It's the Miss USA Bikini Prelims

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Miss South Carolina Leah Lawson in a bikini 
Miss South Carolina Leah Lawson headlines a gallery chock-full of bikini goodness from the Miss USA bikini prelims on Wednesday. Oh what a coincidence, I just learned that South Carolina is my favorite state. Leah and I should get together for coffee and heavy petting. I'm totally kidding . . . I hate coffee.

A bikini is usually a women's abbreviated two-piece swimsuit with a bra top for the chest and underwear cut below the navel. The basic design is simple: two triangles of fabric on top cover the woman's breasts and two triangles of fabric on the bottom cover the groin in front and the buttocks in back. The size of a bikini bottom can range from full pelvic coverage to a revealing thong or G-string design.

The name for the bikini design was coined in 1946 by Parisian engineer Louis Réard, the designer of the bikini. He named the swimsuit after Bikini Atoll, where testing on the atomic bomb was taking place. Fashion designer Jacques Heim, also from Paris, re-released a similar design earlier that same year, the Atome. Due to its controversial and revealing design, the bikini was slow to be adopted. In many countries it was banned from beaches and public places. The Vatican declared the design sinful. While still considered risqué, the bikini gradually became a part of popular culture when film stars—Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress and others—began wearing them on public beaches and in film.

The bikini design became common in most Western countries by the mid-1960s as beachwear, swimwear and underwear. By the late 20th century it had become common as sportswear in sports such as beach volleyball and bodybuilding. Variations of the term are used to describe stylistic variations for promotional purposes and industry classifications, including monokini, microkini, tankini, trikini, pubikini, bandeaukini and skirtini. A man's brief swimsuit may also be referred to as a bikini. Similarly, a variety of men's and women's underwear types are described as bikini underwear.

The bikini has gradually grown to gain wide acceptance in Western society. By the early 2000s, bikinis had become a US$811 million business annually, and boosted spin-off services such as bikini waxing and sun tanning.

In this post we stare at Kate Beckinsale's sideboob

Kate Beckinsale at the Christian Dior Cruise afterparty at Loulou's in London(6/1) 

Consider this eye bleach for that last post about Mama June. Sorry about that.

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Kathrin Romary "Kate" Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing (1993) while still a student at Oxford University. She then appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000), in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she had a break-out year in 2001 with starring roles in the war drama Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She built on this success with appearances in the Martin Scorcese's The Aviator (2004) and the comedy Click (2006).

Since being cast as Selene in the Underworld film series (2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily known for her work in action films including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012). She also continues to make appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), and Everybody's Fine (2009). In 2016, she won acclaim for her role in Whit Stillman's Jane Austen comedy Love & Friendship.

University chief rips AKB48 songwriting star for ‘Einstein’ lyrics

The president of a women’s university on Monday lashed out at a song written by Yasushi Akimoto, mastermind of the all-girl idol group AKB48, that says it is OK for girls to be “empty-headed” and that being intelligent is “meaningless” if one is “not loved.”

“I felt as if the clock had been turned back to 50 or 100 years ago,” Masami Ohinata, a psychologist who is president of Keisen University in Tokyo, blogged after a student showed her the lyrics.

“Einstein yori Dianna Agron,” was released on April 13 by HKT48 in Fukuoka, one of the idol group’s many regional sister units.

Akimoto is one of Japan’s most successful songwriters. Sales of CD albums penned by him set a record by surpassing 100 million in December 2015, according to music information provider Oricon Inc. He is also on the executive board of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee.

Ohinata said the lyrics reminded her of a textbook used in Norway more than 100 years ago that marked certain questions as unfit for girls to solve because they were too difficult.

The song is about a schoolgirl who knows almost nothing about Albert Einstein but admires American actress Dianna Agron. The lyrics portray her as preoccupied with how to be pretty while spurning academic learning with such phrases as “I don’t think about anything difficult,” “I am not interested in news,” and “what is important is keeping my skin smooth.”

Ohinata said she later asked her students in a psychology class what they thought of the song, and they criticized each phrase.

In response to the phrase “girls must be cute, they can be stupid while in school,” the university students agreed “while it is important to be cute, studying is also fun and if you are stupid in school, you will remain so for the rest of your life,” Ohinata wrote.

And to “no matter how good you are with studies, it is meaningless if you are not loved,” the students countered that “no matter how much you are loved, it is meaningless if you can’t get a job.”

J Lo On Those Rihanna Boots

WHEN Rihanna unveiled her colaborative collection with Manolo Blahnik in the April issue of British Vogue, it was only a matter of time before it became a celebrity hit - and Jennifer Lopez for one wasn't going to let anything stop her wearing them in her new music video, Aint Your Mama, even if they weren't the easiest to bounce around in.

