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...into modeling? When I was 14 years old, my mother put me in an etiquette beauty school. One day a scout came up to me and said, "Oh, my gosh, you're going to be the next supermodel." I didn't even know what that meant. He pulled out a picture of Gisele and said, "This is who you can be." But he said I had to lose nine inches off my hips. That was the beginning...
Rushdie's dashing appearance, feminism, and complex literary personae would seem to make for an interesting romantic life. And Rushdie is famous for his womanizing. He has been married four times, most recently to supermodel and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, from 2004 until 2007, when she ended the marriage. Since then, he has been linked to the Indian model Riya Sen and actress Pia Glenn. Rushdie’s father was a University of Cambridge-trained lawyer turned businessman, and Rushdie himself studied history at King’s College, Cambridge. Now Rushdie has fallen for the American...
...vignettes about other Parisians are much stronger than Pierre’s scenes, particularly the story of Benoît (Kingsley Kum Abang), a hotel waiter who immigrates to Paris from Cameroon. The images of his dusty village are colorful but forlorn, and his conversations with a supermodel staying at his hotel are rich with political subtext absent from Pierre’s self-indulgent monologues. It’s a shame that Klapisch didn’t set the entire film in Cameroon; perhaps it would have had the substance and originality that “Paris?...
...calling them "taking the easy road" and "conforming" to white aesthetics. Meanwhile, talk-show host Tyra Banks just announced via Twitter that she will abandon her weave and don "no fake hair at all!" for her show's season premiere. Mixed in with the supportive response to the former supermodel's decision was skepticism about whether she could be attractive with what she describes as her "out and free" look...
...first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. This is why Sims was such a revelation: a beautiful black woman who was - from her skin tone to her hair texture - truly and quintessentially black. She opened the runway door for others, including role model Michelle Obama and the other supermodel Naomi - Campbell - to catwalk through. (See pictures of Michelle Obama's style evolution...