I love “Once Upon a Time” but I didn’t get to see last week’s episode yet so no spoilers! It’s so nice to see Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison seeming as chummy off-screen as they are on the show, although I hate to see them look like this. They were separate fashion misses in bizarre dresses that did nothing for them.

Goodwin was modern but fug in a fushia Roksanda Ilinicic dress that flared at the wrists. If you took the sleeves off this would just be a plain dress more suited for Sunday brunch than an awards show. I like her hair in those soft retro waves and her makeup is gorgeous. Those are some striking earrings she’s wearing. The shoes are just as bizarre as the dress, though, and look like they should at least have open toes. Not that they would make any sense with that outfit either way.

Morrison was old fashioned fug in white Oscar De La Renta with actual macrame-looking fringe at the hemline. This dress would have worked in another color and without the yarn hanging from the bottom like a dangling curtain tie. It’s so close to being amazing, but the fringe ruins it. Her makeup is really pretty and spot on, but that hair! The top knot is just too high, too full and too formal. I like both of these actresses and it’s a shame they didn’t bring it last night.

As a palette cleanser, here’s the always pretty Nina Dobrev of “Vampire Diaries” in bright green Elie Saab. I love everything about this dress except for the color. The fit and styling really flatter her, and I like that she went with subtle nude shoes and a nude clutch. I think her hair is pretty straight-ironed like that too. (Kaiser isn’t a fan of the straight iron, but I do it with mine a lot.) Dobrev won “Favorite TV Drama Actress” last night!

Carrie Preston of “True Blood” just phoned it in with this very short lace dress. She’s looking overly Botoxed to me too. I love her on TB, but she looks too much like her character here.

And Cheryl Burke wore the same Chagoury Couture dress that Anne Heche wore to a recent charity event. I think Cheryl wears it better actually. This dress is not my style and the pattern looks very 90s to me, but Cheryl is gorgeous here with that sideswept hair, the thigh high slit, and the cage-like bracelet. She may be a little overdone but she’s working it.

Photo credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures, Adriana M. Barraza / WENN.com

It was just this past week that Ginnifer Goodwin’s co-interview with Kate Hudson came out in the new issue of Marie Claire. Ginnifer talked mostly about dieting and body image, but she also talked about her fiancé Joey Kern, saying that she “wants a life full of little Joeys” and that the only thing keeping her from getting pregnant right away was her desire to have a pretty wedding dress: “I’m only holding off until after my wedding for vanity purposes. I just want to be able to fit into whatever dress I pick out.” Well, sad news. Apparently, Ginnifer and Joey broke off their engagement “a few weeks ago.”

After a brief engagement, Something Borrowed’s Ginnifer Goodwin has split from Super Troopers actor Joey Kern, a source tells PEOPLE.

The former Big Love star, 32, and Kern, 34, “broke up a few weeks ago,” says the source, adding that the pair intend to remain friends.

The actors were engaged last December after they were set up by a mutual friend.

[From People]

That’s sad. And considering that Ginnifer was still talking glowingly about Joey during magazine interviews just a few months ago, something must have happened, in my opinion. Something beyond the “we just grew apart” line. When they announced their engagement, I’ll admit that I found Joey a little bit… odd. He just looks like some kind of predator to me. He’s got serial killer eyes. Maybe he’s a nice guy and Ginnifer cheated on him, or maybe I should just mind my own business. But if I had to guess, I’d think that he did something and Ginnifer didn’t feel like putting up with it.

Over the weekend, after her split announcement came out, Ginnifer went to Disneyland with friends. That’s a weird place to go after a breakup, IMO.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Several months ago, Ginnifer Goodwin gave an interview where she described being on a diet since the age of 11. She was talking about body image and that kind of stuff, and she confessed that she was and is a Weight Watchers girl. She still counts points and does portion control. People got a little crazy with the quotes and began suggesting that Ginnifer had a horrible self-image and that it’s a bad signal to send to young girls, etc. Ginnifer defended herself at the time, and she spoke about it again in her Marie Claire cover story (joint with Kate Hudson). You can read the full Marie Claire piece here, and here are some quotes:

Ginnifer on her childhood weight: “I am genetically predisposed to be a bigger girl than I am. If I didn’t live in Hollywood, I would be. I have very real hips and a real Southern woman’s ass,” she says, munching on the slivers of turkey bacon that accompany her egg-white omelet. Her parents enrolled her in Weight Watchers, which meant she ran laps around the local mall and counted point values for everything she ate. Goodwin is still a devotee of the program, and with the help of her iPhone, she’s “apping points all day.”

