Macaela Mackenzie

You don’t have to be a sports fan to have noticed something epic is happening in women’s basketball. Call it the Caitlin Clark effect, the phenomenon named for the University of Iowa guard who completely reshaped the college basketball landscape this season. The Hawkeye sold tickets across the country, went viral every time she stopped to sign autographs for swarms of kids lined up to see their favorite athlete, and broke a dozen records—including the all-time scoring record for college basketba…

Learning how to talk to kids about cancer is something no parent should need to do. Unfortunately, the reality for many families is that they will. That became abundantly clear in the past two weeks, when two prominent women—both in their early 40s, both young moms—revealed they’d been diagnosed with cancer. First Olivia Munn, 43, shared she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer after taking a breast cancer risk assessment. Then Catherine, Princess of Wales, 42, finally put an end to the internet’…

Shampoos and serums to support your strands. If your strands have been feeling meh lately, you might be wondering if the recent wave of TikTok evangelists praising rosemary oil for hair growth are onto something. Rosemary oil is a natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant that can support scalp health and, in theory, help support hair growth. “When a rosemary oil blend is massaged directly onto the scalp, it can improve blood circulation, feed the follicle, and eliminate inflammation,” Kerry E.…

For those mornings when you need an extra shot. So you’ve been doing some revenge bedtime procrastination and it shows. We can’t fix your sleep deprivation but the best caffeine eye cream can do something about those under eye bags and dark circles. “Caffeine works to reduce puffiness by clamping down on blood vessels, helping to reduce swelling,” Marisa Garshick, MD, FAAD, a board-certified dermatologist in New York and clinical assistant professor of dermatology at Weill Cornell Medicine, tell…

Elevate your “sexy water.” If TikTok is to be believed, the sexy-water trend—a.k.a. elevating plain water—isn’t going anywhere. Do you need to add collagen supplements, vitamin tinctures, or slices of fruit to your water bottle? Absolutely not, but do whatever keeps you hydrated in 2024, queen. In some cases, however, dietitians feel that adding electrolyte powders to your H2O can be a beneficial way to help you meet your hydration goals. Here’s everything you need to know about when to use them…

For Meg Mathews, menopause looked like The Golden Girls—gray hair, elderly gentleman callers, chic but shapeless caftans. “Not me at 49,” Mathews says. After coming back from a holiday, Mathews started experiencing some anxiety, brain fogginess, and aching joints. She didn’t feel like herself. “But how do you explain that to the doctor?” she says. “So of course I went in going, ‘I just can’t cope with life.’ And of course they just gave me antidepressants and off I went. I had no idea that [thos…

As parents, we imagine ourselves to be all-important in shaping the lives of our children. But as children ourselves, it’s easy to brush aside the role our parents have played (and often are still playing) in shaping who we are and what we’ve achieved. They gave us motivation, inspired our curiosity, gave us chances to fail safely, and the confidence to try again. They created the environments that shaped us, even if it wasn’t always obvious. “When I was playing drums [as a kid], the music teach…

Recommended by dermatologists themselves. In a sea of “revolutionary” beauty products, it can be hard to sort the science-backed from the superfluous. The best red light therapy devices are no different: Do they live up to the hype as beauty game changers? Or are they just another pricey device that will end up gathering dust in your medicine cabinet? (And practically, how do they differ from the best LED face masks on the market?) Our top picks: Best Red Light Therapy Device Overall: Solawave…

When Maya Moore met Jonathan Irons, her presence brought him to tears. “She was so warm and loving and kind and she looked me in the eye,” Irons says. “It stirred something in my heart because I was not used to that.” At the age of 16, he’d been charged with burglary and assault, and at 18 was sentenced to 50 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. Moore was just 18 at the time they met and had learned of Irons’s story through her godparents, who’d become close with him through a prison…

As she trains for her fifth Olympics, the high jumper is campaigning to raise awareness for early cancer detection.

They won’t be in Tokyo, but their viral she’s-in-control performances have helped the sport shake the specter of abuse.

“Sleep is a really big deal for me,” says comedian Whitney Cummings. “We talk about sleep as if it’s only about your sheets and pillows. I did a whole chapter in my book about my sleep routine, dealing with childhood trauma and migraines—I would lose sleep thinking, Am I going to get a headache tomorrow at this job? What if I get a migraine?” Cummings has had problems sleeping since she was a kid—“I was the weirdo that couldn’t fall asleep at sleepovers and then the next day would be sleeping al…

I am not the woman I once was—by which I mean I am heavier, weaker, achier, more stressed, and generally more burned out than I was when the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. one year ago. I have a noticeable patch of wiry white “witch hairs” lining my side part, my jeans no longer button without cutting off my circulation, and for the first time in my life, I need concealer to cover up my dark circles. Aesthetically, I’m proud to say I really don’t give a shit about these shifts in my body. May…

The comfiest PJs, a black-cat pillow, and the perfect weighted blanket.

At 6′3″, Los Angeles Sparks power forward Chiney Ogwumike is hard to miss. And yet, somehow, her name probably wouldn’t come up in a conversation of the best basketball players in the game. Which is crazy when you think about it: At Stanford University, Ogwumike was the top scorer—female or male—in the history of the West Coast’s collegiate athletic division Pac-12. She was the WNBA’s number one draft pick in 2014. She’s a two-time WNBA All-Star. “If you put my credentials on a man, you would kn…

For the past few years, gymnastics has sparked two simultaneous reactions: total awe over athletes like Simone Biles who are practically rewriting the laws of physics, and total horror over claims of widespread abuse in gymnastics organizations around the world. Both are valid, and both should have room to exist, according to Olympic gymnasts Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez, part of the “Final Five” gymnastics team that brought home gold at the 2016 Olympics. That’s something Raisman, 26, and H…

“Money helps women have power,” says Billie Jean King. It’s August, and King has been watching the U.S. Open from her home on New York’s Upper West Side. A few weeks from now, the event will crown Naomi Osaka its winner and award her $3 million, sending her home with the same cash prize as the tournament’s male winner. In sports as in the wider world, equal pay is rare. The fact that the U.S. Open has mandated it is due in no small part to King. At 76, King appreciates better than most that amb…

Experiences of infertility always have one thing in common: uncertainty. Actually, all fertility journeys have that in common. We pour heaps of time, money, and energy into planning the perfect pregnancy—the perfect time to conceive, the perfect way to give birth, the perfect start to a family. But despite what we’ve been told, the countless visits to doctors, the months (or years) of planning, the tens of thousands of dollars, never add up to a guarantee that you’ll have your Beyoncé moment, ra…

There’s scarcely a woman on earth who isn’t impacted by the fight for gender equality—but nowhere does that fight feel as visceral as it does in the world of sports. A world where Megan Rapinoe and the USWNT can dominate on the global stage and then come home to fraction of the pay their (less-qualified) male counterparts have up for grabs. And where top-of-their-game champions can lose their job just for getting pregnant. And where Serena Williams can work harder and longer than her male collea…

Two weeks ago I bolted upright in bed. Had I taken my tampon out?! I leaped from under the covers and into the bathroom, terrified of wasting a single second. I was 99% sure it had indeed been removed, but the phantom specter of toxic shock syndrome (TSS)—the rare disease every teen magazine warned me I would get if I left a tampon in for too long—turned that 1% of uncertainty into an endless loop of worst-case scenarios. Nearly two decades after I first heard about it, the fear of TSS is still,…