Tag Archives: smiling-on-set

Connie McCallister Found Alive in Mexico; Wisconsin Woman Missing Since 2004

Connie McCallister, a Wausau, Wisconsin woman who was 16 when she disappeared more than nine years ago, has been found living in Mexico. Sources say she could return home as early as Thanksgiving. Wisconsin Woman Abducted at 16 Found In Mexico McCallister, now 25, disappeared with her then 22-year-old boyfriend on August 15, 2004, when she was an honor-roll student at Athens High School. Her aunt, Florence Volzka, said the boyfriend drugged her to get her to Mexico, and that at one point, she was badly beaten and treated at a hospital. Someone helped her get a new identity, she added. McCallister got involved with a man who abused her, Volzka said, then found a good man whom she ended up marrying. She now has three young daughters. She escaped her initial captor /abuser, sources believe, but said since McCallister didn’t know Spanish, it was hard for her to contact family in Wisconsin. A church missionary recently met McCallister, learned of her plight and contacted the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children this summer. Wausau Police Capt. Greg Hagenbucher confirmed it is McCallister, who “did ask for help in getting home, but she won’t come back without her children.” He did not immediately offer an update on the then-boyfriend, who is also wanted on charges of first-degree sexual assault involving an unrelated victim. A group of volunteers at Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Athens, Wisc., is currently raising money to bring McCallister and her kids home. “We want to use this as an example for families with missing relatives to never give up hope,” Judy Weise, a family friend and church administrator said. “There’s always a chance their loved one could come home. Don’t ever give up hope.” Officials with the U.S. Consulate are working with McCallister to gather the required documents and ID records necessary for McCallister to return. McCallister is petitioning the court so her husband can join her in the U.S. Her aunt, Volzka said they will live with her and then move to another nearby when she back on her feet. She hopes to have her home by Thanksgiving. “She’s excited and she’s cautious and she knows it’s going to be whole new world again and she’s afraid,” Volzka said. “There are a lot of adjustments.” McCallister’s mother, Cindy McCallister, now lives in Florida. “I never gave up any hope of her,” Volzka, 56, of Medford, said by phone. “I always thought she would find a way home. She is very close knit with the family.” Volzka added that she first spoke with her in September through Skype and she looks the same, but with longer hair. “I cried for an hour,” she said.

Link:
Connie McCallister Found Alive in Mexico; Wisconsin Woman Missing Since 2004

Jessica Simpson Post-Baby Body Photo: Revealed in Weight Watchers Shoot!

Jessica Simpson is showing off her post-baby body once again, flaunting her svelte figure in a new picture while working with Weight Watchers on Friday. “Couldn’t stop smiling on set for my new campaign today,” the 33-year-old, dressed in dark jeans, boots, a tight-fitting white top and a smile, said. The singer-designer beamed with her mouth wide open, and with her beautiful blonde locks down in waves. Take a look at Simpson’s transformation: Eric Johnson’s fiancee shed 70 pounds after giving birth to daughter Maxwell in 2012, and has been back at it again since welcoming son Ace in June. Her secret? Beyond diet and exercise? “I’m a lot more confident in myself this time around,” the former Fashion Star mentor told Tumblr’s MomFeeds blog in an interview in late October. “With Maxwell I didn’t think about the weight I was gaining, and the first time I stepped on a scale … I was faced with a pretty serious truth,” she revealed. “I am just one of those pregnant women who gains a lot of weight. I have really big boobs. I have my curves. Even trying as hard as I did with Ace, I still gained.” “Definitely not as much as I did with Maxwell, but a significant amount.” She’s more Kim Kardashian than Kate Middleton , in other words, but because of that, Jessica Simpson says she realized what she had to do next. “With a toddler on the run and an infant to look after I knew I needed a plan that’s simple and fits into my life, along with the support that’s so important,” she said. “I know Weight Watchers works, so I got on the plan again.” Looks to be working wonders.

Excerpt from:
Jessica Simpson Post-Baby Body Photo: Revealed in Weight Watchers Shoot!