Ginnifer on the criticism she received: Given her “awesome eating habits,” she was stunned when a recent magazine profile of her — and her commitment to Weight Watchers — inspired criticism that she had serious body issues. “I could not believe the twisting of that story,” she says, her thin voice rising. “I’ve never had body issues, and I’ve never had an eating disorder. Most of the people I know are on the program for health reasons. And yes, some of them are slim women who want to stay slim.”

Planning a family with fiancé Joey Kern: “I’m so ready. I want a life full of little Joeys,” she enthuses, oblivious to that heavy helping of schmaltz. (Hudson, on the other hand, playfully rolls her eyes as she hoovers through a bowl of berries.) “I’m only holding off until after my wedding for vanity purposes. I just want to be able to fit into whatever dress I pick out.”

Kate Hudson on her pregnancy weight gains: “Let me tell you something… It’s an emotional roller coaster, having to lose weight. I gained so much — I was 185 pounds at the end. You actually experience how much energy is stored in that and how much emotion you actually hold in that mass. It is emotional, no matter how determined you are. It takes work to bounce back so quickly.” Not this time around. Thanks to ferocious morning sickness, plus a decidedly figure-conscious mind-set, she’s gained just 11 pounds so far. “I was so sick the first trimester that every time I tried to read, I couldn’t concentrate. So I started brainlessly watching TV” — reality shows like Real Housewives, The Bachelor, and that paean to extreme weight loss, The Biggest Loser — “in the fetal position on my couch. It was brutal,” she says, shaking her head. “I only just started getting a bigger appetite. I’m eating,” she adds reassuringly, dismantling all those would-be Is Kate Starving Herself? headlines, “but I like healthy foods in this one.”

[From Marie Claire]

I like that Ginnifer talks about her weight and her diet program so openly. I’d much prefer her kind of openness and honesty than whatever Jennifer Lawrence was trying to sell us yesterday. Do I think Ginnifer has some kind of body image “issue”? Eh. I think she’s working in an industry where even the “quirky” supporting character actresses have to be a size zero. The “issue” is the industry, not Ginnifer.

Re: the “real Southern woman’s ass” comment. Eh. I’m a Southern lady, and my ass is big. I always blame my Indian genes though.

Photos courtesy of Marie Claire.

Here is the cover for the June issue of Marie Claire, starring Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin. They star in Something Borrowed, that rom-com that already came out (and died quickly, right?). So… this feels kind of dated. Not just because the movie is already out, but because it also appears that Ginnifer and Kate shot this cover a long time before Kate began showing. I don’t even want to talk about Kate right now – her face looks wonky – but look at Ginnifer! That’s one way to come out of rom-com/nice-girl purgatory, right? Chop off most of your hair and tease that junk up until you show everyone that you’re more Ziggy Stardust than Julia Roberts. Ginnifer is so punk. I kind of love it. Anyway, Marie Claire hasn’t released anything from the article, but I did find some good quotes from Ginnifer from another interview she did. Here are some highlights:

Ginnifer on typecasting: “I have done my share of stock characters.”

On Kate: “We really do get along like gangbusters in real life.”

On Big Love: “I loved digging my elbows deep into the character over a period of time,” she says of the series, “instead of doing something in an hour-and-a-half movie.”

Hoping to do another television show, Once Upon a Time: “I pray to the TV gods every day that we will be picked up,” she says of the quirky drama co-created by Adam Horowitz, one of the writers from the hit series Lost. Is Once Upon a Time just as bizarre as Lost? “They are being so top secret about it, I can’t say,” Goodwin confesses. “I will say it does have a Lost flavour to it.”

