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Rihanna Does ‘Glamour’ Magazine

It's Trent, Bitch! — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:32:29 +0000

Earlier today we got our first look at Rihanna’s new music video for her song Wait Your Turn (The Wait Is Ova) and right now we get to see her on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Glamour magazine. Glamour is the first magazine she spoke with publicly about the assault she endured from ex-boyfriend Chris Brown back in February. In her coverstory interview, Rihanna opens up about that horrible experience in a very open way. Here is Rihanna’s Glamour cover and some excerpts from her coverstory interview:

Months after being attacked by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, Rihanna is speaking out about her healing process in December issue of Glamour magazine. “My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see,” she says. “They have followed every step of my recovery. “The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.” Named Glamour’s 2009 Woman of the Year, Rihanna, 21, will be honored in a special ceremony at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Nov. 9. In addition to opening up about her difficult year, the singer – and fashionista – will also appear in a pictorial spread, wearing clothing by Balmain, Gucci and Jason Wu. As for the massive scrutiny following the February 2009 attack, Rihanna says, “I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day.” And, she says, the past nine months have been a source of growth and strength. “I am stronger, wiser and more aware. You don’t realize how much your decisions affect people you don’t even know, like fans.” The singer has already released the power ballad “Russian Roulette” off her fourth album, Rated R, due in stores Nov. 23. “I’ve put everything I’ve wanted to say for the past eight months into my music,” she says. “[It's] super fearless – which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.”

Rihanna’s interview is much more substantive than is presented here. After the jump, check out a few photos from her Glamour photospread and read a few more quotes form this powerful coverstory …

Glamour: Let’s talk about this past year—you’ve obviously been through some difficult things. How did the people around you help you cope?
Rihanna: My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be—no one can understand. That’s when you get close to God.

Glamour: Are you referring to the [Chris Brown] incident?
Rihanna: I am talking about starting with the night [before] the Grammys and then on. That was not the only thing that occurred this year. The picture leaking…it was one thing after another.

Glamour: You’re talking about the photo [reportedly of Rihanna’s injured face taken by police after Brown assaulted her] that was allegedly leaked by cops. You handled that so well; you kept silent in the press.
Rihanna: It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody. I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.

Glamour: How has this event changed you as a person, as a woman?
Rihanna: I’m stronger, wiser and more aware. You don’t realize how much your decisions affect people you don’t even know, like fans.

Glamour: Do you think you’ve gotten your strength from your mom?
Rihanna: Definitely. My mom gave us the tools to survive…. My parents separated when I was eight or nine. I helped her raise my [youngest] brother, because my mom was working all the time. He’s my favorite.

Glamour: Do you feel that this experience has laid the groundwork for coping with anything so public again?
Rihanna: It has taught me so much. I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. It was like, What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can’t go back home?

Glamour: If you could offer a message to the millions of young women who look up to you, what would you tell someone who found herself in a similar situation?
Rihanna: Domestic violence is a big secret. No kid goes around and lets people know their parents fight. Teenage girls can’t tell their parents that their boyfriend beat them up. You don’t dare let your neighbor know that you fight. It’s one of the things we [women] will hide, because it’s embarrassing. My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.

Glamour: I think that’s a great message. What about your new album? What’s it like?
Rihanna: I was involved in a lot of the writing. I put everything I’ve wanted to say for the past eight months into my music. The songs are really personal. It’s rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s really hip-hop: If Lil’ Wayne and Kings of Leon like my album, then I’ll feel good. I would not change anything about it. Even if people don’t love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It’s super fearless—which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.

Click HERE to read the entire online version of this interview. It’s an extremely interesting read … particularly because of how open Rihanna is thruout. Later on this week, Ri Ri will be featured on Good Morning America and then 20/20 on ABC to talk more about her life in the past 9 months … starting with the incident where Chris Brown brutally beat her. It cannot be easy but I do commend her for talking about this incident … mebbe her experience will help others avoid an assault like the one she endured.

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Scarlett Johansson Does ‘Glamour’ Magazine

It's Trent, Bitch! — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:35:22 +0000

Scarlett Johansson is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Glamour magazine. She is joined inside the mag with her BFF and singing partner Pete Yorn with whom she just released a new album called Break Up. Here is Scarlett’s Glamour coverphoto and some excerpts from her coverstory interview:

At 25, Scarlett Johansson has a hot career, an even hotter husband (Ryan Reynolds) and a brand-new album with pal Pete Yorn (seen here). We adore her, and you will too—listen in as she talks marriage, work and body image with Amy Larocca.

