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Bettre than Nicole Richie!
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^That's for sure Emil! 
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Yum......delish.........
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I like Anderson Cooper. Better him than Nicole indeed!
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What a gorgeous cover. Love the blue, especially since it matches his eyes.
It's been a long time since we've had a man on the cover. Thank God Graydon finally came to his senses.
It's been a long time since we've had a man on the cover. Thank God Graydon finally came to his senses.
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WOW. Nice choice on behalf of the people at VF. Great cover design and Anderson Cooper... I would have never thought that he would get on a cover. What a huge boost for him! 
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Wow, I actually like the cover, Go VF, good for them for putting a man on, instead of another woman in white ( enough of that! ) I'm not the biggest fan of Anderson, but I like him on the cover more than just another celeb.
argh I LOVE anderson cooper. He also hosted The Mole. Anyone else love that show? It was so good. I was so attracted to him until I found out he was gay. Regardless he's extremely intelligent and has such an interesting family history. I'll see if I can pick this one up.
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i would have never imagined they put someone like him on the cover, but i have to say its good. gives the whole issue more credibility and substance. i'll probably buy it....
Nicole Richie's article :
Nicole Richie tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts that her current weight upsets her and she's doing something about it. "I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.' I do know that they will, which is another reason I really do need to do something about it. I'm not happy with the way I look right now." (The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on May 3 and nationally on May 9.)
Dr. Jeffery Wilkins, vice-chair of the department of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who treats Richie, was reluctant to talk with Bennetts due to client-doctor privilege, but did so at Richie's insistence. Wilkins tells Bennetts: "Our evaluation is an ongoing one. We're working on a systematic plan to get more calories in, and we're going to watch it and see if it succeeds. We're all concerned, and she's concerned, but it's either going to improve or it won't. If it's not anorexia, she should be able to gain the weight. If it ends up being anorexia, we'll help her with that. I think she's willing to look this in the eye."
Richie explains that stress causes her to lose her appetite, and one of the factors over the past year was her broken engagement with DJ AM. "I had a bad breakup, and it eats me up inside when I'm upset about something," she explains. "I get really stressed out, and I do lose my appetite, but I do force myself to eat. I tried to put the weight on my way, eating burritos, but that wasn't working, so I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor. I was scared that it could be something more serious, because it wasn't making any sense to me; I really was trying.… Yes, I'm too thin, but that's just a result of what's really going on with me; the bigger picture is how I deal with problems," she says.
Richie tells Bennetts that she thinks "girls who look like hourglasses," like Jennifer Lopez and Joy Bryant, are sexy, and claims that her diet is not one that would contribute to thinness. "I eat the worst foods—salty cheese-and-grease kind of stuff.… I have gained weight since I was at my thinnest," she says, but she doesn't know how much she weighs. "I get weighed once a week with my nutritionist, but I don't ask. Numbers aren't going to mean anything to me."
Richie says that, contrary to some reports, she never screened ex-friend Paris Hilton's sex tape. "That was completely made up," she says. "A, I don't watch p*rn, and, B, I don't want to see someone I've known forever having sex. I mean, that's gross!"
Her separation from Hilton was the result of divergent values, Richie tells Bennetts. "We never had a fight," she says. "I just decided I didn't want to be her friend anymore. We're just two completely different people; we don't have that much in common. I really don't have anything horrible to say about her," she says. "When I got out of rehab, I had to figure out what path to go down, and part of that included taking certain people out of my life.… When Paris made her little announcement that 'Nicole knows what she did,' I didn't really understand what that was about, because we hadn't been friends in such a long time. I can only guess that she had House of Wax coming out."
Richie tells Bennetts that once she tried China White heroin she immediately found herself hooked. "To me it was the epitome of caring about absolutely nothing," Richie says. "There were points when my mom would come home and scream at me about something, and I literally didn't care about anything. It was like watching a really dramatic movie with the volume turned down. I thought I was getting away with everything, when the reality was that I was arrested three times and had five car accidents. Two were totals."
