Country music star Toby Keith announced Sunday that he has been undergoing treatment for stomach cancer since last fall.
The multi-platinum-selling singer said on Twitter that he underwent surgery and received chemotherapy and radiation in the past six months. "So far, so good," said Keith, an Oklahoma native who turns 61 on July 8. "I need time to breathe, recover and relax. "I am looking forward to spending this time with my family. But I will see the fans sooner than later. I can't wait." The status of Keith's performances for the remainder of this year wasn't immediately clear. His next performance is scheduled for June 17 in Wheaton, Illinois, according to his website. After Keith's announcement, the Ohio State Fair announced that his July 28 concert in Columbus, Ohio, has been canceled. Keith's publicist, Elaine Schock, said in an email Sunday night that some tour dates will be canceled, "but I'm not sure how many at this point." Keith's foundation has assisted children with cancer since 2006. - CBS News
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I’m currently 30 weeks pregnant with twins. Trying to navigate this strange new identity as a pregnant person (and, gulp, soon to be mother) has been mildly terrifying and generally pretty confusing. While so much is changing in my life so quickly, I find myself grasping on to the few things I can control. One of those is what I wear and how I present this new body I’m in to the world.
When I got pregnant, targeted ads for clothing immediately began filling my inbox and feeds: tent dresses, maternity leggings, oversized everything — all very obvious ways to hide my delicate condition. Maybe this is the hormones talking, but I remember registering the suggestions as erasure: some clever and comfy ways to hide my body while it created new life. And then the singer Rihanna announced her pregnancy, and it felt like everything changed. Before giving birth in early May, Rihanna bared her bump in sometimes sexy, sometimes sporty, always fashion-forward ways. As she told Vogue in a recent cover story that focused on her rule-breaking pregnancy fashion: “There’s no way I’m going to go shopping in no maternity aisle. I’m sorry — it’s too much fun to get dressed up. I’m not going to let that part disappear because my body is changing.” Rihanna drove her point home by gracing the cover in a sheer, red Alaïa bodysuit, and in body-baring looks all across this season’s fashion weeks, not to mention her Instagram feed. Instead of the usual maternity jeans and demure empire waist dresses, pregnant Rihanna opted for low-slung pants that showed off her bump, sheer mini dresses that did the same and lots of provocative silhouettes and cutouts that kept her linea nigra on full display. Rather than conceal herself, Rihanna demanded that people look. “When women get pregnant, society tends to make it feel like you hide, hide your sexy, and that you’re not sexy right now [but] you’ll get back there, and I don’t believe in that s---,” she told Refinery29 back in February. “So I’m trying stuff that I might not have even had the confidence to try before I was pregnant. The strappiest, the thinnest and the more cutouts the better for me.” Preach Rihanna, preach. I am far from the only pregnant person who felt inspired by Rihanna’s sartorial choices. Earlier this month at the Cannes Film Festival, model Adriana Lima wore a dress on the red carpet with a belly cutout for her baby bump and credited Rihanna for the inspiration. “Thanks @badgirlriri for opening the door,” she wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of herself at Cannes, hashtagged #BELLYOUT. From the start, Rihanna announced her own pregnancy by doing the opposite of covering herself in billowing fabrics. Instead, she posed with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, while wearing a hot pink vintage Chanel coat, ultra-low-rise jeans and a dramatic Lacroix necklace, all artfully styled to display her growing belly. My first thought when looking at the photo was, Damn, she looks amazing. My next thought was, How do I look that powerful throughout my pregnancy, too? CULTURE & LIFESTYLE Rihanna changed maternity style just in time for my pregnancy My body is changing, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be hidden away. Image: Rihanna Rihanna pauses outside the Dior show during Paris Fashion Week on March 1. Edward Berthelot / Getty Images file May 30, 2022, 5:33 AM EDT By Elena Sheppard, cultural critic I’m currently 30 weeks pregnant with twins. Trying to navigate this strange new identity as a pregnant person (and, gulp, soon to be mother) has been mildly terrifying and generally pretty confusing. While