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| | Oprah on Weight Watchers: 'I was fed up with my lose & gain again routine' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The O Magazine people sent us the cover for the January issue along with some quotes from Oprah on teaming up with Weight Watchers. (Sidenote: I can’t believe it’s almost the holidays! This year went so fast.) As you probably know, Oprah bought 10% of Weight Watchers back in October, causing their stock to rally. Oprah still has the midas touch despite the Own Network not being the smashing success she expected. In the upcoming issue of O, Oprah explains why she invested in Weight Watchers and how it’s helping her personally:
Oprah?s cheers for the new year:
?Now repeat after me: Here?s to good health. To the new year. To simply (or not so simply) deciding to be happy. To finally getting motivated.?
On why using Weight Watchers works for her:
I?ve wishy-washed with diets and exercise my whole life. Now I?m ready to go beyond the scale and declare a new way of being in the world. The folks at Weight Watchers called me in July and asked if I?d join their team?help spread the message about taking a holistic approach to health and fitness. For me, this was a perfect alignment. I was fed up with my lose-and-gain-again routine. I?d had enough of no-carb regimens. Some people can live without bread and pasta, but it just doesn?t make sense to me. All the times I tried to do so only made me crave them more. I wanted a plan for life, and here it was in the form of Weight Watchers. For me, this is not a diet. It?s a whole shift in perspective. So yes, for sure, I?m a bona fide convert.
[From O, The Oprah Magazine, received via Email]
I can relate to this as a yo-yo dieter, but I have to say that Weight Watchers, while ranked the most effective commercial weight loss program, was not as easy for me as just counting calories with MyFitnessPal. I lost weight on Weight Watchers in 2010, gained it back and then tried to go on WW again in 2013. At that point they had switched from their original system to PointsPlus, which gives you “free” points for fruits and vegetables. I wasn’t losing weight with that and didn’t lose weight until I switched to counting calories with MFP and including fruits and vegetables again.
Weight Watchers is decidedly better than most other paid diet plans, but so many people are realizing the science and facts behind weight loss and why Weight Watchers works: eat less calories than you burn and you will lose weight. (Yes some foods help you feel more satiated etc., but you do not have to give up your favorite foods if you eat within your TDEE.) People think that “diet” means giving up whole food groups and sweets and I like that Weight Watchers teaches portion control and moderation, which is key. There are so many fad diets and so much misinformation, and WW is definitely better and more practical than most plans, but it works because of calories. Points are just calories by another measurement, but when it’s so simple to enter your food into a free app, why use points? (I guess it’s nice to have support in meetings, but I’m not a joiner.)
If Oprah is going to invest in a weight loss program, and use one, she may as well choose Weight Watchers, it’s effective and doesn’t mislead people like other plans. It just seems to be losing market share now that everyone is discovering the free apps.
Oprah is doing a tour of Australia called “An Evening With Oprah.” There are all sorts of quotes from her in the press, including the fact that she seems to adore Taylor Swift, calls her “a true great role model,” and praises how Taylor handles herself in the spotlight. Oprah is angling for Taylor to do a guest stint on one of her shows, you just know it.
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photos credit: Ruven Afanador for O!
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| | Taylor Swift Leggy in Mini Skirt at Los Angeles International Airport | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Taylor Swift showed off her toned legs as she arrived at Los Angeles International Airport
?I?m in the news every single day for multiple different reasons, and it can feel, at times, if you let your anxiety get the better of you, like everybody?s waiting for you to really mess up ? and then you?ll be done,? Taylor recently shared with NME.
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| | Taylor Swift: 'The public could change their minds about me tomorrow' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m trying to figure out what Vogue Australia did to poor Taylor Swift. Is this a total Photoshop disaster? While I think that Vogue Australia definitely morphed her face with someone else (Karlie Kloss?!), I also think that Taylor?s pale lip is throwing everything off. We?re so used to see her with red lips, I forget what she looks like with pale taupe-pink lipstick. And I think at this point, we just have to acknowledge the fact that even the greatest stylists in the world are clueless about what they should do with Swifty?s bangs. They?re so bad, you guys. Anyway, here are some highlights from the interview:
How she gets famous people to show up on stage at her concerts: ?I?ll approach them and say: ?I?ll fly you to a city on the tour, I?ll fly you there and back.? Part of being an entertainer is to try and show people something that?s going to confuse them, delight them, surprise them.?
