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Since joining Chip Ganassi Racing six seasons ago, Spanish driver Àlex Palou has shown to be a generational talent who is quickly working his way through INDYCAR’S record books. For that, Palou has earned a multi-year contract extension on his current deal that runs through the 2027 season. The extension was finalized following this week’s two-day Indianapolis 500 test. Ganassi never publicly discloses contract terms. The reward capped a celebratory week for Palou, who drove into Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the defending Indy 500 winner for testing and saw a larger-than-life banner of himself chugging the traditional winner’s milk. It’s the main banner as you enter the speedway — key placement he’d seen reserved for rival drivers the previous six years. “I took a picture when I was driving by and sent it to my parents,” Palou said. Palou has won four INDYCAR championships in five years, including the last three consecutive titles. He won eight times last season, including the 500, as he’s blossomed in INDYCAR since joining Ganassi in 2021. Ahead of the Long Beach Grand Prix two weeks ago, former Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi was asked if anything had surprised him through the first quarter of the season. His response was immediate: “Yeah, that Alex has only won two races. And isn’t the points leader.” Palou responded by winning Long Beach to give him three wins through five races this year and reclaim the top spot in the championship standings. “It’s incredible, actually amazing,” said rival driver Will Power, a two-time INDYCAR champion and Indianapolis 500 winner. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about the last week or so because, once again, he’s gone out and won three out of five races. I mean [Kyle] Kirkwood’s average finish is like three-point-something, and he’s not leading the championship, which is insane. “So it’s something I’m absolutely, like, how is he doing that week in, week out? Well, it’s one, he’s qualifying well. Two is he executes in the race and three is the pit stops, you know, top-notch, there’s no mistakes in there. And he’s fast. So that’s what it takes when you’re driving out there.” His 22 career victories through 103 starts ranks fifth in 121 years of INDYCAR history. Sebastien Bourdais won 31 times in that span in the diluted Champ Car era; A.J. Foyt won 30, Mario Andretti 27 and Ralph DePalma 26. Palou’s four titles already match Andretti and Bourdais, and in the post-World War II era, Palou’s 61 top-five finishes in his 103 starts trails only Andretti, who had 64. Dario Franchitti, a four-time INDYCAR champion and three-time Indy 500 winner, is now a driver coach and consultant for Ganassi. He believes there hasn’t been a driver this dominant in the series since Alex Zanardi, who won 12 races and back-to-back titles for Ganassi in 1997 and 1998. “Winning one championship is one thing, but then the subsequent ones, it gets progressively more difficult,” Franchitti said. “Just watching what he’s done, and at this early stage in his career, it’s something very special. And the level of domination, that’s the icing on the cake. “You feel sorry for the others. I’ve said to him a number of times, ‘I would have hated racing against you.’ He is the complete package.” At Long Beach last month, rival driver Pato O’Ward conceded his McLaren team has not closed the gap at all on Palou and the No. 10 Ganassi team. “The guy goes into every weekend being able to win. Honestly, it’s impressive to see,” O’Ward said. “The gap is as big as it’s been, and we’re working hard to try to be at the level he is of being able to win every race, but we don’t have that.” Connor Daly believes the domination is a combination of Palou’s flawless performances and the strength of his race team. “Alex is very good, but that team, when they’re called upon, they don’t make mistakes and that is what is so important about this game,” Daly said. “Everything has to be, everyone has to be on the same page, and he is, like without a doubt, one of the best drivers in the world right now.” Reporting by The Associated Press.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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Georgia-born country artist Austin Snell is expanding on his creativity and emotional songwriting with his new EP Colors, which finds him leaning into more honesty than ever before in his career.
The seven-song collection fittingly arrives at the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, an intentional detail that Snell says aligned naturally with the themes of mental health, family struggles, love, and personal growth that appear throughout the project. He previously tested the waters of sharing a deeper look into life with 2025’s Home Sweet Hell project and after seeing how well fans resonated with those vulnerable stories, he gained the confidence to dive even deeper.
Co-written entirely by Snell, Colors reflects the rising singer/songwriter’s more laid-back approach to his artistry, as he focuses on making the kind of music that matters most to him and letting the rawness of his stories truly connect with listeners before immediately jumping to find what’s next.
