Now that’s love and dedication! Rob Kardashian drove 26 hours and 1,377 miles from Los Angeles to Austin to pick up Blac Chyna after her Jan. 29 arrest, a new report claims. Check out the pic that proves Rob’s road trip now!
Rob Kardashian, 28, is Blac Chyna’s knight in shining armor! Her new beau drove a whopping 26 hours to pick up his beloved in Austin, Texas, following her Jan. 29 arrest for public intoxication and drug possession. Rob reportedly started driving immediately after he learned Blac, 27, had been arrested. Blac posted a pic of Rob’s Bentley after he drove over one thousand miles to rescue her! Rob drove his Bentley 26 hours to pick up Blac,TMZ reports. He got in his car right after she was arrested at Austin International Airport on Jan. 29 at 4:20 p.m. Texas time. The drive is at least 19 hours, but with stops and traffic, it usually ends up being a longer trip.
Blac then posted a Snapchat photo of herself standing in front Rob’s Bentley on Jan. 30. “Bye Texas,” she captioned the photo, with multiple shamrock emojis. Later, she posted an Instagram video of herself riding in the passenger seat of a car. Rob’s unexpected road trip has his family very worried. They think he’s “acting irrationally” and “worried drugs or alcohol might be involved,” according to the outlet.
Hours after Blac’s arrest, Rob posted a photo of himself FaceTiming Blac. Maybe he was calling her to let her know that he was on his way! Blac also shared a video of herself on Snapchat and asked her followers, “Did you miss me?” She took to Instagram to thank her boyfriend for being there for her “no matter what.
Blac Chyna And Rob Kardashian First Pictures Together
"Parting is such sweet sorrow" (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
1597 was a big year for love and iconic culure, because it was when ROMEO AND JULIET was first printed in a pirated edition. Shakespeare's vivid tale of teenage love and murder ("a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life") has resonated through the centuries (above, Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Daines star in the 1996 film version) and his play – 90 per cent of which is in verse – has given the world some of the most beautiful poetry about love, including the lines:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet."
“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.”
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
"A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me!"
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
"Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"
Yes, the ring is important and stays with you forever, but the dress - that's what really makes a bride feel amazing on her big day.
When so much meaning is ascribed to a piece of clothing, the prospect of looking for a wedding dress can seem daunting. So I called Hayley Paige, designer of Hayley Paige and Blush by Hayley Paige, and Lori Allen, founder of Bridals by Lori and star of Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, to get their expert advice on what you should know before going wedding dress shopping.
1. Each bride's journey to finding her dress is unique. You might assume that because your best friend bought the first dress she tried on that you will too. But you might end up needing to try on more dresses or going to more appointments, and that shouldn't dishearten you. "Brides often get tripped up by what other people tell them to expect," Hayley says. "You don't want to be so overwhelmed by what everybody else has said."
2. Do your homework in advance. Start by looking at dresses online and in bridal magazines to get a sense of the styles you're drawn to. Create a mood board, pull tear sheets - whatever helps you figure out what you like. Are there certain designers you keep going back to? Follow them on social media and you'll find out about more styles (and sales) that way.
3. Beware of pin-bingeing. "Pinterest is the foam on a latte: It's fun and frothy," Hayley says. But relying too much on a Pinterest fantasy can backfire. "You want to be careful about not overdoing it," she adds. "If you start envisioning what you're going to look like in a dress based on these idealized images, you might end up disappointed when you go into that appointment."
"I don't want to put a dress on you that's $10,000 when yourbudget is $2,500, and you fall in love with it and you're miserable," Lori says. "A lot of times, we get stuck in the middle trying to get people to decide on a budget. It puts us in a really awkward position."
How do you figure out a budget? Once you've found a few dresses that you love, look up how much they cost. That's an easy way to start having the budget conversation. "I like this style, and it costs around $4,000 - what do you think?"
It's OK to have a cushion of a few hundred dollars in case you find a dress you adore but it's $400 over budget. And, keep in mind that a dress does not an outfit make: You'll need to pay for alterations, a veil, shoes, accessories, etc.
