Aspiring actress and hair model Georgia Van Cuylenburg faced a devasting setback in her career: She went bald, a result of alopecia. She chronicles her struggle in the documentary, "Baby Let Your Hair Hang Down."
As the success of celebrities like Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley shows, waging a public battle with the bulge is no longer a detour from stardom but rather an opportunity for big money.
When you're trying to lose weight, the number that sees to matter most is the one you see on the scale. But there are plenty of other compelling numbers coming out of the growing weight-loss industry. Learn 10 surprising statistics about weight loss in the United States.
Few doctors have made more money in the weight-loss business than Beverly Hills brothers, Julian and Michael Omidi. The brothers, who once were featured in the cable program "Dr. 90210," are the men behind a heavily advertised Southern California business called 1-800-GetThin that has made millions of dollars offering an outpatient procedure that constricts the stomach with what's called a "Lap-Band."
Facebook's initial public offering, the biggest and most anticipated IPO for a U.S. technology firm, has garnered the attention of high school students to professionals, many of whom are likely among the 901 million monthly users of the social media site. But long before the IPO launches this morning to the public, investors with enough money or connections have already been buying and selling shares of the eight-year old tech firm.
The man arrested in connection to two Mississippi highway murders was linked to the crimes after he allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman who managed to get away and contact authorities for help.
Five people in Texas said a biohazard removal company, Aftermath, overbilled them for cleaning up after their loved ones' deaths, billing tens of thousands of dollars for jobs that were quoted at a fraction of the price.
The Johnston family, from Barnesville, Ga., is extreme in many ways. Standing no more than four feet tall, they like to call themselves "the real life seven dwarfs." They are the largest family of achondroplasia dwarfs, a type of dwarfism that affects the extremities.
If you ever worked for gratuities, you have more than likely felt the compulsion to seek revenge against nasty customers and bad tippers. Sometimes, waiters cross the line and can turn into the "waiter from hell" in order to stay sane, as wait staff veterans -- including Steve Dublanica, author of "Waiter Rant"-- revealed to "20/20."
"I'm a porn star, yes ... and I don't mind that title. ... It's given me a life of luxury and success," said Natalie Oliveros. But while Oliveros -- better known by the stage name Savanna Samson -- doesn't shrink from explaining to "20/20" what she does for a living, she has been less forthcoming with her son.
Ever wonder what it's like to party with a celebrity? Chris Gardner knows all too well. As a gossip columnist, it was his job to spend six nights a week living it up with the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Britney Spears and more. But seven years of fast Hollywood living eventually took its toll. "This town chewed me up and spit me out," he said.
To most people, the idea of their loved one dating and having passionate sex with other people is repellent. But for two married couples -- with children -- in Somerville, Mass., and thousands more across the country, this is the happy, stable norm.
Deesh Sekhon is an Indian woman. In a way, this makes her a survivor of an appalling human-rights catastrophe. It's called gendercide: the killing of female children to avoid paying dowry to future husbands' families, a deep-set custom in Indian culture. Every month nearly 50,000 female fetuses are aborted, and untold numbers of baby girls are abandoned or murdered. When she saw a story on it, Sekhon was shocked into action.
ABC News created a special version of our misophonia story that is stripped of some of the sounds that commonly trigger reactions from those who suffer from the condition. Watch parts 1 and 2 of the piece below.
They are a mother and daughter who consider each other best friends. And yet, Bernadette and her 14-year-old daughter, Taylor, don't eat meals together, don't share any activities and don't even speak to each other. It's all because everyday sounds her mother makes -- clearing her throat or sighing -- can send Taylor to the brink. Taylor suffers from misophonia.
Do you think you have misophonia? Here are the major symptoms of misophonia, also known as selective sound sensitivity, as explained by Dr. Marsha Johnson: Presence of “trigger sounds” which evoke strong emotional or physical reactions, generally limited to a few sounds. Most common are...
John Edwards' former aide Andrew Young says the one-time presidential contender admitted he was the father of Rielle Hunter's baby only because Young's upcoming book includes irrefutable evidence.
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