Roberto Cavalli Says Cheryl Cole Was Never to Appear in Ad Campaign
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Cheryl Cole not appearing in Roberto Cavalli ads. Photo: Getty Images
The British invasion has been postponed... for now.
Designer Roberto Cavalli is denying published reports that he allegedly offered British pop star Cheryl Cole £1.3 million (just under $2 mil) to star in his Fall 2010 campaign, a Cavalli spokesperson tells StyleList.
Various media outlets, including UK's The Mirror, claimed today that Cole had sparked a fashion bidding war as labels fought to have her model for their fall collections.
No dice, says Cavalli.
"Please note that further to false rumors from today's newspapers and online news sites, the house of Roberto Cavalli have never approached or offered Ms. Cheryl Cole a fee to appear in any of its advertising campaigns," the designer's representatives stated to us.
Guess last season's model, Kate Moss, can sleep a little easier tonight!
Though relatively unknown in the States, Cole is one of the most popular female celebrities in the UK.
In addition to being a member of girl group Girls Aloud, she's recently topped the charts as a solo artist, serves as a judge next to Simon Cowell on the UK version of "X Factor," is the face of L'Oreal UK and is married to Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole, though the two are currently separated thanks to his notorious cheating.
In other words, she's Victoria Beckham 2.0.
But does that mean she's ready to hit the big time with a major fashion campaign? Only time will tell -- but it looks like Cavalli's not biting.
Meanwhile, check out George Clooney's girlfriend in Cavalli's spring lingerie campaign.
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Lee Ann Womack's Body Tells Her 'There Is a God'
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Lee Ann Womack is climbing the country charts with her latest single, 'There Is a God,' and she knew the first time she heard the song she had to record it.
"It's such a simple song," Lee Ann tells The Boot. "It basically just says, 'Take a look around and try to tell me there isn't a God.' And don't you have those moments when you feel like that? You're on top of a hill and you see a beautiful scene, or like the part about the ultrasound and the baby."
The Texas native connects to the song as if she wrote it herself. "I'll never forget the first time I heard Aubrey's heartbeat when I went to the doctor," Lee Ann explains. "I was so not prepared, and I was 23 years old and by myself. My husband was on the road, so I had to go to my own doctor's visits by myself. And I'll just never forget the doctor saying, 'Oh, we get to hear the heartbeat today,' and he stuck that thing on my stomach and heard her little heart beating. It was like one of those moments. There has to be a God if I'm hearing this inside my body. Those are all the things that flash before me when I heard that song."
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How I Lost 140lbs And Keep It Off (3/2010)
William Anderson, MA, LMHC--
Michelle Obama recently revealed how she helped her children when they were threatened with the specter of obesity. What a blessing this is to her kids. As the former “fattest kid in school” my entire school life, I have a special appreciation for this. It's a miserable way to spend a childhood. To look at me today no one would guess it —I've been at my ideal body weight for over twenty years and I'm a mental health counselor. Some assume I have no idea what it's like to be fat, but I know too well. I was obese and morbidly obese for twenty-five years and I thought I was a hopeless case for a long time. However, I discovered how to solve the problem twenty years ago, lost 140 pounds, and I've been helping others since. I know how to solve the obesity problem.
We hear now about obesity as an epidemic, but for two-thirds of us the problem is very personal, and it hurts. The physical suffering and cost of medical treatment due to obesity-related diseases is bad enough, but if you've ever been overweight yourself, you know that the real suffering associated with obesity is emotional —and no one is more vulnerable to that kind of suffering than children. It is painful to be called names, to be teased and tormented and criticized and judged. For fat kids, it hurts every day.
“First Mother” Michelle Obama has done a great thing, leading the way to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. In her interview at the Let’s Move website, she tells the story of her children’s pediatrician confronting her with the problem, informing her that the kids were at risk. He suggested that she might want to make some changes. It was her wake-up call and it was clear to her that she was the one that needed to change things. Mrs. Obama accepted responsibility, and she is giving us a great role model for all moms to watch. The Let’s Move plan she proposes includes working with the schools and the community as well as families, but it is the mothers who really count.
Mothers are the most important and most powerful people in the world related to solving our childhood obesity epidemic. If your home supports habitual behavior that produces obesity, your obese child doesn't stand a chance of getting better, no matter what the government and schools do. He or she will lead the life of an obese kid, almost guaranteed to become an obese sick adult. The only way an obese child can change is if the home and family changes, and that will only happen when mom says it will.
