Now that three years has passed, it’s kind of hard to remember why everyone was so jazzed about Pippa Middleton, right? Pippa was a big “hit” with the international media on her sister’s wedding day – although much of the royal/aristo beat reporters in the UK were already pretty familiar with Pippa. Still, they helped to rebrand her. They were excited to see that the new Duchess of Cambridge had a younger sister with a nice figure, and everybody went crazy when Pippa leaned down to carry Kate’s train and the camera lingered on Pippa’s backside.
Three years later… that ass is still paying for itself. Pippa launched a career off of her ass. She’s now a “columnist” and a failed book writer and she gets paid a lot of money to do very little. But… what if it was all a lie? What if Pippa’s ass was made of lies?!?! We’ve actually talked about this vital issue before. A few months after the wedding in 2011, various people began to claim that Pippa has a flat butt in real life, and she wore butt pads for her sister’s wedding. And now a “leading French royal watcher” named Stephane Bern is claiming the same thing:
The bum that stole the show during the 2011 royal wedding has been accused of being fake by a respected French royal expert. Pippa Middleton was accused of using a “falsie” to give her the rear of the year at sister Kate’s wedding to Prince William.
Leading French Royal watcher Stephane Bern claimed Pippa “had a false bottom” to give her THAT look which soared her into the jet set. Highly-respected and influential Mr Bern, 50, made the claim during as The Duchess of Cambridge’s 30-year-old sister made a trip to the vineyards of Bordeaux.
Mr Bern, a Knight of the Order of Grimaldi in Monaco and an expert on etiquette, used his TV chat show to reveal the snippet. But he did not recall how he knew. Mr Bern said “But of course she had a false bottom. I repeat it, she had a false bottom. You take her away from that and she has normal buttocks. It was an optical illusion. She knew there were a billion people watching. It was the moment to show it.”
Pippa was a little known socialite until her sister, Kate, made her bridesmaid at her wedding to Prince William. Pippa wore a white Alexander McQueen dress and became an instant international star, with many saying that her bottom made her particularly special.
Since I’m built like a Kardashian sister, I have no idea what it’s like to need padding on one’s curves. Pippa thinks of butt pads, I think of slimming dark-colored slacks and minimizers. But I’ve just always sort of assumed that Pippa’s ass was made of lies at the wedding. To be fair, I don’t think she was wearing huge butt pads or anything because even with the padding, her butt wasn’t all that pronounced. Still, I am thankful for Pippa’s ass of lies just because “ass of lies” is now a thing.
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I can’t believe we would still talk about this topic. It’s been 3 years!!
That´s exactly what I thought!
We’re still talking about Kim K. ass too.
There is no escape from that, though. It’s constantly in our faces.
I’m talking about Chloe’s arse…I’ve moved on!
@ homegrrl
LMAO!!!
Kim K’s ass is one of her trademarks, which she uses to all of it’s strange advantage. Plus, it’s way more pronounced that Pippa’s and keeps changing and growing!
I never understood the whole uproar about Pippa’s ass. It just looked like a normal slim person’s ass. Why did it become so famous? It’s not especially curvaceous. It’s not freak show like Kim K. or Coco Whoever. What’s with the ass?
My feelings exactly. I saw it and thought, ‘where is it?’ There is barely a bump.
“I repeat it, she had a false bottom. You take her away from that and she has normal buttocks.”
Soooo, what exactly is “normal”? This so-called expert is saying that “normal” buttocks are something even *more* nonexistent than this overhyped still-near-nothingness? Wow, those of us with actual curves, or even a slight swerve in the back, can rest easy knowing we’re considered freakshows.
I’ve never understood the uproar, either. Her behind is completely unremarkable. It’s neither plump nor shapely, and looks just like every other girl’s. The buzz about her bum (and looks) is beyond me.
me too. .. and the guy’s an etiquette expert? wouldn’t good etiquette dictate that this is not something that should be brought up (let alone now)?
she doesn’t even has an ass like that though. Show what? gtfoh
This poor girl still has to listen to this crap- anyway she doesn’t even have an ass!
I’m just surprised that they actually have a royal ass expert.
But what ass; if that ass was a false bottom she wore to the wedding she must really be lacking any cushion back there. Most people wouldn’t call that much of an ass.
You’re totally right.. which ass? Doh! What should JLo say then…
The Royal Ass Expert needs to do a serious study of Harry’s ass for all of us.
Royal ass expert?!? Right now, Kris Jenner is preparing her tranq gun and a contract written in blood. Can’t wait to see the IG of her in a pith helmet and jodhpurs.
