Crime Investigator.

Red 

Yolanda McClary, crime investigator and star of the show Cold Justice. (2018) 

I'll be honest. I was stunned by Yolanda McClary's beauty, and the depth in her eyes. When she spoke her keen intelligence, and the straightforwardness of her character got to me. Then I paid attention to the details...- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/3/19 

Yolanda McClary, crime investigator investigating a crime scene on an episode of Cold Justice in August 2015.

Essentially. . .

Pregnant in the morning. photographer unknown. 

Pregnant. Titled: "Waiting New Life" by Jose Sanabria, who lives in Spain.

"The special sense of being important is in the essence of becoming a better man as a father, and more than ordinary becoming a mother for a woman. Translating from one sense of being is growth; growth is the substance that launched us into the realm of existence. It was Will, Intent, Purpose, and Substances that congregated to become..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/14/18 


Women's Portraits Only (WPO) 

Simple the Moments, hard the tasks.

Mother asleep with her baby.

Mother of three. On dit, toutes les mamans sont belle. We love the variations of beauty they hold, and we behold with awe and respect for their inevitable changes! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1/5/18

from Mother's Milk

Jeneen Piccuirro to the left in long skirt with four friends making themselves into small people like the Borrowers!

(June 24, 2012). photo by Melanie Lesick Froemke

Jeneen Piccuirro, these special moments make and are the substance of bonding, the creation of the subtle things that need to take place within the formation of childhood long before the circles of innocence expand into adulthood.

Play.

It is always play that instructs and introduces children to the deep constructs of self, and purpose in life. Without it innocence takes a beating, and the heart struggles to keep ticking its rhythms in alignment with the 'why' of existence.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

9.14.16

Jayne Mansfield and daughter Mariska Hargitay

dancing together !!!!

Natalia Vodianova breast feeding her baby.

Gigi Dowell and her daughter "changing the world through changing ourselves", she says.

Powerful relationship through time.

Tippi Hedren with her daughter, Melanie Griffith on a set.

Tippi Hedren born Jan. 19, 1930 is a successful fashion model from her twenties, appearing on the front covers of Life and Glamour magazines among others, Hedren became an actress after she was discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. She received world recognition for her work in two of his films, the suspense-thriller The Birds in 1963, for which she won a Golden Globe, and the psychological drama Marnie in 1964. Hedren has appeared in over eighty films and TV shows including Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong, the Alexander Payne political satire Citizen Ruth, and the David O. Russell existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, and her contributions to world cinema have been honored with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame among others.

She is also the mother of actress, Melanie Griffith from her first of three marriages to Peter Griffith.

from IMBd 

Melanie Griffith with her mother Tippi Hedren at a LA party in September 2012.

A Beautiful Setting.

Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner attending Ciara's baby shower in West Hollywood, California on March 22, 2014.

Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner attending Ciara's baby shower in

West Hollywood, California on March 22, 2014.

Envliven Vida

Vida Guerra's family.

The proverbial 'apple does not fall from the tree' is common enough a compliment about a woman's mother's beauty, her spirit or way of being herself, or a bad man's son is the apple fallen from the tree.

In the case of the actress, Vida Guerra, her mother is the breathtaking beauty her daughter came from to become an international heartthrob and object of dream and lust for millions of men. What is the feeling of the difference between a woman's ability to suspend time for her husband over a period of years with her sexual allure and a daughter famous for her sexual allure on the national, and if it is national these days it is international, stage? Is it more threatening, titillating, or is it an aphrodisiac?

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
October 25, 2016

Vida Guerra by Daiva Channing

We teach ourselves to live.



Halle Berry making a point. It could be any point, but the primary point to make is how are we living alive, or are we dead to who we are in the world? After all, we chose this life. How, or if we dissuade ourselves from this recollection is a matter of choice. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories October 2015

Kat Von D in a mirror, as we all do, with her back to it. It is the Way of Indifference in the stage of our lives we don't or can't see ourselves. Being authentic is as much an art as drawing. Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12.12.15

mother healing through relaxation ...

 

a Circle Teaching



Jane Mansfield by Ralph Crane in 1958.

Mariska Hargitay and her mother Jayne Mansfield.

