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21 Hardships Only Adult One Direction Fans Understand

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Youth is wasted on the young.

You clear your adult social calendar for a week to emotionally prepare for video premieres.

Worth. It.

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Everyone asks who you're chaperoning when you go to their concerts.

Everyone asks who you're chaperoning when you go to their concerts.

My heart. I'm chaperoning my heart.

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You've Googled the age of consent in your home state and the UK.

You've Googled the age of consent in your home state and the UK.

Just because it's legal don't make it right.

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You want to tell Harry cautionary tales every time he gets a new tattoo.

You want to tell Harry cautionary tales every time he gets a new tattoo.

I know, Harry. It's just so permanent.

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This Teenage Avril Lavigne Lookalike Wishes She "Didn't Have Sex With You"

A Dad Who Tied A Motorcycle To A Rope Swing Is Living The Dream

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Imagine A Remake Of The Movie "Big" With Evan Rachel Wood And Darren Criss

The Secret To Nicole Richie's Success

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After being thrust into the spotlight thanks to reality TV and tabloid journalism, the 33-year-old entrepreneur took her career into her own hands. Here’s how Richie crafted a brand of which she could be proud.

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Nicole Richie casually dropped many pieces of advice over the course of an hour-long interview: Don't work with friends. Never stop stimulating your brain. Make your knees touch your elbows. But only one guiding principal has come to define how she approaches every single facet of her life: Celebrate all the things that make you unique.

Richie used that mantra to amass 4.6 million Twitter followers and 2.6 million Instagram followers, and those fans have helped her become a New York Times best-selling author (for 2005's The Truth About Diamonds), an accomplished designer (her two fashion lines, House of Harlow and Winter Kate, are critical and commercial hits), and a TV star (Candidly Nicole is a multi-platform success with webisodes running on AOL and expanded versions airing on VH1).

As the face of and brain behind an ever-expanding empire, the Nicole Richie of today is a far cry from the rich girl that audiences first met in 2003 when Fox's The Simple Life debuted. While the sense of humor that endeared her to the nation is still firmly intact, a newfound poise and confidence have smoothed the frayed edges of her youth.

"There's two sides of me," Richie told BuzzFeed News. "When I'm in a creative space, there are times where I have to be free and want what I want. Then there's creative directing and there's price points and so many different things to think about. That's when I have to be the head of this brand and understand and say, 'OK, now we have to fit this into this.'"

It was a difficult balancing act for Richie to master. "I've always been told, it's a pattern in my life, that I'm not a head person — and that's OK, not everybody is," Richie said, sitting outside on the patio of the Tower Bar at the Sunset Tower hotel in Los Angeles. "I'm not a person of logistics. I'm somebody who is led by my heart. I dress according to my mood; I did Candidly Nicole because I wanted to learn; House of Harlow really celebrates individuality, and I feel like there are so many other people, like me, who are led by their emotions."

"The goal is not to have the entire world follow my every word, because I'm not even saying I know everything about everything," she continued. "I'm actually saying that I have no idea and if you want to take this journey with me, let's go. For me, it's about the experience of learning and growing, and that's just been me my entire life."

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It's a life that has played out — almost in real time — in the public eye, as Richie, born in 1981, was raised by singer Lionel Richie and Brenda Harvey. But the number of cameras trained on her significantly increased in 2003 when Richie co-starred with her then-best friend Paris Hilton on Fox's The Simple Life, a massively popular reality show that turned both women into household names — and the targets of tabloid scrutiny.

"When I started doing The Simple Life, it was a very different time in my life," Richie said, not wistfully, but also not proudly either. "I was so young, I was fresh out of rehab, and I did this show when the only other reality shows out there were The Real World and The Osbournes. That was it. There was no precedent. There was no 'This is how you're supposed to do it' or 'This is what it could become.' I definitely did not expect there would be a Season 2, let alone a Season 5."

The show's popularity dovetailed perfectly with the resurgence of America's tabloid culture and turned Richie, Hilton, and their "celebutante" cohorts into the kind of cover girls that no one actually strives to become. Of that time, Richie said, "It was more about me being awake and stepping into adulthood. I think, like any 21-year-old, that's when you decide, 'OK, this is how I'm going to set up my life and this is what I want out of life,' and there are bumps in the road, but to me it feels very age-appropriate."

