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For <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
‘It’ll be<br />
a f------<br />
blast.’<br />
—CHRIS PINE,<br />
on his role in the<br />
new female-driven<br />
Wonder Woman<br />
film and in support<br />
of costar<br />
Gal Gadot, to<br />
Total Film<br />
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‘Starting a new<br />
family tradition.<br />
#FrozenHotChocolate’<br />
—JIMMY FALLON,<br />
on his adorable outing to N.Y.C.’s<br />
Serendipity 3, on Twitter<br />
‘Liam and<br />
I grew<br />
up together.<br />
Liam’s real<br />
hot. What<br />
would you<br />
have done?’<br />
—JENNIFER<br />
LAWRENCE,<br />
admitting<br />
to kissing<br />
Hunger Games<br />
costar Liam<br />
Hemsworth<br />
off-screen, on<br />
Watch What<br />
Happens Live<br />
‘I learned a long time ago that<br />
trends and fads come and go and are not<br />
a long-term solution. We all have to<br />
find what works best for us and allows us to<br />
be our own best version of ourselves.’<br />
—KATE HUDSON, on finding<br />
confidence, to <strong>People</strong><br />
‘He doesn’t think<br />
I am cool, but he still<br />
raids my wardrobe.’<br />
—DAVID BECKHAM,<br />
on 16-year-old son<br />
Brooklyn’s reaction to him<br />
being named <strong>People</strong>’s<br />
Sexiest Man Alive, on<br />
The Graham Norton Show<br />
‘I knew it would be heavy like<br />
that. I’m very happy<br />
to have moved on to a different<br />
chapter in my life.’<br />
—PATRICK DEMPSEY,<br />
on transitioning from Grey’s Anatomy to Bridget<br />
Jones’s Baby, to Entertainment Weekly<br />
Q&A<br />
Jenny<br />
McCarthy<br />
The star, 43, cohosts Dick<br />
Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’<br />
Eve with Ryan Seacrest,<br />
Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET, ABC<br />
What New Year’s<br />
resolutions do you wish<br />
you’d kept but didn’t?<br />
There’s always, “I’m gonna<br />
get healthy this year.”<br />
And it turns out all I do is<br />
make sure I drink a glass<br />
of water in between each<br />
vodka drink—that’s about<br />
as close as I get! [Laughs.]<br />
Any plans for <strong>2016</strong>?<br />
After watching Khloé<br />
Kardashian on Twitter,<br />
I want to utilize my balls<br />
again and fight<br />
back against haters.<br />
Your son Evan is 13—<br />
how is it raising a teen?<br />
Amazing and scary. All his<br />
friends swear, and he<br />
won’t do it. Considering<br />
I swear like a truck driver,<br />
I’m very proud of him.<br />
You and Donnie<br />
Wahlberg recently<br />
celebrated your oneyear<br />
anniversary:<br />
What have you learned?<br />
Going into it, if I didn’t<br />
love myself—don’t<br />
get me wrong, I’m a work<br />
in progress!—I would<br />
never have been<br />
ready to be married.<br />
—JEFF NELSON<br />
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<strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> / Vol. 85 / No. 2<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
66 Half Their Size!<br />
23 The new Bachelor<br />
26 Ben Affleck &<br />
Jennifer Garner<br />
52 Teresa Giudice<br />
60 Wendy Maldonado<br />
8<br />
Star Tracks<br />
The Miss Universe<br />
pageant gets a twist when<br />
the wrong contestant<br />
was crowned—but<br />
proves she’s still<br />
a winner.<br />
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27 people share<br />
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Half Their Size<br />
pets and celebrity<br />
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contents<br />
23 SCOOP The new<br />
Bachelor opens up about<br />
love. Plus: Ben Affleck<br />
and Jennifer Garner<br />
six months after their split<br />
52 Fresh out of prison,<br />
Teresa Giudice gets a<br />
warm holiday welcome<br />
55<br />
Goldie Hawn visits<br />
MindUP students at<br />
Copenhagen Primary<br />
School in London.<br />
55 Goldie Hawn talks<br />
about her road to bliss<br />
and how she’s helping kids<br />
find their happiness<br />
60 Confessed killer<br />
and abused wife Wendy<br />
Maldonado reveals why she<br />
and her teen son killed her<br />
husband—and has no regrets<br />
64 Gwendoline Christie<br />
plays fierce females in Star<br />
Wars and Game of Thrones<br />
60<br />
Wendy<br />
Maldonado<br />
looks forward<br />
to her release<br />
from prison.<br />
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CHATTER ..............................1<br />
MAIL .......................................6<br />
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SCOOP ..............................23<br />
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ONE LAST THING .........<strong>11</strong>2<br />
64<br />
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Gwendoline Christie<br />
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mailbag<br />
<strong>People</strong> investigates<br />
the unsolved death of<br />
Jessica Chambers.<br />
‘This breaks my heart—she was<br />
someone’s little girl’ Jel via people.com<br />
For <strong>January</strong> 4, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Jessica Chambers<br />
How awful! What in the<br />
world could anybody do<br />
to deserve such horrible<br />
treatment? I pray that the<br />
authorities catch whoever<br />
did this to Jessica and<br />
prosecute them so they<br />
never see the light of day.<br />
Lily via people.com<br />
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I remember when this story<br />
first came out. I can’t believe<br />
there haven’t been any<br />
arrests yet. RIP Jessica.<br />
Breanne via people.com<br />
Lisa Nicole Carson<br />
Thank you, Lisa, for sharing<br />
your story and helping<br />
raise awareness for bipolar<br />
disorder.<br />
Jeff via people.com<br />
For December 28, 2015<br />
Maksim and Peta<br />
What a great love story!<br />
I wish them both<br />
a Happily Ever After.<br />
Blair Kaufman Lima, Ohio<br />
What a gorgeous<br />
couple. Their first dance<br />
will be memorable!<br />
Jobim via people.com<br />
Maks and Peta are two<br />
people making a commitment<br />
to love and care<br />
for each other forever.<br />
That is a beautiful thing.<br />
I wish them the best.<br />
Marie via people.com<br />
Maks should be next year’s<br />
Sexiest Man Alive. He’s<br />
always been drop-dead<br />
gorgeous, and oh, those abs!<br />
Diane Feldman Reseda, Calif.<br />
Kurt Russell<br />
Thank you for the wonderful<br />
article on Kurt Russell.<br />
What a great man. I opened<br />
up <strong>People</strong> to the table of<br />
contents and could not wait<br />
to read the article. He has<br />
been my favorite actor for<br />
52 years. When I was little<br />
I wanted to marry him, but<br />
I guess I don’t have a chance<br />
since he has Goldie.<br />
Sue Cooper Hummelstown, Pa.<br />
He’s still a hunk after<br />
all these years!<br />
Alice via people.com<br />
Michael Cavallari<br />
I feel for Kristin Cavallari.<br />
It’s always sad when<br />
someone loses a family<br />
member. I lost a cousin<br />
three years ago. It was hard<br />
for me to say goodbye.<br />
My thoughts and prayers<br />
go out to Kristin and her<br />
family during this time<br />
of mourning.<br />
Anthony Chilson Jr. via email<br />
I can’t imagine what<br />
Kristin and her family are<br />
going through. Stay strong.<br />
Mike via people.com<br />
Charlotte’s Christmas<br />
Charlotte is so cute—love<br />
that smile! Merry Christmas<br />
to the happy family!<br />
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Maksim and<br />
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PATROL!<br />
Hollywood’s most loyal<br />
friends come with wet<br />
noses and four paws<br />
Joined by a very<br />
cute cohost, Empire’s<br />
Terrence Howard and<br />
Taraji P. Henson take<br />
the stage for their<br />
FOX holiday special.<br />
Star Wars: The Force<br />
Awakens’ Adam Driver<br />
holds costar<br />
Carrie Fisher’s dog<br />
Gary at the film’s<br />
London premiere.<br />
Beth Stern poses with two adorable<br />
pals at the Bash for the<br />
Bulldogs rescue event in N.Y.C.<br />
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At the Dylan’s Candy<br />
BarN charity event in L.A.,<br />
Amanda Seyfried snaps<br />
a photo with a buddy.<br />
Need a lift? Fashion designer<br />
Marc Jacobs goes on a stroll<br />
with dog Neville in New York<br />
City’s SoHo neighborhood.<br />
Pup Koji makes the<br />
perfect date for Lady Gaga<br />
at Billboard’s 10th<br />
annual Women in Music<br />
event in N.Y.C.<br />
Death Cab for Cutie frontman<br />
Ben Gibbard bonds with<br />
a rescue pup backstage at the<br />
Deck the Hall Ball in Seattle.<br />
New sibling? Cindy<br />
Crawford’s kids Kaia and<br />
Presley Gerber cuddle up to<br />
a little fur ball at the annual<br />
Best Buddies’ Bowling for<br />
Buddies event in L.A.<br />
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StarTra<br />
SEEING<br />
STARS<br />
L.A., Dec. 10<br />
Bryce Dallas Howard<br />
celebrates with her dad,<br />
director Ron Howard, as<br />
he receives a star on the<br />
Hollywood Walk of Fame.<br />
BROTHERLY<br />
LOVE<br />
Berkeley, Calif.,<br />
Dec. 13<br />
James Franco (left) and his<br />
brother Tom attend the Art of<br />
Elysium reception for their<br />
BRO-MANCE art show.<br />
FAMILY<br />
MATTERS!<br />
Vanessa (left) and Scarlett Johansson<br />
record an Audible audiobook version of<br />
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (available<br />
Feb. 23). “There was a lot of laughter<br />
happening,” Vanessa tells <strong>People</strong> of spending<br />
time in the studio with her little sis.<br />
PUCKER UP<br />
Los Angeles, Dec. 10<br />
Pamela Anderson shows her 19-year-old<br />
son Brandon Thomas Lee (Dad is rocker<br />
Tommy Lee) some love at a preview for<br />
her vegan accessories collaboration with<br />
French designer Amélie Pichard.<br />
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MISS UNIVERSE<br />
CONTROVERSY<br />
Host Steve Harvey mistakenly announced<br />
Miss Colombia as the winner of the pageant—<br />
instead of actual winner Miss Philippines<br />
Steve Harvey showed the cameras<br />
the official result printout after the<br />
audience became irate. “I’d like to apologize<br />
wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia &<br />
Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel<br />
terrible,” he tweeted after the show.<br />
Ariadna Gutiérrez Arévalo<br />
waved to the audience<br />
after being (wrongly)<br />
announced the winner of<br />
Miss Universe. “Although<br />
the crown was taken away,<br />
she will carry on, with the<br />
conviction that she was the<br />
best and that she won the<br />
hearts of those who were<br />
supporting her,” Colombian<br />
pageant organization<br />
Concurso Nacional de<br />
Belleza (CNB) said in a<br />
statement to <strong>People</strong>.<br />
Gutiérrez looked on<br />
as Wurtzbach received the<br />
Miss Universe crown.<br />
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Pia Alonzo<br />
Wurtzbach—a stylist<br />
and newspaper<br />
writer—looked<br />
shocked when she<br />
realized she’d<br />
actually won.<br />
Fellow contestants<br />
flocked to the stage to<br />
comfort the two women<br />
after the show’s dramatic<br />
conclusion. Gutiérrez<br />
“went to Miami to spend a<br />
few days relaxing with her<br />
family after the incident,”<br />
the CNB told <strong>People</strong>.<br />
niverse pageant—held in Las Vegas on D<br />
yed out like a soap oper<br />
ve Harvey. The comedian announced Miss C<br />
utiérrez Arévalo, 22, as the winner of the coveted title<br />
ack on the stage minutes later to say he’<br />
as Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo W<br />
ve to apologize. The first runner-up is Colombia,” Harve<br />
urtzbach look<br />
etrieve her crown, and things got even more a<br />
. Harvey apologiz<br />
ess conference after the show: “I feel horrible f<br />
. I feel horrible for the fans. It w<br />
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GIRLS’ DAY<br />
OUT<br />
Dec. 22<br />
(From left) Melanie<br />
Griffith, Dakota Johnson,<br />
Goldie Hawn and Kate<br />
Hudson enjoy some<br />
double mother-daughter<br />
bonding time.<br />
ADVENTURES<br />
IN ASPEN<br />
HOWDY,<br />
PARTNER!<br />
Dec. 22<br />
Meanwhile, Kurt<br />
Russell does a<br />
little shopping in the<br />
Colorado city.<br />
LET IT SNOW<br />
Dec. 21<br />
Mariah Carey poses for a<br />
glamour shot while on<br />
vacation with boyfriend James<br />
Packer (bottom) and her<br />
4-year-old twins Monroe and<br />
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<br />
Hailee<br />
Steinfeld<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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JANUARY <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
ALL THE<br />
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BEN HIGGINS<br />
UP CLOSE<br />
WITH THE<br />
NEW<br />
BACHELOR!<br />
BY AILI NAHAS<br />
“I do believe in<br />
love at first<br />
sight,” says<br />
Higgins (in L.A.<br />
on Dec. 3; inset,<br />
with this season’s<br />
women). “I think<br />
love can happen<br />
in all sorts of<br />
situations.”<br />
THERE WAS A COLLECTIVE<br />
sigh across the country<br />
when baby-faced Bachelorette<br />
contestant Ben<br />
Higgins admitted to<br />
Kaitlyn Bristowe<br />
that he felt<br />
“unlovable.”<br />
Millions of fans<br />
promptly disagreed,<br />
and now<br />
the 26-year-old<br />
software account<br />
manager is back<br />
as the Bachelor—<br />
and hoping “the<br />
ladies” will play nicely.<br />
“I don’t have a tolerance<br />
for fighting,” says the<br />
devout Christian. After all,<br />
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Scoop<br />
During filming,<br />
“I genuinely<br />
cared for a lot of<br />
people at one<br />
time,” says the<br />
Hoosier (inset,<br />
with Bristowe in<br />
2015), who lives<br />
in Denver. “That<br />
looking for The One? Says<br />
Higgins: “Ideally at the end,<br />
I’ll be down on one knee.”<br />
What kind of woman are you<br />
looking for? Someone with a genuine<br />
heart, someone who really believes<br />
d authenticity. And<br />
ame faith that I do so we can<br />
ay.<br />
re you still in touch with Kaitlyn?<br />
wn [Booth] and I were<br />
, and I couldn’t be haphey<br />
are just the coolest<br />
. They<br />
ve a great thing going.<br />
aitlyn asked you if you<br />
ere a virgin on national TV.<br />
hat was that like? Yeah,<br />
, Kaitlyn! Now my<br />
ther knows I’m<br />
t a virgin. Is it weird? No.<br />
ysical intimacy means a lot<br />
things to different<br />
t think any<br />
topics should be taboo, especially<br />
sex. You should be frank and<br />
honest about expectations.<br />
That being said, what are your<br />
thoughts on the Fantasy Suites?<br />
It’s important to take that time away<br />
from everybody else. But there are<br />
‘I’VE LEARNED<br />
THAT I DON’T<br />
HAVE TO BE<br />
PERFECT.<br />
PERFECTION<br />
ISN’T WHAT<br />
PEOPLE FALL IN<br />
LOVE WITH.<br />
IT’S SOMETHING<br />
MUCH DEEPER<br />
THAN THAT’<br />
—BEN HIGGINS<br />
boundaries I’ve set based on my<br />
faith. My desire is not to just make<br />
out with as many women as possible.<br />
The physical part of the relationship<br />
will come, but initially I want to get<br />
to know the women for who they are.<br />
How do you feel about dating<br />
someone with kids or relocating?<br />
If I fall in love with a woman who has<br />
kids and I fall in love with<br />
her kids as well, then that’s<br />
something I would do.<br />
I’m not against it by any<br />
means. And I’d like to push<br />
for Denver, but I’m willing<br />
to have that conversation<br />
if my spouse feels strongly.<br />
Did you get emotional<br />
while filming the show?<br />
I cried more on The<br />
Bachelor than I ever did in my whole<br />
life. But I’m glad I felt things. My<br />
emotions were real. And I’m glad<br />
the experience wasn’t always easy.<br />
Because I think I came out of it<br />
a better person.<br />
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Affleck<br />
(left, on-set) and<br />
Garner (above, with<br />
costars Queen Latifah<br />
and Kylie Rogers)<br />
“interact every day,”<br />
says a source. “Mostly<br />