GLAMOUR: Your album’s fantastic! How was it to work with Pete Yorn?
Scarlett Johansson: I’ve known him for a while. I’ve worked with both of his brothers, who are in the entertainment industry. One day Pete texted me out of the blue saying, “Hey, do you want to record an album?” I was like, Whoa, that’s a weird message. But I said, “Sure—why not?”

GLAMOUR: How’d he know you sing?
SJ: He didn’t!

GLAMOUR: He just thought you would be good?
SJ: He said he had some weird fever dream—and had this idea that we should do a duets album…. When I started singing along to the songs he was playing me, he said, “I’m really happy that you can sing!” [Laughs.]

GLAMOUR: So would you like to do musical theater?
SJ: I would love to work on Broadway, but I don’t know that it would manifest itself in musical theater…. I have terrible stage fright that I’d have to get over.

GLAMOUR: Really?
SJ: Crippling. Not as a kid. It came on when I was a teenager, and I think it somehow sticks with you.

GLAMOUR: You’ve really grown up in front of the camera, but you didn’t seem to have an awkward phase.
SJ: I was pretty awkward in The Horse Whisperer. I watch it now, and it’s painful. Did I go through a phase where I had cystic acne and greasy hair? No. But I certainly had an awkward phase.

GLAMOUR: I don’t necessarily mean the cystic acne. I just mean the “I don’t know how to be in my own skin” phase.
SJ: I never had that. I think that’s because I was an actor, and you have to be comfortable in your body.

GLAMOUR: I read your piece [about body image and Hollywood] on The Huffington Post recently. Tell me what inspired you to write it.
SJ: I was training for Iron Man 2, which was a lot of work, full-on. I wanted to do a lot of my stunts and to be believable as this superspy, so I started getting fit and eating well and feeling really good. But then there was this rumor mill cranking out stories that I had lost 14 pounds—I could never lose 14 pounds—and was on some miracle diet. I just thought it was ridiculous. I was working my ass off, but I was doing it on my own terms and certainly through no miracle diet. I don’t want to get caught up in that s—t…. I hate seeing these ridiculous articles where [tabloids] guess someone’s weight. But they approach it as fact! I’m sick of it as a woman—not just as a person on the other side of it. As a reader. I got fed up.

GLAMOUR: How do you keep sane about the whole weight thing?
SJ: I want to look good, obviously. I don’t want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That’s why I take care of myself when I work…. But I don’t feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don’t feel like I have to fit into a body that’s not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.

GLAMOUR: A lot of actors aren’t able to [have that attitude].
SJ: If you open up a magazine and there’s a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person—I don’t care what you do—would be mortified. It’s no wonder people get crazy about it.

Scarlett’s Glamour interview continues HERE and pretty much covers the same sort of material. I always find her more interesting to look at than to listen to … and I deffo find her husband Ryan Reynolds much more interesting to look at than her so … yeah. After the jump, check out some of the photos from Scarlett and Pete’s photospread …

You know … these two make a great couple, don’t you think? Wouldn’t it be fabulous if Scarlett and Ryan broke up (like the title of her new album with Yorn) and she and Pete ran off to be together … leaving Ryan Reynolds single again? HMMMM. It could happen.

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‘Glamour’ Magazine Salutes Female American Icons

It's Trent, Bitch! — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:48:37 +0000

American icons like pilot Amelia Earhart, athlete Brandi Chastain, First Lady Michelle Obama and the inspirational symbol of female empowerment Rosie the Riveter (who was based on a real woman named Rose Will Monroe) are honored in the new issue of Glamour magazine which has enlisted a group of young Hollywood starlet to portray various female American icons in an amazing new photo shoot. Here is a photo of Lindsay Lohan’s homage to Madonna:

You can do anything! That’s the message of the seven decades of female risk takers, rule breakers and style makers here. We celebrate them with the help of some very-2009 young talents.

What a great idea for a magazine photospread! I love how each iconic woman is represented by a younger member of Young Hollywood to portray her. After the jump, check out a bunch of my fave icons who are featured in this new issue of Glamour along with a short explanation of their iconicness …

Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter

In 1942 the U.S. government commissioned the “We Can Do It!” poster, which featured an image of a character who became known as Rosie the Riveter. Her biceps-revealing shirtsleeves and determined look were meant to motivate American women to step out of the kitchen and into the factory to replace the men who had been pressed into service during World War II. And millions did just that, paving the way for us to pull down paychecks more than 60 years later. “She’s a symbol of women getting things done. It shows that strength is beautiful.”—Alexis Bledel, 27, of this summer’s comedy Post Grad