And here’s an important fact to take into account: If you've been battling with weight yourself, deciding to help your child avoid or recover from obesity will not only spare your child, but it will solve your weight problem too! Michelle Obama and her whole family will benefit because she has taken on this mission, and you and your family will benefit too, if you take it on.
As a bona fide expert in obesity and weight control, having experienced childhood obesity first hand, then solving it and becoming a clinical expert in helping others, let me suggest some ways you can get started:
1) Clear the house of high calorie junk food. Snacking and eating as if it was a hobby or a sport has got to go if you want to control your weight. Have plenty of fruit and diet soda in the fridge so they have something to grab when they need it, but a house full of cookies, snack cakes, chips, candy and ice cream is the house of an obese person. People who have solved their weight problem have none of that in their house.
2) Feast and party occasionally, not every day. There are no bad calories in my book, but some foods are so calorically dense and addictive that you can only have them on special occasions, and then you need to send them home with the guests. Those who have Thanksgiving every day, or party every night, are planning on being obese.
3) Help your kids find pleasures other than food. Everyone needs comfort and pleasure, but learning to use food for that is a sure fire way to create a compulsive over eater. Help them to learn how to have pleasure in healthy ways. Swimming, biking, playing with dolls and Legos, fishing, crafts, games and friends -these are all ways to make yourself feel good. And there are no calories!
4) Swim against the current. Our culture promotes “recreational” overeating and obesity, and if you are going to refuse to go along with it, refuse to be obese, you'll be rejecting the things that everybody else thinks are normal. Put your foot down with the kids, your friends, and your husband. Don't go to fast food places unless they have healthy selections. When the kids whine for junk food (husband too) "just say no", as if they were trying to talk you into letting them have drugs. (Obesity actually accounts for far more suffering and premature deaths than drug abuse.)
5) Become a calorie expert. Buy a calorie guide so you become an expert in portion size and healthy choices. There are no bad foods or bad calories in my world, but until you have the knowledge of the caloric densities of the food you eat, there is no way to make intelligent choices. Eating without knowing the calories in the food is like going shopping at the mall and charging up all the things you like without looking at the price tags.
6) Never use the "d" word. I don't believe in "diets" and "dieting." Never tell a kid you're putting him on a diet. Believe me, it will backfire—just as it does in adults.
Mom: You can take the lead by modeling and demanding a healthy way at home. Start at home, with yourself and your family, and then look at the schools and the community. You can save your child and the world by focusing on your own habits and your home. Your child and the world will follow. No one gets in momma bear's way when her cub is threatened, even poppa bear, and mom, your child is threatened.
William Anderson, MA, LMHC is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in helping people lose excess weight. He is also the author of the best-selling new book, The Anderson Method (Two Harbors Press, 2009,) www.theandersonmethod.com), which shows how to use psychotherapeutic techniques to achieve permanent weight loss. It's based on the method he developed that helped him lose 140 pounds 25 years ago, and keep the weight off.
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New Jersey Woman Trying To Become Fattest Woman In The World
I don't even know where to begin. This mother of two from New Jersey wants nothing more than to become the world's largest woman. It is her goal to weight 1,000 pounds. To that end she eats about 12,000 calories a day. She is doing it on purpose. Why? So she can leave her kids without a mom? It seems to me from reading between the lines that she might not be raising her son. Well, I think someone should take a really good look at whether she should be raising her daughter. This isn't someone who has a disease and can't control her eating, she is forcing herself to eat more. If she keeps it up she will die. How is that any different from a parent who does drugs? Yes, I suppose it isn't illegal to eat food.
I eat lots and lots of food. I do so voluntarily. However, I also recognize the risks and if I had a young child I would improve my eating habits. As it is, I don't really fluctuate in my weight and I don't want to buy larger sizes so I am pretty content with where I am.To make all of this happen she spends about $750 a week on food. Oh, and she says she pays for most of it by charging men online to watch her eat. Really? It is like porn although I guess she keeps her clothes on. She is with a man who loves larger women and he introduced her to the online world where men love larger women. Fine. Great. I love it. BUT, that doesn't mean you should take it to the extent where you are going to kill yourself on purpose, especially when you have kids.
At one point she lost a bunch of weight and was going to have a gastric bypass, but when one of her friends died during the procedure she just went back to eating. It took 30 medical people to deliver her daughter. She already holds the world record for largest woman to deliver a baby. I am speechless.
(Thanks Chloe)
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