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| | Vanessa Williams' V. clothing line is designed to mask bra fat | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, on her 53rd birthday, Vanessa Williams premiered V. by Vanessa, her inaugural fashion venture on the Evine home shopping network. Vanessa has always had an interest in couture. With fashion savvy roles such as Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty and Renee Perry on Desperate Housewives, she says companies have been approaching her for years to start a line. She designed V. by Vanessa based on her style philosophy, which she calls ?Urban Camouflage?. In addition to attractive, well-priced pieces that represents her style, Vanessa, wanted to conceal problem areas that time creates for most women.
?This collection is a combination of me as a professional, me as a mother, and me as what I wear for comfort around the house,? she tells PeopleStyle of the line, which she named after her lifelong signature, a single V and a period. ?It?s your urban look, it?s your suburban look, it?s your casual look, and it?s your glam look, all in one.? What does that translate to? An 18-piece debut that includes jumpsuits, blousy caftans, stretch skirts, and rouched tops?all for $100 or less.
But for Williams, she also wanted her line to act as a problem solver, ?particularly for women who are 40 and up,? she says. ?My friends and I complain about bra fat and loose arms. We?ve got a couple areas that we want to cover. Gone are the days when you?re 20 and you can just wear a little spaghetti strap thing and everything?s up and perky by itself. I?ve gone through my 30s, 40s, 50s and my body keeps changing with every decade. Yes, I?ve got bra fat and love handles. It?s a constant struggle. So, my view is don?t give up the fight, keep it moving, embrace where your body is going, and then dress accordingly.?
[From PeopleStyle]
I cannot put too fine a point on this: bra fat sucks. I have a daily struggle with trying to turn it into some kind of cleavage. Vanessa says she doesn?t want women to disappear under a bunch of fabric to hide problem areas and it looks like she has used form and drape to our advantage here. These first pieces are pretty basic but many of the silhouettes I wear so I like it. Since Vanessa said this line is a reflection of how she dresses, can I buy the gorgeous blue dress below and pretend I look just like her? V. by Vanessa is off to a good start; many items sold out and overall exceeded sale expectations by 10%. More pieces will be released in both April and May.
It does seems like once you hit a certain position in Hollywood you are required to launch either a clothing line, a perfume or a lifestyle brand doesn’t it?
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| | Vanessa Williams Receives Apology From Miss America Organization | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It has been 31 years since she was asked to give up her crown as the first African American winner of the Miss America pageant and on Sunday night (September 13) Vanessa Williams finally got the apology she deserves.
The ?Saved the Best For Last? songstress stepped down from her throne back in 1984 after Penthouse magazine published nude photos she took years prior.
And last night, Miss America CEO Sam Haskell addressed Williams in front of the audience-
?You have lived your life with grace and dignity. Never was it more evident than during the events of 1984 when you resigned. On behalf of today?s organizations, I want to apologize to you and to your mother? for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are and Miss America you always will be.? Vanessa replied, ?I did the best that I could (during) my reign as Miss America from 1983 to 1984. I love you. I love the girls and I am so honored to be back.?
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| | Vanessa Williams reveals disturbing story of being molested at the age of 10 | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Vanessa Williams is one of the latest celebrities to come out publicly to discuss childhood sexual abuse. Pamela Anderson recently detailed how she was raped at the age of 12, then gang-raped by a boyfriend and his friends. Vanessa?s candid story ? which she told on Oprah?s Master Class ? involves an unwanted sexual act when she was just 10 years old.
Vanessa Williams revisited a painful childhood trauma on a recent episode of Oprah’s Master Class on OWN: The actress, singer and former Miss America, now 51, was molested at age 10 by an 18-year-old woman. Williams, who wrote about the incident in her 2012 memoir You Have No Idea, explained that the abuse took place during a summer vacation to California before the fifth grade.
Her abuser, Williams said was “one of the cool girls” who made the future star feel like a “grown-up.” Detailing the harrowing ordeal, the “Save the Best for Last” singer continued:
“One night she came into the room where my friend and I were sleeping. She told me to lie down on the floor. And she took my bottoms off and she said, ‘Be quiet,’ and she went down on me,” William said.
