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| | Jennifer Aniston slams the 'narcissists' who think every woman wants to sleep with them | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I have not subscribed to Apple+ and I don?t plan to. So I will not be watching The Morning Show. I?ve read some reviews which make it sound pretty good, or at the very least, very watchable. Most of the advance press about the show was about how the series had to be completely rewritten and reworked as #MeToo exploded and they wanted everything to be more about that. Reese Witherspoon has been more involved with Time?s Up than Jennifer Aniston, and Reese has been able to talk about those issues with more clarity? but even then, Reese still tends to talk around a lot of the nitty-gritty stuff. Which becomes clear as soon as a journalist presses her to talk about something more than vague rah-rah-feminism. Enter the Guardian Reese and Jennifer sat down together for a joint interview and the result was fascinating. Reese managed to avoid the harder questions while Jennifer mostly avoided saying much of anything. Some highlights:
Jennifer on how #MeToo isn?t just about rape & assault, it?s about power imbalance: ?There?s this absolute denial ? ?It was consensual, it was consensual? ? if you?re a narcissist to the degree a lot of these guys are. They think, of course every woman wants to sleep with me.?
Reese on the show not being an ?echo chamber?: ?This is not an echo chamber of women talking about #MeToo. It?s actually a very gender-balanced conversation because we need men watching the show. Real change doesn?t happen unless the incumbent power structure accepts it.?
Reese on being a #MeToo victim: ?I wish I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career but, sadly, it wasn?t. I?ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault,? she said. She felt, she added, ?guilt for not speaking up earlier?. So does she wish she could have spoken out sooner? The temperature in the room drops palpably. ?Ummm no. It was a culture of silence and silence was a condition of my employment. That?s what I was told.?
On Harvey Weinstein: ?I was never alone in a room with him,? says Aniston. ?I was never alone with him either. But I didn?t know why,? adds Witherspoon. ?Me neither. But always someone would stand in the room,? Aniston echoes.
Jennifer on Instagram: ?I find it very odd. I don?t understand it ? it doesn?t make sense to me. I?d love for someone to break it down, but there it is and now it has to keep going.? She admits she joined Instagram mainly to promote the show. ?But also, I think I had this idea ? I don?t want to be the only person ? Let?s see, what do I want to say here? I thought, ?Why would I do this? People are already in my panty drawers all the time.? And I want them out of my panty drawers. But now I can decide which pair to show them.?
[From The Guardian]
Regarding Reese and the icy chill in the room when the Guardian journalist asked if Reese wishes she could speak out sooner? I think it depends on how the Guardian journalist (a woman) phrased the question. It feels like perhaps Reese felt like she was being blamed for not speaking up BEFORE Me Too made it possible. Which? again, don?t blame women for the actions of men. That being said, Reese and her connection to CAA an agency which seemed to actively procure women for Harvey Weinstein throws everything into question for me. Im also really tired of the undercurrent from Reese about how men desperately need to be included in all of these conversations. It bugs.
I agree with Jennifer about the narcissism of predators and extending the conversation to power imbalance even within ?consensual? relationships.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Kourtney Kardashian is taking a step back from 'KUWTK' to focus on being a mom | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Two more days until you can smell like a true icon @kkwfragrance #DiamondsCollection
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| | Kristen Bell in Dior at the Frozen 2 premiere: perfect and not too on-the-nose? | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ive only seen Frozen once! I consider myself lucky that way, although its quite good as far as kids films go. My son was slightly old for it and wasnt interested, but we watched it with my friend and her daughter who is a couple of years younger than him. My friend had seen it dozens of times at that point. I do not miss watching movies over and over again (Robots with Ewan Mcgregor is underrated FYI), but I miss taking my son to animated films we both enjoy like the How to Train Your Dragon movies and Moana was a more recent favorite. He goes to adult movies now and we can have adult conversations about them so Im trying to look on the bright side.
Here are some photos from the Frozen 2 premiere featuring Kristen Bell in a dusty Pink Dior gown with an deep keyhole bodice. I really like this look! Shes not theme dressing like a lot of the other cast and celebrities there and this has a regal and sophisticated vibe. The fit is perfection and the very interesting fabric is the standout. This is just the right amount of dress and her styling is gorgeous. I could gush about this.
Kristens onscreen sister, Idina Menzel, was in a formfitting white sequin Galvan. This dress is kind of a snooze but shes so pretty and look at her coupled up with Aaron Lohr! How cute are they? Theyve been married since 2017 and dating since 2015.
Evan Rachel Wood is in this, she plays Elsa and Annas mom. Her beige and silver embellished Pamella Roland gown is a little too on theme, but I would totally dress like an ice princess if I was in this movie, I love theme dressing. She looks so different and striking with longer dark hair. This dress fits her beautifully.
Oh and Sterling K. Brown is in it too! He plays a hot lieutenant. I just saw him on Kimmel and he wouldnt say if he sings or not, but come on you know he sings. Its cute how he and his wife, Ryan Michelle Bathe, and their kids are all in different shades of blue.