Jennifer Lopez wearing the boots in the Aint Your Mama video

"Rihanna had sent me these amazing boots and I was like, 'These have to be in the video'. They were hard to dance in," said Lopez, reports People. "Everyone else was dancing in combat boots and sneakers. I walked out to the set and I was like, 'Nobody wearing heels but me? OK!' But we pulled it off."

Kylie Jenner is free

Kylie Jenner leaving a studio in L.A. (5/11) 

Kylie Jenner finally ditched her leech of a boyfriend Tyga. Damn, and right before he could weasel his way into opening up a joint bank account, too. Sucks for him. Above is Kylie getting into her Rolls Royce outside a studio in L.A. earlier this week because why wouldn't an 18-year-old drive a Rolls Royce? From TMZ:

Sources connected with the former couple tell us KJ recently realized she wants to live the single life and soak up the spoils of being an 18-year-old multi-millionaire. That frequently means flying all over the world for appearances, and we're told that didn't sit well with Tyga ... who's focusing on his music.

As one source put it ... she wants to jet set, he wants to chill in a studio -- and they both knew it wouldn't work.

Also, we're told since their mini break last fall ... there's been constant drama over "dumb stuff" -- what to eat, what they say on social media, blah, blah.

As for the model at Mother's Day brunch with Tyga? We're told he admits having a couple models "hanging around," but no serious girlfriends -- and Kylie's confident there was no cheating before they split. 

I hope Tyga doesn't get too down over this breakup. The world is his oyster. There's still so many places he can go in life. Oops, I meant to add "with a bus pass." With a bus pass, there's still so many places he can go. Sunset Blvd . . . Santa Monica Blvd . . . Hollywood Blvd . . . maybe not Rodeo Dr (don't think the buses go down that street). Screw Kylie Jenner and her stupid cars that she always makes on-time payments for!

Classic Kendall Jenner face

Kendall Jenner at the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc in Antibes, France (5/13) 

Here's Kendall Jenner in France today for the Cannes Film Festival If I was 20 and worth millions, I might actually smile. Her mom and mom seriously need to sit her down and talk about her attitude.

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Kendall Nicole Jenner (born November 3, 1995) is an American fashion model and television personality.

Originally known for appearing in the E! reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jenner is now widely considered to be a leading figure in a modern supermodel resurgence that has been called "the Instagirl era" by Vogue magazine, or "Social Media Modeling" by Harper's Bazaar. Jenner built her online fanbase by posting backstage selfies and career updates to her followers on social media, giving them a unique fly on the wall view of her career and public life.

After working in commercial print ad campaigns and photoshoots, Jenner had breakout seasons in 2014 and 2015, walking the runways for high fashion designers during the New York, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks. Jenner has done multiple editorials and cover shoots for LOVE and various international Vogue editions, walked for Victoria's Secret, and acts as brand ambassador for Estée Lauder's multimedia ad campaigns. Jenner made her debut at No. 16 on Forbes' 2015 list of top earning models, with an estimated annual income of US$4 million.

Michaela Kocianova went to the beach

Here's Slovak model Michaela Kocianova at the beach in Miami earlier this week. The 27-year-old model grew up in Trencin, a city in western Slovakia about 75 miles from the capital of Bratislava. Towards the end of the Marcomannic Wars between the Roman Empire and the Suebian Germanic tribe Quadi in AD 179, the Romans carved an inscription on the rock under the present-day Trencin Castle and the place was mentioned as Laugaricio. It is the northernmost known presence of the Romans in Central Europe, so if that shit comes up on Jeopardy!, you totally owe me.

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Michaela Kocianová (born 29 December 1988) is a Slovak model. She was born in Trenčín, Slovakia, and won second place in the 2004 Elite Model Look Slovak fashion contest. She has since been featured in advertisements for Monique Lhuillier and Vivienne Westwood.

In 2006, she debuted on the catwalk in the A/W Rodarte show. She has since modelled for designers such asAlexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Ann Demeulemeester, and John Galliano.She also appeared at the 2006 Fall and Winter Ready to Wear fashion show and the 2007 Spring and Summer Ready to Wear show.^[vague] In 2007, she walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She has also appeared in the company's catalog.

She has appeared in magazines such as Italian Vogue, Velvet, Spanish Vogue, Elle, British Elle, Amica, andL'Officiel. In 2009, she became the face for Piazza Sempione, an Italian designer.

In 2010, Kocianova made a film debut opposite Jude Law in a five-minute film for Christian Dior Homme cologne directed by Guy Ritchie.