The following is from a summary of the APA's study:

Sexualization has a range of negative consequences for young women, the task force finds. For instance, "studies show that when you begin to see yourself as a sex object, it leaves you with fewer cognitive resources to do things like math," Zurbriggen says. Sexualization also can lead to body shame, depression, eating disorders and low self-esteem, the report notes.

Beyoncé Tarting Up Young Girls Too [Gawker]

Related: Sexualization Of Girls Is Linked To Common Mental Health Problems In Girls And Women [APA]
APA Task Force Report Decries Culture's Sexualization Of Girls [APA]
What Parents Can Do [APA]
Symposium: "The Sexualization of Childhood," (June 13 - 14, Pittsburgh) [Bound, Not Gagged]

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• Authorities have beef with Shia: A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. LaBeouf — he got a ticket in February for unlawful smoking and never showed up in court. Whoops! [TMZ]
  
• Those Kristin Davis photos? Real! Snapped in 1992 by an ex-boyfriend. [TMZ]
  
• Ethan Hawke: Not over Uma? He recently sang a song at the 24-Hour Plays event with lyrics like "My wife hates me," and "My wife is a big fat beast." WTF. [New York Magazine]
  
• Oh, no. A feud has broken out in Heath Ledger's family regarding his estate. Heath's uncles are not happy that Heath's father, Kim, is in charge of the money — since when Heath's grandfather died 15 years ago, Kim was removed as executor of the estate after mishandling and mismanaging the assets. Messy, and sad. [People]
  
• Does Amy Winehouse really have impetigo? It could also be MRSA! A doc who doesn't treat Amy says she "should not be coming into close contact with other people while she has open sores," blerg. [TMZ]

• Um, Bryan Adams wrote a song about Amy Winehouse. The lyrics to "Flower Grown Wild" go thusly: "Amid the stars and the bars, the pimps and pills... The picture faded and the day was done, went home to nothin' but a loaded gun... She may look like a lady, but she's a flower grown wild... Nobody saw the tears in your silk and lace, the scarred little kid behind your face." [Mirror]
• As previously reported, Halle Berry has named her daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry. Nahla means "honeybee" in Arabic, sez a professor (yesterday we heard it meant "drink of water"). Possible schoolyard taunts: Nuh-uh, nah-nah, nah-nah-nah-I-can't-hear-you. [People]
• Tina Fey insinuates that Jon Stewart prompts applause with a sign. "My friend Seth Meyers coined the term 'clapter,' which is when you do a political joke and people go, 'Woo-hoo.' It means they sort of approve but didn't really like it that much. You hear a lot of that on [whispers] The Daily Show.'" [Page Six]
• Sopranos star and singer Dominic Chianese wants to do a duet with Madonna? Bada bing. [Page Six]
• Even though Heather Mills got a hefty divorce settlement, she's looking to sell her story — and some photos and tape recordings — for $2 million. Any takers? [Page Six]
• Director Anthony Minghella, who died yesterday, praised Jill Scoott in the new issue of Vogue. Minghella directed Scott in upcoming flick The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and said: "She is extremely stellar. I think she can be a real star." [Page Six]
• Lindsay Lohan refused to walk the red carpet of an event until organizers took down a backdrop with Paris Hilton's name on it. Plus: The star "pitched a hissy fit" on the set of a Visa commercial because someone served her a burrito. "She doesn't eat on shoots," he rep says. Eyeroll. [Rush & Molloy]
• Also acting like a diva: Kim Kardashian, who wouldn't pose for photos at a NYC club until she received $5,000. Effing hell. [Rush & Molloy]
• Beyoncé didn't greet fans on the set of Cadillac Records, the Etta James movie, because it was raining and she had to preserve her hairdo. Priorities! [Rush & Molloy]
• "I'm a big Obama supporter." — Ryan Phillippe. [Rush & Molloy]
• Topless pictures of Audrina from The Hills! "I took these photos years ago when I was just out of high school and beginning to model. I was young and very trusting of others and I didn't know to protect myself," she says. So she dressed up like a naughty schoolgirl... from the waist down. [TMZ]
• Kirstie Alley has signed a deal with Oprah's production company to develop TV projects. Cheers! [People]
• In court Tuesday, Howard K. Stern denied giving Daniel Smith, Anna Nicole's son, drugs. He also claimed to be shocked drugs were found in Daniel's system: "He wasn't that kind of kid." [E!]
• Minnie Driver wants to have a water birth at home in Malibu. [Mirror]
• Lily Allen has moved in with a new man! The guy is a producer named Robertson Furze and Lily seems to be happy so good for them. [The Sun]
• Jamie Spears' plan to save Britney's life is obviously about getting her finances in order. "If Britney never goes back to work, there is no reason she and her kids shouldn't be able to live a very comfortable life with the kind of money she has in the bank," says a source. But! She doesn't have as much as people think! "Those figures of $100 million or more were so off the mark," an insider says. It's more like $40 mil, sigh. [MSNBC]
• Simon Cowell paid off the mortgage for the family of a little girl with cancer. "I'm her guardian angel," Simon said. It's easy to snark on the stoopid stuff but when good things happen, what are you supposed to say? [Mirror]
• William Baldwin's wife, Chynna Phillips, puts her underwear on his head when they have sex so she knows where they are when they're done. Romantic! And practical. [The Sun]

