Mariska graces the May cover of Health Magazine. You may recognise the shoot being from 2005 but she was wearing the top in blue. You can read the full interview here and also some health care tips from Mariska here.

Mariska attended the 6th Annual Can-Do Awards Dinner on April 21 looking lovely.

Arriving.

With Rachael Ray.

The Nuddle Blanket and Joyful Heart Foundation have collaborated to create the Joyful Nuddle, a Nuddle blanket to support the foundation.

Mariska said, “I am so pleased to add the Joyful Nuddle to our Heartshop. All the products we sell to benefit Joyful Heart are designed to inspire, offer comfort and assist in the healing journey. I can’t think of a better way to remind survivors of the way we hold them in our hearts — with an abundance of care and support — than the Joyful Nuddle.”

Read a press release about the blanket here: PRNewswire and purchase you blanket now at NuddleBlanket.com

Mariska’s mother, the legendary Jayne Mansfield, would have turned 76 today (19th). On behalf of Love Train we’d like to extend our wishes out to Mariska and her family on this special day.

Mariska and her Momma.

Happy Birthday Jayne!

We would like to wish Mariska’s good friend Maria Bello a belated Happy 42nd Birthday for the 18th of April. My good friend Jess runs this excellent site on Maria -congrats on one year online!- so do check it out!

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has officially been renewed for an 11th season. Chris and Mariska still have not signed contracts, so no idea if they will be back yet.
Source: Reuters

Mariska will be honored at this year’s Rays of Hope Awards Gala for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship! The event will be on May 13th in Washington, D.C.

The Rays of Hope Awards Gala honors the work of individuals and organizations that have been outstanding. You can read more about the gala here and purchase tickets for the event. Mariska was actually going to be honored last year at the 2008 awards gala, but she did not attend, so hopefully she will attend this year.

Because April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Philosophy is giving away a free tube of their peach lip gloss with your order of the Philosophy Joyful Heart bottle or the Joyful Heart candle! The promotional code ends April 30th, and all you need to do is type in “joyfulheart” at the checkout. You can see the products here and make your order: Joyful Heart at Philosophy.com

Also, Joyful Heart has created a Facebook page! If you have a Facebook account and want to be a friend and fan of their page, log onto Facebook.com and see the Joyful Heart page: here!

Has anyone done call-in donations for Joyful Heart Foundation yet? If you have, leave us a comment! We would love to know what you think of CharityCall!

Also, we understand that many of you have been wondering whether Mariska will be back for the 11th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. We have no idea yet either! There have been a few articles floating around saying that nothing has been decided yet. We will let you know, though, as soon as some good news appears. Fingers crossed!

Mariska is featured right now on GoodSearch.com’s “Who’s Doing Good” page. GoodSearch.com is a fabulous site that allows you to select a charity to donate to every time you do a website search. It works like Google or Yahoo! Search, so all you need to do is type in a topic and select Joyful Heart Foundation as the charity of your choice. Each and every time you do a search, money goes to Joyful Heart. It’s an incredibly easy and great way to donate!

See the blurb about Mariska and the Joyful Heart Foundation here: GoodSearch.com – Who’s Doing Good and start searching here: GoodSearch.