Rihanna Shows Some Skin for Esquire Magazine

Posted Tuesday October 11, 2011 9:30 AM GMT

She’s no stranger to sultry magazine covers, and Rihanna is featured on the front of Esquire's November 2011 issue.

The “Disturbia” songstress was named Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive for the year and in her interview she discussed her traveling preferences.

“I hate going to hotels when I’m on tour. I like to stay on the bus. I can sleep, I can shower, I can just pull up right to the venue every day. I work out. I have a trainer. So, she trains me wherever, whenever. Touring messes with my metabolism, so I have to get tight.”

As for her on-the-road diet, Ri-Ri shared, “I’m very stubborn when it comes to food. I don’t like to try new things. When I came to America, there were so many different cultures and tastes. I haven’t acquired a taste for a lot of things. Like, calamari? Jay-Z had to make me eat it. We have this thing called Taste Test Tuesdays or New Flavor Fridays or Substitute Saturdays.”

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Courtney Stodden and Twitter's Hate Culture - BlackBook Magazine

According to her Twitter bio, Courney Stodden is a "Model, Recording Artist, Actress, Dancer, T.V Show Hostess, & ... Doug's Girl." What it doesn't mention: that Stodden is 17 years old and "Doug" is her husband, actor Doug Hutchison, who is 35 years her senior.

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This may be old news to those who are up to date with their frivolous celebrity gossip and breaking Twitter news, but for those of us who sometimes feel like we’ve had strokes and missed entire series of VH1 reality shows centering around the courtships and marriages of people whose major claims to fame are sleeping with B- and C-list celebrities (sometimes even on camera!), this Courtney Stodden person naturally fell under our radar. It’s possibly because her husband is not famous; his major role was as a scheming prison guard in The Green Mile, the emotionally manipulative Shawshank-lite from Frank Darabont and Stephen King. But, more likely, it’s because the only thing actually interesting about this couple is their age difference.

It’s pretty gross, for sure, and there have been plenty of blog posts decrying the relationship, as well as Stodden’s apparent plastic surgery. And while she’s definitely making a stab at a music career, Stodden is more famous for her Twitter account, on which she waxes poetic about a variety of sexy things such as cooking dinner in see-through underwear. She is particularly fond of adverbs and alliteration, and tonight’s most recent update is standard fare:

Wildly wiggling & jauntily jiggling myself to jolting jams as I friskily flaunt a flirty outfit completed w/sexy white 7in. go-go boots! ;-)

Not surprisingly, she has a massive following; over 40,000 people are subscribed to her updates as of this writing. But what is a little unfortunate is the typical responses that Stodden receives from those who follow here. Here’s just a sampling:

@CourtneyStodden = 16 year old talentless slut with implants who is already married

@CourtneyStodden I fucking hate this stupid bitch. Not only a fake personality but possibly body too. Your not fucking Pam Anderson your 16!

Hey @CourtneyStodden your a slut. and the same age as me. what the hell do your parents think..you must make them very proud :)

Its the 17 year old slut! @CourtneyStodden married to a grandpa! Buahahaha you should of atleast got with sum1 famous not a washed up actor

@CourtneyStodden STFU YOU WHORE

Et cetera, et cetera!

Look, no one anywhere is saying that Courtney Stodden is a role model or someone respectable, especially as she fuels those criticisms by continually updating her social media feeds. But for people to respond to her by calling her a slut or a whore, especially through the somewhat anonymous confines of a Twitter avatar, only proves that those who are following her on Twitter are only part of the problem. Only more disturbing is the fact that Stodden is a teenager and without question the victim of a culture that values her brand of over-sexualization as much as it reviles it. It might be too much to ask that we embrace Twitter to discuss the implications of this by-product of celebrity culture rather than propagating a misogynistic worldview. 

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Katie Price Launches 'My Magazine'

Posted Wednesday September 7, 2011 8:50 AM GMT

She’s always looking for new ways to promote herself, and earlier today (September 7) Katie Price launched “Katie, My Magazine” in London, England.

The model/author donned a revealing orange getup and strutted her stuff at the Worx Studio to celebrate the magazine’s release.

Of her prolific career, Katie recently told press, “Do you know how many books I’ve got out? I’ve got 40. I’ve got the pony stories, I’ve got the mermaids. From young ages to, well, women. I can’t sit here and name them all, because I don’t know all their names.”

She also shared her motive for becoming uber-successful- “I’m very ambitious. And success is the best revenge, on everyone who said, ‘You can’t do this, you won’t do this. Ha ha you’ll be finished.’”

Enjoy the pictures of Katie Price launching 'Katie, my magazine' at the Worx studio (September 7).

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Rachel Weisz Covers Lucky Magazine October 2011

With her glowing smile in the forefront, Rachel Weisz is featured as the cover girl for the October 2011 issue of Lucky magazine.

