Miranda Kerr has a new video to promote her organic skincare line, Kora. She shops for food at a farmers market in NY City, does yoga, and cooks, explaining that she has a busy life but that “I’ve created my own organic lifestyle that no matter where I am, I get to apply this lifestyle. I really believe that everyone can incorporate that lifestyle into their own life. Kora is an integral part of that lifestyle. I’ve created Kora as I wasn’t able to find an organic skincare line that I was 100% happy with or that contained all the ingredients that I wanted and knew were beneficial to the skin.”

Everyone is talking about how you can see Miranda’s tiny baby bump while she does yoga in the video. To me the takeaway from this is that she’s just as much of a lifestyle preacher and know-it-all as Gwyneth Paltrow. She seems to have less sense than Gwyneth, too. I found her annoying, honestly, and it’s like she thinks she’s blessing us with her unique knowledge of skincare, some of which is complete bunk that she obviously takes seriously. Listen to this:

“All of the water used in our mists have been infused with rose quartz crystals, and we’ve done that so that the vibration of love associated with rose quartz really flows through each product.”

I asked my husband, who has a PhD in biophysics, to help me comment on this ridiculous claim. He writes “Rose quartz is rose due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese and just because of the stupid pink colour it is associated with love. Quartz structures are very tight and would not store any energy, such as kinetic energy in vibrations.” You can make quartz and other minerals vibrate, as they’re used in watches and other electronic devices, but that requires using an external force on the mineral. They don’t have “vibrations” on their own. (Here’s more on that.) What’s more is that water has no “memory” and it’s been well proven that “liquid water does not maintain ordered networks of molecules longer than a small fraction of a nanosecond.” (That quote is from Wikipedia.)

Miranda Kerr thinks that her skincare line is superior because she used some crystals in the water for it, though. I guess we know why she became a model and didn’t pursue academics.

She concludes by saying “Kora is about nurturing your own uniqueness, your inner and outer beauty, and your soul.”

I’ll say something nice – she looks cute pregnant. She’ll probably be one of those women who doesn’t look like they gained weight except for in front, damn them. Also, I like that her skincare line is organic and fragrance free. I use mostly organic skincare as I’m sensitive to perfumes. There are a lot of good products available though and you don’t have to spend a fortune to have nice skin. You don’t need “love water” either. There’s no such thing.

Question: How f-cking stupid is Paris Hilton? I mean, I’ve always known she’s really, really, mind-numbingly idiotic, but now that I’ve read some excerpts from the new, just released criminal charge against Paris, I have new questions about how she is capable of functioning on a daily basis. And no, I’m not making fun of people who have actual mental handicaps – Paris is just an idiot, willfully and powerfully stupid. So, Paris is being formally chanrged with felony cocaine possession in the great state of Nevada. The Las Vegas DA released the formal charge, and the police report, which is totally worth a read:

Paris Hilton has been charged with felony cocaine possesion, RadarOnline.com has learned. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Las Vegas District Attorney, Paris “Wilfully (sic), unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly, and intentionally possess a controlled substance, to-wit: Cocaine.”

As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, Hilton was arrested early Saturday morning in Las Vegas after cops found .8 grams of cocaine on the heiress at a traffic stop. Her boyfriend Cy Waits was the driver of the car and after the car was stopped when the officer smelled “the strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle.” Cy was “administered a series of filed sobriety tests, which Waits failed.”

Police wrote in their report that Paris told the officer she was “extremely embarrassed” and needed to used the bathroom “badly” so the officer escorted her into the Wynn.

The officer wrote that Paris was carrying a purse as they went into the Wynn and Hilton told him she needed to put some lip balm on. “As she began to open it, I saw a small bindle of what I believed to be cocaine in a clear baggy begin to fall from the purse and into my hand.”

The officer waited for the arrival of a female officer to assist in the search and they removed the “suspected bindle of cocaine,” and then Paris was read her Miranda rights. Paris told the officer that the purse was not hers, and that “she had borrowed it from a friend.”

