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Saturday, April 11, 2009
The younger daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone looks every inch the pampered pit-stop princess. I’m bracing my wallet to take a huge hit – perhaps a £200 bottle of Cristal champagne, which is surely what this sort of person drinks. But she orders an abstemious cup of herbal tea.And it doesn’t take long in Petra’s company to realise that she has inherited much more from her driven, successful father than merely his billions. Even Tamara, Petra’s equally pretty but rather wilder older sister, appears to be settling down: she has a presenting job on Sky Italia, and is the new face of luxury jewellery firm Moussaieff.
But most of the credit must go to Slavica, their statuesque Croatian mother, whom Bernie met in 1982 at the Italian Grand Prix where she was modelling T-shirts, and married after the birth of Tamara.
‘She dedicated her whole life to the three of us – my dad, my sister and me,’ says Petra. ‘She always put me and Tamara ahead of herself, which is the most amazing thing. I don’t think I could be a housewife or a stay-at-home mum. I’m too selfish.’
At times, ex-model Slavica’s determination to keep her own and her two daughters’ feet on the ground comes across as almost perverse. ‘We’ve got a dishwasher,’ says Petra, ‘but my mum never uses it. She thinks that she can do a better job with her hands, and she finds cleaning and ironing therapeutic.’
When they went abroad on luxury holidays to India, Egypt or Morocco, Slavica would insist on taking buses into the interior to see the gritty reality of life outside the five-star hotels.
‘We’ve seen some pretty grim things. I remember we went to an orphanage in Brazil, and the children were so incredibly beautiful and so happy with what they had. It makes you feel really guilty because you don’t appreciate what you’ve got,’ says Petra.
‘When I’m on my dad’s boat in the summer, away from everything else in the world, I know I’m a really lucky girl, and I don’t ever take it for granted. But I haven’t had everything just because I wanted it. My parents would only give me gifts when I’d passed exams or done something to deserve them, which I think makes a huge difference.’
‘We’ve seen some pretty grim things. I remember we went to an orphanage in Brazil, and the children were so incredibly beautiful and so happy with what they had. It makes you feel really guilty because you don’t appreciate what you’ve got,’ says Petra.
‘When I’m on my dad’s boat in the summer, away from everything else in the world, I know I’m a really lucky girl, and I don’t ever take it for granted. But I haven’t had everything just because I wanted it. My parents would only give me gifts when I’d passed exams or done something to deserve them, which I think makes a huge difference.’
Friday, April 10, 2009
Drama najlepšeg holivudskog glumačkog para Andželine Žoli i Breda Pita se nastavlja. Nakon niza svađa, Andželina je nedavno besno rekla Bredu kako bi volela da „spava” sa drugim muškarcima, te da joj ne bi smetalo da i on ima druge žene. Nakon što su se pre nekoliko nedelja posvađali, pošto je slavna glumica uhvatila Pita kako masira dadilju, doslovno je nastao haos u njihovim životima. Svađe ne prestaju. Tako je pre nekoliko dana, u jednoj od brojnih svađa, majka šestoro dece Bredu rekla kako joj je dosta svega. Prijatelj blizak poznatom paru otkriva šta je tačno slavna mama izjavila: „Pod stresom sam! Nisam navikla na ovakav život. Dosta mi je svega, navikla sam da se viđam sa više ljudi. Iskreno, želim da imam nekog drugog muškarca u krevetu, a ne bi mi smetalo da i ti to uradiš!” Breda je ova izjava mnogo potresla, jer je on tradicionalno vaspitan, navodi njihov prijatelj, dok je Andželina navikla na veze i sa više partnera u isto vreme.
Njihova veza definitivno je upala u krizu početkom ovog meseca, kada je Andželina zatekla Breda kako masira dadilju na njihovom krevetu. Navodno mu je udarila i šamar, dadilju izbacila napolje, a svoje stvari premestila u drugu sobu. Na njeno, trenutno, labilno psihičko stanje, utiču i iscrpljujuća snimanja i dijeta koju drži zbog uloge u filmu „Salt”. Nakon svađe oko dadilje, Andželina se preselila u Njujork, a Bred je sa decom pošao za njom. Dolazili su zajedno na njena snimanja, ali Žolijeva je bila nezainteresovana za njih. Kako navode svetski mediji, utučeni Bred je na sve moguće načine pokušavao da dopre do nje i spase vezu, te joj je na kraju postavio i jedan uslov. - Bred je Andželini rekao da će prekinuti vezu sa njom ako se ne uda za njega, kao i to da on misli da je brak jedina stvar koja ih može zadržati zajedno - priča prijatelj poznatog para.
Blic, danas
Thursday, April 9, 2009
With their supple skin and unlined faces, the stars of today refuse to give in to the ageing process. Some admit to treatments like Botox, others deny it. But why do women in the public eye feel they cannot age - and what pressure does it put on the rest of us?
A couple of months ago, a photograph was hungrily circulated around gossip magazines and websites and, at a glance, you would have had trouble explaining why. It showed an ordinary-looking woman in her mid-40s, out shopping in California, her specs on, cardigan buttoned. The clue was in the picture of Madonna that ran beside it. Of course, Madonna isn't the only famous woman to look ageless. Over the past ten years, the public face of ageing seems to have changed completely and many of the world's most prominent women hardly seem to grow older at all.
It's not so much that they always look young, exactly, or that they have the tightly pulled skin of traditional facelifts. But they do look completely different to their non-famous peers. Where other women's lips recede, theirs stay plump. Where others have laughter lines, they remain undimpled. And when describing how they stay so taut, the explanation is generally this. They moisturise. They drink water. They work out. They eat well. They avoid the sun. They don't smoke...more:
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