My girl Busy Philipps sometimes takes it too far. Shes fearless with her fashion though Ill give her that. Also she does not GAF and looks comfortable. Adorable shoes.
Selena Gomez and her little sister, Gracie, six, wore matching ice princess costumes and Im here for it! She needs to do more things with her little sister she looks so happy here.
Also included in the gallery are Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Martha Plimpton looking like a boss and Yvette Nicole Brown, love her!
photos credit: WENN and Avalon.red
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| | Kim Kardashian wants to start her own law firm 'that will help with prison reform' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I covered part of Kim Kardashian?s appearance at the New York Times DealBook Conference this week. Kim appeared at the conference with her mom and her husband, Kanye West. It was mostly about Kim and her many businesses, and in addition to talking about Instagram and mental health, Kim discussed spon-con, her law studies and meeting with Donald Trump. You can read the NY Times? coverage of the discussion here. Highlights, mostly from Kim but I added one Kanye section:
Kim on business partnerships and activism: ?I am really cautious about what I spend. So if I overspend on something and a paid post happens to come in at that time, I?ll weigh it out and think, ?O.K., well I have to pay for x, y, and z.? Now it?s a little bit more personal for me. If I have a paid post that comes in and I think, ?O.K., well this can fund x amount of people that are behind bars, that can help free them with simple legal fees that they just can?t afford, then that would be worth it to me, even if the post might be a little bit off-brand for me.? I really weigh out different things now than I used to.?
Kim on meeting with President Trump: ?I focus on prison reform and the President has done amazing things in prison reform. I will also speak up when I feel like something is not how I feel like the world should be and that could be immigration or other things. I?m very focused, there?s a lot that we have to get done in prison reform and I believe I will be more beneficial if I just focus on that at the moment. So I?m grateful for that relationship in that area and I focus on that. But that was a big thing where so many people advised me, ?Don?t go to the White House.? And that didn?t make sense to me because I was like, if someone can get out of prison and get their life back versus my reputation of going to the White House ? when there is only one person on this planet that can make the decision and that would be the president ? and that was even a question for the media, that just absolutely didn?t make sense to me. I would go see anyone in power that would have that decision to change someone?s life.?
Kim on starting her own law firm one day: ?I?m definitely working really hard and it?s a commitment that I?ve chosen to take this time away from my family to study and to not go out with my friends and live a different life. And I?m so O.K. with that. I love it and I just hope that one day I can start a firm that will help with prison reform. I would love to hire these men and women that are behind bars because they know the law better than most lawyers.?
Kanye on starting a church and social media: ?But just as a male opinion, looking at my daughters and looking at my family and as we are starting this church and saying that this innovation and community and what we?re doing with education and what we?re doing you know in politics even now like we have 12,500 acres in Cody, Wyo. Trump has actually opened up the ability to buy more land and in America ? you know America, you can buy land and we can be owners and we don?t often have to be just the product of what black Twitter tells us what we?re supposed to do? This has been taken out of every single one of my interviews so I?m going to say it now: My father?s a Black Panther, my mother was arrested to fight for us to have the right to vote, but it was the right to vote for who we tell you to vote on.?
[From The NYT]
Let?s start with that bullst Kanye quote. Yes, Kanye is descended from black activists who fought for the right to vote. And now this ahole is out here in the Sunken Place, sidling up to the white patriarchy, the same white men who make the oppression of marginalized communities their political platform. It?s not that Kanye doesn?t have the RIGHT to vote for Trump. It?s that he shows off his profound ignorance and lack of history by doing so.
As for what Kim said about meeting with Trump? as I?ve said from the beginning, Kim weighed it all and decided that she was okay with a ?ends justify the means? transaction with Trump. I hate-respect it.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red and Backgrid.
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| | LeAnn Rimes says she was 'running from a lot of trauma' when she sought help in 2012 | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In 2012, LeAnn Rimes entered a ?treatment facility? for what was supposed to be a 28-day treatment for stress and anxiety. There were always different theories floating around about what was really going on with that whole fking story though. For one, LeAnn had been boozing it up especially around her 30th birthday, and she entered the treatment facility two days after said birthday. Brandi Glanville claimed LeAnn went to ?tweehab? because at the time, LeAnn was being especially crazy on Twitter 24-7. LeAnn?s management insisted that LeAnn really was suffering from too much stress, and something about bullying too. I don?t remember. What I do remember is that the ?28 days? was absolute bullst. LeAnn left the facility after a matter of days to perform at a concert. Then a week later, she was at a premiere with Eddie Cibrian. I said at the time that LeAnn didn?t so much enter a ?treatment facility? as she just came and went as she pleased from some kind of spa. I still believe that.
Why this trip down memory lane? Because LeAnn gave a speech at the Hope for Depression Research Foundation?s luncheon this week and suddenly she?s trying to pretend that back in 2012, she was in some sort of real-deal facility where she was alone for 28 straight days? For the love of God.
