Gina Riley - Treated for Breast Cancer

Kath & Kim co-creator and star, Gina Riley, has made public that she has been treated for Breast Cancer. 

The 51 year old detected the cancer after a mammogram and ultrasound, however, no bump was found. Riley was diagnosed before Christmas and has since had the cancer removed.

Riley, who gets yearly breast checks, has said, 

"The cancer has been found early and is treatable and for that I feel lucky and grateful. I am being looked after by an amazing medical team."

The star has also encouraged others to go and get their breasts checked, 

"So ladies, get your breasts checked out. Preferably by a health professional."

Stars announcing that they have breast cancer generally has a positive outcome. 

Previous ladies to announce they have the cancer, such as Kylie Minogue in May 2005 and Kerri-Anne 

Kennerley in June last year, resulted in a spike in women going to get screened.

After Kerri-Anne announced her cancer BreastScreen Victoria, which usually receives about 1200 calls a day, had 3750 appointments for mammograms made in the following two days. 

Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, saw the same thing happen the week after Kylie announced her cancer.

Reporting that there was a 40% increases in average weekly BreastScreen booking across 4 states the week after the announcement.

Rachel x

Valentine's Day.

So it's February 14th again. All the single ladies are crying and maybe even some relationship gals are crying too because their tight ass boyfriends won't give in to consumerism to declare their love. 

Melbourne Cup

So that's it for another year of the Melbourne Cup. And because I know your all sooo interested I've got  a round up of the celebrity fashion for the day. So if you missed all the fashion due to work, prior commitments, too busy getting blind drunk and blowing all your money at a pub (in which case your probably still there) here it is!

To start we have the turban wearing Jesinta Campbell. Now I could probably make some crude joke about Jesinta's choice of headpiece, but I actually like it. I think the colour is great with the white dress. It's a little bit different and I definitely prefer this to some of the hideous feathers that were sticking out of some ladies heads. So kudos to you Jesinta.

5 Reasons Why the Amish are Lovely

5 Reasons Why the Amish are Lovely

“You May think us Amish are strange folk with our buggies, beards and barnyards”

SBS’s new heart warming reality show ‘Living with the Amish,’ offers an insight into the notoriously secluded Amish society. The program is atypical of the Amish community and was created to elucidate the advantages of living a pure and simple life. In fact, the show reminded me of Paris Hiltons idiotic show, ‘The Simple Life.’ Fortunately, ‘Living with the Amish’ has less psychopathic rich losers and lovelier, down-to-earth Amish folk. Although Amish culture is very strict about most things, rules and regulations brings everybody together with a sense of community. Writing this blog made me feel like a ‘reserved hippy,’ but at the same time, it did make me stop and think about what life is all about and how a few rules can actually inspire people to become an individual without superficial things like clothes.

1.           Bowl cuts look good?

There is something about that bowl-cut, fresh from the field look the Amish men have perfected.