June 2009

  • Ex Beauty Queen Demands Attention!

    By lachic on 6/8/09 7:51pm
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    Susan ShawSusan ShawOnce a princess, always a princess, isn’t that the saying?  Maybe that is why 35 year old Susan Shaw who was a previous Beauty Queen of Hawaii needed to continue to live the high life by stealing other people’s money and identity.  How hard is the life of a beauty queen?

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  • Sara Ziff Details Fashion Model Exploitation

    By erika on 6/8/09 4:35pm
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    The Guardian has an interview with former model Sara Ziff regarding her new documentary, Picture Me, about the poor working conditions in the modeling industry.  It is perhaps not surprising that models - young, female, pretty, entirely under the control of whoever happens to be running the shoot, and isolated from their previous lives and support systems - are subject to what can only be called institutionalized sexual assault. 

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