For more than a decade, Kim Kardashian has been the center of media attention, and so has her body. People can’t help talking about her body. Her reality TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, draws millions of viewers worldwide, and therefore, millions of opinions. There may be a lot of speculation about the amount of plastic surgery she may (or may not) have had, but never has there been such public focus on a celebrity’s back side.
You can’t help but notice the size of Kim Kardashian’s behind, especially when she poses nude on magazine covers. On the recent cover of Paper magazine, Kim oiled up and posed showing her entire back and butt. She isn’t afraid to show off her behind, but she has never admitted to having any work done on her derriere. Hundreds of magazines and websites have placed pictures of Kim in her early twenties next to pictures of her now and it’s clear there’s been a huge change! But however Kim got her big backside, she has become a champion for women with bigger bottoms. We applaud her beauty and her boldness.
On her reality TV show, Kim decided to address the rumor about her alleged butt implants. After various x-rays, she did prove that she does not have implants, but this doesn’t mean she didn’t get a Brazilian Butt Lift. In a Brazilian Butt lift, fat deposits are removed from various areas of the patient’s body, including the ‘love handles’ or abdomen, and then injected back into the buttock area. This may have been just the procedure Kim Kardashian had, considering her tiny waist and large behind.
Even though everyone is quick to talk about Kim Kardashian’s various procedures, most aren’t afraid to admit her sex appeal and curvaceous figure are very attractive. Women all around the world walk into their plastic surgeons office requesting a butt just like Kim Kardashians. The demand for the ‘Kim Kardashian butt’ has increased incredibly since her last cover page photoshoot. It appears that many women want a small waist and the large round butt and are willing to pay for it. Bottoms Up, Kim!
DO ask other people what they’re on there for. If they can’t answer the question, they’re sketchy and should be avoided, but most of them will give you the honest answer you’re looking for, so you’ll know if you’re on the same page.
DON’T swipe left or right without reading someone’s bio first. Sometimes, those with questionable profile pictures turn out to be the most down-to-earth, while those with great pictures are either dull or cocky.
DO ask them if they’re a feminist. This might sound a little random, but it’s a good way to get a check on where they stand for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and human rights in general. Also, if they don’t care about feminism, they may not respect you in the way want and deserve, and that’s definitely NOT what you want.
DO have fun and be smart. You deserve to be happy!
Cooler, darker fall days are around the corner, so it’s time to stock up on mysteries for cozy holiday reading–including several foreign imports. If you miss genius punk hacker Lisbeth Salander, read The Girl in the Spider’s Web by Sweden’s David Lagercrantz, who continues the series of the deceased Stieg Larsson. This time Salander and unlikely investigative partner journalist Mikael Blomkvist take on the case of enigmatic computer scientist Frans Balder, a prominent expert in artificial intelligence ensnared in a global intrigue that even involves America’s National Security Agency. The New York Times review praises Lagercrantz’s “instinctive feel for the world Larsson created,” his characterizations and high-velocity writing despite a less-than-convincing plot.
Meanwhile, British author Ruth Ware has a debut for those who liked Paula Hawkins’ best-selling Girl on the Train. In a Dark, Dark Wood is a psychological thriller in which reclusive crime writer Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is invited by a friend she hasn’t seen in years to a weekend party in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside. Forty-eight hours later, Lee/Nora wakes up in a hospital bed with the knowledge that someone is dead and wondering not only “what happened?” but “what have I done?”
Then there is Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville, author of the popular Belfast crime series featuring DI Jack Lennon. Those We Left Behind is a standalone mystery set in Northern Ireland and centers around Ciaran Devine, who made headlines seven years earlier as the 12-year-old “schoolboy killer” whose confession to the brutal murder of his foster father mitigated the sentence of his older brother. Now Ciaran’s release brings big trouble to his probation officer DCI Serena Flanagan, who has always harbored doubts about his confession.
On this side of the pond, Louise Penny has brought back Chief Inspector Armand Gamache for an 11th installment set in the quaint Quebec village of Three Pines. The Nature of the Beast begins with the disappearance of a little boy who always cried wolf–except perhaps one of his tall tales was dangerously true. A search for the boy uncovers murder, an old crime, an old betrayal, and some soul-searching for Gamache.
Katherine Sharma’s family roots are in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. But after her early childhood in Texas, she has moved around the country and lived in seven other states, from Virginia to Hawaii. She currently resides in California with her husband and three children. She has also traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, and makes regular visits to family in India. After receiving her bachelor’s degree. in economics and her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan, Katherine worked as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor for more than 15 years. She then shifted into management and marketing roles for firms in industries ranging from outdoor recreation to insurance to direct marketing. Although Katherine still works as a marketing consultant, she is now focused on creative writing.
A country with a shrinking, aging population faces economic contraction, rising labor costs, falling real estate values, a smaller pool of innovative talent, and more conservative politics–a future very different from previous assumptions of continual growth and social improvement. The U.S. is part of the trend; our national fertility rate hit a record low in 2013, and our population is forecast to grow only because of immigration (add that to the political debate over immigration). Why the disinterest in procreating? Education, career and financial opportunities–especially for women–plus social acceptance of birth control are cited. But I wondered if there’s something deeper at work, too. Consider a July 
consider motherhood a negative factor in their personal happiness equation. So developed countries can try to boost baby-making via peppy campaigns, economic incentives and social support programs, but the fertility fall is unlikely to be cured by tax credits and slogans. We seem set on a future we may not like. For the 
