Catherine Gigante-Brown

You learn a lot about people when you live in their home. The Taylors seemed to lead a joyless, Spartan existence.

I asked a handful of women: why are people so scared of ladyparts?

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

My husband and I agreed: raising a child with an independent spirit who made decisions for himself was a good thing.

Even when I explained to my son that he came from a long line of short people, it didn’t help. David still felt bad about being small. How could a five-year-old possibly get this type of size-shaming message? From other people, mostly insensitive adults. They gave him the idea that bigger was somehow better.

Why, when I'm cool with being a salt-and-pepper chick, does it so clearly unnerve others?

The Daily News quoted one painted lady as saying, “People come up to us sometimes and say what we do is disgusting,” she said. “But what is disgusting about the female body? They shield their kids sometimes, and I think, ‘Kids come from the female body.’”

Makeup and I have always had a love/hate relationship: I love it; it hates me.

I thought cancer was behind me. Until I had a weird pain near my left ovary which lasted for several days. It felt a lot like ovulation...Only, at 56, that train had left the station a long time ago.

I try. I really do. But whenever I attempt to embrace my husband Peter’s Cuban culture, I always screw up.