You know how they say the best revenge is looking good and/or massive success? Mel B has both in the wake of her very difficult split from her abusive ex, Stephen Belafonte. Mel’s divorce, court case and custody battle are raging on. The last we heard she was contesting Stephen’s request for over $18,000 a month in spousal support. She’s also fighting a defamation lawsuit brought against her by a former nanny whom she accuses of colluding with Stephen against her, although she’s achieved some minor victories, like a restraining order against Stephen to prevent him from contacting her. The court has granted Stephen supervised visits with their daughter Madison, five.

People Magazine points out that Mel is looking slim and that it’s obvious in this crazy formfitting pink latex dress she wore to an America’s Got Talent event. She looks like a Barbie in that dress! In no way did she need to lose weight, she looked amazing before, and she still does. She may have been on the divorce diet where you lose a bit of weight without trying. I find that if something devastating happens in my life, like a major breakup with a significant other, I can’t eat. It doesn’t make me happy to lose the weight though because I have to be distraught to lose all interest in food. If it’s a typical breakup with an a-hole I realize I didn’t want in my life, I stress eat. I’m not crying into a pint of Talenti I’m just shrugging into one and saying f-k it.

Another thing I do when I’m going through a breakup is shop, and my weakness is shoes. Mel’s pink lace up pumps with eyes, hearts and crosses are DSquared2 Fall 2017, according to FootwearNews. Given the prices on the DSquared2 website I would assume that they retail for at least a thousand. That’s way out of my price range but damn, I get it. Plus Mel may have been gifted these shoes, and if not she can write them off as a business expense.

Anyway I’m so happy to see Mel rocking that dress and doing well. She deserves good things in her life and she’s well rid of that horrible excuse for a man.

This is Mel in March in a silver pantsuit. Living well is also the best revenge.

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