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| | Is Michelle Williams shading 'mommy entrepreneurs' like Goop & Alba' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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At this point, I think all of us have gotten used to the familiar tradition of Celebrity Mothering. As soon as a (usually B-list) celebrity has a baby, suddenly they are in the Mom Business, and they start mommy-blogging, mommy-shilling or developing some projects involving motherhood and babies or whatever. Jessica Alba is a good example of this. Nicole Richie is another great example. Gwyneth Paltrow is too, although I think her shtick is less about motherhood (motherhood plays a part, though) and more about Gwyneth wanting to ?advise? peasants on what they?re doing wrong. I can?t go onto People Magazine without seeing some B-list or C-list ?mommy? doing some blogging for the site, and on and on.
So what happens when the celebrity mom is A-list and she has a full career as, you know, an actress? What happens when the celebrity mom is Michelle Williams?
Michelle Williams’ passion project won’t be shown on-screen anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the Oz the Great and Powerful actress is any less proud of it. Williams, 32, recently told Paper magazine that her biggest off-screen project right now is raising her 7-year-old daughter, Matilda.
“Raising the kid is the work, yeah. And it’s amazing, and it’s the ultimate creative act,” she told the publication at the Kate Young for Target party on Tuesday, April 9. “That’s my side project and my center project.”
Matilda is Williams’ daughter with her late ex, actor Heath Ledger.
Williams, who debuted an edgy new haircut at the star-studded event, added that for her, she enjoys concentrating all her energy into only a few things at a time.
“I wish I had side projects!” she said of pursuing other passions outside of work. “I’m kind of like a ‘one thing at a time’ girl. I can’t really take on [more]. I wish I was one of those people who’s also taking lots of photos and going to cooking classes. But I just work and raise the kid. That’s all I can do.”
The Blue Valentine actress quietly split with boyfriend Jason Segel earlier this year after just under a year of dating. The A-list couple maintained a low-profile romance throughout their relationship, with Segel only speaking vaguely about Williams in an interview with Extra last April.
“I think we would just very much like to be happy,” he said at the time. “That’s all I’m going to say about it.”
[From Us Weekly]
To be fair to Michelle, I think she?s telling the truth ? she?s a single mom and an A-list actress, and I believe that she pretty much just spends her time working and mothering. To be fair to Michelle, I think she was just answering specific questions about her ?side projects?. But I also think she was throwing some subtle shade: ?I wish I was one of those people who’s also taking lots of photos and going to cooking classes. But I just work and raise the kid.? Ha! Hear that Goop? Michelle thinks your ?cooking classes? are adorable. She wishes she had time to do that kind of stuff, but she?s too busy being an in-demand actress.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Michelle Williams Got a Haircut | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Michelle Williams showed off her new haircut yesterday. It looks like an emo-undercut hybrid cut. It’s the type of cut you get when you’re too scared to buzz the sides all the way. The safe Justin Bieber.
She should have just gone with a mullet. It makes more of a statement. A statement that says, “My stylist screwed me and didn’t even buy me dinner first.” Maybe not the kind of statement one looks for but a statement nonetheless.
The post Michelle Williams Got a Haircut appeared first on The Blemish.
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| | Michelle Williams Walks the Dog in Brooklyn | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for a solitary stroll with her pooch, Michelle Williams walked around Brooklyn, New York on Sunday (April 7).
The "Oz The Great and Powerful" star bundled up in a green coat, blue jeans, plaid scarf, and black boots as she led her black-and-white dog along.
Recently, the 32-year-old actress did a photo shoot for AnOther magazine that caused controversy, dressing up as a native American.
A Tribal attorney and columnist for Indian Country Today Media Network, Ruth Hopkins, said that she was depicted in "apparent Redface." However, AnOther says, "While we dispute the suggestion that the image has a racist subtext in the strongest possible terms, we?re mortified to think that anyone would interpret it in this way.?
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| | Michelle Williams: 'There's my work and the kid. Everything else has to fall away' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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AnotherMag has a video interview with Michelle Williams, [via E! Online] and I was surprised at how “normal” she sounds. The last time I remember hearing her, she was using that affected baby voice, probably a holdover from her My Week With Marilyn prep, and I’m glad she’s rid of it. (She didn’t sound like that during her Oscar red carpet interviews this year, but it was so distinct that I still associate it with her.) In the interview, she answers some questions that are given offscreen and she comes across very well. You still get the sense that she’s a vulnerable person, but she seems comfortable and sure of herself, and like she’s giving honest answers. She talks about her insecurities about acting, about preparing for different roles and about getting into character and not being able to stay in character because she’s a mom. It doesn’t sound like she misses it, but that it’s just a fact of life for her.