Legacy is a natural occurrence, an event without end beginning somewhere beyond our individual births. How it ascends or descends is the parent's gift to child, and on a larger scale legacy moves through culture and history as a series of stories building a creative, or destructive momentum into lives. Legacy is complex as well as revelatory. The life you lead leads somewhere, came from somewhere and goes somewhere influencing, telling, objectifying, clarifying and mystifying us all.

This human experience. With its built-in résistance to change, to evolve coveting for the beyond experience of heaven brings hope to the heart and at the same time retards the life flow from the beyond in the present where we need to be to fully understand the fluidity of life-death-resurrection. This is the problem of belief in religion. It is the living within someone else's experiences with God!

How you live the experiences with Creation in relationship to the great mysteries, the unfolding of belief into knowledge, how the Creator and you talk with each other in the silences is the Mystery. This is the Beyond in the present. This legacy is the event without beginning somewhere beyond our individual births ascending and descending from soul to soul, Earth to formlessness, from one to the other. Within us all is the capacity to hold the universe. 

It is a lot to think about if you want to not feel it all. If you want to think about it Murray Gell-Mann said, "What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful, or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant." 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 6, 2016

Jayne Mansfield and daughter Mariska Hargitay dancing together !!!!

 

BEARing it ALL!

There are two controversies here that are socially debated and vacillating between decency and indecencies and both are basic and natural to the processes of women, and essentially comforting to a baby: their mother's naked body and breast feeding! This riddle is really something to behold in a time, in a culture priding itself on the illusion of its advancements in its disciplines, and acceptance of lifestyles, and people. The human condition of vulnerability doesn't sit well within the frame work of an apex predator; nor does the full acceptance of Womanhood make the current state of masculinity comfortable with its inconsistencies. Manhood and Womanhood collide within the ideals of their identity not because the two are from different planets, but because the two were separated at the inception of the birth of the ideas of power within the relationships that governed survival, and privilege in American life! 

Think back to long ago times that support the American notion of time, sex, place, dignity, property, and the stories that come together to agree to exist as social mores, and look at the unraveling of mutual agreements to make sense of the violence permeating in homes and streets throughout the American landscape. The entire controversy is avoiding exposure to the depth of living as Messiahs. Our cultural patterns avoid examining its prophets. We live in great fear of the wise 'knowing' of initiated awareness that deepens the experience of living human and with humanity. Our game keeps people dumb enough, and crude enough to support a standard vaulting itself above the natural laws of existence and abundant living co-existing as wholeness! ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.06.14

pregnant Monica Bellucci 

MONICA BELLUCCI

The Italian actress showed off her bump for a worthy cause - to protest the country's laws against the use of donor sperm - on the August 2004 cover of Italian Vanity Fair. Six years later, the second-time mum, 45, posed again (in black lingerie) for the magazine's April 2010 issue. "Women who have children late like me are always told how brave they are," says Bellucci. "But I don't feel brave, I just feel very lucky."

Photo: Vanity Fair

Sloth bears

Sloth bears 

breast feeding mother - Olivia Wilde, actress for Glamour magazine! 

“Breastfeeding is the most natural thing,” Olivia Wilde told the magazine, regarding the pose in which she’s wearing a Roberto Cavalli dress and Prada shoes while nursing her naked infant son. “I don’t know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast.” Wilde added, ”Being shot with Otis is so perfect because any portrait of me right now isn't complete without my identity as a mother being a part of that.”

her Story

LEGACY TO DAUGHTERS



Raquel Welch at 70  

When is it 'bad' for daughters to be like their mothers? When is it good and rewarding when the daughter's life is a mirror of her mothers? Both questions are long roads around the central theme of most dialogues weighing in on the legacy of Raquel Welch's life when her daughter posed for Playboy as a young woman!