When the officer asked Hilton whose cocaine it was “she said she had not seen it but now thought it was gum.”

Paris told the officer the $1,300 cash and credit card were hers, but “several cosmetic items in the purse were not hers.”

The officer placed Paris under arrest “for possession of a controlled substance cocaine.”

[From Radar]

My God. You know how it went down too – and you know Paris thought she was being clever. She was coked out of her mind, and she thought up a “clever” scheme to talk her way out of the arrest: “I have to go potty, Officer…” And so the cop took her to the Wynn and she proceeded to open up her purse – with the cocaine visible – in front of the cop! Was part of the scheme to flush the cocaine and Paris just didn’t get to it, and so now she’s all “That’s not gum?” Oh, and the money and credit cards were hers, but the purse wasn’t. Of course. She’s just ridiculous. Oh, and TMZ says that the total amount of cocaine Paris had on her was 0.8 grams. I expected more, honestly. More coke, I mean.

Yesterday Jennifer Aniston used the word “retard” on Regis & Kelly. (The Huffington Post has the video here.) She used it in reference to herself during yet another painful and awkward interview in which she haltingly tried to get through her talking points. “Retard” is considered cruel slang by many, particularly disability advocates who are trying to discourage the use of the word. I thought this was common knowledge, especially after the scandal earlier this year when chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel used the term behind closed doors and it got repeated and attributed to him. In order to know this you’d have to pay attention to the news and be aware of events outside your circle of friends, family, dogs and coworkers. Given how little Aniston seems to have to talk about in most interviews, I would assume that she rarely does this.

I try to give Jennifer Aniston a chance, I really do, but I don’t think she’s an interesting person. I’m also very disappointed in her for using a word she probably considered funny and harmless when most all public figures know better. This woman is 41 years old and an international celebrity. She is a multi-millionaire with countless resources at her disposal yet all she has to talk about in interviews are her photo shoots, home, and movies. She’s also almost incapable of carrying on a decent conversation about just about anything that doesn’t directly relate to her or her very meager interests.

Please watch some of Aniston’s recent interviews and point out where you think I’m wrong. She thinks she’s doing charity work by going to Cabo every year for God’s sake!

I’ve given Aniston a break up until this point as I consider her relatively harmless. Sure she’s not the brightest bulb but what has she done to hurt anyone? She also never deserved to be pulled into that whole triangle business and in no way do I agree with the way the tabloids have lambasted her for her personal life post-split. I just don’t think she deserves to be a major movie star. She certainly doesn’t handle it with a fraction of the grace, wit or intelligence that we’ve come to expect from other celebrities in her league. She also doesn’t seem to have the chops to do much more than TV sitcoms. Now that she’s gone and clumsily used a word that most people in her business realize is off limits I’m sure her PR flack will issue a decent response and apology. We’ll know for sure that it didn’t come from Aniston though. She’s not capable of consistently stringing a few words together to promote films for which she’s paid millions of dollars.

Now bring it on. As Kaiser just told me, “Welcome to the dark side. We have better drinks.”

These are photos of Aniston at The Daily Show yesterday. Kaiser told me I should add news of her appearance there, but I can’t even. Credit: Fame Pictures

Elisabetta Canalis gave an interview to Vanity Fair Italy for the September issue. My guess is that she gave this interview before the cocaine-and-hooker scandal broke internationally, and when she thought she was going to be fulfilling another year in her alleged contract with George Clooney. I’ve said it before, but I don’t think Eli is very bright. She and George have been dating a little more than a year – and most of his “relationships” only last that, or less. And George doesn’t like a lady who is indiscreet. So why the interview? Dunno. Maybe she knows the end is coming and she wants to make sure her name is out there. Or maybe she’s just dumb and doesn’t know how stupid this move is. Loose lips sink cokewhores.

The tightly sealed doors shielding the relationship of George Clooney and his Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis have finally been pried open.

