TODAY's 'Love Your Selfie' series explores our body image obsessions

Every day too many of us wake up unhappy with the way we look. TODAY wants to change that!
With the "Love Your Selfie" series, kicking off Saturday, Feb. 22, TODAY will examine the obsession with body image and how we can join together to feel more positive about ourselves. TODAY's anchors will take an honest and revealing look at how they feel about their own body image.

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Savannah selfie.

According to a new TODAY/AOL Ideal to Real Body Image Survey, to be released Monday, February 24, 67 percent of adult women worry about their appearance regularly—more often than finances, health, relationships or professional success.
In this special series, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Willie Geist, Kathie Lee Gifford, Hoda Kotb, Carson Daly, Tamron Hall, Lester Holt, Erica Hill, Jenna Wolfe and Dylan Dreyer will peel back the layers of their own insecurities, and will share the stories of people who are transforming the traditional definitions of beauty.

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Willie Geist selfie

On Monday, singer Jordin Sparks shares her experience of a week without makeup. On Tuesday Hoda Kotb talks to women over 40 about the challenges of aging and actresses Jacqueline Bisset and Jane Seymour open up about being a mature woman in the spotlight.
Next up, on Wednesday, actress Cameron Diaz and Maria Shriver talk about how we feed our body and the habits we pass down through the ages.
On Thursday, supermodel Naomi Campbell talks about photo-shopping and airbrushing in fashion magazines and the messages this sends to regular people.

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Al Roker selfie

On the Friday finale, correspondent Jenna Bush Hager spends time with the famously fit First Lady Michelle Obama.
TODAY invites viewers to join the conversation and celebrate every shape, size, and age by sharing selfies on social media using #LoveYourSelfie or by uploading images here.
Submitted photos may be featured throughout TODAY’s coverage. As part of the Love Your Selfie series, TODAY.com will feature galleries of selfies and original essays.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins Daytona 500 after long rain delay: 5 things you need to know

56th Daytona 500

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 23: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 National Guard Chevrolet, celebrates in Victory Lane with the the Harley J. Earl trophy after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 23, 2014 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Five things to know about the rain-delayed Daytona 500, NASCAR's signature event that finished under the lights Sunday at Daytona International Speedway:

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HENDRICK DOMINATION: Richard Childress Racing garnered attention last week. Joe Gibbs Racing grabbed headlines this week. Hendrick Motorsports left Daytona International Speedway with the only prize that really mattered.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won his second Daytona 500 and first in more than a decade Sunday night, overcoming rain and wrecks to end a 55-race drought with a victory under the lights at the famed speedway where his father died in a last-lap crash at the 2001 race.

"It's obviously very significant (when) any Earnhardt wins at Daytona," second-place finisher Denny Hamlin said. "It's a significant day for their family and great for the race team."

Oscar nominees swag bags revealed + a giveaway

 
The Oscars is Hollywood's biggest night, and not just because of the golden statues and star-filled red carpet. The enviable swag bags Academy Awards nominees receive for just being nominated are in a league of their own! The bags are so special in fact that each swag bag is worth over $80,000!

We shared with you the amazing swag bags Grammy nominees picked up back stage, and the same A-List company, Distinctive Assets, is behind the official Oscar nominees gift bags as well!

Filed with new technology, lust-worthy beauty products, cool gadgets, and tasty treats, this year's gift bag is truly a rising star.

Click through the gallery above to check out 20 of the gifts in this year's swag bags!

To share the A-List love with our readers, today and tomorrow only on Twitter, we're giving away 4 select items from the gift bag! Enter for a chance to win a Narrative Clip automatic camera, a Makeup Studio by Diane Capt beauty set, a Blossom Blends tea collection, and a Chocolatines Savory Wine Flight Pairing with a total approximate retail value of $513.95.

It's easy to enter, follow @AOL on Twitter and retweet 1 of 10 promotional tweets for a chance to win the 4 select items from the gift bag!

Official rules:
• Open to legal residents of 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
• To enter, retweet (true retweet, quoted retweets will not be counted) 1 of our 10 tweets stating "Retweet for a chance to win 4 luxury items from the official #Oscars nominee gift bag &! Rules: [LINK] #AOLGiveaway"
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• 1 randomly selected winner will win (1) Narrative Clip automatic camera, (1) Makeup Studio by Diane Capt beauty set, (1) Blossom Blends tea collection, and (1) Chocolatines Savory Wine Flight Pairing. The total value of the Prize(s) under this Agreement is $513.95.

Aspen socialite accused of car bombing her ex-husband

An Aspen socialite is on trial for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder after her ex-husband died from a bomb planted in his car. The crimes happened back in 1996. "Good Morning America" has more on the case that took 17 years to come to trial.

'Prosecutors say 56-year-old Pamela Phillips was accustomed to a lavish lifestyle.'

They say while she was married to real estate developer Gary Triano, she was treated to fancy cars and homes. After their divorce, the fortune began to dwindle.

Phillips allegedly hired a former boyfriend to kill her former husband with a car bomb.

Prosecutors allege Phillips' motive was to collect on Triano's $2 million life insurance policy.

According to the Arizona Daily Star, prosecutors accuse Phillips of paying Ronald Young $400,000 to kill her ex-husband. Young fled after Triano's death, but was arrested in 2005. In 2010, he was tried and convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

Authorities also found documents making Phillips, who had moved abroad, an additional suspect.

'Authorities say she knew she was wanted, and through her attorneys said she would be turning herself in. She never did. She was arrested and extradited,' KVOA reports.

At the time, a judge found Phillips unfit to stand trial. But now, years later, the trial is underway and one man who was with Triano right before he died is taking the stand. Here's KGUN.

'Luis Ruben Lopez and Triano played a round of golf at the La Paloma Country Club. Lopez said he shook triano's hand in the parking lot, said goodbye and walked to his car. That's when he heard the explosion,' KGUN reported.

Triano died almost immediately from the planted pipe bomb. Phillips has pleaded not guilty, and the trial is expected to last six weeks.