Cheryl Burke Blasts Critics of Her ‘New Face’: ‘I’m Not on Ozempic. I’m Not Sick’

Cheryl Burke Blasts Critics of Her 'New Face': 'I'm Not on Ozempic. I'm Not Sick'

Cheryl Burke responded to people critiquing her "new face" in a TikTok video on Sunday, May 18 TheDancing with the Starsalum, 41, denied that her change in appearance is a result of being sick or using the weight loss drug Ozempic "The assumptions are just exhausting as hell," Burke said, while removing her makeup in the video Cheryl Burkeis squashing speculation about her "new face." On Sunday, May 18, theDancing with the Starsalum, 41, shared aTikTok videoaddressing comments about her appearance that she'd noticed underneath her recent social media posts. She denied several false claims before confessing to finding proving herself "challenging." "Let's just address the elephant in the comment section," Burke said, while removing her makeup in the video. "I'm not on Ozempic. I'm not sick. I didn't get a face transplant, and no, I didn't get a brow lift." "The level of projection that is happening and that I'm witnessing is wild," she said, adding that people discuss her online as if she is "not a person." Burke confessed that the "most disappointing part" is reading comments from people saying they miss the "old" version of her. "Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Cheryl," she said. "Back in 2006,Dancing with the Starsseason 2, when I was 21 years old, or three years ago, Cheryl, where I was going through a divorce. I hate to break it to you, but that Cheryl doesn't exist anymore." "The assumptions are just exhausting as hell," she continued. "The accusations are completely cruel, and the fact that so many of them are actually coming from women, that's what is so shocking and hurtful to be quite honest." Cheryl Burke/TikTok; Eric McCandless/ABC via Getty "I have been in the public eye since I was 21 years old, my body has changed over the past 20 years, my face has changed because I've changed," Burke said. "I've experienced so much trauma, divorce, and this is by no means a pity party. Soberity, burnout, reinvention, I've healed, I've lost, I've grieved like anybody else." "And yeah, maybe it shows, but I'm not sorry for it, not one bit," she added. (Burkefiled for divorcefromMatthew Lawrencein 2022 after nearly three years of marriage.) Cheryl Burke/TikTok Burke went on to say that the "pressure" to prove herself lately has "been challenging," while adding that her "healing" journey hasn't "come with the before and after label" people approve of. "I'm still the same person who has advocated for mental health and body image for many years," she said. "I just do it differently now than maybe you're used to. I'm quieter, I have boundaries and more discernment, and frankly, I don't feel safe the way I used to." "There's a tone now on certain platforms that feels more like a firing squad than an actual community," she continued. "The saddest part of all is the way I'm witnessing women tear down other women while pretending it's from concern. This is me at 41, I am still healing, still growing, and still choosing to show up." "If you're here to speculate, compare, or demand answers that you're just not entitled to, you're not welcome in the space that I have created," she added. "But, if you're here to evolve, unlearn, to support, welcome, we're just getting started." Frazer Harrison/Getty In the caption of the video, Burke wrote, "I'm not on Ozempic. I'm not sick. I didn't get a 'new face.' Stop dissecting women's bodies like they belong to you. This is YOUR reminder: I don't owe you an explanation for my healing or for anything quite frankly. Let this be the last time I have to say it." Hundreds of people liked the video and praised her in the comment section for taking a stand against critics. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The video comes after she shared a similar message in a reflectiveInstagram postahead of her 41st birthday on May 3. "This next chapter isn't about proving anything to the world. It's about proving to myself that I deserve peace, fulfillment, and joy without conditions,"Burkesaid. "Here's to stepping into 41 with open hands, an open heart, and a soul wide awake. Here's to Chapter 2. May it be everything and more ..." she concluded. Read the original article onPeople

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Cheryl Burke Blasts Critics of Her ‘New Face’: ‘I’m Not on Ozempic. I’m Not Sick’

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Wes Anderson questions Trump film tariff proposal: 'Can you hold up the movie in customs?'

