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Hilary Duff welcomes baby No. 4: ‘Pure moments of magic’

Hilary Duff welcomes baby No. 4: ‘Pure moments of magic’

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Hilary Duff has welcomed her fourth child to the Duff-Bair-Comrie Crew. Townes Meadow Bair joined the family via water birth on May 3, according to Duff’s Instagram post. Along with photos of the birth, Duff wrote, “I have been dreaming of holding you in my arms for months, and the past five days of getting to know you, stare at you and smell you have been pure moments of magic. We all love you like you’ve been here all along, beauty.” She also noted, “Now we know why she made us wait so long … she was perfecting those cheeks!” Duff announced her pregnancy in an adorably hilarious Christmas card in December. “So much for silent nights,” it read. The back of the card were sweet photos of the kids along with a note: “Buckle up Buttercups, we’re adding one more to this crazy bunch!” Along with her husband, Matthew Koma (who was born as Matthew Bair), Duff is raising two girls: Banks, 5, and Mae, 3. She has an older son, Luca, 12, from her previous …

Hilary Duff welcomes baby number 4 — see the adorable first photos and the baby’s name

Hilary Duff welcomes baby number 4 — see the adorable first photos and the baby’s name

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Congratulations are in order for Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma! The couple have welcomed their third child together, the Disney star’s fourth. Their baby girl was born on May 3, and Hilary, 36, shared the first photos of their newborn and the at-home birth. The couple have named their baby Townes. She captioned the announcement: “Townes Meadow Bair, now we know why she made us wait so long…She was perfecting those Cheeks!” You may also likeParenthood Through Celebrity Eyes “I have been dreaming of holding you in my arms for months and the past 5 days of getting to know you, stare at you and smell you has been pure moments of magic. We all love you like you’ve been here all along beauty.” The Younger star is also a mom to son Luca Cruz Comrie, 12, shared with ex Mike Comrie. With her current husband Matthew, she is also a mom to daughters Mae James, three, and Banks Violet, five. Townes is Hilary and Matthew’s third girl together. Hilary and Matthew began dating in …

Hilary Schan: Momentum chair quits Labour to campaign against its MPs at next election | Politics News

Hilary Schan: Momentum chair quits Labour to campaign against its MPs at next election | Politics News

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One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer’s policy agenda, and his “disgusting response” to the war in Gaza. Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place. The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Politics live: PM told to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ after poor local election results Pointing to analysis that shows Labour is set to be the biggest party at the next election, but not have an overall majority, Ms Schan said getting more “socialist representatives” into parliament would be “vital to pressure Starmer to finally listen …

Hilary Swank on returning home as an Oscar winner: ‘I can take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

Hilary Swank on returning home as an Oscar winner: ‘I can take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free It was the year 2000, and Hilary Swank was in a peculiar position. She had won her first Academy Award, for Boys Don’t Cry, having grasped the coveted statuette on stage in front of an audience that included Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Morgan Freeman. She was, by all accounts, a star – one that came crashing down to earth when she later went to pick up some medication only to be told: sorry, you don’t have health insurance. The idea of an Oscar winner with no health insurance sounds ludicrous, I tell Swank over Zoom. The actor, now 49, nods emphatically. “It seems so obvious, right? I’m winning an Academy Award, I’m super famous, it’s all glamorous…” she says. “But I made $3,000 the year I did Boys Don’t Cry, and you had to make $5,000 in order to qualify for health insurance.” Her facialist, too, assumed life had …

Ordinary Angels: Hilary Swank on the true story of a ‘snow baby’ and a helpful stranger | Ents & Arts News

Ordinary Angels: Hilary Swank on the true story of a ‘snow baby’ and a helpful stranger | Ents & Arts News

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Hilary Swank says playing roles based on real stories have made her a “better person”. The 49-year-old has portrayed a real-life single mother, a lawyer and a high-school dropout – and won her first Academy Award in 2000 for Boys Don’t Cry, a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a trans man who was murdered in 1993. She tells Sky News: “Each character that I’ve ever played is in my heart, and I am so grateful for that because it just made me, I think, a better person and certainly helped me challenge myself as an artist”. Image: Hilary Swank as Sharon in Ordinary Angels. Pic: Sony Pictures/Allen Fraser Swank says she never thought her acting choices would have such an impact on others and finds it “so beautiful to have those conversations” with people who relate to the roles she has played. “[My filmography] touches not only different, genders, which is so unique, but different races and, and different classes of people and that is so beautiful because I then get to …

Hilary Swank: ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Would Be ‘Great’ For Trans Actor Today