about the kids and<br />
simple things.”<br />
BEN & JEN<br />
6 MONTHS LATER<br />
STILL UNDER<br />
ONE ROOF<br />
As far as amicable splits go,<br />
Ben Affleck and Jennifer<br />
Garner continue to hold up<br />
a very high bar in Hollywood.<br />
Having spent Thanksgiving<br />
together in L.A., the two<br />
celebrated the rest of the<br />
holidays with their three<br />
children, Violet, 10, Seraphina, 7,<br />
and Samuel, 3, in the mountains<br />
of Montana. “They are doing<br />
what is working for the kids,”<br />
says a Garner source. Yet despite<br />
the niceties—the actor is<br />
still living in a guesthouse at<br />
the family’s L.A. estate—a source<br />
tells <strong>People</strong> the divorce<br />
is proceeding. “It’s obvious<br />
many times that they both<br />
find it annoying to deal with<br />
each other,” says an insider.<br />
“Understandably so. It’s a<br />
strange situation to live together<br />
and yet be separated. They<br />
both seem to find the situation<br />
frustrating, but for now at least,<br />
they also seem to think it’s best.”<br />
With plans to spend New Year’s<br />
Eve apart, Affleck, 43, will<br />
continue to shoot his new period<br />
film Live by Night, on which<br />
he serves as screenwriter,<br />
director and actor, while Garner,<br />
43, starts promoting her new<br />
film Miracles from Heaven. After<br />
such a painfully emotional year,<br />
friends of the actress are hopeful<br />
that <strong>2016</strong> will only strengthen<br />
her resolve to finalize the<br />
divorce as smoothly as possible.<br />
“This more seems like a<br />
transitional period,”<br />
adds the insider. “Jen’s doing<br />
great now. It’s hard to imagine<br />
her changing her mind.”<br />
—With reporting by Pernilla Cedenheim<br />
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3<br />
CONFESSIONS<br />
WITH<br />
THE<br />
LONG ISLAND<br />
MEDIUM<br />
THERESA CAPUTO, 48, THE<br />
STAR OF TLC’S LONG ISLAND<br />
MEDIUM (SUNDAYS AT 9 P.M. ET),<br />
TALKS FAVORITE GHOST MOVIES<br />
AND SEEING FAMOUS PEOPLE<br />
Her Visions Can Be<br />
Star-Studded<br />
“I remember I was doing<br />
something a while ago at Access<br />
Hollywood, and I had seen Johnny<br />
Carson in the audience....I just felt<br />
that there was a man there sitting<br />
with his feet up wearing a brown<br />
suit, and I just felt all these things.<br />
I’ll just get like a quick flash<br />
of something. It’s like I’m seeing<br />
a quick little movie strip.”<br />
Sometimes She Prefers the<br />
Company of Spirits<br />
over That of the Living<br />
“Those two movies—Ghost and<br />
The Sixth Sense—I can really<br />
connect with, and they were the<br />
least scary. All those other movies<br />
are scary. It’s really not scary talking<br />
to dead people. So many times<br />
it is so much scarier talking to the<br />
living than it is the dead.”<br />
She Has a Deep Respect<br />
for Parodies<br />
“It would either have to be<br />
Kate McKinnon or Kelly Ripa<br />
[to play me in a movie] because<br />
they both did, I feel like in both<br />
cases, a better me at some point.”<br />
—CHANCELLOR AGARD<br />
SPURGEON SEEWALD<br />
BABY’S<br />
FIRST<br />
CHRISTMAS<br />
MACK WILDS<br />
“Love it when<br />
he raises his little<br />
eyebrows like this,”<br />
Jessa (with<br />
Ben in February)<br />
captioned this<br />
Instagram snap.<br />
ilds’s handsome, boyish grin looks<br />
, it’s for good reason: The 26-year-old<br />
ecently stole hearts as Adele’s old flame<br />
in the video for her smash hit single “Hello.” “My friends<br />
and I knew it would be huge, but not 700-million-views<br />
huge!” says the former Wire and 90210 star of the big gig.<br />
Next up, Wilds plays aspiring hip-hop producer DeeVee<br />
in VH1’s ’90s-era film The Breaks (premiering Jan. 4).<br />
“I’m ready for <strong>2016</strong>,” says Wilds. “It’s going to be an<br />
amazing year!” —JANINE RUBENSTEIN<br />
There will be some cute<br />
new faces around the<br />
Duggar Christmas tree<br />
this year! Spurgeon Elliot,<br />
who was born in November<br />
to Jessa and her husband,<br />
Ben Seewald, and his cousin<br />
Israel David, who was born in<br />
April to Jill and husband<br />
Derick Dillard, will be<br />
celebrating their first big<br />
holiday. “Looking forward to<br />
#BabySeewald’s first<br />
Christmas!” Jessa wrote as<br />
she shared a photo of<br />
Spurgeon’s first stocking<br />
hanging from the mantel.<br />
One person missing from the<br />
joyous festivities, however, is<br />
Jill and Jessa’s older brother<br />
Josh. “I don’t think he’s<br />
going to be back for<br />
Christmas,” a source tells<br />
<strong>People</strong> of the oldest Duggar<br />
sibling, who checked into<br />
rehab in August after<br />
confessing he had been<br />
unfaithful to his wife, Anna,<br />
and had become addicted<br />
to pornography. Regardless,<br />
the family continue to rely on<br />
their faith to see them through<br />
tough times: “[Duggar<br />
patriarch] Jim Bob keeps<br />
saying this is just another new<br />
level of forgiveness.”<br />
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JENNIFER<br />
JASON LEIGH<br />
WHAT MY<br />
MOTHER<br />
TAUGHT ME<br />
The daughter of screenwriter<br />
Barbara Turner and the late actor<br />
Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leigh<br />
says acting “didn’t seem like the<br />
impossible dream.” Looking back on<br />
a career spanning more than 50<br />
films, from her breakout role in<br />
1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont<br />
High to her Golden Globenominated<br />
performance in The<br />
Hateful Eight, Leigh, 53, talks about<br />
those who helped guide her path.<br />
Her mom will always be her<br />
biggest influence. “My mom<br />
is so inspiring as a woman and<br />
as an artist. When she would write<br />
a screenplay, there would be<br />
research all over the walls. When<br />
I started working, I would do the<br />
same thing. She would tell me,<br />
‘That’s not enough; you also<br />
need to write a journal.’ She<br />
instilled in me a love of taking<br />
everything very seriously.”<br />
But Hateful director<br />
Quentin Tarantino can<br />
make grown men cry.<br />
“Quentin just has so much<br />
enthusiasm, and he really loves<br />
making movies. You want to<br />
give him all that you have. I’ve<br />
never seen so many grown<br />
men weep as the day they<br />
said, ‘That’s a wrap!’—Samuel<br />
L. Jackson, Kurt Russell.”<br />
She misses late director<br />
Robert Altman. “I worked<br />
with him three times. He<br />
would say, ‘The script is just a<br />
backbone, a skeleton. You go<br />
find this character and bring<br />
her to me.’ Every night Altman<br />
had a dinner and all the actors<br />
went, because he wanted them<br />
to have history, even if it was<br />
just from the night before.”<br />
1995<br />
Leigh and her<br />
mom, Barbara<br />
Turner, at the<br />
premiere of<br />
Georgia, which<br />
Turner wrote.<br />
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ssages<br />
Kim and<br />
Chad Lowe<br />
BABIES<br />
Oh, baby! Actor-director<br />
Chad Lowe and wife Kim<br />
announced that they’re<br />
expecting their third child<br />
next spring. “We are so<br />
thrilled that our family is<br />
growing. Mabel, 6, and<br />
Fiona, 3, can’t wait to<br />
be big sisters. . . . Kim and<br />
I are studying up on zone<br />
defense,” Chad, 47, tells<br />
<strong>People</strong> exclusively. •<br />
Matt<br />
Dallas, 33, and husband<br />
Blue Hamilton are dads! In<br />
a YouTube video posted on<br />
Dec. 22, the couple<br />
welcomed their first son,<br />
Crow, 2, whom they<br />
adopted. “Raising a family<br />
of our own is very<br />
important to us,” Hamilton,<br />
36, said in the video.<br />
• Musician Billy Corgan is<br />
the proud father of a baby<br />
boy! The Smashing<br />
Pumpkins frontman and<br />
Chloe Mendel welcomed<br />
their first child, Augustus<br />
Juppiter Corgan, Nov. 16.<br />
ENGAGEMENT<br />
Olympic gold medalist<br />
Tara Lipinski and her<br />
longtime love, FOX Sports<br />
producer Todd Kapostasy,<br />
are getting hitched.<br />
Lipinski, 33, posted a photo<br />
of herself and Kapostasy on<br />
Instagram showing off her<br />
ring on Dec. 22. “My life<br />
changed forever last night,”<br />
wrote the champion figure<br />
skater in her caption.<br />
PHILANTHROPY<br />
Talk about lost and found!<br />
Oscar-winning actor<br />
Nicolas Cage returned a<br />
dinosaur skull to Mongolia<br />
after learning it had been<br />
illegally taken out of the<br />
President<br />
Carter with his<br />
grandsons<br />
Jeremy (left),<br />
then 22, and<br />
Hugo Wentzel.<br />
country. Cage, 52, bought<br />
the Tyrannosaurus bataar<br />
skull in 2007, unaware<br />
that it was stolen goods.<br />
When the Department<br />
of Homeland Security<br />
contacted him in 2014, the<br />
National Treasure actor<br />
returned the prehistoric<br />
relic. Cage is not accused<br />
of any wrongdoing.<br />
DEATHS<br />
The Lost Boys actor Brooke<br />
McCarter died on Dec. 22.<br />
He was 52. McCarter, who<br />
played Paul in the 1987<br />
film, suffered from a<br />
genetic liver condition,<br />
his rep tells <strong>People</strong>. “He<br />
Tara<br />
Lipinski<br />
HAPPY<br />
BIRTHDAY!<br />
Bradley Cooper, 41<br />
Jan. 5, 1975<br />
<strong>January</strong> Jones, 38<br />
Jan. 5, 1978<br />
Mary J. Blige, 45<br />
Jan. <strong>11</strong>, 1971<br />
was a beloved son, brother,<br />
father, uncle, cousin,<br />
nephew and friend,” the<br />
statement says. • Tony<br />
Award-winning actress<br />
and soap opera star<br />
Patricia Elliott died on<br />
Dec. 20 at her Manhattan<br />
home. She was 77. Elliott<br />
won the Tony for Best<br />
Featured Actress in 1973<br />
for her role in A Little Night<br />
Music. According to her<br />
niece, the One Life to Live<br />
star died of cancer.<br />
By Harriet Sokmensuer<br />
Jimmy Carter’s Family Tragedy<br />
The sudden death of a beloved grandson leaves<br />
the former President’s family stunned and grieving.<br />
Last week, on Dec. 20, Jimmy Carter’s 28-year-old grandson Jeremy Carter<br />
died of an apparent heart attack. At press time, the cause of death had not yet<br />
been officially confirmed by the Fayette County Coroner’s Office in Fayetteville,<br />
Ga. But according to an emotional blog from his older brother Josh Carter,<br />
Jeremy collapsed in front of his mother in the family’s kitchen. She performed<br />
CPR until paramedics arrived and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where<br />
he died later that night. “I find out later that he had a heart attack at home while<br />
alone in the kitchen with our mom,” writes Josh. The young Carter’s death was<br />
especially shocking since, according to Josh, his brother had gone through<br />
a “whole battery of tests a couple of months ago.” Later on Dec. 20, President<br />
Carter, 91, broke the news of his grandson’s death to members of his church,<br />
calling Jeremy “a wonderful young man whom we loved very much.” —H.S.<br />
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romance, the finale is sweet reward.<br />
No.1TV The death of houseguest<br />
Kemal Pamuk—his heart gave out, Downton downer. Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown<br />
probably in bliss, after he made love Findlay), the loveliest creature in the series,<br />
to Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery)—set in<br />
died in childbirth. Heartbreak! Then Mary’s<br />
motion an endless cycle of failed romance and husband, Matthew (Dan Stevens), was killed<br />
scandal for that conflicted, gorgeously wan off in a car accident so sudden and arbitrary it<br />
woman. (Season 1)<br />
was more annoying than sad. (Season 3)<br />
Fire down below. For the first half of the Lady Violet, evergreen. Maggie Smith made<br />
series, it was hard not to be obsessed with valet her wry jokes sound like Oscar Wilde, but<br />
Bates (Brendan Coyle) and his wife, maid Anna what mattered was her way of seeing into<br />
(Joanne Froggatt)—such dogged devotion the heart. There is no more moving moment<br />
as he was hauled off to prison! But dogged gets in the entire show than in this new season<br />
dreary. Now we’re rooting for butler Carson when she tells Mary, “I believe in love.” Start<br />
(Jim Carter) and housekeeper Mrs. Hughes sobbing anytime. (PBS, Jan. 3, 9 p.m.)<br />
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pıcks<br />
Can cops Ray<br />
Liotta and<br />
Jennifer Lopez<br />
trust each<br />
other?<br />
Shades of Blue<br />
Jennifer Lopez wants to be lawful, but the temptations are awful<br />
DRAMA Even as she’s gently dispensing advice on the final run of FOX’s<br />
TV American Idol, Lopez is being dragged through hell on NBC’s Shades.<br />
She’s Harlee Santos, a hardworking detective who seems to have inherited Faye<br />
No.2<br />
Dunaway’s old perm. Santos, already stressed out after covering up a rookie’s<br />
fatal error, is pressured by the FBI to inform on her unit, which includes the impressive,<br />
life-hardened faces of Ray Liotta and Drea de Matteo. This isn’t The Shield, but Lopez keeps her<br />
performance taut, as right and wrong wrestle themselves into a mess. (NBC, Jan. 7, 10 p.m.)<br />
POP Although Mahone has yet to<br />
No.3 MUSIC release an LP—hence the title—<br />
this free mixtape finds him deftly transitioning out of<br />
tween-idolhood. (There’s a lot of that<br />
going around in the age of Bieber.) The<br />
19-year-old showcases his smooth vocals on<br />
a sexed-up, hip-hop-tinged collection.<br />
Give it a spin your next date night in.<br />
(we.tl/ThisIsNotTheAlbum)<br />
Austin Mahone, This Is Not the Album<br />
Mahone offers<br />
nearly 20 tracks<br />
on his new,<br />
free project.<br />
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40<br />
<strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> PEOPLE
NEW YEAR<br />
Telenovela<br />
Eva Longoria<br />
and Jose<br />
Moreno Brooks<br />
Eva Longoria, desesperada<br />
COMEDY As she proved on<br />
No.4TV Desperate Housewives,<br />
Longoria is one of the few<br />
actresses who actually gets<br />
cuter as she hits higher and higher notes of<br />
pique and pushiness. So she’s in fine form<br />
in this sitcom about the frantic star of a<br />
Spanish-language soap. But there’s a scene<br />
stealer: Alex Meneses, as a formidable older<br />
actress who comes and goes beneath a regal<br />
helmet of hair. (NBC, Jan. 4, 8:30 p.m.)<br />
“POP CULTURE<br />
PHENOMENON”<br />
TIME<br />
Sarsgaard<br />
as the man<br />
who created<br />
a shocking<br />
behavioral<br />
study.<br />
THE FINAL SEASON<br />
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DRAMA Peter<br />
Sarsgaard’s<br />
singular air—soft-spoken stealth and scorn—is<br />
perfect for this cool, acidic film about Stanley Milgram.<br />
The social psychologist’s 1961 experiment, in<br />
which subjects were tricked into thinking they were<br />
administering electric shocks to other people, is<br />
a landmark—and a cruel one. Who was Milgram?<br />
Genius? Jerk? “Human nature can be studied but<br />
not escaped,” he says. “Especially your own.” (Jan. 5)<br />
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HARPER SMITH<br />
No.6 MUSIC<br />
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Rachel Platten, Wildfire<br />
POP Platten paid her<br />
dues in smaller venues<br />
for 10 years before her breakout “Fight Song”<br />
won Taylor Swift’s approval this summer.<br />
Whether she’s preaching empowerment<br />
(“Stand by You”) or seeing her way through a<br />
breakup (“Congratulations,” “Lone Ranger”),<br />
her major-label debut has an esteem-boosting<br />
folky spark that recalls the upbeat vibe of<br />
her soul sisters Sara<br />
Bareilles and<br />
Christina Perri.<br />
If the forecast is<br />
overcast, give<br />
this a try.<br />
NEW DRAMA<br />
A<br />
CIVIL WAR<br />
ERA<br />
SERIES<br />
FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
RIDLEY SCOTT<br />
SUNDAY JAN 17 10/9c<br />
★ FOLLOWING DOWNTON ABBEY ★<br />
#MercyStreetPBS
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
If you shopped at Justice,<br />
you could get cash or<br />
a voucher from a class<br />
action settlement.<br />
A $50.8 million settlement has been reached with<br />
