Archive for June 7th, 2006
Wild supermodel Naomi Campbell is planning to have a baby to help calm her turbulent life.
According to The Sun, Naomi is hoping to have a baby with the current man in her life Dubai petroleum heir Badr Jafar.
A friend of the model said: “She is desperate to have a baby with him. She hopes this will put an end to her wild days and make her life complete.”
A former maid of Campbell’s claimed earlier this year that the model had attacked her with a mobile phone over a misplaced pair of jeans…Campbell’s publicist has claimed that the maid’s ‘claim’ was in retaliation to being fired.
It is not the first time Campbell has been accused of not being able to control her temper. The model is currently writing her autobiography which she has promised it will “make a juicy read”…whether she will spill the beans on the truth behind her numerous alleged attacks on her hired help is another story.
June 7th, 2006
One less thing for Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo to worry about in the run-up to the World Cup - his supermodel girlfriend says she will never pose in the nude.
Raica Oliveira said in an interview published on Tuesday in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo that she planned to marry and to have children, but had no timetable set.
Asked if there was any work she would not do, she said: “I could not pose nude. Nothing against those who do, but I never felt right about it. It’s not something that would make me proud.”
Raica, 22, spent Monday with Ronaldo at the Brazilian team’s hotel in Konigstein, Germany, before heading back across the Atlantic for modeling assignments in New York and Rio de Janeiro.
“Raica, the solution for Ronaldo,” Folha said, noting that she had helped him deal with his blistered feet. He has been recuperating from blisters on both feet but resumed training with the team on Tuesday, Brazil’s squad doctor Jose Luis Runco told reporters in Germany. Brazil, the defending champion, plays Croatia in its first game next Tuesday in Berlin.
June 7th, 2006
It was a little bit like watching the band geek pick up the cheerleader when an awkward flirtation began between “Entourage” star Jeremy Piven and Karolina Kurkova Monday night.
Upstairs at the New York Public Library, where Piven was hosting Monday’s Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, the actor nervously stopped by the supermodel’s table, but it was the cheeky Czech who initiated the mating dance.
First she made a face, then she stood up in her full 6-foot-3-inch stilettos glory and leaned over the table to introduce herself. Kurkova came around the table, and, within moments, Piven and the blond, green-eyed vixen were flexing their muscles at one another, making funny hand gestures and giggling wildly. Just in time for dessert, the two then started giving each other little hugs, with the 22-year-old stroking Piven’s arm seductively.
“It was like watching your little brother flirt with your crush,” one spy commented. Before his tete-a-tete, Piven, 39, had confessed his qualms to us about hosting fashion’s biggest night. “I am viciously underqualified to do this, but admitting that is the first step to making this okay,” said Piven.
The breakthrough star is apparently hilarious in an improvised job interview — using his Hollywood agent character - that masochistic “Entourage” fans can submit to on hbo.com as the show’s new season starts Sunday.
June 7th, 2006
At five-foot-eleven and 117 pounds, the average North American fashion model is hardly representative of what most women look like - which is why Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (ANEB) Quebec has teamed up with 4corners productions to present Authenticité, a fashion show featuring models of all shapes and sizes.
Airbrushed images of super-slim women are ubiquitous in our culture, appearing on billboards, magazine covers, and television screens, said ANEB’s Executive Director Josée Champagne. “We are bombarded with these kinds of messages on a daily basis. It’s natural, it’s normalized, it’s seen as accessible. That’s what tricks us.”
The pursuit of physical perfection appears to transcend gender and age: Champagne said she’s seeing more and more men, middle-aged women and preadolescent girls suffering from full-blown eating disorders and varying degrees of body-image preoccupation. She recently fielded a call from a worried mother whose 11-year-old daughter was refusing to eat. When Champagne goes to local high schools to give presentations about eating disorders, she’s noticed more seventh-grade girls are dieting.Eating disorders have also touched the life of Authenticité coordinator Emilie Gauthier. Gauthier launched the first show last year to raise money for ANEB after watching a close friend struggle with anorexia for years. Though Gauthier is not anorexic herself, she too has struggled with her own body image. “Anybody who looks at themselves in the mirror these days has complexes about their bodies,” she said. “I had this frustration and I just said, screw it, this is not how you’re supposed to be.”
Gauthier rallied some close friends, found willing designers, and struggled to find sponsors. “I got turned down by almost every possible company,” she said. “The show survived, and this year people are taking it more seriously.”
The 30 models range in age from 15 to 30 and represent a diverse array of body types. “I purposefully chose regular people,” said Gauthier. “We’re not discriminating against smaller people. The main principle is to redefine the idea of beauty — a lot of people associate an individual’s image to his body. For me, a beautiful person is someone whose presence makes an impression on me and I remember them after they leave the room. It’s not about whether they have a tiny waist.”
While acknowledging that it’s tough to change standards that seem to have existed forever, Gauthier pointed out that the fashion industry’s preference for hyperthinness is a relatively recent trend. A beer advertisement from 1933 reflects the inverse of today’s cultural attitudes: it depicts a thin woman complaining of being “lonely and unhappy,” because “nobody likes a skinny girl.”
“In the 1940s and 50s, the models were big,” Gauthier said. The show is also a vehicle to get people talking about eating disorders and to make people aware there is help available.
“You often associate mental illness with shame, and we know that there’s a lot of people who suffer in silence,” acknowledged Champagne. “It’s okay to talk about it, and this is an opportunity for people to do that.”
The Authenticité Fashion Kabaret is slated to go Wednesday at downtown’s Club Soda (1225 Saint-Laurent Blvd.) Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance (call ANEB Quebec at +1 (514) 630-0907) or $25 at the door. All proceeds go to ANEB.
June 7th, 2006