On being grounded: “In this business, we all have aspirations that are highfalutin,” she says. “But I have no regrets, because I am insanely lucky I get to make a living as an actor every single day.”

[From The Province]

See? Ginnifer is pretty cool. I wish she got more work, and I wish that the work was something other than rom-coms and television shows. Maybe her strength is in television, though, in which case, I hope her show does get picked up.

Cover courtesy of The Fashion Spot. Additional pics by WENN.

As CB mentioned in the Halle Berry story, last night was the Costume Designers Guild Awards, and some nice-looking ladies and gentlemen came out to support their costumers. Halle Berry was one of the biggest names there – she wore this red Elie Saab gown that I personally find too fussy, but whatever. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher were also there, but I haven’t been able to find any photos of them yet – it seems like they either didn’t walk the red carpet, or only a few photo agencies got photos of their red carpet walk.

Ginnifer Goodwin – I can’t even look at the dress, I’m so focused on what is happening with her hair. It is… odd. I like her with short hair too, but this is…too butch, I think.

Kristen Davis in this polka-dotted confection. I should hate it, but the bitch works it. I think she looks great.

Diane Lane – hate it. Hate the dress, hate the hair, hate the (lack of) makeup. She’s such a beautiful woman, and she just looks like hell here.

Claire Danes in Lanvin. The dress is okay, but I hate her hair. When she pushed her hair back like that, she looks bug-eyed.

And a little Matt Bomer for dessert. So cute. SO fancy.

For additional photos from the awards show, plus a list of winners, go here to HuffPo.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Last night was the LA premiere of the fifth season of HBO’s Big Love. All of the stars were in attendance, including Chloe Sevigny, fresh from her Miami bikini-thon. As we saw from those Miami bikini photos, Chloe’s body is much better than many of us were expecting. But Chloe in all of her hipster fashion glory is quite another thing – the chick is a hot mess. Chloe wore Rodarte to last night’s premiere and… um, this is not a good look. It would be a difficult dress for someone like Halle Berry to pull off, but on Chloe… Jesus. Part of it is the way she’s posing for photos… and the lipstick. And her expression. I mean…she just doesn’t look right in the head, as we say in South.

I did love Ginnifer Goodwin’s pretty pink Valentino, though. She brought her fiancé Joey Kern too – so these are like the first photos of the couple since they announced their engagement. Like, a formal engagement photo shoot. They look really nice (although I still think he has serial killer eyes).

Here’s the cast photo. Not to be crude, but look at Bill Paxton’s crotch. Um… I did NOT know he was packin’.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Big Love star Ginnifer Goodwin, 32, is defending herself from criticism after recently admitting she’s been on Weight Watchers since she was nine years old. She explained that she was heavy as a little kid and that Weight Watchers helped her lose weight safely along with other children her age. Goodwin also said that she now indulges in occasional treats but that “you don’t have to go through that horrible yo-yo cycle of binging.”

“I was so shocked when it was this whole, ‘Ginny’s been on a diet since she was 9 years old!’ I was like ‘No!’ I’ve never had body issues, I’ve never had an eating disorder,” she tells PEOPLE. “I’ve never had to go on a diet and that’s because of Weight Watchers.”

Goodwin, however, says she was an overweight child, which led her to the program. “I began to identify myself as fat.” Goodwin says. “At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.”

“I ended up going to my mother crying,”she recalls. “With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children’s program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children’s portion size, and it wasn’t two burgers, it was one.”

Losing the weight, recalls Goodwin, “was extremely easy to accomplish.” But she adds, “It takes time because you lose the weight slowly. It’s a healthy way to do it.”

And she’s kept the weight off with ease over the years. “You don’t have to go through that horrible yo-yo cycle of binging,” she says. “I’ve always been able to satisfy my cravings; it’s just a matter of balancing.”

It saddens her to see her peers struggle with weight. “I pulled an actress friend aside and I said, ‘I get it. I get what it is that you’re trying to do, but there’s being healthfully skinny and then there’s starting to look like a scary alien cat,’ ” she says.