Tween Brands, Inc. and Ascena Retail Group, Inc.<br />
(“Justice”) in a class action lawsuit about whether<br />
Justice misled shoppers by marking items “40%<br />
off” when this price was in reality the regular price.<br />
Justice denies all of the claims and says that it did<br />
nothing wrong. This notice is only a summary.<br />
Go to the website or call 1-877-854-5282 to get a<br />
Detailed Notice.<br />
WHO IS INCLUDED?<br />
Individuals who purchased merchandise from<br />
Justice between 1/1/12 and 2/28/15 are generally<br />
included in the Settlement Class. Purchases from a<br />
Justice store as well as phone and online purchases<br />
are included.<br />
WHAT CAN I GET?<br />
As part of the settlement, you can choose from<br />
two options:<br />
OPTION ONE: You may submit a claim without<br />
any documentation of the amount of your Justice<br />
purchases for a cash payment of $7, $13, or $20,<br />
depending on the state in which you live; or a<br />
Justice voucher in the amount of $10, $20, or $30,<br />
depending on the state in which you live.<br />
OPTION TWO: If you have documented<br />
purchases (bank statements, credit card statements,<br />
or receipts) between 1/1/12 and 2/28/15 and you<br />
(1) shopped at Justice more than 5 times, and/or<br />
(2) spent $105+ in a single visit or order, you may<br />
claim a check for 14% or a voucher for 20% of your<br />
total documented purchases.<br />
If the amount needed to pay valid claims exceeds<br />
total funds available, payments may be reduced and<br />
paid in proportion to other valid claims. If money<br />
remains after all claims, fees and costs are paid, the<br />
remaining money will be returned to Justice.<br />
HOW DO I GET A PAYMENT?<br />
To receive a payment or voucher, you must submit<br />
a claim by April 4, <strong>2016</strong>. You may submit a claim<br />
on the website or call 1-877-854-5282 to request a<br />
claim form.<br />
WHAT ARE MY OTHER OPTIONS?<br />
If you do not want to be legally bound by the<br />
settlement, you must exclude yourself from the<br />
Settlement Class by April 20, <strong>2016</strong>, or you will not<br />
be able to sue, or continue to sue, Justice about the<br />
legal claims this settlement resolves, ever again.<br />
If you exclude yourself, you cannot get a cash<br />
payment or voucher from the settlement. If you<br />
stay in the settlement, you may object to any part<br />
of it, including a request by Plaintiffs’ Counsel for<br />
attorneys’ fees and expenses, by April 15, <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
The Detailed Notice explains how to exclude<br />
yourself or object.<br />
The Court will hold a hearing in the case, known<br />
as Rougvie v. Ascena Retail Group, No. 2:15-CV-<br />
724-MAK, on May 20, <strong>2016</strong>, to consider whether<br />
to approve the settlement, and a request by<br />
Plaintiffs’ Counsel for attorneys’ fees and expenses<br />
of $15 million. Plaintiffs’ Counsel will also request<br />
an incentive award of $6,000 to each of the Class<br />
Representatives. You or your own lawyer, if you<br />
have one, may ask to appear and speak at the<br />
hearing at your own cost, but you do not have to.<br />
To submit a claim or get more information, visit<br />
the website or call 1-877-854-5282.<br />
1-877-854-5282<br />
www.JusticeClassAction.com<br />
pıcks<br />
On patrol<br />
but out of<br />
control:<br />
Samberg<br />
(left) and<br />
Lo Truglio.<br />
Brooklyn Nine-Nine<br />
Andy Samberg’s cop show is a 10<br />
COMEDY Now in its third season, Samberg’s<br />
TV precinct sitcom has lost none of its<br />
incidental silliness or sweet humor. Like all<br />
No.7<br />
good ensemble comedies, it represents a sort<br />
of fool’s paradise where the ordinary and even the subpar<br />
can find happiness, no matter how much time they spend<br />
scrambling after, over and around boneheaded mistakes.<br />
In the midseason opener, which involves Samberg’s coming<br />
up with a plan to rescue samples of frozen sperm taken hostage,<br />
Joe Lo Truglio asks him, “You think that will work?” Samberg<br />
replies, “I don’t just think it will—I know it might!”<br />
(FOX, Jan. 5, 9 p.m.)<br />
No.8 MOVIE<br />
Anomalisa<br />
ANIMATION Curious and sad, Anomalisa is a<br />
stop-motion film for adults. Author Michael<br />
Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) is so disaffected, he hears the<br />
same voice (Tom Noonan) no matter who’s talking. Then he meets<br />
Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a woman who, miraculously, sounds<br />
like herself. The wild conceit comes from writer-director Charlie<br />
Kaufman (Adaptation), an undisputed king of eccentric anomaly.<br />
(Dec. 30 in limited release, R)<br />
The existential<br />
drama is animated<br />
but not cartoonish.<br />
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A family drama set in rural England,<br />
a former dieter’s manifesto and a<br />
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Helen Kle n oss<br />
What Was Mine<br />
NOVEL Lucy’s longing for<br />
a child has destroyed not<br />
only her marriage but<br />
also her moral compass,<br />
so when she finds baby<br />
Natalie alone in a shopping<br />
cart, she snatches her and<br />
proceeds to raise her as<br />
her own. Fast-forward two<br />
decades: What happens<br />
once the secret is out? A<br />
suspenseful, moving look at<br />
twisted maternal love and<br />
the limits of forgiveness.<br />
elsey M er<br />
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overweight dieter Kelsey<br />
Miller was 29 when she<br />
got fed up and decided<br />
to try building a healthy<br />
relationship with food and<br />
her body. This chronicle<br />
of her journey from childhood<br />
through hard-won<br />
revelations is hilarious and<br />
brutally honest, offering<br />
plenty of wisdom for<br />
anyone who’s struggled<br />
with issues of her own.<br />
NEW NONFICTION<br />
Diana Athill<br />
Alive, Alive Oh!<br />
Athill’s 2009<br />
memoir about aging,<br />
Somewhere Towards<br />
the End, was a surprise<br />
bestseller. Now 98,<br />
she’s back with another<br />
wise, joyful meditation<br />
on finding meaning<br />
as life wanes.<br />
essa Hadley<br />
The Past<br />
NOVEL When four adult siblings<br />
gather to decide the fate of a beloved<br />
ancestral home deep in the English<br />
countryside, grudges and long-buried<br />
secrets surface. It’s a familiar setup,<br />
but Hadley is so insightful, such a<br />
lovely writer, that she pulls you right<br />
into the tangle of wires that connect<br />
and trip up the stressed siblings. She<br />
makes you feel for these imperfect<br />
people, want to scold them, and<br />
ultimately accept them as they are.<br />
Just like family.<br />
Michael Coveney<br />
Maggie Smith:<br />
A Biography<br />
Just in time for<br />
Downton Abbey’s<br />
final season, an<br />
illuminating bio of the<br />
formidably talented<br />
woman who brings<br />
tart-tongued Violet<br />
Crawley to life.<br />
Kevin Hazzard<br />
A Thousand<br />
Naked Strangers<br />
Longing to do good<br />
after 9/<strong>11</strong>, writer<br />
Hazzard became an<br />
EMT running calls<br />
on Atlanta’s meanest<br />
streets. His wild 10-<br />
year ride makes for<br />
fascinating reading.<br />
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p<br />
Danny<br />
DeVito<br />
and<br />
Charlie<br />
Day.<br />
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<br />
COMEDY The great, grubby FXX series, returning for<br />
No.10 TV its season <strong>11</strong> premiere, has pitched its humor at such<br />
a low level for so long, it’s a surprise anyone can do anything other than<br />
tie their shoes. In a typical new episode, Dee (Kaitlin Olson) is disgusted<br />
to learn that her cameo in a classy film is really just window dressing for<br />
a porn project starring Richard Grieco. On Sunny, however, disgust is just<br />
another word for opportunity. Dee decides to shoot a porn film herself<br />
(she tells her female star that her breasts should convey “sadness”).<br />
Somehow this ties into a loose theme about art—Danny DeVito pretends<br />
to be a collector named Ongo Goblogian—but Sunny is a celebration of<br />
anything that isn’t. (FXX, Jan. 6, 10 p.m.)<br />
Joseph<br />
Gordon-Levitt<br />
at the movie’s<br />
high point.<br />
The Walk<br />
No.<strong>11</strong><br />
DVD+STREAMING<br />
DRAMA Possibly the single most<br />
beautiful movie of 2015 and a<br />
masterpiece of CGI, director Robert Zemeckis’s account of Philippe<br />
Petit’s 1974 high-wire stroll between the Twin Towers was a boxoffice<br />
flop. Audiences were possibly turned off by the movie’s almost<br />
aggressive determination to be family-oriented—Joseph Gordon-Levitt,<br />
heavily accented as Petit, talks to us as if this were a French Blue’s<br />
Clues—but that should make it perfect for home viewing. (Jan. 5)<br />
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12<br />
No.<br />
The Golden<br />
Globes<br />
TV<br />
How hot is Leo?<br />
Is it high time for<br />
Tomlin? We pick the big<br />
night’s deserving winners<br />
WATCH<br />
Live on NBC,<br />
Jan. 10 at<br />
8 p.m. ET<br />
Room’s Brie<br />
Larson<br />
with Jacob<br />
Tremblay as<br />
her son.<br />
Tomlin is the<br />
steering force of<br />
Grandma.<br />
Brie Larson,<br />
Room<br />
ACTRESS, DRAMA<br />
Her performance as a kidnap<br />
victim trying to make the<br />
world normal for her son was both<br />
grounded and buoyant.<br />
Mark Rylance,<br />
Bridge of Spies<br />
SUPPORTING ACTOR<br />
Rylance brings the subtlety of his<br />
Broadway work to bear on Steven<br />
Spielberg’s drama, giving the<br />
Russian spy depth and humanity.<br />
Spotlight<br />
MOVIE, DRAMA<br />
Starting with a difficult subject (the<br />
pedophilia scandal in the Catholic<br />
Church), Spotlight emerges as one<br />
of the best films of the year and a<br />
glorious celebration of journalism.<br />
Chilly scenes of<br />
winter: DiCaprio<br />
in Revenant.<br />
Matt Damon,<br />
The Martian<br />
ACTOR, COMEDY<br />
It takes some kind of charisma to<br />
make science and math engaging<br />
and funny. In a career full of<br />
amazing turns, one of his best.<br />
Alicia Vikander,<br />
Ex Machina<br />
SUPPORTING ACTRESS<br />
We couldn’t escape Vikander this<br />
year (The Danish Girl, The Man<br />
from U.N.C.L.E.). Watching her<br />
enigmatic robot, we didn’t want to.<br />
Leonardo DiCaprio,<br />
The Revenant<br />
ACTOR, DRAMA<br />
Is this his year? Given how honestly<br />
he portrays a man with<br />
unfathomable frontier resilience,<br />
it darn well ought to be.<br />
Lily Tomlin,<br />
Grandma<br />
ACTRESS, COMEDY<br />
Tomlin has never been more<br />
authentic than as a broke, feminist<br />
granny. She doesn’t need award<br />
validation, but she does deserve it.<br />
The Big Short<br />
MOVIE, COMEDY<br />
The subject is complex, the<br />
characters are unlikable, and the<br />
film is chock with insane<br />
plot devices. In short, this a huge<br />
gamble that pays off richly.<br />
Vikander plays a<br />
seductive android<br />
in Ex Machina.<br />
Crazy’s Rachel<br />
Bloom and Empire’s<br />
Jussie Smollett.<br />
Wagner Moura<br />
Narcos<br />
ACTOR, DRAMA<br />
The Brazilian-born Moura<br />
plays drug lord Pablo<br />
Escobar with a slouch, a<br />
paunch and a weak<br />
mustache. Yet he radiates<br />
power and menace.<br />
Taraji P. Henson<br />
Empire<br />
ACTRESS, DRAMA<br />
Felon, mother, schemer,<br />
diva! Henson’s volcanic<br />
Cookie made other<br />
performances seem<br />
much old pastry.<br />
THE TELEVISION CONTENDERS<br />
Aziz Ansari<br />
Master of None<br />
ACTOR, COMEDY<br />
Yes, we knew he was<br />
funny. But this comedy,<br />
about an actor in love,<br />
showed him in command<br />
of a surprising range of<br />
nuance. He knows how to<br />
use his big brown eyes.<br />
Rachel Bloom<br />
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<br />
ACTRESS, COMEDY<br />
Bloom, a terrific<br />
newcomer, belts out big<br />
musical numbers while<br />
lost in neurotic fantasies.<br />
We’re crazy about her!<br />
CONTRIBUTORS Books Lisa Greissinger, Robin Micheli,<br />
Helen Rogan Movies Alynda Wheat Music Jeff Nelson<br />
Empire<br />
DRAMA<br />
This melodrama about a<br />
black family fighting over<br />
a music label started with<br />
a nod to King Lear, but its<br />
hyperventilating twists<br />
and turns may remind you<br />
of Dynasty. That tops<br />
Shakespeare, no?<br />
Veep<br />
COMEDY<br />
Another election, another<br />
carload of clowns—<br />
and another reason to<br />
love Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s<br />
series about political<br />
panic in the White House.<br />
Clockwise from<br />
top: Taraji P. Henson,<br />
Aziz Ansari,<br />
Julia Louis-Dreyfus,<br />
Wagner Moura.<br />
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SHE’S BACK!<br />
Giudice<br />
left prison<br />
looking<br />
slim and in<br />
style on<br />
Dec. 23.<br />
TERESA<br />
GIUDICE<br />
RELEASED<br />
FROM<br />
PRISON<br />
Home<br />
FOR<br />
Holida<br />
THE<br />
’TIS THE SEASON FOR FAMILY<br />
AND FREEDOM: AFTER NEARLY<br />
A YEAR BEHIND BARS, TERESA<br />
GIUDICE GETS A WARM WELCOME<br />
FROM HER LOVED ONES<br />
By JANINE RUBENSTEIN
COME<br />
BRIGADE<br />
ound and<br />
arkling new<br />
0 in the<br />
ay: Giudice’s<br />
ept saying,<br />
oom<br />
ommy!’ ”<br />
s the source.<br />
AKM-GSI(8)<br />
ys<br />
or nearly a year Teresa<br />
Giudice had longed for the<br />
moment when the gates<br />
of the federal women’s facility<br />
in Danbury, Conn.,<br />
would open and she’d finally be free<br />
to return home to her husband, Joe,<br />
and their four girls. But when that<br />
moment, at precisely 5:01 a.m. on<br />
Dec. 23, arrived, the Real Housewives<br />
of New Jersey star, 43, stuck around<br />
for just a bit longer. “She wanted to<br />
look her best,” a source tells <strong>People</strong> of<br />
how Giudice ducked into the prison’s<br />
public bathroom to put on makeup<br />
and ditch her drab prison garb for a<br />
stylish outfit her oldest daughter Gia,<br />
15, helped pick out for the special day.<br />
Despite having just spent months<br />
away from her family, serving time on<br />
fraud charges, Giudice had a tearful<br />
send-off from her inmate friends the<br />
night before and emerged all smiles—<br />
and jokes. “She got into the backseat,<br />
took two sips of the coffee I’d brought<br />
her and joked, ‘They had better coffee<br />
in Danbury,’ ” says her lawyer James<br />
J. Leonard Jr., who picked her up. “We<br />
were laughing, listening to Christmas<br />
music, and she kept saying how surreal<br />
it was that just a few hours before<br />
she had been in prison, and now, in a<br />
short time, she was going to be home.”<br />
The wait couldn’t have felt longer<br />
for her girls, who’d barely slept in anticipation<br />
of their mom’s return. “The<br />
little kids were very anxious and sleepdeprived,”<br />
the source says of Gabriella,<br />
<strong>11</strong>, Milania, 9, and Audriana, 6, who,<br />
along with Gia, decked the house with<br />
hand-drawn welcome signs. And Santa<br />
himself couldn’t have been better received.<br />
When Giudice walked in, “they<br />
swarmed around her, giving hugs and<br />
kisses,” says the source. Adds Leonard:<br />
“There wasn’t a dry eye in the kitchen,<br />
including mine.”<br />
As for Joe, 45, who’d served as solo<br />
parent in Teresa’s absence, “he quietly<br />
stood back at first,” says the source,<br />
“just watching the girls.” It was a joyous<br />
but sobering scene for the patriarch,<br />
who in March will begin serving<br />
his own 41-month sentence and faces<br />
possible deportation once released (he<br />
was born in Italy and is not a U.S. citizen).<br />
Between them, “there was a lot<br />
of kissing,” says the source. As the girls<br />
draggedTeresafromroomtoroom,filling<br />
her in on all she’d missed, “she was<br />
a little overwhelmed,” the source says.<br />
While her true freedom doesn’t<br />
come until Feb. 5, when Giudice’s<br />
time is fully served—she’s on house<br />
arrest until then—after this last year,<br />
home is exactly where she wants to<br />
be. Aside from seeing extended family,<br />
