I’ve commented before about Unilever’s schizophrenia when it comes to women’s “image” issues. But for some reason, a prime example eluded me. Exhibit A: Unilever’s “Dove” brand runs a “Self-Esteem Fund” and is sponsoring a June 7 “Sleepover for Self-Esteem” event in Canada.
Exhibit B: Unilever’s “Ave” brand offers the “VIXENS” (Very Interactive Xtremely Entertaining Naughty Supermodels) software for download.
I’m not making this up.
Even before you install the software (which I had to do, um, just so I would know what I was talking about), the website give you a choice between a French Maid, a Bo-Peep model, and a Playboy bunny to hypnotize you into buying a certain manly-smelling body spray. The French maid drops a spatula on the ground, bends over, says “I’ve been bad — I deserve spanking,” and then, well, you get the idea.
The software itself introduces you to a charming hostess named Naomi, who asks you to figure out what her name spells if you read it backward.
Yeah, she’s got loads of self-esteem.
Memo to Unilever: You’re not helping.
Bonus points: The Axe “Naughty to Nice” promotion, about “squeaky clean nice girls who turn into naughty, lust-crazed vixens” after catching a whiff of a guy’s bottled stank.
Sure, Eddie might be a deadbeat dad, but at least he doesn’t loll around in a bikini in public during the day, smoking ciggies and swilling champagne:
(Check out Hollywood Tuna for more, if necessary.) It’s all part of the health regimen she told People about last May:
“It’s amazing. I love being a mom… I love kids, period. I’d have another one tomorrow if I could.”
She’s been keeping in shape by doing cardio and eating healthy foods such as salmon and broccoli, and said: “I feel great! I’m happy. I was a happy pregnant woman and now I’m a happy new mom. Life goes on, and I have two beautiful children.”
You know what kids love? Cirrhosis and lung cancer. Oh wait, I meant candy and toys.
The family of John Graziano, the kid that Hulk Hogan’s boy put into a coma, wants to Hogans to stay the eff away from the hospital where John is currently being treated.
Linda Bollea and her spawn Nick and Brooke went to visit John last month, and photos later suspiciously popped up on gossip sites, suggesting the family had called the paparazzi about the photo op.
The Grazianos are not impressed:
“We believe that it was a total (public relations) stunt,” said attorney Kimberley Kohn.
No kidding. When the Hogan/Bolleas aren’t busy blaming John for getting himself in a coma, they try to drum up sympathy for themselves in a pretty low way. Class acts, these people.
Dina Lohan says her hand was forced to create Living Lohan, the new reality show coming this summer that will try to make a household name out of Lindsay’s younger sister Ali.
Dina, 45, tells PageSix.com that they decided to do a reality show because, “…we have no choice. Tabloids and reality shows are not going away. If they know who Ali is as a person, it’s better.”
Seriously? Tabloids and reality shows aren’t going away because the Lohans court them like there’s no tomorrow!
As columnist Duane Wells points out:
No choice but to do a reality show? No choice but to attempt to create a media frenzy around another of your children after seeing first hand how detrimental such attention can be at a young age? No choice but to expose your entire family to the scrutiny of a nation? Looks like Dina Lohan could use a lesson in what having “no choice” means.
Struggling single moms who have to work two jobs to feed their kids have “no choice” other than spending less time with their children than they might want to. Mothers in Africa whose homes are not equipped with netting to keep out mosquitoes that carry Malaria have “no choice” but to watch their babies die of a disease that could have easily been prevented.
Dina Lohan had the choice to take a different path with Ali, and she has settled on the same road to Hollywood that nearly ate her oldest daughter alive.
Amen, brother. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Eddie Murphy is punishing his daughter Angel by refusing to see her because he hates her mother, Spice Girl Mel B. No, seriously.
“What was supposed to be a casual relationship ended with her having his baby and taking him to court for millions,” a source told The National Enquirer.
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A source said: “He says he will have to wait until Angel is older before he can get to know her without any interference from her mother.”
How admirable, playing the “she tricked me by getting pregnant” card. At least the courts and science have forced him to recognize Angel as his daughter, but they failed to turn him into a human being.
Murphy has never seemed like a prince of a guy, but this is a whole ‘nother level of scuzzy. It may even top the time he refused to apologize for making Norbit.
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