A lot of celebrities have the means to give to those less fortunate but not many put their money where their mouth is.
You certainly cannot accuse Shakira of being one of them. Not when she’s donating $45 million to those in need.
While at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, Shakira announced that she would be donating $40 million to help areas in Latin America such as Peru and Nicaragua who are dealing with natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes.
The other $5 million will be for poor children’s educational projects and schooling in Latin American countries.
Eddie Vedder of the 90’s angsty grunge band Pearl Jam says he hasn’t mellowed in recent years. In fact he says he has gotten angrier than ever. Part of the reason, Vedder says, is that he wants the world to be a better place for his three-year old daughter, Olivia.
“When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it,” Vedder told reporters at Tuesday’s Into the Wild press conference in West Hollywood. “I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn’t.
It was a different reaction. It wasn’t the glowy lovey-dovey. It fueled my anger.
I realized that I was getting more angry – the exact opposite – and maybe it was because of the times, three years ago and what’s still happening. … All of a sudden, I saw the world as her world that they were [messing] with. That really pissed me off.
I don’t know what I’m going to say when she sees pictures of me hanging 30 feet off a rafter, over a crowd. At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I’m glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.”
Vedder wants to avoid the mistakes his parents made while raising him.
“I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. I know that she’s going to go through a time where she has to assert her independence. I’m going to have to just encourage that.
I think she’s going to have a great upbringing. Already, she’s provided a life of travel. I didn’t get to New York until 25 or Europe until I was 26. She’s been to all these places six or seven times. She’s beyond me in terms of her comfortability around other people, to this day.”
Did Christina Aguilera look gorgeous or what? And not only did she look fabulous, that girl sang beautifully. It’s pretty hysterical to think that she and Britney Spears were once competition. In fact, for quite awhile Britney was the more celebrated one.
“It was so down and dirty that I had scratch marks that we had to cover up on my face for the next few days. (But they) had to stay away from my boobs. Because I was breastfeeding. That was the one sacred thing. (They) could go for my head, pull my hair, just not the boobs.”
- Jennifer Garner juggled hardcore training for her new movie “The Kingdom” and breastfeeding baby Violet
Hayden Panettiere poses at the “Heroes” news conference in Munich, Germany, August 27th.
She looks gorgeous as usual. Hayden has not only got a terrific sense of style, she carries herself with class. Her smile is contagious and she always has a twinkle in her eye.
How can you not love the very lovable Hayden Panettiere?
Girlfriend is on the right track no doubt. Is it not refreshing to see a young Hollywood star in control of her life?
Star magazine is right. Hayden IS Hollywood’s new ‘It’ girl.
Jodie Foster says she will never have plastic surgery. And could we really picture her with it? She is and always will be a natural beauty.
Foster, 44, says that she loves her imperfections and figures that’s what makes her who she is.
She old More magazine,
“It’s not my thing. I don’t have anything against it for other people. Whatever they want to do, I’m fine with it. For me, it’s really a self-image thing. Like, I’d rather have somebody go, ‘Wow, that girl has a bad nose,’ than ‘Wow, that girl has a bad nose job.’ I’d rather have a comment about who I am than about something that identifies me as being ashamed of who I am.”
Hayden Panettiere you hot little thing you. Almost 18, and a total class act all the way.
Hayden is what all the Lindsays, Britneys and Nicoles should aspire to be like. She acts like a lady and is amazingly gorgeous to boot. This girl will be the one to land all the good roles in the near future. She is like the Michelle Pfeiffer of her time.
You’ll never see Hayden flashing her clamato or nips. I hope she stays that way because girlfriend has it all going on, and she will reap the benefits soon.