But now, almost a decade after The Simple Life — and her association with Hilton — came to an end, Richie insisted that she has no regrets about how she rose to prominence. "If someone's telling some story about a night 15 years ago, yeah, I do [have regrets]," she said, with a laugh. "But overall, no, I don't. The point of figuring out what you're going to do with your life at a young age is to really grow and learn. The journey is more important than the destination for me, so I knew I had to set goals and have some work and others not but learn from those mistakes."

While many of her peers continued to wear their Swarovski crystal-encrusted celebutante crowns with pride for years, Richie set out to become more than a name: She wanted to become a brand — but conscientiously and on her own terms.

"I'm very careful about where I put my time and where I put my energy," she said, her knees cradled against her chest. "I've expanded House of Harlow much slower than I've often been asked to, by my partners and different people, but the reason I do that is because I want to put all of my time and all my heart into it. I focus on one thing and really perfect it and live in it and be there and expand on a very slow level."


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Punk Icon Viv Albertine Shares Her Greatest Style Moments

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The Slits guitarist’s new memoir, Clothes Clothes Clothes. Music Music Music. Boys Boys Boys., catalogs a life lived in style.

From 1978 to 1981, Viv Albertine was a part of the groundbreaking all-female punk band The Slits.

From 1978 to 1981, Viv Albertine was a part of the groundbreaking all-female punk band The Slits.

Which helped paved the way for later amazing all-girl bands, feminist-tinged pop, and Riot Grrl movements.

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The Slits, along with bands like the X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, and Blondie, added a vital female voice to the often male-dominated punk world.

The Slits, along with bands like the X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, and Blondie, added a vital female voice to the often male-dominated punk world.

Here's Viv (back row, center) with (clockwise from top left) Debbie Harry of Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pauline Black of The Selecter, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders.

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Fronted by 14-year-old dreadlocked spitfire Ari Up, The Slits released two albums in their short career: Cut and The Return of the Giant Slits.

Fronted by 14-year-old dreadlocked spitfire Ari Up, The Slits released two albums in their short career: Cut and The Return of the Giant Slits.

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You might be familiar with their incredible cover of Marvin Gaye's "Heard It Through the Grapevine."

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Jamie Oliver Fed His 12-Year-Old Daughter An Ultra-Hot Pepper As Punishment

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The celebrity chef reportedly tricked his daughter into eating a very spicy pepper by mixing it with her apple.

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Facebook: jamieoliver

At the recent BBC Good Food Show, Oliver reportedly said:

"Poppy was quite disrespectful and rude to me and she pushed her luck. In my day I would have got a bit of a telling-off but you are not allowed to do that.

Five minutes later she thought I had forgotten and I hadn't. She asked for an apple. I cut it up into several pieces and rubbed it with Scotch Bonnet and it worked a treat. She ran up to mum and said, 'This is peppery.' I was in the corner laughing."

He said his wife Jools told him, "Don't you ever do that again."


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14 Things All Holiday Babies Know To Be True

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Oh, the agony of a Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year’s/etc. birthday.

If your birthday is on a famous birthday holiday, it's never just about *you.*

If your birthday is on a famous birthday holiday, it's never just about *you.*

President's Day not quite as severe.

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And if your birthday is on Christmas Day, you might as well be invisible.

And if your birthday is on Christmas Day, you might as well be invisible.

Whether you celebrate Christmas yourself or not. It's EVERYWHERE.

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You've tried to get people you know to modify their holidays (just a little!!!!) to accommodate your birthday.

You've tried to get people you know to modify their holidays (just a little!!!!) to accommodate your birthday.

OK it'll be "Thanksgiving" ... but with pizza and birthday cake.

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If you express any resentment toward sharing celebrations with the holidays, you feel like a total monster.

If you express any resentment toward sharing celebrations with the holidays, you feel like a total monster.

"What if this year ... Halloween was JUST my birthday. Haha jk. :("

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What Beth From "The Walking Dead" Would Be Like In Real Life

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Emily Kinney dishes all about what Beth would be doing if she wasn’t living in a zombie apocalypse.

We don't know a ton about Beth Greene's life before the zombie apocalypse broke out on The Walking Dead. So when Emily Kinney stopped by BuzzFeed NY, we got her to give us the deets on all of the important things like, what would her Twitter handle be, and what's her Chipotle order?

Read on to get to know your favorite Greene sister, and tune in to The Walking Dead on AMC every Sunday at 8/7c.