“I’ve reached this new place in life of just like, I’m going to write what I think is cool and I think sounds cool and I think is different and I’m excited about it,” he told Country Now. “If I’m excited about it, then I think that that’s all. I should be really focused on, as a creative or an artist, just making something that I resonate with, that I’m excited about and the rest will kind of just take care of itself.”
Snell has faced his fair share of ups and downs in his life, including the struggles he faced at home growing up and having to navigate his more recent chapter as a U.S. Air Force Veteran, now on a mission to bring his musical dreams to life. With Colors, Snell is turning that perspective into his most personal work yet, by opening the door to the stories and experiences that shaped him.
Ahead of the EP’s release, Snell broke down the inspiration behind the project, tapping into his vulnerable side and more.
What pushed you to open up so much with this project?
I think that it’s kind of based around the idea of mental health and the struggle of that. And I think that’s kind of just always been the through line for my music, it’s been what I wanted to do for a long time. And I think last year’s project, the Home Sweet Hell project just really made it seem okay for me to do that. It was probably the scariest time in my career so far, just putting this story out that I’ve never told before and I mean, never even spoke to anybody about really. And here I am putting this entire song out to the world to listen to it and judge it and hopefully resonate with it. So last year was the most difficult time and this year was just it being okay to do that. And I’ve really just been able to dive into not having any fearful thoughts of what I’m writing about and more so just writing it and knowing that people are going to listen and hear what I’m saying and resonate with it. So that’s always the goal is to have people relate to what you’re saying.
Was it intentional to align the release of this project with the start of Mental Health Awareness month?
Yeah, it was definitely intentional. It was kind of timing itself out to where it was going to be around this time period and it was just one of those God things of just like, Hey, we have these songs. Let’s make this project. Not only is this project already about mental health, but it’s timing itself out to be dropped during Mental Health Month. So I’m super huge in my faith and I think that things happen for a reason. And I think that this just is a God thing that presented itself. And I’m a believer in that when God tells you to do something, you do it. And I think that that’s kind of just why this has all happened. I’m not some huge mastermind and planned it all out like this, but it’s just kind of happened this way and I think it’s meant to be that way.
Talk about the song “Colors” and why that was the right title to use to sum up this collection.
Earlier this year is when we decided that this was going to be the entire essence of the project. And I wrote “Colors” last year with some good friends of mine, and it was really just essentially a love story. It’s a love song, and love songs are not something that I’ve done a lot of. And I feel like I do a lot of writing in the past versus the future and all this and that. And so I’m in love, I have a beautiful girlfriend, and we’ve been together for a while now, and she was starting to ask questions about not having any love songs. So I had to make something happen. And one of the things that we’ve grown closer to each other with is just the struggle of some of our upbringing. And both of us grew up in a household that wasn’t the healthiest and I think that can either drive people apart or make somebody closer to another person, and it’s done that for us. So that’s kind of just the whole idea of that song, it’s just a song for her. And it’s the being okay with sharing all the parts of you, because it’s a scary thing. It’s especially scary in a relationship and being scared to show this person that you spend a lot of your time with, parts of you that you are not the most proud of. And it’s a super just heavy idea in a relationship. And I think it’s a healthy thing to do. So that’s kind of what it’s about.
The topic of family is something you really open up about, especially in “Daddy’s Eyes.” Talk about your intentions behind putting this song out into the world.
I think that that song was probably one of the first songs off this project that I wrote, and that’s just what really sent me down the route of what this project was going to mean. Growing up, I didn’t grow up seeing my dad be the healthiest husband to my mom, and that’s just kind of the way it was. And I think I’ve taken a lot of that with me, and I was experiencing that as a super young child, around the age of nine, I think. I don’t think people, sometimes parents especially, understand that kids are like sponges, especially at that age. They’re processing everything and those are the first things that they experience is the way that their parents act towards each other. I remember just growing up, I’ve always had that thought in my mind and I didn’t ever know if it was going to be a song, but I would always grow up and people would mean it as a compliment and they would say, “You have your daddy’s eyes” or “you’re just like your dad,” or whatever, this and that. And I’ve always just viewed that as more of an insult than a compliment.
Taking that idea into the room with Tucker Beathard and Jimi Bell, it was two guys that loved to write stuff like that. And so they really helped me bring that to life and that thought to life. And I don’t think there’s anybody else in Nashville that could have wrote that song with me than those two. artist, you put out a song that you feel led to do for yourself, and that’s kind of one of those songs on the project.
