About Me

I'm a writer with a passion for pop culture, trending news and lifestyle journalism. 

As a Life and Trends Reporter at Newsweek, I spend my days writing about the weird and wonderful things I find around the web, as well as a range of lifestyle and cultural topics.

In my spare time I try (and fail) at yoga, have logged an embarrassing number of hours on The Sims, watch bad true crime documentaries and forget to water the flowers on my Animal Crossing Island.

My Latest Work

The Seven Shocking Facts You Never Knew About Barbie

Since her debut in 1959, Barbara Millicent Roberts has courted controversy. Created by a forward-thinking businesswoman Ruth Handler, Barbie's full-figure and impressive resume made her a different kind of doll for changing times—something that mothers and even Mattel executives struggled to appreciate.

The co-founder of Mattel Inc, in her autobiography Handler said that Barbie was designed to show "a little girl could be anything she wanted to be." However, over the years Barbie has become syn

Two professional mermaids reveal how they get paid to live like Ariel

If you once dreamt of being Ariel in The Little Mermaid, or spent half your childhood messing about underwater, you're not alone. But these two performers have made the fantasy a reality, traveling across the U.S. to work as professional mermaids.

"I love giving people, young and old, a magical memory," Caroline Don—also known as Mermaid Lorelei—told Newsweek. "It makes my heart soar."

The Palm Beach resident, 30, is a freelance graphic designer and artist (@ladyelora) by day, but her side gig

"I legally changed my name to Wednesday Adams"

Since its release on November 23, Netflix's Wednesday has broken viewing records, becoming the streamer's third most-watched English language show ever.

Everyone's favorite goth teen has taken over the internet in the last two weeks, with fans poring over behind-the-scenes snaps and anxiously awaiting any news of season two.

Although viewers everywhere are feeling the love for Wednesday right now, one woman has legally changed her name to match the iconic character.

Born Charlotte, Wednesday

Meet the women who build houses on 'The Sims 4' for a living

Since its release in 2000, The Sims has allowed players to live out their wildest fantasies. Want to have sex with the Grim Reaper? Go for it. Live on a vacant lot and make jelly all day? You do you.

Along with managing every aspect of their fictional character's life, users can also build their perfect home (with a little help from the "motherlode" money cheat)—whether that's a cute bungalow in the suburbs or a Japanese Minka with a customized pagoda roof.

Well, Kate Scamman has made every si

'Cabinet of Curiosities': Lotion lady in 'The Outside' is actually real

What's creepier than the lotion lady in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities? The fact that it's 100 percent real.

The episode that made periwinkle and peptides the stuff of nightmares, "The Outside" stars Kate Micucci (actress and one half of comedy music duo Garfunkel and Oates) as a frumpy bank teller whose attempts to fit in at work end in murder.

Although Cabinet of Curiosities' fourth episode contained a violent ax attack and a scalpel to the forehead, it was the freaky lotion lad

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