Olivia Rose

First things first. I believe that I am a beautiful woman and I feel no shame in saying that out loud, in public, online or anywhere else. It's not like I shout it from the roof tops unprovoked, but I do think it's healthy to be proud of the positive...

I'm 26 and I have never been on a permanent contract. In turn, I have never had the security of a guaranteed monthly paycheck. However, for me and my life, the benefits of NOT being on someone's payroll far outweigh my mild once-monthly panic as to where my next dollar...

I have kept my mouth shut for as long as I could on this subject, mostly because I loathe to even write that ugly, over used word: recession. Because a recession is to do with money. And more specifically, not having enough of it to cover the cost of basic...

We are well and truly in the thick of the festive period and I openly despise it. Not only because it's cold and getting colder, but because every year sometime around early December, I realise that everywhere I go and everything I look at has, as if by magic, suddenly...

I don't want to hear about it on the news, I don't want to see it depicted in Channel 4 dramas of questionable content (*eh-hem* Top Boy) and I certainly don't want to see Jason Gardiner tweeting about it. Oh, and for anyone who is currently reading this with their...

I commute to work every day, making me officially just one of the approximately 2.95 million people a day who use the Tube. No wonder the entire London Underground is, at all times, covered in a thick layer of skank. 

But the cleanliness of the carriages is not what I'm getting at here. Being on the Tube with basically everyone else...

I am in the one month countdown to a 'black tie' event - the 'Hidden Gems' photography auction at the new St Pancras Renaissance hotel - and it fills me with buckets of icy cold dread. I literally shiver at the thought.

I am neither skinny, nor rich. These...

Somewhere in LA, Simon Cowell is shifting uncomfortably in his high-waisted trousers. It's been a strange year for the X Factor - despite endless publicity (Cheryl being fired, the start of X Factor USA, the new UK judging panel etc) the ratings aren't looking too hot.

Saturday's show managed...

Today, a spokesperson for Beyonce Knowles has vehemently denied claims that she was wearing a prosthetic baby bump on an Australian TV show as 'stupid, ridiculous and false.' If you haven't seen the clip yet, google Beyonce and take a look. It's all a bit weird really.

There has already...

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it...

Just over a week ago, the person I had been seeing for around a year and half, give or take, pushed our relationship to just about the one place it hadn't been before. The end.

Apart from one hellish week somewhere back in June, he and I were never officially...

When Google changed and suddenly began predicting what we were going to search for, sometimes before we even knew ourselves, many of us applauded it and told ourselves that this particular new development in the world of technology was useful.

The same can be said for the entire concept...