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Taylor Swift: why are you so annoying?

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I cannot make my mind up about Taylor Swift. She is like Marmite.

When she released that super catchy song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, I thought yes a great song about some kind of female empowerment, we girls are putting a foot down and not letting you boys drag us back and forth and tease us to and fro. And I shall play this song over and over until I can’t stand it anymore OH HO!

And then I was kind of miffed that it was yet another of those diatribes good old TayTay writes about a guy she dated for five hot minutes. She was hurt that [insert celeb guy name here] was in the wrong and so she goes and writes a song to kick them in the balls.

Why is Taylor so bloody naive that she wears her heart on her sleeve?

She knows she’s a super famous generally popular young female country pop singer that is also super duper rich and is followed by paparazzi religiously as soon as she’s in a “relationship”. So why does she insist on making things so publicly obvious, we all know how famous people hate the paps and will do anything to hide from them or will be purposefully cagey in interviews with publications and refuse to “talk about their private lives, because my private life is just that… blah blah blah”.

But she is on a whole other level. I mean what was that circus with Taylor Swift and Harry Styles? Jesus. It was painful knowing that in less that ten days she was going to have been “hurt” over “bad boy” Harry Styles, yet she insisted on letting them follow the couple to the zoo whilst accompanying their weird chaperones friends who had a baby that Taylor insisted on cooing over like she was in an episode of Teen Mom.

And then it’s almost as if it wasn’t all a publicity stunt because she has her next single ready and boom it’s called I Knew You Were Trouble, about Harry Styles. I think she’d broken up with him for all of seven seconds before it was released – she has a shit hot publicist let me tell you.

Then it was that interview with Vanity Fair where she talked a load of idiotic bollocks that made her as annoying as Anne Hathaway (poor Anne Hathaway I don’t even know why I don’t like her), about how she doesn’t like that tabloids and has to avoid them yet as well as the aforementioned paparazzi whoring she writes about her famous ex-boyfriends like we wouldn’t know and judge her songs over them.

She allowed a “source” to talk candidly about why ‘Haylor’ broke up and blamed Harry. Of course. But who else was just thinking as E! Online pointed out that the “source” was really just Taylor Swift. Boo.

Now, yet another interview later, Taylor speaks to Wonderland magazine about how she doesn’t know whether she’ll be married or single in the future. I mean for starters, she’s just 23. TWENTY-THREE. Chill. The. Eff. Out. Why does she insist on talking about all her relationships and whether she wants to be married and have children and then wonder why guys run a mile after spending more than a month in the company of her crazy desperate personality.

“Relationships are like traffic lights, and I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

“I have no idea if I’m going to get married or be single forever or have a family or just be on my own. You know, paint in a cottage by the ocean by myself,” Swift said.

Gah. Take a note from Beyonce, girls rule the world. This is pathetic.

Maybe I belong in hell along with Amy Phoeler and Tina Fey [TS in VF: "There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women."] for pointing out just how annoying Taylor Swift is but why does she have to be like this so openly, and she wonders why other women pick on her because she is the worst example of the kind of desperate women out there. She just could be less whingy.

Oh and not forgetting she’s infiltrating one of my favourite television shows, New Girl. Please stay away from Nick.

I have nothing against cat lady's but Taylor, you're just setting yourself up for a fall.

I have nothing against cat ladys but Taylor, you’re just setting yourself up for a fall.

Emma Watson People’s Choice Awards 2013

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Is Emma Watson in a funk?

She walked the People’s Choice Awards 2013 red carpet in LA last night wearing a very familiar looking Peter Pilotto dress and shoes. Cast your memory back to the MTV Movie Awards in June of last year and there she is wearing an edgy Peter Pilotto dress with strikingly similar shoes.

PCA Awards in 2013 // MTV Movie Awards in June 2012

MTV Movie Awards in June 2012 // PCA 2013 picking up the award for Best Dramatic Movie Actress for Perks, beating Meryl Streep!