First, Playboy is an achievement for writers, photographers, fashion icons and models. Its founder is important to America's intellectual advancements in race relations, sexual rights, the women's movement, and the Civil Rights movement and also Playboy's founder, Hugh Hefner has stirred the nation to answer and dare the questions that challenged American's contradictions and challenges around sex, sexuality and sexual freedom and expression from its inception in the 1950's forward to the present day. With this backdrop how do we teach our daughters to be women? 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of StoriesMay 21, 2015



Playboy cover Tahnee Welch (1995)

MOTHERS in ISLAM

Many parts of the world will celebrate Mother’s Day this Sunday, focusing on mothers and their contributions to their families. Since there is a negative stereotype of how Islam views women, many people may not know that mothers specifically and parents in general are held in very high esteem in the faith. There are verses in the Qur’an and hadith that emphasize the burdens that a mother carries and the respect that should be accorded to her. In this post, I will focus on the importance of mothers in Islam.
The verses of the Qur’an that address the mother emphasize the difficulties of pregnancy, labor, and breastfeeding and the need to respect one’s mother. These verses many times mention parents in general but go into detail in regard to the mother because she faces challenges that a father does not. Verse 15 from chapter 46 illustrates this point.

And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, “My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.

This verse begins with a command for both parents, but goes into detail in regards to the mother and the difficulties she endures. The command to treat parents with kindness means to treat them with respect under all circumstances, to obey them unless it goes against an edict of the faith, and to care for them in old age as they cared for you as a child.

A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of God! Who among the people is the most worthy of my good companionship? The Prophet (PBUH) said: Your mother. The man said, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man further asked, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man asked again, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your father. (Bukhari, Muslim)



Family happiness

 A man once consulted the Prophet Muhammad about taking part in a military campaign. The Prophet asked the man if his mother was still living. When told that she was alive, the Prophet said: “(Then) stay with her, for Paradise is at her feet.” (Al-Tirmidhi)

On another occasion, the Prophet said: “God has forbidden for you to be undutiful to your mothers.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari)
 
In the first hadith, the Prophet highlights the importance of the mother over the father by repeating “your mother” three times and then saying “your father” once in response to the man’s question.

The second hadith illustrates the significance of the mother by placing caring for her over going to war to defend Islam. In other words, caring for his mother is also a way for a man to serve God. By saying that entrance into paradise is linked to caring for and respecting a mother, the Prophet accords them a great honor. In the last hadith, the Prophet asserts that disobedience of mothers is a sin.

All the verses and hadith on mothers demonstrate the importance of this figure in Islam. They also show that the mother is accorded a higher honor than even the father because of all the responsibilities she has towards her child. The Prophet never saw his father because he died before his birth and he lost his mother when he was six years old. Yet many hadith show that he understood the importance of one’s parents, especially the mother. Many Muslims will say that Islam emphasizes the importance of the mother so much that Mother’s Day is not one day a year but should be everyday. -

Hajja Ayisha Jeffries Cisse 

May 6, 2016 near Atlanta, GA ·

 

 

 

Angolan mother & her child. photo by Eric Lafforgue



Heather M. Levy with her son . . .



nursing her baby.





Staceyann Chin breasts feeding on steps of Union Square in NYC. July 27, 2012



 

Noble

a very pregnant Jennifer Love Hewitt on a Starbucks hike August 9, 2013
photo: Flame/Flynet Pictures 

LIVING LIFE

Cowgirl and her horse.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

“Know your own true worth, and you shall not perish. Reason is your light and your beacon of Truth. Reason is the source of Life. God has given you Knowledge, so that by its light you may not only worship him, but also see yourself in your weakness and strength.” - Kahlil Gibran

face of Chata Poole-Seymour 

A Dark Mystery for Her: her Vagina

Vagina Politics: Learning Mine and Teaching My Daughter to Love Hers

by Mlilo Mpondo
Saturday, July 12, 2014


I found my daughter fiddling with her vagina in the bathtub. The said vagina will here forth be referred to as a pony. It is far too cute to be burdened with the responsibilities that come with having a vagina. She was in the bath and suspiciously quiet. Bath time is always her opportunity to work my last nerve, so the silence was unheard of. I found her chubby hand beneath clear water fiddling with whichever part of her body stays hidden below her plump belly. I soon found that what had her attention was her pony.


