It is time again for People magazine to release their annual 100 Most Beautiful People issue and this year they have selected actress and breast cancer survivor Christina Applegate to grace the cover of the issue. Christina herself credits her man Martyn Lenoble for her beauty and talks about how his love for her is what makes her beauty shine. Here is the cover of the 100 Most Beautiful People issue of People magazine and a short piece on Christina’s beauty:

She has an “angel” of a boyfriend, Dutch bass player Martyn Lenoble, “who loves me from head to toe.” She has a cozy Malibu beach house that she calls “the best thing I’ve ever done for myself.” And, after a very public battle with breast cancer that has given her a gratifying “feeling of purpose,” Christina Applegate has a new lease on life. “I used to be really shy but I started to come into my own in my late 20s and early 30s,” Applegate, 37, tells PEOPLE in the cover interview for the annual Most Beautiful issue – her first interview since her reconstructive breast surgery last November. “Now I’m not afraid to speak up in a room full of people and be a part of the conversation.” The Samantha Who? star says she’s finding balance and embracing her body after undergoing a double mastectomy in July. “You have to get through the physical transformations then buck up, go to work and try to be the normal, happy Christina for everyone around you,” she says. One source of strength has been Lenoble. “He’s been a friend for about 13 years,” Applegate says. “Our relationship gets stronger and stronger. I’m really lucky.” And, more importantly, he makes the actress feel “beautiful” about her new body. “I’m very grateful to Martyn for coming along at a time that he did because he’s been my rock through all of this,” Applegate says. “He gave me something to really want to live for and something to smile about.”

Considering the life-changing effect that enduring a double mastectomy has on a woman, I am very impressed with Christina’s attitude about her beauty (which is on full display in this issue of People magazine). I, for the life of me, cannot imagine what it must be like to survive a bout with cancer so my hat is off to her in that respect. I suppose congrats are in order for being named by People magazine as one of the 100 Most Beautiful People. But, there are 99 other folks who have been deemed beautiful by People — after the jump, check out a few of those pretty faces …

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Lisa Marie Presley, who is the proud new mother of twin baby girls, is showing off Finley and Harper Presley-Lockwood in the pages of the new issue of People magazine (on newsstands Friday). Finley and Harper are the latest children borne of the late Elvis Presley’s only begotten child and are here to say hello to all of us:

Elvis Presley’s only daughter, Lisa Marie, is now a doting mom to 3-month-old girls Finley and Harper – and she is showing off her tiny additions in the new issue of PEOPLE. “I really wanted these babies,” says Presley, 40, who tried for two years to get pregnant before conceiving the twins. “My blood was too thick and would clot, which caused several miscarriages,” she tells PEOPLE. “The moment I took blood thinners, I got pregnant.” Presley and her guitarist husband Michael Lockwood, 47, also share their L.A. home with Presley’s children from a previous marriage: daughter Riley, 19, and son Benjamin, 16. Life as a bustling family of six is “chaotic bliss,” says Presley. The outspoken star – who proudly bared her baby bump after tabloids accused her of having an “unhealthy appetite” – also opens up about losing her baby weight. “I was unable to see my toes by the fourth month,” she admits. “But I only gained 30 lbs. total. I worked out up until the seventh month.”

Whoa, that’s a big family … and with the kids being so far apart in age, well, they’ve got an interesting life ahead. These little darlings are supercute, I’m sure grandpappy Elvis is lookin’ down with pride on the latest additions to his family. I can only imagine the amazing life ahead for these two precious little girls. Welcome to the world, Finley and Harper!

