1. Stop the Western World. We want to get off. Because in our world, Victoria’s Secret models are held up as the epitome of female glamour. The look and body shape that every woman is supposed to aspire to. But if we’re supposed to aim to look like this, then there’s something seriously wrong:
Yep, that’s the stomach of a Victoria’s Secret model. The CONCAVE stomach of Candice Swanepoel, who posted this picture on her Instagram to show everyone how hard she’s been working out before the Victoria’s Secret fashion show next Wednesday.
Feeling bad about yourself now because your stomach doesn’t look like that? Please don’t – because NOBODY’S STOMACH LOOKS LIKE THAT. Unless they are a lingerie model who may or may not have eaten solid food in days, because they are planning to strut down a catwalk next week wearing a few scraps of fabric over their genitals along with a giant pair of angel wings .
And remember this. Regardless of how flat/concave their stomachs are – the models will still get airbrushed when they appear in print. Check out our gallery of Victoria’s Secret Angels before and after Photoshop, as well as other celebrities who have been Photoshopped:
2. Last night was a reality television producer’s dream, when a romantic proposal played out live during the Big Brother finale.
BB housemate Benjamin Norris proposed to his boyfriend after it was announced that he had won the reality show.
Ben – who was one of 16 housemates on the show – won $250,000 and shocked audiences when, after leaving the house, got down on one knee to ask his partner to marry him. Watch this video of the proposal. It’s surprisingly moving……
“This was a diamond that my great grandfather bought for my great grandmother and it was worn by my parents on their wedding day so it’s something that is a part of my family,” Norris said.
“Since I’ve met Ben all I have wanted is for him to be a part of my family. And no-one is going to tell us that sitting on the couch together at the end of the day pretending that we’re married that we’re not married.”
3. Melissa George – former Home and Away actress and star of The Slap – has a new boyfriend, French millionaire Jean-David Blanc. The Aussie actress, who previously dated business magnate Russell Simmons, dismissed talk of marriage but was adamant children would be in her future. Speaking to news.com.au, she stated:
Melissa with her French millionaire boyfriend“I would love my own kids,” she said. “That stuff is obvious.
“I am going to be a mother, absolutely obvious no matter how, when, what. I really am picking the right father for my child.
“It’s very simple.”
4. We had a very exciting day at Mamamia HQ watching the US election yesterday. Which makes us a lot like these celebrities who were also keeping a very close eye on the proceedings. Check out their election tweets below:
Can’t get enough of the election? Completely besotted with Obama? Go here to see him and his family in pics. You can also go here to find out more about the election coverage (hint: there are theories that US news anchor Diane Sawyer was drunk when doing the news broadcast).
In other fluff news:
– Months after her death, Whitney Houston’s new song has debuted. You can read more about it – and listen to it – here.
– Kristen Stewart has FINALLY talked about her relationship with Robert Pattinson – find out what she said here.
– Megan Fox kept the birth of her baby seriously under wraps – we didn’t find out about it until weeks after it actually happened. Here’s how she managed to keep the secret.
Top Comments
Why is it that when a proud overweight girl posts a picture of her exposed stomach she is praised, but when a proud slim girl posts a picture of her exposed stomach she is condemned?
Ill probably be torn apart for this and accused of being insensitive but I want to share my view. You know what Mamamia I think you lose support of the positive body image project when you are so nasty and judgmental to smaller body shapes. Take away your patronising capital letters shouting that NOBODY LOOKS LIKE THIS and implying that the model has an eating disorder or is alien. People do look like this I have friends who look like this! Friends who are hilarious and confident and when they run on the beach their thighs don't touch and nothing jiggles. I am in the pre-baby era of life as are my friends but that doesn't make their body shapes invalid, it's not like you need to give birth before you're a real human. And yes these friends eat and they drink alcohol but they also exercise, a normal amount. They travel and they're smart and they don't live on protein shakes. you are going too far. Those images of the models photoshopped before and after are so far from scandalous the changes are barely noticeable. And you know what that proves? These ladies ARE GORGEOUS and why aren't we allowed to celebrate their beauty?! We have to bitch that they don't really look like that it's just photoshop and make nasty jokes about the fact they probably live on a rabbits diet. We have to wait for an overweight person to be as body confident as these ladies and then we can breathe out a sigh of relief and say YEHHHH we celebrate you because you're big come here and make assumptions about models with us! In many instances photoshop is ridiculous but not always and all the talk about models now weighing 23% less than the average woman when they used to weigh 8% less is probably a result of the average woman putting on shitloads of weight! We are getting bigger! We are getting too big! More food is processed, more people need the convenience of fast take out/heat up meals and people claim less time for exercise. And guess what that's actually not cool, getting bigger is not good for our health. And I appreciate the beautiful women in magazines they do make me body aware but not in a bad way. Just in a way that I feel if magazines were filled with ONLY larger women loving life I may start to think that's what a body should look like, and feel comfortable eating a few extra pieces of cake cos its normal to have lots of stomach rolls and another chin. And we know there is no normal and there is no one way a body should look and I absolutely want people to love the body their in but when I do have kids I don't want the pendulum swinging the other way and having them bombarded with you shouldn't look like THIS (insert model) you should look like this (insert overweight person) they should look like whatever form their body takes when they eat a relatively balanced diet and exercise a moderate amount. They should look healthy and happy whether that appears big or small in the eyes of others is irrelevant. I am with you I want diversity I want all shapes and sizes represented but not at the cost of judging anyone who works hard or is naturally a smaller shape.
Well said - couldn't agree more.
Getting very sick of all the skinny bashing that happens on MM. By all means, promote diversity but don't say that no-one looks like that. Because some people do. And they often work very hard for it. That's also ok.
Completely agree! I am sick of this website taking skinny people as a personal insult, branding them unhealthy then posting an article that basically reads: "YAY! Obesity!"
Anorexia Nervosa is a serious illness that affects less then 1% of the population with ties to mental illness. It is severely ignored medically (two beds for all adult sufferers) and the more we blame it on the fashion industry the more we discount it.
Obesity on the other hand affects around more than half the population and instead you pat them on the back and tell them it is ok to be different.