We’ve been waiting for it since Hugh Hefner tweeted that Karina Smirnoff would grace the cover of Playboy — and here it is.
The ‘Dancing With the Stars‘ professional, who is paired with favorite Ralph Maccio this year, tells the magazine, “As a dancer I’ve always embraced my body. I’m thrilled to show off my strong, toned physique in the pages of Playboy and celebrate my sexiness.”
“To me, sexy is the confident energy a person produces. Sexy is the comfortable feeling of being who you are. Sexy is not just having beautiful lips, legs and arms; it’s beyond that. Sexy is soul,” she adds.
Smirnoff goes nude inside the pages of Playboy, which of course we can’t show you.
Insiders suggested that posing naked could land the dancer in hot water with the hit reality series — but so far there have been no consequences.
Jennifer Lopezgraces the cover of PEOPLE’s Most Beautiful issue.
The ‘American Idol‘ judge tells the magazine that she prefers to be makeup free and low maintenance.
“That’s when I’m my happiest,” Lopez explains. “Just being able to touch my face and rub my eyes and put my fingers in my hair and not having to worry about messing it up. It’s so much better.”
But she knows that being beautiful comes with her job description. “The thing is, it’s part of my job.”
“I don’t want anybody thinking it’s easy. It does take time and it’s hard work. HDTV wide-screen is nobody’s friend!” she adds.
Her daughter Emme enjoys a little primping just like mom. “She is very girly-girl, just like me since I was very little. She loves for me to paint her nails. She lays out her clothes on the floor like I do with my stylist and she’s like, ‘This matches very good!’”
But Emme doesn’t have all the fun. “[My son Max] wants to paint his nails too. Because for him, it’s just paint. He’s like, ‘I want the blue!’”
The singer-actress turned reality star admits she has grown into her “diva” label. “I kind of like it. We’ve kind of owned it now. But I certainly don’t like and I’ve never been a person who has what they call ‘diva behavior,’ which is something they tried to pin on me for a long time.”
Who else made the issue?
Teen heartthrob Zac Efron is on the list, with newlywed Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore.
Kim Glass, the sexy Silver Medal Olympic volleyball winner, is finally getting the attention she deserves.
With a little Northern exposure and the help from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Magazine team, Kim shows off her assets in a breathtaking spread captured in Banff, Canada.
The spread marks Kim’s first appearance in Sports Illustrated, and photographer Stephan Wurth was there to capture the entire journey.
Today, Sports Illustrated unveiled the cover of its 2011 swimsuit issue. Russian model Irina Shayk glows on it, kneeling in the sand, basking in the sun, soaking up her moment in the spotlight.
The problem? It leaked on Twitter last night!
Rana Wardlaw took the photo above of the billboard outside her office and then tweeted.
“I saw it from my office window. I work at a media agency called Starcom Worldwide. They unveiled the billboard for a few minutes to tape it for the Letterman Show and then covered it back up. I guess they didn’t cover it fast enough!”
Judging by the missing tweet, she didn’t delete it fast enough.
Age and background: Shayk, 25, hails from Yemanzhelinsk, Russia. Decker, 23, was born in Ohio and grew up in North Carolina.
Before the coveted SI cover: After winning a Russian beauty pageant in 2004, Shayk began pursuing a career in modeling. In 2007, she made her SI Swimsuit Issue debut inside the pages of the magazine and has appeared in every swimsuit edition since. She’s also modeled for Lacoste, Guess, Armani Exchange and the lingerie brands Intimissimi and LaPerla.
Decker started modeling after being discovered at a shopping mall in Charlotte, N.C. as a teen. She first appeared in SI’s swimsuit issue in 2006 and got more attention from the magazine in 2007 and 2008 before landing the 2010 cover. She also had a handful of acting gigs on TV shows including “Ugly Betty” and “Royal Pains.”
Ever since “Glee” star Lea Michele appeared with some of her co-stars on the cover of “GQ” showing off some skin, parents have had their panties in a bunch.
We really don’t see what the big deal is, but some mothers are having an epic hissy fit that Lea is showing some of her cleavage area. Oh noes!
I guess if mothers are completely against the cover of this magazine, then perhaps they shouldn’t purchase it. Jeez, do we really need someone governing what can be placed on magazine shelves?
These peeved parents say Michele, as an actress who plays a high school student on a TV show watched largely by teen and pre-teen viewers, has a responsibility to their kids to keep things a little more buttoned up.
