As a teenager, the coolest thing you could do was to get your belly button pierced. Unfortunately, with a strict Zambian mother, I was forced to skip that edgy phase, and more than a decade on, I find ...

Remember that scene from Freaky Friday when Lindsay Lohan, as her mother, screams, “You pierced your navel?” That sums up the energy around belly button piercings in the early 2000s — accessorized ...

While it might seem like just a belly button piercing, it was a turning point. It was the beginning of a new relationship — a respectful, mature and understanding relationship between my mother and I.