5. Allow yourself ample time to get your dress. You may need to schedule your appointment a month in advance, especially during busy season, though you'll have an easier time if you go on a weekday instead of the weekend. Then, you'll need at least six months before the wedding for the dress to get made, but eight to 10 months is the average. Give yourself a year for the whole process and you won't feel rushed.
6. Be willing to commit. "I don't mean to put pressure on the situation but go in with the hope that you're going to find something and have that special moment," Hayley says. If you go into an appointment already assuming you're walking out of there empty-handed, you're probably not opening yourself up to the possibility of finding a dress - and that's a waste of your time. "Make the most of your appointment so that it's a positive experience."
Lori agrees: "There are some brides that will try on gown after gown after gown," she says. "You're trying to get to this moment where the sun and the moon and the stars align. Just let it go." It's a combination of focus, positivity, and openness.
7. Don't go to your dress appointment with a big entourage.You'll feel outnumbered by all the voices. "You can become so overwhelmed when you have that many girls in a room," Hayley says. "It's important to only bring someone whose opinion you truly respect and want."
In the past, Lori says, women used to bring just their mother or their maid of honor, but now it's like the whole cheer squad comes. "They're bringing in 20 people sometimes," she says. "I'm like, 'Did y'all unload a bus?' It's unbelievable, the number of people coming in here. And do you really care what some of these people think?"
8. Don't assume you're going to make a wholesale change to your body between now and when the dress is done. The worst thing you can do is go in and try on a dress when you're a size 12, then lose weight and become a size 4 or 6," Hayley says. "The dress, the proportions - everything is going to look a lot different." Some brides insist on getting measured for a smaller size than they are when they try on the dress, but even with the best of intentions (and a really expensive price tag), they don't reach their goal. That can be heartbreaking and disastrous for your wedding plans, not to mention your budget.
9. You're going to fall in love with a dress, and that's when you'll know you've found it. "Some brides do cry - some boohoo, some get all red - and we know when we're zipping them up," Lori says. "But others that are super analytical will know because they compare that dress to everything else.
"I don't know what it is. It's like your innermost thoughts and all your desires and everything you wish for on your wedding day. No matter who it is, no matter what they say, they have a fairytale idea of their wedding. Everything's going to be perfect and they're going to look magnificent. You'll zip that dress up and that will be her vision. It's the strangest thing."
10. You cannot force that connection. "You need to have faith that you're going to find that dress, sort of like you have faith in finding the partner of your dreams," Hayley says. "If you find yourself worried about what's coming down the pipeline or worried that you're missing out or worried that you need to change the dress - it's similar to you being in a marriage or relationship where you're second-guessing your partner. When you find the right one, you're not going towant to change it because you love it so much when you look at it in themirror."
11. Don't put too much importance on the pictures you take when you first try on the dress. The dress you try on hasn't been altered to fit you perfectly, so you might look at the pictures when you get home and start to pick apart your choice. Remember that your dress, which is still to come, will literally be made to fit your body.
12. Be open-minded. "Have an idea of what you want but don't be locked in and dead set," Lori says. "You may not know that deep down, you want a ball gown, but you've been trying on all these mermaids. Your consultant may try something different on you because nothing is clicking" - and that's when you might find a dress you love.
13. Get comfortable with your body. What do you like on your body? Sheath? Bodycon? Pants? Hayley recommends going to the evening gown section of a department store and trying on different shapes there. "It's probably been a while since you tried on a prom dress," she says. "Your body might have changed - grown taller or thinner or more athletic. It's a nice research process."
14. Bring a pair of heels if you know what heel height you want. The salon will have shoes, but if you already know you're going to slay the aisle in 6-inch stilettos, bring those to your appointment.
15. If you're really busty, bring support. The salon will most likely have strapless bras, but if you're hosting DDs on your chest, consider bringing along your own support undergarments, like a bra or corset.
16. You'll have to sign a contract. It can seem scary, but a wedding dress is a pretty major purchase for most people. And because so many wedding dresses are expensive, made-to-order pieces, both parties need to be protected.
17. You'll save money by going to a trunk show. Boutiques offer discounts and you'll be seeing more dresses from that designer than the boutique usually carries. "Trunk shows are the best," Hayley says. "You could even end up meeting the designer and that makes the experience all the more magical."
