Caroline Jones has been writing and performing country music since visiting Nashville for the first time as a teenager — but Jones’ career reached new heights when she joined Zac Brown Band in 2022.
As the only female member of the Grammy-winning country music band, Jones, 33, told Us Weekly exclusively that she takes her role very seriously.
“[Joining the band felt] really natural because we’re all just human beings more than anything,” she said. “It’s something
I went swimming with my two daughters when they were both expecting babies. The three of us had gone away for the weekend, and were staying at a hotel in Port Clinton, Ohio, which was close to where we used to go on vacation when they were little. Val, the older one, had tried for a long time to get pregnant, taking somewhat heroic measures. I’d gone with her to one of her appointments to get hormone shots, which had
A woman desperate to have a baby fears she’s missed her final chance to become a mother after being told that her embryos might have been destroyed by a fault with the freezing process at a prestigious NHS fertility clinic.
The woman in her 40s, who wanted to remain anonymous, is one of the 136 caught up in the scare at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust in London.
All the affected women were heartbreakingly told their embryos and eggs
Weekends used to be blissfully selfish. Maybe a lie-in until 10am, a spontaneous trip to fashion outlet Bicester Village to indulge my weakness for discounted Chloe, maybe stop for a cocktail on the way home.
Now, though, I have a three-year-old daughter and a three-month-old baby girl and we end up at the park every single Saturday.
It takes approximately one-and-a-half hours to get two small people ready, and the toddler always insists on going on her scooter, inevitably abandoning
Do you have children? As a midwife, it’s a question mothers-to-be regularly ask me. I sense the right answer is yes; there is an unspoken assumption that those without children can’t possibly do the job as well as those who have them.
But when you are in the middle of your own heartbreaking battle to conceive, that straightforward question is particularly challenging.
Never was it more difficult to answer, though, than in the weeks and months after I lost my
Like most celebrity parents in the public eye, Jessie James Decker is no stranger to being mom-shamed.
“There was definitely a time when it used to get to me,” Decker, 35 — who shares Vivianne, 9, Eric Jr., 7, and Forrest, 5 —with her husband of 10 years, former NFL player Eric Decker, 36 — admits in the new issue of Us Weekly.
The country singer gave fans an inside look at her family’s life at home on their
In March of 2016, a newborn baby was left at a hospital in Nevada. In court documents, the child is called “Baby O,” but we will call her “Octavia.” When she was 3 days old, Octavia went to live with a couple named Heather and Nick Libretti in the small city of Sparks, Nev., just outside of Reno. At the time, Heather did PR for a classic cars festival, while Nick worked as a mechanic. The
Twenty years ago, when I was thirteen, I wrote an entry in my journal about abortion, which began, “I have this huge thing weighing on me.” That morning, in Bible class, which I’d attended every day since the first grade at an evangelical school, in Houston, my teacher had led us in an exercise called Agree/Disagree. He presented us with moral propositions, and we stood up and physically chose sides. “Abortion is always wrong,” he offered, and there was no
The uterus has long doubled as a political tool. Summoned as a metaphor—for emptiness, for deficiency, for obligation—it has conflated a body part with womanhood, and used the logic of maternal sacrifice to limit women’s lives. Mental stimulation, some 19th-century doctors argued, could harm their reproductive systems. Exercise could, too. We might laugh, today, at the transparency of such tactical ignorance, but our smugness would be premature. The uterus, idealized into a means of degradation, is precisely what the Supreme
