Amanda Beard got naked, again, this time for a cause. But the dirty Commie Chinese tried to keep her down.
Olympic swimming gold medalist Amanda Beard had to launch her naked, anti-fur campaign poster outside the Athletes’ Village on Wednesday after Chinese authorities canceled a planned unveiling, citing safety concerns.
In a poster for the animal rights group PETA, the reigning 200-meter breaststroke champion appears naked in front of the U.S. flag and the slogan “Be comfortable in your own skin. Don’t wear fur.”
Jason Baker, an Asia-Pacific spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the launch was “a bit more dramatic than we had planned” after Chinese security officials visited a hotel where an official news conference had been scheduled and shut it down. “From what I’ve been told from the hotel, the public security bureau showed up at midnight and told them our specific event had to be canceled for safety reasons, without going into any specifics,” Baker said. “When I arrived at 8 a.m., there were public security officials in the press conference room we had booked. “Amanda didn’t want her voice to be silenced, so we went ahead and arranged something else — we never knew if we were going to be stopped at any point.”
Baker said the protest was not against China and did not interfere with the Olympics. Police and security saw the launch going ahead outside the south gate of the Athletes’ Village but did not interfere.
“It was a sexy ad really designed for the U.S. market. It was positive and it was (supposed) to be done in a private function room,” Baker said. “I’m surprised they were so concerned, given we’ve done similar (things) with Asian celebrities in the past.”
Beard, 26, who has posed nude in men’s magazines, said she decided to participate in the PETA campaign because she loved animals and was horrified to see how fur was produced for fashion in some places.
She said the Olympics was the perfect forum to get out a positive message, but now she was concentrating entirely on competition. “It’s an important issue — I’m proud to be part of this,” she said. “The more I’ve heard about what happens to the animals … fur ripped off them when they’re still alive — it’s heart breaking.” “I have seen a lot of the videos, and (it) brings me to tears,” the four-time Olympian said in a PETA statement. “What (some people) think is pretty is actually something that’s very gruesome and gross.”
Amanda Beard, though, is awesome and not at all gross. PETA had this to say:
Swimmer Amanda Beard might be the sexiest and most compassionate U.S. Olympic athlete of all time. Need proof? Check out the anti-fur ad that she did—naked—for PETA.
Even with her busy and demanding training schedule, Amanda took the time to bare her skin to help save animals’ skins. With the tagline “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin. Don’t Wear Fur,” Amanda posed nude to help raise awareness of the cruelty inherent in the fur industry.
There’s also a video interview with Amanda about the making of the poster.
Doutzen was chosen, because the 22 year old has recently signed a 3 year contract with Victoria’s Secret.
Doutzen Kroes (born January 23, 1985) is a Dutch supermodel.
She was born in the town of Oostermeer, in Friesland, The Netherlands. After graduating highschool (HAVO) she sent some snapshots to model agency Paparazzi in Amsterdam. Currently she is signed by DNA Models. Kroes has made the covers of Time, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Numero. She also appears regularly in the Victoria’s Secret catalog and was featured in their fashion show in 2005 and 2006. Kroes has also been in campaigns by Gucci, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Escada, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Versace and Neiman Marcus.
In 2005, she was selected as Model of The Year on Vogue.com by readers. Kroes was named spokesmodel for the Calvin Klein “Eternity” fragrance campaign in August 2005 and, in April 2006, she signed a three-year contract with L’Oréal Paris.
In the May 2007 issue of American Vogue she was featured on the cover with fellow models: Hilary Rhoda, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha, Jessica Stam, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of supermodels.
In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $1.5 million in the past 12 months, Forbes named her fourteenth in the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodel.
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sources: Doutzen Kroes wil geen privéjet [nu.nl]; [wikipedia]
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California) is an American actress of Mexican American descent, perhaps best known for her roles in Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007’s Good Luck Chuck.
Alba rose to prominence following the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her resume to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy. Alba appears frequently on Maxim’s Hot 100 and was voted AskMen.com’s No. 1 on their list of 99 Most Desirable Women in 2006, voted FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World in 2007.
Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Mark Alba, who is Mexican American (though both of his parents were born in California), and Catherine (née Jensen), who has French and Danish ancestry; the two married while in their teenage years. Her maternal grandfather was a Marine NCO for 30 years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua (an actor who appeared with her in the season one finale of Dark Angel), and her grandparents, until she was seventeen years old. Her father’s Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California.
Her most notable roles have been as an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four. Jessica went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code. Alba’s pending projects include The Eye (a remake of the Hong Kong original) and Sisters alongside Eliska Amor and Paz Vega.
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What others said:
FHM says, “If there exists a hallowed Sexy Lady Hall of Fame, festooned with inch-perfect busts and gleaming trophies for such talents as “Making The Bikini Seem That Bit More Magical”, then right now a lifesize statue of Jessica Alba should be being hoisted onto a plinth.”
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons on 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, and occasional swimwear designer and television presenter.
After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model.
Brook’s modeling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, her early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the new “Bravissimo” company that specializes in bras and lingerie for big breasted women, and for Foster’s beer. Brook is 5 feet, 6 inches (168 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began featuring her as a Page Three girl.
She then appeared in a Pulp video ‘Help the aged’ with Huck Whitney of the cult band The Flaming Stars, in a slow dance sequence.
