Renee Zellweger was photographed out twice with the same stomach-baring black jacket blowing open to reveal her still perfectly-flat tiny abs. She was seen at LAX airport and then outside the salon later in the day. At least it was the same day and she didn’t wear the open jacket on different days to show off, but it really looks like these photos are staged for maximum tummy and press exposure. Look how she’s posing in each instance like she’s on a cat walk. She’s throwing her head back and opening her jacket to make sure that it drapes right. I thought that Zellweger was above this sort of thing of thing, but I guess we learned she wasn’t when she went on that probably staged date with Bradley Cooper and happily posed for the paparazzi afterwards.
Zellweger might be feeling a little insecure. We just learned yesterday that she’s going to return for the third installment of Bridget Jones and that she’ll be putting on pounds to recreate the character. She probably doesn’t like to gain so much weight and wants to make sure there are timely “before” pictures available that capture how tiny and tight-abbed she was. She’ll be back to fighting shape almost immediately afterwards just as she was after filming the last two movies.
By her own admission Zellweger is wary of fame and she often comes across as shy and scared in interviews. In 2007, she said she’s not comfortable with being a celebrity and having her personal life on display. “I’m not good at the majority of things that come with celebrity… I am not good at the commodification of me as a person—it’s dehumanizing. I’m not good at it because my values are different than that, and so I’m disappointed by it.”
It looks like Renee is starting to get the hang of playing the game a little, and why not? She’s only going to have those abs for a couple more weeks until she starts gaining weight for a role. She’ll bounce back like a rubber band, though. I would like to see her out more and hooking up with a hot guy who is crazy about her – not someone who seems to be in it for fame like Cooper. She’s may not be the shrinking violet that I’ve suspected, and there are plenty of great men who would be ecstatic if she gave them the time of day. Work it, Renee!
Photos at LAX (messy hair) Credit: GABO/bauergriffinonline.com. Photos outside the salon (pulled back hair) credit: Element/Fame Pictures.
JFI, Bridget Jones III is still nothing but rumour, no mention at all on Working Title’s site. If it turns out to be true (which I still really doubt) Variety say probably won’t go into production until the end of 2010 so she’s not likely to be piling on the pounds just yet. She looks great in these pics.
Is it not July? In California? Making a jacket an unwise choice for warm weather? Ugh, RZ is like tapioca to me: colorless, flavorless, and utterly unappealing.
Skinny people get cold easy
Not to get too far off-subject but it always confuses me (i.e., makes me sweaty) when I see lots of folks living in LA drapped in scarves (Jessica Alba I’m talking to you) and layers and blazers in the middle of what must be ridiculously hot weather.
It’s the opposite here in NY – lots of tourists show up without checking the weather and wear teeny sundresses and flipflops to troll our mean/dirty and pedicure unfriendly city streets.
@ photo jojo – couldn’t agree more about the tapioca/RZ comparison! She could disappear and I wouldn’t even notice.
Tia C – if RZ disappeared more people would notice than if you disappeared.
I don’t have a problem with the belly-baring stuff, but that’s just a horrible outfit. You are supposed to wear something under a blazer, Renee!
I like her and everything, but I think she’s off her meds.
Ha ha Kaiser, I told you sooooo. She is desperate too. She called the Papz when she went on the date with Bradley. All the pics of her and Bradley were staged and now she is at it again. She is not what she seems…and everyone goes nuts when they are mid 30s, unmarried and no kids. Every woman.Sadly there is an air of desperation …PS: I am talking out of experience he he lol
Smith,
I totally know what you mean. I live in MN, and they film quite a few films here, I always laugh when I see the LA folks dressed in parkas, hats, Uggs, mittens drinking hot choc and shivering, when it is May/June temps. I always wonder if they think 45-50 and sunny is cold how they would react to MN in Jan/Feb where it is cloudy and gray, the sun sets by 4pm, and the daytime highs don’t even climb over zero and the temps at night are -20.
she always seems a little drunk to me.
@smith,
I used to live in L.A. (then moved to Boston and finally to New York) and I can attest to the scarf- and coat-wearing.
Believe it or not, since it’s so warm and sunny in L.A. all the time, when the weather actually does drop, even as high as the low 70’s, people actually feel cold. I kid you not. Angelenos think 60 degrees is cold, and anything below that is freezing. Having lived through five Boston winters, I know better than that now!
Now THIS is desperate. For attention, for a little acknowledgment that yes, at your age you look great. If a certain someone else (not naming names) were wearing that outfit certain people (not naming names) would be all over it calling that certain someone desperate and pathetic and blah blah blah.
Anyway, about the LA weather: It can look hot as all get out but because a lot of the places celebs are photographed are closer to the ocean i.e. Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica and West Hollywood, there is this thing called the “marine layer” which is basically fog that rolls in and leaves a kind of chilly mist that usually burns off around noon but yes…it’s colder than it looks. And we Angelinos are not too cool with anything under 60. Get around there and that’s when the jackets and scarves start coming out.