On staying in character
I think in some ways you can?t help but stay in character. It?s a shift, it?s slight, it might even be imperceptible to other people, but you feel different all day. But I think when you have a kid, you have a duty to shed that when you come back into your home life, or at least try to.
On balancing work and motherhood
I guess realizing that there is no such thing as a perfect balance. It’s not like riding a bicycle, you don’t want to just figure it out and stay on track.
I find that when I’m working, there are only two things: there’s my work and the kid. Everything else has to fall away.
On which mementos she keeps from sets
From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it ? I couldn?t quite take it off ? and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.
On being insecure as an actress
Every day feels like the first day, and everyday you think ‘They’re going to fire me, I don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know how to do this, I don’t know why I’m here, Everybody’s going to find out.’ But the comforting thing is everybody feels like that, every actor that you talk to says ‘I have no idea what’s going on…’ the feeling is a very common one… if it felt safe it wouldn’t feel exciting.
On feeling at home
I think I do feel at home on a set now. Certain sets. Most sets. There?s a few places, a few settings that I feel at home in. I feel at home in my home. I feel at home in nature. I don?t know… in some ways I feel like maybe that feeling is something I?m still looking for.
[From AnotherMag via E! Online]
I’m wondering if this interview was conducted before or after her split with Jason Segel and if that kind of prompted her to give that quote about “everything else falling away,” as if her relationship faltered because she didn’t have room for it. Even if it was before her official split with Jason they were probably on the outs at the time.
This was promotion for her role as Glinda in Oz The Great and Powerful, which is out this weekend. You know, I could have sworn that the movie already came out and that it was a dud at the box office, but I just checked Box Office Mojo and was surprised to not find any numbers. I was confusing it with Jack The Giant Slayer, which looked better than this mess (I didn’t see Jack), and topped the box office with a weak $27.2 million over the weekend. So things may not fare much better for Oz. I mean James Franco is the lead, can you see it doing very well?
After I wrote this story, Kaiser pointed me to the covers for the Magazine. The Daily Mail explains that AnotherMag is a biannual British fashion magazine, and I get that they were going for very different styling looks here, but it’s all kind of overplayed and bad. The feather-in-braids look is potentially offensive to Native Americans. Did Michelle see that coming at all and did she push back against that kind of styling? I mean that’s on the magazine for doing that, but I wonder if she even realized it was happening and/or if she just felt like she had to go with it. The header image (above) makes her look like Scarlett Johansson. It’s kind of funny that they put her in 1950s widow styling at one point. That seems fitting.
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| | Michelle Williams dumped Jason Segel because 'she wasn't ready to commit' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Michelle Williams at last night?s UK premiere of Oz the Great and Powerful. She?s wearing Burberry Prorsum, one of my favorite labels to see on any red carpet. I?ve been staring at these photos of her dress for a while, trying to figure it out. Is her entire dress made up of peacock feathers? Or are they faux peacock feathers? Whatever is happening, it?s a gorgeous and lux effect. My least favorite part of this look? Her hair. But I won?t complain about it too much because Michelle recently admitted that she?s growing it out and this current mid-stage is ?insufferable?. I don?t really understand why she felt the need to give herself such a close crop in the back, but whatever.
This publicity tour for Oz comes during the same week in which Michelle?s breakup with Jason Segel was announced. Coincidence? Or is all part of Michelle?s PR? And trust me ? Michelle engages in PR and media games just as much as any other celebrity. I feel the same way about Jennifer Garner ? it?s not that I don?t believe Garner loves being a ?normal mom,? etc, I just think that some part of it is also a media strategy, an angle, a public persona. And so to with Michelle ? her public persona is The Widow Ledger, the Brave, Fragile, Virginal Single Mom. When Michelle first began dating Jason, Us Weekly ran a suspicious story which completely white-washed Michelle?s post-Heath dating past and promoted this ?Brave, Fragile Widow? image (which went hand-in-hand with her Oscar campaign last year too). And now that Michelle and Jason are over, a new strategy is in play:
From the outside, it seemed as though Michelle Williams couldn’t get enough of boyfriend Jason Segel. In reality, the actress may not have seen him as forever material.
“She cares a great deal for Jason but is not ready to make a commitment,” a source tells PEOPLE. “Maybe if they were together day-to-day, she would have more confidence in a future. But not at this time.”
Dating for a year, PEOPLE confirmed on Tuesday that the pair called it quits, citing long distance as the primary reason.
“Jason never got rid of his place in L.A., and Michelle’s life with [daughter] Matilda was and has always been in New York,” a second source says. “While Jason made every effort to make them a priority in his life ? and they were top priority ? he still couldn’t drop everything and leave his life and career in L.A.”
The road to romance has not been an easy one for Williams, 32.
The actress’s ex, Heath Ledger, was found dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose in 2008, less than a year after they split. Left to care for their daughter alone, Williams stayed out of the spotlight, but began dating director Spike Jonze for about a year. Following their split, she didn’t have a public romance again until Segel, 33, in 2012.