Richie says she didn't feel bad about the angst she caused her adoptive parents growing up. "I thought they didn't understand and were just being really strict. I didn't feel bad at all." But she finally faced up to her heroin addiction. "I went to my parents and said, 'It's time for me to get help,'" she recalls. "I had to sit in a room with my parents, and they were crying. I kind of put down my shield, and I wasn't as defensive—and then I felt really bad. We all had to change the way we dealt with each other. My parents didn't speak for 10 years, until we went into rehab and they both had to figure out what to do about me." Now, says Richie, "I have a really good relationship with both my parents. I know they both love me."
"Part of the reason I don't really talk about being sober is that I don't want to feel the pressure of being a role model," Richie says. "I am learning so much about myself that for me to tell other people what to do in their lives is something I'm not really fit to do. I'm a work in progress. I'm not 'there' yet. I don't know whether I'll ever be 'there.'"
Despite her success on The Simple Life, Richie tells Bennetts, "I never wanted to be on television; I always wanted to be a singer. I always wanted to do Broadway."
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Nicole Richie tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts that her current weight upsets her and she's doing something about it. "I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.' I do know that they will, which is another reason I really do need to do something about it. I'm not happy with the way I look right now." (The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on May 3 and nationally on May 9.)
Dr. Jeffery Wilkins, vice-chair of the department of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who treats Richie, was reluctant to talk with Bennetts due to client-doctor privilege, but did so at Richie's insistence. Wilkins tells Bennetts: "Our evaluation is an ongoing one. We're working on a systematic plan to get more calories in, and we're going to watch it and see if it succeeds. We're all concerned, and she's concerned, but it's either going to improve or it won't. If it's not anorexia, she should be able to gain the weight. If it ends up being anorexia, we'll help her with that. I think she's willing to look this in the eye."
Richie explains that stress causes her to lose her appetite, and one of the factors over the past year was her broken engagement with DJ AM. "I had a bad breakup, and it eats me up inside when I'm upset about something," she explains. "I get really stressed out, and I do lose my appetite, but I do force myself to eat. I tried to put the weight on my way, eating burritos, but that wasn't working, so I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor. I was scared that it could be something more serious, because it wasn't making any sense to me; I really was trying.… Yes, I'm too thin, but that's just a result of what's really going on with me; the bigger picture is how I deal with problems," she says.
Richie tells Bennetts that she thinks "girls who look like hourglasses," like Jennifer Lopez and Joy Bryant, are sexy, and claims that her diet is not one that would contribute to thinness. "I eat the worst foods—salty cheese-and-grease kind of stuff.… I have gained weight since I was at my thinnest," she says, but she doesn't know how much she weighs. "I get weighed once a week with my nutritionist, but I don't ask. Numbers aren't going to mean anything to me."
Richie says that, contrary to some reports, she never screened ex-friend Paris Hilton's sex tape. "That was completely made up," she says. "A, I don't watch p*rn, and, B, I don't want to see someone I've known forever having sex. I mean, that's gross!"
Her separation from Hilton was the result of divergent values, Richie tells Bennetts. "We never had a fight," she says. "I just decided I didn't want to be her friend anymore. We're just two completely different people; we don't have that much in common. I really don't have anything horrible to say about her," she says. "When I got out of rehab, I had to figure out what path to go down, and part of that included taking certain people out of my life.… When Paris made her little announcement that 'Nicole knows what she did,' I didn't really understand what that was about, because we hadn't been friends in such a long time. I can only guess that she had House of Wax coming out."
Richie tells Bennetts that once she tried China White heroin she immediately found herself hooked. "To me it was the epitome of caring about absolutely nothing," Richie says. "There were points when my mom would come home and scream at me about something, and I literally didn't care about anything. It was like watching a really dramatic movie with the volume turned down. I thought I was getting away with everything, when the reality was that I was arrested three times and had five car accidents. Two were totals."
Richie says she didn't feel bad about the angst she caused her adoptive parents growing up. "I thought they didn't understand and were just being really strict. I didn't feel bad at all." But she finally faced up to her heroin addiction. "I went to my parents and said, 'It's time for me to get help,'" she recalls. "I had to sit in a room with my parents, and they were crying. I kind of put down my shield, and I wasn't as defensive—and then I felt really bad. We all had to change the way we dealt with each other. My parents didn't speak for 10 years, until we went into rehab and they both had to figure out what to do about me." Now, says Richie, "I have a really good relationship with both my parents. I know they both love me."