Wes Anderson questions Trump film tariff proposal: 'Can you hold up the movie in customs?'

Wes Andersonhas some questions aboutPresident Donald Trump's proposed film tariff. During aCannes Film Festivalpress conferencefor his latest movie "The Phoenician Scheme," the Oscar-winning director reacted to the president'splan to institutea 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States. Anderson, who shot "The Phoenician Scheme" in Germany, expressed confusion about how such a tariff would work logistically. "Can you hold up the movie in customs?" he asked. "It doesn't ship that way." While Anderson noted he is not an expert on the subject, he called Trump's announcement "fascinating" and voiced surprise at the idea of a 100% tariff, saying, "I feel that means he's saying he's going to take all the money, and then what do we get?" But the "Moonrise Kingdom" filmmaker said he wanted to "hold off on my official answer" until he hears the details of the plan. White Housewalks back Trump's big Hollywood tariff announcement After Trump's social media post announcing his film tariff proposal sparkedwidespread confusion in the entertainmentindustry, theWhite House appearedto walk the announcement back, saying that "no final decisions" had been made. Trump wants to slap tariffson foreign-produced movies: What we know Trump had said on his social media platform Truth Social that he would authorize the Commerce Department "to immediately begin the process" of instituting the tariff because "the Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death," adding that other countries "are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States." Trump's proposal also came up during a Cannes press conference forRichard Linklater'snew film "Nouvelle Vague," which was shot in France. But the "Boyhood" director said he doubts that the president's plan will ever come to pass. "That's not going to happen, right?" Linklater said. "The guy changes his mind like 50 times in one day." Outside of Cannes,Tom Cruisewas asked about Trump's tariff proposal during a "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" event earlier this month but declined to engage in the topic, saying, "We'd rather answer questions about the movie." Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative and a former White House National Economic Council official during the Biden administration,previously told USA TODAYthat Trump's "tossed-off idea" is "nonsensical" and "not serious policy." Contributing: Brian Truitt This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Wes Anderson questions Donald Trump's movie tariff proposal in Cannes

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Wes Anderson questions Trump film tariff proposal: 'Can you hold up the movie in customs?'

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Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann Pose with Their 3 Kids as the Family Makes Rare Red Carpet Appearance at Cannes 2025

Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann Pose with Their 3 Kids as the Family Makes Rare Red Carpet Appearance at Cannes 2025

Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann made a red carpet appearance with their three children at Cannes 2025 TheLaw & Order: Special Victims Unitactress previously told PEOPLE that she's "so grateful that I'm an older mom" The couple welcomed their first child together in 2006, and then welcomed Amaya and Andrew through adoption within six months of each other Mariska Hargitayenjoyed a family night out as she celebrated the premiere of her directorial debut. TheLaw & Order: Special Victims Unitactress, 61, was joined by her actor husbandPeter Hermann, 57, and theirthree childrenon the red carpet for her directorial debut,My Mom Jayne.Hargitay premiered the documentary, which details her mother's legacy, at the2025 Cannes Film Festival. The actress posed alongside her husband and three children wearing a black and red sequinned gown. Her husband and sons matched in black suits and a black bowtie, while her daughter wore a black dress. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic The two actors, who met on the set of Hargitay's showLaw & Order SVU,married in 2004. During their 20-year marriage, the couple welcomed Andrew, 11, Amaya, 12, and August, 17. Hargitay gave birth to her first child, August, at age 42, in 2006. She and Hermann later welcomed Amaya and Andrew through adoption within six months of each other. When it comes to motherhood, Hargitay said she leans on her kids and Hermann to help her figure it out along the way. "The thing that's made me a better parent is my kids, because they taught me to really listen," she explained. "My husband is my North Star, and my kids are my teachers." BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty The PEOPLE Appis now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! In January 2024, she told PEOPLE that she is "so grateful that I'm an older mom." "I don't know if I could have handled it when I was younger," she admitted. "When I was younger I wasn't as present but as I've gotten older I've started to accept and appreciate." While raising three children has often been a handful, Hargitay has said she wouldn't have it any other way. "Our family is so perfect, or at least perfect for me," she told PEOPLE in March 2018. "Together we're just thiswhole, happy, joyful, chaotic, crazy unit. I've never known anything that was more right." Read the original article onPeople

