CHARLIZE THERON

CHARLIZE THERON

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Charlize Theron ~ Born August 7, 1975. As legend has it, Charlize Theron was discovered arguing with a bank manager on Hollywood Blvd. who refused to cash her check. Perfectly representing the Leo tenacity and fearless quality of not being afraid to cause a public spectacle. This South African native is beyond gorgeous, and amazingly talented. Her portrayal of a murderer in the acclaimed box-office hit "Monster" deservedly won her an Oscar and displayed her unnerving ability to transcend her beauty into roles with more substance and courage.

CHARLIZE THERON

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

CHARLIZE THERON

"And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that. " Charlize

CHARLIZE THERON

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks

I have a confession to make: I am obsessed with America's Next Top Model. Or, I used to be. The show used to be about fashion and how to communicate that fashion artisically. But every season has strayed further and further from that mantra. Now, thanks to Tyra Banks' blossoming ego, the competition is more about respecting Tyra than actually being a good model. The girls who are obsessed with Tyra Banks, who cry and scream when they see her, tend to last longer and even win over others who think of Tyra as she is: a person.
Great model after great model has been turned away from the show because she doesn't profess her love to The Great One (Tyra Banks, of course). But maybe that's a little unfair. I mean, every aspiring model should love Tyra Banks.

Tyra has conquered every modeling problem in the world. She's fallen down, she's twisted her ankle, she's had her hair burned off by a freak firestorm right before a runway show (well maybe not, but if a contestant on America's Next Top Model had all of her hair burned off, Tyra would pull out a story to up the contestant's). Nobody has worked harder, or overcome more in life than Tyra Banks. Nobody.

Let's face it: Every photo shoot is all about Ms. Tyra Banks, even when it doesn't relate in the slightest. (You don't know what's it's like to be homeless, Tyra. I'm sorry. Putting dirt on your face and pretending to sleep on a city street while being watched by a camera crew does not give you an accurate portrayal of what homeless life is like.)

What happened to the modeling competition, specifically the high-fashion modeling competition? The America's Next Top Model judges stress over and over that they are looking for girls who are edgy and can work European runways, yet the contestants are given challenges that test their abilities to sell products in an infomercial-like setting. I know a model's suppossed to be versatile, but come on.

An edgy, high-fasion model shouldn't be sent home because she's not the best public speaker. Yes, you have to know how to book a job, but hawking food items in front of a camera has no place in the fashion world. It's like saying stripping and modeling are similar, which, as my fellow ANTM fans all know, Tyra Banks would crucify you for saying. But is it just me, or is stripping closer to modeling than smiling on an infomercial?
Snap out of it Tyra; you need a time-out!

Tyra Banks

SEXY TYRA BANKS

The Woman...

“That's fierce.”
Those two words are enough for most to identify the woman who has become probably the most acessible supermodel of our time. Tyra. Tyra Banks. The woman who searches tirelessly each year for America's Next Top Model, handpicking girls with even more care than an illicit brothel owner. So sucessful has she been at wedding the really super ultra pretty from the merely super ultra pretty that 'they' gave her her own talks show, known simply as 'Tyra'.

The Talkshow...

Its been her talkshow that has really brought out the totally freakin mental in Tyra Banks, from hysterical breakdowns over bejewelled vaseline containers, to stripping her audience, she's made the term crazy sexy cool all her own. Is Tyra actually mental? Or is she orchestrating a carefully planned satire on the beauty and fashion industry? You be the judge.
The Breasts...

What about her breasts?

Rumors have circulated wildly throughout the world over the years regarding these two lovely mammaries. Are they fake? Are they real? Has she had plastic surgery? What's the deal? I think the floppy boob part of the video below should convince us all that they are, in fact real, but just in case you don't believe moving pictures, here are some quotes from the mouth of the horse herself:
“By no means am I against plastic surgery, by no means am I saying that breast implants are a bad thing, but it's just not a choice that I made ... it's something that a lot of people think I have and that is so frustrating to me.”
“I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business. But I was a 34C when I was 17...They stay up when I wear a push-up bra. But if people could see me when I come home and take off my bra, how could they think these are fake?”

“Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?”
Oops, okay, so the last one had nothing to do with breasts, I just snuck it in there because it had the phrase “animalistic erotic women” in there, and I think we can all learn a lot from that.
Finally, I'd like to end this piece with a quote from Tyra on the importance of interacting with the world at large. If this doesn't put the 'shallow model' stereotype to bed once and for all, then I just don't know what will.
“I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.”