Innholdsfortegnelse for 04-Aug-2014 i Woman's Own

The preparation for a big night out isn’t complete without applying an extra layer of fake tan, especially in the summer months. But no matter how careful we are, we always seem to miss a bit! So it was a relief to see glam Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha, 49, sporting her own fake tan fail at the ITV summer party! It didn’t stop her looking fabulous though. And judging by the grin on her face and her to-die-for heels, Nadia wasn’t about to let it spoil her night. Good for her! Join us online Head to our fabulous website, womansown.co.uk , to get all the latest celeb gossip, great competitions and deals, plus beauty, fashion, easy recipes and health tips.…

Coleen Nolan’s concerns for her youngest son, Jake Roche, are clearly taking their toll on the emotional presenter. Singer Jake, 21, is currently touring the world with his band, Rixton, who are taking the charts by storm, but Coleen is beside herself. The mum-of-three is close to all of her children and is finding it hard not being able to speak to Jake as often as she can when he’s at home. Missing him ‘I worry about him. I don’t really talk to him a lot, it’s all through texting because they’re being worked to death,’ she recently told her fellow Loose Women. ‘He texted me the other day and said, ‘Mum, they’re literally trying to kill us.’ I can’t over-exaggerate their schedule.’ In fact, Woman’s Own can reveal that…

Our romantic breakdidn’t go to plan I treated my husband to a weekend break at an expensive country hotel, hoping it would boost our sex life. But my husband was so tired he could barely stay awake during dinner, let alone respond to my new lingerie. He’s so tired because he works long hours and stays up late watching TV and answering emails. How can I talk to him about it? Karin, 41, Leeds I’m sorry your weekend didn’t go as planned. It sounds like your hubby needed more than 48 hours to resuscitate his sexy self. Focus on the fact he’s not looking after himself (and his relationship with you) by getting enough sleep. Start by saying, ‘I’m just going to make one complaint in the hope you’ll take…

My marriage was stifling me Staring into my husband Richard’s* eyes, I took a deep breath. ‘I’m sorry,’ I said. ‘I’m leaving you.’ He shrugged, acknowledging what we both knew – that our relationship had broken down too far for us to make it work any more. We’d been married for five years and had a fabulous house and two adorable sons – Max, then eight, and Woody, two. With our sports cars on the drive and five-star holidays to Florida, it might have looked like we had it all, but our marriage was making us both miserable. I couldn’t go on living a lie. I met Richard through friends and, although we were very different, I fell for his laid-back charm. He ran his own van hire company and…

Compiled by Lauren Hughes PIC OF THE WEEK Win £50 if we feature your photo Stop being cruel to Kate The Duchess of Cambridge always seems to get a hard time no matter what she does. Yet she’s down to earth, proactive and works so hard. People always seem to be so negative about her, even though she’s proved herself to be a credit to both her own family and the royal family. She brings so much happiness in so many ways to so many people. Everyone should just give her a break! Maree Edwards, Facebook Put it away! Your piece about whether topless men are a turn-on or turn-off made me chuckle. I was complaining about seeing half-naked men just the other week! I love seeing my man topless,…

Farmer Giles Emmerdale filly Samantha Giles and I caught up off camera to talk about Bernice’s broken heart after toy boy Andy cruelly dumped her. ‘I bet you’d love to get your hands on him,’ she said of hunky co-star Kelvin Fletcher. Of course – but only to, ahem, wring his neck! What the Jenkins! Warbler Katherine Jenkins tells me she won’t be singing at her wedding to American fiancé Andrew, who proposed to her in the Hamptons, so I’ve offered to belt out my legendary I Will Always Love You . Surprisingly, my invite has still not arrived... Watching the boys go by! We’ve been filming Good Morning Britain outdoors a lot recently. It’s…

In an even more shocking interview, heartbroken Katie Price, 36, has now revealed that husband Kieran Hayler had an affair with not one but two of her close friends. Katie, who announced on Twitter earlier this year that Kieran, 27, had cheated on her with best pal Jane Pountney, has opened up about discovering that he also slept with another friend, Chrissy Thomas, 41, after the stripper took a lie detector test. ‘Kieran worked out the women he wanted to target and began grooming them with text messages. He knew Jane was vulnerable because her marriage was dead and he’d heard me say Chrissy was a good-time girl,’ admitted Katie, who is heavily pregnant with her second child with Kieran. ‘He got their numbers from me or approached them on…

That’s right, ladies, ‘sexy’ has a sell-by date! Well, for men that is. After all those decades we’ve spent fretting about wrinkles, grey hair, and middle-aged spread, we women can relax and let our other halves worry about ageing. Because new figures* show that once a man hits 39 he becomes invisible to the opposite sex. In fact, 52% of Brits believe men lose their allure as they reach the big four-O and are seen as father figures rather than sex symbols. According to the research, the clearest indication that a man is past it is when women no longer chat them up on a night out. Other signs include thinning or greying hair, double chins and having bad teeth. Doesn’t that make us feel smug? And with the number…

1 BUST your bingo wings Bliss Fatgirlslim Arm Candy, £34, is our ticket to more beautiful arms – yes, even Jennifer Aniston would be jealous! The special massage applicator dispenses a cocktail of caffeine and lactic acid to smooth bumps, even skin tone and increase firmness. 2 TRIM your tummy A third of Woman’s Own readers say they worry about a wobbly tummy. Us, too! Nip+Fab Tummy Fix, £19.25, combines a special sculpting ingredient with bitter orange, known to firm skin and restore tone to the stomach. 3 HELP your hands Hand Chemistry Hyaluronic Concentrate, £27.99, is a fab gel treatment, and can be used on your body as well as your hands. It’s all about intense hydration – with pure hyaluronic acid, it plumps skin,…

