Damn You Skinny (or Fat) Alert™:Best and worst winter beach bodies for early May 2011.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 9 May 2011

The Flagship has been doing a lot of beach body covers recently, and while they call them best and worst, most of the cover pictures tend to the worst. The only exception this time around is a flattering picture of Serena Williams that shows off her remarkable butt, if you like that sort of thing. There is a "Guess Who?" of some actress who is enormously fat, but I didn't open the magazine up to find out who. Most of the rest are way too skinny. Here are the headlines.

• Steve Tyler - dude looks like a lady
• Serena Williams - buns of steel
• Kathy Griffin - needs a burger and a tan
• Taylor Armstrong - guess which Housewife?
  
  

Hospitalization alert: Serena Williams talks to People

Publication: People
Date: 21 March 2011

Welcome to gossip hell, Serena Williams! Though since she agreed to be interviewed by the most reliable of the supermarket rags, the Gold Standard People magazine, it might be more like gossip heck.

Serena tells People about her recent hospitalization to have blood clots removed from a pulmonary embolism, and her quote on the cover is "I'm lucky to be alive." It is the policy of this blog to commend celebrities for coming forward to discuss health problems that could get readers thinking about their own health situations, so good on ya, Serena.

And on a less morally uplifting note, while I am not the world's great connoisseur of the female backside, looking at this picture I have to say I cannot tell if Serena Williams was actually born just drawn by Robert Crumb and sprang to life right off the page.

Kim Kardashian? Who dat?