Archive for August 13th, 2009
Supermodel Cindy Crawford is currently enjoying a luxury holiday on a yacht in St Tropez, it has been reported.
Pictures in the Daily Mail show 43-year-old Crawford relaxing on the deck of a boat called Utopia with her husband Rande Gerber and a number of friends.
Brits who want to try and make sure their own summer holiday is as relaxing may find that having travel insurance puts their mind at ease and helps to partly cover the financial cost of any incidents which may occur.
Whether holidaying by boat, plane or car, Brits should always check they have valid travel insurance cover before setting off.
The supermodel and her husband are on a summer getaway around Europe which has so far seen them soak up the sun with fellow A-lister George Clooney at his villa on Lake Como, in Italy.
Other recent holiday shots show the party hitting the Italian roads on motorbikes.
Brits planning to take part in such activities on a break may be glad of a holiday insurance policy should an accident occur and costly medical treatment be required.
source: world-first.co.uk
August 13th, 2009
We haven’t had a Gisele Bundchen baby story in awhile. So I figured, hey, it’s Thursday and I am up celebrating the children of my neighborhood’s return to school with a couple of martinis and I remembered how grateful I am to not be knocked up and able to have a liquid breakfast.
Anywho…Tom Brady and Gisele are still trying to keep their baby a secret, but failing miserably. Lady Brady was photographed holding a puppy and sporting a huge bump. So she either ate a breakfast burrito or is several months along in her pregnancy.
Tom did recently mention he wants several more kids. This will be baby number two for the Patriot QB. Bridget Moynahan is the mother of his first child, John Edward Thomas.
“I want a lot of kids. I’d love four or five. We’ll see. It’s not always my decision.”
source: allieiswired.com
August 13th, 2009
She may have turned 40 in December, but Helena Christensen shows she’s still got a body to die for as she poses nude for a French magazine.
The Danish-born supermodel covers her modesty with her arms in a sultry black and white shoot for fashion publication Citizen K.
The raunchy photograph, which appears on the cover of the magazine’s summer issue, comes after the mother of one made her return to the catwalk in Stockholm, Sweden for label Odd Molly.
Helena, who is rumoured to be dating musician Paul Banks from the band Interpol, made an appearance on the runway during the fashion show last week.
And as well as being a natural in front of the lens, she is also a whizz behind the scenes and been honing her photography skills.
She has officially snapped Bono as well as stars such as REM’s Michael Stipe and Robbie Williams and held her first exhibition in 2006.
Last year she fronted a lingerie campaign as a saucy pirate queen for Agent Provocateur.
She stole the show from model-of-the-moment Alice Dellal, who is nearly 20 years her junior.
Helena, who has a nine-year-old son, Mingus, currently splits her time between New York and Copenhagen.
source: dailymail.co.uk
August 13th, 2009
She’s one of the top bikini models in the world and Bar Refaeli didn’t disappoint as she posed for the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
The 24-year-old looked to be having a ball as she joked around with the crew during the shoot at an undisclosed location.
She was pictured in several bikinis throughout the course of the day – and she looked fantastic in all of them.
In one shot the model is pictured wearing huge sunglasses and in another she cheekily pulls down her bikini strap while posing with the magazine staff.
Bar became the first Israeli model to appear in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue two years ago and appeared on the cover of the much acclaimed issue this year.
She started modelling when she was just eight months old and was recently featured in a poll of the world’s most beautiful women.
Bar has also appeared in campaigns for Victoria’s Secret and Ralph Lauren and has been a covergirl for both Elle and GQ.
The model’s stunning face and figure have seen her feature in polls of the world’s most beautiful women
Her charms also helped her win a Hollywood boyfriend in the shape of Leonardo DiCaprio. The pair met at a party in Las Vegas in 2005 but called off their relationship earlier this year.
source: dailymail.co.uk
August 13th, 2009
When a new designer is attempting to establish themselves in the notoriously tough fashion world, what better way to get ahead than to land a celebrity endorsement.
In what is sure to be a boost for Victoria Beckham’s new dress collection, supermodel Elle Macpherson opted for one of Posh’s creations for her latest TV role.
Spotted on location in New York City filming The Beautiful Life, the 46-year-old Aussie opted for ?2,095 Carmontelle dress – the very same outfit worn by Beckham in London two weeks ago.
Despite wearing the warm cashmere-blend dress in the 30 degree heat, Elle kept her cool as she filmed street scenes in the Manhattan district of SoHo.
Just two weeks ago, Beckham and a young model wore the same grey dress as they shot an advertising campaign for the Victoria Beckham Collection in Notting Hill, west London.
This is the second time Macpherson has worn one of Beckham’s designs – in May she wore a ?1,500 black belted bandeau dress to an event to promote The Beautiful Life.
Beckham debuted the same gown nine months earlier as she attended her designer friend Marc Jacobs’s show at New York Fashion Week last September.
Both times Macpherson has worn one of Beckham’s creations, she has done so months after the designer.
But despite being 11 years older than Beckham, Macpherson looked better in the dresses due to her curvier figure.
While happy to endorse one of Beckham’s dresses, Macpherson is now a business rival with Posh after the singer and her husband signed multi-million dollar deals to model Emporio Armani underwear.
