Before there were the many imitations (read Rihanna, Keri Hilson etc) you see waltzing around, there was Kelis; She was the original, she owned and commanded fully the “edgy” fashionista artist… She was and is bold, fearless and generally doesn't give a sh*t what anyone says or thinks of her.  Most of the new faces and their fashion choices  or “edginess” is a direct copy of what Kelis has already done… nothing new, its not even a reinvention, its a direct copy of what Kelis has done in the past and still does today.
 

Anyfashionistawho…Kelis was papped in NY recently clad in far, as always PETA sprung into action with their “scare and embarrass and guilt” tactics, writing a letter to Kelis lecturing her about her wearing fur. Upon receiving that letter Kelis decided to stand up for herself and clap right back writing this letter back to PETA

Good morning all!

Ok, so you’re gonna love this. The other day I got a personalized letter from PETA! Lol so after some thought I've decided to write one back. Goes a little something like this:

There is no humane way to kill anything, let me start there. It’s unfortunate but it’s part of life. With that being said, I would eat pterodactyl if you found some and you told me it was meaty and delicious. And after doing a very minimal amount of research....... I found out that the founder Ingrid Newkirk is completely batty. I had a feeling but she far exceeded my expectations. I mean certifiably insane! Lol this chicks will is nuts, google it – it’s a riot! Beyond the fact that I think she's a diabetic, which means she needs insulin, which is taken from lab pigs (I know this because my sister happens to be in veterinary school), which would be completely hypocritical. It’s like don't abuse animals unless it can help me.

I feel very strongly about a lot of things such as the sweatshops that spin cotton and the blood on their hands. Btw it’s not just the look of fur. It’s warm as hell and feels glorious, ever rubbed faux fur on your body? Nothing luxurious about that. Then the letter proceeded to name artist and designers who don't wear real fur. Great! More for me! I don't judge them, don't judge me.

If I started wearing endangered animals like polar bear or orangutan then talk to me. (Which btw for the record I would not – I do believe in the preservation of endangered species) But the minks and chinchilla that quite honestly are rodents and if weren't in the form of a coat I would demand they be put to death anyway are not an issue to me.

The death of high fashion. Ugh.

I eat meat, and in fact my mouth salivates as I type the word meat! And the paint throwing that's just ridiculous! What if I was hurling Loubitons and Pierre Hardy's at every sad poorly dressed person on the street? As right as I may be it’s just fanatical and crazy. And people have the right to feel as they please. What about art? Survival of the fittest. Natural selection? No let's just let all the rodents run free and over take our cities. Oh wait they have, NY and LA in particular are infested! Why don't u save them all from scavenging on the streets and ruining my evening strolls, take them home. Make them pets! Get off my back! Pun intended!

Underpaid minorities picking your vegetables, now that's fine for you right? Please, fight for their rights. How about the poverty in the communities of brown people around the world. She had the nerve to say (and I quote) “get over it” talking of the issue of black people and slavery in this country verses cows being slaughtered. Is she kidding me? Lol yes she must be. Actually, she's lucky most black people have real issues to worry about in the U.S and don't give a crap what her delusional privileged opinions are. But she should try saying that again just for kicks n giggles on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Blvd in Harlem n see how well people “get over it” lol.

If u want to preach do it about something worthwhile don't waste my time trying to save the dang chipmunk.

Find a worthwhile cause like the women being maimed in these Middle Eastern countries. Or female circumcision. Or women's rights here in America, we still get paid less for doing the same jobs as men. Quite honestly if you hate the world so much go live in the forest where no one else has to hear you complain about the perfectly good food chain the good Lord created. Everyone has the right to an opinion, and that's mine on that! xoxo

Girl has some good points here, and bravo to her for standing up for herself and her opinions and doing that in a decent manner. On the basic, I ache to understand the need to protect rodents and vermins, endangered species, and wildlife yes but rodents? I'm a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but no one has the right to impose those opinions on others, whether it's about religion, politics, the wearing of fur or eating meat. PETA to me has become one of those organizations that exists only to exit but has ceased being effective in their cause.

That said, I didn't mind PETA that much until until they pulled that most unimaginable and just vile stunt comparing the murder and beheading of a Canadian guy on the greyhound bus to butchering cows. They went as far as trying to get their silly comparison in the local paper where his family lived. Click below to see PETA's stupidity

Octomom Nadya Suleman has been going to the Gym every night as per TMZ even being kicked out of one because she was falling behind on her monthly gym payments and here's the result.

