<![CDATA[Jezebel: bottoms up]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: bottoms up]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/bottomsup http://jezebel.com/tag/bottomsup <![CDATA[Finish Your Holiday Shopping Early]]> The giant wine glass holds an entire bottle of wine and certain people who shall remain nameless could really put it to good use, especially on a Friday at the end of the longest week ever. [Rurally Screwed, Kotula's]

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<![CDATA[Remember Kelly Ripa's Booty Pop panties that...]]> bottomsup42508.pngRemember Kelly Ripa's Booty Pop panties that she was flaunting on Live! With Regis & Kelly the other day? Well today Regis showed off what he found to be the men's equivalent, called Bottoms Up. Click on the photo for larger image. [Bottoms Up]

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<![CDATA[British Writer: Bring Back Big-Bottomed Undies!]]> In the wake of the story about how a pair of generously-sized underwear put out a fire, writer Caitlin Moran has written an amazingly funny piece for the Times of London on the "practical superiority of big pants." Is it time that big pants — or "granny panties", as they're known on this side of the pond [I call them "period panties" -Ed.] — made a comeback? Moran says she is "pro big pants" and argues that underwear is no longer something people don't talk about; unmentionables are totally mentionable! "In 2008, knickers are no longer a secret," she claims. "Pencil skirts, skin-tight jeans and leggings - they all allow us to witness an exact outline of the wearer's pants." The problem, Moran argues, is that "Instead of having something that, sensibly and reassuringly, contains both the buttocks — what I would call a good pair of pants — they're wearing little more than gluteal accessories, or arse-trinkets."



Moran pleads with women to try out granny panties:

'Why are we starving our bottoms of the resources - like an extra metre of material - to stay comfortable? Why have we succumbed to pantorexia? It is, of course, all a symptom of women's continuing, demented belief that, at any moment, they might face some snap inspection of their 'total hotness,' and have to reveal their underwear to a baying crowd, possibly featuring George Clooney. In this respect, women have communally lost all reason. Ladies! On how many occasions in the past year have you needed to wear sexy pants? In other words, to break this right down, how many times this year have you suddenly, unexpectedly, had sex in a brightly lit room, with a hard-to-please erotic connoisseur? Exactly. On those kind of odds, you might just as well be keeping a backgammon board down there, to entertain a group of elderly ladies in the event of emergencies. It's more likely to happen.'
She continues by noting that guys really do not care what kind of underwear women sport. "They're really not that fussy." (Didn't Hugh Grant's character in Bridget Jones' Diary still shag Bridget despite her pillowy panties?) So women have no one to blame but ourselves! And she clarifies that she's not promoting the horrible flesh-colored briefs you may be imagining. Instead, think "bright teal French knickers in silk, ribbony bloomers, frilly cancan scanties and amazing satin shorts from the 1950s."

So how 'bout it, girls? You ready to ditch the thongs?

Coming To A Bottom Near You: Pantorexia [Times of London]
Earlier: Pants On Fire

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<![CDATA[Amy Winehouse: Life's Too Short Not To Drink Your Insecurities Away]]> In an interview on her concert DVD I Told You I Was Trouble, out November 13, Amy Winehouse says: "I'm quite an insecure person. I'm very insecure about the way I look. The more insecure I felt, the more I'd drink...The more insecure I feel, the bigger my hair has to be." Her honesty is appreciated, but not necessarily "refreshing" since her admission is kinda sad. It's interesting, though, that two of the things that have helped catapult her to worldwide stardom — her beehive and her substance abuse — stem from her insecurities. After all, if it weren't for her drinking, she wouldn't have written most of the songs on Back to Black, and the hair certainly didn't hurt in getting attention. So could it be that our insecurities are responsible for much of our success in life?



It probably depends on what kind of person you are, but for many, insecurity can be the fire under your ass that pushes you forward, rather than a wall that holds you back. Amy might think so, anyway! In the same interview, she says that she has no intention of changing because "life is too short." Self-medicating probably isn't the best way to live one's life, but you know, whatever floats your boat... or, uh, drowns your sorrows.

Life's Too Short, Just Do It, Says Unrepentant Amy Winehouse [Daily Mail]

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<![CDATA[So, get this: Britney Spears — a woman...]]> britneysmall100807.jpgSo, get this: Britney Spears — a woman who has a court-order to stay away from alcohol if she ever wants to get her kids back — has applied for a job as a bartender. TMZ has learned that on Thursday night, while staying at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, Britney asked for, then filled out. a job application at the hotel's "Cameo Bar." It's currently with Human Resources. She was probably just fooling around though, right? Right? [TMZ]

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<![CDATA[No Airbrushing—We're Not Fucking Around]]>

There's yet another one of those "celebs and their cellulite" covers of The National Enquirer. Admittedly, it fills us with a certain amount of glee to have photographic evidence that actresses and pop stars aren't the flawless, smoothed out, glowing beings they're normally presented as on magazine covers. (Although, it does piss us off that only the dimpled flesh of women is plastered across the tabloids, and not that of men.) But the thing is, everyone will develop cellulite at some point. It's bullshit that the Enquirer makes it out to be such a scandalous thing. Especially since you just know that the women who work at the rag have some cottage cheese themselves. Anyway, y'all know how we feel about airbrushing. And we'd never write a check our dimpled asses couldn't cash. So, to prove our point, the Jezebels (and our guest editor) have taken pictures of the cellulite on our backsides and compiled them on a mock-up Enquirer cover. After the jump, our butts for the world to see.

BTW, this was a really difficult thing for some of us to do. (Actually, one Jezebel refused to participate, that bitch. JK.)

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