Macpherson has run her own successful lingerie range Elle Macpherson Intimates for 19 years.
Elle is currently filming new CW show The Beautiful Life alongside troubled actress Mischa Barton, who recently spent time in a psychiatric ward.
Elle plays Claudia Foster, a former Eighties supermodel who runs a modelling agency in the drama about a group of male and female models living together in New York City.
The mother-of-two has acted before – playing a nude model in Hugh Grant movie Sirens and playing Joey’s model roommate in Friends 10 years ago.
However, sources on the new show – which is executive produced by Ashton Kutcher – say executives are concerned about the model’s acting skills.
Elle hasn’t acted on screen since 2001 straight-to-DVD film South Kensington, in which she starred alongside Rupert Everett and Sienna Miller.
Producers are interviewing acting coaches to help Macpherson and other models cast in the show over fears the show won’t be ready for its September debut.
The source says producers are more worried about Elle than Mischa’s recent health troubles.
A source told the New York Daily News: ‘In comparison, Mischa is a dream come true for producers because she has experience.
‘The real problem with The Beautiful Life is definitely the acting now, not Mischa’s emotional state.
‘All the models need to be taught how to act, but the main focus is Elle, because she has one of the biggest roles.’
source: dailymail.co.uk
August 13th, 2009
Despite their efforts to convince the public that they have cleaned up their act, Kate Moss and Lily Allen are clearly no stranger to false promises.
While on holiday in St Tropez Lily, 24, and Kate, 35, were pictured sunbathing and sharing a rolled up cigarette that looked like a cannabis joint.
The pair were seen lighting up on the yacht as they holidayed in the ritzy south of France last week. Singer Lily could be seen passing the ‘joint’ to model Kate as she lay down on the deck.
The model’s behaviour has been branded ‘pathetic’ and her parenting skills questioned after apparently smoking a cannabis joint next to her six-year-old daughter.
Moss, who was branded ‘Cocaine Kate’ in 2005 after video footage emerged of her appearing to snort the drug, has provoked a furious reaction from a senior Tory MP Ann Widdecombe.
Commenting on the photographs she said: “Kate Moss is setting an appalling example, especially to her daughter but also to her fans.
‘There have been so many allegations of drug use against her that I just can’t understand why she is not prosecuted. It’s pathetic.
Celebrities just seem to get away with anything. She knows she has a responsibility yet the message she is sending out is outrageous.’
It was four years ago that video footage emerged of Moss apparently snorting cocaine, although a legal loophole meant the authorities decided not to prosecute.
The Crown Prosecution Service admitted they could not prove what the substance in the pictures were despite Moss issuing a statement days later apologising and admitting ‘full responsibility’ for her actions.
She was dumped from a number of lucrative contracts by firms who disapproved of her lifestyle. However she has since been offered a host of new deals and is now said to be worth ?40million.
She has also gone public with her support for a children’s charity called War Child. However, she has now been criticised by a leading children’s charity.
Dr Michelle Elliott, the founder and director of Kidscape and a child psychologist called Moss ‘childish and selfish’ and said she had a duty to her young fans to behave.
‘Why can’t she just grow up?” she said. “I mean, just what sort of role model does she think she is, not just to her daughter but the millions of teenage girls who idolise her?
‘It just shows how selfish and irresponsible she really is. I mean, her first priority should be her daughter, but the example she sets is always followed by impressionable youngsters. It’s disappointing.
‘I believe she feels that she is beyond the law. The message she is sending out is that this is how you behave it you want to be skinny, successful and famous.’
A spokesman for the model said last night: ‘Kate is on holiday and regards this as private.’
The damage done by Kate’s party lifestyle could clearly be seen as the 35-year-old model revealed a deeply lined forehead, crows feet, freckles and blemishes as she sunbathed on a yacht off the French resort with her daugher Lila Grace nearby.
The sunbathing, cigarettes and champagne seem to have finally taken their toll on the once super model who looked every one of her 35 years.
And unfortunately for the girl who put Croydon on the map, she looked uncannily like EastEnders actress Gillian Taylforth, who at 53 is 18 years older than the model.
It is not the first time Kate has been unfavourably compared to fictional east London favourite Kathy Mitchell.
The model’s chain-smoking, tousled dyed-blonde hairstyle, and permanent drink-in-hand stance is remarkably similar to Gillian’s portrayal of the put-upon wife of Phil Mitchell.
Years of partying, sunbathing and being on the skinny side have finally taken their toll on Kate’s face.
But although she was said to have started scrutinising her eye bags and crows feet three years ago, Kate seems reluctant to give up her A-list lifestyle.
She has been living the champagne lifestyle all week as she holidayed in St Tropez.
The blonde model, who originally hailed from Croydon, is cruising around the French Riviera on a yacht called Serenity and been spotted drinking tumblers full of alcohol.
And except for the moments she has been cooling off in the water and diving off the back of the boat, a pack of cigarettes has never been far from her hand.
She was with a group of friends including Lily, Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati, boyfriend Jamie Hince, guitarist for The Kills, and daughter Lila Grace, six.
source: dailymail.co.uk
August 13th, 2009
