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Former topless model joins Berlusconi's cabinet as Italy's equalities minister
Daily Mail ^ | 9th May 2008 | NICK PISA

Posted on 05/08/2008 6:46:16 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick

It is not the sort of appointment Gordon Brown would make to his cabinet.

But then Mr Brown is no Silvio Berlusconi, playboy and man of ostentatious political gestures.

The Italian prime minister, long known for his fondness for pretty women, has named former topless model and beauty queen Mara Carfagna as equal opportunities minister in his new cabinet.

Miss Carfagna, 33, turned to politics after a career on TV following her sixth-place finish in the 1997 Miss Italy contest.

She has also posed topless and semi-naked for photoshoots but has always underlined her family values and stressed none of the pictures were "erotic".

Mr Berlusconi, 71, named her as one of four women ministers in his cabinet, which was officially installed yesterday.

The others are Stefania Prestigiacomo (environment), Maria Stella Gelmini (education) and Giorgia Meloni (youth).

At an awards dinner last year Mr Berlusconi told Miss Carfagna, who is single, that if he wasn't married he would "gladly marry" her.

His wife Veronica sent a letter to a national newspaper demanding he apologise for embarrassing her - which he duly did.

A law graduate from Salerno University, Miss Carfagna worked for Mediaset - Mr Berlusconi's TV company - where she appeared on several programmes before becoming an MP.

She has refused to talk of her modelling career but in an interview once said: "I am a bit of a prude and I found getting undressed in front of a camera not a pleasant experience."

Speaking of her appearance in Miss Italy she said: "That competition makes you as a woman, it matures you.

"All that stress, that desire to win, it makes you understand who you are."

Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom party won a powerful mandate in last month's election.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bellissima; berlusconi; casedismissed; completelyexonerated; curvatureofthefine; innocent; italy; notguilty; sonotguilty; vivaitalia
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To: Free Vulcan

And she owes it all to Pasta (a wink to Sophia Lauren).


61 posted on 05/08/2008 8:27:23 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: martin_fierro

Unnnngggghhhh!!!!


62 posted on 05/08/2008 8:28:56 PM PDT by airborne (LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
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To: Lizavetta
Many Italian/Mediterranean women tend to be very curvy in the hips and thighs. The classic hour-glass figure. She's got it. So did Sophia Loren, another Italian bombshell that makes me weak in the knees.
63 posted on 05/08/2008 8:29:33 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Lizavetta
Do men actually find an ass that size attractive? For real?

Not me, particularly, but variety is the spice of life!

64 posted on 05/08/2008 8:30:57 PM PDT by airborne (LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Circa 1980 I was in Elaine’s in NYC and Sophia walked in.....with Woody Allen! True story.


65 posted on 05/08/2008 8:31:15 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Lizavetta

I dated a girl built like that for a year or so...I called it the Ponderosa.


66 posted on 05/08/2008 8:33:52 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Lizavetta
Do men actually find an ass that size attractive? For real?

Yes.
At least since primitive man was in "the quest for fire".

As one of those awful bearers of a "Y" chromosome, and just speaking
for myself:
young males first obsess over the female bustline,
THEN they start noticing female derriere.
And finally graduate to an appreciation of the proportions of
the total package if they are lucky/wise.
Physical, personality, and at least modestly stable.

I also suspect the male appreciation of the female derriere
is tied with the subconcious drive to find a mate that's healthy
and fertile.
And a little "junk in the trunk" says "she's got the goods".

But for the guys that prefer the slimmer models..."to each his own"!
67 posted on 05/08/2008 8:34:14 PM PDT by VOA
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To: wtc911

How’d she look?


68 posted on 05/08/2008 8:36:02 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: VOA

I’ve never heard it put better than when I overheard a conversation that went like this; “A stiff d**k has no conscience...”


69 posted on 05/08/2008 8:39:08 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

INNOCENT! With NO explanation needed!


70 posted on 05/08/2008 8:40:30 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Dick Vomer

What happened? Every other picture I have seen of her, her breasts appear quite natural. They look hideous in this picture.


71 posted on 05/08/2008 8:44:57 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: PotatoHeadMick; martin_fierro; an italian

VIVA ITALIA!!!!!


72 posted on 05/08/2008 8:46:12 PM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If those are hideous breasts I am Fidel Castro


73 posted on 05/08/2008 8:46:21 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
Very classy, like a Contessa. Of course she was fifty plus, wealthy and famous. I would like to have seen her at 27.

I ran in circles that put me in the same room as a boatload of film celebrities for a couple of decades. Some I recall...Vanessa Williams - just simply the 'prettiest' girl I ever saw, Racquel Welch - remarkably charismatic, Julie Andrews - luminescent, Diana Ross - a skank (with major attitude), Debra Winger - plain to the point of being almost un-noticable, Whoopie - Fugly (inside and out)...oh, and our FR favorite, Susan Sarandon - tiny with huge tits and wrinkles (on her face) that made her look twenty years older.

74 posted on 05/08/2008 8:47:17 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Lizavetta
Maybe it's just the camera angle...

Bingo. She's actually well-proportioned.

75 posted on 05/08/2008 8:51:54 PM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: Perdogg
Definitely an Italian butt.
76 posted on 05/08/2008 8:57:15 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism is dying. Thank God!)
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To: wtc911

At 19. Amazing......

77 posted on 05/08/2008 8:59:56 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

In a word...wow.


78 posted on 05/08/2008 9:02:41 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
Vanessa Williams is very good in ERASER. Her do you know the password scene is one of my all time favorites in an otherwise cheesy movie.
79 posted on 05/08/2008 9:06:26 PM PDT by nomorelurker (keep flogging them till morale improves)
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To: Dick Vomer

No insult intended, but:

Wouldn’t you like to wop that thing?

The two best gifts from Italy:
a beautiful Italian woman and a pizza!


80 posted on 05/08/2008 9:09:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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