Archive for the ‘Beauty & Body Image’ Category

My Own Body

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I make a big deal about showing off my physique whenever I can because I think it is important for people to know what a 39 year old woman looks like. I don’t see that many images of women like myself out there, so I want to be a good example. Whenever I can, I put on a bikini or even just pasties and a g-string because I don’t want to hide out. I think that too many people have body issues, and if we just confront those issues head on, we can get rid of them.

For years I kept myself covered up because when I was doing TV a very long time ago, one of the executives I was working with said after my first screen test, “Never, ever show your stomach in public again,” and it just made me feel so freaked out by my own body. I just wanted to disappear. It sent me into a dieting frenzy that was almost deadly.

Now that I am older and wiser, I just want to enjoy my life, and not worry so much about what people think of me, how I look, if I am too fat or something – I just don’t give a shit.

Donut Pussy

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I had a new procedure called the “G-Shot,” which is kind of like plastic surgery, kind of a body modification – but you don’t see it. It is on the inside. It isn’t something I would necessarily normally do, because I am very happy with my vagina the way it is. It is one of the finest in the world, and really needs little embellishment. It has served me well for many years and there are lots of miles left on it.

I got the G-shot as part of my new VH1 show, “The Cho Show,” which I am filming right now and it is so fucking awesome you are going to just scream when you see it – I am so excited! Anyway, the G-Shot is an injection of collagen into your G-Spot that is supposed to enhance any kind of stimulation there. It is for women who have limited sensation in their vagina, which is me. My puss is more clitoral than vaginal. I am more into the outside than the inside. I am more about display than content. Whenever I go to a party, I tend to hang out on the steps rather than in the house and I never go into the backyard. And to keep the party analogy going, I don’t even have a G-Spot, per say, one place where the party is all centered, but there are lots of smaller events happening all over the area. Mine isn’t a G-Spot. More like a G-Block Party. My pussy is a lot like Coachella. There are a lot of bands hanging around waiting to play.

So I got it done at a fancy Beverly Hills gyno office and it was somewhat uncomfortable. First the G-Spot must be located. The poor doctor had to poke around in there for a long time, and it reminded me of this one guy who was looking for it many years ago, all thumbs in there going “Where’s your spot? Where’s your spot?” It didn’t feel good and I was like, “uh, I usually park on the street.” The doctor came upon an area that felt more sensitive than the other areas (more partying going on there than elsewhere) so she shot up that region with an anesthetic – which was painful!! I needed anesthesia for my anesthesia! It was so prickly and hurting that she had to shoot me up twice with the numbing agent. Then they got the big needle out, which I didn’t feel but looked so scarily long that I thought the end might poke out through my back! OW!!!!

So since then, I haven’t felt any sexual enhancement at all. If anything it makes me not want to do it, which is incredible because I always want to do it – so it doesn’t work as any kind of aphrodisiac, but would be a good punishment for sex offenders. Now my vagina just feels like there is a gel insole in there. Like my cervix is wearing boot socks. I am totally asexual and I feel like I am sitting on a hemorrhoid donut all the time. I really feel kind of bad complaining about the procedure, because the doctor was so nice, and I am all about supporting anything that benefits women and their sexuality. I totally think that the spirit of the thing is cool. Women should feel good in their bodies and if surgery can enhance that, I am all for it. Unfortunately, the G-Shot just wasn’t for me, but it might be for you. There are lots of raves from women about it, and more often than not the results are supposed to be mindblowing, just not for me!

It lasts for four months so I will be at the convent until the swelling goes down.

