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FAIRLADY is a modern, glossy grown-up magazine that offers great stories and inspired solutions to the busy South African woman.

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12 weeks to SLEEK WITH FAIRLADY • On a mission to drop a few kilos? Pills, miracle shakes and crash diets can lead to fast but short-lived results. What you need is a game plan – and we’ve got it right here.

STUFF WE LOVE this month this month • A mixed bag this month – in the best possible way! Some of us are entertaining in style, others are pampering themselves or just enjoying a spot of edutaining…

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THE TRUTH • Elizabeth Gilbert became the voice of a generation of single women searching for happiness with her bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love. But it’s her story of marriage, divorce, falling in love with her best friend, then losing her to cancer that is most inspiring.

Go SMALL or go HOME!

ON THE GRAM!

THE HIGHS AND LOWS

AN OPEN LETTER TO MY BIOLOGICAL MOTHER

Bottled Sunshine • Melissa McCarthy tells us why she plans to keep putting ‘real women’ in movies, what’s next for her and why there’s no chance of getting above herself in her crazy household!

Cadboury Dairy Milk BREATHES COCOA LIFE INTO SA’S BEST-LOVED CHOCS • CADBURY HAS SHOWN ITS COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLY SOURCED COCOA THROUGH THEIR NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH COCOA LIFE.

Outsourced • Some days, you just don’t have the time or the energy to do it all yourself, whether it’s cooking a healthy meal when you get home after a long day of work, planning an event or doing office admin and accounting. The solution? Outsource it.

Admin Assist • LOURITA STOFBERG, MARCIA VORSTER & LETITIA PURCHASE

Strangers THINGS (to do on holiday!) • Some people like to spend their holidays lazing on a beach with a good book. If that strikes you as unimaginative and been-there-done-that, keep reading…

The 5 spookiest spots in SA • You don’t have to cross international waters to find your fair share of creepy. Here are five local haunted places.

DEADLY & DELICIOUS! • Tannie Maria may not be Sherlock Holmes, but could he bake buttermilk poppyseed rusks, dish out advice and solve a murder all before breakfast? I think not. The delightful agony aunt/ detective is back, sharing recipes and solving a murder (or two) in Sally Andrew’s latest cosy mystery, Death on the Limpopo.

Sally’s best BOOKS

‘Top 5 quotes from Death on the Limpopo’

DEATH ON THE LIMPOPO

THE ART of healing • When women with breast cancer undergo a mastectomy, they’re often left confused about the future of their bodies. Even after reconstructive surgery, the journey is not yet complete. These two cancer survivors are giving others hope with their amazing work in dermapigmentation and stick-on silicone nipples.

how INFLAMMATION COULD BE RUINING YOUR HEALTH – and 10 ways to tackle it • We’re bombarded with well-meaning health advice every day. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take a simpler, more unified approach to health, and could the key to this lie in the levels of inflammation in our bodies?

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