Magazine Fashion 2011

Kim Kardashian Conflicted Over Divorce, Flies to Minnesota

Kris and Kim will be meeting with the pastor who married them to talk about the marriage, the divorce, and their feelings. Again, this is not a reconciliation but we're told Kim wants to make sure she and Kris have closure and talk everything out.

Kim Kardashian's Divorce Is Good for America—and Women

Kim Kardashian is finally doing something good for America: she's getting divorced. Jennifer L. Pozner, the author of Reality Bites Back, on how the breakup finally blows the lid off reality TV’s wedding-industrial complex.

Kim Kardashian is finally doing something good for America: she’s getting divorced.
Anyone tuned into Facebook, Twitter, or the entertainment press knows that the reality star announced the termination of her marriage on Monday—after just 72 days, and dozens of airings of Kim’s Fairytale Wedding, the two-part special E! paid $15 million to broadcast.

Yet on E!, viewers can still watch Kim's famous figure draped in $60K Vera Wang gowns, brandishing a 20.5-carat engagement ring from Lorraine Schwartz jewelers, sipping $400K of Perrier-Jouët champagne, and munching a Hansen’s wedding cake worth more than I spend annually on housing in NYC. As I write this on Thursday, Kim and Kris are still babbling on about "happily ever after" on my boob tube, in heavy rotation—like The Twilight Zone, but with more tulle.

It’s a brilliant bit of cognitive dissonance, giving viewers the opportunity to recognize how hollow and manipulative reality TV’s fairy-tale narratives really are. As E! Entertainment president Suzanne Kolb told The New York Times this week: "The program model of television doesn't exactly keep up with the life model of real people." She was justifying her decision to keep airing Kim’s Fairytale Wedding, but she unwittingly debunked the main premise of so-called reality TV: that it has anything to do with real life or real people.

Who knew Kim Kardashian, celebreality tabloid queen, would be the one to finally help us interrupt that bogus premise? The disconnect between blissful on-air bride and off-screen divorcée offers viewers proof, once and for all, that reality-TV fairy tales are nothing more than a farce. Reality shows don’t focus on what it takes to build real relationships—instead, they’re all about persuading women to lower their romantic standards and their caloric intake long enough to con some douchey stranger into slapping a product-placement ring on it.

In my research for Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV, which was published last year, I spent 10 years—yes, seriously, a decade—monitoring more than 1,000 hours of unscripted dating, marriage, makeover, competition, and lifestyle series, and talking with high-school and college students across the country. What they’ve taught me is that as much as we love to laugh at Kim Kardashian—and her infamous reality cohorts like Snooki and Flavor Flav—the messages these shows send are deeply harmful, especially to women and girls.

Reality shows don’t focus on what it takes to build real relationships—instead, they’re all about persuading women to lower their romantic standards and their caloric intake long enough to con some douchey stranger into slapping a product-placement ring on their hand.

So, what do these shows teach us? To start, that all a groom needs to qualify as “Prince Charming” is a fat wallet (why, hello there, “Joe Millionaire”). That “every girl” wants to—and can—become a “princess” bride, so long as she is skinny, vapid, and emotionally undemanding (the longest-running dating franchise, ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, set this template early). TV networks have collaborated with embedded advertisers to convince us that the only thing "real women" should aspire to is becoming “Mrs. Something” (as a former Miss USA contestant put it on Who Wants to Marry My Dad). And that ludicrously expensive weddings are the key to lifelong happiness, no matter what happens behind the scenes.

It’s tempting to laugh all this off as harmless fluff, but the impact is real. Dating shows in particular portray women as bitchy, catty, and desperate. These shows also tend to exclude intellectual, professionally accomplished women—preferring contestants like a bubby 24-year-old on The Bachelor, who promised she’d “make the best wife” because “I will be a servant to him.” According to a recent Girl Scouts survey of 1,100 girls, young women who regularly watch reality TV are more likely than nonviewers to “accept and expect a higher level of drama, aggression, and bullying” in their lives. They’re also significantly more likely to believe that “It’s in girls’ nature to be catty and competitive with one another,” that "It’s hard for me to trust other girls,” and that girls “have to compete for a guy’s attention.”

Let’s be clear: Kim Kardashian didn’t create this toxic TV culture. Fox’s Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire started it all in 2000; in 2003, ABC aired Trista & Ryan’s Wedding, a $4 million affair in which the Bachelorette wore a $70K Badgley Mischka dress and a pair of diamond-encrusted Stuart Weitzman heels. Nowadays, entire series like TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress and WE’s My Fair Wedding exist to get women to fixate on the idea that it’s normal, even mandatory, for a wedding to cost as much as a down payment on a house.

But Kim's wedding came during an economic recession—which makes it all the more problematic. It may have made her $17.9 million richer, but that's all part of reality TV's dirty little secret: these shows exist in large part to expand the luxury wedding market. We now spend a whopping $80 billion annually on bridal apparel, invitations, flowers, receptions, destination weddings, and more. As proud members of the 1 percent, the Kardashians can afford this kind of nonsense. The rest of us can’t. And girls and women can’t afford the demeaning stereotypes at the heart of these faux fairy tales, either.