Alicia Keys as First Lady Michelle Obama

Not only is Obama the first African American filling the position, but she’s already making best-dressed headlines for a style that ranges from couture to J.Crew. Raised in Chicago, Obama, 45, powered on to Princeton and Harvard Law School before beginning a career during which she met, mentored and married our current President. Hail to our newest smart, opinionated, chic First Lady! “She has worked hard for everything she’s accomplished, and done so with grace and humility. So many women and girls can identify with her story.”—Alicia Keys, 28, whose most recent album is As I Am

America Ferrera as Dolores Huerta

A fierce advocate for migrant farmers, Huerta cofounded, with César Chávez, what became the United Farm Workers of America. In 1975 she played a critical role in enacting policies that allowed workers to bargain for better wages and conditions. Today, at age 79, Huerta continues to be active—last year she campaigned for Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. “She saw her own opinion and voice as [something as] powerful as any man’s.”—America Ferrera, 25, of ABC’s Ugly Betty, holding a sign that reads “strike” in Spanish

Hayden Panettiere as Amelia Earhart

In 1932 Earhart—with her leather jacket, scarf and close-cropped hair—became the first female aviator to fly a solo transatlantic flight, redefining expectations of women along the way. Though the 39-year-old disappeared in 1937 during a flight around the world, she still serves as a reminder of female fearlessness. “She proved that anything is possible. If you want to fly a plane, fly a plane…. No one can tell you no.” —Hayden Panettiere, 19, costar of this summer’s comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, standing on a 1939 Lockheed UC-40A Electra Junior airplane

Elisha Cuthbert as Brandi Chastain

Amazing moment in sports history #1: Chastain, then 31, scores the game-winning penalty kick against China in the first-ever women’s World Cup soccer final, in 1999. Amazing moment #2: Chastain dives to her knees and tears off her jersey in celebration. Newspapers debated whether to run the photo, and commentators were shocked that she exposed her—gasp!—sports bra. But they missed the point: This was a moment when women let out a collective roar of approval and little girls discovered a new hero. “Brandi proves that we should have no excuses as women to go out there and be the best that we can be.”—Elisha Cuthbert, 26, of FOX’s 24

Lindsay Lohan as Madonna

In 1984 Madonna told American Bandstand host Dick Clark that her dream was to “rule the world.” Months later she was on her way—her album Like a Virgin skyrocketed to number one on the Billboard charts. She’s been a pop-culture powerhouse ever since, and last year, Sticky & Sweet was the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist ever. “When I was little, every day after school I would come home and put in her The Immaculate Collection disc and karaoke to it around the whole house.”—Lindsay Lohan, 22, of the upcoming film Labor Pains, re-creating Madonna’s 1984 MTV Video Music Awards performance of “Like a Virgin”

I absolutely love these photos! Again, such a great idea for Glamour to feature this tribute to American icons. While I have MAD LOVE for the fictional character of Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, I’m not sure I would list her with some of these other amazing and truly iconic women but Emma Stone portrays her in this issue of Glamour mag. Click HERE to see the full collection of tribute photos. Which one is your fave?

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Britney Spears Does ‘Glamour’ Mag: The Interview

It's Trent, Bitch! — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:35:13 +0000

Last Saturday we got our first look at Britney Spears on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Glamour magazine … today, the mag has updated its official website and has posted Britney’s interview in full along with a few more photos from the photospread … check it out:

