His September cover features Linda Evangelista, who talks about her nightmarish experience with CoolSculpting, a procedure that she said left her “brutally disfigured,” with permanent bulges on her face and body. To achieve her luminous cover shot by Steven Meisel — whom Mr. Enninful called “the best of the best” — Ms. Evangelista said, the…
I have no doubt that this woman’s behavior is annoying, at best. I’m sorry you have to deal with such a hostile colleague. You should bring H.R. in if she is harassing you in the workplace, or if she is doing anything to impede your work or if she is allowing her possible homophobia to…
Most of the submissions we receive at Modern Love are about romantic relationships. That is far from a surprise, but it is a shame. Why? Well, because there are so many nonromantic relationships that are worth celebrating, condemning or, at the very least, discussing. (As the youngest of four children, I take pleasure in learning…
Chelsea White is a whole lot, in the best possible way. She is charming, self-deprecating, engrossing and describes herself on her website as a “host-writer-producer-speaker-comedian-cat enthusiast.” She developed a weekly Instagram live show, “What a Delight! with Chelsea White,” that involved a guest, a sidekick in a mask, and a discussion of weekly events that…
Zohar Hannah Fuller spent about a year inviting Maryse Shaina Pearce to events before Ms. Pearce finally attended one. “Some people might stop trying after the first few times, but I was very persistent,” said Ms. Fuller, who was then working for a theater company. The two first met in November 2011 at a mutual…
During the two months of lockdown last spring in Shanghai, residents were mostly confined to their homes and hallways. For a single woman like me who, at 29, lives alone and is self-employed, my entire life was reduced to me, myself and I. Many foods became unavailable during this time; people were anxious, isolated and…
Shafin Fattah’s chance at a relationship with Luvana Chowdhury didn’t seem too promising when she never responded after he swiped right on her profile on Muzmatch, a Muslim dating app, in late 2020. Though he assumed she was uninterested, Ms. Chowdhury in fact never saw his overture because she by then was no longer active…
On their first date, at a Manhattan wine bar in May 2016, a waiter mistakenly referred to Michael Angelo McMillan II as Caroline Benning Hubbard’s husband. “I didn’t have any rings or anything that would indicate that we were married,” Ms. Hubbard said, but “the chemistry that we had just sort of indicated we looked…
“When I first went to work, all school products were drab and boring,” Mr. Crutchfield said in the Mental Floss interview. Trapper Keepers, he added, were “more functional and more attractive, with oodles of choices — therefore fun to have. And I had a lot of fun making them fun!” Ernest Bryant Crutchfield, known to…
“I think she is self-aware about what she can do and what she doesn’t want to do,” Mr. Abdalla said. “She’s also pretty good at throwing a party. That’s a pretty big part of this job. She can get people to show up.” “It took me two years to embrace being a publicist,” Ms. Phillips…