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My Lifelong Obsession With Pokémon Has Thrown Me Into Existential Despair

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Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are delightfully familiar. Not just because they’re great games, but because they STILL don’t address a million basic questions, like why nobody ever poops.

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Courtesy Nintendo

What self-respecting parent lets their 12-year-old take off around the world just because their weirdo new neighbor needs some help with a research project?

For that matter, what PhD program allows its graduates to primarily rely on the labor of tweens?

Do my Pokémon know that I named them all after Gilmore Girls characters and fast-food restaurants?

If so, do they care?


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24 Reasons Why It's Time To Stop Taking Pictures With iPads

The Day I Stopped Believing In God

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How learning about death changed everything.

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One day when I was 9 years old, I walked through my hometown wearing a white cotton T-shirt, handmade polyester pants meant to look like real jeans, and North Star runners. Everything felt good. I wasn't wearing socks or underwear. I couldn't feel any of my clothing. Nothing bothered me. I felt weightless, like I could walk forever, like I was a natural element, like wind, something that had always existed and always would. I didn't feel anything but the sunshine on my skin and pure joy, pure confidence in myself and in my world. I can't remember what happened that day before I started walking around town or why I felt so free. I just remember thinking everything was perfect, everything in life was perfect, and I fully belonged in the world, in that town, in those clothes, in my body.

By the end of the day I would stop believing in God but I didn't know it at the time.

At first I walked with my uncle Edward. He was very tall and had red hair. I had bumped into him by the feed mill. I was climbing down from the top of it and he was watching me with one hand on his hip and the other shielding his eyes from the sun because he was afraid I'd fall. A teenager had fallen from it, he said, and was paralyzed for life. He told me he was a "good man." He said it in German. That meant he'd been appointed by the church to help out a widow in town. He had to do good things for her, he said, fix things and help her budget her money.

I asked him what a widow was. I told him I'd never get married and he laughed.

"Do you want to bet?" he said.

I shook his hand and said yes, a million bucks.

I said good-bye to him and walked to Main Street. I waved at a lot of people and they all waved back because we all knew each other. I walked into the funeral home and saw old people gathered around a small coffin. I knew there was a little boy in there. I went to have a look and I touched his arm. His mother was my mother's friend. When they came to visit I'd run and hide because I didn't want to have to play with him. I pressed hard on his arm with my finger but he didn't flinch.

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Sorry for running away when you came to my house with your mom.

I didn't say it out loud but I knew that he was an angel now and could hear everything. I looked at him until a woman gave me a popcorn ball from her purse and told me to eat it outside on the sidewalk.

I was on my way to the old folks home to sing for Grace. She was the reason why I was walking around town. My mother was trying to do housework and wanted me out of her hair. She told me to go sing for Grace, like usual. When I got to the old folks home, I had popcorn stuck in my hair because I had eaten it in the wind. I walked to Grace's room. I walked past very old people in chairs. A woman called me by my mother's name.

Do a cartwheel, she said.

I did three in a row in the long corridor and the woman shook her head and wiped her eyes.

Grace lay in her bed and looked dead. She didn't open her eyes the whole time I was singing. I sang "Children of the Heavenly Father." I got bored in the middle of a verse because she wasn't smiling or reacting at all so I stopped and flicked the light off and on in her room but she still didn't do anything. I left her room and thought about telling someone that Grace had died but I was suddenly afraid that I'd be blamed for it. I walked outside into the sunshine; I had been breathing through my mouth so I wouldn't have to smell things inside, and ran on the giant spools of electrical cable that were stored in the empty lot next to the old folks home. If I worked hard I could get them to move like giant logs, like a log-rolling competition, all over the lot.

A man drove up in his car and asked me to stop rolling the spools of cable. I was standing on one, high above him, and I smiled and said OK. I jumped down and kept walking. I walked to the farm on the edge of town and Frank Klassen was standing in the driveway talking to his friend, Harold. I asked them what was up and Frank said, "Stillborn calf this morning, not pretty." Harold put his engineer cap on my head. I picked up stones from the driveway and asked them why.

"It happens," said Frank.

I asked Harold if I could keep his hat and he said sure, why not? I kept walking.


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The Definitive Ranking Of The Parents On "Parenthood"

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Which of these characters would you trust with your kids?

Seth Holt (John Corbett)

Seth Holt (John Corbett)

Amber and Drew's father is an easy choice for the worst parent because he barely qualifies as one. He's long been in and out of his kids' lives (mostly out), and though he occasionally tries to be a dad, the good vibes never last long.