“their plan is to just stay in and enjoy<br />
each other’s company,” says the source.<br />
“They don’t want to be bothered.” •<br />
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HAWN<br />
Cause<br />
for<br />
Why<br />
ICare<br />
PERSONAL STORIES<br />
ABOUT GIVING<br />
BACK<br />
SHE CHARMED THE WORLD WITH<br />
HER COMEDY—AND BUILT A LIFE SHE<br />
LOVES. NOW SHE’S HELPING KIDS<br />
FIND HAPPINESS: ‘THIS IS MY PASSION’<br />
ELIZABETH McNEIL<br />
PAMELA HANSON/TRUNK ARCHIVES; INSET: COURTESY THE HAWN FOUNDATION<br />
“I think we’re<br />
all born with the seed<br />
of happiness,”<br />
says Hawn, 70 (at her<br />
L.A. home). Inset:<br />
with kids studying her<br />
MindUP program in<br />
Redondo Beach, Calif.<br />
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into the state of happiness is because I<br />
felt this innate tickle inside of me, close<br />
to my heart. It’s how I described to<br />
Katie [her daughter Kate Hudson]<br />
what God felt like when she was little,<br />
because it feels like this amazing sense<br />
of joy, just before you are going to laugh.<br />
It is the kind of feeling I have, and I<br />
don’t remember when I didn’t have it.<br />
“What do you want to be<br />
when you grow up?” and I<br />
answered, “Happy.” I had<br />
no doubt I was going to be a<br />
dancer. I had been dancing<br />
since I was 3. But “What do<br />
you want to be?” is different<br />
from “What do you want to do?” Somehow<br />
I delineated the difference. I knew<br />
what I really wanted—to live a happy life,<br />
as happy as I could.<br />
I started MindUP 13 years ago because<br />
the negative symptoms we were seeing<br />
in children were too great to turn a blind<br />
eye to: an uptick in suicide, dropping out<br />
of school, an increase in bullying and<br />
disruptive behavior, spending too much<br />
time with technology. It’s a 15-lesson<br />
-<br />
ity to regulate emotionally, to prevent<br />
stress, to become more self-aware and<br />
create more empathy. It teaches kids<br />
about their most precious tool, their<br />
brain, which is the most important part<br />
of my foundation’s work. Their brains<br />
have amazing potential. When I went<br />
into a classroom, I asked the kids if they<br />
knew what “mindful” was,<br />
and they didn’t know. I<br />
asked them what “mindless”<br />
was, and they raised<br />
their hands. I figured it was<br />
time to switch that. We<br />
have now taught more<br />
than 600,000 kids in 667<br />
schools in seven countries.<br />
One of the reasons I looked<br />
LESSONS OF LOVE<br />
Hawn meditates<br />
with grandkids Wilder, 8,<br />
and Bodhi, 5, at her L.A. home.<br />
“They are a great addition<br />
to our lives,” she says<br />
of her five grandchildren.<br />
Below: with elementary<br />
school students<br />
in Redondo Beach.<br />
‘I wanted to<br />
understand<br />
the causes<br />
of happiness.<br />
I’m a bit of a<br />
scientist,<br />
I guess you<br />
could say’<br />
When I did Laugh-In, women<br />
were burning their bras. A<br />
reporter said, “Don’t you feel<br />
bad about what you are doing,<br />
being the dumb blonde, while<br />
women are out there fighting<br />
for their liberation?” I was about<br />
23, and I looked at her and said,<br />
“But I am already liberated.” You know<br />
how things come out of your mouth? I<br />
thought, “Where did that come from?”<br />
I am jubilant. I am silly. I am free.<br />
<strong>People</strong> need to feel that. It’s been a gift<br />
to be able to do that in my life—make<br />
people feel good and laugh. I asked my<br />
mom. She said, “You were a happy<br />
baby.” I think we all come out a certain<br />
way, then you hit all kinds of walls,<br />
because life is hard. You can’t grow muscle<br />
unless there is resistance. You have<br />
to stand up and be strong enough to<br />
fight. For my whole life, resistance was<br />
all over. As a girl at 19, I was dropped off<br />
in a car in New York City, knowing I had<br />
a job at the World’s Fair. But the people<br />
I was supposed to live with weren’t<br />
there any longer. I found a one-room,<br />
roach-infested apartment. Then I’d<br />
have auditions and I wouldn’t make it. I<br />
had men exposing themselves to me in<br />
elevators. I have a lot of stories within<br />
my own industry. It didn’t stop me.<br />
When I first became successful, I had<br />
anxiety, and so I saw a doctor. I took<br />
charge of my unsettledness. It wasn’t a<br />
quick fix. I went through the<br />
river, the eddies, the rocks,<br />
to get to the other side. It<br />
was like going to the university<br />
of me, and I came out<br />
feeling pretty good.<br />
After a string of ’70s hits,<br />
Hawn couldn’t find roles<br />
she wanted and decided to<br />
both produce and star in<br />
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Private Benjamin, a box-office smash.<br />
A woman opening a movie with no<br />
other star is like a miracle. By doing so,<br />
I faced a big problem. I was looked on as<br />
someone who did things her own way.<br />
When it comes to a success, it becomes<br />
a threat. Directors didn’t want to work<br />
with me because I was too “controlling.”<br />
If it had been a man, it wouldn’t have<br />
meant a damn thing.<br />
I attribute [my drive] to my dancing.<br />
I started dancing school at 3. I had<br />
teachers with sticks. They’d use the<br />
stick to lift your leg up, and you’d lift<br />
your leg up higher and higher, and your<br />
leg would start shaking, and sweat<br />
would pour off your face and your body.<br />
It taught me tenacity.<br />
1<br />
3<br />
2<br />
Hawn has three kids, Oliver Hudson, 39,<br />
Kate Hudson, 36, and Wyatt Russell, 29;<br />
a stepson, Boston Russell, 35; and five<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Did I ever have tough times? A bazillion<br />
times. I almost lost Oliver, my first<br />
son. He had a 40 percent chance of living<br />
[because of birth complications]. It’s<br />
not about the obstacle, it’s how you get<br />
‘We have ups and<br />
downs, just like<br />
everyone. What we<br />
want is to be mindful’<br />
—ON HER LONGTIME LOVE<br />
WITH KURT RUSSELL<br />
1. Hawn broke out as a free-spirited regular on Laugh-In in the late ’60s. 2. “In my<br />
years of being a headliner, I didn’t make the money men did,” says Hawn, who<br />
produced and starred in Private Benjamin in 1980. 3. Hawn starred with longtime<br />
partner Kurt Russell in Overboard in 1987. The hit “wasn’t just silly and crazy<br />
and funny,” she says. “It’s about love—that money doesn’t bring you happiness.”<br />
through it. I told my son Wyatt when he<br />
was playing hockey, “It’s not how you<br />
get knocked down but how you get up.”<br />
What we want to help the children with<br />
is, just because you feel sad or happy or<br />
depressed doesn’t mean that is who you<br />
MINDFUL MOM<br />
“It’s a different world<br />
than when Kurt<br />
and I raised the kids,”<br />
says Hawn (with<br />
daughter Kate Hudson<br />
and Russell in 2014).<br />
“More complex in<br />
many ways.”<br />
are. We want them to know, I am really<br />
sad right now but I’m not a sad person.<br />
I’m proud of the way my children<br />
raised their children. I’m not always<br />
home, but when I am, I snuggle with my<br />
grandkids. We teach them aspects of<br />
quieting the mind. They take to it like<br />
a duck to water. They come back and<br />
say to their parents, “Take a deep<br />
breath.” It’s really funny.<br />
She says mindfulness has helped her<br />
relationship with Kurt Russell, 64, her<br />
love of 32 years.<br />
You have to want to stay together, and<br />
we really want to. We don’t have a perfect<br />
relationship. Sometimes I get mad,<br />
and sometimes Kurt gets mad. It’s normal.<br />
Continuing to listen and growing<br />
are important because we get into bad<br />
habits in relationships. We’re cognizant<br />
of these things in our relationship, being<br />
mindful and caring and listening.<br />
“Be mindful” is a beautiful thing to<br />
say. Whether I’m doing a movie, tending<br />
to my children or writing a curriculum<br />
for children, I put my mind to it.<br />
That’s it. I don’t stop. •<br />
For more information, go to<br />
thehawnfoundation.org<br />
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ABUSED WIFE<br />
TURNED MURDERER<br />
Aaron was<br />
arrested<br />
numerous times<br />
before his death,<br />
but Wendy<br />
never reported<br />
his abuse.<br />
IN 2005 WENDY MALDONADO—WITH<br />
THE HELP OF HER SON—KILLED THE HUSBAND<br />
SHE SAYS ABUSED HER FOR 18 YEARS.<br />
NOW, AFTER A DECADE IN PRISON, SHE REVEALS<br />
WHY SHE HAS NO REGRETS by JOHNNY DODD<br />
UNDER THE DULL GLAREof fluorescent<br />
lights, inmate No. 15970170 sits at a table<br />
in the visitor center at Oregon’s Coffee<br />
Creek Correctional Facility, slowly<br />
running her tongue over her new set of<br />
teeth. “I kind of like my old teeth better,”<br />
Wendy Maldonado confides to a<br />
visitor on a recent evening. “They were<br />
crooked, but they were mine.”<br />
They were also lost, one by one, she<br />
says, in beatings she suffered at the<br />
hands of her former husband during<br />
their 18-year marriage. It was part of a<br />
pattern of abuse so sadistic and relentless<br />
that the mother of four insists she<br />
saw no way out. And why, she says, in<br />
the early morning hours of May 1, 2005,<br />
she had no choice but to slip into the<br />
bedroom she shared with Aaron Maldonado<br />
and, with the help of her then-<br />
16-year-old son Randy, crush Aaron’s<br />
skull with a hammer and a hatchet.<br />
For the past decade Wendy, now 46,<br />
has been serving time for that murder,<br />
sentenced to 10 years in prison (Randy<br />
got 75 months) despite a judge’s description<br />
of the brutality that she and her<br />
sons endured as “the worst case of domestic<br />
violence any of us has seen.” But<br />
in 55 days an unapologetic Wendy—who<br />
says Aaron “repeatedly threatened” to<br />
murder her and her sons if she ever left<br />
him—will walk free. She holds no bitterness<br />
about the time served and hopes<br />
telling her story can help other abused<br />
women. “Sitting in here,” she says with<br />
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DOTING MOM<br />
“My boys are<br />
safe now,<br />
and that’s all<br />
that matters,”<br />
says Wendy.<br />
MOTHER’S FEAR,<br />
A SON’S DEVOTION<br />
“My mom always told us that<br />
he was going to kill us one day,”<br />
says Randy (at his sentencing<br />
in 2006). “I just knew I couldn’t<br />
let her do this by herself.”<br />
Wendy says she took a plea deal<br />
to save her son from a jury trial.<br />
him to beat us up nearly every day, wondering<br />
when one of us was going to die.”<br />
Wendy met Aaron in high school in<br />
Grants Pass, Ore., when she was 15. At<br />
17, she was married, pregnant and living<br />
in fear of Aaron’s violent episodes.<br />
Years of beatings, broken bones and being<br />
strangled until she blacked out made<br />
Wendy feel that she and her four sons—<br />
Randy, twins Marshall and Joshua, and<br />
Tyler—were trapped and helpless, she<br />
says. “The morning he told me he fantasized<br />
about becoming a serial killer, I<br />
was pregnant with the twins,” she says.<br />
“I was never getting away. I was stuck.”<br />
The boys, too, describe years of fear<br />
and torment. “I can’t ever remember<br />
a time when he wasn’t beating us,”<br />
says Randy, who says his father would<br />
regularly “punch us right in the face”<br />
without the slightest provocation. At<br />
EVIDENCE OF A CRIME<br />
Police documented<br />
Wendy’s injuries<br />
shortly after her arrest<br />
for murder. “ ‘I’m going<br />
to tell the police I did it,<br />
alone,’ ” Randy recalls<br />
his mom saying after<br />
the murder. “ ‘And<br />
you’re going to stay<br />
here and take care of<br />
your brothers. They’re<br />
going to need you.’ ”<br />
announced to his preschool teacher,<br />
“When I get big enough, I’m going to<br />
kill my father.” Whenever one of the<br />
boys or Wendy was beaten so badly a<br />
hospital trip was necessary, “we made<br />
up stories about what happened,” Randy<br />
says. The explanation given to doctors<br />
after one particularly bad beating<br />
for Wendy was that “a drunk lady attacked<br />
her at the grocery store,” says<br />
Randy. Says Marshall: “Anyone who<br />
wasn’t in the house couldn’t know what<br />
was happening. We were brainwashed.”<br />
Convinced that the police, her family<br />
and her friends were powerless to protect<br />
her, Wendy shut herself off from<br />
everyone—and focused on her sons,<br />
whose artwork she used to cover the<br />
holes Aaron had punched in the walls<br />
of their home. “Even in the middle of<br />
the bad stuff,” adds Randy, “she would<br />
always try to make things good for us.”<br />
On the morning of the murder, Wendy<br />
says, Aaron had beaten Randy until<br />
her son’s shirt was covered in blood. For<br />
the first time in his life, Randy called police,<br />
but when they arrived at the house,<br />
she and Randy told them nothing was<br />
wrong. Later that night she confided in<br />
Randy, who was repairing a door his father<br />
had broken. “I’m going to do it,” she<br />
said. “I’m going to kill him.” The 16-yearold<br />
knew his mother was serious, and<br />
he was also convinced, despite her objections,<br />
that she needed his help. Prior<br />
to entering the bedroom, they sat in the<br />
hallway, says Randy, and “we prayed the<br />
Lord’s Prayer asking for forgiveness.”<br />
Afterward, a sobbing Wendy dialed<br />
9<strong>11</strong> to confess. Aaron was alive as he was<br />
loaded into an ambulance. “I was scared<br />
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to death,” Wendy says. “I thought, ‘He’s<br />
going to get out of the hospital and kill<br />
me and kill everyone.’ ” It was only when<br />
Aaron died at the hospital that she says<br />
she felt free. “I let out a sigh of relief,<br />
which sounds terrible, but I could finally<br />
breathe.”<br />
Wendy insisted she’d acted<br />
alone, but 12 days later police<br />
‘If I hadn’t<br />
arrested Randy, and they were done this,<br />
both charged with first-degree<br />
murder. She wanted to go<br />
I know we’d<br />
all be dead<br />
to trial, but when local prosecutors<br />
decided to combine<br />
by now’<br />
their cases, Wendy reluctantly<br />
agreed to a plea deal that<br />
—WENDY<br />
MALDONADO<br />
would spare Randy a possible<br />
25-year sentence. “I had to protect<br />
him,” she says simply. Her other sons,<br />
ages 15 and 13 at the time, went to live<br />
with Wendy’s mother and stepfather.<br />
Wendy thinks about her impending<br />
March 7 release “every five minutes”<br />
and imagines her life on the outside,<br />
hiking, doing yoga and making her<br />
“favorite spinach salad with bacon and<br />
avocado.” Most important, she wants<br />
to get reacquainted with her grown<br />
sons. Randy, now 27, married the<br />
daughter of a woman Wendy became<br />
friends with in prison. Twins Marshall<br />
and Joshua, both 25, along with Tyler,<br />
23, still live and work in Grants Pass.<br />
“This experience,” says Marshall,<br />
“brought us closer.”<br />
Still, Wendy worries that her sons<br />
put their lives “on hold” while she’s<br />
been in prison and believes it’s time<br />
for everyone to move on from the<br />
murder. “I never even think about it<br />
anymore,” she says. Her sons are just<br />
as eager for their mom’s freedom.<br />
“She always looked out for us,” says<br />
Randy. “We want to start taking care<br />
of her.” But more than anything else,<br />
Wendy yearns to tell her story in<br />
hopes it will prevent other women<br />
from going through what she did.<br />
“It’s over for me,” she says, staring at<br />
the razor wire outside the window.<br />
“But maybe if I could help one or<br />
two other women like me not have<br />
to go through this, then all this was<br />
for a reason.” •<br />
BAND OF<br />
BROTHERS<br />
“Having a dad like<br />
we had brought us<br />
all closer together,”<br />
says Marshall<br />
Maldonado<br />
(far left, with his<br />
siblings in 2013).<br />
“We’re still<br />
really close.”