Speaking from Clooney’s Italian lakeside property Villa Oleandra to Vanity Fair for its Italian edition, Canalis calls the handsome leading man in her life supportive (“Very. He is always very close to me”), considers herself pampered (“Like I have never been before”) and describes Clooney as “the person thanks to which my life has regained color. I feel good, I feel light. Like when I was 18 years old.”

In fact, says the beauty, 31, “I am happy like I was when I was 18 years old. Those who criticize or invent stories about us are just jealous.”

Which brings up the fact that the status of Clooney, 49, and Canalis’s relationship sparked international headlines earlier this year after an Italian newspaper reported that the couple had separated. Clooney even chimed in to stem the gossip, issuing the statement: “Once again the story is made up, spread to other outlets and now denied. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.”

As Canalis now says, “It might seem a cliché, but unfortunately it is true: the Italians never support their own citizens who earn an opportunity or a recognition abroad … I don’t expect to be celebrated, but neither do I expect the newspapers of our country to use as a reference point a gossip blog which is full of insults, racism and violence.”

The criticism started early, given the initial skepticism that greeted their relationship. “I did not feel offended: its absurd; there is no point in giving it any importance,” says Canalis. “It certainly affected me the other day to be asked by the lady at the cash register of supermarket in Alghero [her home town in Sardinia, Italy]: ‘Is it true that you are his girlfriend?’ ”

But, she says, “Yes, it is true. We are together. I have heard of women – even famous women – that due to this [relationship] removed his photo as screensavers from their computers. Maybe I am a bit stressed. But in the end the best revenge over these jealous people is to be happy. Because that is the thing they do not forgive you for.”

“I sometimes feel insecure, but if you are loved then you always feel great,” she says. “[George] reassures me all the time. He is very close. I feel more embraced than ever before.”

And, happy she is. “If you are loved, you always feel beautiful,” says Canalis. “It’s the idea of being loved like this which really surprises me. George has given color back to my life. I feel great — it’s as if I am 18 years old again!”

Next up for the duo: attending the Aug. 29 Emmys, where Clooney is to receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award – “for all he did for those who suffered the earthquake in Haiti,” says Canalis.

So, what exactly is it about George that she likes best? “Exactly this, his humanity. His ability in giving to others.”

[From Us Weekly and People Magazine]

Oh GOD. Dumb, dumb move, hooker. True, if this interview took place at Clooney’s Lake Como house, he probably approved of it beforehand. Gee, I wonder what kind of crazy, filthy sex act she had to perform on him to get him to agree to it? Anyway, I doubt that Clooney thought this through, but evidently Eli did. Do you see has she’s setting herself up? “I don’t expect to be celebrated… I did not feel offended: its absurd; there is no point in giving it any importance…” Ooh, so now she doesn’t need the approval of the media? Well, George does, and as soon as she becomes a liability that he can’t whitewash, Canalis is going to be gone. Trust.

By the way, People still isn’t reporting that cocaine and hooker scandal.

Header: Eli and George on January 12, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck continues to spew her unique brand of stupid all over The View. While the four harpies were discussing the fact that many women are having same sex relationships later in life after “years of heterosexuality/marriage” Elisabeth chimed in “I’ll tell you what’s happening, a lot of the older men are going for younger women leaving the women with no one.”

Joy retorted “So that’s why they’re suddenly sleeping with women? That’s ridiculous, I’m sorry…”

Elisabeth kept pressing her idiotic point in that manic tone of hers. “You’re looking for a companion that understands you… say you were in heterosexual relationships. You’re looking for that, but the men who are of your age who have had similar experience… [are] chasing a little young one.”

“Being gay is not just holding hands and walking through the tulips,” Joy explained. “There are things that people do sexually. I don’t think that you suddenly wake up and say ‘You know, I want to do that.’ You wanted to do that, you were just trapped in a system that said get married… you were gay and you just didn’t admit it, you didn’t acknowledge it.”

“We’ve done studies that women aren’t necessarily needing something sexual, they’re more needing something in terms of companionship at a certain age,” Elisabeth countered.

So what does Elisabeth think, that lesbians are just best friends that have sex too? She’s wrong to think that being gay is a choice made by desperation. It’s sad that she thinks this way, but as Whoopi kind of mentioned it does make it sound like she’s not opposed to having some same sex company – if there are no other options.

This isn’t the first offensive and dumb thing this woman has said, there have been so many other incidents and surely there will be more.

Oh and Obama was on The View yesterday. I haven’t watched it yet and am not sure we’ll report on it. I’m over that show, and as rude as it sounds I’m kind of over Obama too. (Update: thanks to all of you who mentioned that Obama’s View appearance was taped yesterday and airs today. Maybe I’ll watch it then.)

Thanks to the Advocate via Gossip Rocks for this story.

You know how much I love Taylor Momsen. Well, I love her in the way I love someone who is a total douchey poseur, like how I love to cover Megan Fox’s interviews because she’s so full of herself and so, so idiotic and desperate and insecure but trying to front like she’s the hardest bitch out there. Well, Agent Bedhead noticed the Momsen-Fox comparison too – calling Taylor the “Jailbait Version of Megan Fox”. Where Megan is trying to be Angelina, I think Taylor is trying to be Courtney Love. And Shirley Manson. And probably Kim Deal too, although I doubt Taylor knows who Kim Deal is. Anyway, Taylor gave yet another priceless interview, and this time she’s trying to shock (!) us by talking about her jailbait vadge and how she loves her vibrator. Once again, this chick is 16 years old.

After three seasons of looking like a panda-faced whore, Taylor Momsen and her ratty-ass hair extensions slunk off to the sidelines of Gossip Girl this year. But, guys, guys, she’s got, like, a record now, and you will just be shocked, shocked! by her sexy, scandalous non-thoughts.

Speaking to Disorder Magazine, hot mess Momsen declared her that her new album, “is a life record and it confronts issues and goes, here’s what f*cking sucks about everything and I don’t really know how to fix it but I’m f*cking dying and I’ll sing about it.”

Taylor! Two quarters to swear jar! But, sensing that perhaps talking about what “f*cking sucks about everything” wasn’t escandoloso enough, Taylor saucily decided to talk about her vagina, with the magazine reporting “that she’s not into guys, waits a beat, then adds she’s not gay but just bored of men and her best friend is her vibrator.”

Oh my word! Some one fetch me my smelling salts! A woman, talking about sex? And vibrators! Why, it’s so shocking…provided this was 1971. Better luck next publicity stunt, Tay-Tay!

[From Movieline]

Now, THIS reminds me of my teenage years. Awkward, dumb jokes about sex (glad I outgrew that, right?), talking about “my vibrator” just to be SHOCKING. It’s a rite of passage for girls with low self-esteem – get to the joke first, before someone else makes fun of you for it. And Taylor does have low self-esteem, much like Megan Fox. And like Fox, she’s trying so, so desperately to come across like she’s full of herself. Ah, teenagers and their vibrators. So f-cking dumb.

Taylor on June 25, 2010. Credit: WENN.

I think we’ve talked about my general dislike of Eva Mendes before (here for her quotes about being worthy enough to play Maria Callas, here for why she’s a bad actress and here for just a general refresher). It’s not that I think she’s fug (she’s not), it’s not that I think she’s the worst actress ever (but she’s not close to being good, either) and it’s not like she’s even one of the most powerfully dumb or famewhorish celebrities out there (she only comes out and says dumb stuff when she‘s promoting a movie).

But I still dislike her, and here’s why – in interview after interview after boring interview, Eva talks about what a hindrance being sexy is, much like Jessica Biel always talks about how beautiful she is, too beautiful, probably to ever win an Oscar, or like Gwyneth Paltrow’s OCD pontifications on diet and exercise. Eva’s conversational tick, her fallback position, is talking about how sexy she is and how much it sucks to be so f-cking sexy. She’s just so dumb and so boring. Oh, and anyone who claims to be all that shouldn’t appear on the Allure cover looking completely wasted, and like you have phantom fangs (it’s a trick of the light on her visible – and gross – tongue).

Eva Mendes dons Dolce & Gabbana for Michael Thompson in his New York City studio for the August 2010 cover spread of Allure, on newsstands July 20. Here are some choice quotes from the 36-year-old actress:

On her public image: “I don’t want ‘sexy’ to be my defining characteristic”

On her school yearbook photos: “One of the benefits of having a big smile and big teeth is that if you just smile you can look happy”

On a double standard existing when it comes to nudity in Hollywood: “[When] other actresses who aren’t thought of, maybe, as being quite as attractive do full-frontal, they’re called brave. Nobody has ever said, ‘Eva, you’re so brave for doing full-frontal nudity.’ Just because I’m attractive doesn’t mean it’s not still scary. Why am I not brave?”

On her sexy image: “I’m definitely responsible for the image that I put out there,” she says. “But it does become frustrating, because I don’t want ‘sexy’ to be my defining characteristic. I’d love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humor to define me as well.”

[Excerpts from Just Jared and CoverAwards]

Why is she not brave? Because she gets paid a lot of money to take off her clothes in films, and that seems to be her only “acting” talent? She’s like Megan Fox, only less annoying and less quotable. So, like a really boring version of Megan Fox. Fox used to do the same sh-t in interviews too – talk endlessly about how hot she was. Don’t these women know that they either come across as full of themselves (at best) or as incredibly, mind-numbingly insecure (at worst)?

Cover courtesy of Just Jared, additional photos courtesy of Allure’s slideshow.

Radar Online has photos of Jon Gosselin’s new tattoo, a giant sad but angry-looking dragon that runs nearly the entire length of his back. The dragon is clutching a scroll that has the dates of his children’s birth along with their names in Korean. Jon’s mother is Korean and was raised in Hawaii, according to reports.

Jon, 33 going on 18, told Radar that he has a life coach and enthused about some personal achievement program he’s sinking his tabloid money into. He explained that the dragon is something he’s wanted for a while that “resemble[s] a rebirth or a change in me.” Jon’s ex girlfriend Hailey Glassman gloated to Radar that the dragon resembles the Ed Hardy T-Shirts that Jon forced TLC to blur out before he was cut out of his family’s reality show.

“I think congratulations are in order. He has successfully turned his back into an Ed Hardy t-shirt,” Glassman giggled to RadarOnline.com on Monday. “It’s what he always wanted [to look like Ed Hardy]…so mission accomplished!”

RadarOnline.com was first to publish photos of the former reality star’s new body art, which features a gigantic and intricately detailed Korean dragon across his upper back. Gosselin, 33, told RadarOnline.com that he’s wanted the tattoo for years.

“I wanted something that represented a rebirth or a change in me,” he said. “The dragon is all encompassing. It has all parts of the Zodiac.”

The tattoo was designed at Never Say Die Tattoo parlor in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Jon’s first session was three weeks ago for six hours, the second took place a week ago and it was eight hours long.

[From Radar Online]

14 hours sounds like an awfully long time to sit for a tattoo, but it’s not like Jon has a job to go to. He also proved in his last relationship that he’s able to passively accept pain for relatively long stretches.

I googled “Ed Hardy Dragon” and the images that came up weren’t much different from Jon’s tattoo. It also reminded me of an episode of the Simpsons when Homer tried to help Selma adopt a baby from China. He got drunk on the plane coming back and hallucinated about some dragons, who sang a wacky song “The Man Who Broke a Dragon’s Heart.” (That video is below.) Congratulations, Jon, you’ve signified your rebirth with a giant indelible Ed Hardy T-Shirt. You’re so bad ass.

Update: Jon’s manager tells US Weekly that the tattoo also features the name of Jon’s new girlfriend, Ellen, in Korean. That’s a wise move considering that none of his girlfriends post-split have lasted more than a few months.

Jon Gosselin is shown on 6/16/10. Credit: WENN.com

What does Lindsay Lohan have to do these days besides attempt sobriety and create drama? Not much. She goes to clubs and doesn’t drink (or whatever) and she wanders around, posing for the paparazzi. These photos are from last night – Lindsay coming out of a party, looking rough. Eh. I think she got more injections into her lips. Anyway, she’s started doing press to promote God knows what. Last week she did an interview with Star Magazine (that I think she was probably paid for) in which she claimed “Enough is enough. People should just leave me alone and let me live. I haven’t touched any alcohol or anything of the sort… The lies that get created [are] damaging to my career.” This week she’s done an interview with The Sun, and this one is about that dumb Linda Lovelace biopic that will probably never be made. Lindsay wants us to know: it’s not a porno, and she’s a good actress and “it’s nice to play something where I’m able to experience all these different emotions.” Oh, crackhead.

LINDSAY LOHAN has staunchly defended her upcoming portrayal of sex movie star LINDA LOVELACE – insisting the biopic will NOT be pornographic. The troubled star’s outspoken dad MICHAEL is among the dissenting voices to have blasted Lindsay for stepping into the high heels of the 70s porn queen.

He fears playing Lovelace – who shot to fame in notorious skin flick Deep Throat – will end his daughter’s career in Hollywood.

However, Lindsay – who’s due to start shooting Inferno later this year – has hit back at criticism, claiming Lovelace’s controversial XXX life story will be told tastefully by director MATTHEW WILDER.

She said: “The way that Matthew wants to shoot it is not vulgar. It’s not about the raw sex and the shots of her fully nude. It’s more about getting into her psyche and seeing how scared she was. That’s what I want to show most in the film.”

“People are going to say: ‘Oh, Lindsay Lohan is doing a porno.’ But it’s not like that. I’ve never played someone’s true-life story before. A lot of the other movies I did were just brainless for me. So it’s nice to play something where I’m able to experience all these different emotions.”

[From The Sun]

Several weeks ago, Page Six got their hands on the script for the Lovelace pic, and they claimed it was going to be even worse than anyone thought – Lindsay (as Lovelace) was going to be “thoroughly degraded and demoralized” throughout the film. Which is so unlike her life? And did anyone else roll their eyes at “A lot of the other movies I did were just brainless for me. So it’s nice to play something where I’m able to experience all these different emotions.” You mean Herbie Fully Loaded wasn’t the work of the next Meryl Streep?

In other Blohan news, remember how her assistant quit her ass? Radar claims that the prosecutor handling Lindsay’s case plans to interview/subpoena the assistant now. Oh, to be a fly on that interrogation!

The district attorney in Lindsay Lohan’s probation case has a new target in their investigation. RadarOnline.com has learned Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers plans to interview Lohan’s former assistant, Eleonore Lieven, who walked out on the actress earlier this month — and orchestrated the plans to eventually get the troubled actress back to Los Angeles from her ill-fated trip to Cannes, to face court. Meyers’ move to call Lieven as a key witness in the case could set up a courtroom showdown between boss and staffer.

“The district attorney is very interested in Eleonore,” a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com. “At the very least, an investigator from the D.A.’s office will be making contact with Lieven. A decision will be made about whether Eleonore will testify depending on what is gathered from the initial meeting with investigator. But if she is called, it could be very explosive and could very well go badly, very quickly for Lohan.”

Lohan’s right-hand woman, Lieven, lasted a few, tumultuous months and was left “exhausted” after her role. She handed in her notice after being constantly on call and cited bad hours, bad pay and bad attitude as the reason. One source has told RadarOnline.com Lieven spent a panicked three days attempting to ensure the troubled Mean Girls star returned from France, after she claimed her passport was stolen.