Brook’s picture soon began appearing in other lad mags such as FHM (repeatedly landing in its list of the “100 Sexiest Women of the Year”) and Loaded. She topped the ‘FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005′ list, which was said to have polled 15 million people. In a poll over 5,000 women in April 2005 for Grazia magazine she was considered to have the best British female body. She ranked 5th at ‘FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006′ list.
Brook has also done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery modelling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modelling. Some modelling work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of specially commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook’s bust.
What others said:
FHM says, “Rochester’s favourite daughter may have had another year of substandard films and ludicrously good bikini shoots, but the key fact remains: she’s never looked hotter.”
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and winner of the third series of the popular television talent show The X Factor.
Her debut single, “A Moment like This“, was released on 20 December 2006. The single was also available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December and broke a world record after it was downloaded fifty thousand times in thirty minutes.
Her debut album, Spirit, is due for release on 12 November 2007. It is claimed Lewis will be the first winner of a major television talent show in both the UK and U.S. to be given a major global launch with the release of the album.
You might be thinking, why is she the ‘hottie of the day”? [you could be blind] Well…Leona also happens to be singing the theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie, after kicking Amy Winehouseto the curb. That makes her hot in my book!
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What others said:
Ask Men says, “Leona Lewis has an astounding vocal range that has been compared to legends like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Simon Cowell has said that what makes her so special is her down-to-earth persona. The beautiful, talented and humble Leona Lewis embodies many of the ideal qualities we look for in women.”
Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 film Transformers.
Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and has Irish, French and Native American ancestry. She grew up in a ‘very poor’ household and has one older sister. Fox began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5, then moved to Florida when she was 10 years old, continuing her training, and finishing school. She began acting and modeling at the age of thirteen upon winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
As of 2007, Fox is engaged to actor Brian Austin Green.
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Fox made her film debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun as the spoiled heiress and rival of Ashley Olsen. She then landed guest appearances on Ocean Ave., What I Like About You, Two and a Half Men and The Help from 2003 to 2004. In 2004, Fox starred in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen alongside Lindsay Lohan. She was subsequently cast in her first recurring role in a television series on Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski from 2004 until 2006.
Fox won the role of female lead, Mikaela Banes, in the highly-anticipated 2007 live-action film “Transformers” based on the famous toy and cartoon saga, where she plays the love interest of Shia LaBeouf’s character Sam Witwicky. In June 2007, Fox was reportedly cast in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, also starring Jeff Bridges and Kirsten Dunst. Coincidentally, the character Fox will portray is that of a young Hollywood starlet getting her first taste of fame.
Fox has appeared in a five page spread for the November 2005 issue of the popular men’s magazine FHM and was ranked number sixty-eight on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006. She also posed for the March 2007 issue of FHM, the June 2007 issue of GQ and the July 2007 issue of Maxim.
What others said:
Hollywood Tuna says, “Seriously, it’s sick how perfect she is. I don’t think there’s anything this girl could possibly do to herself that would make her look bad.”
Gone Hollywood’s ‘Hottie of the day‘ is Alessandra Ambrosio.
Alessandra Corine Ambrósio (born April 11, 1981) is a Brazilian supermodel. Her last name is spelled Ambrósio, but the diacritic mark is omitted in her modeling work. She was described by retired supermodel Tyra Banks as “The future of the modeling world”.
She is best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret and was chosen as their first spokesmodel for Victoria’s Secret PINK line. She is currently one of Victoria’s Secret Angels and the face for the UK company Next and Armani A|X.
Aside from modeling work, she represents as the National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Ambrosio was also selected by AskMen.com as Number 6 out of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women for 2007.
Ambrosio was born in a small town of Erechim, Brazil on April 11, 1981 to petrol station-owner parents. She is of Italian and Polish descent. She was just eight years old when she decided she wanted to be a model, after seeing a picture of top covergirl Karen Mulder in a magazine. “I wanted to be like her,” she recalls. However, she felt insecure about her appearance, particularly of her large, obvious ears. So at 11, she had cosmetic surgery done to get her ears pinned back. Unfortunately, she had complications from the surgery for the two years following. On 2006 The Tyra Banks Show, she admitted that the surgery had been a bad experience for her and that she is discouraged from having plastic surgery again.
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Ambrosio loves surfing, seeing bands, caipirinha and chocolates, which she admits eating every day. She is very conscious of her figure and works out with her Brazilian trainer twice a month doing the Brazilian Butt Lift, which is a mix of samba,capoeira and aerobics.
When Ambrosio first came to New York, Gisele Bündchen lent her her apartment for two weeks and Adriana Lima helped her translate English. She described her typical week as jetsetting from one country to another for photo shoots and in between she has some phone interviews. She still visits her family in Brazil regularly and calls Erechim, Brazil her favorite place in the world and having traveled the world has not yet convinced her otherwise. These days, she shares a New York City apartment with her lawyer sister Aline.
Egotastic says, “What do you get when you cross a Victoria’s Secret Lingerie / Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Supermodel with a Playboy Bunny? Every guy’s biggest fantasy, and Alessandra Ambrosio.”
Olympic swimming gold medalist Amanda Beard had to launch her naked, anti-fur campaign poster outside the Athletes’ Village on Wednesday after Chinese authorities canceled a planned unveiling, citing safety concerns.
