Lake Bell green tastes

Attractive Lake Bell at a pool party during day two of the desert music festival in Indio, California, hosted by Lacoste. A peace program called "The Voice Project" was also sponsored by Lacoste at the event.

Lake Bell follows a mostly vegan diet, and has said that she loves to frequent BabyCakes vegan bakery in her native New York. Among her gal pals are fellow green friendly celebs like Alicia Silverstone and Cameron Diaz.



Left, Lake Bell shopping at an American Apparel store in New York. Above right, Lake Bell also starred in the HBO series How To Make It In America, about the travails of aspiring young business owners. And as part of the promotion rang the bell at the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on February 8, 2010.

Among Lake Bell's upcoming movies are A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, Little Murder, and the multi-starrer Burning Palms. She also posted on her Twitter that her TV series Childrens' Hospital has been picked up by the cable network Adult Swim. It's a comedic knock-off on the numerous hospital shows and also stars Malin Akerman, Megan Mullaly, Henry Winkler, and Rob Corddry among others.



Lake Bell at the premiere of DreamWorks Animation's Shrek Forever After at Gibson Amphitheater on May 16, 2010 in Universal City, California. Lake, who plays one of the witches in the movie, is wearing a neat shorts ensemble, according to Vogue UK. On how her environmental concerns affect her fashion tastes, Lake Bell told Eco Stiletto: "Stella McCartney is a green fashion goddess and is one of my favorite designers. Also, Rogan is another go-to for green fashion. Although the greatest green items in my closet are recycled items: vintage. Easily half of what's hanging in my closet is vintage or second hand. It's my favorite kind of recycling."
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Alexis Bledel period drama

Alexis Bledel looking pretty in a 3.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2010 dress at the Independent Filmmaker Project Gala, early this month in New York. After two tepid romantic movies, Alexis Bledel and her bright blue eyes, will be seen in a period drama directed by Robert Redford:



Alexis Bledel wearing a period costume in a scene from The Conspirator, a historical drama about the Abraham Lincoln assassination trial of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be hanged by the United States federal government. Alexis stars as Sarah Weston, wife to Frederick Aiken (played by James McAvoy), a war hero who defends Surratt.



Left, Adrian Greenier and Alexis Bledel at the 15th Annual GEN ART Film Festival, for the premiere of Teenage Paparazzo. She is wearing a striking gray Vera Wang dress with silver brocade, and Brian Atwood pumps. Right, Alexis Bledel at the screening of Elektra Luxx, in a woven sweater dress and Christian Louboutin wedge sandals.

Alexis said in an interview that she's open to doing an action film. On the possibility of her popular show Gilmore Girls being carried forward into a movie, where Rory gets pregnant, Bledel said: "Oh my god—a baby bump! Could you imagine? I actually always thought they were going to do that in the series. Since Lorelai got pregnant early, I thought my character was supposed to get pregnant early because she had all these boyfriends. Rory always had boyfriends."



Alexis looking pretty in a Valentino RTW Ruffle Strapless Silk Dress from the Fall 2010 collection, as she attends the Valentino cocktail party in West Hollywood back in April. Bledel has slipped on cute Sergio Rossi Cachet Peep-toe Slingback Sandals.
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Paula Patton

Beautiful Paula Patton can be seen in the basketball comedy Just Wright, in theaters now. Photographed above for Vibe magazine, Paula almost gave up her acting ambitions back in 2000 and turned to producing Medical Diaries for the Discovery Channel. "There are so many sidetracks in life," Paula told the magazine. "But eventually you realize what you want."



Left, Paula Patton at the launch of JetBlue Airways' new JFK-LAX route with VH1 'Save The Music' at MyHouse nightclub on June 17, 2009 in Hollywood, California. Right, Paula Patton at the premiere of her movie Swing Vote in Hollywood, on 24 July 2008. Paula was born and raised in Los Angeles, acted in her school plays, and studied film at the University of Southern California. Patton was a late bloomer in the acting part of the movie business; her first role coming in the 2005 Will Smith romantic comedy Hitch. "I'd loved to act since I was little," Paula Patton told Women's Health about taking the acting plunge. "So I thought, 'Screw it! I have nothing to lose'." Since then Patton has starred in Deja Vu, Idlewild, Mirrors, and in the Oscar-nominated Precious.