Thoughtlessly my immediate response was to hit her hand away and scold her for behaving improperly. A surge of discomfort overwhelmed me. She is too young to have been doing anything more than attending to an itch, but seeing her hand on her pony--a place she had never done anything more than graze absentmindedly--fueled the lava in my spine. I preferred it when she didn’t know it was there. Consciously touching it meant that she was learning a part of her anatomy--a part I prayed would keep itself hidden below the plump until I was ready to acknowledge that at some point it would no longer be my baby’s pony.


My unwarranted outburst was, of course, a product of my own conditioning. I was transferring my vagina dramas onto my baby. I officially met my vagina in my twenties. When I was younger it never really belonged to me. Its initial role in life was as my mother’s pony. When it was no longer cute, it was something that I was warned everybody was after. What it is that they wanted from it was unbeknownst to me. As far as I was concerned, it was the furthest thing from attractive. All I knew was that despite its appearance, no one, including uncles and older brothers, was allowed within a one mile radius of it. Why it was strictly off limits was never explained. All I knew is that it was to be kept hidden behind closed legs, full panties and hems that grew longer the taller I grew.


As a girl, I walked around oblivious to the purpose of what was kept hidden in my panties. Its importance was never shared with me, but what I soon understood was that I had become the custodian of a “private part” kept private from everyone, myself included. When I turned 13, the secret started to scare me. A white substance had begun to visit and stain my underwear. Because it resembled sour milk, I assumed it was caused by too much milk at breakfast. But when it persisted even after I had eliminated milk as an ingredient in my diet, I began to worry. I had not an inkling of where it came from, but I was petrified of being caught for something I hadn’t done intentionally. So each time I went to pee, I’d check to see if it was still there. If it was I would pour hot water into the sink, add a drop of antiseptic fluid, lock the bathroom door and ferociously scrub away. It burnt so much my vagina might as well have been the burning bush, but I refused to be burdened by more than one secret at a time. Of course the white substance, which I learned was discharge, stayed with me well into my mid-teens. Thankfully Google, the greatest gift to mankind since the dawn of the microwave, let me know that the crime scene in my underwear was completely natural.


Because I had no relationship with my vagina, I had no relationship with what was done to and with it. I gave my virginity as a gift to a man that found a song in me. If life were possible without breathing, I would have given him my breath as a dowry, so in its place I offered my hymen instead. My Catholic prudishness has always kept me from engaging in anything that even Jezebel’s distant cousin twice removed might be caught doing, so like a good girl I never watched porn.
When my first time came, I brought a) No bedroom skills and b) A vagina I knew nothing of. I didn’t know what to make of the experience; it was both awkward and agonizing. In a dorm room on disheveled crisp, tan bed sheets, the said lover draped my thighs around his waist like a constellation of silver moons and planted kisses of wanting on the skin that covered my trembling body--obviously having had practice. But I didn’t know how to move or how to feel, so I just lay there.


I lay there clenching the life out of the metal headboard feeling its cold swallow the warmth of my palms--hoping that it would swallow the pain in my limbs along with it. I lay there dumbfounded because this was the first time I had ever had any interaction with my vagina. Through somebody else’s endeavour it had morphed from something I used daily to pass urine into something that had feeling.


At varsity my friends and I had become comfortable with the idea of sex--a word we were forbidden from uttering when we were younger for fear of falling pregnant on the spot. We shared personal experiences over wine at dinner tables. At first we were embarrassed by the idea of revealing intimate moments, but it was a quiet shame that soon evaporated along with sobriety. At these dinner tables I learned that not all women have the same relationship with sex. Some of us hate it. Some of us derive a sense of empowerment from it, and some of us are curious enough to have it by ourselves. I personally enjoyed it and at times when the person in bed with me gave the kind of love that could make my insides melt to sweetness, I fell in love with it. However what I never had was an orgasm.


Because “coming” is something I thought was a given, I thought I had been “coming” all along. A girlfriend of mine deflated my delusion and explained in detail what climaxing really was. Upon inquiry, more girlfriends of mine corroborated this description, and from this I learned that I had no idea what orgasm-ing really was. I obviously still had a lot to learn. The more liberated girls suggested that I try it on my own; apparently the only way I would ever know what I really liked was by sticking my index finger into myself and fiddling. The more adventurous candidates on my sexual advisory board suggested more audacious methods that I dare not repeat. This, they said, was the surest way to know what an orgasm felt like. I never did try any of it because truthfully I was petrified of my body, it had never belonged to me, first it was my mother’s to protect and dictate the movement of. Then it learned to find satisfaction with whomever I had allowed to claim it at the time.


