ANTM Cycle 13: America's First Petite Top Model

This afternoon's episode of the Tyra Banks Show was a toga party of America's Next Top Model Cycle 12 (airs its 2-hour premier tonight on CW) where Tyra and every girl in the audience ---there were no males by the way-- wore a goddess costume, Tyra's was metallic gold and every one else's was white. At the beginning of the show, Tyra informed the viewers that nobody in the audience was taller than 5'7" and later revealed the reason why.

Tyra said that one of the questions she's always been asked by the female audiences of her talk show is why all the models have to be very tall and if she will ever cast short girls for America's Next Top Model. So this afternoon, she surprised the audience (and me as a viewer) that the next season of ANTM will be for girls whose height is not taller than 5'7''. She repeatedly said that even 4'10'' girls  can audition for the casting of ANTM Cycle 13.  According to her, she has done a lot of efforts to to convice her "bosses" to make this "1st petite model" idea happen. 

So to all short girls out there who dream of becoming models, this is your chance (and might be the only chance) to shine on the runway!

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A Filipina sings "God Bless America" for Obama

If you're not familiar with the name Charice Pempengco, she's a 16-year old Filipina singer who became an internet sensation in 2008 when someone posted a video on Youtube of her performance in Star King, a Korean talent show. The video got more than 13,000,000 views that it later caught the attention of some big celebrities outside the Philippines. Charice guested on the Ellen De Genere's show, Paul O' Grady Show (London), ABC's Good Morning America, sang a duet with Celine Dion during the latter's concert at Madison Square Garden, guested twice on Oprah, and was one of the performers at David Foster's Tribute Concert in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. She has rubbed elbows with other big names in the music indusry such as Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli to name a few, and has performed infront of famous personalities such as Donald Trump, Denzel Washington, Jay Leno, Gayle King, designers Tommy Hilfiger and Kenneth Cole, and many more.

Charice's latest international exposure to date is probably the biggest performance she will ever have in her life. I'm talking about singing for the U.S. President elect Barack Obama. Yesterday, January 18, 2009, Charice sang "God Bless America" during Obama's pre-inaugural ball at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel along with other musicians. This may not be a big deal to the Americans but it kind of makes me wonder why, of all the musicians they can pick, Charice, who is a pure Filipino and  not even a U.S. immigrant was chosen to sing the 2nd National anthem of the USA which some of the lyrics say: God Bless America, land that I love and God Bless America, my home sweet home. While there's nothing wrong with that and everyone can sing whatever song or anthem they want to sing, to me it's like a pure American sings the Philippine National Anthem infront of the Filipinos at the Malacañang Palace on a big national event. Anyways, Charice also sang "One Moment in Time" at the said event.

Congratulations on being chosen Charice! and you make us Filipinos proud.

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What Do You Think Of Beyonce's Single Ladies Video?

Hi-cut one piece + high heels + sexy dance moves= smoking hot, unless you add a pair of thunder thighs to these 3 which is the case of Beyonce. I'm not saying that there's something wrong with Beyonce's thighs, in fact I think she looks sexiest in her Crazy in Love video in that part where she's wearing skimpy shorts and doing all those dance moves. But for most girls, high heels and swimsuit combo just looks good on slender thighs...and "normal" butts. And I think it looks gross (ok, maybe gross is a strong word) rather than sexy when she does that grind dance step (time 0:53-0:58). Girls with bodies like Beyonce's, Rihanna's, Tyra Bank's, or Kim Kardashian's dancing in fast tunes wearing only one piece and, worse, paired with high heels? Oh puhleezz!!! I would have at least liked it if Beyonce and the back up dancers were wearing jeans or maybe even miniskirt,or anything else, just not that one-piece. I love the part of Beyonce's Upgrade U video where she wears a sparkly dress, the Survivor video where she's wearing camouflage, or the Crazy in Love video where she's wearing a very short orange dress (that part where she occasionally licks her thumb) and  I'm grossed out (again, maybe that's too mean) with her videos where she dances in one-piece and heels. I love the Single Ladies song, but the video? I wish some slender artist did it like Jessica Simpson, or Nicole of the Pussycat Dolls.

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Is it OK to fantasize about a celebrity when you're married?

My husband is hot, period. But I can't help admiring Chris Brown, and I'm not just talking about his talents but his looks as well. Eversince he became an international phenomenon with his song "Kiss Kiss", I have always thought he's sexy. Then he came up with more songs that I can't stop listening to, like "With You", and I feel like a crushing highschool girl again. I saw an episode of the Tyra Banks show where CB hugged a girl who was a die-hard fan of him and didn't let go for a few minutes. This may sound weird but boy, was I jealous! I wish I was that girl :P

My husband knows this of course. He  knows how much I like Chris Brown, he knows that I always watch CB's videos on Youtube, and he hears me squeal "OMGGGG!!!" as Chris takes his shirt off in his concert videos, and all of this if completely fine with him...or at least that's what I think. I mean he's never shown any sign of jealousy whatsoever. He even downloads CB songs for me on my iPod. Maybe because he secretly fantasizes the Victoria Secret models too (ok I really don't have enough proof for that haha). Actually, everytime those teasing bikini-clad women appear on TV, I just kinda joke about how he can't take his eyes off the TV and we both laugh about it. Sometimes we even argue about who's the sexiest model of VS. We don't make this "celeb crushing" an issue maybe because we know it's too small a thing to be concerned about. I mean, it's not like I'm gonna do everything just to be with Chris Brown, and even if I do it's simply not gonna happen, and not that I'm wishing. I'm very faithful to my spouse, that's all I can say, and I know that he knows that.

I don't know if this is an issue to other couples out there. I know It makes some women upset when their men look at sexy girls, celebrities or not. I admit that I don't like it when my man glances at women in their bikinis on the beach, but I don't care about him staring at VS models, like I said. I wonder if there are also other married girls out there who, like me, get that "highschool feeling" when the see their celebrity crush on TV and what their guys think about it.

I don't think you can call the way I admire Chris Brown as fantasizing. I think he's hot and that stops there. But is fantasizing about a celebrity that you haven't even met and don't know as a person a form of adultery or unfaithfulness?

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