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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo confusing!1 Is Gwyneth "most hated" or "World's Most Beautiful Woman"?!1
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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2013/04/gwyneth-paltrow-most-beautiful
[font size=5]Gwyneth Paltrow Goes from Most Hated Celebrity to Worlds Most Beautiful Woman in About a Week[/font]
In the space of eight days, Oscar winner, self-appointed lifestyle guru, and Beyoncé-song consultant Gwyneth Paltrow has catapulted herself from Star magazines Most Hated Celebrity (More Hated Than Chris Brown Edition) to Peoples Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Granted the two categories are not mutually exclusivea celebrity can be considered physically beautiful at the same time as shes perceived to be a spiritual landfill by spiritually questionable Star readersbut still, progress! (In our defense, we argued that it was reprehensible to give Paltrow the former title last week.) Making the victory even sweeter is the fact that Paltrow succeeds her friend Beyoncé as this years title-holder.
People cornered the supermarket-tabloid market on world-beauty assessment in 1990, when the magazine discovered well-established movie star Michelle Pfeiffer and controversially named her the inaugural Worlds Most Beautiful Woman. Other less-beautiful-than-Gwyneth-Paltrow beautiful women this year include Kerry Washington, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, and Halle Berry.
As for the Worlds Most Beautiful Womans maintenance routine, Paltrow downplays her natural appeal in the accompanying People blurb:
Around the house, Im in jeans and a T-shirt. I dont really wear makeup. Thats what (my family is) used to, she says. As for her husband, Chris Martin, Hell make a joke about it. If Ive gotten fully dressed up, hell be like, Oh, wow! Youre Gwyneth Paltrow! Because hes used to seeing me in like baggy shorts and frizzy hair.
As for how she responded to the title, Paltrow tells the magazine in a video outtake, I honestly thought that someone was playing a joke on me. I had to read the e-mail three times. . . I (thought) I had developed dyslexia. Testing her critics, she maintains a positive outlook on how the cover may affect her image: I think people feel really happy for you when you say you are going to be in the issue.
Star blip aside, this has been a banner month for Paltrow. Aside from being named the above, her second cookbook, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
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Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)But "World's most beautiful woman"? Really?
raccoon
(31,092 posts)Iggo
(47,489 posts)...those two categories are not mutually exclusive.
Orrex
(63,086 posts)Sure, it was unwritten, but it was there, plain as day.
olddots
(10,237 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I can't stand her.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)The whole most beautiful thing is just silliness anyway. Nobody's the most beautiful woman or the sexiest man. Except maybe MFM. I saw his picture. He's adorable.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)All in the mind of the beholder, or course. I thing she is strikingly average looking. Which is, of course, no importance whatsoever.
patricia92243
(12,590 posts)I don't know who is the most beautiful - to each his own, I guess.