• Britney Spears backed out of recording a duet with Justin Timberlake at the last minute. Says an insider, "She's sick... sick in the head. She needs help. What she's got - and we've heard it's like bipolar disorder - can easily be treated with medication, but she won't do it." If all this is an elaborate plot to promote her appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards, it's working. We're not going to miss that shit. [Page Six]
  
• Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx reminisces about the old days, when he and his buddies would bet on who could have sex with the fattest chick or tag team a mother and daughter. Ah, memories! [Page Six]
  
• Is Marc Jacobs engaged to his boyfriend Jason Preston? A source says Preston was seen "flashing a Cartier ring to his friends, telling everyone he was engaged." [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]

• Blind item! "Which celebrity actress' Xanax prescription is often passed around in Los Angeles nightclubs by an equally famous younger actress, who's friends with her daughter?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Tyra Banks has cut her manager Benny Medina,loose. Medina had a bitter legal breakup with former client Jennifer Lopez, but his split with Tyra is said to be amicable. [Rush & Molloy]
• Madonna's husband Guy Ritchie broke his gamekeeper's arm in a "play fight." Ouch. [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
• Beyoncé accidentally flashed fans during a fashion line launch in Toronto. Boobielicious? [Rush & Molloy, 6th item]
• OMG, there's video! [Egotastic]
• Lindsay Lohan may not be charged with three counts of felony — meaning she won't do prison time (but maybe 4 days in jail). We'll see! [TMZ]
• Carey Hart — motocross star and husband of Pink — says the reports of him making out with other girls are "just a bunch of trash talk" and a "nasty rumor." He adds, "Everything's fine." We desperately want to believe him. [People]
• Gwen Stefani stayed covered up when she played a concert in Malaysia, because of the Islamic country's dress code. Under Malaysian government rules, a female artist must be covered from her shoulders to her knees. We predict Britney Spears will never play Malaysia. [People]
• Nicole Richie will wait until after she gives birth to get married. "She wants to do it on her own schedule," says a source. "And it will be done because they are in love, not because they are up against some deadline." Also? She needs to do a little jail time. [E!]
• Noted environmentalist Bette Midler cut down more than 230 trees around her property in Hawaii without a permit and was fined $6,500. Whoops! [Yahoo!]
• Are Kate Moss and Pete Doherty back together? Sources say she ignored him while she was on vacation in Spain, but now that she's back in London, it's on — and the two are shacked up in a hotel together. A source also says Kate swears she's "miserable without him and desperately happy with him." [DailyMail]
• Lily Allen supports Amy Winehouse and hopes she gets well. "I've been around enough substance abuse to know it's a serious matter," Lily says. Still, raising your glass to someone who has a drinking problem is a little rude, no? [Mirror]
• Amy Winehouse's entire North American tour is canceled, by the way. [USA Today]
• Jack Osbourne says he'll never sleep with a famous girl again. "They are all insecure, rail thin and obsessed with themselves — I've never met a normal one." We're not sure any famous girls are actually falling over themselves to hook up with Jack, but we respect his statement. [The Sun]
• Paris Hilton is picking up some eco-tips from her new friend, Entourage star Adrian Grenier. He's helping her pick out a home that she can easily convert into an environmentally friendly living space. As long as this friendship stays a friendship, we applaud him. [Showbuzz]