GWENDOLINE<br />
CHRISTIE<br />
Warrior Woman<br />
NO ONE TACKLES FIERCE ROLES LIKE<br />
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2<br />
1<br />
1. Christie with her troops<br />
at the Star Wars premiere.<br />
2. Phasma’s costume is<br />
“very imposing,” she says.<br />
3. Christie (with Nikolaj<br />
Coster-Waldau) broke out as a<br />
fan fave on Thrones’ season 2.<br />
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Fans are so used to seeing Gwendoline Christie<br />
act tough that every once in a while one will approach<br />
her at an inopportune moment. “I was at<br />
the dentist, and I was having root-canal surgery,”<br />
she recalls, laughing. “I had a clamp in my mouth.<br />
It wasn’t the most pleasant experience. Just as<br />
the doctor left the room, the nurse leaned over,<br />
slapped me on the leg and said, ‘Now tell me what<br />
happens on Game of Thrones.’ I just tried to smile<br />
and stared at the ceiling and said, ‘I’m sorry.’ ”<br />
Christie plays sword-swinging knight Brienne<br />
of Tarth on Game of Thrones, but her turn<br />
as villainous stormtrooper commander Captain<br />
Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens has introduced<br />
her to a whole new galaxy of obsessive<br />
fans. It also fulfilled a goal she had from the age of<br />
6. “I loved Princess Leia,” she recalls, “and even<br />
in my infant mind I remember thinking, ‘She’s a<br />
different kind of woman than the women I see in<br />
films. I’d like to be like her.’ ”<br />
The 6'3" actress has now kicked butt from Westeros<br />
to planet Jakku—and prides herself on playing<br />
powerful characters who aren’t sex symbols.<br />
“I’ve been lucky enough to play a couple of parts<br />
of women who are very driven and somewhat unconventional,”<br />
says Christie, 37, who grew up in a<br />
rural hamlet in southern England. She originally<br />
wanted to be a dancer but switched to drama<br />
school at age <strong>11</strong>. She performed onstage and on<br />
U.K. television before being cast in 20<strong>11</strong> on Game<br />
of Thrones (which returns to HBO in April).<br />
After campaigning for six months to join Star<br />
3<br />
‘I love<br />
playing<br />
women<br />
who<br />
kick ass!’<br />
Wars, Christie was thrilled to get cast in the small<br />
but significant role—and to see the costume for<br />
her character, who always appears in full armor<br />
and helmet (listen for Christie’s crisp British accent).<br />
“It hadn’t been sexualized or feminized in<br />
any way,” she says. “When I saw that was the idea<br />
they’d gone with, I thought, ‘They’re progressive.’ ”<br />
Adds producer Bryan Burk: “We wanted to get<br />
some amazing women in this movie, and Gwendoline<br />
Christie was a great choice.”<br />
When she got on-set, “I was so thrilled I didn’t<br />
really take on board any physical sensation. So<br />
many people have asked me if the costume was<br />
heavy—it just felt great,” she says. “<strong>People</strong> talk<br />
about having dreams come true—that was really<br />
a young dream coming true.” •<br />
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Heather Patterson<br />
LOST 127 LBS.<br />
No shortcuts! With<br />
sensible eating and<br />
moderate exercise, these<br />
inspiring weight-loss<br />
all-stars dropped a<br />
total of 770 lbs.!<br />
Angela Montanez<br />
LOST <strong>11</strong>7 LBS.<br />
Caitlyn Mannherz<br />
LOST 135 LBS.<br />
Photographs by GABRIELLE REVERE<br />
PEOPLE <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> 67
SHE ATE 1 LB. OF<br />
RIGATONI PASTA<br />
FOR DINNER<br />
CASEY<br />
FOREAKER<br />
Age: 36 Height: 5'2"<br />
Lives in: Cranberry Township, Pa.<br />
Job: Stay-at-home mom<br />
I was always a chunky girl,<br />
but I gained most of my weight<br />
after my dad took his life when<br />
I was 20. I went to food for<br />
comfort. That’s how I grieved.<br />
I could eat a whole box of<br />
rigatoni, and then I would<br />
snack more. I went from a size<br />
14 to a size 22 in less than a<br />
year. One day I went clothing<br />
shopping, and I felt so<br />
uncomfortable in my body, I<br />
was like, “I’m done.” I joined<br />
Weight Watchers and started<br />
walking in my neighborhood.<br />
In 2012 I got skin-removal<br />
surgery. Now I spin or run 4 to<br />
8 miles, six days a week. My<br />
dad was always on my case<br />
about my unhealthy diet. I<br />
know that he’s looking down<br />
and that he’s proud of me.<br />
WHAT SHE EATS NOW<br />
Hydration: 5 liters<br />
of water<br />
Breakfast: Coffee<br />
with fat-free French<br />
vanilla creamer,<br />
80-calorie yogurt<br />
with chopped<br />
strawberries and<br />
a handful of<br />
fiber cereal<br />
Snack: Handful<br />
of grapes<br />
Lunch: Salad<br />
with mixed greens,<br />
turkey, pickles<br />
and tomatoes<br />
Snack: Handful<br />
of almonds<br />
Dinner: Chicken<br />
with steamed<br />
vegetables<br />
Dessert: Handful<br />
of chocolate chips<br />
NOW<br />
<strong>11</strong>5 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
220 LBS.<br />
BRA: SPLITS 59; CARDIGAN: NASH; PANTS: MINT; SHOES: STEVE MADDEN; COURTESY CASEY FOREAKER<br />
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TOP: WON HUNDRED; PANTS: EARNEST SEWN; SNEAKERS: LACOSTE; COURTESY AUSTIN SHIFFLETT<br />
HE ATE A<br />
DOUBLE QUARTER<br />
POUNDER EVERY<br />
NIGHT AT <strong>11</strong>:30 P.M.<br />
AUSTIN<br />
SHIFFLETT<br />
Age: 22 Height: 5'5"<br />
Lives in: Charlottesville, Va.<br />
Job: Student<br />
At my weight, high school was<br />
impossible. I would act out so<br />
I could get suspended and stay<br />
home, away from the kids who<br />
bullied me for my size, but<br />
then I would spend the day<br />
eating frozen pizzas, chicken<br />
nuggets, candy—and a double<br />
quarter pounder every night at<br />
<strong>11</strong>:30. At 16, I couldn’t bear it<br />
anymore and dropped out,<br />
earning my GED instead.<br />
At a friend’s house one day, I<br />
noticed a scale in the bathroom<br />
and weighed myself for the first<br />
time in years. I was shocked<br />
to see 324 on the screen. I<br />
faithfully followed the Atkins<br />
diet, and in one week I dropped<br />
9 lbs. That was enough to keep<br />
me determined. I eventually<br />
built up the confidence to join<br />
a gym where I’d run and lift<br />
weights. I’m no longer the<br />
bullied kid I was—and best of<br />
all, girls finally notice me.<br />
WHAT HE EATS NOW<br />
Hydration: 2 to 3<br />
(16-oz.) bottles of<br />
water<br />
Breakfast: Atkins<br />
Farmhouse-Style<br />
Sausage Scramble<br />
Breakfast Bowl<br />
Lunch: Atkins<br />
frozen pizza<br />
or grilled chicken<br />
strips made at<br />
home<br />
Dinner: Taco<br />
salad (no shell)<br />
with ground beef,<br />
taco seasoning,<br />
shredded cheese,<br />
lettuce and hot<br />
sauce<br />
Pre-workout<br />
snack: Slice of<br />
ham rolled up<br />
with a pickle and<br />
mayonnaise<br />
Post-workout<br />
snack: Atkins<br />
Strawberry Shake<br />
HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
NOW<br />
158 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
324 LBS.<br />
PEOPLE <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> 69
HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
SHE FINISHED A CAN<br />
OF CHOCOLATE<br />
ICING FOR DESSERT<br />
SARAH<br />
BEASLEY<br />
Age: 27 Height: 5'5"<br />
Lives in: Fort Benning, Ga.<br />
Job: Stay-at-home mom/<br />
Beachbody coach<br />
Everyone in my family was<br />
big. We ate a lot of casseroles,<br />
mashed potatoes and pasta—<br />
all the comfort foods. It got<br />
worse when my husband<br />
[Michael, 29] deployed with<br />
the military. I stayed up late,<br />
all sad, and I’d eat a whole can<br />
of chocolate icing. After my<br />
second child, I ballooned to<br />
260 lbs. I finally changed<br />
when I took my kids [Kaelyn,<br />
8, Haylee, 6, Braylon, 4]<br />
to the park and I had to sit<br />
down because I was so tired.<br />
I got a Beachbody home<br />
workout and lost 50 lbs. in<br />
the first eight months. I get<br />
up at 5:30 a.m. to do the<br />
30-minute workouts, and it<br />
sets my whole day off right.<br />
Things are so different now.<br />
We go on hikes as a family<br />
or play baseball in the yard.<br />
Life is so much better.<br />
WHAT SHE EATS NOW<br />
Hydration:<br />
5 large bottles<br />
of water<br />
Breakfast:<br />
Shakeology shake<br />
blended with ice<br />
Snack: Sliced<br />
carrots<br />
Lunch: Ground<br />
turkey with red<br />
peppers, onions<br />
and zucchini<br />
Snack: Small<br />
sweet potato<br />
Dinner: Turkey<br />
burger with<br />
sautéed zucchini<br />
Dessert: Sweet tea<br />
NOW<br />
140 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
260 LBS.<br />
BRA & LEGGINGS: BODY LANGUAGE SPORTSWEAR; VEST: ROMY + RAY; SHOES: STEVE MADDEN; COURTESY SARAH BEASLEY<br />
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SHE COULDN’T<br />
WALK HALF A<br />
BLOCK WITHOUT<br />
STOPPING<br />
ANGELA<br />
MONTANEZ<br />
Age: 35 Height: 5'4"<br />
Lives in: The Bronx<br />
Job: Health coach<br />
Losing weight was life or<br />
death for me. I was diagnosed<br />
with a chronic autoimmune<br />
liver disease as a child and for<br />
years was on and off steroids<br />
and in and out of hospitals.<br />
I ate a lot of carbs, pints of ice<br />
cream and Caribbean food<br />
like boiled pigs’ ears. When<br />
my doctors suggested I lose<br />
weight in 20<strong>11</strong>, I tried to walk<br />
half a block, and I couldn’t<br />
without stopping. I told<br />
myself I’d never be at this<br />
place again. I followed popular<br />
wellness women on YouTube<br />
and relearned how to eat<br />
fruits and vegetables and<br />
lost 80 lbs. in two years.<br />
In 2014 I started seeing a<br />
naturopathic doctor who<br />
helped me reach my goal. Now<br />
I jog every day. My health is<br />
not perfect, but I’m healthier<br />
than I have ever been.<br />
WHAT SHE EATS NOW<br />
Hydration: 6 to 8<br />
glasses of water<br />
Breakfast: Small<br />
cup of Bragg’s<br />
Apple Cider, 8 oz.<br />
green juice and<br />
1<br />
⁄2 packet oatmeal<br />
with blueberries,<br />
goji berries and<br />
coconut puree<br />
Mid-morning<br />
meal: 8 oz.<br />
almond milk<br />
and 2 brown<br />
eggs scrambled<br />
with curry<br />
Snack: Blue<br />
Print beet, apple,<br />
carrot, lemon and<br />
ginger juice and<br />
a Luna bar<br />
Lunch: Small<br />
butternut<br />
squash soup<br />
Afternoon<br />
snack: Dried tart<br />
cherries and freshsqueezed<br />
grapefruit<br />
juice<br />
NOW<br />
128 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
245 LBS.<br />
Dinner: Kale salad<br />
with nuts, berries,<br />
onions and<br />
avocado<br />
Evening snack:<br />
Kettle Brand Sea<br />
Salt potato chips<br />
TOP: INC INTERNATIONAL CONCEPTS; VEST: ALALA; LEGGINGS: FREE PEOPLE MOVEMENT; SHOES: STEVE MADDEN; COURTESY ANGELA MONTANEZ<br />
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DRESS: LA MADE; SHOES: VANS; COURTESY HEATHER PATTERSON<br />
SHE ATE A<br />
GALLON OF ICE<br />
CREAM ALMOST<br />
EVERY NIGHT<br />
HEATHER<br />
PATTERSON<br />
Age: 43 Height: 5'4"<br />
Lives in: Sharpsburg, Ga.<br />
Job: Health coach<br />
After a car accident when I<br />
was 20 left me bedridden for<br />
weeks, I turned to food out of<br />
boredom. I had no portion<br />
control, so I would secretly eat<br />
a gallon of ice cream most<br />
nights or sneak down after my<br />
family went to sleep and eat<br />
a whole block of cheese.<br />
Twenty years later I was stuck<br />
at 257 lbs., and the arches in<br />
my feet were collapsing. One<br />
night a friend tagged me in a<br />
Facebook photo, and you<br />
couldn’t even see my chair.<br />
I immediately reached out to<br />
a friend who was a health<br />
coach for Take Shape for Life,<br />
a weight-loss and healthyliving<br />
program. Then, with the<br />
help of a trainer, I started<br />
strength training and steadily<br />
lost 10 lbs. a month. Now I’m a<br />
health coach myself!<br />
WHAT SHE EATS NOW<br />
Hydration:<br />
Minimum<br />
80 oz. water<br />
Meal 1: Take<br />
Shape for Life<br />
protein bar<br />
Meal 2: Omelet<br />
with 1 cup egg<br />
white, 1 ⁄2 cup raw<br />
spinach, 1 ⁄4 cup<br />
diced tomatoes,<br />
2 oz. low-fat<br />
shredded cheese<br />
and 3 slices fresh<br />
avocado<br />
Meal 3: Take<br />
Shape for Life<br />
Strawberry Banana<br />
Smoothie and<br />
1 cup plain Greek<br />
yogurt with 1 ⁄4 tsp.<br />
vanilla extract,<br />
1<br />
⁄2 cup blueberries<br />
Meal 4: 2 to 3 cups<br />
fresh spinach or<br />
spring-mix salad,<br />
4 oz. lean chicken<br />
or turkey, 2 tbsp.<br />
sliced olives, 2<br />
tbsp. Parmesan<br />
cheese, 1 tbsp.<br />
sliced almonds and<br />
2 tbsp. low-fat<br />
balsamic dressing<br />
Meal 5: 7 oz.<br />
cooked lean<br />
ground turkey,<br />
homemade<br />
tomato sauce,<br />
1 tbsp. Parmesan<br />
cheese and 1 tbsp.<br />
fresh basil served<br />
over 1 cup<br />
spaghetti squash<br />
Meal 6: Take<br />
Shape for Life<br />
Chocolate Peanut<br />
Butter Shake with<br />
1<br />
⁄2 cup unsweetened<br />
vanilla<br />
almond milk and<br />
2 tbsp. PB2 powder<br />
NOW<br />
130 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
257 LBS.<br />
HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
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A little goodNESS can<br />
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HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
TOP: DAY BIRGER ET MIKKELSEN; LEGGINGS: PRJON; SHOES: LACOSTE; COURTESY CAITLYN MANNHERZ<br />
SHE USED TO SLEEP<br />
15 HOURS A DAY<br />
CAITLYN<br />
MANNHERZ<br />
Age: 26 Height: 5'4"<br />
Lives in: Naples, Fla.<br />
Job: Student<br />
I was an overweight child. My<br />
parents owned a restaurant<br />
that served a lot of fried foods.<br />
And for breakfast we ate<br />
strawberry donuts washed<br />
down with chocolate milk.<br />
By the time I was 21, I was<br />
diagnosed with type 2<br />
diabetes. I had failed out of<br />
college and didn’t have a job.<br />
I slept 15 hours every day; I just<br />
didn’t want to wake up. Then<br />
one day I decided I was sick<br />
of being sick. I researched<br />
nutrition and stopped eating<br />
gluten, soy and dairy and<br />
started eating lots of organic<br />
produce. I learned to practice<br />
portion control. The weight<br />
started to drop off, and I began<br />
to feel better. I finally had the<br />
energy to exercise three to four<br />
times a week with yoga or<br />
paddleboarding. Now I’m in a<br />
relationship with a wonderful<br />
man and studying to be a<br />
naturopathic physician so<br />
I can help others.<br />
WHAT SHE EATS NOW<br />
Hydration: 65 to<br />
70 oz. of water<br />
Breakfast:<br />
Coconut water<br />
and almond milk<br />
smoothie with<br />
frozen fruit and<br />
raw hemp seed<br />
Lunch: Chicken<br />
with brown rice<br />
and vegetables<br />
Dinner: Black<br />
bean pasta or<br />
veggie noodles<br />
made with a<br />
Spiralizer or broiled<br />
salmon with<br />
mashed sweet<br />
potatoes and<br />
sautéed greens<br />
Late-night<br />
snack:<br />
Homemade-fruitpuree<br />
ice pops<br />
NOW<br />
140 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
275 LBS.<br />
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MORESUCCESS STORIES<br />
Looking good!<br />
These impressively<br />
dedicated<br />
dieters also lost<br />
