Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, America's number one Vanity Smurf house of mirrors. Every Friday, we post celebrity Instagrams, without comment. This week: Anthony Bourdain won't do Pepto-Bismol commercials; Jared Leto sees colors; Jennifer Hudson saves a bird, LiLo's heading to party in the desert and so much more.…
Welcome back to America's premiere Celebrity Instagram waterpark. This week: Jackie and Joan Collins smile through an earthquake; Adrien Grenier does some light reading; Kat Dennings does Casual Piñata Monday and Betty Draper hangs with Don and Megan. Enjoy.
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Now that the various screenshots of James Franco attempting to pick up a 17-year-old via Instagram have roiled the Internet for a day, James Franco is weighing in. James Franco says he is "embarrassed." Same.
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Good job, Internet: The latest terrible trend in social media is #aftersex selfies, posted to Instagram. Nothing like a little post-coital bliss to break up the pet pics, brunch photos and vacation shots, I guess.
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, the Vanity Smurf extravaganza in which we roundup celebrity Instagrams and present them to you without comment. This week: The Kardashians are wrestling; Janelle Monae hangs with MIA; Jared Leto is in Russia and Lisa Rinna has skin issues. Enjoy.
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When Betty Simpson was diagnosed with cancer, her great-grandson set up an Instagram for her to celebrate her life and keep a record of her battle with the disease. What neither suspected is that Betty would become a bona-fide internet icon, amassing thousands of followers on her account and even attracting the…
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing. Every Friday we round up celebrity Instagrams so we can watch what happens when star turn the cameras on themselves. This week: Lena Dunham's chilling with the ladies of SNL; Joan Rivers is dining on Cheetos and Champagne; Drew Barrymore is making pasta from scratch and January Jones…
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Let's get straight to the point: Some wit is carrying around cutouts of Leonardo DiCaprio, snapping pics at sights around New York City and documenting their rambles together on an Instagram account called "My Day With Leo." It is brilliant.
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Guess what ladies? We've taken over the social web. The average American spends thirty-seven minutes each day on social media, and over half of those people have vaginas. We also share more news bits than men. We're number one!
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As long as Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen do what parents do and share stuff about their child(ren) with the world, people are going to have an issue with it and media outlets are going to write about it like it's interesting. We're in for a long slog.
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The selfie has gone through many incarnations, from standing in front of an olde-tymey box camera to snapping a mirror reflection to MySpaceFace to Sparrowface to The Squinch. And now, according to Pamela Grossman, the director of visual trends at Getty Images, a new generation of girls into "ugly selfies" are staging "a…
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, America's number one Vanity Smurf waterpark. Every Friday, we check out what happens when the stars play paparazzi and turn the cameras on themselves. This week: Lupita and Fassbender do a selfie; Ed Sheeran and Kat Dennings really like cats; Amanda Seyfried's hairdo looks complicated;…
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Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen had a child over the weekend. Congratulations! But wait – maybe next time don't tell us so much about how you had that child, says Good Morning America, which aired a segment Thursday about where "the line between 'okay' and 'TMI'" is when it comes to sharing on social media.
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A National Guard soldier has been suspended over a photograph depicting her and a group of other soldiers posing with what appears to be a casket for a military funeral, along with the caption "we put the FUN back in funeral."
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This British teenager who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Cumberbatch has become an Internet sensation, thanks to a few selfies he posted to Instagram.
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing! Every Friday, we round up celebrity Instagrams and present them without comment. This week: Chloe Grace Moretz plays with a knife; Lenny Kravitz goes record shopping; Lupita Nyong'o eats chocolate; and Katy Perry's Valentine is a real dog. Enjoy.
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For a spread in March's W magazine, photographers Mert Alas and Max Piggott took pictures of some people who are famous in real life and therefore famous on social media naked in bed. The shoot was called "Pillow Tweets" and was styled by Edward Enninful.
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing! Every Friday we sit back and watch as Vanity Smurf stars turn their cameras on themselves.Celebrity Instagrams! This week: Nicki Minaj ditches her wig; Katy Perry meets a talented dog; Mindy Kaling hangs with Schmidt; and John Stamos is hotter than the hinges of hell. Enjoy.
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Welcome back to America's premiere Vanity Smurf playground. Every Friday, we round up celebrity Instagrams and present them without comment. This week: Oprah received a fuckton of flowers for her birthday; Coco Rocha's doing roller-skate lunges; Mindy Kaling has a cute new love interest; and Beyoncé's in bed. Enjoy.
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Newsweek just ran a monster-length piece about tween girls and sex called Sex and the Single Tween, finally giving readers access to the enduring question: So are Our Nation's Precious Little Girls sluts, or what?