I wanna know how you apply for that job. Does Harry need his ass watched, cause you know I’m looking for employment.. wait, am I allowed to harass him? Better yet I want to be Royal Harry Dong Watcher.. that doesn’t sound right
OFGS!
I’ve read everything now.
Come the revolution I will be chopping off their heads.
Ridiculous if you ask me. Good tailoring on the dress, that’s all! I have no idea what ass pads look like (though I imagine they are an improvement on tissues stuffed down a bra)
but I would not risk them falling out in front of billions on TV while walking up the miles of aisle.
More than likely it was an undergarment meant to smooth with some padding sewn into the posterior for shaping. It’s like plucking off your eyebrows and drawing them back on, imo.
*shrugs*
That’s what I’m guessing. I once wore some Spanx that were supposed to slim the tummy and thighs, but I guess the spandex also gave a “lift” to my already full bottom. Boy! I had to walk past the mirror a few times. I was impressed with my damn self. LOL!
THIS. Good tailoring, once I’ve had a custom-made dress and my ass (I am not a sporty person) looked really good in it, and quite honestly at the time that ass didn’t seem that special at all to me.
In total agreement.. No One would risk that possible humiliation in front of millions of TV viewer + social & print media. It was simply a beautifully fitted dress that frankly stole the show. Kate’s dress while pretty was kind of a letdown.
I never got the fuss over her butt back in the day either, but it’s been a couple years now, this royal asspert needs to find something more current to talk about.
Hard times in the royal ass fields these days.
And how sad is it that a couple of well timed ass pads *almost* changed her life forever. Then she wrote that book. Just think if Khloe had waited till Kim’s wedding to debut hers! Royal ass replay!
Wouldn’t it be great if all anyone talked about after Kim’s wedding, was Khloe’s ass? Kanye would have such a temper tantrum. They’d have to throw another wedding just so they could get the attention they believe they are entitled to.
The things that white people are obsessed with fascinate me. What ass was there to see there? There was nothing.
Lol! That’s the white way, no booty= “great ass”. And to even call it padded! That is TOO hilarious.
I keep looking but I ain’t seeing anything. I never understood the hoopla around Pippa. She’s just bland in general.
Too funny. I am white and I came on here to say the same thing. Only a white person would be arguing about Pippa’s fake a$$. I thought she looked great, but I am puzzled that anyone considered that an a$$, let alone a fake a$&. Makes me appreciate all the fighting we do about Kim Kartrashian’s ass. At least we can all agree that that is an a$$.
Nuh-uh, these are Brits and northern European Jane Fonda types who think that there was a butt there. And even most of them after awhile were like, “WHAT??”
Ha ha, TG!
We may have many varied opinions here at CB, but the one thing we can all agree on is that Kim Kardashian’s ass is, in fact, an *ass* rather than the non-ass situation we have going on here with Pippa.
LOL right? Sorry I live in Miami and even with padding we say “what ass?”
Hahaha! Tru dat. What is there to look at?
Anything to keep “ass of lies” alive! It’s a keeper!
I had forgotten that Pips wore that clump of lilies in her hair. Actually, I had forgotten most of what she looked like other than her ass.
So what if she did? People wear padded bras all the time. She probably wore spanx with padding in the rear. I would think it’s tacky of Bern to bring it up, and I’d feel sorry, except that Pippa brings it up herself quite often, so it’s sort a wash.
Agreed. What kind of etiquette expert publicly calls out a woman for what she may or may not hide within her lingerie? Seems pretty rude and ungentlemanly IMO. However, Pips does seem pretty keen to constantly resurrect her ass attention grab, so, yeah, whatevs.
I love that he was introduced as “respected and influential” and all I can think is: how respected and influential can you be if you’re discussing whether or not someone wore a little padding under a dress 3 years ago?
Exactly, what’s the difference between this and a padded bra? And it is rude to speculate and comment on what may be going on under a lady’s clothes.
But that tan though, it’s a little garish O_o
Very true. Some etiquette expert.
Honestly i don’t see the big deal. All this craziness about her ass. I can barely see it so I really don’t know what we’re talking about.
If she wore ass pads girlfriend really need to do more squats because that ass is invisible.
“Aristo Beat” would be a great name for a rapper.
I never understood what on earth that was all about. Look at those pictures; they show a flat, bony, slightly saggy ass. That’s fine, I have a flat bony saggy ass too, but by any standard of beauty it’s not exactly the mania-inducing sight people made it out to be. It’s not like Pippa even has a unique body shape, I work with a dozen women who could be her body double. Like I said, I’ll never get what brought that craziness on.