“I think Lea Michele is sending the wrong message. She plays such a ‘good girl’ on ‘Glee’ and a lot of kids look up to her persona. Then she poses very provocatively on two magazine covers which makes my almost-13-year-old son very confused and offended,” said New York mom Kim Trefcer. “ I find it frustrating as a parent who is trying to teach right from wrong to their kids and then you have things like this happen which is showing middle schoolers things like sex sells and all that goes along with that.”
I don’t know what the fuss is about, really. She’s 24-years-old and only plays a High School kid on television. People should know that television shows aren’t real, not even “Jersey Shore”. It’s all scripted, so if these parents are getting offended, they should merely close their eyes and move on to “People” magazine instead.
A spokesperson for Hearst said, “We’re thrilled to feature Lea Michele on the March cover of Cosmopolitan magazine and think she looks stunning. Michele is a grown woman and Cosmopolitan is a magazine for adults.”
And there you have it! Well said.
We’re thrilled to feature Lea Michele on the March cover of Cosmopolitan magazine and think she looks stunning. Michele is a grown woman and Cosmopolitan is a magazine is for adults,” the rep told FOX411.
source: ‘Glee’ Star Lea Michele’s Sexy Switch Has Moms Mad – [fox news]
Brooklyn Decker is featured in the new issue of Esquire Magazine and she is looking as hot as ever, as you can see in the photos and videos below.
There’s a whole article at the source but there’s no point in me talking about because it’s Monday morning and let’s face it we all just want to see the photos, right?
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source: Brooklyn Decker Lightens the Burden of Living in This World [Esquire]
Just as the title says – Kate Moss is featured on the cover of Love Magazine kissing transgendered model Lea T for the Spring 2011 issue of the magazine.
I’ve never read Love Magazine but I kinda love (no pun intended) that they always manage to get supermodels posing nude or in photoshoots like this one.
Apparently they will be both joined by non other than Justin Bieber for a second cover, I don’t really know what Bieber is going to be doing but I sure as hell hope he isn’t going to be in any of these type of photos.
Kim Kardashian appears on the front cover of the latest issue of “Glamour” magazine and talked about her sex symbol status. She even revealed that she is insecure. Who knew?!??
She said that even though she has posed nude and has appeared in a sex tape, she’s quite insecure. She said, “I don’t find myself as sexy as everyone thinks. I’m a lot more insecure than people would assume, but with little stupid things. When I get dressed, I’m always so indecisive.”
She referred to her “Playboy” shoot as a liberating experience, however. She said, “It was an independence thing for me. I was always by the book, such the straight arrow when it came to pleasing my parents and being a good daughter. I felt like this was one decision that only I could make. And I think it looks great. I’ll have those pictures forever.”
Regarding confidence in her body, she added, “It’s a process. You have to learn to accept it. You have to learn to like what you see in the mirror. There are definitely times when I don’t feel like myself, but you have to fake it until you make it.”
I had no idea that she was so insecure….She always comes off so confident. Don’t you think?
source: Kim Kardashian: I’m Insecure – [showbiz spy]
A Michigan factory worker used as the unwitting model for the wartime Rosie the Riveter poster whose inspirational “We Can Do It!” message became an icon of the feminist movement has died.
Doyle didn’t realize she had a famous face until she was flipping through a magazine in 1982 and spotted a reproduction of the poster, her daughter told The New York Times.
But while Doyle recognized her face under the red and white polka dot bandana, the strong arm held up in a fist wasn’t hers.
“She didn’t have big, muscular arms,” Mrs. Gregg said. “She was 5-foot-10 and very slender. She was a glamour girl. The arched eyebrows, the beautiful lips, the shape of the face — that’s her.”
Doyle was just 17 when she took at job at a metal pressing plant near Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1942.
She quit about two weeks later after learning that another woman had badly injured her hand on the job — she was worried she’d lose the ability to play the cello, her daughter said.
She was there, however, when a United Press International photographer came to the factory while documenting the contribution of women to the war effort.
A picture of Doyle was later used by J. Howard Miller, a graphic artist at Westinghouse, for the poster which was aimed at deterring strikes and absenteeism.
The poster was not widely seen until the 1980′s when it was embraced by the feminist movement as a potent symbol of women empowerment.
The iconic image now graces a US postage stamp and has been used to sell lunch boxes, aprons, mugs, t-shirts and figurines.
Apparently, Ashton Kutcher wants to save his family from the end of the world — so he works out in preparation. No, you really can’t make this stuff up!