Have you already started to see that honesty start to resonate with fans through what they’ve head across social media?
Absolutely, yeah. And that’s one of the coolest parts about being an artist is hearing other people’s stories. And it’s been, I mean, life-changing to play these shows even off the last project and hear people’s stories just based off of Home Sweet Hell and even songs in the past like “Excuse The Mess” and “Pray All The Way Home.” That’s one of the coolest things that artists can experience is to meet somebody and them tell you that a song that you wrote and put out is helping them through a season in life. And that’s what music always was for me, it was a way to escape where I was and what I was dealing with. So I’m super blessed and honored to be in that position. It’s definitely a weight to carry, but it’s a weight that I’m proud to try and carry.
Was there anything that you learned about yourself in the process of making this project?
I think I learned that there’s a lot more there than I thought there was. I’ve never been through therapy. I’ve never had a therapist, probably need one, but I’ve learned that there’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t come up unless you force it to. And I think that just goes to anybody that has been through anything. Your mind helps you forget about it or helps you push it down. I guess not forget about it, but push it down. And I just learned there’s a lot of things that I need to get out for myself, not only just for anybody else going through something, but there’s a lot of things that I need to say to help me get past a certain situation that I was going through. So that’s kind of been the biggest learning curve is just writing the things that you’re kind of scared to write about and you’ve pushed it down for so long that you don’t know how to write about it, I think has been the biggest thing that I’ve learned through all of it, for sure.
Thinking back to your debut album to now, how do you feel like your music has grown and changed in that time?
I think I’ve grown a lot. I think I’ve really dialed in on just being excited. I started my career in 2022, and at the time, I wrote “Excuse the Mess” and put it out, and that’s kind of what led to my publishing deal and my record deal and stuff like that. Up to that point, I’d only been in town writing songs for six months, and so I didn’t have a lot of time to really dial in on what I wanted to do. And once that all started, it was hard to be excited about a certain thing or always focused on what’s next or what the next project is going to sound like, or what show is coming up next, or what meeting or whatever it is…And I think this project has just really been a result of me just sitting in the moment and really just being excited about a piece of work and really just letting it live how it’s going to live regardless of, if it does really well, it does really well. I would be blessed for it too, and it would be awesome. But even if it, for whatever reason, doesn’t do well and people don’t, I did this because I think it’s cool and I think that’s a new headspace that I’ve been in and I’m super glad that I’ve reached that point. Not that anything in the past has been bad. I’m super proud of everything that I’ve done so far. It’s just sometimes really hard to be in the moment when releasing music because there’s always the thought of what’s coming after that. So that’s just been where it’s changed a lot for me.
You recently wrapped up the Home Sweet Hell Tour. How did that run go for you?
It started last year around October is when we started that tour after the project, and that was a chapter in my life and the shows were great. And so I’m really just excited to dive deeper into what that brought to the people and just continue to put out more music and continue to try and be creative and do something different. And I think that we’ll see. We’re definitely playing a lot more shows and planning on playing a bunch more in the fall and doing a headline thing in the fall. So I’m just always excited to see these songs take a new life in a live setting.
Fans can keep up with Austin Snell on Instagram.
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Slipping a letter pleading for help into the path of someone who can help sounds like a tense moment from a suspenseful movie.
According to one woman, she lived that experience when she worked as a housekeeper for Kylie Jenner.
Unfortunately, it did not lead to her rescue. She says that her plight grew worse.
And she’s the second housekeeper to sue the makeup mogul in the space of a week.
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A second housekeeper has filed a lawsuit against the makeup mogul, alleging that she suffered cruel and unusual treatment under her employ.
Juana Delgado Soto is suing Kylie, staff supervisor Itzel Sibrian, Tri Star Services, and La Maison Family Services.
Her lawsuit includes allegations of racial discrimination, harassment, failure to pay wages, failure to prevent or remedy harassment and discrimination.
According to court filings obtained by The Los Angeles Times, Soto began working for Kylie in May of 2019.
From the start, it sounds like a miserable ordeal.
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— Subtil Secret (@subtilsecret.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Soto alleges that, for the first few years of the job, her supervisor withheld meal breaks and rest breaks from her.