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Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann Pose with Their 3 Kids as the Family Makes Rare Red Carpet Appearance at Cannes 2025

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Grizzly killed in Yellowstone after seeking food, flipping dumpsters

Grizzly killed in Yellowstone after seeking food, flipping dumpsters

A 400-pound grizzly bear was trapped and killed by park staff in Yellowstone last week because it posed a risk to public safety in one of the Wyoming park's busiest areas, according to theNational Park Service. The bear, an 11-year-old male grizzly, overturned bear-resistant dumpsters — some weighing 800 pounds — and pulled trash cans from their concrete bases in search of human garbage. It was able to access food and trash nearOld Faithful, as well as near the Nez Perce Picnic Area and the Midway Geyser Basin parking lot, park officials said. "It's unfortunate that this bear began regularly seeking out garbage and was able to defeat the park's bear-resistant infrastructure," Kerry Gunther, Yellowstone bear management biologist, said. "We go to great lengths to protect bears and prevent them from becoming conditioned to human food. But occasionally, a bear outsmarts us or overcomes our defenses. When that happens, we sometimes have to remove the bear from the population to protect visitors and property." The park noted that Yellowstone provides "bear-resistant" food storage lockers at all campgrounds, as well as food storage devices at backcountry campsites, and "bear-resistant dumpsters and garbage cans." Officials also said the last time a bear was killed by park staff in "a management action" was in 2017, when it "removed" a grizzly bear after it damaged tents and got access to food at Heart Lake campsites. In 2023,another grizzlyin the region was killed, after fatally mauling a woman on a forest trail west of Yellowstone and attacking a person in Idaho three years before that. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shot that bear, a 10-year-old female grizzly, with approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Grizzly bears are protected in the U.S. as a threatened species and it is illegal to harm or kill them except in cases of self-defense or the defense of others, according to thefish and wildlife service. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with Yellowstone National Park at its core, has been identified by the government agency as a "recovery zone" for grizzly populations. Raw Video: Mexican navy training ship hits Brooklyn Bridge Italy's Trulli: From Past to Present Car bomb outside Palm Springs fertility clinic was act of terrorism, officials say

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Grizzly killed in Yellowstone after seeking food, flipping dumpsters

Grizzly killed in Yellowstone after seeking food, flipping dumpsters A 400-pound grizzly bear was trapped and killed by park staff in Yellow...

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Trump backs off meeting with Putin, calls for direct Ukraine-Russia talks

