Catherine Gigante-Brown

" Sure enough, the doorbell rang one early June day and there she was: curvy, seductive body, smooth black skin, bright blue eyes."

A new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on mammograms ensures more women will die of breast cancer.

Who says feminists don't love alpha males and cooking?

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

From New York to LA, this lady knows a good story.

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.

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.

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.’”

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

I saw my present mother-in-law in a whole new light the first time she held my newborn son.