15-Day Old Baby Rescued from Rubble in Haiti

From BettyConfidential.com
The infant survived for an entire week without food or water.
-April Daniels Hussar

In a true miracle, rescuers discovered a 15-day-old baby alive in the rubble of her home a full week after the earthquake in Haiti destroyed the house.
Her mother, 22-year-old Michelene Joassaint, said she had put baby Elisabeth down for a nap on [...]

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Reese Witherspoon Says It’s Tough Being a Female

From BettyConfidential.com
The actress doesn’t enjoy the pressures placed on the female population.  -Carolyn French

Cutie pie Reese Witherspoon finds it rather challenging to be a woman. Like, join the club, right?
Reese feels somewhat boxed in by society’s view of how a female should act, and she knows that at the end of the day it all [...]

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** SCARY ** The Plastic Surgery iPhone App Is Here

From Shine.com

Honestly, I don’t know whether to be horrified by this new iPhone App, or run out and buy an iPhone just so I can use the App. What is it? Why, it’s the iSurgeon, “an innovative App … which combines personal image modification with high tech gaming features.” Huh?
Basically, it does two things: One, [...]

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Plus-size models are better role models? Fat chance!

From The NY Post
“A-PLUS” ran the headline of a Post story the other day that cheered a fashion magazine’s decision to run pictures of overweight models. So. Hooray for fatties, right? Or maybe we are expected to praise the magazine’s path-breaking and revolutionary decision to be only the ten thousandth magazine to do a (the [...]

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ATB Newsletter: MY FIRST FASHION SHOW

The other day I received an email from Mary Ellen, the Executive Director at Ophelia’s Place in upstate NY asking me if I’d model in her upcoming fashion show on February 7th.
She calls the fashion show “A Radical Fashion Show to Benefit Ophelia’s Place.”  The show will be hosted by Joy Nash featuring models of [...]

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Is Heidi Montag Addicted to Plastic Surgery?

From BettyConfidential.com
In case you haven’t noticed, the blonde bombshell has made a habit out of going under the knife.  -Carolyn French

At the end of November reality star/singer Heidi Montag continued her quest to become “the best me” by hopping on an operating table to receive 10 plastic-surgery makeovers (in one day).
The 23-year-old Hills beauty opens [...]

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Are Temporary Tattoos The Next Big Thing In Modeling & Advertising?

From Shine.com

How to Wear Winter Florals!
Anything Chanel seems to garner the sort of attention that results in immediate obsession and desire. The latest is a collection of transfer tattoos that first appeared on their spring/summer 2010 runway. For all of us who want a tattoo, but can’t stomach the needles or the permanence, Chanel [...]

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ATB Newsletter: – CNN CALL TODAY

- CNN CALL TODAY
I received a call from CNN News this morning and tomorrow they will do a segment about the Ralph Lauren boycott and how a group of 7700 people on Facebook has the entire fashion industry taking notice.
The segment will run during the 10pm news tomorrow night (Saturday) on CNN. That’s 10pm Eastern, [...]

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Boycott Ralph

If you agree in principal with this letter and would like to be put on a list to receive ongoing updates with my/our Ralph Lauren boycott – Click here and leave your email address (please forward this email to everyone you know and ask them to sign up as well):Boycott Ralph if the above link [...]

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Open letter to Ralph Lauren

Sent 11/29/2009
Ralph Lauren – CEO
Scott Myers – Marketing Director
Michael Morelli – VP of Advertising
David Lauren – SVP of Advertising
Laura Johnson- Public Relations Manager
Trecia Laird- Senior Marketing Manager
Hello Mr. Lauren,
To introduce myself to you, my name is Darryl Roberts and let me start off by saying I used to wear Polo Shirts when I was in [...]

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