In 2023, when Sibrian became her direct supervisor, she alleges that the situation escalated.
In 2024, she filed a complaint with HR — after an incident in which Sibrian allegedly mocked and humiliated her for her accent, her race, and her immigration status.
During the incident, Sibrian allegedly called her stupid and ridiculed her accent.
Because of the complaint, Sibrian was reportedly removed — but only temporarily. After Sibrian’s reinstatement, an alleged campaign of retaliation began.
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#boobs #bikini #pool #thong— NoKingsWrld (@nokingswrld.bsky.social) December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In alleged retaliation for the HR report, Soto says, Sibrian reduced her hourly wage, assigned unreasonable workloads, and changed her schedule.
Her filing cites one incident in which she was preparing to leave work when Sibrian insisted that she stay late or risk losing her job. She ended up missing her own surprise party.
“No one cares about your birthday,” Sibrian allegedly told her. “Kylie is having dinner.”
In late 2024, new housekeepers assumed leadership roles. Soto alleges that she was denied adequate time off after the sudden death of her brother.
Even while working amidst her grief, she claims that staff members “whispered” that she was “lying about her brother’s death and kept forcing her to pick up trash they purposely threw on the ground.”
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— Subtil Secret (@subtilsecret.bsky.social) April 29, 2026 at 2:31 AM
According to the court filing, Soto slipped a letter to Kylie onto the makeup mogul’s massage table just before her massage.
I need to express just how terribly I am mentally abused” she reportedly wrote, detailing the alleged wrongdoings.
“I really apologize for letting you know about all these situations,” Soto says that she expressed. “I know you wouldn’t allow this to happen, if you were aware of it.”
Her rescue did not come. Instead, the next day, Soto was allegedly informed that she should never attempt to contact Kylie again — threatened with termination, and told to avoid even catching a glimpse of her employer again.
Whether Kylie actually received the letter is unknown. But Soto is alleging labor law and employment law violations, and she is seeking an unspecified amount of punitive and compensatory damages.
Kylie Jenner Sued by Second Housekeeper After Alleged Harassment & Retaliation was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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May 1, 2026, marks the 60th day of Operation Epic Fury in Iran – a symbolically significant date designating when a president who has mounted unilateral military operations must receive Congressional approval or wind it down.
However, the complex history of the War Powers Resolution clock demonstrates it is a toothless milestone.
The Trump administration signaled on April 30, 2026, that it would ignore that deadline, set by the War Powers Resolution. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that “we are in a cease-fire right now, which my understanding is that the 60-day clock pauses or stops in a cease-fire. That’s our understanding, so you know.”
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a Democrat, responded that the 60-day threshold poses a “legal question” and “constitutional concerns.”
This is not the first time presidents and members of Congress have sparred on the meaning of the War Powers Resolution. What happens next will play out through regular politics, because the conflict is not a matter of simple legal interpretation.
In the U.S. Constitution, Congress and the president share war powers.
In the shadow of political struggles in the final years of the Vietnam War, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973 to “insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities.”
A crucial section of the resolution reasserts legislators’ role, and makes clear that the constitutional power of the president to make war is subject to, or exercised with, the following conditions: a Congressional declaration of war; specific statutory authorization; or a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions or its armed forces.
For new military campaigns that do not meet these criteria, the resolution included a 60-day clock that begins when a president reports the action to congressional leadership within 48 hours of the action beginning.
The clock can be expanded to up to 90 days upon presidential determination and certification of “unavoidable military necessity respecting the safety of United States Armed Forces” related to removal of troops.
After 60 to 90 days, the resolution originally said this type of unilateral military action would be terminated automatically unless both chambers of Congress approved some form of legislative authorization.
Congress could also choose to terminate an unauthorized military operation any time before the 60 days with a concurrent resolution, which doesn’t require a president’s signature – essentially, a “legislative veto.”
And to make sure the president couldn’t stretch the definition of congressional approval, the resolution said neither existing treaties nor new budget appropriations could substitute for legislative authorization of a military action.
Since 1973, actions by all three branches across a variety of political and policy landscapes have undermined its intents and procedures.