so much is changing in my life so quickly, I find myself grasping on to the few things I can control. One of those is what I wear and how I present this new body I’m in to the world. When I got pregnant, targeted ads for clothing immediately began filling my inbox and feeds: tent dresses, maternity leggings, oversized everything — all very obvious ways to hide my delicate condition. Maybe this is the hormones talking, but I remember registering the suggestions as erasure: some clever and comfy ways to hide my body while it created new life. And then the singer Rihanna announced her pregnancy, and it felt like everything changed. Before giving birth in early May, Rihanna bared her bump in sometimes sexy, sometimes sporty, always fashion-forward ways. As she told Vogue in a recent cover story that focused on her rule-breaking pregnancy fashion: “There’s no way I’m going to go shopping in no maternity aisle. I’m sorry — it’s too much fun to get dressed up. I’m not going to let that part disappear because my body is changing.” Rihanna drove her point home by gracing the cover in a sheer, red Alaïa bodysuit, and in body-baring looks all across this season’s fashion weeks, not to mention her Instagram feed. Instead of the usual maternity jeans and demure empire waist dresses, pregnant Rihanna opted for low-slung pants that showed off her bump, sheer mini dresses that did the same and lots of provocative silhouettes and cutouts that kept her linea nigra on full display. Rather than conceal herself, Rihanna demanded that people look. “When women get pregnant, society tends to make it feel like you hide, hide your sexy, and that you’re not sexy right now [but] you’ll get back there, and I don’t believe in that s---,” she told Refinery29 back in February. “So I’m trying stuff that I might not have even had the confidence to try before I was pregnant. The strappiest, the thinnest and the more cutouts the better for me.” Preach Rihanna, preach. I am far from the only pregnant person who felt inspired by Rihanna’s sartorial choices. Earlier this month at the Cannes Film Festival, model Adriana Lima wore a dress on the red carpet with a belly cutout for her baby bump and credited Rihanna for the inspiration. “Thanks @badgirlriri for opening the door,” she wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of herself at Cannes, hashtagged #BELLYOUT. From the start, Rihanna announced her own pregnancy by doing the opposite of covering herself in billowing fabrics. Instead, she posed with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, while wearing a hot pink vintage Chanel coat, ultra-low-rise jeans and a dramatic Lacroix necklace, all artfully styled to display her growing belly. My first thought when looking at the photo was, Damn, she looks amazing. My next thought was, How do I look that powerful throughout my pregnancy, too? Recommended GIFT GUIDES 39 gifts that every 6-year-old wants to unwrap GIFT GUIDES Make this Father's Day special with these 35 father-daughter gifts It should come as no surprise that a lot of noncelebrities are also now changing up their maternity fashion. “What Rihanna is doing right now is just incredible,” Ariane Goldman, founder and CEO of maternity fashion label Hatch, told USA Today. “If you had asked me years ago, would I incorporate crop tops in Hatch collections offerings I’d say ‘you’re out of your mind.’” But she said the company started designing them just to see what would happen “and we can’t keep them in stock. So clearly the trend is changing.” I am far less bold than Rihanna, and my life is certainly a lot less public, but I will say I had her in mind when I announced my own pregnancy on social media with a photo of myself in a bikini — something I likely would never have done otherwise. The only other photo of me pregnant that’s made it to the grid shows me in a skin-tight bodycon dress, a Rihanna inspiration once again. I am pregnant and my body is changing, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be hidden away, only to be revealed if and when I’ve lost the baby weight and look like my old self. Of course, Rihanna is hardly the first person to flaunt her pregnant body; there's a long list of pregnant celebs doing nude cover shoots (Demi Moore, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Serena Williams … the list goes on). But there is something different about Rihanna’s approach in that she plays with clothing to claim her body in this space. Nudity is one thing — the unflinching look at the natural process. Incorporating fashion is something else entirely — the insistence that people recognize she is still herself even while her body changes. Vanessa Friedman, chief fashion