Tom Cruise, Rolling Stone magazine [RS 476] June 19, 1986.

Beth Ditto has never been ashamed of her body.

She’s curvy, plump and proud.

Ditto, lead sing of Gossip, has long been outspoken about body image and society’s expectations of women and their weight. In the issue of Love, Ditto points the finger at those she feels are responsible.

“If there’s anyone to blame for size zero, it’s not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry who want these women as dolls. Men don’t know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way. The Beckhams are part of the machine; Paris Hilton is part of the machine.”

Former Danity Kane singer, Aubrey O’Day, is gracing the March issue of Playboy magazine, and in it she talks frankly about her sex life.

O’Day, who is known for wearing skimpy outfits and enjoying wild nights out on the town, thinks that Americans are too prudish when it comes to nudity and sex.

“In this society we’re all taught to cover ourselves and our thoughts up,” she says. “Nudity is a beautiful thing.”

O’Day is featured in an eight-page nude pictorial.

She goes on to tell us a little more than we wanted to know, bragging about all the places she has had sex. “I’ve done it in cabs, clubs, everywhere..”

And she insists she is a vixen between the sheets. “I want to be that girl who gives a guy the best sex he has ever had, the sex he’ll never be able to get out of his head,” she says.

But regardless of her bad girl reputation, she says that she will make a fine wife one day. “Most of the stuff you’ve read about me is made up, and the best stuff about me you have yet to find out. I’m more of a catch than anybody realizes.”

[Us]

I bet Guy Ritchie is sure proud of his lovely ex-wife Madonna.

After splitting with her hubby (actually before) Madonna was sneaking around with Alex Rodriguez, a.k.a. “A-Roid”, then after meeting model Jesus Luz she dumped Alex like a bad habit and began flaunting her living Brazilian sex doll all over the place.

Although I love the fact that A-Rod got the shaft, it makes me sick that Madonna is so selfish and inconsiderate of her children and her ex-husband.

I think Madonna is stuck in 1992. But this time she can’t call it ‘reinventing herself’.

I’m sick of seeing Madonna’s crotch, I am sick of her scandalous sexual affairs and I am sick of the old bitch, herself!

[W]

Victoria Beckham graces the February cover of Russian Vogue.

The former Spice Girl, who is a designer these days, wore her own designs for the photo shoot.

Of her collection she said,

“Forties and Fifties underwear played a big influence on the collection, but the inspiration is me. I have tried every one of the dresses on, lived in them, to work out what feels right. I hope the silhouette is what every woman wants to wear.”

Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole took a jab at her former friend earlier this month saying that she thought Victoria’s collection was for ‘older women’ and that she and her bandmates would never wear any of it.

Ouch.

Victoria looks fierce in this shoot! The best shot is the one below, with Posh in a belted red satin dress and killer shoes..

“I made a decision. I wanna make popular music, but I want less fans. I want the freedom of having less fans. It’s like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility. It’s like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s Björk.’ But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I’ll pose naked. I break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture.”

-Kanye West tells VIBE magazine (Feb. 09) he will pose naked one day.

[MTV]

Gah, Jennifer Aniston is everywhere lately. If you can’t stand her, this is probably torture for you, because there’s no getting away from her lately!

Jen strips down for the upcoming cover of GQ wearing nothing but a red white and blue tie, her strategically placed limbs hiding her girlie parts.

She looks great and I like Jen, but enough already. Must everyone get naked lately?

It’s like every star aspires to achieve the same things. To make it as an actor/actress, then get their own clothing line, only to later appear in a controversial naked ad or photo (at least once) and to cut an crappy album. WTF?

I wonder when Jen’s album drops?

Ok, is there anyone out there who really does not like Brad Pitt?

I doubt it.

He really is a very likable guy when you hear him in interviews, he has a genuine smile and undeniable charisma. And hey, I am kinda diggin’ that mustache if ya know what I mean.

Like many, I would have to say my favorite Brad Pitt movie character is Tyler Durden of Fight Club. In fact, every time I watch it I am reminded of how damn sexy this man can be – as much as I don’t want him to be. The Sexiest Men of the Year as named by People magazine are generally not my type.

Heh.

