The world's richest clothes hanger, Gisele Bundchen, is blaming the plague of anorexia within the world of fashion on bad parenting rather than the extreme pressure from the industry to be thin. I'm pretty sure this could go down as some of the most irresponsible garbage ever said outside of an election year:

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen says weak families are to blame for anorexia — not the fashion industry that has been widely criticized for promoting waifish silhouettes…

"I never suffered from this problem (anorexia) because I had a very strong family base. Parents are responsible, not the fashion industry," she said in the Friday edition of O Globo newspaper.

Gisele, 26, was visiting her native Brazil this week for Fashion Rio, which has banned models under the age of 16 and has required proof of their good health after the death of a Brazilian model from complications due to starvation last year. At the time of her death, 21-year-old Ana Carolina Reston was 5'8" and 88 pounds…

…"Everybody knows that the norm in fashion is thin," said the model who is 5'11" and 125 pounds. "But excuse me, there are people born with the right genes for this profession."

Thanks for that, Gisele.

Her statements come on the heels of Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld stating, "We don't see anorexic (girls)…The girls are skinny. They have skinny bones." Ummm…they have "skinny bones?" So does everyone you ignorant dandy. Karl Lagerfeld, by the way, is the man at right who looks like the personification of "emotionally unavailable."

Not only is what Gisele said uneducated and wrong, it's dangerous. Without a doubt, some people are going to be thin based on their genes, thus making them better models. And, to some extent, unhealthy home environments certainly do play a part in eating disorders. However, to say that the fashion industry has nothing to do with anorexia, and that all the impossibly thin girls involved are that way because of genes, is the exact same kind of greedy, bullshit denial that kept tobacco companies going so strong for so long.

I don't know what that John Mayer song was all about, but mothers, seriously be good to your daughters, because this is the vampirism they have to put up with all the time.

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The lovable little Dakota Fanning was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for next month's Vanity Fair. The shoot is pretty cool, but I'm mostly impressed that old Karl was able to wrap his mind around anything outside the huge decision making process that is his deciding what to wear every morning.

Now, let's get back to watching Dakota go through puberty. Just thinking about having to be in the spotlight during that time of my life gives me hives.

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As I have recently embraced my love for Victoria Beckham, it's hard to see photos like these where it looks like she may feast on the souls of small children. At least hanging out with Karl Lagerfeld at last night's Bambi Awards made her look slightly more human in comparison. Heh. Yeah, see, I can't even lie with a straight face.

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This picture of Tom Cruise is priceless, especially as Man-tat-tacular as he is these days. Can't you just see him asking this fellow soccer mom to 'hit the rock' as a greeting? Meanwhile Katie is still in Paris buying jackets for Suri in three years and making serious personality waves with Karl Lagerfeld and Kate Bosworth.

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• Hey Drew Barrymore, Martha Stewart's inmate friends called and they want their poncho pattern back. [A Socialite's Life]

• Pete Doherty, always ready to one-up his own insanity, gets caught, while in rehab, giving cocaine to teenagers. [DListed]

• Milk does David Beckham's body good. [Faded Youth]

• Oh, you just know J-Lo is going to go postal on Jesse McCartney's ass for telling the press that she's pregnant (no, don't worry, he's not the father). [BringingBloggingBack]

• Inspired by the creativity flowing out of Hollywood, Stephen Dorff's therapist encouraged Stephen to express himself through a comic, too. [Junkiness]

• Karl Lagerfield exhumes his corpse one more time to talk some smack about starlets, but not Lohan. He loves Lohan in all her middle-aged woman glory. [US Weekly]

• The real reason Tom Cruise was let go by Paramount: Sumner Redstone's wife loves her meds. [Page Six]

• I challenge these, the biggest mouths in Hollywood, to a marshmallow-mouth-stuffing contest. Losers must swallow all the empty calories. [The Jay]

Oh Paris, no matter how many times your legion of staff tell you that there are cameras watching, you always seem to forget. This time we saw we saw London, we saw France, we saw Paris with a joint in her hand. Whoops.

Thankfully, TMZ loitered long enough to see:

Paris Hilton was unnerved Saturday night when TMZ cameraman Josh Levine got a shot of the heiress smoking something as her ride pulled up to a Hollywood nightclub.

When Hilton saw the TMZ camera, she nervously and abruptly swung her head forward, pulled down her visor and began applying lipstick.

Elliot Mintz, her clearly concerned publicist who was at the club, sought out TMZ’s Levine and said: “I just want to get something clear with you. Paris Hilton rolled her own tobacco cigarettes. It was tobacco that you saw.”

Elliot Mintz also rues the day he took this job and got embroiled in this tangled web of obvious lies and sheer cover stories.

These photos demonstrate that a 'firecrotch' slung does not come between some starlets and their corpse-like fashion icon. Karl Lagerfield, eat it up. The photos are from the Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 1996 launch, where all good lushes come to play. I"m sure that Lindsay behaved like a good little underaged girl and kept her grubby little fingers off the Dom. She always was so law-abiding.
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