• More info on Ellen Barkin's lawsuit against her ex-husband, billionaire Ron Perelman. Apparently her partner in the film production company Perelman was supposed to be financing is Barkin's brother, George, a former editor of marijuana-obsessed magazine High Times. $3.4 million buys a lot of weed, yo. [PageSIx]
  
• Cosmopolitan's Style & Beauty says "guyliner" is out. "The only kind of pencil a man should wield is the writing kind." Sorry, Pete Wentz! [PageSix]
  
• The covers of Life &Style and Us Weekly were so similar this week that Us's editor-in-chief, Janice Min, is "irked." An Us spokesperson called L&S "a poor imitation." There's totally going to be a fight after school!
  
• A spy says Paula Abdul passes out while she's having her hair and makeup done. Wouldn't you? [PageSix]
  
• A studio exec says of Lindsay Lohan's career: "I think she's done." The guy who conducts interventions on addicts for the A&E series Intervention adds: "I predict it's only going to get worse." Oh, man. Well, we'll be watching. [EntertainmentWeekly]

• Sean Penn and Venezuela's rabblerouser Hugo Chavez talked on the phone and then met in Caracas yesterday. New BFFs? [PageSix]
• Louis Vuitton will no longer loan Lindsay Lohan clothes, because she took too much from her photoshoot with Elle. This is not really surprising. [ PageSix]
• Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams' father, who was arrested for tax evasion in Sydney in 2006, has lost his court battle to prevent US authorities extraditing him from Australia. The IRS claims he owes more than $1.5 million in taxes. We can't make a joke, because the IRS scares us. [Yahoo!News]
• When Nicole Richie goes to jail, she'll be in the same place Paris Hilton did time. That's hot! [TMZ]
• Poor Madonna! Some old love letters and explicit Polaroids might become public at the same time the head of Malawi's child welfare services spends a week with Madge and her family to assess whether they're fit to adopt baby David permanently. We have a feeling that once the child welfare dude sees the Material Girl's wealthy lifestyle, he will ask to be adopted as well. That's what we would do. [DailyMail]
• Have you seen the video where Tim McGraw's ring gets taken? [YouTube]
• Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown and Eddie Murphy's ex-wife Nicole had lunch at Beverly Hills hotspot The Ivy. That Scary: Crazy like a fox! [People]
• Beyoncé is the new face of American Express. But that doesn't mean you can charge what ever you want and she'll pay the bill. [OK!]
• If you've dreamed of sailing the ocean with John Mayer, you now have your chance: It's called the Mayercraft Carrier, and it's a three-day cruise hosted by John Mayer. This is not a joke. [MayercraftCarrier, via OhNoTheyDidn't]
• Single? No problem! Flavor of Love 3 is now casting. [DListed]

[New York, July 31. Image via Splash]

But no matter: Many (mostly black) women are willing to pay the price. "The hair is so human looking and I can do lots of styles," says one wig-wearer. "It's awesome." Claims another, "I can put it in a ponytail and still feel professional... feminine." The wigs are sometimes made from synthetic strands, but most are often crafted from the hair of women in Asia. (That's America: Always outsourcing!) So: Wigs. Truly liberating, or just another way celebrities undermine everyone's self-esteem? And again, we must ask: Why does everyone want straight hair so badly?
Lace-front Wigs: The Glue-On Ideal [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Earlier: Why Is Straight Hair The Epitome Of 'Style'?
Related: Emmy Fug Carpet: Tyra Banks [GoFugYourself]

[Portofino, Italy; June 20. Images via FilmMagic]