“And at 10 years old, I had no idea what it was, but I knew it felt good, and I knew I shouldn’t be saying anything, and I didn’t tell anyone.”
The incident, Williams said, irrevocably changed her for the worse. “It awakens your sexuality at an age where it shouldn’t be awakened,” she explained. “Had that not happened in my life and had I had an opportunity to have a normal courtship with a boyfriend at 16 or whatever… there wouldn’t have been that shame that was always haunting me. It made me more sexually promiscuous and more sexually curious at a younger age than I should have been.”
[From Us Weekly]
Horrific. It reminds me of how Tyler Perry detailed the childhood abuse he suffered, also at the hands of a woman. Women can be abusers too, especially when we?re talking about kids. When I first read the quote about how the molestation made her more ?promiscuous? in later years, I was like ?don?t use those words, V!? But I get her point. It made me think back to a friend I had when I was like 13 or 14 ? she was the same age, and she was ?promiscuous? too ? very sexual, too sexual. She was a cutter as well. Looking back on it? she almost definitely had been sexually abused at an earlier age and she was just trying to figure out a way to deal, a way to take back some kind of control over her body.
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| | Toddlers & Tiaras mom to Vanessa Williams: you had an abortion, you shouldn't judge | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Vanessa Williams is promoting her new memoir, co-written with her mother, called You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other). We’ve heard some painful details of Williams’ past that she reveals in the memoir, including the fact that she had an abortion in high school and was sexually abused by an 18 year-old girl when she was just 10.
Vanessa and her mom were interviewed on Anderson Cooper’s show, in an episode to air today. Vanessa explained that she didn’t get involved in pageants until she was a sophomore in college and the opportunity kind of fell in her lap. Anderson asked her about Toddlers & Tiaras, and what she thought about children being pushed into pageants at such a young age, and she didn’t mince words:
Vanessa on Why She Wrote Her Memoir, “You Have No Idea” Now
Anderson: When you see these shows now like “Toddlers & Tiaras” what do you think?
Vanessa: Well that’s why I wrote the book. I have been asked many times to write a memoir but there were so many people who know me now from “Ugly Betty” and “Desperate Housewives” that didn’t even know I could sing, didn’t even know about my recording career. That assumed, ‘Oh, tell me about your pageant days. What are your tricks? You must have some tricks.’ And I said, ‘I’m not one of those girls, I don’t have tricks.’
Vanessa & Her Mom Helen on “Toddlers & Tiaras”
Anderson:Do you think these girls are being pushed into it too soon?
Vanessa: I think they don’t know what they are doing. When the child is screaming and saying, ‘I don’t want to do this. I don’t feel like doing it.’ When they are using special juice to get them hyped.
Anderson: GoGo Juice. I actually have tasted GoGoJuice. It’s Mountain Dew & 7Up.
Vanessa: Yeah, that’s not my world and I would never have my kids do that.
Anderson: Do you think it’s more about the parents?
Helen: Oh yeah I think so.
[From The Anderson Cooper show, received via e-mail]
I agree with her, when your kid is telling you “no” and crying because they’ve just had to endure an eyebrow wax or getting their teeth bleached, it’s a no brainer that you’ve gone too far. When you’re dressing your preschooler like a prostitute to perform for an audience, that’s wrong.
Well a Toddlers & Tiaras mom has shot back at Vanessa, and of course she’s going for the jugular. This comes from Wendy Dickey, the mom who dressed her then three year-old, Paisley, like Julia Roberts’ hooker character in Pretty Woman and created a whole set that made it look like her daughter was walking the ‘ho stroll. Wendy personally attacks Vanessa, since she can’t defend what she’s doing to her child she’s going for ad hominem argument. I’m surprised she didn’t add “she’s just jealous!”
