I’m an Embarrassment: Mischa Barton

Former “O.C.” actress Mischa Barton says she is a terrible date because she is clumsy and embarrassing to go out with.

Barton said she is so clumsy she would make a terrible date and that her awkward antics attract unwanted attention from the paparazzi.

“I’m ridiculously clumsy, you’d never want to date me, I’m an embarrassment. I wouldn’t even know where to start telling you the things I’ve walked into. I think that’s why the photographers love me, I’m constantly bruising myself or grazing my knees,” she said.

Despite admitting she is clumsy, the 23-year-old who has dated a string of famous men, including singers Luke Pritchard and Johnny Borrell insists none have ever ditched her.

“I’ve never been dumped. One tried to make it quite mutual though so that felt as close to dumping as I’ve got. I kind of lost it and was like, ‘You are not turning this on me. I dumped you first’,” she said.

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I’m an Embarrassment: Mischa Barton was first posted on December 21, 2009 at 5:11 pm.

Demi Moore Photoshop Controversy

latets news about, Demi Moore Photoshop Controversy, Demi Moore Photoshop: Being an observer (and occasional shooter) of all things fashion, I was just was looking at December’s “W” cover [above and left] withDemi Moore.
In the interview she says she’d rather be a “puma” than a “cougar” – but apparently, the clumsy Photoshop artist decided she was looking too strong in the cover shots – and awkwardly chopped off part of her left thigh. Note how the upper part of her left thigh/hip is basically missing (our right). Did she have some sort of weird car accident that left a wedge of meat missing from it? The fabric even magically floats above the missing thigh. Ha!

I feel about this the same way I did about the Ralph Lauren model. I don’t buy (in the high fashion context, anyway) that there’s necessarily too much “Photoshopping”, or too much of a drive toward uber-skinny (which really seems to be a complex thumbing-of-the-collective nose at western indulgence by the fashion industry – another conversation entirely) but simply that it’s bad art (in the sense such mistakes clearly interfere with the photographers goal – let’s call it “aesthetus interruptus”).

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Demi Moore Photoshop Controversy was first posted on November 19, 2009 at 4:05 pm.

“Sammy Sosa Before And After”

Original Content.Thnewspk.com “Sammy Sosa Before And After”:Sammy Sosa appears to have been doing something to lighten his skin as these before and after photos show. It isn’t just an effect of the photographers lights as we can see that while his wife’s complexion does indeed look lighter in the second, after photo of her and Sammy Sosa , the contrast between the two complexions changes.

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“Sammy Sosa Before And After”:Sammy Sosa appears to have been doing something to lighten his skin as these before and after photos show. It isn’t just an effect of the photographers lights as we can see that while his wife’s complexion does indeed look lighter in the second, after photo of her and Sammy Sosa, the contrast between the two complexions changes. Thus there must have been a change in their relative coloring, whatever the absolute change brought about by the lighting.

It also does not seem to be a case of vitiligo, which is what Michael Jackson had. This normally advances in patches (it exists in your humble reporter’s own family) and does not change the entire complexion at one go.

We might also consider one other point: Sammy Sosa used to play baseball and as we might note about that, it takes place outside, in the sun, in summer. Yes, everyone tans, however dark their natural skin color, so we would expect that sort of deep tan to perhaps fade a little over time once he had stopped playing. But these Sammy Sosa before and after pictures seem to show something more than that.

And indeed, Sammy Sosa’s own explanation is that he has been using a skin cream to soften his face (along the lines of a conditioner) and this is what has lightened his skin color. Luckily for this particular story it is indeed true that the use of skin conditioners will lighten skin, at least conditioners of a certain sort. If you think of what is called “dermal abrasion”, the concept will seem obvious. The propensity to have one skin color or another is genetic of course, but the expression of it comes from the skin’s exposure to sunlight. And it is the melanin in that top layer of the skin which actually darkens to give the skin color (a scar on the face of a dark skinned person is just as pink as that on the face of a lighter skinned one).

So if the form of skin conditioning is this dermal abrasion, the rubbing away of that very top skin layer to reveal younger skin underneath, then a side effect will be to lighten a person’s skin color.