The newlywed actress posed for a spread adorning the inside pages while chatting about topics such as having more children, fashion, her childhood career dreams and her upcoming movie "Dream House".

Highlights from Rachel's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to visit Lucky!

On having more children:
"Oh, I wouldn't make one just for the sake of giving my son a sibling, But...you never know." She smiles again, nervously, proclaims her fondness for Baby Gap and then--an interesting thought in passing, considering her new husband: "There's nothing like a blue-eyed boy in a stripy shirt."

On being recognized on the streets of New York:
"This is New York, where everyone is a star in their own movie; no one gives a fuck."

On her recent shopping spree:
"I do appreciate a good pan and a good knife," says Weisz, who has spent less time shopping for clothes and more time cruising high-end cooking stores, in what is perhaps a nod to her altered domestic status.

On growing up in the suburbs:
Her suburb was, she says, "a very freaky place." Weisz continues, "I don't know if the houses are haunted, but I think the suburbs are where bad things happen because it's the place where people try to live out bourgeois values and...well, if you don't let out what you really are, it's gonna come out in weird ways. You know? I think weird shit happens in the suburbs."

On how shoes have molded the characters she's played:
"Shoes can turn you into someone else in an instant," Weisz says. "I did a film called The Brothers Bloom, and I wore really clunky boots--and I was this eccentric weirdo," she recalls. "And then in The Whistleblower"--an independent film released this August where she plays a cop who exposes a European sex trafficking ring--"I wore police boots that made me walk tough." And her latest: Dream House, a thriller opening in September: "I am a wife redoing a home we just bought, and I wore a lot of light sneakers that are all cute and homey and make me feel kind of doo-doo-doo, I'm domestic and painting."

On finding the perfect pair of shoes:
"I've has this conversation with a girlfriend for 15 years that is kind of a joke, and kind of deathly serious, about finding the perfect pair of shoes," says Weisz. "I always want to feel like a can take off if I have to--the British expression is, 'shoes that let you run for the bus'--but I love high heels too."

On why she finds wearing high heels fun:
"Sometimes it's fun wearing very high heels and feeling needy...needy is great because you feel you need to rely on someone."

On Alexander McQueen's designs:
"His pieces are works of art, but he had such a bizarre relationship to his own body...he was always on diets and...well, my perception is that his clothes were almost like torture instruments."

On her childhood career dreams:
"Actually, I wanted to be a detective. And a paleontologist. I was really into fossils. Though perhaps I was just trying to impress adults that I knew that word."

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Dasha Zhukova and Shala Monroque’s New Magazine Garage Features a Lily Donaldson Puppet, Lettuce McQueen and Tattooed Labia

After her brief and less than well-received stint as Pop‘s editor-in-chief, it sounds like Dasha Zhukova has finally found a place to do her fashion-meets-art thing her way. Her new magazine, Garage, debuts for fall 2011 and the New York Times‘ Eric Wilson got a preview.

The art collector, fashion designer, and girlfriend of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, named the magazine after the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, a museum she opened in Moscow in 2008. Garage’s art director, Mike Meiré tells the Times, “It is so very, very different from other magazines,” and that sounds pretty accurate. According to Wilson, it “looks almost handmade.”

The inaugural issue has multiple covers: One was a collaboration between artist Dinos Champan and Show Studio’s Nick Knight and features a creepy dollhouse in which a puppet version of Lily Donaldson wears Marc Jacobs. Another cover features a model shot nude from the waist down, her nether regions covered by a butterfly sticker that can be peeled off to reveal…a butterfly tattoo. On a vagina. Artist Damien Hirst designed both. According to the New York Post, one “UK news chain” asked Garage to provide alternate cover images upon seeing this one.

Other contributors to Garage‘s inaugural issue include Shala Monroque, who is on the masthead as creative director, Joan Juliet Buck as an editorial consultant, Giovanna Battaglia (who apparently made an Alexander McQueen dress out of romaine lettuce for an editorial), Max Snow, Juergen Teller, Tavi Gevinson and Marina Abramovic.

We’re not sure about designer gowns made out of food, but this is one magazine that we’ll, at the very least, be flipping through at the newsstand, if not purchasing (though we’re sure it comes with a hefty price tag). It sounds insane. In the best way. Will you read Garage?

UPDATE: Jezebel got a hold of all three covers, including that racy butterfly vagina one. Take a look.

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10 Things We Learned About Jenna Lyons From Her New York Magazine Profile

Photo: New York Magazine

New York magazine’s fall fashion issue features a lengthy profile on J. Crew president, Jenna Lyons.

When I started reading it I thought I couldn’t admire Lyons any more than I already do – she worked her way up in a national company and revitalized J. Crew from a fuddy-duddy lady brand into the coolest thing for ladies of all ages. But lo and behold, there were a slew of facts about the California native that even the most obsessed Lyons follower wouldn’t have known.

So click through to find out more about Jenna Lyons. (Bonus fact: Her workspace is cooler than yours… and ours too.)

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