Ashton appears on the front cover of the new “Men’s Fitness” and talked to their reporter about the apocalypse. He says that when the crap hits the fan, it will boil down to the survival of the fittest. He says that when he’s jogging up Runyon Canyon near his home, he pretends that he’s being chased by wild animals. He endures hours of Bikram yoga and pretends he’s in a desert without water…and why? It’s because of the upcoming apocalypse! Of course.
He said, “If the sh*t hits the fan, you can get out of the sh*t.” Fine wisdom there, pal. He went on to reveal that his purpose is to save his family from Armageddon. He said, “It won’t take very much, I’m telling you. It will not take much for people to hit the panic button. The amount of convenience that people rely on based on electricity alone. You start taking out electricity and satellites, and people are going to lose their noodle. People don’t have maps anymore. People use their iPhones or GPS systems, so if there’s no electricity, nobody has maps. And people are going to go, ‘That land’s not your, prove that it’s yours’, and the only thing you have to prove it’s yours is on an electric file. Then it’s like, ‘What’s the value of currency, and whose food is whose?’ People’s alarm systems at their homes will no longer work.”
He went on to say, “Neither will our heating, our garbage disposals, hot-water heaters that run on gas but depend on electricity – what happens when all our modern conveniences fail? I’m going to be ready to take myself and my family to a safe place where they don’t have to worry.”
Someone’s been smokin’ the cray-cray sauce!
source: Ashton Kutcher works out to save his family from Armageddon (really) – [celebitchy]
Katy Perry is featured in the January 2011 issue of Maxim Magazine and I don’t think they could have chose anyone better to kick of the year. The singer also did an interview with the magazine, here is Katy’s opinion on what she thinks makes a woman sexy…
“The way she presents herself and the air she has about her. You can feel her power and her confidence. Also, the way she uses her ability to communicate, her brain and personality. I think that’s really sexy because you all know the hottest woman can be the biggest bitch, and that’s not cool.”
Hopefully this photoshoot is a good sign as to how 2011 is going to be, if not I guess we can just spend the year looking at these photos.
Rihanna is pretty much the hottest thing in the world right now in terms of the music business, and for me she is one of the hottest things in the world in general.
Here she is featured in the January issue of GQ UK, in the issue she says “I wanted to stand out and the only way I could do that was by taking charge of my image.”
My my how Ke$ha has changed, usually when I look at her I just think she needs a good wash down but she does scrub up really well in this Complex photoshoot and dare I say it? She actually looks kinda hot.
As the article in Complex says – we all had her down as just a one hit wonder but she has certainly stuck around after a year on the music scene and she only seems to be getting bigger, hell you can’t go to any club without hearing at least one of her songs. Anyway here is part of the interview…
A guy holding a bag full of quarters could potentially turn you on? “Like a big bearded guy with a bag of quarters. I think it’s some weird pirate fantasy that was unfulfilled in a past lifetime.”
Is there a specific type of beard that you’re into? “I like the rugged, mountain-man beard, personally. I won’t discriminate, but my favorite kind of beard is one that could potentially be a homeless beard. Like, you actually have to discover if they’re un-groomed for a reason. I like a really unkempt beard.”
It seems like Perez Hilton has a love/hate relationship with you. Does the stuff he says about your music have something to do with him jocking Lady Gaga so much? “That guy needs to live his life. I don’t have time to go online to read what people say about me; I’m traveling the world and killing it.”
Everyone knows you love glitter. What’s the weirdest place you’ve put glitter? “You name it, there’s been glitter there. Let’s just leave it at that.”
What’s a tame night for you? “It’s not like every night I’m out getting crazy fucked up. When I said the party doesn’t start until I walk, that just means that I can have a fucking fantastic time no matter where I am or how much money I have. Sometimes we just watch Eastbound & Down and drink wine.”
Well, I don’t carry around a bag of quarters and nor do I have a big beard so I guess my chances with Ke$ha are slime to none. Thank god for that, because her looking as hot as this doesn’t happen very much.
People Magazine have released their 2010 Sexiest Men Alive list and the number 1 man for them this year is Ryan Reynolds. Obviously they forgot about me. Here is a preview of their list….
Ryan Reynolds
He’s Canadian (and proud of it!), he can make “a mean omelette” and his eight-pack abs have caused millions to swoon. But what makes PEOPLE’s 25th anniversary Sexiest Man honoree so very special? Perhaps his self-deprecating humor. “You just have to go with the flow,” Reynolds, 34, says of his new title. “This gives my family entrée into teasing me for the rest of my life.”