Trump backs off meeting with Putin, calls for direct Ukraine-Russia talks

PresidentDonald Trumpspoke with both Russian PresidentVladimir PutinandUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyand other leaders in separate calls Monday in an attempt to stop the "bloodbath" ofthe war in Ukraine. But the president's outreach was inconclusive, and there was little sign of a breakthrough.  Russia and Ukraine would hold direct talks on a ceasefire "immediately," Trump said afterward ina post on his social network Truth Social, but it was unclear what form those talks would take or when they would happen. The Vatican, Trump said, has expressed interest in hosting the negotiations. "The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of," he said. Trump's call with Putin lasted more than two hours and "was very informative and very open," Putin told Russian state media. Trump said little about his conversation with Zelenskyy, with whom he spoke first, other than to say that he had informed Zelenskyy and the leaders of otherNATOcountries of the negotiations. White House officials declined to offer any further details. Trump spoke with Zelenskyy twice on Monday, according to Zelenskyy, once one-on-one, before Trump's call with Putin, and again during a conference call with the Ukrainian and NATO leaders. "I reaffirmed to President Trump that Ukraine is ready for a full and unconditional ceasefire,"Zelenskyy tweeted. "If the Russians are not ready to stop the killings, there must be stronger sanctions," he wrote. "Pressure on Russia will push it toward real peace — this is obvious to everyone around the world." In a Monday interview with NBC News in Rome, where he wasreceived by Pope Leo XIV, Vice President JD Vance said, "We talked about a couple of what I would call the president's major peace initiatives with the Pope. We talked a lot about what's going on in Israel and Gaza. We talked a lot about the Russia-Ukraine situation. It's hard to predict the future, but I do think that not just the Pope, but the entire Vatican, has expressed a desire to be, you know, really helpful, and to work together on facilitating, hopefully, a peace deal coming together [in Russia and Ukraine]. Can't predict the future, but that was very meaningful, and I think will hopefully bear fruit for the country." Meanwhile Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said before the call that Russia "highly values" and is "grateful to the American side." In a briefing with journalists, he said that if the U.S. can "help to achieve our goals through peaceful means, then this is indeed preferable." Peskov was also asked about the chance of Trump and Putin meeting in person, a possibility the American president floated Friday. "It will largely depend on what they themselves decide," Peskov said. The meeting "needs to be worked out" by the two leaders in terms of dates and other details, he added. Ahead ofthe much anticipated Trump-Putin call, leaders from Britain, France, Germany and Italy said they spoke Sunday with Trump. The British government said in a statement that it was urging"Putin to take peace talks seriously." Those leaders "also discussed the use of sanctions if Russia failed to engage seriously in a ceasefire and peace talks," the statement said — something Trump has previously threatened. "Tomorrow, President Putin must show he wants peace by accepting the 30-day unconditional ceasefire proposed by President Trump and backed by Ukraine and Europe," French President Emmanuel Macron said on X. Trump has been widely criticized forappearing to offer concessions to Russia while demanding sacrifices from Ukraine. Those voices were joined last week by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, who gave details of why she stepped down last month. "The policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia,"she wrote in an opinion piece Friday for the Detroit Free Press. "Peace at any price is not peace at all ― it is appeasement," she said, adding that "we must show leadership in the face of aggression, not weakness or complicity." While the diplomatic activity carries on, the violence in Ukraine continues. Russia has continued its near-nightly drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians, more than three years after it launched a full-scale invasion and tried to seize Kyiv. On Sunday, Russia shelled residential neighborhoods of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kherson, killing a 75-year-old woman and injuring two other people, the city council posted on the Telegram messaging site. As well as being widely blamed for launching an unprovoked war, Russia is condemned across the West for the highly repressive and authoritarian state fashioned by Putin's Kremlin. On Monday, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office labeled one of those critics, Amnesty International, as an "undesirable organization" and effectively banned it. The authority accused the London-based human rights watchdog of being "Russophobic," trying to prolong the war, wanting to "justify the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis" and its staffers of supporting "extremist organizations." Trump, who has often spoken warmly of Putin, rarely if ever mentions these human rights concerns. Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday that he would be speaking with Putin at 10 a.m. Monday with the purpose of "stopping the 'bloodbath' that is killing, on average, more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week." NBC News has not independently verified the numbers that Trump cited. Apparently referring both to his planned call with Putin and his slated talks with Zelenskyy and other European leaders, Trump added that "hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end." Despite promising on multiple occasions to end the war in 24 hours of taking office, Trump has since found the reality much different since beginning his second term. U.S.-brokered negotiations sawRussia and Ukrainian delegations meet in person in Istanbullast week for the first time since the early days of the war. Howeverthe demands of the two sides remain far apart: with Russia saying it will only sign a truce if Ukraine effectively surrenders. Ukraine says these demands are unacceptable.

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May 19, 2025

Trump backs off meeting with Putin, calls for direct Ukraine-Russia talks

Trump backs off meeting with Putin, calls for direct Ukraine-Russia talks PresidentDonald Trumpspoke with both Russian PresidentVladimir Put...

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