Paula may have had a choppy career graph, but her romantic life has been smooth and steady. She met her future husband, R&B singer Robin Thicke, back when they were just teenagers. After a long relationship the two got married in 2005 and had their first child, Julian Fuego Thicke, last month. Speaking to People magazine about hubby Robin, Paula said: "He's always telling me how much he loves me. It's not so much that he tells me how beautiful I am, but that he tells me that I inspire him, and I know he inspires me every day."



Left, Paula Patton looks radiant on the cover of the March 2010 issue of Women's Health. Right, Paula Patton wearing a Sue Stemp jacket over a BCBG Max Azria sweater, and white jeans from Citizens of Humanity, in Marie Claire magazine. The 5'8" tall actress has a white mother and African-American father but considers herself to be Black and not biracial. She told Essence magazine: "If I can open the door for more Black actors and actresses to make this film industry a little bit more color-blind, that's really my goal in this business. I want people to learn from one another, have more compassion for one another, and tell human stories with actors of all ethnicities—not the homogeneous way it is right now."

One her fashion sense Paula Patton told Marie Claire, "I was always into clothes, but I didn't have the money to be the fabulous fashion queen I wanted to be.....Once I turned 30, I started to feel more connected to my body. I'm a mix of classic and a bit bohemian and a little bit sexy." During her pregnancy, Paula Patton switched from drinking coffee to drinking green tea; she also tried to eat a salad and some fruit every day. For her physical fitness Patton says, "A year ago, I started doing Ashtanga Yoga five or six days a week. Even if I do 30 minutes, I can clear my head."
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Carmen Kass power trip

Estonian beauty Carmen Kass is the richest and most well-known female celebrity of her country. "I think they should make me an ambassador," Kass once boasted to the New York Times. "In a few years, I would just name the country Carmen."

Buoyed by her international modeling success, Carmen Kass took a power trip by joining the right-wing Res Publica party, and contesting elections for the Estonian seat in the European Parliament back in 2004. Carmen also bought part of the modeling agency that launched her career: Baltic Models in Tallinn, Estonia. And she has launched several other businesses in her native country since then.



Left, Carmen Kass in a Versace bodysuit, skirt, and platforms for Harper's Bazaar. Right, Carmen, who's natural hair color is light brown, wearing a Versace suit and Christian Louboutin pumps for an older issue of the same magazine. Carmen has been featured repeatedly in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and has walked the runway for all the leading designers, Christian Dior, Dolce and Gabbana, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Valentino, Carolina Herrera. Carmen also walked the runway in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show five times.

Carmen started her modeling career as a teen girl, winning beauty pageants of her home town Paide and county Järvamaa. Kass entered a local modeling school where she was discovered in 1992 by an Italian modeling agent. While the teen model took trips to Italy and France on modeling jobs, her country Estonia had just become free from the Soviet Union, with young Carmen in the middle of the revolution. "I was walking home from school, picking flowers, and all of a sudden the whole road started shaking," she recalls. "Around the corner the tanks came. There were a lot of them, with their guns out. I ran under a bridge and waited till they left. I was so scared. And that night they took over the TV station."



Carmen Kass is known for her distinctive runway walk, which is like a rhythmic bounce, because while she is 5'10" tall Carmen's feet are proportionately smaller at size 7(US). It is said she sometimes simply falls out of her shoes while walking. Growing up Carmen and her family struggled through difficult times. "My mother taught me never to complain about difficult conditions and to take as much as you can out of life," she told the New York Times. Today Carmen has homes in New York, Wiesbaden Germany, and another home for her mother in Estonia which is, "An hour and half from Tallin, at the edge of the Baltic Sea."



One of her bad habits is smoking, and she was once pulled over in Estonia for drunk driving. Carmen Kass has been the face of the Christian Dior perfume J'adore, Gap denim, Max Factor, Micahel Kors Very Hollywood fragrance, Revlon cosmetics, Sephora, Samsung Diva, and Lindex women's fashion.



Carmen Kass is not just all beauty and poise, she has plenty of brain power. Here the Estonian model plays chess at the World Championship in Brissago; Carmen is also President of the Estonian Chess Federation for six years running, and learned the game from her father: "I started to play chess at the age of three, since my father was a teacher of this game. At ten I left, but eventually resumed this practice, as with modeling the brain is not challenged." Carmen Kass is in a relationship with German chess champion Eric Lobron.