half their size<br />
LOST<br />
190 LBS.<br />
NATALEE EASON<br />
Current weight: 120 lbs.<br />
Height: 5'6" Age: 22<br />
Lives in: Dallas<br />
LOST<br />
220 LBS.<br />
AMANDA MIX<br />
Current weight: 178 lbs.<br />
Height: 5'10" Age: 24<br />
Lives in: Cincinnati<br />
“I realized I was making<br />
my life harder by not<br />
being the best version<br />
of myself,” says the<br />
personal banker, who<br />
topped out at 398 lbs.<br />
Slimming down gave<br />
her the confidence<br />
to finally leave an<br />
unhappy relationship.<br />
“I’m stronger than ever<br />
before,” she says.<br />
“My only regret is not<br />
doing it sooner.”<br />
HOW SHE DID IT<br />
Mix started with exercise,<br />
jumping headfirst into<br />
boot-camp classes at her<br />
gym and working with<br />
a trainer. Two months<br />
later she rehabbed her<br />
diet, swapping fast food<br />
for fish, grilled chicken<br />
and green veggies.<br />
LOST<br />
255 LBS.<br />
“I knew I wanted and needed<br />
to make a change,” says<br />
Eason, whose weight peaked<br />
at 310 lbs. “I discovered that<br />
food itself isn’t the problem—<br />
the trouble is using food<br />
as a coping mechanism.”<br />
HOW SHE DID IT<br />
The entrepreneur began<br />
practicing intermittent<br />
fasting, cut out all caffeine,<br />
beef and pork, and banished<br />
bread from her home. But<br />
she also ate more of the good<br />
stuff, making sure to have<br />
breakfast each day.<br />
SHAWN PHILLIPS<br />
Current weight: 198 lbs.<br />
Height: 6'2" Age: 30<br />
Lives in: San Diego<br />
As a “fat actor” in indie horror<br />
films, Phillips pretended he<br />
was comfortable at 453 lbs.<br />
But his wake-up call came<br />
with a June 2014 health<br />
scare, when he was officially<br />
labeled “morbidly obese.”<br />
HOW HE DID IT<br />
He started a 1,500-caloriea-day<br />
diet and began<br />
swimming. When he hit 400<br />
lbs., he was able to use a<br />
home scale for the first time.<br />
“Finally seeing positive<br />
results made me realize I<br />
could be successful,” he says.<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: COURTESY AMY SCHWAB PHOTOGRAPHY; COURTESY AMANDA MIX; COURTESY REMINISCE PHOTOGRAPHY;<br />
COURTESY NATALEE EASON; COURTESY SHAWN PHILLIPS; COURTESY STEPHEN JOHN PHILLIPS<br />
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HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
EMILYBETH<br />
DICKINSON<br />
Current weight: 140 lbs.<br />
Height: 5'4" Age: 30<br />
Lives in: Montgomery, Ala.<br />
LOST<br />
135 LBS.<br />
SHERRIE HARRIS<br />
Current weight: 125 lbs.<br />
Height: 5'6" Age: 44<br />
Lives in: Virginia Beach<br />
Depressed, 285 lbs. and<br />
reeling from three battles<br />
with melanoma, the<br />
educator for Optima<br />
Health joined Weight<br />
Watchers in 2006 and<br />
turned her life around.<br />
HOW SHE DID IT<br />
Weight Watchers taught<br />
Harris to split her daunting<br />
dream of losing 150 lbs.<br />
into smaller 5-lb. goals.<br />
“I felt defeated because<br />
there was so much to lose,”<br />
says Harris, who has been<br />
in remission for three<br />
years. “Five lbs. was<br />
a lot easier to wrap my<br />
brain around.”<br />
LOST<br />
160 LBS.<br />
Dickinson’s southern diet<br />
consisted of “everything<br />
fried and smothered in<br />
cheese or bacon” before<br />
she reached 275 lbs. and<br />
joined Nutrisystem in<br />
<strong>January</strong> 2014. Now she no<br />
longer needs to take bloodpressure<br />
medication. “I feel<br />
like a new person,” says the<br />
elementary-school teacher.<br />
HOW SHE DID IT<br />
Dickinson learned portion<br />
control on the diet and<br />
started slowly incorporating<br />
exercise. She began<br />
by treading water and<br />
walking, and this spring<br />
she completed a 5K.<br />
FROM LEFT: COURTESY SHERRIE HARRIS(2); COURTESY EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON(2); COURTESY DAVID BRASIL; BRIAN DOBEN/<br />
COURTESY JENNY CRAIG; COURTESY JENNIFER LEONARD; COURTESY AMANDA SHEPHERD
DAVID BRASIL<br />
Current weight: 189 lbs.<br />
Height: 5'<strong>11</strong>" Age: 35<br />
Lives in: Ceres, Calif.<br />
At 360 lbs., Brasil realized<br />
that his life was at stake<br />
if he didn’t drop weight.<br />
“Even though I was in my<br />
early 30s, I could not see<br />
myself living past 50,”<br />
says the warehouse worker,<br />
noting that his family has<br />
a history of heart disease<br />
and diabetes.<br />
HOW HE DID IT<br />
He followed the Jenny Craig<br />
plan of three meals and<br />
three healthy snacks a day<br />
and started hitting the<br />
treadmill. Now he jogs<br />
three to four times a week<br />
and also strength-trains.<br />
LOST<br />
171 LBS.<br />
JENNIFER<br />
LEONARD<br />
Current weight: 160 lbs.<br />
Height: 5'5" Age: 41<br />
Lives in: Franklin, Tenn.<br />
The formerly 436-lb. insurance-agency<br />
employee<br />
was inspired to get healthy<br />
after a park outing with her<br />
then 8-year-old daughter.<br />
“As I watched her play, I felt<br />
trapped inside of my body,”<br />
says Leonard. “I had no<br />
energy to play with her. I<br />
realized that if I didn’t make<br />
some type of change, I<br />
would not see her grow up.”<br />
HOW SHE DID IT<br />
Leonard joined Weight<br />
Watchers and eliminated<br />
sugary sodas from her diet.<br />
She began doing Tae Bo<br />
DVDs at home and is now<br />
an instructor!<br />
LOST<br />
276 LBS.
CELEB SLIMDOWNS<br />
From working out daily to cutting out meat—how these stars got fit in 2015<br />
80<br />
TYLER<br />
PERRY<br />
“It’s hard as heck to<br />
lose weight after<br />
40, but it’s so worth<br />
it,” said the director,<br />
46. “It keeps the<br />
doctor away.”<br />
20<strong>11</strong><br />
<strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> PEOPLE<br />
WENDY<br />
WILLIAMS<br />
Over the past three<br />
years, the 5'<strong>11</strong>" talk<br />
show host, 51, lost<br />
50 lbs. after eliminating<br />
meat, refined sugars<br />
and dairy from her diet.<br />
2010<br />
ADELE<br />
The singer, 27, has<br />
lowered her sugar<br />
intake but refuses to<br />
completely cut out<br />
carbs. “I’d never<br />
deprive myself like<br />
that!” she said.<br />
2009<br />
‘IT’S NOT<br />
ABOUT WHAT<br />
SIZE I AM,<br />
IT’S ABOUT<br />
HOW I FEEL’<br />
—KHLOE<br />
KARDASHIAN<br />
KHLOE<br />
KARDASHIAN<br />
The reality star, 31,<br />
lost 40 lbs. thanks<br />
to daily workouts.<br />
“You feel good from<br />
the inside out,” she<br />
told <strong>People</strong>.<br />
2012<br />
SHONDA<br />
RHIMES<br />
The TV producer, 45,<br />
said yes to weight loss,<br />
dropping more than<br />
100 lbs. after struggling<br />
to buckle her<br />
seat belt on a plane.<br />
2012<br />
CARRIE<br />
FISHER<br />
“I [lost weight] the<br />
same way everybody<br />
has to—don’t<br />
eat and exercise<br />
more!” said the Star<br />
Wars actress, 59.<br />
20<strong>11</strong><br />
JOHN<br />
GOODMAN<br />
The Trumbo star,<br />
63—who once<br />
weighed 400 lbs.—<br />
gave up sugar and<br />
alcohol and works<br />
out six days a week.<br />
2009<br />
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Virginia Trice, 59, has tried<br />
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LEGAL NOTICE<br />
If you purchased or owned a<br />
dishwasher manufactured by<br />
Whirlpool (includes KitchenAid ® ,<br />
Kenmore ® , and Whirlpool ® brands)<br />
between 2000 and 2006,<br />
you could get benefits from<br />
a class action settlement.<br />
Si usted más información o desea obtener una copia de este documento<br />
legal en Español, visite el sitio www.DishwasherSettlement.com.<br />
A Settlement has been reached with Whirlpool Corporation (“Whirlpool”),<br />
Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Company (“Sears”)<br />
(together, “Defendants”) in a class action lawsuit alleging that Whirlpool<br />
manufactured, and Sears sold, automatic dishwashers that contain a defect that<br />
may cause the dishwashers’ electronic control board to overheat, ignite, or emit<br />
smoke, sparks, or fumes and stop working (“Overheating Event”). Defendants<br />
deny the claims in the lawsuit and maintain that the dishwashers are safe and<br />
reliable and that they were designed with built-in safety features to contain a<br />
rare event, like an overheated control board, inside the appliance. The Court<br />
has not decided who is right. Instead, the parties have agreed to settle the case.<br />
WHO IS INCLUDED? Dishwashers equipped with an electronic control board that<br />
Whirlpool refers to as either a “Rushmore” or “Rush” design and that were<br />
manufactured between October 2000 and <strong>January</strong> 2006 are covered by this<br />
Settlement (“Class Dishwashers”). A complete list of the models and serial<br />
numbers for the Class Dishwashers is available at www.DishwasherSettlement.<br />
com. Those included in the class action, together called a “Settlement Class”<br />
or “Class Members,” include all residents in the United States and its territories<br />
who either: (a) purchased a new Class Dishwasher; (b) acquired a new Class<br />
Dishwasher as part of the purchase or remodel of a home; or (c) received as<br />
a gift, from a donor meeting those requirements, a new Class Dishwasher,<br />
not used by the donor or by anyone else after the donor purchased the Class<br />
Dishwasher and before the donor gave the Class Dishwasher to the claimant.<br />
Go to www.DishwasherSettlement.com and use your model number and serial<br />
number to see if you own one of the Class Dishwashers. The Settlement also<br />
includes two smaller Settlement Subclasses consisting of Class Members<br />
who (a) have experienced a Class Dishwasher Overheating Event or (b) may<br />
experience a Class Dishwasher Overheating Event in the future.<br />
WHAT DOES THE SETTLEMENT PROVIDE? The Settlement provides a variety<br />
of benefits, including a cash rebate up to 20% off the purchase of a new<br />
KitchenAid-, Kenmore-, or Whirlpool-brand dishwasher, a limited cash<br />
reimbursement for qualifying dishwasher repairs or replacements if you<br />
already experienced an Overheating Event in your Class Dishwasher, or a<br />
cash payment or rebate if you experience an Overheating Event in the future.<br />
Whirlpool will not cap or limit any of the benefits under the Settlement. If<br />
you own a KitchenAid-, Kenmore-, or Whirlpool-brand dishwasher that<br />
is not a Class Dishwasher and you also experienced an Overheating Event,<br />
you may be eligible for a cash reimbursement payment for out-of-pocket<br />
costs you incurred to repair or replace a non-class dishwasher. If you<br />
experienced an Overheating Event with your dishwasher’s control board, go to<br />
www.DishwasherSettlement.com and use your model number and serial<br />
number to see if you are eligible for a reimbursement payment.<br />
HOW DO YOU ASK FOR BENEFITS? You must complete and submit a Claim<br />
Form with any required documents by May 2, <strong>2016</strong>. You can complete and<br />
submit your Claim Form online at www.DishwasherSettlement.com or print<br />
one from the website and mail it to the address on the form. Claim Forms<br />
are also available by calling 1-888-730-9962, sending an email to info@<br />
dishwashersettlement.com, or writing to the Settlement Administrator at the<br />
address listed below.<br />
YOUR OTHER OPTIONS. If you do nothing, your rights will be affected but you<br />
will not get any settlement benefits. If you do not want to be legally bound by<br />
the Settlement, you must exclude yourself from it. The deadline to exclude<br />
yourself is April 1, <strong>2016</strong>. Unless you exclude yourself, you will not be<br />
able to sue or continue to sue any of the Defendants for any claim resolved<br />
by this Settlement or released by the Settlement Agreement. If you exclude<br />
yourself, you cannot get any benefits from the Settlement but are free to pursue<br />
claims that you may have against Defendants individually. If you stay in the<br />
Settlement (that is, don’t exclude yourself), you may object to it by April<br />
1, <strong>2016</strong>. More information can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions<br />
document and complete Settlement Agreement, which are available at<br />
www.DishwasherSettlement.com.<br />
THE COURT’S FAIRNESS HEARING. The U.S. District Court for the Central District<br />
of California, located at 312 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, California<br />
90012, will hold a hearing in this case (Chambers et al. v. Whirlpool Corp. et al.,<br />
Case No. 8:<strong>11</strong>-cv-01733) on June 10, <strong>2016</strong>, at 10 a.m. PST, Courtroom 22. At<br />
the fairness hearing the Court will decide whether to approve: the Settlement;<br />
a request for $4,000 service awards to each of the Class Representatives;<br />
and up to $19 million in attorneys’ fees plus reimbursement of costs to Class<br />
Counsel. If approved, these fees, expenses and awards will be paid separately<br />
by Whirlpool and will not reduce the benefits available to Class Members. You<br />
may appear at the hearing, but you do not have to. You may also hire your own<br />
attorney, at your own expense, to appear or speak for you at the hearing.<br />
WANT MORE INFORMATION? Visit www.DishwasherSettlement.com, send an<br />
email to info@dishwashersettlement.com, call 1-888-730-9962, or write to<br />
Dishwasher Settlement Claims Administrator, PO Box 43394, Providence, RI<br />
02940-3394.<br />
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WAS<br />
290 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
155 LBS.<br />
THEY LOST<br />
235 LBS.<br />
TOTAL<br />
Talk about teamwork!<br />
How 6 people partnered up<br />
to overhaul their bodies—<br />
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By MICHELLE WARD TRAINOR<br />
WAS<br />
235 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
135 LBS.<br />
Husband Wife<br />
ADAM & KRISTA<br />
KIRSCHBAUM<br />
“When we met in 2001,<br />
Adam and I were both<br />
overweight but not morbidly<br />
obese,” says Krista,<br />
37, a stay-at-home mom.<br />
“We just got comfortable<br />
and would eat indulgent<br />
meals like chicken<br />
alfredo pasta with garlic<br />
bread. By our wedding<br />
day, in 2008, we were<br />
heavier than we’d ever<br />
been.” The Apex, N.C.,<br />
couple continued gaining<br />
weight after their<br />
son Mikey, 5, was born,<br />
until Adam, 33, a solutions<br />
architect, made a<br />
change.“I’ll never forget<br />
the day: Aug. 4, 2013. We<br />
were at the park with our<br />
friends, and they were<br />
running around with the<br />
kids. I wanted to be out<br />
there too, but I sat on a<br />
bench and could barely<br />
move. The next day I<br />
committed to a plantbased<br />
diet.” Krista joined<br />
six months later after<br />
shopping for a bridesmaid<br />
dress: “I needed a<br />
size-18 dress but ordered<br />
a size 8 instead as motivation.<br />
I fit into it at the<br />
wedding five months<br />
later and never felt better!”<br />
Now, says Adam,<br />
“we enjoy going to the<br />
farmers’ market and<br />
chasing Mikey around.”<br />
HAIR & MAKEUP: HEATHER HAWKINS/ZENOBIA; STYLISTS: MELISSA MELVIN/ZENOBIA & CATHERINE PERIDIS; (ADAM) JEANS & SWEATER:<br />
OLD NAVY; SHOES: H&M; (KRISTA) JEANS: OLD NAVY; INSET: COURTESY KRISTA LITTLE & ADAM KIRSCHBAUM<br />