critic at The New York Times, called Rihanna’s maternity style “radical,” and it is in many ways, particularly because of the moment we are collectively living through. The autonomy of pregnant people right now is being challenged and limited. With the threat that Roe v. Wade will be overturned, we are implicitly being told that what matters most for women is to become not ourselves but mothers. Fashion can be a form of resistance and Rihanna clearly knows that. As she told Vogue, “I’m hoping that we were able to redefine what’s considered ‘decent’ for pregnant women.” Now that Rihanna has transitioned from pregnancy to motherhood, I’m eager to see how she steps into her new role even as she remains herself. Rihanna made me reconsider how I look at myself as a pregnant person, and how others look at pregnant people more generally. It's hoped that message will extend into motherhood itself. We are our own people, we just happen to be growing other people inside of us. There should be no erasure in any of that, and Rihanna is helping to make sure there isn’t. - NBC News Hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa is calling for peace in the entertainment industry following the violent deaths of fellow rappers Drakeo the Ruler and Young Dolph. The "See You Again" hitmaker took to Twitter on Sunday night to urge his fellow performers to treat each other better in the new year. As entertainers, let's "try some sh*t next year. Minding our own business," he wrote in a post shared with his 36.3 million followers. Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, pleaded for fellow celebrities to stop "dis respecting each others family, dead homies, or area they come from. Stop using someone else's significant other as a one up to the other person. Actually showing the same love you expect to get. " - CNN
Celebrities gathered at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday for the 2021 American Music Awards. The venue, which plays home to many prominent awards shows for celebrities, is no stranger to seeing some of the biggest and brightest looks to grace its red carpet. The AMAs were no exception as a cavalcade of eye-catching dresses, gowns, suits and other ensembles gave stars some much-warranted attention at the big show. In a year where there were significantly more fashion success stories than disasters, it’s hard to pick a favorite. However, even with everyone bringing their A-game to the show, there were a few brilliant standouts. If you’re going to host a star-studded, high-fashion event, it would make sense for you to go all out. Naturally, Cardi B is a person who is not afraid to go all out. Among her many looks that evening, the singer walked the red carpet Sunday in an elegant black Schiaparelli gown with long golden metallic nails adorned to her gloves. However, the most eye-catching piece of the ensemble was her golden mask by the same designer. The 18-year-old star has made a name for herself with a very specific brand of wardrobe. That’s why her look at the AMAs turned so many heads. The star donned a long black dress and heels. "I am in a dress and heels the first time in my life. When I knew I was coming to the AMAs, I was like, 'Oh, what am I gonna wear,' because I have had this transition while being on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ where I've gone from dressing like I normally dress to looking more adult," she told People at the event. "And I want to branch out of my comfort zone, and so today we went for a dress. I got some heels on." Billy Porter wasn’t afraid to make a splash at the 2021 AMAs, and you wouldn’t be either if your outfit had a built-in umbrella. The star donned an aqua-blue suit from Botter that Vogue reports used recycled plastic to create a wearable umbrella hat. Tilted slightly on his head, the odd choice of headwear ended up looking stylish as ever, complimenting his overall look as well as his black platform shoes. Winnie Harlow turned some heads at the AMAs with her Zuhair Murad dress. The creative outfit both left little to the imagination while simultaneously being one of the more imaginative looks of the night. The star stood proudly on the red carpet adorned in a jeweled minidress. While it was smaller than the average gown at the event, it screamed glamour from top-to-bottom. The singer and songwriter wasn’t afraid to show some skin on the red carpet. Dressed in a black cutout Monsoori gown and diamond jewels, the star posed for several photos on the red carpet in which she stuck her toned leg out from her dress’ slit and, both literally and metaphorically, let it do the walking for her that evening.
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