Archive for November 24th, 2009
France’s first lady, singing ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in US auteur Woody Allen’s next movie, she told a television interviewer.
“He suggested I appear in his next film. I don’t know what the role would be, but I said yes,” the 41-year-old Italian-born singer-songwriter told the main evening entertainment show on the Canal+ network.
“I go into everything blindly, or I’d never do anything at all,” she added, apparently referring to her showbiz career rather than to her sudden marriage last year to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
“I’m not an actress at all. Perhaps I’ll be completely hopeless but I can’t miss an opportunity like this one. When I’m a grandmother I’d like to be able to say I made a film with Woody Allen,” she gushed.
“Woody Allen kindly asked me not to do a film with anyone else before him. If anything concrete ever comes of it, it’ll be a great experience for me.”
New York filmmaker Allen visited the French first couple in June this year during a trip to Paris to promote his last movie “Whatever Works”.
Asked whom he would like to cast in his next film, he said: “Without question, Carla Bruni! I’m sure she would be wonderful. She has charisma, and she performs, so she’s not a stranger to an audience.”
source: AFP
November 24th, 2009
Supermodel Erin O’Connor has revealed she was told to have extensive cosmetic surgery if she wanted to succeed in the modelling industry.
The 31-year-old, who has been hailed for her unusual look and striking features told how the fashion world was originally unhappy with her physical appearance, wanting her to have nose surgery and a breast enlargement.
Miss O’Connor, who is 6ft 1in, said in an interview with the Radio Times: ‘In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
‘For example, I was told to have a nose job and get my breasts done. But I suddenly got very stubborn and thought, ‘Well, no. This is me,’ and suddenly I was being hailed as ‘a new form of beauty’.
This is the latest criticism of an industry that regularly comes under fire for the way it treats young girls, in particular the pressures put on them to lose weight.
Charities and parents are increasingly worried about the prevelance of size zero models on catwalks and fashion magazines and the impact it is having on British children.
Last week Kate Moss, who earns millions from her modelling contracts and designing deal with high street chain Topshop, caused anger by revealing that one of her mottos is the phrase ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’.
The 35-year-old model was accused of encouraging young girls to starve themselves after using an anorexics’ slogan.
And there are fears her ‘motto’ is indicative of the attitude of the entire modelling industry.
Earlier this year it was revealed that teenage girls are routinely missing two meals a day because they believe they need to lose weight, a major survey of children’s lifestyles has revealed.
Twenty-six per cent of 14 and 15-year-olds often do not eat breakfast, 22 per cent skip lunch and 10 per cent regularly go without either, the study found.
A majority of teenage girls believed they needed to slim but few were actually overweight.
The survey, conducted among 32,000 ten to 15-year-olds by the Exeter-based Schools Health Education Unit, presents a snapshot of British schoolchildren’s lifestyles.
Miss O’Connor also confessed her concerns about society’s obsession with youth and questioned the ease of which people turn to plastic surgery.
She said: ‘I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty – the perception that as you grow older, you “lose your looks”, which I think is diabolical.
‘I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people and their confidence has grown as a result, who am I to form an opinion?
‘But I think there are better routes to confidence than trying to freeze time.’
Read more: dailymail.co.uk
November 24th, 2009
Some celebrities are more than willing to share their beauty secrets with their fans. One of those is supermodel Elle Macpherson, nicknamed The Body. Her secret is actually simpler than most tips offered by other beautiful celebrities.
In an interview with Hello magazine she revealed that it is all about laughing and relaxation. She was quoted as saying, “…I meditate and reconnect and it keeps me healthy. I want to be around for a long time and I need a healthy body, and a healthy body means making sure I get enough sleep, enough vitamins, eat properly, laugh a lot and love a lot.”
It may not be the usual beauty advice offered up by most celebs but it seems to be working for 45-year old Macpherson.
source: carefair.com
November 24th, 2009