Goodwin has a not-so-flattering name for the diet secrets of some of the rich and famous. “I call it the ‘Cocaine and Cigarettes Diet’ in Hollywood,” says the actress, who also doesn’t believe in a low-carb diet as a permanent solution. “I see girls who haven’t had a carbohydrate in three years. The second you go back to eating right, you’re going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!”

[From People]

A lot of people don’t understand how normal Weight Watchers is, and how it’s more of a healthy lifestyle than a diet. I’ve been on plenty of diets and the only one that really worked for me long term is Weight Watchers. It’s not restrictive and is basically portion control and simplified calorie counting. Whenever I fall off the wagon, like this holiday, I make sure I go back to it (I just do it online) and start counting points again. Even if I exercise like a fiend I also need to watch what I eat or I don’t keep off the weight.

Goodwin looks pretty skinny, and her fiance is almost emaciated looking. I’m sure that skinniness is relative in the circles they run in. I love what Goodwin said about how unhealthy and unrealistic it is to starve and not to eat carbs. High protein diets aren’t bad when you eat healthy carbs, like fruit, but the Atkins diet just seems like torture. You know she didn’t tell someone she looked like an alien cat, though. You say that behind someone’s back, not to their face.

Goodwin recently got engaged to her boyfriend of two years, Joey Kern, 34.

*Note that this is in no way a sponsored post. Weight Watchers isn’t a direct advertiser of ours unless it’s through Google Adsense, which shows ads through keywords. Photo credit: WENN.com

I feel kind of guilty putting all of these engagement announcements all together, but in my defense, two of the couples that got engaged are kind of boring. First up: Hugh Hefner got engaged. He’s 84 YEARS OLD. He proposed to one of his many girlfriends, Crystal Harris, who is 24 years old. OH GOD.

Hugh Hefner rang in the holidays with an engagement ring.

The Playboy founder is engaged to girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, he announced on Twitter.

“After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve,” Hefner, 84, wrote. “When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory.”

Later, he clarified, “Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn’t mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all.”

This will be the third marriage for Hefner. In 2009 he filed for divorce from his second wife, former Playmate Kimberly Conrad, after the two separated in 1998. He was previously married to Mildred Williams; their marriage ended in divorced in 1959.

Harris was December 2009′s Playboy Playmate.

[From People]

There are sketchy age differences, and then there’s this. I mean… no fool like an old fool, right? I’m always reminded of something my father said about an older man marrying some young girl – “At his age, he’s just paying to look at her.” As in, all of Viagra in the world isn’t raising that sail, so Hef is just buying himself a young, pretty blonde to look at and be his companion. More power to him…? Ugh.

In other engagement news, Ginnifer Goodwin (32) just got engaged to her boyfriend of two years, Joey Kern (34). Apparently, Kern proposed earlier this month… and they just decided to announce it now. Their wedding date is tentatively announced for next fall. Also: Jason Mraz (33) proposed to his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman (28). Let’s give a round of applause for age-appropriate unions!

Photos of Hef & Crystal, courtesy of WENN.

Here’s my confession: I’m not any kind of animal rights activist, and yet I love animals. I love eating meat, but I know I wouldn’t want to if I saw how it was made. I know so many livestock animals are treated poorly, but you’ll only take this chicken wing from my cold, dead hand. I know so many animal rights people have their hearts in the right place, and when they start in about one of my most beloved meats, I get upset. So it is with Ginnifer Goodwin.

Ginnifer is trying to destroy Thanksgiving. Instead of eating a juicy turkey with fluffy mashed potatoes, all slathered in gravy, Ginnifer wants us to skip the whole bird-slaughter stuff. She’s become a vegan, and she thinks we should adopt a motherf-cking turkey. Now… here’s the thing. I don’t hate vegans, and I don’t hate Ginnifer for adopting all of the turkeys her little heart desires. But asking me to skip the turkey? On Thanksgiving? Seriously?

Thanksgiving may be weeks away, but Ginnifer Goodwin thinks it’s time to talk turkey. The star of HBO’s Big Love is urging the public to skip the savory poultry this holiday season and adopt a turkey instead.

Goodwin – who went vegan last year – has teamed up with Farm Sanctuary to launch the animal protection organization’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project, which is designed to rescue commercially-raised birds from ending up on the dinner table.