I now realize that my relationship with sexuality has always been dictated to me. From the time that my mother scolded me for sitting with uncrossed legs to when a boyfriend assumed that I enjoyed having my vagina showered by his saliva. It is absurd that, even behind closed doors, the concept of touching a part of my own body would make me feel uncomfortable and even silly.


The subtle lessons that were taught to me as a girl--the inhibiting of exploring my own anatomy--set in motion subliminal boundaries that have since policed the course of my self-actualization as a woman.


But as a mother to a daughter, I try to break these boundaries every day--hoping that it will allow her to live freely, not only sexually but as an individual. I was never sure where to start, but now I know that her first lesson is free reign over her anatomy. I want my daughter to learn her vagina. Maybe through a good relationship with it she will, as a woman, come to know herself.



Paris Hilton's contradiction as an invitation !!!!

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Elegance, Presence & Fun

2016 Critics' Choice Awards - Hayden Panettiere by Jason Merritt
is one of the happiest people in Hollywood.

2016 Critics' Choice Awards - Krysten Ritter by Jason Merritt

 

AMY ADAMS

Amy Adams, actress
at a Vanity Fair party hosted by Graydon Carter . 2012

actress Amy Adams!!!!

SUICIDE in MOTHERS !!!!



Tunisian woman in white dress - August 27, 2013

"What is it in the Qu'ran that makes a person believe that if he/she straps a bomb on their chest then go out and kill themselves and hundreds or even millions of people they will be rewarded by their god?" - Willie Cook 10.27.13 





Iranian Muslim woman texting in 2013.

I did not seek the holy Qu'ran for answers to the why, or the purpose of women suicide bombers. I looked into those women and asked myself, "What did we do to push a woman to the extreme to protect her family, her people and her nation?" 

Americans, the aggressors, and Israelis, for example, do not ask of themselves this question, or make inquires into the soul of the people they've invaded to discover and discern what they have created in women, who birth the nation, who tell the story of their people, and their states of being... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.27.13

call to prayer

Sandra Bullock through another's eye.



Sandra Bullock in t-shirt.

"I want to take time and reflect every time I see Sandra Bullock on screen or in a photograph. It is the timelessness arising from her, I guess. What I know is a subtleness circulating within the naturalness of her beauty, but the depth of it is how and how hard she worked to attain her stature as a top draw in her industry. Those parallel stories pale against the backdrop of authenticity because the truths people discover about themselves unfolds continually. What is done with each revelation is a revelation in support or denial of who we are alive. Sandra Bullock is not different, or exempt from this law, and other laws." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.01.15

Sandra Bullock wild in composure on red carpet.



Sandra Bullock (r.) and her sister Gesine Bullock-Prado ran Sandra's production company, Fortis Films
producing films with Warner Bros. to the tune of $700 million according Forbes magazine.

So here is what someone (not me) has compiled about Sandra Bullock's life:

She's one of Hollywood's highest paid actresses, and for good reason! Everyone loves Sandra Bullock! From her more serious, award-winning roles in films like "The Blind Side" to her lighter, hilarious turns in classics like "Miss Congeniality," Sandra has been charming audiences since she got her big break in 1994's "Speed." With her newest flick "Minions" hitting theaters on July 10, 2015, we're taking a look back at Sandra's life in pictures.

Sandra Bullock was born on July 26, 1964, in Arlington, Va., but spent much of her childhood traveling through Europe with her mother, a German opera singer. Sandra caught the entertainment bug after making her first appearance on stage with a tiny role in an opera in Germany when she was 5. While she told People magazine that junior high was "hell," since she'd just returned to America right before enrolling and didn't fit in, Sandra ended up flourishing in high school. Heavily involved in both theater productions and on the cheerleading squad, Sandra graduated and went on to study acting at East Carolina University.