“America’s reigning pop princess has a firm grip on fame, fortune and, more important, reality.” At least that’s how it looked the last time Glamour profiled Britney Spears, in December 2003, when we named her one of our Women of the Year. Back then, the 22-year-old was a certified pop music powerhouse. With her most recent CD perched on top of the charts, she’d already sold 28 million albums in the United States alone, was pulling in a staggering $39 million a year and had created an arts immersion camp for underprivileged children. And then the trouble began. Over the past five years, our hearts have broken again and again for Spears. No, not because of her career (she continues to be a hit-making machine), but because of everything else. To recap: two failed marriages, a custody battle and what seemed like a slow-motion breakdown. In 2006 she called herself an “emotional wreck” in an interview with Matt Lauer, then flashed the entire world in numerous no-underwear paparazzi shots. In 2007 she stunned us by shaving her head for the cameras, made several visits to rehab and attacked a photographer’s car with—remember this?—a green umbrella. She attempted a sexy “See, I’m OK” performance on the VMAs that September,only to be ravaged by critics and fans for her drowsy dancing and off-time lip-synching. Her peers went public with their concern: “She can call me and come live in our house with us for a couple of months,” Heidi Klum said in a show of support. “I would help set her straight.” Of course it wasn’t that easy. Within a month, Spears was charged with a misdemeanor hit-and-run and lost custody of her kids to K-Fed. Then, on January 3, 2008, the pop star was carried out of her L.A. home on a gurney and whisked to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Her diagnosis was widely rumored to be bipolar disorder, but her mother, Lynne Spears, has a different opinion. “I believe Britney had postpartum depression, which [in addition to]…the end of her marriage to Kevin and the enormous pressures of her career, brought her to the breaking point,” Lynne claims in her tell-all book, Through the Storm. “Something inside of her had broken and needed to be healed.” Spears was released January 5 but hospitalized again within a few weeks … The next day, while she was in a psychiatric ward, her father, Jamie Spears, signed documents in a Los Angeles court that stated his daughter was “in an immediate and substantial medical emergency.” He then became her court-appointed temporary conservator, with a say in her medical care and control over her financial and personal decisions. Her father’s first order of business: banishing some of her entourage, including taking out a restraining order against her manager at the time, Sam Lutfi. With her dad’s help, Spears began to show signs of recovery, quickly regaining visitation rights with her little boys. In the following months, the pop star was rarely photographed, caught on camera by the paparazzi only when she was driving to the gym and during a few Starbucks runs. She was even working on a new album. Soon enough, Spears fully emerged from her cocoon. MTV invited her to open September’s VMAs with a pretaped skit. The singer looked healthy and composed, making the entrance we were all hoping to see, in a sexy silver dress, a gift from Donatella Versace. The energy in the room was palpable, even on TV, and the crowd responded to a fresh-faced Spears with a standing ovation. She took home three trophies, including a Video of the Year award for her single “Piece of Me.” “It was Britney’s night,” wrote an MTV journalist. “What a difference a year makes.” Her fans seem thrilled to have her back: In October, “Womanizer,” the first single off Circus, made pop music history by jumping from number 96 to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in a week. A month later a packed Dodger Stadium erupted in wild cheers as a superconfident Spears made a surprise appearance onstage with Madonna during the Material Girl’s Los Angeles concert. Next, Spears’ documentary about her return to the pop music scene airs on MTV. And the star plans to celebrate her twenty-seventh birthday on December 2 with the release of Circus and a performance on Good Morning America. The big question, of course, is: Will it stick? Spears’ cover story with Glamour was the first of many tests, and judging from the signals she sent during two separate interviews and a cover shoot, it’s a recovery in progress. In our first conversation at a recording studio in Hollywood, she was eager to talk about the album she thinks might be her best yet, and she looked pulled together in a Forever 21 top, black Paige jeans, Chloé heels and a charm bracelet with her sons’ initials dangling prettily. But I noticed how nervous she seemed, even with her bodyguard standing nearby, and her manager Larry Rudolph and a publicist hovering within earshot. At our shoot less than a week later, her energy level fluctuated between alert (at one point, she took a break to hold a meeting about her next music video) and lethargic (at another point, she excused herself to take a nap). When I brought up the subject of depression, Rudolph cut me off and spoke for Spears, saying firmly, “That’s beyond what we want to talk about.” All that said, these pictures don’t lie. On the shoot, Spears asked her dad, “How do I look?” and the honest answer was, radiant. Spears’ team says the change in her is more than just physical. “Britney went through a dark time,” acknowledges music exec Teresa LaBarbera Whites, who worked closely with Spears on Blackout and Circus. But she “can’t wait to perform—it’s what makes her happy. And it’s so good to see her happy again.”

Thruout the course of this Glamour magazine interview, which you can read in full HERE, Britney talks about the 2008 VMAs, her new album, etc. but it’s when she talks about her children that she sounds most poignant. Also, for the first time in any of her recent press, she talks a bit about her mother Lynne Spears. Altho Britney opened up quite a lot in her MTV documentary which aired last night, this interview with Glamour magazine offers a bit more in addition. If there is still more info from Britney that y’all are lookin’ for, you might find it in this interview. Even if you’re not looking for more, the photos are deffo worth a second look.

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Britney Spears Does ‘Glamour’ Magazine

It's Trent, Bitch! — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:17:15 +0000

Britney Spears is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Glamour magazine, due to hit newsstands this coming week. Here is our first look, courtesy of BreatheHeavy.com, of our dear Britney lookin’ hawt on the mag’s cover:

As you may recall, we got our first look at Britney on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine last Tuesday and this would make her second cover in the same week. Homegirl is everywhere these days, y’all. It’s awesome! After the jump, check out some of the new photos of our dear Britney that are featured in this new issue of Glamour mag …

She looks great in these pics but I think I prefer the RS photoshoot … these are too posed, too meh. Again, she looks amazing and it is wonderful to see her featured in magazines again (er, not of the tabloid variety). Woot!

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