Emma Watson Marie Claire Feb 2013

Emma Watson Marie Claire Feb 2013

And after a recently disappointing front cover on Marie Claire UK, I think it’s time Emma injected some life and excitement into her look. I know it’s hard to grow out a hairstyle, her dramatic pixie crop back in 2010 after Harry Potter ended won me over in the end but now she’s at the awful inbetween stage. Most stars would add extensions just to give their hair some va va voom, which I think would be a good idea for Emma as every time she appears on the red carpet their is always something lacking in her overall look.

Everyone knows she can do better than this. She needs to make a mark and really needs to shed that bubblegum image, come on Emma!

Kate Upton wants to enjoy life and eat

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Kate Upton has had plenty of column inches since her illustrious swimsuit cover for Sports Illustrated.

Kate Upton on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

And nearly every article written has labelled her sexy and curvy.

It’s that word again – curvy – I use it myself I admit, but it’s the way the media uses it to describe a woman who isn’t a rake thin model but a healthy sized woman that doesn’t have bones jutting from her collar bone. The way they imply the word curvy seems to be a nicer way of saying fat.

Am I reading too deeply, or does anyone else agree?

Kate Upton has a banging body and amazing boobs I do not deny and even if some say she is just another American blonde, why does a pro-anorexia site feel the need to attack her claiming she is “thick, vulgar” and “almost pornographic”, as well as “piggy”, “lardy” and “well-marbled”?

Even Victoria’s Secret have had their say over Kate Upton claiming she wasn’t the right image for their famed Angels: “She’s like a footballer’s wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can buy.”

Ouch. If I’m not mistaken Victoria’s Secret have plenty of blonde girls on their roll call and it would be a step in the right direction for the American brand to employ someone like Kate when they are so well-known for their stupid photo-shopping errors to make their girls as skinny as possible. We all remember what Candice Swanepoel looked like last year…

Candice Swanepoel (centre) flanked by Adrianna Lima (left) and Alessandra Ambrosio (right)

Kate, 19, hit back at her online bullies telling The Sunday Times: “I’m not going to starve just to be thin. I want to enjoy life and I can’t if I’m not eating and miserable.”

A fantastic response from the size 8 model, but what worries me is not so long ago another young woman who burst onto the scene in 2006 and enjoyed tons of success as a plus-size model has in the past couple of years shrank to a shadow of her former self.

Crystal Renn then and now

Crystal Renn, was scouted at the age of 14 in her hometown of Mississippi but was told she would need to lose weight to be considered as a serious model, and thus developed anorexia nervosa. It was not until several years later Crystal reemerged onto the model circuit marketed as a plus-size model (US size 12, UK size 14) and was hailed for her comeback.

Even after publishing a book ‘Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves’ and seemingly embracing her figure, she appeared a few years later in 2010 as a US size 8, claiming hiking and yoga for her weight loss. Someone who was so applauded for walking the runway had shrunk to become a ‘regular’ model.

As much as Kate Upton claims she wants to eat, will she be strong enough to carry on with her success and not bow down to fashions ideals of what models should look like?

Real vs. Not Real apparently

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**I wrote this last year and never got round to publishing it.

I’m back here again, at that point where I cannot decide between “real” women and models.

They are two completely different categories and it frustrates me no end that “real” women are deemed this when they are curvy and plus size. Why are they “real” and those below size 10 not?

They are real, they exist, women have natural figures that are just simply that slim. I look at models on the front cover of magazines and I enjoy seeing their gorgeous figures, lithe, toned, sexy and fit. It’s exactly what sells millions of copies.

But then Franca Sozzani editrix of Vogue Italia chose to feature three plus-size models on a cover last year as part of an ongoing campaign against pro-anorexia websites. WHAT? I’m sorry but I’m not an expert on anorexia or any related eating disorder and will never claim to be, but why are plus-size models the opposite of anorexia sufferers as it seems Sozzani is saying.

