Raise those glasses and let’s share a toast, THGers: It’s National Margarita Day! A holiday that honors the long tradition of this delicious drink, which was founded by by our forefathers in… … JUST KIDDING! It’s a celebration made-up by alcohol companies that want to see you get sloshed on their brand of liquor. But whatever, right? Is that concept really so different from Valentine’s Day? So slap on that salt, stick in a lime, grab yourself America’s top-selling cocktail and designate a driver. We’ll meet you at the bar.
She’s definitely the “It Girl” of modeling at the moment … but is Sports Illustrated cover girl Kate Upton also America’s most hated model among fellow models? Upton, whose racy Antarctic photo shoot landed her the much-coveted cover of SI ‘s swimsuit issue for the second year in a row, is finding fame a little … icy. According to Us Weekly , the 20-year-old blonde bombshell’s fellow pinups are not the biggest fans of the mag’s Kate Upton photos – or the model herself. “The SI models hate her,” an insider tells the celebrity news magazine of the voluptuous cover girl. “They are jealous, but Kate’s also been a bitch to them.” In fact, relations are so chilly between Upton and the other models that they won’t socialize with one another even when they’re sitting just a few feet apart. At a 1Oak party in Las Vegas on February 14, right after the cover’s release, Upton kept to herself as the rest of the ladies chatted among themselves. “She didn’t interact with anyone,” an onlooker says. “She wasn’t friendly.” Is this fact or gossip? It’s hard to say, but for what it’s worth, SI stunner (and former cover girl) Brooklyn Decker was very congratulatory toward Kate. Haters will be haters, but she likely has more than a few fans as well – and we’re not talking purely about straight guys who drool over her pics. Speaking of which, we’ve got a bunch, so browse away fellas.
Kate Upton is a beautiful blonde chick and here she is posing once again for Sports Illustrated looking sexy as usual in these posed for the camera photo shoot pictures Continue reading →
Just days after undergoing surgery on torn ligaments suffered in a massive crash, Lindsey Vonn shared a photo online showing her mangled, swollen knee. That does not look like it feels good. Lindsey Vonn took a dramatic spill while competing in the Alpine Ski World Championships on the slopes in Austria and had to be airlifted to a hospital. The fall left the Olympic champion and girlfriend of Tiger Woods with two torn ACL and MCL ligaments and a broken bone … absolutely brutal. On Sunday, Vonn had undergone an operation, which she proclaimed a success on Facebook; she’s home in Vail, Colorado, beginning her recovery. The Lindsey Vonn leg photo, posted Friday, depicts her disfigured, yellowish right leg covered in purple bruises and bandages after the surgery. Her left leg, which was not seriously injured, also looks banged up. Lindsey Vonn ‘s caption: “My knee looks… um… not very good…” Proving that she has not lost her sense of humor along with her ligaments, Vonn added a pair of hashtags, #longskirtsthissummer and #ugh. She also hasn’t lost her work ethic. The 28-year-old later put up another, less graphic image, promoting her sponsor, energy drink Red Bull. The photo shows the athlete doing rehabilitation exercises next to bottles of Red Bull with the caption: “Not letting obstacles stand in your way.”
Mindy McCready shot and killed her dog as well as herself, officials investigating the star’s tragic (but not entirely shocking) suicide in Arkansas said. For McCready, the downward spiral she was on had reached a point where killing a dog, or even herself, marked the end of a long and troubled road. The singer’s final weeks were a haze of addiction, depression and despair, according to new reports following her the country star’s death Sunday. Police found Mindy McCready dead (with her dog) on her home’s porch, in the exact spot where her 34-year-old boyfriend was found dead January 13. David Wilson’s death, also from a gunshot would to the head, is still being investigated by local authorities; McCready claimed she had no part in it. They have a 10-month-old son, Zane. Strangely, the dog was involved, indirectly, in Wilson’s death as well. McCready said the bullet that ended Wilson’s life was found “in the dog’s mouth.” “I didn’t find [the bullet], the dog did, I mean, that’s a horrific thing to say, but it was in the dog’s mouth,” she said in an interview with NBC’s Today . “I just keep telling myself that the more suffering that I go through, the greater character I’ll have,” she told the show following Wilson’s death. “He didn’t just touch my heart. He touched my soul … he was my soulmate.” Apparently whatever happened impacted the already troubled star greatly. In the 36 days between Wilson’s death and hers, the despondent singer was ordered into a treatment facility for mental health and alcohol abuse issues. Her father Tim gave a statement to the court detailing his daughter’s substance abuse struggled in an effort to have her children removed from her care. McCready has a six-year-old son as well, with Billy McKnight , who said this morning that his ex’s death, while tragic, did not really come as a shock. Tim told the court Mindy had stayed in bed for three weeks after Wilson’s death, sleeping all day and mixing alcohol and prescription pills in the evening. He added she was “not bathing or even helping take care of her 2 children.” McCready entered the treatment facility for mental health and alcohol abuse issues February 6, then left on February 8 for an outpatient treatment center. McCready’s pal Shane Tallant told CBS the singer’s suicide was the end she chose for herself, and likely stemmed from her issues with Wilson. Her death “obviously speaks on the pain that she was feeling, that, for whatever reason, she chose to go to the same location and do the same thing he did.” Her alleged former lover Roger Clemens also issued a statement today, calling the event “sad” and offering kind words for the singer, who was 37.