Her squad: ?My friendship group is one of my favourite things about my life right now. Our friends really have each others? back. It?s the first time in my life that I?ve had anything strong like that in the friendship department. A lot of the time I?ll reach out to people to tell them they?re great and a friendship will come out of them. Ella and I ? Lorde ? we met on our own because her album came out and I sent her flowers and told her it was great and now she?s one of my best friends. Friendship often comes from admiration and that feels like a natural way to be friends with someone because you?ve established you respect what the person does.?
She knows the public could turn on her: “The public could change their minds about me tomorrow. Things are good right now but I’m never going to be stupid, foolish or ignorant enough to think I have control over the public. All I can control is making good music. I am so lucky that people seem to like me right now but in no way, shape or form is it a permanent thing. And I think being aware of that is what keeps you on the game.”
She?ll take a break after she finishes her tour in Australia in December: ?Then I?ll feel like I?ll need to give people a breather from me.?
[From news.com.au]
I think she?s smart to be aware enough that the public could turn on her. You know why? Because they already did once and it was because of something Taylor herself did. The backlash started, thrived briefly and then ended when Taylor decided to whitesplain her Taylor-centric version of feminism to Nicki Minaj back in July. Almost everyone thought Minaj was in the right, and when Taylor piped up, there were many stories critical of Taylor. If Taylor hadn?t done her damage control, it could have been a lot worse.
PS… The British tabloids started a rumor that Taylor broke up with Calvin Harris over the weekend. People Magazine rather definitively says that they’re still on though.
Photos courtesy of Vogue Australia.
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| | Taylor Swift covers GQ for the first time ever: sexy, silly or try-hard? | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I didn?t realize this, but Taylor Swift has never covered an issue of GQ (US) before now. I always think of her as dominating the magazine covers and while that?s true, it?s usually women?s magazines and music mags. If we?re being honest, almost entirely women?s magazines. She hasn?t covered Rolling Stone in over a year!
Anyway, yes, Swifty covers the November issue of GQ. It?s a sexy, men?s magazine-style cover too, as in? Swifty looks damp, she?s wearing something tight with a some cleavage and they gave her awful bangs a windswept, JBF-look. All in all, not a terrible cover and I?m glad it?s a more natural-looking shot on a Malibu balcony as opposed to Taylor in a studio, laying on her back spread-eagle with her thumb in her mouth. GQ isn?t releasing their cover story until next week, but they?re promising a lot:
For her first-ever cover with GQ, Taylor Swift spent time with writer Chick Klosterman, giving an intense and wide-ranging interview, while dodging paparazzi and, at one point, taking a surprise call from one of the few humans who is almost as famous as she is (and still makes her start struck!).
As Klosterman writes, ?If you don?t take Swift seriously, you don?t take contemporary music seriously? There?s simply no antecedent for this kind of career: a cross-genre, youth-oriented, critically acclaimed colossus based entirely on the intuitive songwriting merits of a single female artist. It?s as if mid-period Garth Brooks was also early Liz Phair, minus the hat and the swearing. As a phenomenon, it?s absolutely new.?
[From GQ]
Garth Brooks and Liz Phair? What the what? I mean, I kind of understand the Liz Phair reference, but putting Phair together with Garth Brooks to describe Taylor Swift? No. Even when Taylor was country, she was still pop. She was still a crossover artist. I would argue that in the early part of her career, she just made twangy pop and she just dropped the twang with her past two albums. Anyway? I?m looking forward to the interview. As they say, I’m sure she did take some “surprise calls” from some of her collected A-list friends.
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GQ cover courtesy of Michael Thompson/GQ, additional photo courtesy of Getty.
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| | Taylor Swift Booty in Jeans in New York City | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Taylor Swift appearing to have a minor make-up mishap as she stepped out in New York City.
To make matters worse, the crisis could easily have been averted had the songstress took an extra second or two to check herself in the mirror.