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Kevin Federline, with his two young sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, is featured on the cover of this week’s issue of People magazine wherein the former dancer/rapper/husband “breaks his silence” in order to tell “his side of the story” in response to the press that ex-wife Britney Spears has been getting lately. On the one hand, I think it was very gentlemanly for K-Fed to hold off on telling “his side of the story” until Britney was ready to talk to the press about her life but on the other hand, I can’t help but feel that this People magazine coverstory is a gentle reminder that he is out there and that we should be aware of that fact. Here is this week’s cover of People magazine with K-Fed and boys and a portion from the coverstory interview:

Kevin Federline has been called many things in the nearly five years since Britney Spears walked into his life: boy toy, gold-digger, wannabe rapper, partier. These days he answers to one name: Daddy. Since splitting with Spears in 2006 – and then watching in fear as she went through her very public breakdown – the former backup dancer, 30, has channeled all of his energy into their sons Preston, 3, and Jayden, 2. Now that Spears, 27, is getting her life back on track, they’re sharing parenting duties again – and Federline is ready to tell his side of the story exclusively to PEOPLE.

Are things getting better?
Oh, man, it’s totally turning around. It works out that [the kids] get to see her. There’s structure over there, there’s structure at my house. We’re trying to keep the same type of schedule. It doesn’t have to be completely perfect, but the foundation is there.

Again, I still contend that K-Fed really stepped up and was there for his children, Sean P and Jayden James, when they needed him most and I have no doubt that he is an amazing father to those boys. BUT, it should be noted that K-Fed has two older children with his first babymama Shar Jackson and, when talking about how devoted a father he is, we don’t usually hear about those kids. K-Fed’s first child Kori (who is now 6) was already a toddler when Shar got pregs with their second child Kaleb (who is now 4) … which was around the time that K-Fed left them to be with Britney. It strikes me as odd that Kevin would want to be portrayed as such a doting father but chooses to exclude his other children from this touching piece. I will say this for the man, he really seems to have grown up and matured a lot. Just like Britney has made great strides in taking control of her life, so has Kevin. For me, tho, this notion of K-Fed being a savior father would ring with more validity if he included his eldest children — the ones not born of a superfamous popstar — in the tale.

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People magazine has released it’s annual pick for Sexiest Man Alive and they have chosen Aussie hunk Hugh Jackman as the sexiest … and I must concur. Each year, People magazine gathers a list of hawt male celebs for their time-honored Sexiest list (which is usually a very nice list) but some years bestows the honor of Sexiest Man Alive on a clichéd pick (Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Brad Pitt again, etc.). This year, I think People magazine absolutely made the right choice in picking Hugh Jackman:

He’s a triple threat: a star who can sing, dance and wield a weapon. At 6 ft. 2 in., all scruff and biceps, Hugh Jackman looms large in the epic Australia, which he says kept him “dirty 95 percent of the time” and left people stammering, “Oh … my … God,” according to costar Nicole Kidman, who adds, “Women’s jaws drop when Hugh walks into a room.” Jackman’s wife of 12 years, Deborra-Lee Furness, calls his perfect form “the Body of Doom – but I like what’s inside”: a romantic who sings ballads at home and makes pancakes for Oscar, 8, and Ava, 3. A hard body with a soft center.

In his interview with People magazine, Hugh confessed that he used to be self-conscious about his “chicken legs” and reveals that “lately” he is most proud of his smile and his pecs. OMG. I SO concur ;) “Sexy” is the perfect way to describe Hugh Jackman. As y’all know, I happily feature Hugh as much as I can (as recently as Monday) because the man is basically sex on legs. Of all the Sexiest men who made the list this year, I can’t think of anyone more deserving of the top spot. But, there are other Sexy men on the list. After the jump, check out some of the other dudes who made the list this year — you’ll find that almost all of them are guys who have been heavily featured right here on the blog …

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Yesterday we got word that the fairytale romance between Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood was over after a reported tiff over ERW’s brother … but today, we learn from Evan herself that the reports of her dunzoness with MM are false. While she does not go so far as to say that she and Marilyn Manson are actually together (she reveals that the couple decided to “take some time apart” for creative reasons) she does completely refute the report that the couple broke-up over an incident involving her brother:

Evan Rachel Wood is sick of the false reports circulating about why she and Marilyn Manson broke up. “Manson and I both decided to take some time apart so we could concentrate on work. Someone used that opportunity to kick us while we were down and sell a completely false story,” the actress, 21, explains in a statement exclusively to PEOPLE. Stories of the couple splitting in a bitter fight over Wood’s brother Ira, who had been living with the pair, getting kicked out of the guest house by Manson, 39, started popping up this week. “Manson owns the house he lives in. My brother has never stayed there and the person that said such horrible things about Manson being ‘controlling’ and ‘emotionally abusive’ is certainly no source ‘close’ to me,” Woods says. “Manson has been by my side and taken care of me through the best and worst times. I love him as a person and as an artist. I will always be proud to have been a part of that. “If any more attacks are made on us, it is the act of a desperate, selfish person, who is angry to no longer be a part of my life. No further comment will be made and we request our privacy at this time.”

