Jessica Alba Marie Clare June 2012: I’ve Felt “Objectified & Uncomfortable”

Jessica Alba Marie Claire June 2012 - Photo

Jessica Alba covers Marie Claire Magazine wearing an Autumn/Winter 2012 collection Versus dress that makes the eye dance down the sides of her body (it’s a slightly-odd design, and a rather contrived stace to show off the dress, but it kind of works together). Along with the attached photo shoot, and behind-the-scenes-video, below, Alba gives an interview [...]

Zooey Deschanel Marie Claire May 2012: Talks Weight & Babies

Zooey Deschanel Marie Claire Magazine - Photo

Zooey Deschanel covers Marie Claire May 2012, discussing being child-free and her rough time as a “chubby” pre-teen. First, the shoot. It’s below, in part, and it’s what you’d expect. It’s on-type, it’s on the nose, and it’s expected. Deschanel always looks cute, but she always looks the same too. It feeling lazy, perfunctory, way past shticky. [...]

Leighton Meester Marie Claire: Boyfriends Aren’t The Most Important Thing

Leighton Meester Covers Marie Claire - Photo

Leighton Meester covers Marie Claire in a spread released shortly after Gossip Girl goes on its mid-season break. The interview is mainly a chance for Meester to dispel some lazy rumour-mongering about her life, since she comes from a broken, unstable background with trainwreck parents who seemed more enamoured with crime, drugs and jail life [...]

Christina Aguilera Marie Claire February 2012: I Was Too Thin In Burlesque

Christina Aguilera Marie Claire - Photo

Christina Aguilera covers Marie Claire February 2012 in a reminder of how pretty and cute she can look under the drag make-up. She’s styled in “heavy girl” garb, right? That’s not a dig at her, specifically, although one assumes the layers are a passive-aggressive slight by stylists or a hamfisted attempt to smother/ distract from [...]

Angelina Jolie Covers Marie Claire January 2012: Stunning Or… Stunning?

Angelina Jolie Covers Marie Claire - Photo

Yes, those are the only two options. Angelina Jolie covers Marie Claire 2012 in another extreme close-up. It’s prettier and less-creepy than her floating head on Newsweek. And less… intense than her Vanity Fair cover. It’s all about the headshot, the lips that always look like they need lipchap, and the eyes. She’s one of [...]