FameCrawler : celebrity endorsements

Slam Dunk! Candace Parker is the First Pregnant Woman on cover of ESPN Magazine

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:05:00 GMT

Los Angeles Sparks star Candace Parker is expecting her first child with her husband, Minnesota Timberwolves forward Shelden Williams, this spring. And another first - the WNBA player is the first pregnant woman to be on the cover of ESPN magazine.

“We don’t do a lot of female athletes on the cover. Candace has made it more interesting," says Gary Belsky, editor-in-chief of the magazine. "She’s got Adidas, McDonald’s and Gatorade as sponsors; that’s a pretty strong big three. But it’s still tough to put a woman on the cover for us.”

Parker's cover is certainly a coup, since the target audience of ESPN magazine is the 18-34-year-old male.

While the mom-to-be is excited about her cover girl status, it's her other upcoming event she's gushing about. "I’m proud of my child...and I’m excited about the opportunity to have a child and be an athlete," Parker says. And she certainly isn't sitting this pregnancy out on the bench. "I'm working out three or four times a week. The hard part about being an athlete is learning that when you feel tired you can’t push yourself."

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Nicole Kidman: DUMPED

HerBadMother — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:50:00 GMT

I kinda figured that this particular relationship would last. I mean, I know that a pregnancy very often spells the end of these things - pregnancies being hard to accommodate in some such situations - but it just hadn't occurred to me that this pregnancy would end this relationship.

I mean - whaddup, Chanel? Can't you have a pregnant celebrity as the face of Chanel No. 5? Do mothers not wear Chanel No. 5? Is it not, like, your number one Mother's Day product? Why dump Nicole Kidman now?

Because, for the record, although Audrey Tatou is cute and very French and all, and although I was kind of irritated by those early Kidman Chanel commercials that shamelessly ripped off scenes from Moulin Rouge, I kinda got used to her, yanno? And I was kinda interested in the idea of a pregnant (and, later, lactating and spit-up upon) spokesmodel.

But whatever. That's not your vision. I suppose that I'll just have to live with that. But I won't be asking for any Chanel No. 5 this Mother's Day. Which, you know, I wasn't going to anyway, but still.

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Beckham Bares Bottom, Again

HerBadMother — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:33:00 GMT

I suppose his bottom isn't really bare, is it? It's tightly wrapped in Armani boy-panties, which is the point, I suppose, seeing as he's stripped down for the express purpose of selling Armani underwear. I gotta say, no wonder Victoria keeps insisting that he impregnate her - he is one smokin' piece of man-flesh. A little fey in character, maybe, but indisputably cut.

I love that he always puts on that grr-rawr face when he's showing off his body - like he's an angry half-naked person, who deeply resents that he's been forced to disrobe, when in fact we all know that he luuuuurves taking off his clothes and thrusting his nether regions (fore or aft) toward a camera. I suppose, though, that a big cheese-eating grin might undermine the deeply serious panty-couture vibe that they're going for with these ads.

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Victoria Beckham Is Gay! Buy Her Perfume!

HerBadMother — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:01:00 GMT

Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, has spoken out publicly against celebrity who come out with their own clothing and fragrance lines. All of them, that is, except her.

"There are so many - and I hate the word celebrities - clothing lines and fragrances, and most of them have nothing to do with it," she says in an upcoming issue of Elle Magazine. She, however, is the real deal - and she is, she says, so authentically fashion because she is actually a gay man. "I'm so camp! I'm a gay man trying to get out!"

First of all, I didn't know that Victoria Beckham was a gay man, but now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense. Explains a lot about her look, and her marriage.

Secondly, I didn't know that she was different from other - and I hate this word too - celebrities, so different that her clothing line and fragrances have nothing of the taint of fame-whoredom and money-grubbery about them. Her products are special, people, and she wants you to know that so that you can go out buy them - her fragrance, Intimately Beckham (gag) and her line of jeans for Rocawear - right away.

Maybe her products are so special because they're designed and marketed by a gay man masquerading as tarty pop-star-cum-soccer-wife. You gotta wonder, though, what such a character's preferred 'intimate' fragrance smells like. Jock straps and silicone?

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David Beckham Pulls Down His Pants. Again.

HerBadMother — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:06:00 GMT

I guess that we wouldn't really call David Beckham the new face of Emporio Armani underwear, would we? I mean, it's not really his face that's going to be selling those boxer briefs, is it? It's his ass.

It's gotta be a big relief to the Beckhams that he got this endorsement deal, because his earnings last year fell a reported 28% to - gasp - 11.1 million dollars due to loss of endorsement contracts. Maybe that's why we've been seeing so much of his ass in recent months - he's been plugging for a new deal. Good thing, then, too, that he keeps getting picked for those 'sexy' and 'manly' lists (as opposed to the 'unsexy' and 'who'd want to sleep with them' lists that seem to becoming more popular, and which could probably kill an underwear endorsement deal) - the more that we hear about the awesomeness of his ass, the more we'll want to see it. In Emporio Armani underwear. Or out of Armani underwear. Whichever.

I don't need much convincing. I think that he's as girly as they come, but I can't deny his rear end. No wonder Posh keeps getting him to knock her up. Okay, wrong end of the nether regions, but still.

Source: Vogue.com

Help! Half of The Beatles Rolling in Their Graves

Whit Honea — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:00:00 GMT

I've always thought of The Beatles as being a bit greener than most. Sure, they've left their share of carbon here and there, but they liked flowers and hated war. They were quite adamant that all we needed was love.

Now, fans are upset that the song, "All You Need is Love" has been cashed in to promote one of green's biggest foes, disposable diapers. All you need is Luvs? Really?

In an age when Hollywood parents are leading the charge for a return to environment-friendly cloth diapers, it seems like an odd endorsement. Granted, some of John Lennon's artwork graces the shell of a different brand of diapers, but that's Yoko's call, and frankly we expect that from her, she was in a band made from plastic.