18. Don't cheap out by trying to buy a dress online. Many e-tailers (usually out of China) sell knockoff gowns but that's a really risky choice. You might end up losing money in a scam, or just getting a dress that's not what you expected it to be. Remember that this is your wedding - it's supposed to be special.
19. There isn't any Champagne while you're trying on a dress."I let them have it in my lobby but I can't have it around my dresses," Lori says. "It leaves a brown spot that doesn't come out. I have had that nightmare all over a $6,000 dress and it is not fun."
We may not live in a country where it snows and freezes, but still working out or exercising on cold wintry mornings is pretty painful. As a sharp biting wind hits you where you least expect it, you start longing for your warm bed and then your resolution fails. For the next couple of months, your resolution failed even before you got out of bed, because you now know what the biting wind feels like. But now the mornings are perfectly lovely. Cool and pleasant with just a nip in the air - the perfect weather for outdoor exercise. Here are six fun ways of exercising outdoors while this glorious weather lasts.
1. Take an early morning walk in the park, as the sun illuminates the tree tops and the world smells absolutely new - no traces of pollution whatsoever. Do some deep breathing along with it. The fresh air will do you a world of good.
2. Wear your yoga pants and head out to the beach for a quiet morning session of yoga, with the sea breeze in your hair.
3. Try doing aerobic dance or zumba on the terrace of your apartment. The mild morning sun will make you feel energised as will the workout itself. You'll head out that morning with a cheerful outlook.
4. On weekend mornings, go on a long cycling expedition instead of long drives. Even better, head out to one of your favourite breakfast joints on a cycle, along with friends. Only make sure this joint is at least 7-10 km away. Only then is this a form of workout!
5. A morning swim is exactly what you need to get the blood circulation going in this weather. The water will be a tad bracing but totally swimmable, and you will feel completely awake at the end of it, and less tired than you usually do in hot weather.
6. A day long trek at a weekend destination will be lovely in this weather and it wouldn't sap your energy out like in other seasons.
We'll never be close confidants, but we're on the same side now.
My heart was galloping inside my chest. It made sense, considering what I was about to do. Any minute now, she would walk through the doors, and I would finally come face-to-face with the woman who had trotted off into the sunset with my husband, making me a single mother to my two little boys.
Two years earlier, I'd learned about her existence in a private investigator's report. I remember staring at her black-and-white image, too shell-shocked to cry. She was photographed walking toward my husband's hotel room door, overnight bag in hand, a pillow tucked under her arm.
"Don't you know that hotels have pillows?" I'd wanted to shout, but it was pointless. I had to swallow my pride and move on.
My husband didn't make it easy. A few days after I'd seen the report, he confessed to his year-long affair and asked me to give our marriage another try. "I made a mistake," he said. "I'll come home earlier from now on, we'll have dinner together, we can be a family."
My gut told me this was all wrong; that if he really loved me, he would never have had an affair in the first place. I felt beaten and betrayed, unloved and unloveable, but I knew I deserved better. Divorce was our only option.
After Everything Changed
I spent the next two years moving through a variety of stages — grief, despair, anger and sadness. But I was determined to get stronger, to turn my life around. My boys were only two and three at the time of my separation; if they were going to have a chance of being spared the ill-effects of divorce, they needed a happy mom. I began seeing a therapist, exercising, and wearing better clothes. I traveled with my boys, figured out my finances, found a lawyer, dated, and then I met someone whom I knew would never lie to me or treat me poorly.
By now, my ex and his mistress-turned-girlfriend were living together, and my kids were spending time with her. She bought them toys and clothes; she vacationed with them. They came home with stories of how she said "booger" with an "ooo" sound instead of the softer "uh." I responded, "That's so funny!"
But inside I hated her. I hated her for laying eyes on my husband in the first place; for not giving a shit if he was married with kids; for keeping him out until 6 a.m. while I was home, helpless and hysterical; for making me a single mother; for changing the course of my children's lives and breaking our family unit.
I was left to wonder: Was she thinner than me? Prettier? What did she have or know or do that I didn't? I'd avoided meeting her for a million reasons. How would it feel when I looked her in the eye? Was I strong enough to shake her hand? Would I scream at her? Slap her? Thank her for taking a cheating husband off my hands?
