About three years ago, supermodel Cindy Crawford was quoted in Gala Magazine as admitting to relying on Botox, collagen, and vitamin injections to maintain her gorgeous face. She said “I’m not going to lie to myself: past a certain age, creams work on the texture of your skin but, in order to restore elasticity, all I can really count on is vitamin injections, Botox and collagen.” The lovely 43 year-old mother of two is again admitting that she has the help of a dermatologist. Cindy tells GQ Magazine that her radiant skin is due to Botox, but that she doesn’t think she’s had collagen lately. She sounds pretty honest to me:

Cindy gets real in an upcoming interview for GQ. “There’s a doctor… in London who I’ve gone to for Botox,” Cindy, 43, admits. “I did a whole skin-care line with him. But I haven’t done collagen, I don’t think.” And Cindy says a little nip or tuck is only natural for someone of her stature. “Because people have such expectations of what they are going to find when they see me, that brings added pressure to fight the aging process,” she says. “But don’t get me wrong. I think I’m holding together pretty good!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 14, 2009]

Cindy doesn’t have that waxy look that so many women get when they’re over-botoxed. While I would guess that she’s had something done to look that great, especially because she has no lines on her forehead or between her eyes, it wouldn’t immediately occur to me because she doesn’t look cat-like or overplumped. She’s radiant, and she’s a great advertisement for injectibles. It doesn’t hurt that she was gorgeous to start with. I’m getting around the age when I’m considering Botox, and am leaning toward trying it out. My face would probably look all jacked up though, which is why I haven’t done it yet. You can’t just go to any dermatologist and have to find a great one.

Cindy Crawford is shown at the premiere of Up In The Air with her husband Rande Gerber on 11/30/09.

Aren’t these the best, most incredible photos of Simon Cowell ever? God, this guy is such a douche. I don’t even mean that really - I think Simon has as many good characteristics as he has bad, but his shirt and general appearance in these photos is killing me. He just looks like the kind of guy who sticks his hand up his secretary’s skirt. He looks like he’s auditioning to be an extra in The Sopranos. He looks like the kind of guy who reek of Axe Body Spray and baby oil. He looks like he dressed up as a dorky John Travolta circa Saturday Night Fever. He looks like he works part-time at a strip club. He looks like he wants to produce MTV’s new show “Jersey Shore”. Oh, thank you, Simon Cowell. I enjoyed these!

That’s not even the only funny Simon Cowell news! Simon recently gave an interview to the Daily Mail (via NYDN) where he talks about how he loves his Botox and his hand waxes. And no, “hand waxes” is not a euphemism, I checked. Simon actually gets his hand hair waxed off. Ew…

Simon Cowell’s known for his vanity, but he’s taken his preoccupation with appearance to a whole new level with a hot-wax beauty treatment that left him with silky smooth hands, according to the Daily Mail.

The multimillionaire music mogul unveiled his newly hairless hands to 14 million viewers last night on ITV’s “X Factor,” where he is a judge, according to the Daily Mail. His no-longer hirsute knuckles and fingers were in sharp contrast to his forearms, which are still covered by dark, thick hair, according to the paper.

Cowell, who reportedly displays his hairy chest in the Caribbean during the holiday season, according to the Mail, has said he’s also gotten injections to smooth out the lines in his face.

“I’ve had Botox,” Cowell told the Daily Mail. “But, then again, pretty much everyone I know has, except Cheryl Cole.”

With men now spending a reported $38 billion a year in the U.S. on grooming and plastic surgery, it’s hardly a surprise that waxing is getting so popular, says Michele Probst, celebrity makeup artist and founder of Menaji Skincare.

Cowell’s hand wax came as no surprise to her.

“Look at Simon’s hair. Obviously, he’s a very hairy man,” Probst said. “If he is getting his hands waxed, I am sure he is getting his back waxed and maybe his brows and ears, too. Almost any celebrity in film gets a lot more waxing done than you know about.”

The somewhat painful form of manscaping is becoming more popular with noncelebs as well. “Waxing for men in general has gotten huge,” says Agatha Kranidiotis, wax specialist at Mania’s Hairstyling in Park Ridge, N.J.