The comments didn’t fly with “Tiaras” star Wendy Dickey — aka Paisley’s mom — who says she was personally offended … and lashed back:
“Posing nude and having an abortion is ‘not my world’ and I would never have my kids do that … so easy on the judging Vanessa!”
Dickey is clearly referring to the revelations Williams makes in her new book — in which she admits she got an abortion in high school … and explains how she appeared in P3nthouse.
We reached out to Williams … but so far, no response.
[From TMZ]
That’s just low. Vanessa explained those nude photos in her memoir. She was taken advantage of and she regrets it. Of course that’s not the most offensive thing in this woman’s statement. Bringing up someone’s abortion as a way to try and discount their opinion is just low and despicable. But we knew that about this woman way before she opened her mouth.
Here are Paisley and Wendy. Note that Anderson Cooper’s show had just given the moms “pageant makeovers” so that they might have some sympathy for their daughters. It didn’t work.
And here’s a clip from Anderson’s show where Vanessa discusses Toddlers & Tiaras.
Vanessa is shown at the Desperate Housewives finale with her mom on 4-29-12. What the hell is she thinking with that sparkly peasant blouse over a satin skirt? I don’t watch the show so it might be a weird homage to her character. None of the other Housewives are dressed like that. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Vanessa Williams Reveals Molestation, Teenage Abortion | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s revealing all in her new book ?You Have No Idea,? and it turns out Vanessa Williams has had more than her fair share of struggle over the years.
The ?Desperate Housewives? actress gave an interview with ABC?s ?Nightline? in which she divulged her abortion as a teenager.
"Being pregnant is the most frightening thing that happens in your life. I knew in high school that's something that I was not prepared to do or fight or struggle with,? Vanessa noted.
As for her decision to talk about her childhood molestation in the book, Williams explained, "It was definitely a choice, because it didn't need to be [in there]. It happened one night where she told me, 'Come over here'?I didn't know that it was wrong, but I knew that it wasn't right because I wasn't supposed to tell anybody."
"I think I was highly sexualized because I was in fifth grade and I had this experience. Because it feels good, you're like, OK, well this is supposed to be normal. That's not normal for a 10-year-old to be seduced."
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| | Vanessa Williams Was Molested as a Child | | Added 12 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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In her new memoir, You Have No Idea, Vanessa Williams recounts the time she was sexually molested as a child. When she was 10. By an 18-year-old family friend. Who was a girl. Wait, what?
“Family friends who had a daughter invited me to visit their friends in California with them. The family we stayed with had two kids. Susan, who was 18, smoked, drove a car, and was the epitome of cool. (My friend) Nancy and I slept in the den. One night Susan crept in.”
As most child molesters do I would think.
“She told me to lie down on the rug. I was confused. Are we going to play a game? As I tried to make sense of it, Susan pulled down the bloomers of my cotton baby-doll pajamas.”
This chick wastes no time. She didn’t even try to be smooth about it. Jerry Sandusky would be so disappointed.
“‘What are you doing?’ I asked. ‘Don’t worry – it’ll feel good.’ I lay there paralyzed. What was going on? I didn’t speak. She kept at (the molestation) for I don’t know how long. She slid my bloomers back up and whispered: ‘Don’t tell anyone.’ I climbed into my bed, trying to figure out what had just happened.”
Uh, what? Did she finger her? What would prompt an 18-year-old girl to finger her sister’s 10-year-old friend?
“For years I kept Susan’s visit to myself. I didn’t really understand until college. I was with with my boyfriend and it hit me and I blurted it out: ‘Oh my god – I was molested!’ After that trip I felt something change in me.”
God, it must suck to be the guy who, when he got to third base with Vanessa Williams, brought back all the memories of her pastmolestation. Mood killer right there. But don’t worry about it. Vanessa is fine now. She tells PEOPLE.
“I don’t dwell (on the past).”
If it wasn’t for the fact that Vanessa was 10 and not 18, that the act wasn’t consensual and that it probably caused permanent psychological damage, this story would have been pretty hot. As it is, it sounds horrible and depressing.
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