Yikes! Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. There is an obvs bitter tone to her refutation of the break-up reports which seems, to me, to allude to something more. As I said, she does not fully express that the couple are still together. Of course, I have no way of knowing but it kinda feels like the couple are on a “break” that she is not very happy about. Because I have no way of knowing and I’m only making the conjecture based on the inference from this statement, I could be completely wrong. But, it does feel like there is something going on here … mebbe MM is no longer interested in her? In any event, ERW doesn’t sound very happy … for whatever reason … and that’s a bit sad.

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Nicole Richie and her babygirl Harlow Winter are featured on the cover of this week’s issue of People magazine 9 months after Harlow was born and 8 months after mother and daughter last appeared on the cover of People magazine:

First, this little girl has gotten so BIG! She’s almost bigger than Nicole ;) Second, OMG how cute is she? She is the spitting image of her father Joel Madden. I’m dying. So cute, I’m totally dying. After the jump, check out a couple more photos of Harlow — one with mom Nicole and one with daddy Joel …

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People magazine has finally updated its official website with their exclusive Clay Aiken coming out interview (after news of this development spread like wildfire on the InterWeb late yesterday). Here are portions of Clay’s monumental interview with the mag, the full interview can be read in this week’s issue of People which is due to hit newsstands today:

Following the Aug. 8 birth of his son Parker, singer Clay Aiken is following through on a promise he made to himself as a new dad: to publicly acknowledge that he’s gay. “It was the first decision I made as a father,” Aiken, 29, tells the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. “I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn’t raised that way, and I’m not going to raise a child to do that.” Aiken says he expects the news may overwhelm some of his fans. “Whether it be having a child out of wedlock, or whether it be simply being a homosexual, it’s going to be a lot,” said Aiken, who returned to Broadway last week as Sir Robin in Monty Python’s Spamalot. He adds that he hopes his fans “know that I’ve never intended to lie to anybody at all. … But if they leave, I don’t want them to leave hating me.” The born-again Christian singer also reveals how he told his mother Faye he’s gay four years ago. After dropping off his younger brother Brett, who was being deployed to Iraq, at Camp Lejeune, “I started crying in the car,” Aiken remembers. “It was dark. I was sitting there, thinking to myself. I don’t know why I started thinking about it … I just started bawling. She made me pull over the car and it just came out.” So what was his mom’s reaction? “She started crying. She was obviously somewhat stunned. But she was very supportive and very comforting.” Even now, Aiken admits, “She still struggles with things quite a bit, but she’s come a long way.” As for his own child, Aiken tells PEOPLE that Parker – who was conceived via in vitro fertilization with his best friend, music producer Jaymes Foster – will be raised in an environment that is “accepting and allowing him to be happy.” Says Aiken: “I have no idea if he’ll be gay or straight. It’s not something I’ll have anything to do with, or that he’ll have anything to do with. It’s already probably up inside the code there … No matter what the situation you’re in, if you’re raised in a loving environment, that’s the most important thing.”

People magazine will publish the full text of Clay’s interview as well as the first photos of his newborn son Parker Foster Aiken in their new issue on newsstands today. Again, I must commend the man for stepping up and acknowledging his homosexuality to the world. It is not an easy thing for anyone, professionally this may hurt him, but I think he will be able to live a more happy and fulfilled life now that he is being honest, not only with himself, but with the world at large. Well done Clay … as I mentioned previously, I think his son will be a much better person now that his father is being totally honest about who he is :)

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