“Men feel cleaner and more confident when they wax. It’s not popular any more to have hair in certain places.” Popular sites for men to wax include backs, legs, noses, brows and ears, says Kranidiotis, who charges $20 for a hand wax.

Sophia Murdechi is the waxing specialist at Valery Joseph, a Madison Ave. salon, where a man’s hand wax sets you back $50.

“Men are just more comfortable with waxing today,” Murdechi says. “A lot of men don’t like when the little hairs grow on the fingers.”

[From The New York Daily News]

I guess waxing your hands isn’t the worst thing, honestly. The only place I don’t really want hair on a man is on his back. Other than that, I just take hair on men as a given. Maybe it’s just me, but I like a hirsute man. So I guess I won’t go for Simon then - he’s too into his waxing and his upkeep. I bet he gets a bikini wax too.

Simon Cowell leaves “The X Factor” Fountain Studios, after the live show on Sunday November 29, 2009. Credit: Pacific Coast News.

The other day, I mentioned that I thought Nicole Kidman was looking better than she has in while. She was showing off her classic red hair and a less severe looking face, which I was happy to see. I did, however, note that she’s still doing some crazy junk to her lips, but overall, I gave her, in my mind, a “most improved” sticker. Of course, that was before Nicole appeared with her husband at the Country Music Awards on Wednesday night. Apparently, Nicole may be photographing less severely, but she still looks pretty rough in person.

It’s looking like Nicole’s weird, overly-plumped lips were noticed by many people at the CMAs. And it wasn’t just her lips - it was her jacked up boobs and her bizarre attitude too. Ted “I get everything wrong” Casablanca at E! has a source who claims Nicole was “her usual aloof self” and that Nicole “couldn’t be bothered to chat with fans or press peeps.” Fox News points out that people were talking about how her ladies were jacked up in a low-cut, bright, pink gown. They also claim the dress’s “color was so garish and bust was so tight, Kidman’s kids were popping out to such an extent even husband Keith Urban had to keep his eyes averted.” Meanwhile, Page Six goes even further, quoting an unnamed source who claimed that Nicole’s face is so jacked, she looks like Meg Ryan. Ouch.

Everyone was talking about Nicole Kidman at the Country Music Awards in Nashville. “She looked freakish,” said one witness. “She just had her lips done, and now she looks like Meg Ryan.” The Aussie actress didn’t want to be interrogated on the red carpet and fled, leaving behind her perplexed husband, Keith Urban. “She just flipped out and took off running,” said our source. “Keith kept saying, ‘Where is she? Where is she?’ ” Kidman’s reps had no comment.

[From Page Six]

The Huffington Post has a poll up about Nicole’s lips, and they have a series of close-ups of Kidman’s lips throughout the years to compare and contrast. Once you look at them, it does become obvious just how “plumped” she’s getting those puppies. Us Weekly piled on too, pulling Nicole’s old quotes about how she’s all-natural: “I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything.” Us Weekly then quotes Dr. Martin Braun, a Canadian Botox doctor, who claims that Nicole is so “over-Botoxed…frozen and strange” that she looks like a bat. Seriously.

Just when everybody gets on the bandwagon about how rough Nicole’s Botox-injections-surgery stuff looks, that’s just when I start feeling badly for her. I used to think she was totally crazy to mess with her beautiful face, and I hated her a little for how waxy and unmoving her face had become. Now that everyone’s picked up on it, I think people should give her a break. She fears the reaper, y’all. And having that frozen face is punishment enough.

I just thought I’d point out these rather pretty pictures of Nicole Kidman from last night. Nicole joined her husband Keith Urban at the 57th Annual BMI Country Awards held in Nashville. Keith looks meh (does he ever not flat-iron his hair?) but Nicole looks better than she has in a long time. I’m saying a little prayer that someone finally talked to her about the motherload of Botox she’s been jacking her face with her tight hairstyle. I think the red-red hair helps too, of course. The strawberry-blonde and the platinum blonde stuff had to go, it made her look washed out and severe. Hello Magazine claims Nicole cut her hair, but it’s obvious in some of these pictures that she’s got it in a loose knot at the base of her neck. Now that we’ve got some semblance of our old Nicole, the one we fell for all of those years ago, perhaps we can get her to stop doing that junk to her lips? They are starting to look painful. But if you don’t focus on her lips, the rest of her looks awesome.

