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Shannon Bradley-Colleary

Shannon Bradley-Colleary blogs at The Woman Formerly Known As Beautiful. She's also a contributing blogger on The Huffington Post. Her posts have landed her on The Today Show, NPR, CNN, Raising America with Kyra Phillips, Fox11News and more. She's been published in The DailyMail Online, Babble, Blogher and MomsLA. Her book, Into The Child: 40 Weeks in the Gestational Wilderness was named one of the Top 100 Indie Books of 2012 by the Kirkus Review. Her book, Smash, Crash and Burn: Tales From The Edge Of Celebrity, details her life as an L.A. Wacktress (waiter/actress) in the early 90s; including her relationship with Brandon Bruce Lee and a her tête-à-tête with David Schwimmer. She kisses and tells. Shannon is thrilled to be a monthly columnist on Midlife Boulevard.

I’m vanquishing bad habits and losing weight. Because I was such a Skinny Minnie who could eat anything I wanted until I turned about 40, it’s been tough for me to change my lifelong habits of snarfing anything sweet, cheesy and gluten-laden I can find lying around. I’m pretty good about exercising, but diet has …

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I’m obsessed with Scandal.   Yes. I know. I’m coming (pun intended) to the Oliva Pope/President Fitzgerald party waaaaaay late. But I’ve come to the party with a vengeance. I’ve managed to watch all 37 episodes that have aired to date in the last month. I forgot to brush and floss, make kids’ lunches, take my …

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A couple of weeks ago I was at an event with a dear friend of mine who, at twenty-eight, could be my daughter. And I would not have been a teen mother. Somehow, as is common por moi, the conversation drifted to the topic of married sex. It might have been the Acai berry sangria …

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