Readerrated JILL HAWKINS, 48, FROM LONDON ‘I react badly to mosquito bites, but I can’t bear the smell of deet, so I’ve started using Incognito Anti-Mosquito Repellent Spray (£9.99 for 100ml, lessmosquito.com ). It’s a natural remedy that smells lovely and keeps the pesky mozzies away, too.’ SYMPTOM CHECKER Anaemia WHAT IS IT? Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) can lead to low levels of red blood cells. The fewer of these there are, the less oxygen there is in the bloodstream. WHO GETS IT? Women who are pregnant or who suffer heavy periods, and people who have gastrointestinal conditions, such as coeliac or Crohn’s disease, colitis, stomach ulcers, haemorrhoids or IBS. Symptoms include chronic tiredness, breathlessness and difficulty sleeping. HOW’S IT DIAGNOSED? GPs can…

5 WAYS TO...save on  your wedding day Whether it’s you or a friend or relative tying the knot, we all know how expensive weddings can be. The cake, the dress, the food and the booze… it all adds up. The average wedding now costs more than £18,000, according to research conducted earlier this year by Sheilas’ Wheels. But there are still some nifty ways to save on the cost of walking down the aisle… 1 HITCH A RIDE Can’t afford a fancy car to get you to the church on time? Why not book a black cab instead – try firms like londonblacktaxis. net/blog/ wedding-taxis. Exclusive hire costs around £70 an hour. 2 DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR Get creative and make something to give your guests as a…

In between his early morning starts for GMB and playing dad to sons Jack, nine, and Sam, seven, Ben Shephard seems to have a rather exhausting life. But as he told us when we caught up with him, he can always rely on his lifelong passion for football to cheer him up. Here, Ben, 39, talks about getting emotional, guilty pleasures and why his obsession with cardigans is getting out of control… What are your favourite and least favourite things about your body? I love the way it manages to wake up at 3am every day, which is a ridiculous hour. My least favourite are my elbows – elbows hurt if you bang them, and mine seem to be excessively sensitive. What makes you happiest? West Ham winning away from…

Splitting their time between their holiday homes in the South of France and Cornwall, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan’s summer break sounds perfect. But Richard, 58, tells us the pair have little time to work on their tans – in fact, they spend a large part of the summer working. We caught up with Richard for a good old gossip about his date nights with Judy and how Chloe is getting on following her recent break-up… How are you doing, Richard? I’m good, I’m in Cornwall at the minute and it’s scorching. It’s like the Mediterranean. We’re so jealous! And you’ve just got back from the South of France… I hate to say it but we had the best time. We worked so bloody hard for 21 years doing This…

What to do 1 Choose one calorie-controlled breakfast (approx 250 cals), a lunch (approx 350 cals) and a dinner (approx 500 cals) every day from the lists. Opt for which meal you’d like as your barbecue option and of course you can cook indoors if you prefer to! 2 In addition, you can have 300ml skimmed milk or a pot of fat-free fruit yogurt a day. You can also use the milk for tea and coffee, but don’t have any other calorie-containing drinks. 3 You’ve also got 100 cals spare to use as you’d like each day. See our snack list for some suggestions, or simply choose your own. HOW IT WORKS This plan is packed with lean protein, veggies and salad that will help to fill you up Barbecuing…

Calm descended as, dinner finished, my three daughters disappeared upstairs to their rooms. It left my husband Chris and me alone to finally catch up with each other. He was a carpenter and worked long hours on building sites – a very masculine domain. Then he’d come home to a house full of women. I sometimes wondered how he coped. But he adored our three girls – Kerry, 19, Sharon, 15, and 12-year-old Katie. Growing up, they’d all got into baton twirling, so he spent his weekends driving them to competitions around the country. Over the years, he’d put in extra hours at work to make sure he could pay for their costumes and equipment. He was so protective, too, worrying about them all the time. But a few months…

You may remember Celia Peachey. When she last appeared in Woman’s Own it was to tell the extremely shocking story of her mother’s brutal murder. In a heart-rending account, she revealed how the 50-year-old had been strangled to death by a violent ex just days before Christmas. It might have been expected afterwards for Celia to retreat back into her own life and get on with coping with her grief. Yet three years on, she’s in Woman’s Own again with a very different story to be told. I first got to know Celia in 2009 when she contacted the domestic violence charity Refuge, where I work as chief executive. It was a cold and rainy morning in February when we met at a local cafe in…

LEO (29 JULY) Joey Essex It’s going to be a reem year ahead. Bumper planet Jupiter’s influence later this month brings good luck, opportunity reedom. It could push his on/off romance with Sam in a new direction. Aries 21 Mar – 20 Apr Steady on! You might be hugely relieved to be feeling more on form but around Friday you could easily go too far. If you promise too much or exaggerate, it could come back and bite you, leading to heated conversations at the weekend. For more call 0901 609 4780* Taurus 21 Apr – 20 May Whatever or whoever stirred up deep feelings in you recently, it’s time to figure out the message involved. Is it about an emotion you’ve been suppressing that needs air? Or do you…