She says: “A growing number of readers are now asking to see – even in fashion magazines – a real world, made of real people who are not obsessed with staying thin, but are able instead to naturally accept and respect their bodies as they are.

“Fashion has always been blamed as one of the culprits of anorexia, and our commitment is the proof that fashion is ready to get on the frontline and struggle against the disorder.”

So instead those who are suffering from a serious illness should aspire to pile on pounds and become curvy some would say overweight because that is what is “real”? But wouldn’t gaining a smaller amount of weight to be a healthier version of yourself be much better, so say aspire to be like Brooklyn Decker or Kim Kardashian, curvy but slim women? Is this my warped version of a perfect figure or is that what I have been programmed to see as normal, as “real” to me?

Franca Sozzani looks like this by the way.

Kristen Stewart Best Dressed?

Saying that Kristen Stewart is best dressed of 2012 is like saying Katie Holmes had a stellar career last year and has become the best actress EVER.

Even though we’re only four months into this year Glamour UK have announced their voted by readers annual best dressed celebs of 2012 and K-Stew has topped the list knocking Emma Watson from the coveted top spot.

In my opinion for someone to be best dressed you need to be an all-rounder, your red carpet style has to be translated to your street style aka Miranda Kerr, glamour has to be present in some form or another and if you saw K-Stew at Coachella the other weekend you would simply assume she had her wardrobe stolen and bought a cap from a trucker named Bubba.

Kristen Stewart at Coachella

Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against Converse, denim , or slouchy tees but when this is what you consistently wear, it’s no wonder the rumour that not one stylist wants to work with you goes around Tinseltown. I would also hope in the near future that she invest in some dry shampoo or a shower to wash her greasy hair, effort please!

This Stella McCartney look for Paul McCartney's My Valentine video premiere is doing absolutely nothing for her, that skirt is the wrong length the blazer tsk, and that hair needs a good wash.

There are those rare occasions that K-Stew steps onto the red carpet looking an absolute dream, i.e Breaking Dawn Part One premiere in J. Mendel and Roberto Cavalli and there is the upcoming appearance at Cannes Film Festival to promote her latest film On The Road so we could see some really impressive looks from her if she has an uber stylist in her entourage. Fingers crossed we get to see some great Summer 2012 looks.

Also Robert Pattinson scooped best dressed male, needless to say these two are a perfectly matched pair, because according to a Coachella-goer on Instagram he looked like a homeless British guy. How he managed to be placed first I have no idea. Come on Glamour sort it out! I am adding to this because Editor Jo Elvin has just pointed out that it is voted by Glamour readers, I am a Glamour reader maybe I should pull my finger out and put pen to paper next time they do the list because clearly the majority are a bit dim!!

Kristen Stewart in Roberto Cavalli at the London Twilight Breaking Dawn Part One premiere back in November.

Kristen was doing an Angelina way before Angelina was, in J. Mendel at the LA premiere of Breaking Dawn Part One.

The rest of the list is in the June issue of Glamour.

Shopping time!

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There are so many printed trousers around this season, a really popular trend seen on the runway for ss 12 and aw 12, and I’ve been dying to get my hands on a pair for a while now. On a shopping trip to the Metro Centre in Newcastle, I bought an awesome pair I’d seen   in Grazia from River Island. The print is slightly garish but they look fantastic on and the fit of the trousers is really flattering and the perfect size so I was more than happy to part with £30 for them!

River Island Floral Crop Trousers £30

They’re available on ASOS here and I’m even tempted with the matching blazer! I also bought this great skirt from Topshop that I’d seen Ashley Madekwe wearing and had to have as well, it’s pretty thin stretchy material so I have no idea why they included a zip!

Ashley Madekwe, Topshop skirt £28

Also fell in love with this silky floral printed bomber jacket from Zara. In fact I pretty much could have bought the whole of the Zara store, some really great stuff in there.

Zara Printed Bomber Jacket £30