by Stephanie Struyck | Nov 27, 2012 | Closeup, December/January
Photos courtesy of Steven Hemmert He proposes. She says yes. They get married and live happily ever after. Well, that is how the story is supposed to go, but it doesn’t always happen that way. Sometimes even the greatest of marriages end in divorce, leaving...
by Stephanie Struyck | Nov 27, 2012 | Closeup, December/January
At 18 months, he was diagnosed with ocular cancer. After months of chemotherapy and radiation, both of his eyes and optical nerves were removed. Having sight, at this young of an age, was not an option. Despite the challenges that he has faced early on,...
by Stephanie Struyck | Nov 27, 2012 | Closeup, December/January
While she may have started at a radio station, Bella was destined to be on television, and it’s no surprise, the camera loves her and fans adore her. Born in Austria, Bella and her family moved to Oklahoma when she was two years old. She later went to college...
by Victor De Dios | Sep 25, 2012 | Closeup, October/November
Many people may not know this, but there is a team of young equestrians just a few miles away that have been filling trophy cases at a rapid rate for a while now. Blue Shadows is best described as a cavalry-based organization where kids learn how to ride a...
by Stephanie Struyck | Sep 25, 2012 | Closeup, October/November
She was just like every little girl. She loved to dress up, play with Barbies, dreamt of getting married and living what would seem to be the “ordinary life,” but at the age of 12, Stephanie Magness discovered that her life was anything but ordinary....
by Stephanie Struyck | Sep 25, 2012 | Closeup, October/November
photos by Joie de Vivre photographie He took her hand and sang to her…as if she was the only one in the room. Forget the hospital bed she was laying on, the IV’s, medicines and patients in the other rooms. This moment was about her and only her. For a...
by élite Magazine | Sep 25, 2012 | Closeup, October/November
Two years ago, I began ballroom dancing, in preparation for my first Dancing With Our Stars (DWOS) experience and I haven’t stopped. I had decided to get involved with DWOS back in 2010 because I’ve had two sons with leukemia and was finally at a place...
by Stephanie Struyck | Sep 25, 2012 | Closeup, October/November
She’s the character people love to hate, Salem’s bad girl. She’s schemed and plotted, and was even involved in a baby switch. She’s meddled with the Bradys, the DiMeras and the Blacks, and has had a longstanding feud with her enemy, Sami Brady. Yet despite her role...
by Stephanie Struyck | Jul 25, 2012 | August/September, Closeup
Congratulations to Olympic medalist and our cover star for the June/July issue of élite Magazine, Allyson Felix, for landing a spot on the Olympic Team. Allyson will head to London alongside other USA medalist contenders for the London 2012 Summer Olympics...
by Stephanie Struyck | Jul 25, 2012 | August/September, Closeup
photos by Maureen Benoit Reach for the stars. Follow your dreams. Live the life you have always imagined. More than likely, you have heard one or all of these phrases at some point in your life, because let’s face it, we all want happiness and success. But...
by Stephanie Struyck | Jul 25, 2012 | August/September, Closeup
She was an adorable little four year old, whose parents took her to 60s and 70s pop icon B.J. Thomas’ concert. As she sat in the audience belting out all his tunes, the legendary singer invited her on stage to sing with him. From that moment on, it was...
by Stephanie Struyck | May 29, 2012 | Closeup, June/July
Twenty-eight year old Valencia resident, Sarah Wilson certainly has the entrepreneurial spirit. After tirelessly asking guests to remove their shoes prior to entering her home, Sarah had an idea…to create a reusable shoe cover allowing guests to keep their shoes on...
