A couple of months ago it was Gisele Bundchen, now V Magazine enlisted the always lovely Tyra Banks to appear on the cover of the latest issue. It never ceases to amaze us that a woman who took off her pants on national television is still taken seriously.
Click through for the rest of the pictures from her shoot, which features some serious smiling with the eyes.
Gisele Bundchen let it all hang out for the latest issue of V Magazine and then actually formed some coherent sentences during an interview. Small victories. Despite answering the question of what she's most passionate about with a simple “the destruction of our planet," Gisele had plenty to say when it came to the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair scandal:
Can you believe this is news? It’s ridiculous. And the politicians aren’t going to create any laws about this [kind of media saturation]. They’re very happy with it. They can go around doing what they want and no one cares because we’re more concerned about some 15-year-old girl holding a sheet in a picture. No one cares about what [the politicians are] screwing up, or how much money is being lost.
Remember that Vogue-King Kong controversy that ambushed the media chattering classes back in March? Anna Wintour and Annie Leibovitz were gouged by politically correct knives for repeating a racist and stereotypical image of King Kong and a lady of liberty, making cover star LeBron James look like a screaming ape next to a helpless (though smiling!) Gisele Bundchen. Now that the dust has settled, it's time to look at how Americans at large viewed the issue. In a word, poorly.
Scarlett Johansson wasted no time in debuting her engagement ring from fiancé Ryan Reynolds at last night's Costume Institute Gala at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pretty much every celebrity you can imagine was in attendance (except for Reynolds), and 95 percent of the wardrobe choices made our heart cry.
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• Auf Wiedersehen: "How else will the new non-Bravo Project Runway screw things up, aside from moving to Lifetime and possibly filming without Nina Garcia? By moving to Los Angeles, the city that pretends to be a fashion capital with its own fashion week but is really just a town where Victoria Beckham pushes her crappy jeans at Kitson." [Jossip]
• Dennis Rodman! Remember that guy? He got arrested last night for roughing up his girlfriend. Now, go back to forgetting about him. [DListed]
• Surprise: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon were wed in a secluded island ceremony. Unfortunately, they did not stay there after the wedding. [PS]
• Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, tried to stab her mother. No word yet as to how much of her rage Bobbi Kristina blames on her name. [INO]
• Forbes says Gisele Bundchen now makes more money annually than every other person who stands around and has their picture taken wearing clothes and make-up. [ICYDK]
• Pete Wentz is being sued for assault and, unfortunately, the case has nothing to do with his music and our ears. [Yeeeah]
• You want mayo and shrimp on that pizza slice? Why are puking everywhere? [CityRag]
A nude photograph (sans stars) of la Première Dame of France, Carla Bruni, sold yesterday at Christie's for $91,000. Anyone interested in seeing Carla Bruni naked for $91,000 less than that winning bidder, go here.
After the jump, the artsy but still probably NSFW picture of Gisele Bundchen that fetched $193,000 at the same auction.
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Here’s a World War I enlistment poster (via) from 1917, famous from its era, that encouraged men to sign up with the army to fight the German enemy. (Interestingly, the Germans found it so convincing, they Nazis used the same concept for their own World War II poster.)
It’s hard to imagine Wintour or Leibovitz, or their staffs, in all their years studying photos and imagery, never came across this poster, or understood its racial ramifications with the ape carrying the helpless Lady Liberty.
• If you haven't yet, watch it, regardless of your political beliefs. [BO]
• New information says it is Charlotte in those nakey pics! [DListed]
• Dog's weren't meant for handbags. How are the models not getting this? [PS]
• "Secret Celebrity Piercings" Most aren't really a secret, but whatever. [CityRag]
• Minnie Driver's gained a baby yet seems to have lost a career, which is probably better for the baby. [INO]
• James Van Der Beek still looks like Dawson. Weird. [ICYDK]
• These days they'll give anybody a blog: Kim Kardashian joins us on the Internets. [HT]
New Yorkers came out in droves today for the Giants' homecoming parade. Local politicians made sure not to miss the photo op, and Whoopi Goldberg showed up to provide an awkward speech about how football has saved the country from the war. Or something. And then there were the football players, who kept their camcorders rolling the entire parade.