I Can Make You Thin Through The TV

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I am now super into the new tv show “I CAN MAKE YOU THIN.” This dude, Paul Mckenna, is all in your business talking about how he can make you thin – through the television! It is very exciting. I have only seen the first episode, but I am hooked already. There is a studio audience filled with people of various sizes who are also hooked on this Paul Mckenna – who can make you thin if you are within earshot of him! I like his diet ideas because basically, it isn’t about dieting. You eat what you want, when you are hungry. That is it. Sounds too good to be true? It totally is, because you have to eat super slowly, which is very hard. Also you cannot have any distractions from your food. So no watching tv while eating. These two things are very challenging because I love to watch tv and I love to eat fast! I eat so fast sometimes that I will bite my tongue and all over the inside of my mouth! Not only that, I love to watch tv while eating fast. Especially good food shows like Anthony Bourdain’s “NO RESERVATIONS” – even though he has a tendency to eat a lot of organ meats. I think it so awesome to eat food while you are watching food! It is like porn during sex, but way more fun!! So now I am totally trying to eat as slowly as I can, completely savoring every small bite, and what happens is I get so bored of eating because it is taking so long, I get sick of the food. It isn’t even that I get full, I just get over it and I don’t want to sit there with the stupid food anymore. I think this is all a good plan and I am excited about the man who can make you thin through the tv. Now I want to do a spin off show called I CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY where I just smile at you through the tv!! You can be made happy through the television!!!

Chubby

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Just read an article about myself where I described myself as “chubby” and I think that it is a fairly unacceptable description, and I want to apologize to myself for saying it, because that is just wrong. I am not chubby – and to call myself that is to endanger the lives of millions of young girls who look to the media to define who they are, who are constantly checking themselves for fear of wrecking themselves, who are afraid to be thought of as “chubby,” who don’t realize that they are perfect as they are, and it is irresponsible. I fear they will read this article and look at my body and be scared because it is like theirs, and they will then think of themselves as “chubby” and learn to hate themselves more. To call me “chubby” is to call a billion women “chubby” who shouldn’t think of themselves as anything less than hot and sexy and curvy and built. I am not “chubby.” I am a real live perfectly beautiful woman, and just because I may be larger than the mostly anorexic female population in Hollywood, it doesn’t make me any less desirable or gorgeous because I like food. I take it back, as I must take back all the millions of insults that I hurl at myself without knowing it. I would never, ever say any of the horrible things I say to myself about myself to anyone else, not even someone I hated, because there is no one I could possibly hate that much. We must stop fighting the war against ourselves before we can truly start to love ourselves. We are not “chubby,” we are perfect. We are beautiful. We are so very very beautiful.

Hot Like Me

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I have beautiful, amazing, incandescently glowing and mostly clear skin, and I try really hard to get it that way. Skin is totally important to me. I don’t wear a lot of makeup, and so I rely on my healthy appearance to get me by. It isn’t easy, especially when you are pushing 40 as hard as I do! My makeup look is basically no makeup, only red lipstick (and maybe a little bit of a darkened eyebrow), because I always want to look like a French-Vietnamese exchange student cutting class to meet my much older inappropriate lover (very Marguerite Duras inspired), and this look requires perfect skin to pull off.

Whenever anyone says, “You have gorgeous skin!” I say, “Yes, that is because I work it from the inside out.” I drink a lot of water. Like not even a cute amount. I am always drinking it. At the gym, not only do I have a bottle in my hand constantly, I also drink out of the water fountain and out of paper cups out of the arrowhead dispenser when I walk by it. I drink and drive – water that is – but I never leave a plastic bottle in the car because the plastic supposedly leaches chemicals into the water. I don’t know if this is true, but it just tastes like ‘plastic tea’ which is creepy anyway so don’t do it. I drink big gulps of water in the shower, which some might think is gross but I don’t care because I have perfect skin so fuck you.

I really love tap water, not just here in LA but everywhere. Sydney has excellent tap, as does New York City. The only places I have had a problem with tap water are New Delhi and Mexico City. Everywhere else is cool. Water is the best beautifying agent. If you drink enough of it, it will make you beautiful and gorgeous and perfect. I drink more water than anyone I know. I really like to go to restaurants and get big ice waters, not wine, not vodka, not Diet Coke, not coffee, not bottled water, just big ice water from the tap with a lemon wedge. I rely on water for everything I need drink-wise. It is the best thing you can do for yourself. This of course means I am forever going to the bathroom. I drink it every time I think about it. I am totally one of those middle aged Hollywood ladies who carries her water in a net bag slung across her body. Please drink as much water as you possibly can, if you want to be hot like me.