So I hope E! continues to run Kim’s Fairytale Wedding in perpetuity, so that every time viewers see her walking down the aisle, or promising her ex “forever,” they’ll realize that all reality-TV fairy tales are a regressive fantasy.

Kim Kardashian Divorced Over One Fight?

Kim Kardashian has all of her fans' support, but a Real Housewives cast member is also supportive of Kim's decision to get a divorce - though with an attitude. The cast member is NeNe Leakes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and she expressed sadness when the news broke of Kim's decision to divorce.

NeNe knows all about making a marriage work with a reality TV camera crew following around, as her marriage to Greg suffered tremendously during the last season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. The new season reveals that she has indeed filed for divorce. Could reality TV be to blame? "You have to work at marriage and I know it's hard...Not everyone can deal with pressures of reality TV," NeNe explains.

NeNe being NeNe, she had to throw in a comment that undermines Kim Kardashian's marriage; "I hope it wasn't over because of one blowup fight." This statement may show a slight bit of sarcasm, which is what NeNe is known for; her harsh statements tend to come out in the form of sarcasm. She could be referring to the fight publicly filmed for the show Kourtney and Kim Take New York, where Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries got in a fight in front of the cameras.

Did she indirectly say that she thought Kim Kardashian gave up on her marriage over a single fight?

Kristen Stewart

Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an Beautiful American actress. She is best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga. She has also starred in films such as Zathura,Panic Room, In the Land of Women, The Messengers, Adventure land and The Runaways.

Kristen Stewart

Princess Diana dresses

Princess Diana Dresses

Kate Middleton Without Makeup

Everyone know about Princess Kate Middleton she is the future Princess today we posted about his beauty without makeup.Princess Kate Middleton is a Natural Beauty women and she’s often seen without wearing any makeup. That’s how you know a woman is pretty. It’s all about how good she looks when she’s not dolled up.look at all picture of kate middleton without makeup.You must like it all these photos.So have a look and do give me your valuable feedback.

Kate Middleton Without Makeup

Adriana Lima Without makeup

Everyone knows about Adriana Lima.She is Gorgeous Brazilian Model and Actress.its true Hollywood Industry gives fame to the people who are working for it. That makes them more gorgeous especially on the screen. But if we look at the star in their real life we will find that they are not that much extra ordinary this is only makeup that is making them looking Gorgeous Beautiful and hot. Adriana Lima is not so beautiful without makeup and looking completely natural.Adriana lima which is known worldwide because of her elegance, screwed up when she left the house without any make-up, without having her hair done and dressed very casually.However, we must be honest and admit that, even without make-up, Adriana Lima manages to look allright, much better than a lot of women. Lets have look at some pictures of Adriana Lima Without makeup that proves that Gorgeous Adriana Lima is not so bad in her real life.So have a look and do give me your valuable feedback.

Adriana Lima Without makeup

Tara Lynn, Plus Size Model

Plus Size Model Tara Lynn
Tara Lynn is a UK size 18 with measurements 38-34-46. She lives in Seattle with her Venezuelan boy friend Alejandro. She loves the Spanish culture and in fact her favourite city is Madrid. She can speak some Spanish but she is fluent in both French and Arabic which she studied at degree level. Tara’s modeling work means she has to travel a lot, which she loves, but she misses her boyfriend and other friends. To relax and keep fit Tara enjoys doing yoga. She is very comfortable with her size and body saying “I would like to say that I like my body as much as I ever did. But all the publicity has made it easier. I’m being celebrated now.” Tara likes to wear comfortable clothes but her favourite designers are Christian Dior and Marina Rinaldi.

Claire Sinclair, crowned Playmate of the Year

Claire Sinclair has been crowned the 2011 Playmate of the Year by magazine founder Hugh Hefner! The October 2010 Playmate accepted her award in a plunging violet and fuchsia gown that left little to the imagination.

Hefner, who was joined by fiancée Crystal Harris, presented Sinclair with the honor which includes a custom-designed Harley Davidson and $100,000 cash.

Sinclair just happens to be dating the flesh mogul's son Marston Hefner, but Hef insists the win has nothing to do with the family love connection.

"It is not related," he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "in any manner, shape or form for the fact that she happens to be dating my son. The decision preceded the dating."

He continued, "I think it was obvious to me from very early on because she represents, uh, she has a particular kind of look that is classic and iconic and reminds one very much of the pinups of the past."

"She is kind of a cross between Bettie Page, who was an early Playmate, and Barbie Benton. She is a bigger version of Barbie. Barbie was more petite."

At just 19 years old, Sinclair is the youngest Playboy Playmate of the Year since Donna Michelle, who was 18 years old when she was chosen in 1964.