When she was young, and working as a model in Italy, someone told her that if her thin lips were surgically enhanced she would get more work. "I didn't have any idea of what was plastic surgery. And I never touched my mouth." Carmen told Model's Own that she rarely shops for clothes. "I guess 'freestyle' best describes the way I look. I don't really have a favorite designer, though I would probably say Yohji Yamamoto if I were forced to choose."
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Keshia Knight Pulliam Jersey girl

In its 100 most beautiful people issue recently, People magazine honored women with connections to the Garden State in the section "Surprise Jersey Girls", including actress Keshia Knight Pulliam.



Keshia Knight Pulliam dazzles in a stunning brown gown embellished on the bust-line and the waist, as she wins Best Supporting actress in a comedy series at the 41st NAACP Image awards in February. The former Cosby girl won the award for her role in the comedy show Tyler Perry's House of Payne.

Keshia's last big movie, Madea Goes to Jail, was also by Tyler Perry and released last year. Pulliam who turned 30 this April, had told People magazine: "As you approach 30, it's this feeling of, 'I'm like for real an adult'. I'm like, 'The time is now to do all the things I really want to do'."



Keshia Knight Pulliam, in a striking dress and her equally striking pearly whites, as she attends an exclusive evening of cocktails and private shopping to benefit "The Ludacris Foundation" at the Ralph Lauren Atlanta Store on April 21, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jersey born Keisha is a graduate of Spelman College and has plans of opening her own acting studio in Atlanta.
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Keira Knightley bankable Brit

Keira Knightley wearing a floor-length silk gown, with an abstract rainbow print, by Erdem Moralioglu at the Laurence Olivier Awards on 21 March. Knightley, described as the most bankable female star in Britain, has a bunch of movies coming out this year.

Famous for the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean series, British girl Keira Knightley also has acting talent, as seen in Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. Keira will star with Colin Farrel in London Boulevard, with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beautiful and the Damned, and will star in an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. The bankable star waived her usual acting fees for a 10-minute short indie film, Maze. "I loved the idea of doing something that was purely creative, weird and wonderful and not a commercial venture," she said.



Keira Knightley puts on well worn clothes in London; the actress, who admits to owning a limited set of clothes and shoes, tells Elle magazine: "I don’t like shopping." Ironically costumes worn by the Brit actress in The Duchess, designed by Michael O'Connor, were showcased at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's "The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design" exhibit in Los Angeles. And the emerald green backless silk gown she wore in Atonement was voted best film costume in a Sky Movies poll recently.

5'7" tall Knightley has natural strawberry blond hair, but has been dyeing and styling it for most of her movie roles. Talking to Elle about her long flowing locks recently Keira said: "I’ve been growing my hair because nobody’s asked me to cut it. I normally only cut it for jobs." Despite all her fame and money the bankable Keira Knightley lives on a canal boat in the East End of London, with only a bodyguard to protect her from stalkers. "It's a weird thing to have to deal with, not on a day-to-day basis, but it has happened enough to make me quite jumpy. I've never managed to get used to people recognising me."



Keira Knightley wearing a sequined paneled halter dress and sheer jersey leggings by Marc Jacobs, in the March 2010 issue of Elle magazine. She has been dating fellow Brit actor Rupert Friend for the past four years; on her 25th birthday, Rupert took Keira out for breakfast and presented her with a gold and diamond ring as, "a token of his love".
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Mila Kunis comely

Attractive Mila Kunis in the April issue of GQ magazine. The actress, who is known for her eight year stint as the snobby but comely Jackie Burkhart on TV's That '70s Show, seems to do best in romantic comedies on the big screen.



Mila Kunis wearing a plaid shirt in the comedy Extract; she can also be seen in Date Night, now playing in theaters. Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake will star in Friends With Benefits, while Mila teams up with Natalie Portman, both playing ballet dancers with a dark relationship, in the psychological drama Black Swan.In 2008 the Ukrainian-born Kunis starred in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But Mila says, "I'm getting a lot of comedies, but comedy is very hard. I don't know if it's where my heart definitely is. Because something's funny right now doesn't mean it's going to sustain being funny after a year in production. And for me, that's the hardest thing."

In real life the 5'3" tall Mila Kunis loves playing video games. "Listen, I am such a nerd," Mila Kunis told USA Today. "I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a nerd.' No, no, no — my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch — I'm a Trekkie."



