Figuring out the best way to help the world’s most vulnerable kids involved a 14-year journey that at times “felt like solving a jigsaw puzzle,” says Karen Spencer.
For Spencer, the key pieces of the puzzle are clear: love and connection.
Working with experts in child development, the mom of three — who was first inspired while taking parenting classes as a new mother — founded Whole Child International, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching caregivers and government officials how to create a more loving and nurturing environment for the children in their care.
“Simply by ensuring that children have quality primary-care relationships,...
For Spencer, the key pieces of the puzzle are clear: love and connection.
Working with experts in child development, the mom of three — who was first inspired while taking parenting classes as a new mother — founded Whole Child International, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching caregivers and government officials how to create a more loving and nurturing environment for the children in their care.
“Simply by ensuring that children have quality primary-care relationships,...
- 11/3/2017
- by Michelle Tauber
- PEOPLE.com
Jessica Chastain doesn’t want people to pity her three-legged rescue dog, Chaplin, when they see him out on a walk with her.
“He is so excited to be there with me going on a walk down the pavement, hopping along with the biggest joy you could ever see,” says the actress, one of People’s 25 Women Changing the World. She joins fellow stars Gal Gadot, Pink, Uzo Aduba, Jessica Chastain and America Ferrera, as well as epidemiologist Dr. Celine Gounder, Whole Child International founder Karen Spencer and primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, in this week’s issue.
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“He is so excited to be there with me going on a walk down the pavement, hopping along with the biggest joy you could ever see,” says the actress, one of People’s 25 Women Changing the World. She joins fellow stars Gal Gadot, Pink, Uzo Aduba, Jessica Chastain and America Ferrera, as well as epidemiologist Dr. Celine Gounder, Whole Child International founder Karen Spencer and primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, in this week’s issue.
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- 11/2/2017
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
Unofficially, 2017 is the year of Wonder Woman.
The superhero film starring Gal Gadot and directed by Patty Jenkins stormed the box office this summer, taking the No. 1 spot during its opening weekend back in June, and going on to become the highest grossing live-action film directed by a woman. Wonder Woman 2 is already set for a December 2019 release.
“I still need time to process everything because it’s been so incredibly, unbelievably amazing,” Gadot, 32, tells People in this week’s issue.
The Israeli actress kicks off People’s 25 Women Changing the World joined by five real-life wonder women: ER nurse Kelly Lynch,...
The superhero film starring Gal Gadot and directed by Patty Jenkins stormed the box office this summer, taking the No. 1 spot during its opening weekend back in June, and going on to become the highest grossing live-action film directed by a woman. Wonder Woman 2 is already set for a December 2019 release.
“I still need time to process everything because it’s been so incredibly, unbelievably amazing,” Gadot, 32, tells People in this week’s issue.
The Israeli actress kicks off People’s 25 Women Changing the World joined by five real-life wonder women: ER nurse Kelly Lynch,...
- 11/1/2017
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
Charles Spencer is a part of royal history himself — and he’s also an expert on the kings and queens of the past.
The author and historian’s latest book, To Catch A King: Charles II’s Great Escape, debuts this week and is a follow-up to his 2015 bestseller Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I. The book was celebrated at an event in London on Thursday at the Ralph Lauren store on fashionable Bond Street. (The location was fitting: Charles II loved clothes!)
A wonderful evening celebrating the launch of #ToCatchAKing now exclusively available...
The author and historian’s latest book, To Catch A King: Charles II’s Great Escape, debuts this week and is a follow-up to his 2015 bestseller Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I. The book was celebrated at an event in London on Thursday at the Ralph Lauren store on fashionable Bond Street. (The location was fitting: Charles II loved clothes!)
A wonderful evening celebrating the launch of #ToCatchAKing now exclusively available...
- 9/29/2017
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
Prince William and Prince Harry were hoping to catch up with their uncle Charles Spencer on Sunday, but family life intervened. "One of them had childcare issues - you can imagine which one," Spencer said at a charity event in his late sister's name in London on Monday. When it was suggested moving to today, he had to pass, saying he was giving out honors to young people from the charity set up in the name of their mother, Princess Diana. "There was an absolute immediate applause from both of them for you," he told the youngsters receiving The Diana Award on Monday.
- 7/4/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
It was a different age back in 1975 when Earl Charles Spencer and his older sister Diana moved into their revered 16th-century family estate known as Althorp. "When I came here as a child with my sister, it was my grandfather's house and he was very strict," Spencer, 52, tells People in an exclusive interview in this week's issue. "We weren't allowed to touch anything or even speak that much." But times have changed and now Charles and his wife Countess Karen Spencer - who have nine kids [eight are from previous marriages] - proudly display an inflatable bouncy castle in the state dining room. "It's a proper castle,...
- 7/1/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Former L.A.-based stay-at-home mom Countess Karen Spencer never set out to carry on the legacy of the planet's most beloved princess - but that's exactly what she's doing, says her husband Earl Charles Spencer, the younger brother of Princess Diana. "Like Diana, she gets her hands dirty with causes that other people might quietly walk away from," Charles tells People in an exclusive interview in this week's issue. "What my sister did for people with HIV/AIDS, the homeless and those suffering from leprosy, Karen is doing, fighting for orphans and abandoned kids." Now the countess - whose nonprofit,...
- 6/30/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The tiny island where Princess Diana was laid to rest - on the grounds of Althorp, the 550-acre English estate where the late royal spent part of her childhood - is in the midst of "beautiful" renovation, her brother Earl Charles Spencer tells People in an exclusive interview in this week's issue. "Before it was a sanctuary, very natural," he says of the project overseen by his wife, Countess Karen Spencer, whose nonprofit Whole Child International is focused on improving the lives of children living in Third World orphanages. "Now it will be a beautiful garden, unbelievably beautiful and appropriate.
- 6/29/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
When Karen Spencer became a countess in 2011 after marrying Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's brother and the 9th Earl Spencer, she moved into Althorp, her new family's 508-year-old English estate - and started making some changes. Among them: the addition of a bouncy castle to the state dining room. "A lot of people are quite surprised by it," Spencer, 44, tells People in an exclusive interview in this week's issue. "The one problem is that the children get terribly upset when we actually want to use the state dining room for. . . well, dining." Now Countess Spencer - whose nonprofit, Whole Child International,...
- 6/29/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Joanna Johnson is seen — though not often enough — as late-blooming lesbian Karen Spencer on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful. But her main claim to fame these days is as writer-executive producer of the new ABC Family drama The Fosters (premiering Monday at 9/8c). The series stars Teri Polo and Sherri Saum as lesbian parents Stef and Lena who preside over a multiethnic mix of kids, one biological, the others from the foster-care system. TV Guide Magazine spoke with Johnson — creator of the hit Kelly Ripa-Faith Ford sitcom Hope & Faith — to get the scoop on her newest primetime gig, where she's sharing exec-producing duties with the one and only Jennifer Lopez. And, of course, we had to find out if Johnson will ever come back to her much-missed storyline on B&B!
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- 6/3/2013
- by Michael Logan
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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