In one other piece of Nicole and Keith news, Keith was interviewed in this week’s Hello, and he spoke very honestly about how they weren’t sure if they would have any kids together:

“We’re immensely blessed with Sunday. I think neither of us was ever sure we would have kids,” says Keith, 42. “We didn’t get to meet each other in our 20s or 30s, so we thought maybe that’s not our journey, we’re fine with that. But it’s such a miracle to have her.”

So could there be another baby in their future? Possibly. The Days Go By singer reveals, “We’re very grateful and not pining for anything more than what we’ve got. But if another was to come, Nicole and I would be very happy.”

[From Celebrity Baby Scoop]

I hate when Keith, Nicole, Katie Holmes or Tom Cruise talk like Nicole and Tom didn’t have two children together. Just the way Keith said “neither of us was ever sure we would have kids” caught my eye - maybe he meant “have kids together”, but maybe he meant “Nicole forgot her other kids”. There are rarely pictures of the older kids with Nicole (or with Tom, for that matter), so maybe I’ll buy that Nicole got cut out of their lives. But still - it wouldn’t hurt any of them to acknowledge those kids.

Kate Hudson is the cover girl for the December issue of Elle Magazine UK. Kate’s promoting her role in Nine, but she’s also promoting her recent “weight loss” (yes, I was surprised too) and her relationship with Alex Rodriguez. I find the photos to be very sketchy, but maybe that’s just me. They’ve got her greased up and her body looks very, very athletic - like she’s a female bodybuilder or something. Or Madonna. I don’t care for the look or the styling, but whatever. In the interview (excerpt from the Daily Mail), Kate talks about how she is not engaged to Alex Rodriguez, but how she is totally in love with the idea of Botox. Yikes.

Kate Hudson has cast off her wholesome girl-next-door image in a new series of raunchy pictures. The stunning shots show the blonde actress oiled up in a black swimsuit with satin gloves and feline eye make-up.

Kate, whose mother is Hollywood actress Goldie Hawn, is also snapped with the same eye-catching make-up teamed with tousled hair and a sexy belted dress.

The 30-year-old, who has been dating New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez for six months, revealed she has given up alcohol in preparation for a film role in which she stars as a terminally ill woman who falls for her doctor.

The star, who lost 20lb, said: ‘I love my glass of wine. I love tequila. To be in New York for two weeks and not have one beverage, I’m not sure I’ve ever done that!’

Kate also used the interview to set the record straight and deny that she is engaged to Alex after she was reportedly spotted with a ring on her finger.

She told Elle: ‘Did you know that it was this one, on my right hand? I hear about this and I’m like “Why would I even respond? What would I say if you’re going to lie about something ridiculous?”’

‘And if you really did your job, you’d look at the pictures taken that day and realize [the ring] was on my right hand.’

The mother-of-one also revealed: ‘I love being a girl. I love clothes and I love the rituals of facials and body treatments, all the stuff girls get, make-up, scarves, hats. And we’re like a tribe. That’s just our nature. You get a group of women together and, somehow, we keep it together. I love that we can be that powerful, as a group. Men, you know, it’s survival of the fittest.’

Kate, whose film Nine is out in December, admitted she would be willing to try Botox in the future.

She said: ‘Everyone’s so obsessed with who gets Botox, but it’s great! Are you kidding? The fact that women can avoid going under the knife and get a little Botox treat and not have to worry about it? I’m glad it’s there for when it’s time.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I think Kate is saying she hasn’t had Botox, but will when her time comes. Maybe she’s trying not to be judgy because her mom uses it? Who knows? As far as the engagement stuff goes - well, I’ll admit that I do think Kate wants to be engaged, and wants to marry Alex Rodriguez. It probably wasn’t an engagement ring she was wearing, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t up for it. I was actually thinking about Kate and A-Rod over the weekend, and I came to uncomfortable conclusion that A-Rod might be the healthiest relationship Kate has been in for a while. That’s not some great leap, but it is interesting. In any case, I’ve got twenty bucks on their engagement in the next two months. Any takers?