In 1983, the Supreme Court declared various kinds of legislative vetoes unconstitutional, which led Congress to reinterpret its War Powers Resolution procedures and powers and effectively amend its processes to expedite any joint resolution or bill that “requires the removal of U.S. armed forces from hostilities outside the United States.”
Now, if members want to stop a presidential military campaign already in progress, they must act affirmatively and pass a disapproval resolution, which a president could veto like any other bill. Congress has sent only one such disapproval – to President Donald Trump in his first term – which he vetoed. Congress did not have the two-thirds required in the Constitution to override.
Both chambers of Congress now have to vote twice, once to disapprove a military action and then again to overcome a likely veto, to stop something it never approved in the first place.
The 60-day mark for the current Iran operation has therefore loomed as more of a politically charged symbol of this longstanding imbalance on war powers than a real deadline for action by either branch.
The House and Senate have tried to pass legislation to stop military operations against Iran six times since operations began. All attempts have failed, including the most recent vote on April 30. Democrats are considering filing suit against President Trump if operations go beyond 60 days without authorization.
Yet federal courts have long expressed disinterest in getting involved in constitutional questions related to the War Powers Resolution, especially if members of Congress are the plaintiffs.
Although most presidents from Richard Nixon onward have claimed that the War Powers Resolution is an unconstitutional check on their institutional powers, they usually filed the required reports on new military actions 48 hours after they began.
While the current Iran conflict is different in many ways, presidential unilateralism, inconclusive chamber actions and even member lawsuits all echo controversies over U.S. military action in Kosovo in 1999 and Libya in 2011.
Operation Epic Fury against Iran began Feb. 28, 2026, and President Trump sent the required report to Congress on March 2, 2026.
After detailing the rationale for military action, Trump added “Although the United States desires a quick and enduring peace, it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary.”
He concluded the memo with his interpretation of constitutional power to act unilaterally.
“I directed this military action consistent with my
responsibility to protect Americans and United States interests both at home and abroad and in furtherance of United States national security and foreign policy interests,” the president wrote. He acted, he said, “pursuant to my constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive to conduct United States foreign relations.” He said he made the report “consistent with the War Powers Resolution. I appreciate the support of the Congress in these actions.”
Similarly, on March 26, 1999, President Bill Clinton sent a War Powers Resolution letter explaining his decision two days earlier to take part in a NATO-led operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, known as FRY.
Clinton wrote to Congress using mostly the same words and phrases Trump did in his 2026 letter. Clinton also said that he took the action “in response to the FRY government’s continued campaign of violence and repression against the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo.”
Clinton explained his authority in virtually the same language as Trump and, like Trump, said it was hard to predict how long the operations would continue.
The House and Senate repeatedly failed to either approve or disapprove of Clinton’s actions through a series of votes across March and April 1999. But lawmakers did send him supplemental appropriations for the operations in May.
NATO suspended the operation after 78 days. Almost a year later, a federal appellate court upheld a district court’s decision rejecting a lawsuit led by Rep. Tom Campbell, a California Republican, alleging Clinton violated the War Powers Resolution. Rather than deciding on the merits, the decision rejected the lawmakers’ claims of injury as not reviewable by the court.
In a very different context, a similar rhythm played out during President Barack Obama’s presidency.
During the “Arab Spring” revolts of 2010-2011, the U.N. Security Council passed two resolutions condemning violence against Libyan civilians by security forces under the direction of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.
On March 21, 2011, two days after NATO operations began against Gadhafi’s forces, which included American air support, Obama sent his War Powers Resolution letter to the Republican House and Democratic Senate. Obama had not received prior legislative authority from Congress.
Obama’s letter included language almost identical to Clinton’s earlier letter and Trump’s later one.
As with Kosovo, the House and Senate did not ultimately agree to either approve or disapprove of the president’s actions in support of the UN and NATO over the operation’s 222 days. In addition, Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio led a group of mostly Republican House members in a failed War Powers Resolution lawsuit to stop the president.
The Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice has published legal opinions that explain and defend presidential war powers, including with Kosovo and Libya. In December 2025, that office published a memo defending the imminent January 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro. On April 21, 2026, the State Department published a defense of ongoing U.S. actions in Iran.
Within the current dynamics of the War Powers Resolution, until Congress musters bipartisan supermajorities to connect its own institutional ambition with constitutional power, presidents from either party will decide alone if, and when, the country goes to war. Instead of Congress, presidents may heed public opinion and economic indicators, especially in election years.