While men around the country gawk at the Katherine Webb bikini photos gracing the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, this brunette model spent the weekend with a Basketball Hall of Famer. In what has to be the most random photograph in recent memory. It features Webb and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Why is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer donning a Darth Vader mask? Why ask why, we suppose? Just go ahead and ogle Webb instead:
Finally! It took Sara Jean Underwood over 45 days for her to tweet something good in 2013. And fellas, this picture of her with her breasts about to bust through her shirt isn’t just good, it’s GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT! Also, make to check out the video below. If you thought that Sara’s only talent were her big fake boobs, you’ll discover that she has one other talent at the very end of the video. Be prepared to be turned on!
Do we need to be more up in arms over Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue ? Via Salon.com : Sports Illustrated’s latest swimsuit issue used their ”seven continents” theme as an occasion to run photos of (mostly) white models posing with people of color as a background that signifies the “exotic” nature of the shoot locations. In one shot from Guilin, Guangxi (an autonomous region of China), a white model reclines on a raft while a local man uses a pole to mimic chauffeuring her around. In another, this time in the southern African Republic of Namibia, a white model poses with a black man holding a spear, wearing indigenous clothing that reveals as much of his body as hers. Sports Illustrated is hardly the first magazine or catalog to use people of color as set design, only the most recent. Other examples include famed mammy doll candlestick-makers Anthropologie, along with J.Crew, Free People, Vogue and Nylon, to name just a few. Now, the problem isn’t with featuring different cultures in commercial or editorial contexts; it’s much more about editorial intent. When a photo makes clear that the story it is telling is not about the person being shot with the model, that instead they are being used purely as cultural context or “exotic” buzz — that’s the problem. The man in Namibia, whether or not he authentically dresses like that or if he was hired to do so, is not the story in that photo. He is there for a boring, hackneyed attempt at visual juxtaposition. His brownness is contrast for her whiteness. His spear, his desert, his all-encompassing “African-ness” is the point. He’s furniture. He’s the Taj Mahal. The Eiffel Tower. He’s there to locate the viewer in the world, not tell them anything. And none of this is to mention that the picture offers a purely one-dimensional representation of an entire country. Did you know that Namibia is not just one big desert? Did you know this completely generic shopping complex is not actually in Fairfield, Connecticut, but Windhoek? Now look, I am not here to regurgitate a critical race studies paper from my college years, but it’s important to talk about completely bogus representations of race and culture when they come up. But the response to the issue has largely ignored these bizarre and racially clueless images, instead focusing on Kate Upton and her nearly nekkid Arctic adventure. A spread which, by the way, used penguins the same way the Namibia and Guangxi shoots used people. Are we sensing what’s wrong here yet? That is pretty effed up, but we’re probably more upset that they only have two brown models in the whole magazine! Photo Credit: Sports Illustrated
The GOAT has spoken Michael Jordans Says Lebron James Wouldn’t Have Been As Succsessful In His Era Via CBSSports With LeBron James putting up historic numbers and passing the eye test along with it, with Kobe Bryant entering the twilight of his career as arguably the second-greatest shooting guard of all time, and with Kevin Durant emerging as a force in his own right, all-time comparisons are even more common than normal. And with Michael Jordan turning 50, there’s a surge of media around him. After saying in an interview that he’d take Kobe over LeBron (Note: the excerpt excluded the fact that Jordan said “in terms of championships” but whatever), Jordan said in an interview with ESPN the Magazine that he takes umbrage with the idea that modern players could play in the ’90s. Citing tougher competition and different rules, Jordan lists four players who could play in his era and questions even the mighty LeBron. JORDAN PLAYS his new favorite trivia game, asking which current players could be nearly as successful in his era. “Our era,” he says over and over again, calling modern players soft, coddled and ill-prepared for the highest level of the game. This is personal to him, since he’ll be compared to this generation, and since he has to build a franchise with this generation’s players. “I’ll give you a hint,” he says. “I can only come up with four.” He lists them: LeBron, Kobe, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki. When someone on TV compares LeBron to Oscar Robertson, Jordan fumes. He rolls his eyes, stretches his neck, frustrated. “It’s absolutely … ” he says, catching himself. “The point is, no one is critiquing the personnel that he’s playing against. Their knowledge of how to play the game … that’s not a fair comparison. That’s not right … Could LeBron be successful in our era? Yes. Would he be as successful? No.” We’re no basketball professionals, but LeBron James is 6’8 260 lbs. He’s huge for any era. Find it hard to believe that he wouldn’t be able to hoop it up with the old heads, but can you really agrue with Michael Jordan? Image via Facebook
It’s on, Kate Upton . With this Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover girl drawing all the attention this week, Victoria’s Secret model and ex- Transformers star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is sending a very clear message in a new Instagram photo: Two can play at this hot game! Yes, Huntington-Whiteley is topless in the above photo, which she shared with followers yesterday, along with the caption: “Loving my @chercoulter jeans for @agjean.” Wait, Rosie is wearing jeans in this picture? Who knew?!? That’s not exactly where our attention is focused.
