Tag — Celebrity

The Saturday Night Live (SNL) comedian, Casey Wilson, has recently left the iconic late night comedy show. Most known for spoofing celebrities such as Rachel Ray and Jennifer Aniston she has left the show and now in search of greener pastures.

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It has been interesting the past year observing how the fashion industry is playing up to the needs of us normal humans who are not bone thin models or celebrities who can afford personal trainers and quick fix detox treatments. We’ve seen morbidly obese Beth Ditto pose nude for the cover of Love magazine, plus size models like Lizzie Miller appearing semi-nude in Glamour magazine and Crystal Renn writing memoirs about how she starved when she was a skinny model.

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Crystal Renn, once a super skinny model on the brink of collapse, has penned a new book Hungry. The now plus-size Ford model covers everything from health, to weight and even self-esteem issues in the memoir and hopes to shine a light on how people in the industry and in general perceive beauty.

“I’d like to see everyone take on the attitude that there are women of all different shapes and sizes as ‘the beauty ideal,’ and that it’s not one type or another. There are women who are naturally a size 2 — you can’t forget them, and that’s discrimination the other way,” Renn said in an interview. “All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.”

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After the recent celebrity Photoshop fallout when Self magazine digitally slimmed down Kelly Clarkson on the cover of their September issue, a healthier, fuller photo has been published in a woman’s magazine. In Glamour magazine no less.

Twenty-year-old Lizzie Miller, who is between a size 12 and 14 and weighs 180 pounds, was photographed semi-nude for a story on body confidence that appears on p.194 of the fashion magazine’s September issue. Editor-in-chief Cindi Leive said on The Today Show that within hours of the magazine hitting the newsstands, their offices began receiving emails from readers about the photo.

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“I have cellulite. I admit it. Sometimes I just say, ‘Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini,’ ” she says.

Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, has fought wrestlers in the ring and the bad guys on the big screen but his latest role as a Diabetes Awareness Ambassador is to fight off diabetes by promoting healthy living and active lifestyles.  In his new Public Service Announcement (PSA) he says,

“Get outside. Play a game. Do something active together. We can make a difference in our own families through exercise, eating right and teaching healthy behaviors to our children,” Johnson, 37, says in the PSA.

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Kimberley Walsh is now the second Girls Aloud singer to admit that she has issues about her body image.  Singing partner Cheryl Cole has often times admitted to the media that she struggles with her weight but it seems that Kimberley also sings the same sad song.  The songstress recently told Heat Magazine that she is even willing to consider plastic surgery if it means she would be more comfortable with her body.  She said,

“I’m constantly on a diet. I’m not confident or comfortable with my body. I wouldn’t rule out surgery,” she told Heat.

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Supermodel Cindy Crawford has still got the look at the age of 43.  In the photo above you can see on the right that she looks just the same as she did back in the early 90s.  Known for her sexy photos for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues she admits to Allure Magazine that her body has changed considerably since then but she takes it all in stride.   [Read more →]

Singer LeAnn Rimes has remained silent for a long time regarding her fight with psoriasis. But the 26-year-old has broken her silence by speaking to Shape magazine about it and joining the Stop Hiding and Start Living Campaign.

Having suffered from the chronic skin disease since she was 2-years-old, the Grammy Award winner only began controlling it (instead of it controlling her) within the last 5 years. How? By finding the right dermatologist and changing her lifestyle.

“There are 7 million Americans living with psoriasis and a lot of them are not getting treatment because they think it’s just a rash,” she told Shape.

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Recently, while out for a jog, French President Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed and people are saying it’s the fault of a special diet that his wife’s trainer put him on.  Ever since he married the supermodel turned pop star Carla Bruni 18 months ago, he’s been trying to keep up with her but he’s starting to show that he simply can’t.  His pal and MP, Patrick Balkany said,

“The President is going to have to take more care, work a little less hard and eat a little bit more.”

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