Jasmine Farrier is affiliated with the American Political Science Association.
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Josh Duggar has been behind bars since 2021, and he’s not scheduled for release until 2032.
Josh’s release date keeps getting pushed back due to his bad behavior behind bars, and cousin Amy Duggar claims that he’s currently being held in solitary confinement.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that Josh is still allowed to make contact with the outside world.
And a newly revealed prison email from Josh to wife Anna Duggar tells us more about their marriage than we ever wanted to know.
“Okay so wow! WOWOWOW! I just got your 4 photo collage,” he wrote Anna in June 2022 (via Radar Online), adding:
“THE PICS ARE SUPER HOT AND YOU LOOK STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS. YOU ARE SOOOO CUTE! THANK YOU FOR SENDING! YOU ARE SOOOO PRECIOUS!”
“It’s so much fun to get those — wow you are sexy!” Josh ranted on.
“Thank you for sharing with me, it means a lot to hear your heart! Thank you for the super sexy photos too cutie! xoxo.”
You get the idea. It seems that Anna also offered some updates on her life in her latest email, but Josh was primarily fixated on her pics.
He also implored her to figure out how to continue sending pics once he arrives at his new home with “the feds,” aka Seagoville Federal Correctional Facility in Texas.
In other newly revealed emails, Josh lashed out at his parents and accused them of hypocrisy.
“You continue to talk about how you forgive others and try not to be bitter, yet you constantly are putting me down,” Josh wrote.
“Not just this situation, I’m talking years of it. Do you think it’s helping me? Does it help you? Does it help the ‘spirit’ of our family?
“When I try to bring this up, or ANY criticism of Pops and Mom, they immediately point to my bad choices in life and then defend themselves. REALLY? You accuse Anna of doing this most of the time and you call her the ‘most bitter person you know’ etc.”
On Reddit, many commenters noted that Anna, who is now raising seven kids on her own, has every right to be bitter.
These days, Josh is desperately appealing his sentence every chance he gets. But it still seems unlikely that he’ll be released this decade.
So maybe the 2020s aren’t such a hellscape after all!
Josh Duggar Begs Wife For ‘Sexy’ Pics In Bizarre Prison Email was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Fans and detractors alike seem to be asking the same question:
Is Olivia Wilde okay?
A recent video — alongside other recent glimpses at the actress — has people mixing body-shaming, concern trolling, and old-fashioned worry.
Other fans are rushing to her defense, saying that she’s doing just fine.
In late April, Wilde stopped to chat with SFGate for quick red carpet interview.
The 42-year-old actor and director was there for the San Fransisco International Film Festival.
Specifically, she was promoting The Invite, her newest film.
Unfortunately, much of the focus on social media had nothing to do with her creative works.
Instead, the attention fell upon her appearance.
To say that she looked “slimmer than usual” would arguably be to miss the point of much of the discussion.
Wilde has always been a strikingly beautiful actress.
While that is still the case, her facial features appear to be both exaggerated and, some argue, sunken.
Her famously prominent cheekbones stand out even more than usual, which is saying a lot.
Is she sick? Is this the result of some sort of ill-advised cosmetic change? Or are people being concern-trolls just to give a famous woman a hard time?
When a flurry of commenters across social media criticized or expressed worry about Wilde’s appearance, some took that as an insult.
A number of fans have expressed the belief that lighting, angles, and unflattering lighting were at play.
(That actually seems likely.)
Others have pointed out that Wilde’s other recent appearances — including photos that she herself has shared to social media — display similar features.
(We cannot dispute that, either.)
Ultimately, we do not know if this is natural aging, illness, or something else.
We do know that online discourse is almost never careful.
Yes, every now and then, a celebrity will admit that social media feedback got them to see a dermatologist about an urgent issue, or helped them to kick a bad habit.
The vast majority of the time, it looks and sounds like body-shaming — no matter the intention. The comments do not help, and could even cause someone to double down.
As a society, we need to feel less entitled to “worry” about someone’s looks. If Wilde is getting this kind of chatter, what chances to the rest of us have?
Olivia Wilde Worries Fans With ‘Gaunt’ Appearance: Is She Okay? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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