Belinda Jepsen

Senior Features Writer

Belinda Jepsen is a Senior Features Writer at Mamamia. As the point-person for the Real Life section, she loves little more than helping ordinary women tell their extraordinary stories, though also gets a kick out of news and current affairs. Before joining Mamamia in 2016, Belinda had worked as a staff writer for Australian news magazine, The Week, and as a news writer and road-tester for premium automotive magazine EVO Australia.

Belinda Jepsen

Senior Features Writer

How to have a conversation with someone who is experiencing domestic violence.

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What you need to know about AVOs and whether they actually work.

Emma Stone misses her real name. In fact, she wants it back.

34 years ago, thousands of kids were starved of human contact. Here’s what became of them.

6 important facts Australians should know about January 26.

How to have a conversation with someone who's against the push to change the date.

6 boys, a shipwreck and a deserted island: The incredible real-life Lord of the Flies.

An aircraft that never landed: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, JFK Jr, and the Kennedy Curse.

Robbie Williams and Ayda Field’s love story inspired a documentary, but their first date was anything but romantic.

In 1981, a man shot the President of the United States. The name on his lips was 'Jodie Foster'.

In 2016, the Tromp family fled their home and drove 800km north. We still don't know why.

Seconds into Taylah's 8-week ultrasound, the technician gasped.

The secret code word flight attendants use when a passenger dies.

In 2021, Linda Evangelista disappeared from public life. It had nothing to do with her 'disfigurement'.

When Matty J was 20 years old, he underwent cosmetic surgery because of a long-standing insecurity.

When Sunrise host Nat Barr was six months pregnant, she received the worst phone call of her life.

Sharon Davis was investigating Australia's biggest scammer. Then she realised she was one of her victims.

Is it harder to be a man than a woman right now?

Jessie Stephens was in Year 4 when she first felt like 'all the lights had gone out'.