Taylor looked fabulous in a black sweater, black jeans and boots, but when you zoomed in on her face, she clearly had a beauty blunder. The white powder under her eyes wasn?t blended in well enough with the rest of her makeup. But she looked picture perfect otherwise
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| | Taylor Swift Covers GQ and Announces Hiatus From Music! | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s been on pretty much every magazine cover in the world by now, except GQ. But Taylor Swift is changing all of that with the November 2015 issue of the men?s magazine.
Writer Chuck Klosterman interviewed the ?I Knew You Were Trouble? songstress for the spread and it sounds like he was pretty impressed- ?If you don?t take Swift seriously, you don?t take contemporary music seriously...There?s simply no antecedent for this kind of career: a cross-genre, youth-oriented, critically acclaimed colossus based entirely on the intuitive songwriting merits of a single female artist. It?s as if mid-period Garth Brooks was also early Liz Phair, minus the hat and the swearing. As a phenomenon, it?s absolutely new.?
Meanwhile, Taylor told Britain?s NME magazine that she?ll step away from music once her current tour wraps in Australia this December- "I think I should take some time off. People might need a break from me. I'm going to hang out with friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don't know."
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| | Taylor Swift: 'I should take some time off' People might need a break from me' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift covers the new issue of NME. What did they do to her eyes? Is this just a weird eyeshadow situation or did they Photoshop her eyes? Hm. Anyway, Taylor is in the middle of her 1989 world tour. The tour has been incredibly successful, just as her previous tours have been incredibly successful. She really does make crazy money these days, from actual music sales, from touring and from endorsements. So would it surprise you to learn that Taylor is actually thinking about taking a ?break? for a few years after her tour is done? Some highlights from NME:
When her tour is done in December: “I think I should take some time off. People might need a break from me. I’m going to hang out with friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don’t know.?
Everyone waiting for her to mess up: “If you let your anxiety get the better of you, like everybody’s waiting for you to really mess up, then you’ll be done. A lot of the time I call my mom and talk for a really long time, just to remind myself of all the things that are great and that matter.”
On the Nicki Minaj drama: “I don’t want to talk about it. But I send text messages now. If there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding, I go to someone’s management, I get their number and I text them. It’s an important lesson for anyone to learn in 2015.”
Finally burying the hatchet with Kanye West: “Me and Kanye are on such good terms now, six years later. It took a while… But I had to tell Beck this story earlier. I was at dinner with Kanye a week after the Grammys, he stops what he’s saying and he goes, ?What is this song? I need to listen to this every day.? I said, ?It’s Beck, it’s on an album called ‘Morning Phase’, I think you’ve heard of it?? We just burst out laughing. And he says, ?Hey, sometimes I’m wrong.?”
[From NME]
?People might need a break from me.? I see her point. While I could totally see her ?taking time off? after her tour ? and she should, she?s had a wild couple of years ? I just don?t see her really disappearing from the spotlight. I mean, she would probably still be in New York, getting pap?d regularly and of course there?s interest in her relationship with Calvin Harris. So even though we need a break from her, I doubt we?ll get it.
Speaking of people wanting Swifty to mess up, she stepped out in NYC last night and everyone?s talking about her terrible makeup. I?m not sure if this is a blending issue or if this is an issue with that hi-def makeup that so many women seem to have problems with.
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Photos courtesy of Getty.
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| | Taylor Swift is crazy for Calvin Harris, 'she hasn't been in love like this before' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift is being sued. Although the story is oddly detailed and it doesn?t make much sense. David Mueller is suing Swifty for basically getting him fired from his radio DJ job, after she and her people went to his employer (the radio station KYGO) and told them that Mueller grabbed her inappropriately backstage at one of her concerts. The alleged inappropriate touching ? which was a butt-grope, in case you?re interested ? happened in 2013. Swifty?s people still claim that Mueller did grope Taylor and ?the radio station was given evidence immediately after the incident. They made their independent decision.? Mueller is suing Swifty because he says Taylor was definitely groped, it just wasn?t by him, and that he lost his job because of her mistake. It?s convoluted, right? You can read more about it here.