All I knew was that somehow I needed closure. Then one day, I was in a 40-day personal growth course at my yoga studio, which was like a big group therapy session. When everybody went around and state what we hoped to accomplish during the course (lose weight, accept themselves, be kinder to a spouse, etc.), I knew what I had to say. I'd put it off, but the time had come. To truly move forward in my life, to shake off my past like a dog shakes the rain, I needed to meet the woman at the center of it all.
Everyone clapped for me when I was done sharing and I felt like the biggest loser, but after that I had no choice. They were holding me accountable. I had to meet her, and it was truly the hardest thing I'd ever done in my life.
The Big Showdown
Yet now, as I waited for her at Starbucks, my heart hammering in my chest, I was scared. She was older than me, yes, but she didn't have kids, which meant her boobs probably didn't sag, even without a bra. Her stomach was probably flat and unscarred, unlike mine. After two C-sections, the jagged line from one hip bone to the other had faded, but not disappeared. I bet she liked to wear high heels even during the day. I looked down at my running shoes, and my thoughts swirled out of control. I was transported to the times my ex-husband disappeared on weeklong work trips or business dinners every other night of the week. The feelings I'd tried so hard to overcome surged back, feelings of being unwanted, unloved, and unloveable.
I wiped the palms of my hands along the sides of my workout pants. Up and down. Up and down. "Breathe, Erin. Breathe," I coached myself. "In and out. In and out. It's all you need to do."
I heard the blood pulsing. Felt the thumping of my heart. I pushed my tongue up hard against the roof of my mouth, a I trick I learned recently in an assertiveness-training course. I pushed harder until my throat hurt.
"I got this," I told myself. "Scared is good. It's ok. It's ok. It's ok. It's ok."
I opened the plastic lid of my chai tea and inhaled the sweet and spicy aroma of cinnamon and cardamom. I could feel my heart rate start to steady. When I looked up, she was standing a table length away. I knew instinctively it was her. I looked directly into her green eyes, stuck out my hand and smiled. In an instant, I'd taken in all the details: her full smile, shiny dark hair, and perfect white-manicured nails. She was wearing a toque, plaid shirt and skinny jeans tucked into motorcycle boots. After a tumultuous two years of exhausting divorce negotiations and mounting lawyer bills, countless therapy sessions, and the pressures of having to forge a new life as a dating-working-single mother to two boys, I was face-to-face with my arch nemesis.
That's when I surprised myself.
"Thank you for taking such good care of my kids when they are with their dad," I told her warmly. "I know my boys can be a handful, and I'm happy you're there to help."
These words flowed from my mouth unexpectedly, and I realized I'd meant them. Wouldn't it be better to have four eyes watching my kids instead of two, four hands to keep my boys safe? I had built her up in my mind. I blamed her for clawing away at my self-worth, but what did I have to gain by being angry or continuing to point fingers? I wanted to let it go. To wash my anger off my skin.
I realized in that instant that they were a better fit for each other, too. My boyfriend and I revolve around our families and our kids; we love dinners at home and spending weekends and vacations together. My ex and his girlfriend enjoy fancy vacations and expensive clothes. We just have different lifestyles and priorities. I decided to forgive her and finally be at peace with myself. The hatred burst into nothingness, just like a balloon. I had at last come to terms with my divorce.
The next day, I drove to the department of motor vehicles, filled out the name change forms, and waited for my number to be called. My hands fumbled the pen, and they shook as I signed my original signature for the first time in 10 years. Then I took my wedding bands — two beautiful diamond eternity bands — to a jeweler and traded them in for a pair of diamond earrings without thinking twice.
Since that day in Starbucks, I've chosen to befriend her in a way. I always include her at my children's birthday parties; I've invited her into my house, and I've been to hers. We are friendly when we chat — we talk about Lululemon, the kids, working out, and so on. She helped my boys pick out an engraved Tiffany's necklace for me for Valentine's Day last year, and she helped my youngest son make me a painting. This past summer, I got my boys a puppy, but when the responsibility became too much, we gave it to her parents, complete with all his toys, food and vaccinations. She makes sure my kids still get to see their beloved dog.
We are not a big, happy family, and we certainly don't double date. We came together by odd and unfortunate circumstances. But now, I realize, at least, that we are all on the same team.
