US Elle December 2008 : Carrie Underwood by Alexei Hay

[insomniac]

from elle.com

Five years ago she was knocking at the door of American Idol. Now the world is at her feet. It’s not hard to see—or hear—why.
By Dan Crane
Photographed by Alexei Hay
Styled by Joe Zee
On the rumor she was dating Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps: “I swear on everything, on my job, on my house, my dog…That’s how serious I am. It’s all just a lie. Anytime any [media source] ever says ‘a friend said,’ or ‘a close’ whatever – no, they didn’t! It’s just made up. None of my friends would say anything. Ever. About anything!”
On her comment that a taken Tony Romo still calls her: “It was just something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or to stir up anything, because I’m just not about drama. At all. I might be mad too if somebody said my boyfriend was calling some other girl. So I can definitely see where she [Jessica Simpson] would be coming from. But I haven’t talked to him since, like, May.”
On whether or not she’s dating someone: “If I say I am or I’m not, as soon as this magazine comes out, it might be the opposite of what I tell you now. In three months, it’ll be ‘Carrie said she’s not dating anybody,’ yet last night, I was out on the town with some guy. He’s going to get mad at me. Everybody’s going to think I’m a liar. It’s just best not to go there.”
On life on the road: “I don’t know how people do it. It’s tiring. It’s hard. Right now I do a lot because I have no reason not to. I don’t have a husband or kids. If I go home, I’m home by myself. I have no reason not to be on the road, no reason not to just get out there and do everything right now, while I’m young enough to, while I can enjoy it. But I think when I get a little older, I definitely want to slow down, just because it’s very stressful. It’s hard on your body, hard on your mind, hard on your emotions.”
On dealing with celebrity: “I knew what I was signing up for, and I’m not complaining at all. I’ve learned how to deal with it, and my life is great, I’m a happy person. What are you going to do? Give it all up? No!”

[vogue28]

text overload again

[MissMagAddict]

complete crap... the content is always good though... Kate Lanphear

[Miss Dalloway]

How terribly dreadful, the pose, the font, the text, the forced smile....Zzzzzzzzz

[Jacque Marcel]

US Elle is awful. The UK version is far superior. I had high hopes because of Joe Zee but...

[cesarcmma]

Originally Posted by MissMagAddict

complete crap... the content is always good though... Kate Lanphear

Indeed, Elle covers are always so bad

[parkereloise]

ewww

[Handbag Queen]

I like her, but what in the world is she wearing on a winter cover? Shorts? Can't really tell, but if she is, what gives? We have to see shorts on covers all spring/some of the summer, why now also in the winter?

[kimair]

Originally Posted by MissMagAddict

complete crap...

i will say that the second, b/w pic is miles better than the one on the cover...
i mean, i've seen that image a thousand times...

[matheus_s]

OMG... NO!
And where's the subscriper cover?

[lucy92]

the cover smile looks too forced and perky.
im not that interested in carrie's personal life although she seems pleasnt enough.

[candysweet21]

I do not like it at all

[insomniac]

Bigger cover from people.com:

[birdyandme]

US Elle has started looking like Cosmo! With better clothes.

Less is definitely more - if they want to retain any sort of class at all I think they need to start thinking redesign! So bland. It's like insert next cover model -here-.

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

ugh!
so horrible..i hope there
is a subscribers cover