Meanwhile, ?sources? claim that Tay-Tay and Calvin Harris are more in love than ever! They love each other so hard that she even calls him by his real name, Adam.
It?s a Love Story, baby, just call me Adam? Things are heating up between Taylor Swift and her boyfriend of six months, Calvin Harris. In fact, it?s getting so serious that the ?Blank Space? singer is not calling the Scotland-born DJ, 31, by his well-known stage name.
?Taylor always calls Calvin by his birth name, Adam, and never Calvin in private,? a source close to the couple exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Taylor gets all dressed and glammed up whenever she is going to see him to look her best.? Shall we call them ?Taydam??
Swift, 25, whose exes include (but are not limited to) Harry Styles, Conor Kennedy, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, and Joe Jonas, seems to be rather smitten with her new love.
“She’s head over heels,? the source continues. ?She hasn’t been in love like this before!”
[From Us Weekly]
I do think this romance is different, at least on Swifty?s side. Usually, her romances are so brief because inevitably the guy dumps her over the phone after a few months. Taylor and Calvin/Adam have been going strong for what? Since February/March. That?s at least six months of pure, real relationship happening. And you know what? Because this is so real and so much bigger and better than all of her previous relationships, you know what that means? The breakup is going to be the most epic thing ever. It?s going to be a mess. It?s going to be beautiful.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Taylor Swift got a personalized, handknitted sweater from a fan: creepy or cool? | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For some reason, Taylor Swift is still winning at life. Our hopes for some kind of long-standing Swift backlash came to nothing. She just got, like, a week of bad press over the summer and then she was back to being on top. She still has crazy/amazing fans and she still appreciates them. Apparently, a Swiftlunatic sent her this hand-knitted sweater which features a detailed ?Polaroid? of Swifty (like her album cover). Swifty posted the photo on her Instagram with this message: ?Someone knitted this sweater for me of a Polaroid of myself and gave it to my mom tonight at the show. It has very quickly become my everything. Thank you, mysterious knitter.?
And if that wasn?t enough, Swifty also got some post-VMA flowers from her new best friend, Kanye West. She posted this Instagram with the message: ?Awwww Kanye sent me the coolest flowers!! #KanTay2020 #BFFs.?
Does Kanye have a special ?flower guy? who does those blocks/walls of flowers for him? Why does this look like the cube version of the flower-wall Kanye gave Kim? Where does one put a cube of flowers? Why does Kanye only give ladies white/cream roses? Did Kanye send a note to Tay-Tay with the flower cube? Does Kanye want to be part of Taylor?s squad? Can “KanTay” become a thing? So many questions.
And while you ponder all of that, take in the latest Instagrams of Taylor?s kitty Olivia Benson. I love the chair photo!!!! Taylor wrote: ?Detective Olivia Benson is sitting in her chair, thinking about her life.? That?s an amazing pic.
Photos courtesy of Instagram.
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| | Taylor Swift is so image-conscious, no one can watch her blow her nose | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This is one of the dumbest controversies about Taylor Swift this week. Like, I could understand the conversation about her ?Wildest Dreams? video, I could even understand the conversation about ?what did Tay-Tay really think about Kanye/Miley/Ariana Grande?? But someone was trolling MTV?s backstage live-feed of the VMAs and they caught Taylor and her people acting slightly odd, and they jumped to the conclusion of ?Maybe Taylor Swift Snorted Cocaine Backstage at the VMAs?? You can see the video here at Gawker. Seriously, go and watch it!
It?s pretty clear that Taylor was blowing her nose. I would even suggest that the real conspiracy is that she had a crunchy boog and she really need to dig for it. But even beyond that, the REAL STORY is that Taylor is literally so image-conscious that she was hyper-aware of the fact that she was being recorded backstage and she had her people form a protective circle around her so that she wouldn?t be seen blowing her nose on camera. That?s some next-level image control. THAT says more about her than what she does recreationally. For the record, I doubt she?s doing coke in general. I think she enjoys some wine or some cocktails, but even then, she probably doesn?t partake all that much because alcohol = empty calories. She?s seriously so slender these days.
Now, if you told me Cara Delevingne was getting into something, yeah, I?d believe you.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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