Hashbrowns is exactly right. It is often much, much cooler near the ocean than it can be even a few blocks off. I often spend July and August in Santa Monica, Marina Del Rey area and hard as I would try I used to constantly surprise myself by dressing wrong for the temp that day in the various local areas that I might be traveling. I’ve finally learned to dress in layers and be ready for any micro-climate that I might run into. But hey, even though it can be cool, there’s still nothing like the ocean breeze that greets in you in the morning along the Santa Monica beach bike path. Love it!!
that’s strange… why would you wear a jacket with nothing under it? her hair does look abnormally disheveled… maybe she woke up high/drunk and got confused?
she needs to eat a sandwich.
Um,people,so cal weather is consistenly low 70’s…in the summer,it is NOT sweltering,until usually mid august,and then only until mid september or so. [Roughly. There are a day or two here and there at other times;like this year in July,in San Diego,it’s been fairly warm,in the mid 80’s.]
SO,what is confusing,is ya’ll who wonder but do not know the weather in the region.
It is not like the rest of the country,which is either humid or dry,AND a billion degrees for 3 months straight.
And THAT is what they refer to when they talk about the ‘mediterranean climate’ and ‘the weather’s great’,in so cal.
Also,san diego has may grey and june gloom,consistenly each year. usually burns off by mid day,but is enough to keep the weather cooler for the rest of the day. [inland,it’s always warmer-but LA is also near the coast].
it’s also downright chilly in jan and feb. okay,so 50’s isn’t east coast winters,but it’s enough that you need a scarf.
Oh,and ps.-san francisco is coldest! in the summer months. If you travel there,be sure to bring layers. many a tourist has been seriously disappointed and cold,wearing shorts in july in cold,windy weather. [course,you could cross the bridge into oakland or marin and find 20 degrees warmer weather to solve your problem. it’s all about microclimates in CA.]
@Ginger – speak for yourself. I’m not even close to going nuts because I’m over 30, single and have no kids. Then again, I have a life that doesn’t revolve around having a man and children to validate me.
Lrm is right. I’ve been a socal girl all my life.
Born in LA, raised in OC, currently residing in SD.
And I can attest to the weather here with very clear certainty. (I can step outside right now if you’d like :P)
Also, if you’re acclimated to a certain temperature zone, it can’t be helped that the body reacts certain ways to the changes. Currently, downtown SD is like mid 70s and it’s kinda cloudy. The weather isn’t skimpy short season (though you could probably do it and not feel too bad) I’m in a tank and jeans and feeling pretty comfortable. We actually only started recently getting the heat this month. May and June were annoying as hell. Overcast like crazy, and yet no rain. Wtf right? Also, San Fran is REALLY cold and norcallers don’t even bother with going into the ocean 95% of the time haha. No matter the month.
BUT! I should note that while it’s mid 70s in downtown, La Mesa/Santee/East County in general is hot as all get out. And dry. And it’s only what? 20 miles inland from Downtown? And right now in parts of Orange County (the part where my family lives) it’s 88 almost 90. lol. Right now I’d be rocking jeans and tshirts in SD but when I head up to OC this weekend, I’ll probably only take my bikini and little sundresses.
Edit: Oh. And 95% of the year, I wear my Rainbows (they’re amazing flipflops). Won’t even deny. LOL
Oh! And concur with Hashbrowns about the anything under 60 SUCKS boat.
I have no shame admitting it, I’m spoiled by my weather and I don’t care :). Anything below 60 is annoying.
@ ray: Well, DUH… lol
I wonder when she broke up with Dan Abrams the MSNBC reporter?? I was really rooting for them to have some cute little babies.
HA I’m always sweating no matter what temp it is outside, thanks to menopause, and I scratch my head in wonder at people wearing sleeveless tops with scarves swathed around their necks. That’s enough to make me faint, blocking off the hotzone like that.
And Ginger? Stuff it? Women need a man and kids like a fish needs a bicycle. Don’t speak for all women ever again because you’re waaay out of touch.
I think she looks ok here – for her.
If other actresses her age can run around in skimpy outfits for attention, then why can’t RZ? (and this outfit isn’t that bad really…)
It’s also nice to see another player enter the HW game again (she seems to have been out of it for ages?). It makes a change from the usual tabloid players (We all know who they are, and those stories are old, tired and completely played out).
“Work it, Renee”? Puh-leeze, she looks so desperate!
These photos are so staged, it’s sickening!
What’s so sexy about being a size 0?
She needs to eat a sandwich!
she looks like anorexic at least her hair does. go eat somethin, please..
I’ve always liked Renee. I think she’s a really good actress, despite the anemic looks. Don’t understand why people are down on her. She was much too good for Clooney (though she once played a waitress, more his speed, in a movie). I heard a cute story, too, that she bought some lady she just met in a shoe department a pair of Mahnolo Blaniks because the lady said she’d been saving up forever for them. I’d bet she’s genuinely nice (but with strange taste in men).
Awwww crap. Another 20 minute script to completely bore us with Bridget Jones? Gahhh?!?! How much more of the brutally bad British….accent…whereshetriestotalklike…Colin…Firth..andit’sreallyreally….annoying….
The only thing more annoying than her fake accent is Hugh Grant trying to be funny with a really unfunny script.
Wait – no- the most annoying thing is the fact that RZ can go from Briget Jones poundage to that flat stomach. OMG! How can that be real? 🙁
she is too anorexy this is sad
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