Seeking treatment for anxiety and depression was the best gift LeAnn Rimes ever gave herself since it likely saved her life, she revealed Wednesday. The Grammy Award-winning singer checked herself into treatment on Aug. 29, 2012, the day after she turned 30, she told the packed audience at the Hope for Depression Research Foundation?s 13th Annual Luncheon Seminar at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Breaking down in tears at the podium, she said, ?Honestly, It was the best birthday gift I could have ever given myself because I don?t know if I would have made it to the next one.?
During her emotional speech, Rimes talked about how she was ?panicking? on the way to the treatment facility because she would be all alone for 28 days straight and left to face her thoughts, fears ? and pain. ?Honestly until the day that I checked myself into that treatment center, I had never been alone,? she said. After her loved ones said their goodbyes, ?it was real,? she said. ?It was the first time I couldn?t run anymore and I was running from a lot of trauma.?
She broke down again, pausing for a moment before regaining her composure. ?I cry because I am so happy to be able to share this because there is a lot of hiding that goes on and there is a lot of shame,? she said. ?I know that so many people here understand that, so thank you for offering me the podium, because being able to share that is healing. It is freaking healing.?
On Wednesday, she talked about the toll of the ordeal [of her affair with Eddie Cibrian and the years-long fallout]. There was ?a very public shaming around my relationship with my now-husband of nine years,? she said. ?And all the running, and all of the hiding and all of the shame that lived inside was incredibly exhausting. I wasn?t sleeping, though I couldn?t get out of bed, which made no sense to me. I was having debilitating panic attacks where I could not breathe and honestly, I think I?ve been holding my breath my entire life.? Then came the help she so badly needed. ?I was so fortunate to have wonderful friends around me, and a wonderful husband, and a great support system ? that sat me down and suggested that I get help.?
[From People]
I don?t doubt that LeAnn is an anxious person, or that she?s incredibly high-strung or that she has significant mental health issues. We know all that. We?ve seen it over the years. What bugs me is the complete rewrite on what was actually happening out in public, facts about her life that we already witnessed. She didn?t get some intensive 28-day treatment, she was in and out of that place as soon as she got some sympathetic headlines. She was publicly shamed because she was openly cheating on her husband with another married man, a man she openly pursued until she destroyed both of their marriages. Also: wouldn?t her mental health be in a better place today if she hadn?t married a compulsive liar and degenerate cheater? God knows what kind of gaslighting Eddie has done on her over the years.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Jennifer Garner: The harder you work on food, the less likely your kids will eat it | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These quotes from Jennifer Garner in the title are from a panel she did in September, but I keep up with the news about her and theyre new to me. People Magazine used them as filler for one of Jens relatable mom! moments on Instagram, a photo she posted of herself in wet hair, her robe and slippers while waiting for her daughters school bus. Thats below. She bugs, but this is her brand and shes done a lot toward building that with Instagram so I get it. I also sometimes do find her relatable, like this story she told about making homemade stuff for your kids and having them reject it.
?I can?t really complain about my kids,? she said in September, speaking at an INBOUND panel in Boston, Massachusetts. ?They?re pretty awesome. They humor me.?
?But I have chilled out and stopped trying to be my mom,? she added at the panel, explaining that growing up, her mom cooked everything from scratch and she used to try to do the same.
?Here I am making homemade wheat thins like a nerd and my kids don?t want them,? she said. ?The harder you work on whatever you?re making for your kids, the less apt they are to eat it.?
But Garner?s new laid back approach to parenting hasn?t affected her need to protect her kids? privacy.
?It?s so gnarly to be a kid now,? Garner told InStyle in August. ?I guard my kids? privacy as much as I possibly can, and I?ve never posted pictures of them on Instagram. I used to refuse to say their names during interviews ? but everyone knows their names! I would just say ?my eldest,? which I still do out of habit a lot.?
?I?m sure there are times my kids would really love to see themselves reflected on my social media in a fun way and to have the attention they would get from that. But I?ve fought too hard against it. It would feel hypocritical,? she continued. ?There?s no implied judgment of people who do put their kids up there; I just don?t think most kids have been hounded in the way that mine were when they were little.?
[From People]
We did report on that second filler quote People Magazine is using, the one about not posting her kids photos on Instagram and guarding their privacy. Thats a mixed bag with Garner and Affleck in that we always see them out with their kids when they have a PR crisis. I suspect theres no escaping that cycle unless they move. I wanted to talk about cooking though. I do cook him meals, but when my son was smaller I stopped bothering because he never seemed to really like what I cooked. I swear I could cook the exact same thing as my mom and grandmas was always better. Now that hes a teenager though he appreciates the dinners I make and so I cook for him more. He once told me he knew when we were having company because I would make dinner and that cut me deep. After that I made it a goal to cook for him about twice a week, no matter how busy I am. I know thats not much and I make quicker meals on the off days, like black bean or turkey burgers, baked potatoes with ham and cheese and things like that.
Heres Jens post, which gave us yet another reason to talk about her. She knows her audience.
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She barely made the bus on time, but at least her mother kept it classy. ?????
A post shared by Jennifer Garner (@jennifer.garner) on Nov 6, 2019 at 2:43pm PST
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