Ashley Greene, of Twilight fame, was recently seen cavorting on the beach wearing nothing but body paint. Sure, it was for a Sobe sponsored Sports Illustrated shoot - but I like to pretend that she was going rogue on Hollywood in an attempt to take Kendra Wilkinson's place at the Playboy Mansion. (Kendra famously caught Hugh Hefner's eye while sporting body paint at a party. Link mildly NSFW.) Who cares what she was doing when she's safe in the knowledge that she'll never get kicked off Beautiful People. And really, isn't that all that matters? Details, via Gone Hollywood: But the site has now changed the approval process by making
members of the opposite sex only able to vote on each other, apparently a lot
of women were voting other women out so they could cut down on the competition.
Robert Hintze, who founded the website, said "As a business,
we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand
the high standard of beauty be upheld, Letting fatties roam the site is a
direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which
BeautifulPeople.com was founded."
Gred Hodge, the managing director of the website says, "We
were getting a lot of complaints from members who were meeting with people who
gained a lot of weight or who gained weight in their photo albums."]
"Letting fatties roam the site" - I wish Robert could be more direct. It's comforting to know that a big pile of prejudice is waiting just around the corner from the holidays. If by "high standards" Robert means "complete assholes," then I think the website it doing an excellent job.
[Photo Credit: Click on the photo link for Ashley's Sports Illustrated/Sobe picture gallery. Is it worth it to mention the irony that Ashley successfully blocked nude photos that were almost leaked on the web - and then agreed to this campaign?]
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