Photos: The girl with 16 inch waist

Model Kelly Lee Dekay went to extreme lengths to get an hourglass figure with

7 years continued use of bone corset which slimmed her waist down to a tiny 16 inches.

Dekay, 27, says she was a tomboy growing up, but accentuated her curves as a way to emulate her favourite female comic book characters, like Storm.

"I have no interest in doing anything smaller than 16 because I really love the ratio and I'm more than satisfied," she says.

Two human skulls, a jawbone, and several books on Satan and witchcraft found in Connecticut

Police in Connecticut are investigating the discovery of two human skulls found at a dump on Thursday.
An employee at the Stamford Refuse Transfer Station reportedly found two human skulls, a jawbone, and several books on Satan and witchcraft while sifting through trash.
It was initially thought to be a Halloween prank, but the medical examiner's office confirmed that the skulls are human.

Police in Connecticut are investigating.... "We've got some homework to do to find out where they came from and how they got to Stamford," Lieutenant Diedrich Hohn of the Stamford Police told the Hartford Courant.

Police want to determine a cause of death to see if they can track down where the skulls came from.
The Hartford Courant reports that human skulls can be bought on the black market or online from medical supply houses, but there's also the possibility that the bones could have been taken from a grave.



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Halle Berry unveils her own Lingerie line

Halle Berry is branching off into lingerie fashion venture of her own. She is teaming up with 80-year-old French intimates brand 'Scandale Paris' for a 10-piece collection ranging from $7 for underwear to $18 for bras. The line is available at Target.
Shop the Scandale Paris collection in select Target stores and at target.com.



Read Halle Berry's interview with Essence:

ESSENCE.com: Why Target? It's very affordable.  It's for the everyday woman. Why that brand?
HALLE BERRY: That's why, because I have over the years liked some amazing pieces of lingerie.  They were a small fortune, and most of them given to me because I refuse to pay $200 for a bra, but companies have sent them to me and I've enjoyed them.  I thought this is great that somebody sent to me, but can real women really go and spend $200 on one bra?  It never quite made sense.
But I love lingerie, and like I said in the top, I have friends that wear the same $200 bra until it falls apart, and I thought something's not right here.  If you can partner with Target, and you manufacture with La Perla because he knows how to do it, if he can make a quality product and we can sell it for $16 at Target, and it's something that's on the level of any great product, it's not going to fall apart, that's quality, and I thought that's a win for us and it's a win for the consumer because they can have a collection of bras now.  You don’t have to wear one until it falls apart, you can wear a different one everyday and you haven't broken your bank. 
   
That for me was really important to offer that to women. 

ESSENCE.com: Is this only going to be sold at Target?
BERRY: It's only going to be sold in Target, it's just we're starting sort of small with our signature collection, and then we're going to roll it out.  We're starting in some of their bigger stores to launch, and then we'll go out into all the smaller stores with more.  As we'll roll into the spring with a whole spring line that's a different colour way than these colours are.  Then we'll have a different collection for summer, then a different collection for fall.  Then we'll go in with different styles then what's standing, trying to be seasonal at the same time. 

ESSENCE.com: Was this lingerie line developed at home?
BERRY: Yes.  Being married to him, honestly, he has held me to a standard because he's from there (Paris) and so he's very picky about, you know, if I don’t have on something quite right he's like, "What's this?" Okay. It's that time of the month so I chose some red.  In three days, I'll be back.  He holds me to it, and that's nice.  It's nice to have a man that notices and cares.

ESSENCE.com: And appreciates it.
BERRY: ...and appreciates it, yes, and appreciates it.

ESSENCE.com: Will Molly Woods be wearing Scandale next season?
BERRY: Of course.  Of course.

ESSENCE.com: Are there any plans to partner with the show Scandal?
BERRY: Not right now, but, you know, if it's a good thing who knows?

ESSENCE.com: What do you say to women who stop wearing lacy, gorgeous underwear and feel there’s no reason to pay attention to that?
BERRY: Many women do that when they have children.  They become moms, and they lose their mojo.  They lose their sexy, they lose their femininity, they lose their womanhood because they reduce themselves to moms.  Not that it's a reduction, but we're moms, but we're every other thing.  We're women, too.  We're entrepreneurs, we're career women, and we're moms.  Moms might be our greatest role, but all these other roles have agency too.  We can't forget that. I think our partners love us for not forgetting that we're not just moms. 

ESSENCE.com: We appreciate that you're not a 22 year-old Victoria's Secret model walking around like that.  We love that you're still selling a really sexy product that's great for mature women.  It sends a nice message.
BERRY: Our bras, too, fit women that are not Victoria's Secret skinniness.  Our line is going to go up to G size so it's going to be for women of all bodies and shapes.


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Willow Smith turns 14!

Happy birthday Willow Smith!

Scorned woman, Mercy Ogbedo ordered to pay her billionaire ex Moses Taiga the sum of £100k

Photo:Mercy Ogbedo at court. Right, his third wife Yinka

Mrs Ogbedo, 45, of Finchley, who went through a lavish wedding to Nigerian shipping magnate Moses Taiga in 2002 and has two children by him, says it was only later that she discovered her husband already had a wife from Benin.

For more than a 10 years she has petitioned UK divorce courts for financial support from Moses Taiga. But instead, a judge ruled that, despite her being “of limited means”, she would not be awarded any maintenance from Mr Taiga and she was ordered to pay an estimated £100,000 towards his legal bills.

Challenging that court ruling, her barrister Timothy Scott, QC, said the lavish 2002 ceremony “duped” her into thinking she was a lawfully wedded wife. He said that soon after her wedding she found that in 1974 Mr Taiga wed at an Anglican church in neighbouring Benin. “She ought to be permitted to apply for financial relief in Eng- land by virtue of that ceremony,” he said.

Mr Scott added that although more than one wife is permitted in Nigeria, Mr Taiga’s 1974 church wedding invalidated the 2002 marriage. However, a Nigerian court found the 2002 ceremony was not just invalid but a “non-marriage”.
The Appeal Court refused to overturn the judgment but she was granted permission to appeal against the legal costs bill.
Mr Taiga has ended his 1974 marriage and has wedded a third woman, Yinka with whom he has quadruplets.

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