[From People]
Will people stop liking or caring about Michelle if they learn that she?s slept with more than two dudes since Heath? Really? Is that what Michelle?s publicist thinks? Because Michelle was dating other men after she and Heath broke up, and she also dated Cary Fukunaga after Spike Jonze. But I guess they don?t count because it wasn?t a ?public romance?. As for the ?reasons? why Michelle and Jason split ? sure. That?s coming from her publicist, you know. Which makes me suspicious because? why does Michelle need to put that out there? But sure, I?ll buy that she didn?t feel like doing the long-distance, bicoastal thing. How long will it be until Michelle is talking about Heath and how fragile she is again?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Us Weekly: Michelle Williams & Jason Segel broke up earlier this month | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Michelle Williams and Jason Segel are no more! Sad. They had been dating for a year ? almost exactly. Jason was/is tight with Michelle?s BFF Busy Phillips, and Busy introduced them last year during the awards season, when Michelle was up for an Oscar for My Week With Marilyn. Once they got together, they seemed incredibly tight, with Jason coming Brooklyn often to see Michelle and spend time with Matilda, and Michelle and Mattie going to LA to spend time with Jason. There were even widespread reports of an engagement, and I genuinely thought it would happen for them. Alas?
Michelle Williams and Jason Segel are back on the market. The Oz the Great and Powerful actress, 32, and the How I Met Your Mother star, 33, quietly ended their romance earlier this month, sources tell Us Weekly.
Though the two seemed happy together as recently as January, when they were photographed on vacation in Cancun with Williams’ BFF Busy Philipps, an insider tells Us that their romance couldn’t survive the long distance. (Williams lives in New York with daughter Matilda, 7, while Segel is based in Los Angeles, where his CBS sitcom is filmed.)
Us Weekly broke the news of the couple’s undercover romance in March 2012. In June, a source told Us that Williams and Segel were “totally in love. Jason is obsessed with Michelle.” He had also taken a liking to his girlfriend’s daughter (with her late ex, Heath Ledger). “He’s been doing all sorts of ‘dad stuff’ with her, like drawing and playing music,” the insider said.
The stars kept a relatively low profile throughout their relationship, rarely acknowledging the romance in public. Segel spoke vaguely about Williams last April, telling Extra, “I think we would just very much like to be happy. That’s all I’m going to say about it.”
[From Us Weekly]
Yeah, one of the biggest reasons why I though Michelle and Jason would last the test of time is because she seemed okay with Jason spending a lot of time with Matilda, and he seemed to enjoy the idea of being Matilda?s step-dad. I would love to know what really happened, because I?m not sure if I?m buying the whole ?different cities? excuse.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Michelle Williams is growing out her hair, admits 'the mid-stage is insufferable' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Michelle Williams going into the Ed Sullivan Theater last night, about to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote Oz the Great and Powerful. Michelle?s suit/dress thing is Dior ? it?s cute and conservative, but I think it?s got built-in hip enhancers or something so that size-zero ladies look like they have Kardashian hips. Weird. Anyway, the real story is that Michelle seems to be growing out her beloved pixie cut and that her hair is currently in sort of an awkward stage (IMO).
Unlike Miley Cyrus, Michelle Williams is destined to go long again. After rocking a famously admired blonde pixie for years, the Oscar-nominated actress, 32, is growing out the locks, she told E! News.
“I think I’m ready,” the Oz the Great and Powerful star, whose locks do indeed appear longer, said. “It’s on its way, slowly but surely.” Williams added that the short-to-long process has daunted her for years.
“That’s why I’ve stayed with short hair for so long,” Jason Segel’s love said. “The mid-stage is insufferable. It’s really hard on your self-esteem.”
One person who may cheer William’s longer tresses? Daughter Matilda, 8.
“What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon,” Williams told ELLE back in November 2011. Indeed, it seemed that Williams’ Twiggy-like look was a tribute to Matilda’s late father, Heath Ledger.
“Straight men across the board are not into this hair!” Williams told ELLE. “I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it.” Ledger died of a drug overdose in January 2008 at age 28.
