Happy Mental Health Month, readers!

To honor Mental Health Month, we’re doing a weekly challenge over at Your Body, Your Mind throughout the month.

This week’s challenge is to incorporate laughter into our daily lives.

The physical, mental, and emotional health benefits of laughter are plentiful. Laughter can boost endorphins, help you manage stress, help you get a better night’s sleep,

As people who read up on celebrity news or keep up with entertainment media, you’re probably well aware of the humor waiting around every corner!

So, why not take a page from the Your Body, Your Mind readers’ challenge and try to incorporate more laughter in your week?

Sometimes I get magazines to which I have absolutely no recollection of subscribing.

(I’ve mentioned this before.)

Maybe they’re marketing ploys, maybe they’re rewards for making some other purchase – I don’t know. All I know is they randomly show up and stay for a while before just as randomly disappearing.

My current mysterious magazine subscription is Watch!, a glossy-paged CBS (yes, the network) magazine that tells me all about certain television characters and what they’d purchase if they were, you know, real.

(Ah, advertising.)

Do I really have to give a reason why you should spend your weekend listening to Dave Matthews Band?

Really?

Well, if you insist.

Dave Matthews spent last Sunday helping raise money at the ninth annual John Varvato’s Stuart House Benefit.

The Stuart House is a facility for child victims of sexual assault established by the Santa Montica-UCLA Medical Center’s Rape Treatment Center.

According to the Stuart House page on www.911rape.org, the Stuart House:

[...] remedies many of the problems in the traditional system that often revictimize these profoundly traumatized children, such as multiple, repetitive interviews in cold, institutional settings; low prosecution rates; and critical shortages in expert medical care and therapy services.

Anyone surprised Oprah got the first interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown following the death of her mother, singing icon Whitney Houston?

Show of hands?

Nobody?

This Sunday (March 11, 2012) at 9 p.m. EST, OWN will air a much anticipated episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” during which Oprah sits down with Houston’s brother, Gary Houston, her sister-in-law and confidante Patricia Houston, and her daughter with Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina.

Speaking of MTV programming…

We’re pretty used to people either loving or hating reality television, yes? I mean, as an tube-viewing society, we get that some folks can’t wait to see more deliciously sweet bromance moments between Pauly D and Vinnie, and some would rather disconnect their cable service than watch one minute of Mafia princesses sluggin’ it out, right?

Right.

So, as the Teen Mom 2 finale last month got closer, I wasn’t all that surprised to see some of the usual positive and negative buzz pop up on the ‘net.

However, I was surprised – just a little – to see a certain type of negative buzz pop up again, and again, and again…

Teen Mom glamorizes teen pregnancy.

Glamorizes, as in, makes it look glamorous.

Um…have you SEEN this show?

As you can tell from the title, I’ve done this sort of post once or twice!

Not too long ago, Nicole Polizzi, a.k.a Snooki of Jersey Shore, tweeted a picture of herself without makeup. Naturally, the picture sparked a lot of interested because, you know, Snooki’s kind of known for wild hair and lots of makeup.

Among other things.

Anyway, people seemed to really like Fresh-Faced Snooki and maybe-or-maybe-not in response to the positive feedback, omg! Yahoo! published Celebs Unmasked, a quick slideshow of several celebrities without makeup including Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Jessica Simpson (not buyin’ it), Katy Perry (totally buyin’ it), and Nicole Scherzinger (The Pussycat Dolls).

So ladies, I’ve asked before and I’m asking again:

How does seeing celebs without makeup make YOU feel? Does it have any impact at all on your own makeup-less self-confidence? Or could you not care less?

Image Credit: Nicole Polizzi via Twitter

These days, Vanilla Ice spends less time rockin’ a mic like a vandal and more time flipping houses on his DIY Network show, The Vanilla Ice Project.

(Everything about that sentence is weird.)

Anyway, back when he was rockin’ mics, Vanilla Ice (pictured right with MC Hammer), the pop icon dealt with his fair share of celebrity stalkers.

Ice recently stopped by the Rolling Stone studio and talked about the time one girl followed him around the globe, flashing him at concerts and sharing Satanic literature in an attempt to get him to convert to her religion.

Guess the girlies were on standby to do more than just say hi.

OKAY! No more “Ice, Ice Baby” references, I swear. Head over to Rolling Stone’s “Vanilla Ice On Being Stalked By A Satanist” for the story, and don’t forget to check out Celebrity Or Not: Resources For Dealing With Stalkers.

Image Source: Wikipedia

Well, I would’ve never called him “crazy” to begin with (stigma people, stigma!) but Charlie Sheen definitely – and very publicly – dealt with some serious mental health problems.

After all the winning, questionable in-house rehab treatment, and radio rants, Sheen made one of his first calm and collected appearances back in September 2011 at the Emmys.

Now, Sheen’s coming out to say those “crazy” days are behind him.

During the Fox Network Television Critics Association party in Pasadena, California a couple of Sundays ago, Sheen said:

I’m not crazy anymore. That was an episode. I think I’m a different person than I was yesterday. Everything is a lot more mellow and focused and much more rooted in reality. (People)

What up guidos and guidettes!

(Can I get away with saying that? No? Hmm. Ah well.)

If you caught last night’s episode of Jersey Shore (or read the title of this post) you probably know what I’m getting ready to talk about.

In a move that shocked and saddened the nation (or, however many people tune in each Thursday night – I only recently became shamelessly obsessed myself) Vinny Guadagnino decided to leave the Jersey Shore for a little while, citing anxiety, depression, and insomnia as the reasons.

I am so proud of him.

It’s that time of year again…Top 10 Celebrity Psychings Posts of 2011!

Like last year’s Top 10 post, some of these aren’t even from 2011 (and some of them were actually featured on 2010′s list).

Timelessness will do that…as will the mention of an attractive naked actress!

Bada Bing!

Anyway, here are the 10 most popular Celebrity Psychings posts of 2011. Hope they go down as smooth the second time around!