty’s weight gain and physical makeover has been unpleasant. She was referred to as a “50-year-old skeleton,” a “Botox zombie,” and worse in forums.…