Suhaila and Isabella

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Of course, the two most beautiful women in the world are Suhaila Salimpour and her amazing daughter Isabella:

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Selene Luna

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Who is beautiful? Selene Luna! This picture is amazing. She looks like she is on the Ed Sullivan show or something. That face! That hair! That gorgeous figure! She’s proof dynamite comes in small packages.

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How to Look Good Naked

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

I am completely into the new reality show “How to Look Good Naked” hosted by Carson Kressley. It is kind of like a traditional makeover show with shopping and finding the right clothes for your body type, hair/makeup, etc… except it is more goal oriented because at the end, Carson makes the women feel so confident that they are able to pose naked and have their glorious image blown up and splashed on the side of a building. I think it is wonderful, and of course there are lots of good crying opportunities because you see the process actually makes these women feel great about themselves and also how distorted our body images can become. Plus, Carson is so adorable and funny and cute – he plays the perfect fairy godmother.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves. I did it by dancing naked for a couple of years with “The Sensuous Woman.” I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity. It is hard because the urge to criticize ourselves is overwhelmingly strong. I don’t know why that is. I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways – but I get down on myself too! Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself. I even did a naked photo shoot myself not too long ago, with my favorite photographer Austin Young. My friend Suhaila was there for moral support and she has done a lot of modeling. She gave me some good advice. “When you are being shot, try to think of a secret. Something beautiful. Something only you know. A secret. Hold onto that. Let them see the secret in your eyes. Feel it.” Austin shot amazing photos of me that day. Afterward, Suhaila asked me, “What was your secret?”

I said, “I farted.”

I guess it really wasn’t a secret because they already knew about it!!

This entry is cross-posted at The Huffington Post

Ryan Heffington

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

It would be hard to find someone more beautiful than Ryan Heffington. He’s like one of those people that everyone agrees on. We may all be different, but we share a common bond. We all think Ryan is hot! He is a self-professed tranimal - which is a cross between a tranny and an animal - tranimal. Tranimals are rare and found in the cities and in the wild but rarely in the country. I love Ryan and he really made “The Sensuous Woman” experience special for me. My favorite thing was watching him dance every night as Dirty Diana. He had this move where he would make an ass house - like he lifted his butt up from the ground and it was like an ass teepee. That is where we all want to live. I love Ryan Heffington!!

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What Else is Beautiful?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

    Striking Writers!
    I love that they are seeing how important they are and how Hollywood doesn’t exist without them. Writers make the world of entertainment go around and they should be treated with respect. I support them and I applaud them, and I am one of them!

    Cameltoe
    Cameltoe is beautiful. It is kind of like cleavage, but better. It’s daring, much more daring than going naked because it is just the cleft, straight up. Cameltoe really makes everyone take a breath and step back and behold. And as you can see, men can have cameltoe also… it is just a little more bulgy. I like these unitards too, because they make us look like creamsicles.

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    photo by Jo Boobs

    Knut
    The first polar bear born in captivity:
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Olu

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Olu is gorgeous. She is one of my very favorite bellydancers. Her movements are silky and precise and her body is just beyond beautiful. She looks like an Algerian postcard from the 1920s, something to entice you to visit mysterious new lands. I love her!

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Diana Yanez

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Who is beautiful? Diana Yanez! Looking good!

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Ian Harvie

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Who is beautiful? Ian Harvie. The handsomest guy around. Wow! And he’s not just great looking. He is also an awesome comic and a terrific pal. Come check him out on on my new tour, “Beautiful,” premiering in Australia. US Dates will be announced soon!

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Jo Boobs

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Jo Boobs is beautiful. Here she is as her cheese eating diva Fanny Fromage. Look at that booty!! I am an ass man, and Jo has the finest onion…it will make you cry!! I love her because not only is she absolutely gorgeous, she is incredibly smart. She is a burlesque performer, teacher, historian, and photographer. She shows us our present while preserving our past. I love Jo Boobs!!

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Simone de la Getto

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Who is beautiful? You might remember Simone de la Getto from the Hunter video. She played Hunter’s ladyfriend with the incredible ass dance. She’s gorgeous and one of the members of the awesome burlesque troupe Harlem Shake. I don’t know if you can tell here, but she is very very tall, with legs for days and a smile that just knocks you out…

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