Jon Hamm
Tall, dark, handsome … and funny? Mad Men’s brooding leading man, 39, has shown a knack for comedy, from host of Saturday Night Live to Tina Fey’s recurring love interest on 30 Rock. “He can be so serious and so funny at the same time,” says Fey. “He’s just great at everything.”
Kellan Lutz
This former model knows how to work every camera angle, from showing off his otherworldly body in Twilight to heating up underwear sales as Calvin Klein’s spokesmodel. The secret to the 25-year-old’s sexy six-pack? “I cut back on my candy intake, swim a lot and try to drink as much water as I can,” says Lutz. “That’s the best way to cut up.”
Drake
He’s come a long way since Degrassi: The Next Generation. These days the former actor, 24, is best known for his chart-topping hits like “Find Your Love,” off his debut album Thank Me Later. And while the single artist has yet to find love, he knows what he likes, telling PEOPLE, “I find it sexy when women play instruments or knit.”
Matthew Morrison
Mr. Shue, is that you? Glee’s song-and-dance man showed what he’s really made of in a revealing Vogue photo shoot in June. So what does the former Broadway star, 32, consider to be his sexiest trait? “I have those muscle lines right over my hips from my dancing days,” Morrison told InStyle. “I call them my dancing lines.”
Jon Bon Jovi
He reigned as a big-haired heartthrob in the ’80s, but Jon Bon Jovi, 48, tells PEOPLE, “The cliché of the rock star was never me.” Instead, the singer, who’s been married for 21 years and is the father of four, counts his greatest achievements in his music and his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation. Another point of pride? “I’ve never had Botox,” he says.
Joe Manganiello
A self-described “ugly duckling,” Manganiello, 34, has physically transformed into a hunky werewolf on True Blood thanks to his six-days-a-week, twice-daily workouts. But it’s not about vanity: “I’m playing a supernaturally strong character; I need to look that way,” Manganiello tells PEOPLE.
Robert Downey Jr.
“Robert has a way of making everyone around him feel very special and comfortable,” Michelle Monaghan, his costar in Due Date, raves about the 44-year-old. “Whenever I see him, I walk away smiling. Those beautiful brown eyes may have something to do with it.”
Jesse Williams
Before he had hearts pumping on Grey’s Anatomy, Williams, 30, taught high school English and African American studies in Philadelphia. But he’s not all brains, no brawn: “I like to be physical,” the actor, who stays in shape with soccer, basketball and flag football, tells PEOPLE.
Justin Timberlake
He’s proved he can bring sexy back to music, now Justin Timberlake is showing he can deliver the goods on the big screen as well. “I know what I want to be,” the Social Network star, 29, told Entertainment Weekly, “and that’s an artist.
Vin Diesel
Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel, 43, knows something about getting pulses racing. No wonder he blew away the competition in PEOPLE’s first-ever Sexiest Man Alive on Facebook campaign. The actor’s response to the honor? “I am blushing … for real … Grrr!”
Jake Gyllenhaal
It’s been a revealing year for the actor, who memorably showed off his bulked-up chest in Prince of Persia and strips down for Love and Other Drugs. “I think a true leading man has both strength and vulnerability,” says Gyllenhaal, 29.
Like I said, they obviously forgot about me but it’s fine they can get me next year and I definitely have a man crush on most of these guys.
GQ announced that Scarlett Johansson was their babe of the year for 2010, now they have released their top 4 men of the year and I’m quite surprised by their choices.
Jeff Bridges, 60. Icon of the Year. Won his first Oscar this year and went on to sit for the best photograph of his career.
Stephen Colbert, 46. Patriot of the Year. The still-hilarious Comedy Central host who led the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear along with Jon Stewart in October.
Drake, 24. Breakout of the Year. The Canadian rapper and former ‘Degrassi’ actor whose star blew up this year in a manner we can only describe as Bieberesque. Also, BFFs with Lil Wayne.
James Franco, 32. Leading Man of the Year. Despite a penchant for being weird, still does a mean James Dean impression and pulls off resoundingly terrific work on the silver screen.
I’m glad to see Drake on the list, he definitely had a great year. Who do you think deserves to be named on GQ’s men of the year?
source: Meet GQ’s Men of the Year: Colbert, Franco, Bridges and Drake [Popeater]
