Rihanna mocks her alcohol and drug problems in new album covers
As you know, a source very close to Rihanna’s camp tipped us off about her alleged alcohol and drug problems. The 23-year-old troubled singer seems to flaunt her reported substance abuse problems on two new covers for her upcoming album, Talk That Talk.
The artwork for the album depicts Rihanna holding her head with dark makeup around her eyes. The cover intentionally gives the illusion that she’s completely wasted. While on the Deluxe package cover Rihanna appears to be blowing marijuana smoke out of her mouth.
The fact that Rihanna would make light of her alleged alcoholism and drug problems in her artwork shows how immature and manipulative she is. Rihanna doesn’t care that most of her fans are impressionable teenagers and young adults.
As our source recently told us, “Rihana does what Rihanna wants to do.”
DISSED: Dudley doesn’t have the time for Rihanna
Those of us who knew better scoffed at reports that troubled singer Rihanna was dating British model Dudley O’Shaughnessy, 21. We already knew that the 23-year-old Bajan is neither Dudley’s speed, nor proper gender. Rihanna clearly has a type. Unfortunately, her type is usually gay or bisexual.
According to British tabloid The Mirror, Dudley dismissed rumors that he and Rihanna are dating. The fighter-turned-model said he just doesn’t have the time to be Rihanna’s beard: “My career is my biggest priority right now,” he said.
At his mom’s home in East London yesterday, he told the paper: “We had fun together, but I don’t know whether I will see her again to be honest.” He added: “I’d like to go to America …but for work.”
Rihanna is featured on the cover of this month’s Esquire magazine. In the cover story, the self-hating singer, who is bisexual, revealed that she still struggles with her feelings of inadequacy, which leads her to pine away for the unavailable men who often end up brutalizing her.
Kelly Rowland Covers Cosmopolitan
Of all the random celebrities covering magazines, Kelly Rowland’s covers are the most beautiful! Kelly’s cocoa smooth skin and cover girl smile makes her a favorite of professional photographers.
From Toya
Kelly Rowland shows off her gym-bound physique on the UK’s November 2011 edition of Cosmopolitan. The beaming songstress poses in her lingerie bra top, black leather shorts and black jacket with red lining. Kelly will be back in the UK this weekend as The X Factor finally moves into its live finals stage. Does she have the winning category? In my honest opinion? The answer is NO!
Kelly was spotted wearing a purple string bikini while relaxing on the beach with a friend yesterday.
Photos by Bauer Griffin
Morning Glory & Wood: Athletes Strip for ESPN The Magazine
Sylvia Fowles of WNBA’s Chicago Sky by Jeff Riedel for ESPN
Age:
26
Body stats:
6-foot-6, 200 pounds
Birthplace:
Miami, Fla.
Career highlight:
Earned a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Your favorite athletes are photographed completely naked as ESPN The Magazine unveils its third annual “Body Issue,” on newsstands Oct. 7. More than 20 pro athletes strip for the strategically covered portraits in the “Bodies We Want” section of the issue, which the magazine calls an “exploration and celebration of the athletic form.” (AJC)
Thanks to loyal reader Nicole B. for sending us this link to ESPN The Magazine’s 2011 Body Issue.
Nia Long Covers EBONY Magazine
Nia Long Bares Her Soul-and her Belly-In Her Most Intimate Interview ever! The actress poses nude for EBONY’s cover—and gives us an exclusive peek at her very personal pregnancy diary.
Cover Star and expectant mother, Nia Long as you’ve never seen her before!
In the November issue, Long gives EBONY an inside look into her pregnancy diary, the shocking news that made her knees buckle, and how she and her partner, Ime Udoka, are handling the changes and bracing for a new chapter in life. She also opens up to EBONY for the first time ever about her humble roots, reconnecting with family in the West Indies, raising her son, finding her life mate–and about the pregnancy that wasn’t suppose to happen. “The medical profession tries to tell every woman, ‘Have your babies before 40…’ Society tells us ‘Get married before 30…’ I think if we just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.”
Lil Wayne: “Drake is not my competition, I’m the guy’s boss”
Young Money Records owner Lil Wayne put the smack down on his employee, Drake, during a cover interview for VIBE magazine’s October/November issue, due out in October.
When VIBE asked the platinum rapper if he felt intimidated by Drake’s meteoric success, Weezy’ revealed his own insecurity:
VIBE: You mentioned how humbled you were at the success of “She Will.” Drake, who wrote and performs the song’s chorus, has now become a platinum star in his own right. Do you look at the guy and say, “Wow, I helped create a monster, I have to stay on my toes”?
LIL WAYNE: I don’t look at it like that. Drake is my artist. If he wasn’t my artist, then yeah maybe. But that’s my artist. He’s not [just] a friend. We’re more than friends. It’s business. It would be impossible for it to be a competition. I mean, I’m the guy’s boss.
Tracee Ellis’s Hair: She wasn’t born with good hair, she works for it
Diana Ross’s middle daughter, Tracee Ellis Ross, 38, covers the October 10th issue of JET magazine.
Having made her mark on the hit show “Girlfriends” Tracee Ellis Ross is making her television comeback. Her new show, “Reed Between The Lines,” which premieres October 11 on BET, features Ross as a happily married therapist and mother of three. The new gig is just one of the many exciting changes happen in Ross’ life. JET has all the details on her workout regime, her rumored beau (Def Jam’s Bu Thiam), and her famous hair. “You gotta respect the curls … I work for them,” says Ross.
Her banging body might become a new obsession for her many admirers, but for now, when you type her name into Google, the top search is for “Tracee Ellis Ross hair.” “I have so much hair it’s extraordinary,” she says, admitting no one is more obsessed than she is. “You could take half the hair on my head and cover another person’s head.” She grew out her relaxer in high school and has tested so many styles, serums and conditioners that she might put out a book and a line of hair products one day. Not a fan of bone straight hair— “I’m Diana Ross’ child… big hair is what I come from”— she has learned one important lesson in natural hair manage ment: “You gotta respect the curls,” she says. “I work for them. I can’t tell them what to do.”
Find out what else she’s dishing on in the new issue on newsstands Oct. 10th!