Yes she's been exercising, but still who's her surgeon? I'm sure many in Hollywood we'll be looking to find out! Either way this chic has 14 kids! I have to admit she does look amazing.

Thoughts? Is that body via natural or “mechanical” means?

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How devastating.  For more and bigger pictures click here

Help whichever way you can, every little bit helps.

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo shows us what he's got, the world rejoices. 

Well YES indeed!

Christiano who's a star football/soccer player for the Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team, is the new face abs/torso spokesmodel for Emporio Armani Men’s Underwear and Armani Jeans replacing David Beckham and this are the test shots from his Armani Spring/Summer 2010 campaigns. Final official ads will be released Thursday.

Deliciousness all around.

Who's hotter Ronaldo or Beckham?

People Magazine is running this story as their BUZZ story of the day; that Beyonce‘s dad’s troubles that include cheating on his wife, illegitimate babies, divorce, in addition to Kelly Rowland & Michelle Williams firing Matthew Knowles and his company Music World as their manager respectively as being the reason Beyonce's empire is rattled:

Over the past few months, Beyoncé's father and manager, Mathew Knowles, 58, has been coping with personal and professional drama – including a divorce, a reported paternity suit, and now, the departure of one of his biggest clients.

On Tuesday, singer Michelle Williams, 29, one-third of Destiny's Child, announced she was leaving Knowles's company, Music World Entertainment. “From my time in Destiny’s Child to my solo career, I am grateful for everything Mathew and his team has done for me,” she said in a statement. “We've shared great success together. However, as I move in a new direction in my career, I felt it was time. I wish Mathew Knowles and the Music World Entertainment family all the best.”

Knowles's camp tells PEOPLE: “Michelle is a gifted artist. Her contribution to the Music World family with Destiny's Child and as a solo artist was extraordinary. The decision to part ways is amicable and we wish her success with her future endeavors.”
  

Build Up to Exit

According to an insider, the singer's departure did not come as a surprise to Mathew and his camp. “They were like, ‘Good for her.’ They knew that things were going on with him and that things [in his personal life] were going to be revealed. There's been a build-up to this.”

Last year, Kelly Rowland, 28, the third member of Destiny's Child (who, as a teen, lived with Knowles and his wife, Tina), also left the company.

“Beyoncé has kind of distanced herself from her father too,” adds the insider. "A lot of his personal stuff was overshadowing what was being done for Michelle. She got fed up and decided it was time to move on.”

In October, Knowles was reportedly named in a paternity suit filed by a women in her late 30s who was six months pregnant. Mathew Knowles had no comment on the reported paternity suit. (The legal papers are sealed to protect the baby.)

The following month, Tina, 56, filed for divorce after 29 years of marriage.

“The decision to end our marriage is an amicable one. We remain friends, parents, and business partners,” the couple said in a statement in December, when the new became public. “If anyone is expecting an ugly messy fight, they will be sadly disappointed. We ask for your respect of our privacy as we handle this matter.”

So far, Knowles’s personal issues have not negatively impacted his company’s success: Billboard magazine named Music World the top imprint label of 2009.

Meanwhile, Beyoncé is laying low. In fact, she told USA Today that she has no plans to record new music anytime soon.

“It's definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries,” said the singer, 28, who will perform at the Grammys on Jan. 31, where she is nominated for 10 awards. “I'd like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.”

Ummm...... little over dramatic this story is, no? Well yes, drama is going on in this family, the shine is coming off fo their “perfect family” but is Beyonce's empire anymore rattled now because of this than it was, say 11 months ago? Of course with all this drama, Beyonce's decision to take a 6 months semi-haitus (I say semi because WE ALL KNOW she will be doing something or other during that time) makes it seem as though she's seeding the spotlight because of this drama as opposed to perhaps just taking the time to relax and perhaps have some child(ren) with her husband?

Whatever the case, good for Beyonce for taking a break however mini it is.

On that much kudo's for Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams for finally making a clean break from Matthew Knowles & his Music World, he concentrated on Beyonce and did the minimum he could for Kelly and Michelle now they take over on their own to chart their own course wonder how that will work out…

Do you think Kelly and Michelle will now be successful since they've booted Matthew Knowles as their manager?

