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Zesha Saleem is a freelance journalist, Muslim and medical student. She's been writing a diary for us this month to show how she observes the festival. In her third column for OK!, she tells us about her week...

Jemma lives in Omagh, Northern Ireland , with her husband Clive and their children Sadie, five, Louis, two, and Betty, one. She may only have weeks to live and her suffering is made worse by vile comments from online trolls. Here, she shares her story...

"We did it, baby. World’s Strongest Man,” Tom shouted down the phone to me from California in June last year. I knew he was going to win, but I still instantly burst into tears of joy and relief.

The row of imposing Victorian houses in Seaton Carew, County Durham, had stunning panoramic views over the beach and the North Sea coastline. Married couple Anne and John Darwin lived at No3 The Cliff – a seven-bedroom property with grand rooms and period charm.They also owned No4 next door, which had been converted into bedsits. It was part of the couple’s property rental business that included several other bedsit properties across County Durham.

Having 5.7million followers on TikTok happened quicker than you'd think, but I never actually expected my videos to get so many views. It all started in lockdown when I decided to make a second TikTok account because the platform was viewed as quite 'cringe' at school.

It’s the unthinkable dilemma no parent wants to face. Leave your wartorn country to keep one child safe, or stay together in your homeland - risking every life - to be with the child who is forced to stay and fight.This ‘Sophie’s Choice’-style nightmare became the harsh reality for one Ukrainian family. Oksana Voloshchuk, 40, is the loving mum of two children - son Denys, 19, and daughter Veronika, 15.

For more than thirty years Julia Haart, 50, lived life as an ultra-Orthodox Jew in the Haredi community. She finally left at the age of 42, going on to become creative director at La Perla. She is now a successful businesswoman.

A current storyline on Coronation Street has raised awareness of a little-known eating disorder called diabulimia. In the ITV soap, Summer Spellman, played by Harriet Bibby, has type 1 diabetes, but has been cutting back on her insulin medication to lose weight. As a teenager, Lynsey Choules, now 29, went through a similar experience, and it had devastating consequences for her health.

From Rebekah and Jamie Vardy to Rochelle and Marvin Humes, it seems like a growing number of celebrities have their sights set on renewing their wedding vows. Most recently, former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa opened up about her hopes to renew her vows to husband Dan Osborne.

Leah Washington, 24, and Joe Pugh, 25, were only officially dating for one week when they visited theme park Alton Towers in 2015. Both were left with life-altering injuries after a horror crash on The Smiler ride.

It’s controversial and shocking yet wildly popular. In Japan, where it first aired three decades ago, a fifth of the population tunes in to watch it.

In Lalalaletmeexplain's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. With over 150k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers.

***Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of anorexia*** Polishing off the last roast potato, I put down my knife and fork and smiled confidently at my parents, Alison and Don. “Great dinner, thanks,” I said. I was still smiling, but inside, my stomach was churning.The meal had been lovely but all I felt now was an overwhelming pressure to get it out of my body.

Two business-minded single mums - best friends Natalie Duval and Alison Burton from Croydon, tonight scooped a huge £50,000 investment on Dragons' Den. Their diverse decorations company March Muses has proved a runaway hit, supplying customers with diverse decorations - which were previously unavailable or scarce to find in the shops and online. OK! spoke exclusively to the successful pals...

Celebrities like Melanie Sykes and Christine McGuinness have spoken out about their adult autism diagnosis. But they’re not the only ones who’ve faced challenges in their lives. From friendships to romance, Victoria Sweetmore had always struggled to fit in.

In Lalalaletmeexplain's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. With over 200k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers.

Today households across the country have been hit by a huge rise in energy bills. It’s no April Fools joke - millions of Brits will struggle to save the pennies as the energy price cap rises by over £600. Thankfully, telly’s financial guru Martin Lewis has shared his advice to help us cut costs around the home.

When Jessica bought sperm to start a family with her wife 18 years ago, she would never have believed the twists and turns her life would take after her daughter was born. Now though she is in a relationship with the father of her daughter Alice, 16. “I was married to my wife and living in another state and we decided to get an anonymous sperm donor,” explains Jessica, 45, who appeared on hit C4 show Steph’s Packed Lunch yesterday.

Ramadan is an important date in the calendar for Muslims across the world. It marks the month when the Prophet Muhammad received the beginning of the Qur’an (the holy book of Islam) from God.This year it starts on April 2nd. For 30 days, observers of the faith will fast from sunrise to sunset while engaging in self-reflection and acts of kindness to others.

Bridgerton is back for a new season full of swooning maidens and steamy sex scenes, and those 82 million households who watched the first series are once more all hot under the collar. But for some women, dressing in period costume – inspired in part by the hit show – has become a way of life. Sophie Andrews, 26, regularly dresses up in the full regalia of Bridgerton’s Regency era and says it’s a boost for her confidence.

From attending lavish state banquets to travelling the world on different tours, working for the royals is a job like no other. But alongside the glitz and glamour of the role, working for the Queen comes with its downsides too, such as being away from home for long stretches of time. Speaking exclusively to OK!, former royal chef Darren McGrady explained how busy days at Balmoral Castle meant that he and his colleagues stuck together to form their own alternative “family”.

Lorraine, 37, who lives in Hilton, Derbyshire, with her husband Steve, 38, and sons George, 12, Henry, three, and Alexander, two, shares her story... "This Mother’s Day will be extra special for me and my mum, Denise. We’ll be able to share a family lunch and put the difficulties of the past few years behind us.

