35. 27 Dresses

35. 27 Dresses

Here's another wedding movie that plenty of women all over the world could relate to. "Always the bridesmaid, never the bride" best described the life of Jane Nichols, played by Katherine Heigl. She attends back to back weddings, wearing terrible dresses, a total of 27 (in case the movie title didn't give it away), in order to be the best bridesmaid for her friends. Love just doesn't seem to happen for Jane, until she meets Kevin (played by James Marsden).

Obviously, plenty of drama ensues and it almost all falls apart. But, predictably, it all comes good in the end and the couple live happily ever after. If you wanted proof that it's undoubtedly a chick flick, statistics about the audience revealed that 75 percent of viewers were women. Some critics called it cliché, we call it a perfect rainy day film!

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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