Jessica Alba claims in a new interview/photo spread that she doesn’t diet or workout:

“Diets are for the birds,” she tells Self. “I think you have to eat in a way that makes you feel your best. I include a lot of vegetables and lean protein and fruit and grains in my diet. I’m not a big workout person. Every single day, I tell my girlfriends we’re starting a regimen. And then it’s, like, ‘Want to get dinner? Want a glass of wine?’”

“Even though some might consider them a flaw, I’ve learned to love my stretch marks. Pregnancy

was the most incredible experience I’ve ever had. So I’ll take the stretch marks. I’ll take the sagging boobs. I’ll take the cellulite I can never get rid of. If you walk around with your head held high and you’re happy and positive, then all that other stuff is irrelevant. Confidence

is number one.”

Really? Remember this?

First-time mom Jessica Alba was back in the gym with long-time trainer Ramona Braganza just two weeks after giving birth to daughter Honor Marie.

Sticking to Braganza’s 3–2–1 diet and exercise plan, Alba shed 25 pounds of baby weight just in time to slip into a pink Narciso Rodriguez dress for the ALMA awards.

“We’ve done the biking and rock climbing to make things more interesting for her, but after her pregnancy it wasn’t about having fun,” says Braganza. “She just wanted to go hard and get back in shape.”

I remember this from People Magazine

Jessica Alba: Diet and Workout

Jessica Alba on diet: She avoids deep-fried foods, fast food, processed food. “I try to eat the healthiest version of something. I’ll buy organic at Whole Foods or Bristol Farms.”

Jessica Alba’s workout: A 45-minute cardio routine four days a week in the gym with trainer Ramona Braganza. She mixes it up on the stationary bike, treadmill and stair machine.

On her iPod: Welcome to Jamrock, Damian “Junior Gong” Marley Hung Up, Madonna I’ve Been Thinking, Handsome Boy Modeling School featuring Cat power Turn It Up, Chamillionare Kryptonite (I’m On It), Big Boi Sittin’ Sidewayz, Paul Wall Grillz, Nelly.

Jessica Alba on keep-it-real-rules: Appreciate your health. “As a child, I had such bad asthma I took steroids, so I would gain 15 lbs. every time I went on steroids with water,” she says.

“That’s really hard on kid, because you don’t understand what’s happening to you, you’re just all of a sudden bigger. I was kind of tall [she's 5'6"], so that helped.”

Nobody’s perfect. “What girls need to know and what I try to tell them is that everything is airbrushed to make a better picture, even the models who are gorgeous. It’s not real, it’s all pretend.”

And THIS – Jessica on video on her way from the gym – a paparrazi video

When celebrities choose to “bend the truth” do they forget to google themselves first?

It must have taken more guts for this woman to attempt this…I love the indian and chinese translation......what's you favourite translation?

Vanessa Paradis has my man… and this quote right here from an interview she just did.......see....... she just asked for me and women the world over to hate her just a little more...... girl's got my MAN!…

They’re the most private couple in Hollywood, but Parisian beauty Vanessa Paradis has opened up about her 11-year relationship with Johnny Depp.

“I’d wanted to be a mother for a long time, but with him I couldn’t avoid it,” she tells the UK’s Sunday Times Magazine. “He was, and still is, the love of my life.”

Vanessa, 37, who has two children with the Pirates of the Caribbean star, says, “There is a lot of friendship between us, respect and admiration.”

“We’ve understood that if we want it to carry on working, it’s essential to give each other space. You don’t eat the same food every day, you don’t read the same book or listen to the same record over and over again. You have to discover things for yourself.”

What makes Johnny, 46, such a great partner? “I could go on and on about all the things I admire in him,” the French singer and actress says.

“I like watching him when he’s thinking, when he’s talking with people, I like seeing how he handles situations. I admire him as an actor, as a father, as a man. Above all, I admire the person he is. He’s fantastic.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I have this theory that if you lend people stuff, don't be expecting them back… they're not going to giveyou your stuff back, case in point? Well why…Johnny Depp's my man I lend him to VP 11 years she needs to give him back!

Seriously though, how sweet is that quote? Last year, Johnny Depp was interviewed by Vanity Fair, a long rare interview that was quite interesting… gave me the distinct impression he loves his family, is low key yet spends a LOT of time by himself away from his family.

Anyhotwho..... here's the hotness that is Jonny Depp for your enjoyment…

Hotness points..... who wins? Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt?