LeAnn Rimes on her affair: “After going through this, I know I can face anything”

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Oh, snap! All of the magazines are coming out today for some reason. Note to monthly magazine editors/publicists: stop releasing your sh-t on Wednesdays! Save it for a Thursday, seriously. Thursdays are generally slow. Wednesdays are when the tabloids come out. Anyway, LeAnn is the cover girl for the October issue of Shape Magazine. In the interview excerpts that have been released, she’s just as happily crazy/oblivious as you’d ever hope. LeAnn once again discusses her affair with Eddie Cibrian when they were both married, and how working out helped ease her pain of homewrecking. I will give LeAnn credit – I think this is the best her body has ever looked. Her hair is improving too, in my opinion. But… you know, she’s still crazy. The full Shape piece is here, and here are the highlights:

On how exercise helped her through the affair:
“Going to the gym and punching out some of my aggression on a pair of mitts has been a lifesaver. Sometimes I felt so depressed I didn’t want to get out of bed, so just getting to the gym–even for a few minutes–was a big accomplishment. It really did make me feel better and kind of saved me. It gave me a bit of sanity.”

On her reasons for cheating:
“My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn’t a fulfilling marriage for either of us. We got married so young: I was 19 and he was 21, so as we got older, we grew apart. I understand why people are disappointed in me, especially since I grew up as America’s sweetheart. I think any relationship is hard to get out of, and I don’t think the way I did it was right. I truly believe there are lessons in it for me to learn. Cultivating strength from rough situations is the most important thing. After going through this, I know I can face anything.”

On her bikini body:
“I feel like my body is changing and that I’m growing up into a woman. I probably weigh about 6 pounds more than when I shot that cover, but my body fat is the lowest it’s ever been. I’ve gained a lot of muscle, and I feel like I have more curves too. My butt–well, I’ve always had a butt–but now I definitely have a butt, which I love. I’ve taken up weight training three or four times a week, and I do a lot of squats. I’ve also been doing more cardio, even though I absolutely despise it. I try to get in a good 20 to 25 minutes before I do anything else; if I don’t do it first, it won’t happen.”

Working out with Eddie Cibrian:
We go to the same gym, and sometimes we take group cycling classes together, but when it comes to weight training, we pretty much do our own thing. He’s going to kill me for saying this, but when I ask him to work out with me, he always says no. And when I ask why, he says, “Because your boxing workouts are too hard.” And he’s right: I’m serious about my exercise. I don’t just doodle around. I see people at the gym talking on their cell phones. If they think their bodies are really going to change…I mean, you’ve got to put in the effort!

How are you caring for your inner self? Do you journal? Pray? Meditate?
All of the above! I find writing to be one of the most cathartic things I can do. I get out my feelings on paper, and then I don’t have to carry them around anymore. I’ll write a letter filled with things I want to say, and then rather than mail it, I burn or erase it. I also pray, and I meditate when I can actually shut down my brain. It’s a matter of finding the magic combination of what settles you, relaxes you, and makes you happy.

[From Shape & HuffPo]

F-ck me, I love that she’s still selling herself as the girl who prays and is all Jesusy. I think that boat sailed, LeAnn. And was she ever really considered “America’s Sweetheart”? No? I think she was considered, like, a “country sweetheart” or “that girl with the great voice married to the gay guy.” Delusion of grandeur, this one. I just googled “LeAnn Rimes America’s Sweetheart” and Google was all “What?”

And… “Cultivating strength from rough situations is the most important thing. After going through this, I know I can face anything.” Right. Because everything happened to her. It’s always about her drama.

Also: I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, like, “My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn’t a fulfilling marriage for either of us…because he was terrified of my vagina.”

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  1. RHONYC says:

    she is utterly unf*ckable to me. 🙁

  2. PsychicEyes says:

    Huh, I can’t help but piss my pants from laughing after reading this article. Like I had said in previous note, my intuition tells me that a “huge” blowout will occur between her and Eddie this November/December. He’ll be packing his bags and heading to his baby mama in the New Year to only be dumped shortly after by her for the crap he put her through. I don’t wish bad on Lee-Ann — we’ve all made mistakes but she’s seriously inviting Karma police to her doorstep.

  3. HotPockets says:

    My god..even Photoshop can’t fix that squinty.. smug face

  4. Eileen says:

    Uh that SHOULD have said “I get all my feelings out on Twitter.” Not paper.

  5. Fluffy Kitten Tail says:

    I just wish the girl had eyes! *sigh*

  6. Hautie says:

    All I can say here is, bless her heart.

    She is so d*ckmatize it isn’t even funny.

  7. jen says:

    Holy moly is she fug!

  8. Catherine says:

    Good lord, she has a nicely sculpted body. Too bad she is a homewrecker.

  9. DelBocaVista says:

    I would love to smack dog-faced coont in the face with a running chainsaw!

  10. brin says:

    I love how she says EC won’t work out with her because her work outs are too hard…..please, he just wants time away from her so he can hook-up with a babe.

  11. lucy2 says:

    What exactly did she have to feel depressed and aggressive about? She was the dumper, not the dumpee, and looked like she was having a pretty good time w/ her new boyfriend.

    She is in great shape, but I don’t think she has a pretty face. Plus she seems self centered and annoying.

    I questioned the “America’s Sweetheart” nonsense too. Don’t think so.

  12. Serena says:

    Does it not even occur to her that she’s going to look like a prize fooooooooooool if/when it all ends in tears? Ah well, the fall out should be good for a few giggles
    It just occurred to me to ask..where’s Rita? She’s got to have something to say on this…

  13. happymom says:

    Yes I love the part about getting strength from what she’s had to endure-like it was an illness, or death or something tragic that occurred-rather than drama of her own making. Just another illustration of why people should not push their kids into the narcissistic world of child stardom.

  14. RHONYC says:

    it just occurred to me…she’s looks like the poor man’s sookie stackhouse! haha 🙂

  15. Katie says:

    I don’t remember her being America’s sweetheart. Maybe to the country music crowd? Her body is in great shape but she has no tits and her face isn’t that cute..her face looks pinched to me, not like she’s had work done, but literally like her face was pinched right in the middle when she was being born or something. Plus she’s obnoxious as hell. I don’t judge her for the whole Eddie thing, but she hasn’t handled the publicity aspect of it well in my opinion.

  16. spanks says:

    I cant wait until her affair teaches her how much Karma can bite you in the ass.
    She may be in shape but they photo-shopped her abs in that pic and did some major angles/lighting work. Her abs looked nothing like that when she was ‘dancing’ on stage in a bikini.

  17. Persistent Cat says:

    @Happymom, I thought that too. It’s just like Heidi Montag saying it was “heartbreaking” that she couldn’t work out because she got her breasts enlarged too much.

    Yes, these women are true survivors. I’m sure there’s a budget tabloid cover story on its way.

    I did taekwon-do for years. People always used to say, “oh that’s great, you can punch or kick out your anger” but that never happened to me. All I ever thought about was technique and improving my form, strength and flexibility.

  18. Jezi says:

    I think her brain shut down a long time ago. Now how does she get time to write when she’s on twitter every moment of every day. Just wondering.

  19. Kitten says:

    I just can’t get over that she is the self-proclaimed “America’s Sweetheart”.
    Um, really???

  20. Samigirl says:

    She is a butter-face.
    And Eddie must be AMAZING in bed, bc this chick is SPRUNG.

  21. Cee says:

    It’s amazing to me how SELF CENTERED she is. It’s all about her pain!!!??? No concern for the pain caused to her husband, and the wife (of Eddie Cibrian) and children left to pick up the pieces. Do you think Brandi and Dean had trouble getting out of bed as she and Eddie flaunted their affair? But TRUST the karma is coming.

  22. NayNay says:

    She is trying way too hard to look sexy, and it isn’t working for her. I cannot believe that she is still trying to defend her inappropriate behavior. The peen must be really good, because this girl is hooked, and I am waiting for the day when Eddie dumps her flat for the next piece of ass that comes his way. We all know that it is going to happen. Her money will only keep him interested for so long. Leann is the only one who doesn’t seem to realize that.

  23. eja102 says:

    if her ex is gay, maybe he was with her because she looks so much like a man.

    god, she is ugly. it bugs me that her affair was hard on her, well boo fucking hoo.

  24. mikeyangel says:

    She looks like Falkor from the Neverending Story!

  25. Leticia says:

    she has zero self-awareness. Arrested development from never having had a childhood. I bet that she does not have any friends at all, no one to try and stop her from making such a fool out of herself.

  26. Praise St. Angie! says:

    “I just googled “LeAnn Rimes America’s Sweetheart” and Google was all “What?””

    oh, how I love this site! that was gold, Kaiser, GOLD!

  27. Crittle says:

    Awww, poor thing was depressed from cheating on her husband with a married man. Her poor precious feelings. Good thing she had the gym to comfort her. rme

    I smell a messy breakup combo with a side of breakdown coming up

  28. dorothy says:

    Wow, must have been really tough taking a man away from not only his wife, but his children too…..poor poor girl. Can’t wait till it happens to her..and it will! Shes just the flavor of the month.

  29. endoplasmic ridiculum says:

    She can now face anything? Excellent. We can ship her off to Afghanistan stat.

  30. Liana says:

    she looks like a 70’s era phys ed teacher.

  31. Rita says:

    Someone looking for me lol? So let’s up date our tweets with LeAnn.

    First off, my info is fron a second hand “inside” source but LeAnn’s been tweeting about Eddie passing gas while driving. Yes, apparently the relationship has matured where Eddie feels free (too bad LeAnn hasn’t matured beyond tweeting about Eddie’s first car farts)

    Over the weekend Eddie and Brandi took their kid to his first soccer game and LeAnn had to fly home for 5 hours between performances (God for bid E&B might end up in bed again). Apparently the little boy got a boo boo so E&B took him to the ER. LeAnn sat in the waiting room tweeting about how uncomfortable it was to be around all those sick people (the sickest being the one tweeting). Hopefully the new health care plan can find a place for those sick people other than a HOSPITAL.

    LeAnn is currently trying to promote an album but apparently there was little interest for this Friday’s performance at the Norwood BOW WOW kennel fund raiser in Cincinnati because it was cancelled (I Sh!””T you not).

    It’s time for an intervention with this delusional person. Someone needs to tell her the facts of life without all the poetic prose about love. Perhaps her manager should sit her down, cup her face gently but firmly with both hands and tell her the following cold hard truth about tweeting the children’s where abouts even after Brandi has asked her to stop.

    “Brandi is the children’s mother and you are one of the females into which Eddie inserts his penis and ejaculates. Get it!!!!!”

  32. DeanJolie says:

    dayyuuum she’s busted.

  33. brin says:

    @Rita…..love it…..that was worth the wait!

  34. Rita says:

    Perhaps I post too much on this chick but when CB runs a thread on her my hubby changes the combo on the gun safe and hides the ammo (not that I’d actually do anything, but one is permitted a fantacy or two.)

    LeAnn is in good shape but reminds me of those East German female Olympic athelets of the 70’s (I still have nightmares about them too.)

  35. guesty says:

    o.m.g. @rita…lol. leann please stfu.

  36. badmom says:

    That “America’s Sweetheart” made me blow root beer out of my nose – thanks loads. She wasn’t “Country Music’s Sweetheart” either. Sure has a face for radio. When is she going to go away?

  37. K-MAC says:

    look at those abs!!!! ABSolutely fabulous!

  38. TG says:

    @lucy2 and happymom – I totally agree with you both. This was drama was 100% her own making so what is there to be aggressive about. And I can’t believe she had the nerve to say she can go thru anything now because of this. Sounds like she is either writing the book or making some serious edits to homewrecking 101.

    Yes and Rita you are awesome!

  39. brin says:

    This was a bad move on Shape magazine’s part and I hope this is the worst selling issue ever.

  40. WI Girl says:

    Just goes to show you how some men will date any blonde with a bangin’ body no matter how desperate or fugly her face is. My guess is that Eddie will move on with someone younger and prettier and LeAnne will have to give us another story on how excercise saved her life…after she gains 30 and loses it post break-up, of course.

  41. Crash2GO2 says:

    She really doesn’t have much of a waist, nor much definition. She had to really work that one angle to make it look like she has abs.

    Just bein’ mean because she’s such a selfish jerk. I’m an American and I’d never even heard of the little ‘SWEET HEART’.

  42. tango says:

    “I truly believe there are lessons in it for me to learn.”

    NOTE – LeAnn says “to learn” NOT “have learned” regarding cheating on her husband and how that’s not the best way to end a marriage.

    LeAnn is desperate and I think the lady doth protest too much.

  43. Camille says:

    She’s another Aniston- a complete butterface.

  44. Rose says:

    celeb interviews = tmi

    That said, the woman needs to show some humility. What a narcissist!

    And her new bf will split if she stops mothering him. One of his problems, apparently, with his ex wife was that she didn’t pay enough attention to him. Babies, I mean men, like that are impossible to please. They are truly looking for mama bear to spoil them with a ridiculous amount of care and attention. Any sane woman would run from that!

  45. georgiagrl says:

    Serena
    You are correct.
    She’s delusional!!!!

  46. Darla says:

    Didn’t the bible ever say anything about a married woman riding someone else’s husband like a schwinn with no seat makes G-d sad?

    I dunno. I do know that I would kill a thousand babies to tell this self-righteous, smug, squinty, no-talent Goldie-Hawn wanna-beto shut her tedious school girl twitshit up before a bastion of angry post-natal mothers tears her from limb to limb and eats her spine. Or something.

    I guess I could go to the next opening of the Chik-Fil-A in Des Moines and hope she’s performing there. But it would probably get cancelled.

    Peace and Love

  47. GreenGinger says:

    I initially read the headline above her head as “What top dogs avoid to stay healthy.” Then I shifted my gaze slightly lower and realized why. I am awful.

    BUT, I find it hard to believe that the photographer couldn’t find a more flattering angle from which to shoot her face.

  48. la chica says:

    most disappointing sentence: “I truly believe there are lessons in it for me to learn.”

    should have been: “There are so many things that I HAVE learned.”

    sorry LeeAnn but you still have a lot of growing up to do.

  49. AnnieB says:

    @GreenGinger
    I find it very easy to believe there is no flattering face angle for that thing. Her only “good” angle is one that involves a paper bag being plopped on top of the haggard, asymmetrical thing. I did notice the exaggerated sideways pose, to attempt to downplay her linebacker manly wide shoulders.

  50. TheOtherChris says:

    I never saw her as America’s sweetheart. She was a cute kid with a massive voice. Now I don’t even think she can sell country records. She does have an amazing body–although that red bikini is screaming “put some boobies in me!”. The white one is a better choice.

  51. Rita says:

    Update on my first comment.

    According to a vid at eonline Brandi says Mason was injured at LeAnn’s house and while Brandi waited at the soccer game Eddie and LeAnn took him to the ER. Eddie never told Brandi but texted Brandi that Mason would not be coming to the game.

    In addition, Jake, the youngest was injured on LeAnn’s tour bus and he required 7 stitches. Again, Brandi was not informed until the boy was brought home.

    Not informing a mother even by phone that her child has been injured is sick. Eddie is king of the turds.

  52. Rita says:

    PS- So glad LeAnn had time to tweet to her fans how she was sitting in the ER but neither she nor Eddie contacted the mother. Brandi keeps all this crap to herself while LeAnn keeps putting it out there that she’s step-mother of the year.

  53. Carrie says:

    If she just came out and admitted that she married a gay guy, and that she loved him anyway and stayed in the marriage because he was her best friend, and then finally knew that she needed a full, sexual relationship with a man so she went after Eddie…would we still hate her? Or would we feel some sympathy, and maybe understand it?

    I mean, he was married as well so there was still some big time betrayal in their triangle/square, but I wonder if she had just played it all differently if we would feel differently about her.

  54. minnie says:

    didn’t her ex, dean, just move in with his new GIRLfriend? if this is the case, then it isn’t very nice to keep saying the guy is gay. just sayin’

  55. brin says:

    E online is reporting that both boys had minor accidents at Leann’s & the last one Brandi wasn’t told about til after the fact. I’d be worried if they were my kids.

  56. SickofCelebs says:

    Poor, poor girl, wrecking a family and having people react negatively to it can really take it out of a girl. Biotch please, just sayin…..

  57. CB Rawks says:

    That cover photo is not pretty. Weird expression on her face.
    She has to work out like crazy because she will do anything she possibly can to be attractive to Eddie. She should realise it’s actually the house and vacations and bux that keeps him there.
    I’m rolling my eyes that she said she has to work out her aggression with her punching mitts. That again suggests that SHE has a right to be angry at someone. Blech.

  58. jj says:

    75.jj:
    September 14th, 2010 at 8:26 pm Let us take a quick look into LeLeLand shall we:
    The lil ones love me more than their birthmother cause I am so beautiful and I buy them toys and even make them lunches.
    Deadbeat loves me cause I pay for every darn thing and he just has to pose for pictures
    Oh my, in LeLeLand, my fans adore me cause I am so perfect and have love all around me
    And at the end of the day My Sweets, gets his allowance…oops I mean….we wear each other out. Xoxo from LeLeLand
    And now an update from my perfect world, that bad E Online runs a story that is negative, don’t they know I spend all my day helping people of the world. I will dethrone St. Angie and will from this day forward be known as Saint LeLe The Perfect…….

  59. shueler says:

    We’ll see how she “can face anything” when she’s the victim of his cheating. It’s a little different on the receiving end.

  60. fizXgirl3114 says:

    oh my god, this woman is pathetic… do you REALLY need to work out with someone? get an effing grip… she must be smothering this guy to death. How needy are you that you need to spend every second of the day together? does she ask that they poop together too? I ,mean seriously, if I’m working out I feel all sweaty and icky, I don’t need my boyfriend hanging around seeing me like that… take some time for yourself… jesus, she is annoying…

  61. Truthzbetta says:

    Yeah, the google line WAS indeed classic. ROTFL

  62. mimi says:

    “after all I’ve been through”. Interesting choice of words, Leann. And more appropriate for the wife and mother of the man you messed around with. Everything you’ve “been through” has been your choice.

  63. betty says:

    What she has been through is nothing compared to what Eddie is going to put her through he is already causing her sleepless nights and I can’t wait until they marry and that when her payback comes.in full force.

  64. tango says:

    For a woman who now says she can “face anything” she’s sure not able to face the truth.

  65. TeeTee says:

    all I could do was cackle while reading this, you guys have summed it all up though!!

    hilarious, she is sooo delusional and pretenious, oh and a damn fool!

  66. Holly says:

    Sit down, Leann. Sit down.

  67. Sophie says:

    Why don’t you just leave her alone? She is beautiful and incredibly talented! She deserves good things to happen to her!

  68. Anna M says:

    Oh wow, she looks great!

  69. brin says:

    @jj….Wonder what will happen when Eddie wants to leave LeLeland. Think the guys in white will have to come.

  70. Rita says:

    @Sophie

    “She deserves good things to happen to her”?

    Based on what? Her behavior, which is a reflection of her values and character has been exemplarily vile. Her life is merely telling one lie after the next so her mindless fans will focus on what she says and not what she does. Wake up, not just for your own sake but for the sake of your family.

  71. jj says:

    Brin….absolutely. LeLeLand was built on a foundation of her lies and delusions. She just DOES NOT GET IT! Simply pathetic.

  72. crab says:

    Sophie your as dilusional as she is! She is uglier than a bucket full of monkeys ass-holes with the good ones picked out!!

  73. LindaR says:

    She looks like she is trying to hold in a fart, on the cover photo.

  74. DD says:

    The thing that disturbs me the most out of all this is that she feels the need to tweet in a way that seems like she wants to flaunt all the mundane moments of her relationship to the public constantly. The mentality of a person who does this is disturbing especially when they’re part of what seems to be an artificial and weak relationship.

  75. brin says:

    Just think about it, y’all….Leann was probably so happy & full of herself when her magazine cover & article came out and now she has to hear/read all the negative comments about it & her “bad parenting”. Karma…..

  76. Joe says:

    Saw Eddie’s wife just now in a video and she is hot=hot no wonder Leann is so obsessed trying to look good Why would any normal man leave someone who looked like his wife for someone like LR who looks like one nasty looking she-male I need to get out to Calif to have me some Brandi now that is one good looking chick

  77. Whitey Fisk says:

    I Googled:
    Leann Rimes “America’s Sweetheart” – and got 3,560 hits. Most of those appear to be quoting her Shape interview.

    Then I Googled:
    Leann Rimes is ugly – and got 3,830,000 hits.

  78. Darla says:

    #73

    bwhahahahahahah
    *snort*
    hahahahahahhaha

    So true!!

  79. LT says:

    If her and Dean ever have kids they might be born without eyes all together. That combination of squintiness is no good in the gene pool.

  80. valerie says:

    after going thru wat? breaking up a marriage? gurl please! u are NOT the victim here!!! ugh…

  81. CB Rawks says:

    Her Twitter: “Insane people r always sur they are fine. It’s only the sane people who are willing to admit they are crazy.”

    EXACTLY, LeAnn. We’ll wait for you to absorb that yourself.

  82. Kathy says:

    Google reference, yes funny! DelBocaVista, your comments were very rude but your email name made me laugh.

  83. true story says:

    its too bad that she has been fooled by this guy. it will come back to her for sure. he is a serial cheater.

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