Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘Bald and pregnant is not a good look’ RTÉ’s Evelyn O’Rourke on her cancer documentary
evoke.ieJust days after RTÉ reporter Evelyn O’Rourke found out she was pregnant, merely six months after giving birth, she knew something wasn’t right.
An angry spot on her breast wasn’t going away so she decided to go to the doctor. The former reporter on the Gerry Ryan Show remembers to this day the exact words the doctor used to break the head-spinning news she had cancer. ‘One of the things I bang on about is the wording doctors use is critically important.
I remember the words I was told when my father died and I remember being told about the cancer diagnosis,’ said Evelyn. ‘The medical community has to appreciate the words ricochet around your head for years and in my case, it was ‘We have a problem’. ‘I had discovered I was pregnant just
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