If you have aspirations of modeling, one way to get noticed is submitting your photos to a magazine. Many photographers will sell you on them submitting your photos to magazines and thats great however the reality is anyone can submit photos. Each magazine works differently and not every magazine runs user submitted images. Many magazines have staff photographers and more of then not, they are the ones who will do the bulk of the shoots because they are on a salary.

If you want to be published in a specific magazine, you should shoot with photographers who get published. Your chances of being in a magazine increase when you shoot with a photographer who is published in that particular magazine.

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Do you ever feel guilty for doing something for yourself, no matter how big or small it is? I do. Its actually something Im constantly working on, and Im pretty sure Im not the only one. I can tell when other moms are struggling with mom guilt, and you probably can, too. You know, theyre the ones you see standing in the coffee aisle, looking longingly at the flavored specialty coffees. Some even reach out and grab one of those little bags that hold enough to make a single, indulgent pot. But then, as they start to walk away, they turn around and put it back with a shrug of the shoulders. Maybe next time?

Its a common condition that mothers share: selflessness.

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Heres part two of the interview I conducted with Jonathan Bailor, author of The Smarter Science of Slim.

Fat Head: Based on your definitions of SANE and inSANE foods, what are the three worst foods you see people typically consume?

Jonathan: 1. Any beverage with a high concentration of sugar or high-fructose corn syrup (e.g., regular soda) 2. Foods full of processed starch combined with sugar (e.g., cakes, pies, snack cakes, doughnuts, etc.) 3.

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A true California girl, 33-year-old Noel Lopez-Freeman grew up in the sun.

She lived in Los Angeles for most of her life before relocating with her husband Roberto Lopez-Freeman, MD, to Cincinnati in 2008 for his emergency medicine residency.  “I can’t even attempt to estimate how many severe sunburns I experienced as a child,” she recalls. “Despite having faithfully received annual skin cancer checks since my late teens, I never really thought I would get skin cancer, at the very least, not melanoma.”  In the fall of 2011, after getting a “shoddy skin cancer check,” she decided to get a second opinion with UC Health Dermatology. Lopez-Freeman was concerned about skin pigmentation changes and a new mole that developed following her recent pregnancy.   “The m

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