"Part of the reason I don't really talk about being sober is that I don't want to feel the pressure of being a role model," Richie says. "I am learning so much about myself that for me to tell other people what to do in their lives is something I'm not really fit to do. I'm a work in progress. I'm not 'there' yet. I don't know whether I'll ever be 'there.'"
Despite her success on The Simple Life, Richie tells Bennetts, "I never wanted to be on television; I always wanted to be a singer. I always wanted to do Broadway."
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If anyone's interested: Anderson's interview because I 
this man:
"The past is all around, and in New Orleans I can't pretend it's not."
"For so long I tried to separate myself from my past. I tried to move on, forget what I'd lost, but the truth is, none of it's ever gone away," writes CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper in an exclusive excerpt for Vanity Fair from his new memoir, Dispatches from the Edge (HarperCollins). The horror of Katrina forced Cooper to confront his painful past, including the death of his father when he was 10 and his brother Carter's suicide in 1988. "The past is all around, and in New Orleans I can't pretend it's not."(The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and L.A. on May 3 and nationally on May 9.)
Cooper writes that his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, once told him that she survived the traumas of her own childhood because she always felt that inside she had a crystal core, a diamond nothing could get at or scratch. "I'd felt that same rock form inside me when my father died [in 1978]. In New Orleans, however, it started to crack."
Cooper writes of the effect the loss of his father had on him and his older brother, Carter. "After the funeral, both of us retreated into separate parts of ourselves, and I don't think we ever truly reached out to each other again. I can't remember ever discussing my father's death with my brother. Perhaps I did, but I have no memory of it."
Following his father's death, "the world seemed a very scary place, and I vowed not to let it get to me. I wanted to be autonomous, protect myself from further loss. I was only 10, but I decided I had to earn my own money, so I could save for a future I couldn't predict." Although his mother was wealthy, Cooper "got a job as a child model and opened a bank account," because he "didn't want to have to rely on someone else."
Moments before Carter Cooper leapt to his death from his mother's balcony, he asked her, "Will I ever feel again?" "It didn't make sense to me at the time. I'd even forgotten he said it until my mother recently reminded me," Cooper writes. "We both had tried to cauterize our pain, push our pasts behind us. If only I could have told him that he wasn't the only one. I abandoned him long before he abandoned me.
"I see that now. I could have reached out to him, talked with him, but he didn't make it easy, and I was a kid, and had myself to worry about."
Self-reliance was a recurrent theme in Cooper's childhood, and when he was in high school he began taking "survival courses: monthlong mountaineering expeditions in the Rockies, sea kayaking in Mexico," because, he says, "I needed to prove to myself that I could survive on my own." As for his brother, "I assumed he'd come up with his own way to deal with the loss. I thought he could take care of himself."
Cooper tries not to imagine the last moments of his brother's life, he says. "That's the thing about suicide. No matter how much you try to remember how that person lived his life, you can't forget how he ended it. It's like driving by a car smashed on the side of the road. You can't resist craning your neck to take stock of the damage."
People often ask Cooper if he was close to his brother. "Inevitably I get that question," he writes. "Sometimes it's right after a person finds out about my brother's death; sometimes it's only after weeks of their knowing me. Were we close? Not so close that I knew he was going to kill himself. Not so close that I understood why he did."
Cooper writes that he keeps some of his brother's things and will go through them someday. "I keep the pictures, as well as his scribbled notes and magazines—the things I found in his apartment. I tell myself that one day I'll go through them and perhaps discover some clue that will help me understand, help me answer the question: Were we close?"
Although his childhood was a privileged one, Cooper writes, and his mother played host to the likes of Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, "I didn't know my mother was famous until I was about 12. I was in middle school when she designed a line of jeans that became wildly successful. On the street, suddenly people began to stare at us and point. My brother and I thought it was funny. We'd count how many times we saw our mother's name stitched on the back pocket of somebody's pants."
