America’s favorite trainwreck blogger Courtney Love is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of British Elle magazine (if you can believe that). In her coverstory interview, Courtney happily takes credit for the fact that she paved the way for younger starlets like Britney Spears to successfully weather public melt/break-downs because, you know, she C. Love so successfully weathered them herself … or something. Here is Courtney‘s (pretty amazing, if I do say so myself) coverphoto:
Courtney Love says she set the stage for Britney Spears’ public breakdown with her own erratic behaviour. Kurt Cobain’s outspoken widow said: “I had a long, hard fall. I set the stage for Britney to crash and burn. “I went through it all first.” The Hole singer and actress has been through a catalogue of disasters, including the suicide of her Nirvana frontman husband, drug addiction, arrests, custody battles, jail sentences, disastrous plastic surgery, weight issues and jail terms. However, she now claims to be in control of her body image and addictions. During a frank interview for Elle magazine she reveals she tried to get a gastric band fitted but her doctor wouldn’t allow it. “If I could get a gastric band I would!” she says. “I did go to see a Hollywood doctor about it. I wasn’t desperate, I just knew I had to do something. He said no. I might have been fat, but I wasn’t that fat. I tried lipo on my stomach after that. It was horrible and it didn’t work.” The 44-year-old also remarks on her drastic weight loss recently. “I knew I had to eat more because I was scary,” she continues. “I lost my tits, I lost my ass. My stomach was really loose and saggy because I hadn’t done any exercise to lose the weight, I simply hadn’t eaten.”
The coverstory goes on to discuss how Courtney finally opened to her daughter Frances Bean about her rampant heroin use among other such lovely topics absolutely suitable for a fashion magazine of this magnitude. Honestly, I’m amazed that Court has anything new to offer that she hasn’t already dished about (in her own incoherent way) on her My Space blog. After the jump, check out a few more photos of Courtney Love from this new issue of British Elle magazine — and be prepared for a shock, Courtney actually looks pretty amazing in the pics …
I’m not very familiar with photographer Jan Welter‘s work (I don’t think) but I have to say that these pics are pretty remarkable. Save for the last pic (where Courtney Love looks like an elder British woman lookin’ to score some figgy pudding) Court really looks pretty hot in these pics. Sure the woman is still a raging mess (as her next blogpost is sure to further prove) but she does look good in this mag. What do ya’ll think?
Courtney Love is the Paris Hilton of rock and roll now. She doesn’t DO anything, but she stays in the news for being a mess.
I’ ve never been a fan, and she’s Photoshopped to all hell here, but whatever. She’s a talented songwriter if marginal singer. I always thought the real star in Hole was Melissa auf der Maur. Courtney loses credibility as the forerunner of the public breakdown, but she perhaps paved some inroads. I give Courtney for discussing publicly her struggles. And she was at Whitney’s intervention. If Courtney’s calling you a crackhead, you know you got problems. I gotta disagree with Avi’s assessment, though. Madge looks damn good for 50, and anyone who doesn’t think so can suck it. Let’s see what you look like at that age. :P
Jesus Christ, I thought it was Goldie Hawn!!!!
i didn’t even know that was her on the cover!! she looks like meg ryan to me! is that weird??
courtney. courtney. courtney. this gets on my nerves. she and britney come from two different levels and got to fame two different ways. britney was fake. courtney was real.
now she’s a superficial fake caught up in anything but her music to stay famous
courtney used her heart, soul, and pain as a talented artist.
britney used her voice and boobs as music industry dancing robot.
was to sell out court
Avi: I made no insinuation that Courtney killed Kurt. That’s a conspiracy theory. I’m saying that Courtney’s drug use and past actions may lead her to an early grave–just like it did to Kurt.
I would love to photograph Love. She’s so freakin’ raw and she always gets attention for better or worse.
Her cover photo instantly looked like Goldie Hawn. Just had to say
Joce – Etta James isn’t obese, she was at the premiere of Cadillac Records and looked fine.
And did you say Courtney Love wins because she isn’t dead?
This isn’t an effing game.
Besides when Courtney says that she went through shit first, it implies that she has overcome that. Given her blog posts, she is still effed up.