[From Us Weekly]
Whenever I?m bitching about bangs, inevitably some bangs-defender trolls me (on every single post), writing something like ?I don?t understand why you hate these bangs so much? Why have you never explained that?? Because I explain it all the time. Because bangs rarely look good on adult women (but there are SOME exceptions). Because too many women get bangs that are too thick, too long or too short. And because of what Michelle is describing so perfectly ? it?s insufferable HELL trying to grow out an unflattering short-hair or bangs look once you?ve realized you?ve made a terrible (bangsy) mistake. I?ll admit that I?ve often thought about trying a shorter haircut (not as short as Michelle?s, but still- short). Then I remember the last time my hair was cut above my shoulders
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| | Michelle Williams left her old Brooklyn home for a new loft with Jason Segel | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Over the summer, it felt like we were inundated with photos of Michelle Williams, Jason Segel and Matilda Ledger. They were in New York and LA, back and forth, back and forth, and suddenly they seemed like an incredibly tight little family unit. There were even widespread reports that Jason had actually proposed to Michelle, although we still haven?t seen anything about confirmed by anyone reputable. Now The Mail claims that Michelle and Jason are definitely taking the next step? they?re buying property together! That does come before engagement these days, doesn?t it?
She had kept the memory of Heath Ledger alive by staying in the house they shared with their beloved daughter. But Michelle Williams is finally moving on from her lost love after leaving the Brooklyn brownstone she bought with the tragic star – and has set up home with her boyfriend, actor Jason Segel.
The Oscar-nominated actress, 32, and Jason, also 32, have moved into a sprawling loft overlooking the Manhattan skyline, MailOnline can reveal. The Brooklyn property, which is situated in a stunning converted warehouse behind gates, marks a fresh start for Michelle, who still owns the house she first bought with Heath in 2005, when their daughter Matilda was a baby. Jason has already been spotted outside their new home with Matilda.
A source said: ‘Michelle, Jason and Matilda seem very happy here, the building is beautiful. They’ve been here a few months now and they look right at home.’
Michelle and Heath bought their brownstone for $3.6 million, but it now believed to be worth up to $4.2 million. The petite blonde was left devastated following Heath’s death in January 2008 from a drugs overdose – five months after they had separated. She has since concentrated on raising Matilda, who will celebrate her seventh birthday on Sunday.
Despite a few short-lived romances, Michelle – who won an Oscar nomination this year for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn – has remained largely single since splitting with Heath. However, she started dating Jason, best known for starring in TV comedy How I Met Your Mother and big screen hits including Knocked Up and The Muppets, earlier this year. The couple are believed to have met through Michelle’s best friend – and Jason’s former Freaks and Geeks costar ? actress Busy Philipps.
Friends of Michelle said they had never seen her happier – while Jason told Parade magazine in March: ‘I don’t want to have a girlfriend for the sake of having a girlfriend. I have no desire to pick a random girl.
‘I want the right girl. There are plenty of opportunities, but I would rather have the right one.’
[From The Mail]
I approve. Not that they?re asking for my approval or anything, but I do think this is a step in the right direction, a healthier direction for Michelle. During her Oscar campaign last year and into this year, I kept getting the feeling that Michelle still feels like she?s very much living with Heath Ledger?s ghost. I don?t mean that in the supernatural way, I mean that in the ?she idealized him in death to make him some perfect, untouchable man which no living, breathing man could ever hope to compete with? way. Plus, there was the whole Revirginization of Michelle, which went over like a lead balloon (at least with me). So, it?s nice to see her with a steady boyfriend, moving on physically and emotionally.
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| | Michelle Williams & Jason Segal Take Matilda to "Snow White" | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Taking in a matinee, Michelle Williams took her daughter Matilda to see "Snow White" at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood on Saturday (August 25).
The "My Week with Marilyn" star wore a black sleeveless top, striped white pants, and black sandals as her daughter clung to her in a colorful striped sun dress. Boyfriend Jason Segel was also on hand to join in the family fun, wearing a plaid button-down shirt and blue jeans.
Recently, the "Muppets" star reportedly reached out to Heath Ledger's family to tell them that he is there for the late actor's daughter, Matilda, and her mother. An insider to the Ledger family told Radar, "Jason got on the phone and introduced himself to Kim (Heath's father), and then invited the Ledgers to use his home whenever they wanted to fly in from Australia to visit Michelle and Maddie."
The source added, "Now Kim's given his blessing for Jason to marry Michelle and be a stepdad to Matilda."
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| | Michelle Williams & Matilda: Mother-Daughter Fun in LA | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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They love to spend active quality time together, and yesterday (August 23) Michelle Williams and her daughter Matilda took to the streets of Los Angeles for a sunny stroll.
The ?My Week with Marilyn? starlet and her adorable little girl held hands and walked back to Michelle?s car after a fun day at summer camp.
On Wednesday (August 22) Michelle and Matilda spent the day at Griffith Park with some friends while shutterbugs looked on from afar.
And it sounds like Michelle and her boyfriend Jason Segel are getting serious- the ?Forgetting Sarah Marshall? stud recently called the late Heath Ledger?s dad/Matilda?s grandfather Kim Ledger to introduce himself.
An insider told press, "Jason got on the phone and introduced himself to Kim, and then invited the Ledgers to use his home whenever they wanted to fly in from Australia to visit Michelle and Maddie."
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