Pros: In fairness he has done a couple decent things: He once stopped Amber from driving drunk, and he gave his kids cards for every one of their birthdays he missed (before, uh, taking off again).

Cons: A lot, but it's hard to get past the fact he's pretty much ignored his kids since they were born.

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Hank Rizzoli (Ray Romano)

Hank Rizzoli (Ray Romano)

Hank has been an emotionally detached father to his daughter, Ruby, and left the majority of the parenting to his ex-wife, Sandy. His recent realization that he may have Asperger's, however, has inspired some growth as a parent.

Pros: Breaking up the house party Ruby threw when her mom was away was a major step forward for Hank. He not only handled the situation himself (as opposed to letting Sandy do it), but learned the important lesson that it's OK if your kids don't always like you.

Cons: It's a little late for Hank to be finally figuring this parenting thing out considering his daughter is already a teenager.

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Renee Trussell (Tina Lifford)

Renee Trussell (Tina Lifford)

She's strong-willed and exactly what people think of when they hear "mother-in-law," but clearly has a deep love for Jasmine, Jabbar, and Aida (and even Crosby).

Pros: She's always willing to help (even if it's usually on her terms).

Cons: She pushes her own agenda on her daughter's family (as seen in her recent suggestion that Crosby become a realtor), and doesn't seem to care much about what they think.

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Sandy (Betsy Brandt)

Sandy (Betsy Brandt)

We don't know all that much about Sandy, but she seems very committed to her role as a parent even if she is overly stern and often frazzled.

Pros: She's unafraid to roll up her sleeves and tackle the hard parts of parenting.

Cons: She's humorless and strict to a fault. She would probably have a better relationship with her daughter if she did more of the kind of bonding that Sarah did with Ruby when she took her shopping and watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

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21 Books That Could Make The World A Better Place

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If everyone read them.

Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall

"It is a great book about humanity, nature, and animals. We desperately need to get reconnected with this planet and with ourselves."
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Sold by Patricia McCormick

"To remind people how we take our freedoms and education for granted."
—Meghan A., via Facebook

Night by Elie Wiesel

"It's a first-person account of his real-life experience in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. It has a good ending and makes you reflect on how lucky our lives are."
—Sarah D., via Facebook


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These Powerful Photos Will Change The Way You See Soldiers In Uniform

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Beneath every uniform there’s a real person.

Photographer Devin Mitchell's series "The Soldier Art Project" aims to depict the double life that many in the military feel they lead.

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Using photoshop and the imagery of mirrors, Mitchell captures the real people beneath the uniform that many don't see.

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One of the most powerful images, according to Mitchell, is this one of Joshua Zitting and his husband.

"It reminds me of how unfair it is that this man can serve while enjoying all of this constitutional rights as an American, while other men and women similar to him cannot in other parts of the country," he told Mic.

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16 Actors Who Completely Transformed Into Their Movie Characters

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From weight loss to prosthetics, these actors went all out to completely inhabit their roles.

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One DREAMer's Emotional Reaction To Obama's Immigration Executive Actions

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“I’m going to cry if I need to because my parents’ future is still in limbo. I’m gonna throw all the shade I can to people who thank Obama for his bullshit speech.”

After President Obama announced immigration actions that would protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, Julio Salgado shared the conversation he had with his parents on Facebook.

After President Obama announced immigration actions that would protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, Julio Salgado shared the conversation he had with his parents on Facebook.

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Salgado, who has been approved for Obama's previous Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program spoke to BuzzFeed News about his response to the announcement.

"Facebook has been a way for us undocumented folks to share the feels," he said.

"Much like the DACA announcement, a lot of us were torn. Despite feeling jaded towards politicians and the Obama administration, part of me was hopeful that my parents would benefit this time around. I am so, so happy for folks who will be able to qualify now, a lot of them are my friends. But talking to my parents tonight got me emotional. They still sound so hopeful and I didn't want to bring down their hope with my jaded feelings — so instead I turned to Facebook and just spilled my guts."

The administration's executive actions do not provide temporary legal status to the parents of those eligible for DACA

In his Facebook status, which has more than 500 likes from friends, supporters and other undocumented people, Salgado wrote his conversation with his parents in Spanish.

"Did you hear the news?" he asked them.

"Yes son. Well, how good that so many people will be able to benefit from this," his mom said, his dad agreeing. "We'll keep fighting then," she said.

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