Why are we so afraid of real women?

Every day of a woman's life, on the Internet, on television, in magazines and on billboards commuting to work, she sees hundreds, if not thousands, of women who look nothing like her.

These images influence how...

Since the inevitable split of Dawson's Creek golden girl Katie Holmes and everyone's favorite Top Gun Tom Cruise, there has been the inevitable chatter about how the decoupling will damage the individual star's brands.

It is true that both Tom and Katie benefited from becoming TomKat. For Tom, Katie...

Bret Michaels has a really busy summer ahead of him.

The former Poison frontman-turned-reality-star just hit the road for a solo tour -- he was heading to Louisiana when we chatted -- but that's not all. He's reuniting with his old Poison bandmates and longtime Def Leppard hair metal rock...

Judd Apatow may want to watch his back, because La La Anthony is out to get him. The reality star, basketball wife and actress is simply dying to sink her nails into the "Knocked Up" director in the hopes that the pair can collaborate on an upcoming film.

“I am...

Wilmer Valderrama might still be best known as Fez from “That '70s Show," but that won't always be the case. The actor, 32, is trying to set himself up for a major comeback.

Valderrama, who smartly stayed out of the spotlight for a few years after the end of...

Val Chmerkovskiy has had less luck on "Dancing With the Stars" than his big brother Maksim, but the professional dancer thinks that could all change in an upcoming season -- if he has the right partner. The lucky dancer of his dreams? None other than Oprah Winfrey.

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Joan Rivers is known for having an outrageous and opinionated persona, and she doesn't hold back when it comes to dishing out advice for single women.

"Have a child! How lucky you are that society is allowing you this joy," she told The Huffington Post. "You think you’re having fun...

In a grand collaboration of abbreviations, frat-boy favorite rock band O.A.R. (Of a Revolution) has teamed up with rapper/singer B.o.B. (Bobby Ray Simmons) to create a rock-hip hop hybrid inspiring tune for athletes ahead of the London Olympics.

The two performed their song “Champions,” which has been...

A year ago it seemed unlikely that Lindsay Lohan could pull off a comeback, but these days the 25-year-old actress seems to be slowly pulling her life together. With her legal woes behind her -- she finally settled that Betty Ford battery lawsuit -- Lohan is driving down...

Celebrities and the designers who love them will gather Monday night for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2012 Costume Institute Gala.

More than 700 famous faces are expected to attend the $25,000-a-pop event, meaning that if each guest paid for a ticket, $17.5 million would be raised in...

A staff shake-up in the celebrity magazine market could be good news for celebrities hoping for less salacious coverage of their personal lives.

People magazine senior staffer Alexis Chiu is heading for Bauer Publishing’s In Touch magazine to take on the job of executive editor, according to...

Beyonce has a lot on her plate these days. The singer launched a new fragrance last fall and is about to make her return to the stage over Memorial Day weekend. And, as many people know by now, she recently became a new mom.

There’s an art to doing anything in Hollywood, including getting a divorce. The timing has to be just right, the narrative has to be phrased just so and those involved have to agree on the party line.

If someone does it wrong, that person is a jerk. But a...

Speaking to Julie Andrews in person is exactly like talking to a hybrid of Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp -- particularly when she tells you in a tempered English accent that the most important thing you can do for yourself is to "let your sparkle out." That advice comes...

The federal tax deadline is just around the corner and millions of Americans are scurrying to file their returns. Celebrities, of course, must pay taxes too, but some have let previous tax deadlines come and go without paying what they owe. From Lindsay Lohan and Pamela Anderson to Ozzy Osbourne...

They’re hot and heavy, but are they for real? Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s whirlwind romance went surprisingly public last week, and has some celebrity experts scratching their heads about whether this pairing is the result of true love, or just a calculated publicity stunt timed to help...

The Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries nuptials had been expected to be the wedding of the year. Instead the union has turned into the divorce of the century.

The split has led to a he-said, she-said brawl in the court of public opinion as the two personalities battle over who will get...

Willie Garson, who played Carrie Bradshaw's loveable friend Stanford Blatch on "Sex and the City," is probably a little sick of being asked about the new prequel extension of the "SATC" franchise, "The Carrie Diaries." After all, he's not in it.

The CW's new pilot is...

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's pregnancy and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino's addiction issues could veer MTV's next season of "Jersey Shore" away from party-land and toward the starkly serious. For the first time since the show premiered in 2009, the cast's personal dramas may actually hurt the program.

Celebrities consume us more than they ever have before. Never has America been so obsessed with the "celebrity" concept, or with celebrities as personalities. This spike in our collective obsession has reached a point that I believe is entirely unhealthy for the fabric of our society.

First, let's figure out...