Mila Kunis wearing a black and gray tulle Vera Wang ballgown, with hand appliquéd sequin bodice, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new Gala on the theme, "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" last week. Comely Mila Kunis told Genlux magazine: "Fashion goes in and out so fast. I can see spending money on a really great black dress, or splurging on a really great pair of shoes, but when it comes to everything else, there's no need to. There's nothing wrong with a little Gap and a little Target."
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Emmanuelle Vaugier animal lover

Canadian actress Emmanuelle Vaugier posing for Modern Dog magazine back in 2003, with her two Miniature Poodles, Isabelle and Lily. Emmanuelle still lives with these two dogs in her Los Angeles home, but animals are not just accessories for her.

33-year old Vaugier held a party at her LA home to raise money and awareness for the Best Friends Animal Society, a Utah-based rehabilitation facility for homeless animals. "They took 22 of the Michael Vick dogs that they’re working with diligently every day," Emmanuelle Vaugier told Zink magazine. "The handlers are working with aggression issues. Their main purpose is to educate people, to place animals in the right home, and to work with animals that are not ready to be adopted yet but will be." Appropriately, low-fat vegan food was served at the party.



Tanja Reichert and Emmanuelle Vaugier decorate pink ducks for the Munchkin's Project Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation at the Dog and Baby Buffet in Los Angeles on May 9, 2008.

Known for her pretty girl roles in horror flicks, and for TV shows like Two and a Half Men and CSI: New York, Emmanuelle has a recurring guest star role as Emma Barnes in the TV show Human Target. Her upcoming movies are Hysteria and A Nanny for Christmas. Emmanuelle Vaugier told Runway magazine: "When it comes to my work I have many people I look up to. Reese Witherspoon and Rachel McAdams are two women who I admire as people and professionals in the business."



Left, Emmanuelle Vaugier at the QVC Red Carpet Style event at the Four Seasons Hotel on March 5, 2010 in Beverly Hills. "I like to wear a simple classic dress, one that is easy flowing and comfortable to wear," Emmanuelle tells Runway. Right, Pamela Anderson and Emmanuelle Vaugier pose together for the photocall of their 2007 comedy Blonde and Blonder. 5'7" tall Vaugier tells LA Health News: "If I have an upcoming photo shoot I'll be very strict with myself and cut out carbs almost completely for a few days before the shoot. But aside from that - I eat a variety of foods, in moderation." And of her gym routine: "I like to mix it up. I do intervals on the treadmill and then usually take a class, power sculpting and spin are two of my favorites."
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Alessandra Ambrosio popular model

No more than a finger, Alessandra Ambrosio seems to say, as she poses for the March 2010 issue of French Elle.



Left, Alessandra wearing a contrast-trim hoodie and drawstring pants for Victoria's Secret clothing. Right, Ambrosio at Victoria's Secret Lincoln Road to meet and greet with fans to promote the fragrance "Heavenly Flowers" on April 22, 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida.

But lately Alessandra Ambrosio, identified usually with commercial modeling, has been cast in a slew of high fashion runway shows for Prada, Giles, and Louis Vuitton. The 2010 fall fashion shows have cast older (mid-20s and over) and more curvier models, like those from Victoria's Secret. Ambrosio also landed the fall 2010 Moschino campaign. "I had been away from fashion shows seven or eight years, other than Victoria's Secret," says Alessandra. "It was really nice to participate. It was surprising because, for such a long time, designers were only using girls that weren't so sexy, whose bodies were less curvy."



Alessandra Ambrosio with her two-year old daughter Anja Louise, after buying some orchids and a balloon animal in the Santa Monica market. People are still amazed at how quickly the attractive Brazilian model lost all that post-pregnancy weight, just in time for the 2008 Victorias Secret Fashion Show in Miami. "It's funny; people just say you're going to lose all the weight, but it's not true," Alessandra said of her diet and workout regimen. "It's brutal."



Alessandra Ambrosio (center) with her close model friend Ana Beatriz Barros (left) and another friend last month in New York. Alessandra is on the cover of the June 2010 issue of US Glamour magazine; the diverse body types issue representing the "slim" model type. Yet in the fall 2010 fashion shows, Ambrosio was picked to represent the "curvy" model type!
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