Sladic/Getty Images Night sweats? Insomnia? Mood swings? Welcome to the second part of just trying to survive. Just as you finally figured out how to love the glorious body you live in, life has decided to throw another curveball at you: menopause. While the official diagnosis that you were dealing with signs of perimenopause might have felt sudden, the truth is that nothing about menopause is sudden at all. Your body basically starts working towards this point when you hit puberty. And this last rite of passage? Well, it’s a doozy. Say hello to postmenopause. You’re probably aware that perimenopause...
Ming Na-Wen Confirms She Is “100%” A Proud Nerd Mom
Amy Sussman/Getty Images; Max Maybe you first “met” Ming-Na Wen in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s as Lien in As The World Turns, June in The Joy Luck Club, or Chun-Li in Street Fighter. For some of us, she’ll forever be Jing-Mei in ER or the voice of circa-1998 Mulan. These days, she’s carved out a definitive space for herself in nerd culture, playing badass characters in Marvel-universe hits like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Mandalorian, and The Book of Boba Fett. But when Scary Mommy caught up with Wen recently, we couldn’t wait to pick her brain about her particularly nostalgic...
The Most Popular Halloween Candy From State To State, According To DoorDash
Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images Halloween is always a fun holiday when it comes to trends. From trending decorations (hello, enormous skeletons) to trending costumes (How many Super Mario Bros. family costumes did you see last year?), it’s always fun to hear what one demographic is super into or what the toddlers are rooting around for to eat out of their pumpkin pails first. Thanks to some data analysis from DoorDash, we now know which Halloween candy is most popular in each state, and I have to be honest — I was not expecting New Mexico’s response. Based on DoorDash data from 2023,...
This TikTok Creator Wants You To Really Think About That Vasectomy
TikTok/@ryans_truth_ It’s marvelous to live in an age when we have so many birth control options at our disposal. From condoms to birth control pills, IUDs to arm implants, there are lots of ways to avoid parenthood if you want to. However, most birth control options are the responsibility of those among us who could get pregnant, not those who do the impregnating. As such, men — especially married men and men in monogamous relationships — have been able to skate by while their female partners handle the business of not getting pregnant. But one TikTok creator, Ryan, who posts...