The English press’ desperate need for a story, and the ensuing suspension of disbelief that followed the royal couple and the Middletons for an unholy few weeks of Royal Wedding Mania.
If she’s wearing any padding it’s minimal. I don’t like how even in 2014 our culture is obsessed with women’s bodies. We scorn women with “pancake” butts just as much as we scorn them if their butts are too big. We create devices for women to enhance their bodies like the wonder bra and these butt pads. On the other hand we have spanks, the modern day corset for a woman who is just too curvy to live. But god forbid a woman is caught using one of these stupid things, then we must laugh at her for buying into the hype we created. Unless you’re a perfect specimen like a Victoria’s Secret model, you can’t win. I don’t know much about Pippa but in these pictures she looks like a normal girl with a slim figure. Her butt looks fine to me, if she is wearing anything it isn’t obvious. I applaud Mr Bern’s courage in revealing Pippa’s nefarious plot to deceive us with her fake fanny. What a hero…
Well said.
Someone should go through his medicine chest and post pics of his Viagra bottles on instagram.
Haha! Or show his Rogaine or whitening strips. What an ass.
Zing!
@Megs – Yes, well said and the fake fanny comment was awesome and funny.
And even VS models are scorned for being “anorexic”. There is no winning for women.
Amen, sister!
Perfectly put.
+10000000000000000000000000000000000
What should be a bigger deal is the fact she looked so crazy orange. How do people think fake tanners look good?!
the “tan” is all i noticed
Dude is an “ettiquette expert” and all he can talk about is a bygone royal ass of lies?
Smells phishy.
I thought the same thing. An expert in ettiquette? What IS the correct ettiquette for going on TV and slamming a woman for trying to create the best impression possible when she has to stand up there in front of a billion viewers and leave herself open to scrutiny and criticism about her looks and her body? I’m a dress maker and every clever dress uses cut and line and shaping to create optical illusions that either enhance or camouflage. Pippa does have a flat ass, that’s not a criticism, that’s just her particular physique, and this style of dress simply looks better with some curves to cling to, so Sarah Burton gave her some damn curves. Big whoop, this is just some crusty old hack trying to insert himself into the headlines by reviving a three year old event because he has nothing more relevant to talk about.
While I do not know of this precise interview, I know of S. bern. he is The reference for all things royal in France Tv and Radio. as such he is always as gentlemanly, polite, bland and non controversial as possible.
Since he would never ever dare to, I doubt he was slamming anyone. I strongly belive that his comment was taken out of context. Or he could have said it with a shrug, all the-little-tricks-everybody-do-are-not-that-important like.
Just saying.
If she had butt pads, wouldn’t it be more pronounced? Are we confusing butt pads with double Spanx? Millions of people watched. Of course everything was cinched and lifted.
This has always been my thought. Pads are fuller and shiftier. Besides with the budget they were working with I would think a high end spanxx would have been used as opposed to pads.
Not necessarily, no. I don’t think he means that at the last second she took two pieces of foam and shoved them into her knickers. As I said above, I’m a dress maker, and at the moment I’m doing a course in couture sewing skills, and I’m making a jacket that, I’m not kidding, could actually stand up on it’s own at this point it has so much padding and shaping going on under the lining. And none of it is visible or remotely apparent from the outside. I suspect that Pippa’s dress has the appearance of being softer and silkier than it actually is, because of the very clever cut, and I think it’s disguising a multitude of couture shaping techniques going on beneath.
“We’ve actually talked about this vital issue before.”
Snicker. 🙂 That was actually my first thought when I saw this ‘breaking news’ at the top of the Daily Fail gossip chain.
Well as an African woman,i never saw the big deal with the ass fascination, to me she has noassatall, they just needed an angle to make fetch happen.
“…they just needed an angle to make fetch happen.”
Zing! 😀
I think the line of buttons probably just brings attention to her rear, and the tailoring/spanx emphasizes an hourglass figure. Pictures from the side don’t make it look like there is much there at all. I’m not surprised that a royal etiquette expert is so catty for some reason.
Crown Princess Victoria’s bottom was at the wedding and we’re talking about Pippa’s several years after the fact?
Right?! Now THAT was the ass that should have been on the news!!!
I still don’t see this butt she supposedly has.
Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel have bigger butts than Pippa. The media going off on her the way they did at the wedding was a JOKE. But I guess they had absolutely NOTHING else to write about.