“Eleonore literally didn’t sleep for three days trying to get Lindsay back to Los Angeles,” said a source. “Meyers wants to gather specific information about the particulars of when the assistant was notified about the passport missing.”

The latest development follows our revelation that the alcohol education program overseeing Lohan’s sobriety was slapped with a subpoena to appear before a judge in the case. Meyers served the troubled actor’s court-ordered alcohol education program, Right On Program, in Glendale, California, last Friday. Staff, including the program’s director, were ordered to testify at Lohan’s probation violation hearing on July 6.

[From Radar]

I want to think that this bodes well for getting Lindsay into a jail cell, but I doubt it. She’s a slippery little crackhead, and she’ll find some way to negate whatever horrible testimony Eleonore gives. I imagine it will be something like “You can’t believe her, we did drugs TOGETHER!”

Lohan on June 21, 2010. Credit: WENN.

In case you couldn’t tell, that’s Christina Aguilera behind Kim Kardashian’s big famewhore ass. It’s like a sign of the apocalypse, seeing these two together. I like how the photographers were clearly more interested in shooting photos of Kim, and Christina is like, “Hey, don’t block the paparazzo’s shot with your big ass, bitch!” No, of course she wouldn’t. Christina is still relevant, of course. Now, I know that some people still like her, but her publicity tour for her new album Bionic has been, in my mind, an unmitigated disaster. Christina is drawing too heavily from Lady Gaga, trying too hard to be shocking and risqué, trying too hard to be controversial or newsworthy, and all of it has fallen short, and way off the mark. But Christina is barreling on – talking again about her faux bisexuality and how empowering it is that she kisses girls. Ooh, scandal. In 1999. By the way, how old is the photo Company Magazine used for their cover? That truly looks like it’s from 1999 too:

Christina Aguilera’s risqué outfits, skin-tight costumes and provocative photo shoots aren’t just for show. The singer says her sexy image is her way of getting out what she believes is an important message.

“I feel sexuality to be very empowering,” the singer, 29, tells U.K. magazine Company in its July issue. “I think men love to believe that they own our sexuality, so if a woman represents herself in a sexual way, people think, ‘Oh it must be for a man.’”

“But men don’t have the right to own our sexuality,” she says. “If I want to be sexual, it’s for my own appreciation and enjoyment! That’s why I like to talk about the fact that sometimes I am attracted to women. I appreciate their femininity and beauty.”

Before calling her a feminist, be warned, Aguilera says she doesn’t like to get into labels. Instead, she’s simply fighting “for women’s rights in the sense that we shouldn’t be ashamed of ourselves or our bodies.”

But husband Jordan Bratman has nothing to worry about. His wife of almost five years knew he was The One, because when they met, “Everything was a little blurry and he was the one concrete person that I could trust,” she tells the magazine. “He was centered, grounded and always helped me see the positive in the negative. He would lift me out of my black hole of sometimes feeling sucked in by the negativity of people around me. My husband is the calm in the storm.”

Though she acknowledges “you have to work at all relationships,” she says she couldn’t have found a better partner than Bratman. “He’s my team mate in everything we do,” she says. “He definitely makes life easier.”

[From People]

I find that one part about the feminist label deplorable. So Christina is going to promote her album by talking about how she kisses girls and how empowering that is (although, she admits she “still loves dick”) and it’s all “for women’s rights in the sense that we shouldn’t be ashamed of ourselves or our bodies” but she won’t label herself as a feminist? Because that would be too much, I guess. Calling herself a feminist might, oh, I don’t know, alienate men? Because that’s what she’s worried about, having men still see her as sexy or something. Because talking about making out with girls is supposed to be titillating to dudes. So she’s not doing it for herself, she’s just doing it for the same dumb reasons as all the girls in the Girls Gone Wild videos. Christina, girl, you are dumb as a box of hair.

Company cover courtesy of CoverAwards. Xtina and Kim Kardashian on June 12, 2010, credit: Fame Pictures.