New Line Cinema It’s common for kids to create imaginary friends when they’re young, but what if that fictional figure were to suddenly reappear when you’re an adult? That’s the basic premise the 1991 dark comedy Drop Dead Fred explores through the eyes of Elizabeth Cronin (Phoebe Cates), a young woman who is in desperate need of escaping the realities of adulthood. Not only is she separated from her cheating husband (whom she very much still wants to be with), but she gets robbed, loses her job, and is forced to move back in with her controlling, manipulative mother, Polly...
“I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Pay Off Credit Card Debt” & 26 Other Relatable Confessions
eyecrave productions/E+/Getty Images Being a parent is full of so many ups and downs. One day you’re in tears because you have $8 left to your name before payday and you’re still out of peanut butter and apple juice, and the next day you’re snuggling your babies on the couch and realizing nothing gets better than that. But in between are a million little confessions running through our heads — all the little things we’re too afraid to say out loud, and all the little things we pray we’re not alone in thinking. This week’s Scary Mommy Confessions offer some fairly...
A Mom Admits She Left Her Family Vacation 5 Days Early & People Have *Thoughts*
Instagram Most moms have at least felt the way that Kelly Hubbell felt on her last family vacation. Things weren’t going great, everything was chaos, her in-laws were there, and all she wanted to do was go home. The difference here is that she actually did. The business owner and mom of three was visiting her husband’s family’s lake house earlier this month and decided she’d had enough. So she packed up and left. “Every summer, we head to my husband’s family’s lake house for a few weeks,” Hubbell wrote on a viral Instagram post. “It’s beautiful. It’s nostalgic. It’s...
Secure Attachment Is Sexy, & Benny Blanco Is Proof
Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images In a dating landscape that seems to have never-ending situationships and avoidant partners up the wazoo, it’s been refreshing to witness Benny Blanco taking the crown of "secure partner" as he does press alongside his love, and now fiancée, Selena Gomez. We’ve seen glimpses of their relationships before — thanks to their multiple music collabs — but it was their joint interview on the Jay Shetty podcast that sealed the deal, making the world, and mostly single women, sit up and take notice: Benny is the new sex symbol. Why? Because he’s secure, emotionally available, and completely...