Did I mention that I this man? He is so honest and brilliant - my heart goes out to him for all the tragedies he has suffered in his lifetime...
this man:"The past is all around, and in New Orleans I can't pretend it's not."
"For so long I tried to separate myself from my past. I tried to move on, forget what I'd lost, but the truth is, none of it's ever gone away," writes CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper in an exclusive excerpt for Vanity Fair from his new memoir, Dispatches from the Edge (HarperCollins). The horror of Katrina forced Cooper to confront his painful past, including the death of his father when he was 10 and his brother Carter's suicide in 1988. "The past is all around, and in New Orleans I can't pretend it's not."(The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and L.A. on May 3 and nationally on May 9.)
Cooper writes that his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, once told him that she survived the traumas of her own childhood because she always felt that inside she had a crystal core, a diamond nothing could get at or scratch. "I'd felt that same rock form inside me when my father died [in 1978]. In New Orleans, however, it started to crack."
Cooper writes of the effect the loss of his father had on him and his older brother, Carter. "After the funeral, both of us retreated into separate parts of ourselves, and I don't think we ever truly reached out to each other again. I can't remember ever discussing my father's death with my brother. Perhaps I did, but I have no memory of it."
Following his father's death, "the world seemed a very scary place, and I vowed not to let it get to me. I wanted to be autonomous, protect myself from further loss. I was only 10, but I decided I had to earn my own money, so I could save for a future I couldn't predict." Although his mother was wealthy, Cooper "got a job as a child model and opened a bank account," because he "didn't want to have to rely on someone else."
Moments before Carter Cooper leapt to his death from his mother's balcony, he asked her, "Will I ever feel again?" "It didn't make sense to me at the time. I'd even forgotten he said it until my mother recently reminded me," Cooper writes. "We both had tried to cauterize our pain, push our pasts behind us. If only I could have told him that he wasn't the only one. I abandoned him long before he abandoned me.
"I see that now. I could have reached out to him, talked with him, but he didn't make it easy, and I was a kid, and had myself to worry about."
Self-reliance was a recurrent theme in Cooper's childhood, and when he was in high school he began taking "survival courses: monthlong mountaineering expeditions in the Rockies, sea kayaking in Mexico," because, he says, "I needed to prove to myself that I could survive on my own." As for his brother, "I assumed he'd come up with his own way to deal with the loss. I thought he could take care of himself."
Cooper tries not to imagine the last moments of his brother's life, he says. "That's the thing about suicide. No matter how much you try to remember how that person lived his life, you can't forget how he ended it. It's like driving by a car smashed on the side of the road. You can't resist craning your neck to take stock of the damage."
People often ask Cooper if he was close to his brother. "Inevitably I get that question," he writes. "Sometimes it's right after a person finds out about my brother's death; sometimes it's only after weeks of their knowing me. Were we close? Not so close that I knew he was going to kill himself. Not so close that I understood why he did."
Cooper writes that he keeps some of his brother's things and will go through them someday. "I keep the pictures, as well as his scribbled notes and magazines—the things I found in his apartment. I tell myself that one day I'll go through them and perhaps discover some clue that will help me understand, help me answer the question: Were we close?"
Although his childhood was a privileged one, Cooper writes, and his mother played host to the likes of Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, "I didn't know my mother was famous until I was about 12. I was in middle school when she designed a line of jeans that became wildly successful. On the street, suddenly people began to stare at us and point. My brother and I thought it was funny. We'd count how many times we saw our mother's name stitched on the back pocket of somebody's pants."
Did I mention that I
this man? He is so honest and brilliant - my heart goes out to him for all the tragedies he has suffered in his lifetime...
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Can't wait.
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Talk about surprises.
Count me in with the chorus of the 'yeas'...GREAT COVER! I'll wait to read the articles when my subscription copy arrives!
::heads to mailbox NOW::
Count me in with the chorus of the 'yeas'...GREAT COVER! I'll wait to read the articles when my subscription copy arrives!::heads to mailbox NOW::
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Meg said:
He's gay.
I did not know that, but that doesn't effect my thoughts about him... but it's still a surprise to me.porcelaindream
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I did not know the man was gay.. He sure is goodlooking for his age..
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