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Photographs by MELISSA GOLDEN
HAIR & MAKEUP: KIM CONOLLY/ZENOBIA; STYLISTS: KELLY KRUTHAUPT/ZENOBIA & CATHERINE PERIDIS; (CHANTEL) SHIRT: CARLSON; JEANS: NYDJ;<br />
BOOTS & NECKLACE: OLD NAVY; (ALLYSON) SHIRT & JEANS: EXPRESS; BOOTS: SAM & LIBBY; INSETS: COURTESY CHANTEL ROHDY & ALLYSON PEARCY<br />
WAS<br />
323 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
147 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
289 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
153 LBS.<br />
THEY LOST<br />
312 LBS.<br />
TOTAL<br />
Roommates ALLYSON PEARCY & CHANTEL ROHDY<br />
“I was 16 when my mom passed away, and I dealt with my emotions by eating,”<br />
says Pearcy (left), now 31. “I would eat pizza, nachos and a huge bowl of ice<br />
cream in one sitting. By 20, my weight had skyrocketed to 300 lbs.” Her roommate<br />
of four years, Rohdy, 29, a fellow preschool teacher, had also struggled<br />
with her weight since childhood: “I got called fat a lot.” They joined Weight<br />
Watchers in 2013 and put their unhealthy habits behind them. Now the<br />
Brownsburg, Ind.-based best friends cook nutritious dinners (like spaghetti<br />
squash, chicken and veggies) and work out together (recently running a<br />
5K). “Being on this journey with Chantel has been great,” says Pearcy. “She<br />
never judges me and helps keep me on track.” Adds Rohdy: “I couldn’t have<br />
done this without Ally. I think the buddy system is key to losing weight.”<br />
PEOPLE <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
THEY LOST<br />
285 LBS.<br />
TOTAL<br />
WAS<br />
345 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
190 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
283 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
153 LBS.<br />
STEVEN &<br />
SUSAN SMELSER<br />
“After Steven and I got<br />
married, I had my two<br />
children one right after<br />
the other. So from 21<br />
on, I would just gain,<br />
gain, gain, diet, gain,”<br />
says Susan, 55. Steven,<br />
57, also started to yo-yo<br />
diet. “I was a chef at the<br />
time, and every day I<br />
would do a food tasting<br />
of rich sauces and<br />
steaks.” The pattern<br />
continued until the<br />
Powder Springs, Ga.,<br />
couple, who have been<br />
married for 36 years,<br />
wanted to lose weight<br />
for their daughter’s<br />
2010 wedding. They<br />
turned to Take Shape<br />
for Life, which uses<br />
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130 lbs. and Steven lost<br />
150 lbs. in nine<br />
months!” says Susan,<br />
who is now a health<br />
coach for TSFL. “It<br />
helps me keep the<br />
weight off, and it’s so<br />
rewarding to help other<br />
people.” Steven, a letter<br />
carrier for the USPS<br />
since 1986, has also<br />
seen his job benefit<br />
from his new size.<br />
“Before, I had to drag<br />
myself up hills; now<br />
I run up them!”<br />
HAIR & MAKEUP: SAJ MACK/ZENOBIA; STYLISTS: ANITA FINKELSTEIN/ZENOBIA & CATHERINE PERIDIS; (STEVEN) SHIRT & SHOES: OLD NAVY; SWEATER: JOHN ASHFORD;<br />
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FROM TOP: COURTESY LINDE FAMILY(2); COURTESY NORA VANATTA(2)<br />
When this dog from Charlton, Mass., was adopted<br />
from a shelter in August 2014, his weight had<br />
ballooned to 104 lbs., thanks to excess food and a<br />
thyroid condition. “He couldn’t even make it up three<br />
steps,” says new owner Kim Linde, 33. “He wheezed<br />
with every breath.” Regular thyroid medication, a<br />
raw-meat diet and daily exercise helped Cody, now 9,<br />
drop the pounds. Now, despite his bowed front legs<br />
(a result of his previous excess weight) and his senior<br />
status, he is running 5Ks with his owner and inspiring<br />
others with his Get Fit with Cody Facebook page.<br />
HALFTHEIRSIZEPETS<br />
How slimming down gave these 3 dogs—and 1 cat!—a new leash on life<br />
WAS<br />
77 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
23 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
104 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
36 LBS.<br />
OBIE THE DACHSHUND<br />
After Nora Vanatta adopted Obie, now 9,<br />
from a local dachshund-rescue group in 2012,<br />
she created a Facebook page called Obie<br />
Dog Journey. More than 420,000 people<br />
have followed along as he lost 54 lbs. through<br />
exercise and the Purina OM (overweight<br />
management) diet. (He also had skin-removal<br />
surgery in 2013.) “When I first got him, he<br />
weighed as much as my Labrador,” says the<br />
Portland, Ore., veterinary technician, 38.<br />
“Sometimes his only exercise for the day was<br />
going from one end of the house to the other.”<br />
Now the Internet star loves going on walks<br />
and meeting his fans. “Even when he couldn’t<br />
walk, his tail was always wagging. He’s just a<br />
really happy dog.”<br />
PEOPLE <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> 93
HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
KALE CHIPS THE BEAGLE<br />
When the overweight beagle Kale arrived at the Chicago-based<br />
dog rescue One Tail at a Time nearly a year ago, “he was superdepressed<br />
and basically immobile,” says executive director<br />
Heather Owen. Fortunately he had no other health concerns<br />
and with exercise, reduced-calorie meals and healthy treats<br />
like liver-infused carrots and, yes, kale chips, the pounds started<br />
to drop off. One of his new pastimes? Running up and down<br />
the aisles of a local bookstore. “Now he’s very sassy. It’s like he<br />
couldn’t get his personality out when he was overweight,”<br />
says Owen of Kale, 8, who’s in foster care and still looking for<br />
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WAS<br />
85 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
41 LBS.<br />
WAS<br />
41 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
19 LBS.<br />
SKINNY THE ORANGE TABBY<br />
“Before Skinny’s weight loss, his whole body hurt,” his current<br />
owner, Dr. Brittney Barton, 40, says of the stray cat who was<br />
found abandoned in Richardson, Texas, in 2012. “His legs<br />
would just quake when he would try to get up. And his body<br />
was sore, so he didn’t like to be petted.” With a prescription<br />
weight-loss plan and exercise using treadmills both on land and<br />
(kitty surprise!) in water, Barton, who is a veterinarian at HEAL<br />
Veterinary Hospital, helped the now-8-year-old orange tabby<br />
lose 22 lbs. “Because Skinny is so food-motivated, we used<br />
treats to help him accept the treadmill,” says Barton. Now “he<br />
jumps up in your lap and purrs. You can tell he just feels better.”<br />
FROM TOP: COURTESY JONI WHITE; COURTESY DR. BRITTNEY BARTON; COURTESY ONE TAIL AT A TIME(2); COURTESY MELISSA ANDERSON(2)<br />
MEET<br />
SOON-TO-BE<br />
SKINNY<br />
VINNIE!<br />
Vincent may not have reached his<br />
goal weight yet, but he is well on<br />
his way. After just four months with<br />
his foster owner Melissa Anderson,<br />
the 7-year-old dachshund has<br />
already lost 12 lbs. “Before, he was<br />
just so sluggish, he didn’t do anything<br />
but sit,” the former teacher<br />
from Houston says of Vincent, who,<br />
at 38 lbs., was morbidly obese and<br />
had high cholesterol and a deformed<br />
back because of the weight.<br />
Anderson, 54, suspects his previous<br />
owner fed him fast food, because<br />
Vincent “freaked out” when she<br />
went through a drive-through, and<br />
“for the first three days he wouldn’t<br />
touch dog food.” Now, with his<br />
goal of 15 lbs. in sight, he’s on<br />
a high-fiber and high-protein diet<br />
designed to manage his hunger<br />
and gets regular exercise. Says<br />
Anderson: “He’s very confident.”<br />
WAS<br />
38 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
26 LBS.<br />
AND LOSING!<br />
Follow Vincent’s progress<br />
online on peoplepets.com.<br />
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WAS<br />
305 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
160 LBS.<br />
RANSGENDER<br />
TRANSFORMATIO<br />
Born a boy and bullied for her weight and shyness,<br />
Jo Avelyn Grey battled her demons to<br />
lose 145 lbs. and blossom into a confident woman<br />
By ANTOINETTE Y. COULTON<br />
AMAZING STORIES<br />
Photograph by ALLISON MICHAEL ORENSTEIN
N<br />
each, Fla.,<br />
n Grey knew from an early age<br />
as different from other kids.<br />
wkward (she would later be<br />
er’s syndrome),<br />
als<br />
g with a secret.<br />
oseph David<br />
“I was the age you<br />
ys are different,<br />
’s not quite<br />
” s , now 27 and a<br />
City,<br />
in t od age <strong>11</strong> she felt<br />
brave enough to tell her conservative<br />
parents; her mother broke the news to<br />
Grey’s father. “That obviously didn’t go<br />
over very well, and I would say my<br />
weight problems started shortly thereafter,<br />
” she says.<br />
At school Grey was bullied relentlessly.<br />
“I knew if I told any other kid about my<br />
gender issues, it would get out, and the<br />
bullying would have increased,”she says.<br />
“I ate more for comfort and because I<br />
thought, ‘Nothing I can do is going to<br />
make my body female.’”<br />
The 5'<strong>11</strong>" Grey says for<br />
breakfast she would<br />
sometimes have two<br />
bowls of cereal. She<br />
would snack on chips,<br />
candy, chocolate and ice<br />
cream and drink lots of<br />
soda throughout the<br />
day. Lunch would be a<br />
big meal at a local fast- food chain, and she<br />
would have take-out food for dinner. “I<br />
ate out a lot, and it was never healthy<br />
food,” says Grey, whose weight had<br />
climbed to 305 lbs. by age 22. “There<br />
have been times where I was so miserable<br />
that I could see no other way out than<br />
to take my own life. Thankfully I never<br />
took such permanent measures.”<br />
The emotional trauma from the bullying<br />
and her self-imposed isolation as<br />
she struggled to come to grips with being<br />
a transgender woman“left deep scars in<br />
my psyche,” she says. “It continues to<br />
impact my life to this day; however,<br />
things have improved over the years!”<br />
‘WHEN I DECIDED<br />
TO TRANSITION,<br />
I STARTED CARING<br />
ABOUT MY BODY’<br />
—JO AVELYN GREY<br />
After high school she converted her<br />
early love for computers into a B.S.<br />
degree in information technology from<br />
Florida State University. She went on<br />
to earn a master’s in business from Full<br />
Sail University in Winter Park, Fla.<br />
And she became determined to turn her<br />
life around.“It was on my 23rd birthday<br />
that I decided, ‘This is not okay. I’m<br />
unhealthy. I’m the wrong gender. It’s<br />
time for a change.’” Already in therapy<br />
for her gender issues, Grey decided to<br />
go on hormone treatments to start her<br />
transition and improve her health by<br />
changing her eating habits. The hormones<br />
slowed her weight loss, but she<br />
followed a strict high-protein, low-carb<br />
diet to meet her goals. “I taught myself<br />
how to cook, and I also started riding<br />
a bicycle,” she says. “The first 50 lbs.<br />
were superhard, and then it gets easier<br />
and easier.” Last summer she reached<br />
152 lbs., and since then she’s put on 8 lbs.<br />
of muscle, adding the combat sport<br />
Muay Thai to her regimen.<br />
The results have<br />
boosted her confidence.<br />
“I used to wear plain,<br />
loose-fitting, sloppy<br />
and unflattering clothing,”<br />
she says. “Now I<br />
wear tighter-fitting<br />
pants and tapered<br />
shirts. I like clothes that<br />
make me look attractive but also make<br />
me appear ready to handle whatever<br />
comes my way.”<br />
Happily settled in Silicon Valley,<br />
Grey, who changed her name in 2014,<br />
says that though she has grown apart<br />
from her father, she receives emotional<br />
support from her mother, older brother<br />
and stepfather. Once she has hit all her<br />
goals, she is also open to new career<br />
opportunities and a boost in her love<br />
life. “For me, transition is a time of<br />
great joy and self-actualization,” she<br />
says. “I am looking forward to meeting<br />
someone who can love and appreciate<br />
the person I have become.”<br />
HAIR & MAKEUP: SIMONE SAINT LAURENT/LACAILE; STYLIST: CALLISTA WILSON/ARTIST UNTIED; INSET: COURTESY JO AVELYN GREY<br />
WHAT'S NEXT?<br />
SEVERAL<br />
ROUNDS OF<br />
SURGERY<br />
After undergoing<br />
electrolysis and four<br />
years of hormone<br />
treatments at a cost<br />
of $20,000, Grey<br />
scheduled her first<br />
sex-reassignment surgery<br />
for late December.<br />
“The first part is the<br />
vaginoplasty, where<br />
they make the structural<br />
changes,” she explains.<br />
After a three-month<br />
healing period, she will<br />
have a labiaplasty to<br />
make cosmetic changes.<br />
Most gender-reassignment<br />
surgeries will not<br />
require a follow-up<br />
labiaplasty, says<br />
Philadelphia-area-based<br />
Dr. Christine McGinn,<br />
D.O., a board-certified<br />
plastic surgeon who is<br />
not treating Grey but<br />
specializes in<br />
transgender surgery.<br />
But, she adds, “when<br />
someone loses that<br />
much weight, it is<br />
possible that they will<br />
need body contouring<br />
as well.”<br />
Grey has turned to<br />
crowd-sourcing to raise<br />
money for feminization<br />
and skin-removal<br />
surgery, neither of which<br />
are covered by her insurance.<br />
“I have a loose<br />
sheet of skin around my<br />
stomach [because of the<br />
weight loss]—it looks like<br />
someone grabbed it<br />
and pulled really hard,”<br />
says Grey. “There’s<br />
no exercise that will<br />
make that go away. It’s<br />
very frustrating.”<br />
To contribute to<br />
Grey’s fund-raising<br />
efforts, go to<br />
gofundme.com/<br />
joavelyngrey<br />
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AMAZING STORIES<br />
I LOST<br />
185LBS.<br />
AT 75!<br />
Gregory Holmes<br />
Singleton took control<br />
of his future—and refused<br />
to let his age hold him back<br />
By ANA CALDERONE<br />
WAS<br />
360 LBS.<br />
NOW<br />
175 LBS.<br />
A NEW MAN<br />
“I feel better<br />
than I did even at<br />
the age of 50,” says<br />
Singleton. “It’s<br />
a feeling of rebirth.”<br />
When Gregory Holmes<br />
Singleton retired from his<br />
job as a history professor<br />
at Northeastern Illinois<br />
University in Chicago in<br />
2005, he became clinically<br />
depressed. “I had a very<br />
difficult time adjusting<br />
to retirement,” says<br />
Singleton, 75. Food like<br />
extra-large pizzas, cookies<br />
and eight lattes a day<br />
became his comfort.“I<br />
quite often felt that I was<br />
going to explode,” says the<br />
6'2" writer, who eventually<br />
ballooned to 360 lbs.“I was<br />
waking up in the middle of<br />
the night panting for air.”<br />
On New Year’s Eve in 2012,<br />
Singleton finally had<br />
enough. “I invested in an<br />
exercise bicycle and started<br />
at a slow speed for 15<br />
minutes every other day,”<br />
he says. Now Singleton<br />
bikes for 80 minutes<br />
six days a week and sticks to<br />
a vegetarian diet of 1,900-<br />
2,300 calories. Though for<br />
years he used his age as an<br />
excuse not to lose weight,<br />
he hopes to discourage<br />
others from making the<br />
same mistake. “If I can get<br />
one person over the age of<br />
