Supermodel and plastic

Supermodel Karen Mulder has been arrested for making 'threatening' phone calls to a plastic surgeon.

The 39-year-old star was questioned at a Paris police station after calling the medic and reportedly demanding for a previous operation to be reversed.

A detective said: 'She was screaming and shouting about the operation and became extremely threatening. There were repeated calls to the female surgeon who was extremely scared.

The suspect is being interviewed.'Karen was arrested at about 10am yesterday (30.06.09) and taken to a station in the fashion district of the French capital city.Another police source has claimed the model had been 'stalking and making repeated violent telephone threats' to the surgeon.

The source added: 'Miss Mulder was accompanied to a police station in Paris after a complaint was made against her.'She is being interviewed by detectives and is expected to be released on bail.'Her phone records are being checked. It is not yet known if any charges will be brought.

'Karen made her name in the 80s and 90s, and was paid £10,000 for a day's work at one point.She gave up modeling in 1998 after saying she could no longer bear to be photographed.

In 2001, she claimed politicians and policemen had used her and others in her profession as sex slaves.

She also falsely alleged she had been raped by Monaco's Prince Albert.

She had depression and received treatment at a psychiatric hospital, then explained her problems were a result of an addiction to drugs when she was a model.

In 2002, she took an overdose of sleeping pills and was left in a coma.

She appeared on the catwalk in 2007 at a Christian Dior show alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Stella Tennant and Helena Christensen.

Ornamental Weaponry

Something like these but way more beautiful ... is 'deadly'


And my adventure with Thailand never stopped even as my plane touched down back here in Singapore, the city state of Uptights.

Bought for 1700 Bhat *after the mandatory bargaining , I bought an elaborate and stunning looking knuckle Duster attached with 4-pronged high tenstile steel claws/blades, mounted on a stand.
(similar to the first pic above, but 4-prong bladed like legs to a table and mounted upright)

A gorgeous piece of structural art bordering on macabre.

Well, was caught (Damn, technology these days!) and I swear I never intended it as weapon.
It's just really beautiful see what I mean? Like a metallic spider.

A weapon is one with intention, no?

A pen or even a chair can be a weapon in the right hands.

But me?! C'mon, if I was the murderous type I'd have cut my irritating travel buddy days ago. Haha.

A big hoo hah ensued by the security ('I'm just doing my job,' claimed the lame officer. Whateverrrr.). The police were called. Interrogation and statements taken. And no, I wasn't frogged-marched.

Embarassed ? A little. Taken A back? Hell yeah. Guilty? Hell to the NO.

'Investigations pending. '

PHUK it.Indeed.

Q... I really wished I hadn't bought it but should have taken shots of it before its confiscation.
SUX.

Sistas doin it for Themselves

Probably 2 of the biggest rival-models in the Fashion business; Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell.

Two very powerful Black women who've blazed the field with their gorgeous looks and stunning presense on the runways.

Locked in what seemed like an eternal battle to out shine (in model speak, out-pout and out-pose) each other.

'Who's gonna be on the cover of the next magazine?", "Who's going to front that next ad-campaign?" ,"Who's doing which runway show?" ,"Who's the new muse of whom?"

The biatching never seemed to reach a halt.

Fast foward a decade and things are beginning to look a little different now.

Still names chained to each other not unlike Whitney and Mariah, for instance, but these days, these uber-models are as far off each other's high-heeled tracks as Heaven and Earth.

Miss Banks is a model-mogul now, building a media empire of epic proportions not since Ellen meets Oprah. With a multi-million dollar movie-production contact with Warner Pictures, executive producer of America's Next Top Model (and all its international spin-offs) and her hotter -than-hot talk show, Tyra is so influential these days.

'What Tyra wants, Tyra gets.'

On the other hand, Miss Campbell is doing none the better.
She's still one of the premier models out there, working the runway like only she can. But she hasn't diversified.

No matter the strut-queen that she is, it's still a fact that as she pushes the big 4-0, she faces massive competition from fresher faces in an industry obsessed with youth and its vibrance.

Doesn't help if you're forever in the news for handphone projectiles (she could win Gold if it were to be included in this year's Olympics; just sayin.).
Or if you've got someone else beaten up yet again. And hand cuffed . And could be walking out of jail wearing yet another D & G outfit.

While Tyra is busy telling women all over the world how to be positive role models to their families and societies, Naomi only exempifies the 'Beautiful on the outside but ugly on the inside' age-old notion; the party-sex-and-drugs rockstar lifestyle.

Indeed, they were so similar then. Yet are totally different today.

Q