Pitt does a great interview in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone and here’s an excerpt – but go and get the magazine on Friday to read it in it’s entirety.

Rolling Stone: Benjamin Button is your third film with Fincher. Going back to Fight Club, though, I found a quote where he talks about how you’re actually sort of similar to your character, Tyler Durden.

Pitt: In that I don’t bathe?

He didn’t mention that specifically. He said, “It’s probably a character closer to Brad in real life than most people would be comfortable knowing.”

[Pitt laughs]

“There is a childlike sense of anarchy….He is kind of a shit-stirrer and one of those people who is ‘Huh? Is that the current thinking? I don’t really buy that.’”

Well, that probably comes from growing up in a religious community. I just found it so stifling, my religion. I know it’s very comforting for other people.

Did you go to church every Sunday?

Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you could be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental. This Prop. 8 thing just drives me mental.

Where were you on election night?

Chicago. I went down to Grant Park, because I was doing Oprah the next day. I walked home from the park to the hotel, which was a half-hour walk. And I could walk freely — no one was interested in me at that point. People were weeping and hugging. The sense of elation in the streets — it was great. That was such a turnaround for us. We captured the original definition of America again.

Do you think Fight Club could have been made after September 11th?

No. Certainly not that ending. We debated it then. There’s a line we stuck in, about the buildings being evacuated.

Some critics just didn’t get that film.

Did you see the DVD that Fincher put out? He put all the negative reviews in the booklet. Some London critic said, “Not only is it anti-capitalistic, but it’s anti-society and anti-God.” We were like, “We didn’t realize it was that good!”

Benjamin Button and Fight Club actually deal with similar themes: having a finite amount of time in life, and what we should do with it.

But they come to such radically different conclusions. In Fight Club, the response to mortality is nihilism, anarchy —
[Laughs] That was a Nineties conclusion. Now we have an Aughts conclusion. I actually never thought of what you just said. But it’s probably true.

It’s just, Benjamin Button feels very positive, but you could easily come away from that story feeling very bleak.

Yeah, I think it’s open to . . . it’s your choice. I find Benjamin is about those universal things we all share — that 95 percent that makes us all the same, wherever we are in the world. Our loves, our hopes, but also the loss that we all walk around with and hide very well, and the ultimate notion that we’re all expendable. To me, it’s a counterstatement to this divisive period we’ve been in, where we focused on the two, three, four, five percent of ways in which we’re different.

[Read the full story in RS Issue 1068-69, on stands December 12, 2008.]

In the midst of what some are calling Britney’s long awaited comeback, the pop princess is busy promoting her new album, Circus, which hits stores on her 27th birthday, December 2nd.

But is she as excited about it as her manager and fans? Is her life still in shambles despite this year’s success? To me, it seems that way.

Britney is going two hundred miles an hour these days. Traveling to foreign countries, doing interviews, photo shoots, you name it. The girl is hard at work right now, and the pressure is on.

In the latest Rolling Stone magazine, Britney says once again that she feels there is no longer zest in her life.

She tells the magazine, “I feel like an old person now. I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night, and I don’t go out or anything.”

This seems to be a recurring topic for Spears who recently was quoted in her upcoming documentary, Britney: For the Record as saying, “There’s no excitement in my life anymore.”

Even though Britney keeps saying the same thing again and again, which to me, sounds like a sort of cry for help, the emphasis is still placed solely on her new album and her comeback.

Her manager, Larry Rudolph, is convinced that ‘Circus’ is going to be Brit’s savior. He says, “This is going to be the album that cements her legend status.”

But Britney tends to play the sad clown more often than the pop superstar.

Instead of talking about her “comeback” she talks about things she yearns for. Her children being number one on that list. “Every time they come to visit me, I think about how they’re such special people,” she says.

She adds that she is disappointed in her ex-husband Kevin Federline, who has been unknowingly teaching the boys words such as ’stupid’ – and worse things. Sean Preston sometimes says the f-word.

“He doesn’t get it from us. He must get it from his daddy. I say it, but not around my kids.”

With so much going on in her life, it seems Britney’s latest album has been aptly named.

Because what a circus it is.

See Britney’s video shoot here.