Beyoncé, Zendaya, Shonda Rhimes and Rosa Parks. These A-listers and more are all dolled up, thanks to this pretty, plastic plaything. Black Barbie stormed onto the toy scene as the “dynamite” antithesis to her Malibu sun-kissed, pink-obsessed predecessor, Barbie, in 1980. With richly brown skin and a cutely curly coif, the African-American doll not only became the … Read more
Matt Ryan used his unofficial retirement year to set up his broadcasting career. And now that he’s officially retired, Ryan is being thrust into the media spotlight. Ryan will join the “The NFL Today” show this upcoming season after the network shockingly moved on from former New York quarterbacks Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms. J.J. … Read more
Cindy Crawford could not pose for glossy magazines and strut down catwalks forever. Models, after all, have notoriously short shelf lives. And at 23, Crawford was hardly an ingénue. So when MTV asked her to host a new fashion-focused show in 1989, she not only said yes — she offered to do it for free. … Read more
Paige Spiranac hasn’t forgotten the grief she received as a rising golf influencer — and how those who came up after her derisively vowed they wouldn’t “oversexualize” as she did. Spiranac, 30, briefly competed as a professional before entering her current career, and she has spent much of the past decade building an enormous social … Read more