I collect vintage magazines, so maybe this is only exciting to me, but Sports Illustrated now boasts a digital archive where you can view covers of the infamous editions from 1964 to 2006. It's sheer swimsuit model anthropology: I'm pretty sure the cover girls of the 1960s would be considered "fat" by current standards, and it's clear one look never goes out of style--Elle "The Body" McPherson. Plus there are greatest hits like the cool 1984 Paulina Porizkova cover, the 1980 Christie Brinkley (sheesh, she still looks the same!), and the triple threat of swimwear superstars Kathy Ireland, Elle McPherson and Rachel Hunter all on the same 1994 cover.

Plus, you can order re-prints of your favorites. So awesome. It's all like, more American than apple pie, no?

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So, this right here is why you shouldn't turn to the scalpel. Right here. I love Kathy's humor like your dog loves humping your boss's leg, but at some point, you just have to wonder how much of your actual self you've cut away. The cool thing is that Kathy is very open about her extensive alterations and she's admitted to having ten freaking procedures. Ten! Double digits! And she's had lipo twice, even though the first time, it almost killed her. The nose job...whatevs, but man, the Botox and the chemical peels have rendered her with a kind of freaky rictus grin. Did she go to Teri Hatcher's guy? Big mistake. If she's not careful, she'll get as unrecognizable as Roseanne Barr (yes, that's her).

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Um, MAGE bodysnarking alert! You'd think Brazilian fashion journalists would have learned their lesson after a 21-year-old native model Ana Carolina Reston made headlines when she died of anorexia, forcing the entire industry to a call to arms regarding promoting new standards when it comes to projecting healthier body images.

So what the hell were reporters thinking when according to Catwalkqueen, critics called out 24-year-old supermodel Karolina Kurkova for having "back fat, love handles and cellulite" and looking "uncharacteristically chubby" when she appeared in a Cia Maritima show during Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

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Product Fiend believes in looking your best through preservation and prevention rather than injections and surgery. Skin ages and loses elasticity--that's life. But when your face is seen on high def in millions of homes across the land, it's as if the world is seeing you under a dermatologist's magnifying lens. So. Not. Fair. Our mission: to help actresses combat high def scrutiny with care, not needles.

Confession: sometimes when I'm watching Gossip Girl, I get distracted from the storyline (especially the Rufus and Lily stuff, because parents should be smarter than their children, even fictional ones) and start focusing on Kelly Rutherford's parentheses lines. Not just her naso-labial folds (because most of us around the age of 35 are starting to see that slippage), but she's also got two little quirky apostrophes at the corners of her mouth. Blink, there they are! Blink, now they're gone! It's a little game, we play, me and Kelly Rutherford's mouth lines. Honestly, those little winkers are all that shows up on my ginormous HD, which isn't all that surprising, as the makeup artists at Gossip Girl must employ black magicks (or Perfekt Skin sprayed through a firehose) to be able to deal with smile lines and crow's feet on the oldsters AND nuclear, full-blown teenage acne on the teens.

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Victoria Beckham isn't adoring Hollywood so much anymore, as she's realizing that the dry climate is doing a number on her skin. She blames the lack of humidity on new lines forming around her mouth. Well, one wonders if it's really the climate or maybe stress or the harsh sun or possibly the likelihood that Posh probably isn't ingesting a lot of the necessary dietary fats required for a dewy peaches-and-cream complexion, but whatever, if she wants to blame the Santa Ana winds, be my guest. She's checking out facial yoga, which, I don't know, seems really ridiculous (come on, guys, there's a pose called "smiling fish face", how can you take it seriously?)  but then again, I do a version of the baby bird pose and swear that it keeps me from having a serious chin wattle. What do you think? Is Posh on to something?