60 to walk away from the<br />
idea that they can’t do it<br />
because they’re too old,”<br />
he says, “then great.”<br />
GROOMING: CINDY STUTZEL/ZENOBIA AGENCY; INSET: COURTESY GREGORY HOLMES SINGLETON<br />
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AMAZING STORIES<br />
MY SKIN<br />
SURGERY<br />
JOURNEY<br />
After losing 208 lbs. and<br />
having 3 skin-removal surgeries,<br />
Kaitlyn Smith, 20,<br />
feels ‘confident for the first<br />
time in years!’<br />
By STEPHANIE EMMA PFEFFER<br />
KAITLYN<br />
NOW!<br />
JANUARY<br />
2013<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
2014<br />
SKIN REMOVAL<br />
SERIOUS<br />
SURGERY!<br />
“The surgical<br />
process and its<br />
recovery is long<br />
and arduous,” says<br />
Smith's doctor<br />
Michael Salzhauer.<br />
“It is not uncommon<br />
for patients to<br />
scale back their<br />
work schedules or<br />
take time off to<br />
heal.” He adds,<br />
“Like any journey<br />
worth taking, there<br />
are often bumps<br />
in the road—<br />
which Kaitlyn<br />
has traversed<br />
beautifully.” And<br />
Smith says she<br />
would do it again<br />
in a heartbeat.<br />
“I always said when<br />
I had extra skin<br />
I felt like I was<br />
sitting in a shell.<br />
Now that the skin is<br />
gone, I feel like a<br />
whole new person!”<br />
HAIR & MAKEUP: SHERITA LESLIE/ZENOBIA; STYLIST: ANITA FINKELSTEIN/ZENOBIA; BRA: CHAMPION; PANTS: UNDERARMOUR; INSETS FROM LEFT: COURTESY KAITLYN SMITH; LARSON & TALBERT<br />
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Photograph by<br />
DAVID McCLISTER
COURTESY KAITLYN SMITH(3)<br />
4 lbs., Smith<br />
rough diet and exercise—<br />
. of excess<br />
raw, got caught in zip-<br />
er feel self-conscious.<br />
nd<br />
heir<br />
<strong>People</strong>’s<br />
sue last year, Miamieon<br />
Michael Salzhauer<br />
offered to donate his services to<br />
help Smith shape her new body. Over<br />
the last seven months, Salzhauer,<br />
known as Dr. Miami, performed three<br />
skin surgeries on Smith, removing<br />
excess skin from her stomach, chest,<br />
back, hips, arms and legs.<br />
While her final surgery was in September,<br />
Salzhauer says it could take up to a<br />
year to fully heal and for the swelling to<br />
go down. The process has been painful—and<br />
slow. “I honestly thought I<br />
would be smaller after the excess skin<br />
removal,” says Smith, 20, who lives in<br />
Portland, Tenn., where she used to<br />
work at Walmart before leaving to concentrate<br />
solely on her recovery. “But I<br />
am trying to focus on healing, accepting<br />
my body and loving myself rather than<br />
obsessing over a number on the scale.”<br />
In fact she has steered clear of scales<br />
since her pre-operation tests. “I haven’t<br />
gotten on one at all—I have a weird fear<br />
of it,” she says, adding that she will<br />
probably weigh herself in the new year<br />
once she gets the green light from Salzhauer<br />
to restart her gym routine. While<br />
she maintains her health by eating<br />
small meals every two hours to keep her<br />
metabolism up and sticks to “mostly<br />
protein and veggies, plus one carb in the<br />
morning,” she misses hitting the gym<br />
every day, especially because her devotion<br />
to working out played a large role<br />
in her initial weight loss. “Since my first<br />
surgery in February, I haven’t been able<br />
to work out like I used to, which is a<br />
mental struggle,” she says. “Every time<br />
I eat a meal and don’t work out, it’s like,<br />
where’s that food going to go? I can’t<br />
burn it off.” But she knows the break<br />
from vigorous exercise is necessary—<br />
and temporary. “Once I get back in the<br />
gym that will all change. For now, I am<br />
in the middle of this journey, and I still<br />
have a long way to go.” On days she feels<br />
down, Smith relies on her family, her<br />
nutrition-and-fitness coach Kina Wald<br />
and her first-ever boyfriend, Zachary<br />
Woods, 23—whom she met when they<br />
worked together at Walmart—to help<br />
maintain her perspective, along with<br />
her social-media fans, who “support,<br />
motivate and uplift” her. Despite the<br />
challenging recovery process, Smith<br />
has no regrets about the surgeries.<br />
“When I look in the mirror,” she says, “I<br />
feel beautiful in my own skin.”<br />
CHANGING<br />
HER LIFE<br />
From top to bottom:<br />
Smith with Dr. Salzhauer<br />
before her second surgery<br />
in April; exercising<br />
near her home in August;<br />
and with boyfriend<br />
Zachary Woods in<br />
September.<br />
‘I TRY NOT TO<br />
BE TOO HARD<br />
ON MYSELF,<br />
TO STEP<br />
BACK AND SEE<br />
HOW FAR<br />
I HAVE COME’<br />
—KAITLYN SMITH<br />
101
180<br />
calories per serving<br />
HECOOKINGLIGHTDIET<br />
Try a delicious day of meals from our sister publication’s handy meal-planning service<br />
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Breakfast<br />
SMOKY EGG &<br />
CHEESE TOSTADA<br />
1 6-in. whole-grain<br />
corn tortilla<br />
1 large fried egg<br />
2 tbsp. chipotle salsa<br />
1 tbsp. shredded<br />
cheddar cheese<br />
1 1 ⁄2 tsp. thinly sliced<br />
green onion<br />
1. Preheat oven to 350°.<br />
Bake tortilla on oven rack<br />
for 8 to 10 minutes or<br />
until crisp.<br />
2. Top with fried egg,<br />
chipotle salsa, cheese<br />
and green onions.<br />
Makes: 1<br />
Round out the meal with: an<br />
orange and 1 cup of coffee<br />
with 1 tbsp. half-and-half.<br />
Total breakfast<br />
calories: 264<br />
Lunch<br />
APPLE, ALMOND, HAM &<br />
CHEDDAR SANDWICH<br />
1 tbsp. unsweetened<br />
almond butter<br />
2 (1-oz.) whole-grain<br />
bread slices<br />
1<br />
⁄4 cup thinly sliced<br />
apple<br />
1 ( 1 ⁄2-oz.) thin slice<br />
sharp cheddar<br />
1 oz. lower-sodium<br />
deli ham<br />
1 romaine lettuce leaf<br />
1. Spread half the<br />
almond butter on one<br />
side of each bread slice.<br />
2. Layer one slice with<br />
apple, cheddar, ham and<br />
lettuce. Top with remaining<br />
bread slice.<br />
Makes: 1<br />
Round out the meal with:<br />
a cup of carrot sticks.<br />
Total lunch calories: 378<br />
JEN CAUSEY(2)<br />
328<br />
calories per serving<br />
PEOPLE <strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> 103
104<br />
HALF THEIR SIZE<br />
215<br />
calories per serving<br />
Dinner<br />
PORK TENDERLOIN with red & yellow peppers<br />
1 lb. pork tenderloin, trimmed<br />
and cut crosswise into 1-in.-thick<br />
medallions<br />
1<br />
⁄2 tsp. kosher salt<br />
1<br />
⁄2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper<br />
1 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil<br />
1 1 ⁄2 tsp. chopped fresh rosemary, divided<br />
4 canned anchovy fillets,<br />
drained and mashed<br />
3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced<br />
1 red bell pepper, cut into<br />
1 1 ⁄2-in. strips<br />
1 yellow bell pepper, cut into<br />
1 1 ⁄2-in. strips<br />
2 tsp. balsamic vinegar<br />
<strong>January</strong> <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2016</strong> PEOPLE<br />
1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat.<br />
Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper. Add oil to pan;<br />
swirl to coat. Add pork to pan; cook for 5 minutes.<br />
2. Reduce heat to medium; turn pork over.<br />
Add 1 tsp. rosemary, anchovies, garlic and<br />
bell peppers; cook 7 minutes or until peppers<br />
are tender and pork is done.<br />
3. Drizzle with vinegar. Top with remaining<br />
1<br />
⁄2 tsp. rosemary.<br />
Makes: 4 servings<br />
Round out the meal with: 3 ⁄4 cup of goat cheese and<br />
basil polenta (recipe available on myrecipes.com)<br />
and a 6-oz. glass of white wine.<br />
Total dinner calories: 563<br />
Total calories for the day: 1,326<br />
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Sweet Snack<br />
MARSHMALLOW<br />
POPCORN TREAT<br />
with dark-chocolate drizzle<br />
1 10-oz. package miniature<br />
marshmallows<br />
1 tbsp. unsalted butter<br />
1<br />
⁄8 tsp. kosher salt<br />
10 cups salt- and oil-free<br />
popped popcorn<br />
(such as Smartpop)<br />
1 oz. bittersweet chocolate,<br />
finely chopped<br />
Cooking spray<br />
1. Coat an 8-in. square baking<br />
pan with cooking spray. Line with<br />
parchment paper, allowing paper<br />
to extend over edges of pan;<br />
coat paper with cooking spray.<br />
2. Combine marshmallows,<br />
butter and salt in a Dutch oven<br />
over medium heat. Cook mixture<br />
until melted and smooth, stirring<br />
constantly. Remove from heat.<br />
Stir in popcorn. Transfer mixture to<br />
pan; press down using parchment<br />
paper coated with cooking spray.<br />
3. Place chocolate in a microwave-safe<br />
bowl. Microwave on<br />
high for 1 minute; stir until smooth.<br />
Drizzle chocolate over popcorn.<br />
4. Refrigerate 5 minutes. Lift mixture<br />
from pan and cut into 12 bars.<br />
Makes: 12<br />
121<br />
calories per serving<br />
FROM TOP: JOHN AUTRY; JASON VARNEY
‘IT’S SIMPLE, FRESH<br />
INGREDIENTS’<br />
—KURT MORGAN ON<br />
THE WILD DIET<br />
KURT<br />
AND<br />
ABEL<br />
<strong>People</strong> has teamed up with<br />
My Diet Is Better Than Yours,<br />
a new ABC show that pairs<br />
five Atlanta contestants with<br />
fitness experts to find the<br />
most effective way to<br />
lose weight. “Unlike other<br />
diet shows, this is real life,”<br />
host Shaun T, 37 (the man<br />
behind the Insanity workout),<br />
tells <strong>People</strong>. “They’re going<br />
to work, they’re coming<br />
home and they have to<br />
make their own food.”<br />
My Diet premieres Jan. 7<br />
at 9 p.m. Visit people.com<br />
for exclusive content<br />
throughout the season; the<br />
winning team will be<br />
featured in the magazine.<br />
KURT<br />
MORGAN<br />
THE WILD<br />
DIET<br />
Meet Kurt The salesman, 46, gained more than 100 lbs., topping out<br />
at 375 lbs., after a 2006 head-on collision put him in the hospital for<br />
a year. “I couldn’t move, and I just didn’t care what I ate. Then I got a<br />
staph infection and almost died,” he says. “That near-death experience<br />
made me want to change. I picked Abel James’s Wild Diet because it’s<br />
simple, fresh ingredients with a bit of fun.”<br />
Diet Details “The Wild Diet is all about eating fresh, high-quality foods<br />
and staying away from processed food,” says James, who embraces fats<br />
like butter and avocados. But it’s not Atkins or Paleo. “It’s not meat first.<br />
You’re eating many more plant-based foods.”<br />
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ABC/ KINETIC CONTENT (5)<br />
TAJ<br />
AND<br />
JOVANKA<br />
JEFF<br />
AND<br />
JAY<br />
TAJ ROBINSON<br />
THE WELLNESS<br />
SMACKDOWN<br />
Meet Taj Though<br />
she dreams of entering<br />
a beauty competition,<br />
Robinson’s current<br />
weight, 214 lbs., is<br />
holding her back.<br />
“I feel bad about<br />
myself because I know<br />
I can be better,” says<br />
the educator, 37.<br />
Diet Details Robinson<br />
picked Jovanka<br />
Ciares’s Smackdown<br />
plan, which includes<br />
yoga, herbalism and—<br />
most daunting for<br />
Taj—a vegan diet.<br />
“We absorb nutrients<br />
better when they<br />
come from plants,”<br />
says Ciares. “If you<br />
look at people around<br />
the world who live<br />
the longest, they’re<br />
all vegetarian or semivegetarian.”<br />
JEFF BENEDICT<br />
THE NO<br />
DIET PLAN<br />
Meet Jeff The 35-<br />
year-old project manager<br />
regularly clocks<br />
100-hour workweeks—<br />
which doesn’t leave<br />
much time for sleep, let<br />
alone exercise. “My<br />
workout consisted of<br />
lifting a fork or a 32-oz.<br />
Coke,” says the 6'3"<br />
Benedict, whose weight<br />
climbed to 359 lbs.<br />
Diet Details It’s technically<br />
not a “diet” at<br />
all. “Dieting to me is<br />
actually like starving,”<br />
says Jay Cardiello,<br />
the man behind the<br />
No Diet Plan. “I’m all<br />
about behavioral<br />
changes, like getting<br />
proper rest, learning<br />
nutritional awareness<br />
and figuring out the<br />
root cause of how you<br />
got to this point.”<br />
JASMIN<br />
AND<br />
DAWN<br />
LA’TASHA<br />
AND<br />
CAROLYN<br />
JASMIN QUEEN<br />
THE SUPERFOOD<br />
SWAP DIET<br />
Meet Jasmin “I never<br />
lost the baby weight,”<br />
says the stay-at-home<br />
mom to daughter<br />
Calliana, now 8. “I<br />
gained even more—<br />
and reached 234 lbs.—<br />
when I discovered a<br />
love of baking.”<br />
Diet Details The<br />
36-year-old will test out<br />
the Superfood Swap<br />
plan, in which you make<br />
nutritious versions of<br />
your fave foods with<br />
healthy substitutions.<br />
“You eat what you crave,”<br />
says creator Dawn Jackson<br />
Blatner. “But instead<br />
of making it with crap,<br />
you make it with superfoods.”<br />
(Think fries<br />
made from carrots and<br />
green beans.) Best of all,<br />
says Queen, “I can eat<br />
cake in moderation.”<br />
LA’TASHA GIVENS<br />
THE CLEAN<br />
MAMA DIET<br />
Meet La’Tasha<br />
A 35-year-old TV news<br />
reporter, Givens, who<br />
had reached 243 lbs.,<br />
has yo-yo dieted for<br />
five years, all in front of<br />
those unforgiving cameras.<br />
“I always gained<br />
the weight back and<br />
then some,” she says. “It<br />
was really embarrassing<br />
getting so large on TV.”<br />
Diet Details She’s<br />
embracing Carolyn<br />
Barnes’s Clean Mama<br />
Diet, which focuses on<br />
“taskercize.” What’s<br />
that? “It’s combining<br />
exercise with everyday<br />
tasks,” says Barnes,<br />
like adding a plié when<br />
you grab something<br />
from a low grocery<br />
store shelf. “It’s perfect<br />
for people who don’t<br />
have time for the gym.”<br />
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onelastthing<br />
Ryan<br />
Seacrest<br />
THE TELEVISION<br />
HOST, 41, RETURNS<br />
FOR THE FINAL<br />
SEASON OF FOX’S<br />
AMERICAN IDOL<br />
Last time I forgot<br />
my wallet<br />
When I last flew from<br />
New York. FOX had sent<br />
me on a private plane to<br />
set, so I didn’t need an ID. It<br />
wasn’t until we landed that<br />
I realized I’d left it in another<br />
state. My heart dropped.<br />
Last time I watched<br />
the sunset<br />
Anytime I’m traveling or<br />
by the coast. I’ll arrange to<br />
have 15 or 20 minutes to<br />
just decompress and have a<br />
quiet moment of watching<br />
the sunset. It’s so calming.<br />
Last time I danced<br />
I danced to the Weeknd’s<br />
performance at Jingle Ball<br />
in New York. But I also put<br />
on hip-hop and jokingly bust<br />
out my moves in the kitchen<br />
or the bedroom. [My dog]<br />
Georgia loves my moves.<br />
Last memento<br />
I’ve been taking Idol stuff the<br />
last couple of months—signs<br />
and photos from the original<br />
season. I may go after those<br />
awful-looking gray stools the<br />
kids sit on for the eliminations<br />
next. So many dreams have<br />
happened on those stools.<br />
Last time I was<br />
recognized<br />
Sunday I was going to a<br />
restaurant in New York, and<br />
this guy said, “You won’t<br />
believe it, but people think<br />
I’m you all the time.” And<br />
I said, “I’m sorry. But I’m<br />
grateful because you’re a little<br />
stronger-looking and three<br />
inches taller than me.”<br />
Reported by Patrick Gomez<br />
MICHAEL BECKER/FOX<br />
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