"It’s that time of year again.The supermarkets are rammed with display stands of pink cards, cut price flowers, candles and mugs with messages of motherly appreciation on them. My email inbox is full of brands proffering discount codes to take my mum to a spa or to buy her a bracelet. I lost my mum to cancer when I was seven and I have always found Mother’s Day activates spark such a lot of sadness and uncertainty in me.

A Mumsnet user got a surprise notification on social media this week. The anonymous writer, who uses the handle 'planetme', received an unexpected Friend Request from someone who was not only not a friend - but who actively bullied her. She wrote: "At school, there was a girl in the year above with a reputation for being really "hard".

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release last week was a huge cause for celebration and a victory - finally - for justice for the mum of one after she was imprisoned in Iran in 2016. LINK This Sunday will be the first Mother’s Day Nazanin and her daughter Gabriella have spent together since they were separated at the airport in Iran when Nazanin was detained.

A student has told how she tied the knot with a professor from her university despite their 27 year age gap. When Mariam Trela, 26, first locked eyes with her 53-year-old husband Grzegorz Trela, he was a professor of philosophy at the same university in Morogoro, Tanzania where Mariam was studying an education degree. Starry eyed Grzegorz, who is originally from Poland, said it was 'love at first sight' when he took Mariam out for their first date in May of 2017.

Youssef Makki’s family was plunged into a nightmare when the bright and gentle Manchester schoolboy was shockingly killed in 2019. Here, his older sister, former schoolteacher Jade Akoum, 30, mum to Rafaat, 12, Zak, four, Daniel, three, and Yousef, 18 months, shares the harrowing story of her family’s fight for justice… "Seeing my son Rafaat setting off for school in his smart uniform always makes me proud. It’s the same uniform my brother Yousef wore to Manchester Grammar School, and it’s a poignant reminder of everything we lost when Yousef was stabbed to death in March 2019, aged just 17.There were 11 years between Yousef and me.

In Lalalaletmeexplain's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. With nearly 200k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers.

The nurse was telling me, “Push!” and I clenched Spencer’s hand as I dutifully did. I was so deep into the contractions that I really didn’t think about the fact we were filming the birth for my 425,000 YouTube subscribers. Capturing the amazing moment our daughter, Renaelia, was born was something my husband Spencer and I had always planned, because I’ve shared everything on my channel, Imogenation – the highs and the lows – since it launched in 2017.This was the biggest stage of my journey yet.

Since Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his invasion of Ukraine the news has been flooded with heartbreaking stories of innocent people fleeing their homes.Thousands of Ukranian citizens have crossed the border into neighbouring countries like Poland and Moldova, forced to leave behind treasured possessions in search of safety. But one woman who wouldn’t leave her pride and joy behind was Alisa Teptiuck.The 35 year old broke hearts after sharing a snap of her dog - a 12-year-old German Shepherd named Pulya (or Bullet, in English) - being carried to the Polish border on her husband’s shoulder.The photo went viral and left the internet praying for their safety. Belfast Live has exclusively shared the real story behind the powerful image and what happened to the fleeing family.

Lisa Buck was horrified by the news that Ukranian volunteer Anastasiia Yalanskaya, 26, had been killed after dropping off dog food to a shelter. But rather than put her off, the Norfolk animal lover instead took action…. “It was hearing on the news about desperate people in Ukraine running back to their animals and getting shot that made me stand up from the sofa one night, turn to my husband Bill, and say ‘I have to do something’.

Whether it’s how we do our work, keep in touch with our friends, or even how we stay in shape, our everyday lives are increasingly dominated by the online world. Despite the move to online, much of the Internet remains unregulated and many behaviours - including the sending of unsolicited pictures - aren’t treated with the same force as they would be if they took place in the ‘real’ world.

During primary school, if my fellow classmates and I behaved well during our morning assembly hymns, then as a treat we’d be allowed to sing S Club 7’s Reach to conclude proceedings. I would dutifully belt out ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’ and ‘Give me oil in my lamp’, dreaming of the big finale.The words would be projected onto the wall, but I didn’t need to look. “Reach for the stars,” I would sing/shout as I lifted my right arm up into the air forcefully and then outstretched it directly in front of me, shaking my fingers while slowly moving it to the right side.

A mum-of-three has found a way to solve all of her money struggles, thanks to her incredibly long legs. Cornwall-based Lizzy Groombridge was left struggling for cash after the pandemic hit, and with the cost of living continuing to rise things started to become difficult for her and her family. However, Lizzy soon found a unique, and very lucrative, method of earning money quickly - she started selling her XL tights for £45 a pair via adult content site OnlyFans.

A mum says she lets her six-year-old son choose when he goes to bed because it helps him learn from his mistakes. Hayley Ambrose, 34, says she's allowed Leyland to dictate his own nap time since he was a baby. "I couldn’t face the hours of bedtime hell if I tried to get him in bed for 7pm," she told The Sun.

This week, former Hollyoaks ’ star Lysette Anthony, 58, - who played Marnie Nightingale in the hit Channel 4 show from 2016 - has told how she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the young age of 52.The actress broke her silence for the first time in an exclusive interview and shoot with OK! , describing the lows she’s overcome since her initial diagnosis, and vowing to live life to the full now. Business owner Donna Marshall, 52, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, knows exactly the challenges faced by those living with Parkinson’s. Here she shares her story...