Perhaps it’s an English thing??? She has a very small, normal looking butt to me. Are big butts rare overseas? Just asking.
PS – Oh, and the story about her having butt pads on at the wedding? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *smh*
We’re full of big, pronounced butts here too… Ah wait, they’re not royal butts though hahaha
I don’t think anyone thought her behind was big, they just thought it looked nice in the dress. Right? If they thought it was big, I better hide.
That’s what I always thought, GoodNames.
No its was about her having a nice bum not a big one just a nice one which when you look at her candids didn’t exist.
Interesting… well, I don’t see what all of the hype was about. Just silly.
Padding or not, who cares? It´s been 3 years as pointed out several times. But I must say, I Think she looks gorgeous! She really does! 🙂
I gotta say, I like Pippa’s dress better now that we’re three years out. It looks so expensive!!
I think the side pictures show that she is not wearing any sort of padding, nor does she need to. The dress was cut beautifully and the row of buttons (as pointed out above) drew attention to her rear.
She has a lovely athletic figure and her behind is in good proportion to it. It is not necessary to have a large behind to have a nice one. In fact many people don’t care for large behinds (makes finding pants a pain), just like being well-endowed up front can be annoying.
I think her little bum is quite attractive & the dress is cut beautifully. I would rather have a butt like hers than a bit ol’ fat arse — especially a big ol’ fake, fat arse.
Ditto. I think hers looks perfectly nice. I don’t get the flat and bony remarks.
An etiquette expert would never offer up such speculation over someone else’s rear end.
At best we should dub Pippa’s “the ass of white lies” and reserve “the ASS of lies” for Kim and well….Khloe has “the ass of bold-face lies”.
Speaking as a fellow member of the Pancake/Concave A$$ Club, its genetics! Not all of us can or want to shove implants in our tush. Also, i never understood the Pippa hype
I don’t know if anyone has ever mentioned this before but Pippa in Greek means blowjob! Everytime i hear that name it seems so funny!
Pipa means ‘p*ssy’ in Polish! Gurl has the most unfortunate name ever.
Her name is Phillipa. She has an unfortunate nickname I guess.
“royal ass expert” and “ass of lies” Oh Celebitchy! How I love you!
I always thought that there was so much attention to this simply because the dress itself was such a surprise. Much more contemporary and stylish than most people assumed would be the case with a bridesmaid’s dress at a royal wedding.
Still a great dress, and still tacky to talk about what a woman wore under it.
I agree. I remember feeling stunned when I first saw her. She looked absolutely lovely. Too tan, but lovely.
Her dress impressed me more than Kate’s did. Pippa was too orange, for sure. And Kate’s makeup was atrocious.
Sorry as a woman with an ample ass, I laughed long and hard at Pippa’s supposedly amazing butt. Sorry…but that lady never had back. Maybe to the media, but not to normal red blooded people.
Lots of people for whom ample and amazing aren’t the same thing.
Thank you! I don’t think the idea was ever that she had an “ample” butt. It was just that she looked nice from the rear. Had she a large rear, the dress would not have looked good in fact.
Believe it or not, not everybody thinks that having “back” is a fantastic thing.
Never said anything about her needing to have an ample ass to be amazing. She doesn’t have anything. All this harping on her amazing ass and most people were like…what butt? Jessica Biel has an amazing butt. Rihanna has an amazing butt. Pippa is flat.
No it’s not flat – it is small. And there are a lot of people of African ancestry on here (and on every article about this topic) sneering about the small behinds of Northern Europeans (not saying it is you, but there are others who are). Well it may be that there are people who prefer the Northern European build and don’t envy an ample behind.
You can see her behind here:
http://celenzo.com/2014/02/28/entertainment/pippa-middleton-admits-that-brides-dress-was-too-tight/attachment/pippamiddletonbikini/
It is not flat, but rounded and small. And the reason people liked her in the dress was that she looked nice from the rear.
I happen to prefer Northern European butts *sniff*
Where I come from, the question most asked whilst shopping for clothes or pirouetting for a loved one before a big night out is “Does my bum look big in this”?
Luckily for me (the original slab-arse) the answer is always “No”. If only the same could be said of my breasts.
I agree that she has no ass and what there is doesn’t look padded, but it’s depressing as hell that her ass was what made her “soar into aristocracy” really???!!! That’s how far we’ve not come?
Getting pee’d on made a lot of Kardashians multimillionaires with international recognition.
Are y’all so deprived of asses in the real world that THIS is what you venerate? These magazines need to get a grip. Find a new story!