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• Tutankhamun not quite the looker we expected. [AFP]
• Clearly, not all models are stupid. [DListed]
• New Spice Girls track less "Voodoo" more Sunday School. [EBG]
• Following the devastating California fires, Matthew McConaughey decides he wants a much more expensive Malibu home than the one in which he currently lives. Huh? [PS]
• A Playboy Bunny and Hugh Hefner! So creative, you two vapid schmucks! [HT]
• Before we chastise: Are we sure she's not handicapped? That might explain more than just this parking job. [ICYDK]
• A Julia Roberts interview that might reveal slightly more about Julia Roberts than you knew before! Whoa! Did you already know stuff about Julia Roberts? Double whoa! [INO]
• Oh, yeah, she's pregnant. [Yeeeah]
• Lookalikes! What fun. [CityRag]
• Look where a career forged on the shoulders of a famous murderer gets a person. You're at the big dance, Shapiro. [Queerty]
• If poverty explains ugly, why is everyone in the favelas of Brazil at least an eight? Maybe just poor Americans are ugly. Or maybe wealthy Americans are just very ugly on the inside of their brains. [Gawker]
• David Copperfield's allegedly meticulous rape technique is unfathomably creepy. You don't trust magicians, people. [DListed]
• The Hills is soooooooooo fake. Stop watching it. [PITNB]
• Dick in a bag? [PS]
• It's not hot when she's been more naked on the job. That's a fact. [HT]
• Johnny Depp's a painter, also. Swoon, ladies. [ICYDK]
• Wait, did rehab actually work? Rehab never works. [INO]
• Grandmother Spears: "If they're boycotting your album, sweetie, they're not your real friends." [Yeeeah]
• Seriously, is everyone sure she didn't fall and hit her face? [CityRag]
Gisele Bundchen, the impossibly insipid model girlfriend of new father Tom Brady, recently sent $1,000 worth of infant clothes to Bridget Moynahan, the mother of Brady's son. Among the expensive Petit Tresor pieces was this standout: "a onesie with the word 'supermodel' written across it." The onesie also had "passive aggressive bullshit" written all over it.
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• "I'm headed eastbound leading your hair space." Brilliant, really. [BWE]
• Are they finally getting stars on Dancing With the Stars? (I mean, come on, Clyde Drexler?)
• Jessica Simpson can breathe through her nose. Now to get her to think through her brain. [HT]
• Oddly, Sharon Stone's adopted children look like they could be her real children. Where's her Asian one? [ICYDK]
• Why does he bark like a dog if he kills dogs? Is he self-loathing? [Yeeeah]
• For real fun, take acid and watch Inland Empire in a room of mirrors and demon figurines. [CityRag]
• I know who bored me. [DS]
• I've never before written this, but I honestly wouldn't have believe it if I hadn't seen it. Check it out above. [DListed]
• Penelope's in a bikini. Kinda boring. Bikinis are kinda boring. It's like, "Wow. Lycra. Thanks." [HT]
• Gisele's 27. Oddly enough, we all know her name and she still hasn't contributed shit. [ICYDK]
• Vintage luggage is better than expensive LV bags. If you don't agree, you're a commercial boob. [Yeeeah]
• MJ without the surgery! [CityRag]
All is not right in the world for Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. Page Six reports this today:
While the two have put up a happy front for the cameras - and his family is even said to be flying out to Italy to spend time at the villa in Rome she recently acquired - our spies say Bundchen is upset that Brady's ex, Bridget Moynahan, is due to give birth to Brady's son on Friday - Bundchen's birthday. The tension has grown so intense that the couple fought openly in front of hotel guests in Napa while staying at the five-star Auberge du Soleil.
One certainly hopes that this couple can find the patience and mutual respect necessary to make their relationship work. Because where else will a supermodel and a handsome quarterback find love if not with each other?
• With a name like Bear, you've gotta be tough enough to drink piss. [BWE]
• Wait Paris Hilton uses fake stuff? [DListed]
• She's the boss of my crush machine. Wow. [HT]
• If you want to be happy for the rest of your life… [ICYDK]
• Another celebrity who claims Machiavelli changed their life. [Yeeeah]
• See? No makeup works great. [CityRag]
If one were to traverse the waters that make up Gisele Bundchen's brackish ocean of thought, one would find the waters lukewarm, occasionally dangerous and seemingly endless, with little to no islands of sound ideas on which to run ashore and stay awhile. But weary sailors are in luck; it appears Bundchen's finally giving them a reason to straighten their caps and prepare for shore leave. Rational thinking, right ahead!
Bundchen…told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that the church's take on contraception is hopelessly outdated because it was adopted when "the women were virgins, the guys were virgins."
"Today, no one is a virgin when they get married," Bundchen said.
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