Hilary Swank: ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Would Be ‘Great’ For Trans Actor Today

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Hilary Swank is thinking about how her film, Boys Don’t Cry, would be different if made today. The US actor won an Oscar for the 2000 drama, but in a new interview, she said she’d appreciate seeing a transgender actor play the part of Brandon Teena, a man who was killed in a transphobic hate crime in 1993. Speaking to The Times, Hilary said: “Now for the most part, in most places, it’s accepted to be a trans person. [But] at that time, people weren’t even coming out as gay and lesbian, it was a career killer, or whatever.” “They weren’t ready to tell their family, or maybe they weren’t even ready to tell themselves,” she continued. “We’re in such different times — I feel like it would be a great opportunity for an actor who’s trans to play that role.” However, Hilary added that she isn’t opposed to cisgender actors playing trans roles, saying: “I also feel like actors are actors.” “We are supposed to play different people,” she said. “I would like to …

Hilary Cass warned of threats to safety after ‘vile’ abuse over NHS gender services review | Transgender

Hilary Cass warned of threats to safety after ‘vile’ abuse over NHS gender services review | Transgender

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The doctor behind a landmark review of the NHS’s gender identity services for children and young people has said fears had been raised about her personal safety amid online abuse after the report’s release. Dr Hilary Cass told the Times she wished to address the “disinformation” circulating about the findings and recommendations handed down by the Cass review when it was published on 10 April. She said she had received online abuse in the wake of the report and had been advised to stop using public transport. The report said the evidence base for gender medicine in young people had been thin and children had been let down by a “toxic” public discourse around gender. Cass told the Times: “I have been really frustrated by the criticisms, because it is straight disinformation. It is completely inaccurate. “It started the day before the report came out when an influencer posted a picture of a list of papers that were apparently rejected because they were not randomised control trials. “That list has absolutely nothing to do with …

Hilary Cass’s report and the trans rights debate | Transgender

Hilary Cass’s report and the trans rights debate | Transgender

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In our view, Freddy McConnell’s opinion piece (Hilary Cass’s proposals are mostly common sense. She must reject anti-trans bias with the same clarity, 11 April) implies that support for the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG) fundamentally undermines trans people’s identities and rights, and that clinicians who question the innate model of gender identity – as do CAN-SG members – do not have the best interests of patients at heart and are “denying the existence” of trans people. We reject these claims. In fact, it is suppression of research and debate in this area that undermines proper understanding of gender identity and the right to effective, safe medical treatment. The Cass report says: “There is broad agreement that gender incongruence is a result of a complex interplay between biological, psychological and social factors”, and this varies over time and between individuals. This is a fundamentally different model to that of an innate gender identity that must be affirmed. Developing better models to understand aspects of human distress is medicine and science as normal, and …

Hilary Swank Recalls Rescuing Beloved Pets in 9/11 Aftermath

Hilary Swank Recalls Rescuing Beloved Pets in 9/11 Aftermath

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Hilary Swank is looking back at the time when she helped rescue beloved pets amid the aftermath of 9/11. The Oscar-winning actress, who has been open about her love of animals, recently recalled that she volunteered with the ASPCA during the 2001 tragedy. “People would go over to the piers over on West Street, and they would say, ‘My dog Simpson, or my goldfish or my rabbit,’ or whatever it is, and they’d say, ‘This is my address, this is my apartment,’ and I’d get these cards and we’d go down,” Swank said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Literally! With Rob Lowe podcast. The Million Dollar Baby star told Lowe that while there were many challenges and obstacles, including no working elevators, no technology and building stability risks, that didn’t stop them from saving these animals. “If their animal was on the 50th floor, you were walking up to the 50th floor,” she said. “And we’d get up there and we brought cats down, we brought turtles down, we brought fish down, we brought lots of …

Hilary was not a tropical storm when it hit California

Hilary was not a tropical storm when it hit California

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A powerful and damaging storm that pummeled portions of Mexico and the American Southwest last year was not a tropical storm when it hit California as originally believed, federal officials have determined. Hilary began as an offshore hurricane before making landfall as a tropical storm in the Mexican state of Baja California on Aug. 20. It then lost strength as it churned north toward San Diego, Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center. An employee walks out of a store in La Bufadora, Mexico, and uses a plastic bag to protect his shoes from rushing water as Hilary makes landfall in August 2023. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The storm prompted the first-ever tropical storm watches and warnings issued in California, but officials now say it had degenerated into a post-tropical low by the time it reached the state. The post-tropical designation means a storm no longer has the characteristics of a tropical cyclone. “On its approach to land — …