No wonder the Windsors are running out of money. Do they really need a Royal Ass Expert?!?
(kidding)
Also if it was a fake ass she should have upgraded, I really never saw what the big deal was, unless it was a media conspiracy to deflect us from Kate who will be the most boring Queen ever.
I don’t care that much for the Middletons, but both Kate and Pippa looked beautiful at the wedding. I think Kate’s a bit to thin, but in general the two sisters have really nice figures. I love the first picture when they are looking at each other – I think it really shows their bond.
I think that’s a sweet picture, too.
Royal ass expert?
Jeez,this is quite strange,never heard of this before. Ever.
What exactly is their job description?
Not to be mean but both of the sisters have flat butts imho. Kate even more so.
She is in amazing shape but she has a white girl butt so I really do not understand what are people talking about? What butt? I’m not being mean just curious – what butt?
I know some white girls with some great asses. I resent the term “white girl butt.” White girls can have great asses just like everyone else. And PS – big does NOT equal nice. Shape is the most important thing.
It’s a fine term because it’s sharp and everyone knows what the person is talking about. I am a white girl and I have what my bf (from South Africa) called “bushman’s butt.”
So calm down with the sensitivity, okay?
@ itsetsyou… It’s fine because it’s sharp? What does that even mean? I’m not sure why you’re telling me to calm down considering I was never upset in the first place. Just think it’s a silly term that brings up race unnecessarily, that’s all.
Why make it a racial thing. When I becomes racial your point will be lost and it will just come down to people arguing about race not butts
Yes, please let’s stay with the butts and not the race. Everyone can have a big and a small butt, no matter if they are white, black or purple. Race shouldn’t matter one bit these days. And I don’t think this “white girl butt” and “white people dancing” stuff that’s so popular these days is helping.
It is really a very nice butt. Not overly huge.
Never understood this. She doesn’t have an ass to speak of!
That looks like a completely normal and real ass to me.
Good heavens. What am I doing with my life? WHAT
I’m asking myself this question right now!
I have asked myself the same at times lol
That must be what people call “having an ass” in the UK. Or maybe you have to go cross eyed and squint to see it, like an optical illusion..?
Here’s what gets my ass (see what I did there?) about the Pippa phenomenon. It was ultimately a completely media created thing. On the wedding day, sure people were in awe of how nice Pippa looked. But people were over it a week later and had moved on. The press however, didn’t get that memo and tried to make her happen.
And now that the press has largely turned against her, they’re basically acting like they weren’t the ones who tried to make her happen in the first place! And yes they did try to make her happen over say, their brother who also had a role in the wedding. You really have to dig to find any press on James that’s how little he matters to the media.
Yeah Pippa did take advantage of her fame. And that lawsuit against #pippatips was a huge misstep. But maybe if they had just treated Pippa as just an attractive relative to her sister and didn’t try to make her a celebrity then she might not have gotten those chances to begin with.
I can’t believe that after 3 years people it’s still talking of her flat ass. 3 years ago people started talking about her ass and blah blah and 3 years later I still can’t see it. Make it stop!
You may be overestimating the importance of Pippas ass because this is the first time I have heard it being discussed.
Jlo and KK are known for their asses. Never heard anything about Pippa.
Same here….She looks normal with a nice figure… First time I’ve heard this… 🙂
But of it makes you happy discussing asses, good… I just find it all funny!!! 🙂
Oh, dear, no, it was international news, and had it’s own website. Lol Even my husband said who is Pippa, and he is not up on that sort of thing.
She looked good in the dress. She is a slim woman. I don’t know and don’t care what she did or didn’t wear under it. We all wear things to adjust our natural appearances–from makeup, to pushup bras, to minimizing bras, to hair extensions, to spanx, to fanny enhancers….WHATEVER.
Seriously move on from such an insipid and candidly mind numbing conversation, Close to Royal Ass Assessor.
She had a very slight version of an hour glass figure seeing her from the back. Side view she has a little bit of ass, but not much, certainly not anything to speak of. I think the dress was probably tailored perfectly for her and it worked, which is the purpose of tailoring. If she had anything fake back there, it wasn’t much.
This discussion shows perfectly how stereotypes take roots everywhere, how awesome …
And, for more irrelevant Pippa news, here’s an article about her trip to Scotland. It says K&W will be visiting the same area later this month (another vacation?). http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/pippa-middleton-heading-perthshire-visit-3457312
I doesn’t look like she’s wearing butt pads, you would be able to tell in that dress. She has an athletic, symmetric body and that’s why she’s appealing.