In the flesh: Today's female stars reveal 59% of their bodies to media flashbulbs - up from only 7%

National Post ^ | Friday, December 03, 2004 | Misty Harris

[eagle11]

I'll never understand how Janet Jackson, by exposing just 0.00325% of her body at last year's SuperBowl, caused so much of a stir!

[26lemoncharlie]

I thought it was a ZIT!!

[little jeremiah]

Why don't they just have small cameras embedded in every bodily orifice and have done with it?

[nickcarraway]

Give me a break. If we added "not" to the preamble to the Constitution it would be less than a 1% change, so I suppose that would be no big deal?

[loboinok]

Judeo-Christian theologies.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

For future historical reference, the Democrat's colossal electoral defeat this past November will be known as...NIPPLEGATE!

[sinanju]

The unapproachable gold standard for red carpet dresses was achieved by actress Rose MacGowan's outfit at the '98 Music Video Awards.

I recall last year's Academy Awards was notable for being comparatively dignified.

[foolscap]

Where I work there are always lots of copies of old National Inguirers and Star magazine. I was flipping through some on break and I noticed something looking at the massive collections of celebrity photos. Have you noticed that the current batch of the female "beautiful people" all look basically the same. The is especially true for the younger ones. They have almost identical body types. They tend to be tall and very thin with fake breasts. Their hair is straight usually with some sort of chemical weave or frost. There eyes are far set and actually if you sat down with a ruler their eye distance would be the same number for almost all celebrities. Their lower lips tend to be full do in part to help from the plastic surgeon.

When I noticed this I could see that basically these women are almost like a xerox of each other. The main difference would be hair color. I thought that it is sad that only one type of beauty was being seen. There is little to no diversity. Even among younger black female celerities their is the same straight hair and chemical coloring processes.

I know that fashion trends have long dictated what women will look like but I think this period in time has produced the biggest crop of group conformists ever seen. I think it is due in large part to plastic surgery. Now people can remake themselves into the ideal image. What is pathetic is that so much is lost by doing that. I think programs showing the wonders of extreme make overs send a bad message to younger girls. It is so much more healthy to accept one's self instead of rushing to the doctor to be remade into someone else concept of what is beautiful. If someone really has a problem that is a good reason to go. I personally can not see the beauty in frozen Botox faces. Look at Cher. She looks great, almost like a porcelain doll, but she does not look real. It concerns me that this emphasis on all looking alike combines with plastic surgery is fostering a generation of young women who will be plastic surgery addicts. It also concerns me that young men will think that any woman who does not fit the current standard should be surgically altered.

[TexasBarak]

Check out Charisma Carpenter (formerly of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel)- one of the most georgeous women alive, and definitely not a hollywood "cookie cutter" type.

While we're on the subject of women's body types- what idiot decided that skinny butts were attractive on women? And how in the world do they accomplish that? It seems to me that there must be health issues that accompany not letting one's body develop properly.

[lavrenti]

We need photos.

[najida]

Skinny butts are a direct result of gay fashion designers creating clothing for the "perfect female body" (ie, teenage boy with broad shoulders and skinny butts).

Just slap two DDD silcone balls on the chest and you have the 'Perfect Woman' for todays man (heavy sarcasm).

It started with Twiggy and has progressively gotten so bad that the majority of normally built women (with hips) now are presented as freakish cows.

Excuse me, WE are the freaks!?!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Posted here???

[NYC GOP Chick]

Sing it, sistah!

[Sloth]

"You have to go back to the Garden of Eden to understand how nakedness became naughtiness," says Blank. "Adam and Eve were tossed out of Eden because they were embarrassed and fearful about being naked."

Interesting theology.

[fso301]

I'm pretty skeptical about this post and require a statistically valid sample of photographic evidence... in high resolution.

[2harddrive]

What is an article like THIS without PICS????????/

[lavrenti]

That is my complaint, so I pinged the picture princess.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Be careful of what you wish for... ;D

[siunevada]

"Adam and Eve were tossed out of Eden because they were embarrassed and fearful about being naked."

There's a whole new take on Genesis. I suspect it's been a while since this person had a peek at the Bible.