“After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary’s shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms,” says Goodwin.

The organization has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys since 1986 by giving people the opportunity to adopt a bird, who will live at one of Farm Sanctuary’s two shelters in New York and California. For a one-time donation of $25, the turkey sponsors receive a special certificate with a color photo of their rescued bird and fun details about their new friend.

With than 45 million turkeys slaughtered each year for Thanksgiving, Goodwin wants people to consider what they’re eating for the holidays.

“With so many delicious, cruelty-free Thanksgiving dishes available, there is no reason why any living being should be treated like an unfeeling commodity,” says Goodwin. “I encourage everyone to start a new, compassionate Thanksgiving tradition this year and Adopt-A-Turkey, rather than eat one.”

[From Radar]

Fun fact about turkeys: Ben Franklin once wrote that the turkey should be America’s national bird. He wrote in a letter to his daughter: “For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” See, now if the turkey were the national bird, we couldn’t kill it or eat it. I also love the idea that Ben Franklin makes distinctions between birds “of bad moral Character” and more respectable birds.

Another fun fact about turkeys – a turkey once attacked my mother’s car. She was driving down the highway and a wild kamikaze turkey threw itself into my mother’s car, shattered her windshield and she had to be hospitalized. My point? I don’t give a sh-t if they have good moral character, they’re dumb birds and I’m going to eat them.

Here’s Ginnifer at the screening of ‘The September Issue’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 9th. Images thanks to Johnny Louis /WENN.com .

Ginnifer Goodwin is the June cover girl for W Magazine. I think she might have pissed someone off, because the cover photo, above, is not cute. Her image is of a bubbly, positive-thinking (yet slightly neurotic) young actress, and it’s like they’re trying to make her into some kind of dark, sultry sexpot – which she isn’t. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just that when I hear “Ginnifer Goodwin”, I would never think to describe her as “sultry” or “intense”.

In the interview (story via OK! Magazine), Ginnifer is promoting Big Love (her show about a Mormon polygamist family, with Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn). Ginnifer is also promoting her love life, it seems. She’s fresh off some kind of break-up/screwy situation with Justin Long, who may or may not have dated Ginnifer in between his on-off relationship with Drew Barrymore. When Drew and Justin got back together the last time, Ginnifer was rumored to have rebounded with some hottie in Vegas, but in this W interview, she sounds very single. She actually doesn’t talk about the vague Justin Long situation, but she does mention that toolbox she dated for two years, Chris Klein, as well as men in general:

Ginnifer Goodwin may play (one of three) housewives on Big Love, but this star shows that she definitely has a sultry side in the new issue of W Magazine with a sexy photo shoot. In fact, she even admits to a bit of trickery when it comes to the dating scene in Hollywood.

“I perpetuate rumors that I’ve dated people that I’ve never actually dated,” she tells the mag.

As for her bubbly TV personality, Margene, Ginnifer does admit they have a few things in common.

“We both have a lot of energy,” she says. “We’re both optimistic and we’re both romantics. But I am far more judgmental than she is. I read too much between the lines, whereas she reads none.” Goodwin forces a dry chuckle. “I’m exhausted by her after six months. By the end of a season, I need to shake her off.”

Ginnifer also opens up about her love life now that she and her boyfriend of two years, Chris Klein, have ended their relationship.

“I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs,” she reveals. “I’m less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it’s important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.”

And for the sake of her career, Ginnifer admits being part of a twosome is important to her.

“I’m a better person in a relationship, and I’m a happier person,” she admits. “I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I like Ginnifer because she doesn’t seem to mind coming across as neurotic and a little insecure. She doesn’t hide it behind New Age fortune cookie wisdom, she just lets it all hang out. I respect that, because she’s one of the few of the young woman in Hollywood who seems utterly normal. Maybe I’m just giving her more credit because I like her. But I think she’s a talented young actress who often gets the shaft in Hollywood because she’s not one of those cookie-cutter, wafer-thin blonde starlets. I really hope she continues to get challenging work, and I hope she finds some nice guy who respects her.

Photos are from W Magazine shot by Steven Klein, where they have many more photos from this series.