Sandra Bullock © Everett - REX USAW
not long after college in late '80's

Sandra Bullock dropped out of college in 1986 and moved to New York City to try her hand at acting. After landing her first gig in an off-Broadway play, Sandra found an agent. Her first jobs, however, weren't very glamorous: They ranged from B-movies to short-lived sitcoms, including 1990's "Working Girl."

















Sandra Bullock thought her first major break came in 1993 when she was cast to replace Lori Petty in the Sylvester Stallone film "Demolition Man" -- but the film received terrible reviews. Despite the lack of quality material, Entertainment Weekly pointed out that Sandra made "something out of a nothing role." The next year, Sandra Bullock landed the role that would make her a household name. Audiences loved her performance opposite Keanu Reeves in the 1994 action flick "Speed," and her career skyrocketed. After "Speed," Sandra Bullock became a box-office darling, dominating multiplexes in films like "While You Were Sleeping," "Hope Floats," "The Net" and 1998's "Practical Magic" alongside Nicole Kidman.




Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in 1998's Practical Magic !!!!

In 1996, Sandra Bullock linked up with her "A Time to Kill" costar Matthew McConaughey. Things got serious and Sandra reportedly moved to Austin to be closer to Matthew. "You never know when you'll fall in love; you don't expect it. And I fell in love with Austin," Bullock explained to In Style magazine. The two broke up in late 1997, but remained good friends. In 1998, Sandra Bullock developed her own production company, Fortis Films. Her younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, helped run the business, which went on to produce films with Warner Bros. that brought in $700 million at the box office, according to Forbes magazine.

Sandra Bullock ushered in the aughts with 2000's "Miss Congeniality." The flick really let her comedic talents shine, and thanks to its box-office success, Sandy signed on for a sequel in 2005. Switching gears, Sandra Bullock tried her hand at executive producing in 2002. After meeting stand-up comedian George Lopez, she agreed to serve as EP on his ABC sitcom "George Lopez." The successful television show ran for six seasons. The same year she made the transition to executive producing television, Sandra Bullock also starred in the psychological thriller "Murder by Numbers" alongside a young Ryan Gosling. The two hit it off, and despite their 16-year age difference, went on to date for a year.

In 2004, Sandra Bullock starred in the drama "Crash." Some critics considered it the best performance of her career, and it was the first of many roles that would take Sandra to the Oscars. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Sandra Bullock fell for tattooed motorcycle man Jesse James in 2003. The two met when Sandra had arranged for her 10-year-old godson to meet the "Monster Garage" star. Sandra and Jesse married two years later in July 2005.




Sandra Bullock & Jesse James by Peter Kramer in 2003

Sandra Bullock had a big year in 2009: She enjoyed huge commercial success with her Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy "The Proposal," and her sports drama "The Blind Side" that same year marked a turning point in her career as Sandy won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in March 2010 for her work in "The Blind Side," Sandra Bullock stepped out of the spotlight. She faced difficulty in her personal life when it was revealed just eight days after her Oscar win that her husband Jesse James had cheated on her, something he would later publicly confess. Sandra filed for divorce in April 2010.

In the midst of the divorce drama, Sandra Bullock debuted her adopted son Louis Bullock on the cover of People magazine. Opening up abut the adoption process, Sandra explained that she and ex-husband Jesse James brought Louis home in January 2010 but chose to keep him out of the public eye. After starting divorce proceedings, Sandra shared that she would be finalizing the adoption as a single parent.

Making her return to the big screen after a brief break from the spotlight, Sandra Bullock starred in 2013's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" alongside Tom Hanks. The film ended up garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Sandra Bullock had a big year in 2013 too. The actress released two films: the box office smash "The Heat" alongside Melissa McCarthy, and the critically acclaimed drama "Gravity" with George Clooney. Her success with these two major roles led Entertainment Weekly to name her its 2013 Entertainer of the Year.

In 2014, Sandra Bullock topped Forbes' list of the highest earning actresses thanks to her estimated haul of $51 million. Sandy could credit her roles in 2013's "The Heat" and "Gravity" for the honor, with the latter also landing her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. People magazine named Sandra Bullock the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" in 2015. Next up, Sandra can be heard voicing the villainess in the animated film "Minions."

By Mark Gray
Sept. 30, 2015

Wonderwall

Sandra Bullock and her son Louis going somewhere !!!!