Blog Posts by Elise Solé, Shine Staff

Celine and Jesse in Before Sunrise (Photo by Columbia Pictures)If you caught the film “Before Midnight” the third installment of the Richard Linklater trilogy (which followed “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset”) at the latest Cannes Film Festival, you’ll learn how Jesse Wallace and Celine ended their love story. 

But let’s backtrack to 1995 and the film “Before Sunrise”, when two characters, an American guy named Jesse (played by Ethan Hawke) and a French girl named Celine (Julie Delpy) meet on a train, hop off in Vienna, and spend the night walking around the city together.  

In real life, 25 years earlier, Linklater, then 29, met a girl named Amy Lehrhaupt while visiting his sister in Philadelphia, according to a story published Thursday in Slate. He had just finished shooting his 1991 comedy-drama “Slacker” and was on his way home to New York when he bumped into Lehrhaupt at a toy shop. Much like Jesse and Celine, the two bonded all evening—laughing, talking, flirting, and as Linklater recently told The Chicago Tribune, doing “things you would

Beyonce modeling for H&M (Photo by H&M)H&M models are too thin. That’s what Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of the clothing giant, said about his company’s advertising campaigns, in an interview with the newspaper Metro this week.

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“We have a huge responsibility here. We’re a large company, many people see us, and we advertise a lot. I don’t think we’ve always been good. Some of the models we’ve had have been too skinny. That’s something we think a lot about and are working on. We want to show diversity in our advertising and not give people the impression that girls have to look a particular way. By and large, I think we’ve succeeded: We’ve many different kinds of models from different ethnic backgrounds."

Persson specifically called out some recent examples, including plus-size model Jennie Runk and the company's current superstar spokesperson Beyoncé. 

"In our last campaign we had a somewhat more buxom model, and now we’re having Beyoncé, who’s

Getty ImagesIf anyone is primed for her post-baby-body close-up, it’s the very pregnant Kim Kardashian who, despite the latest rumors, will not be the new spokesperson for Weight Watchers after she gives birth.

Kardashian, 32, will have to lose weight the old-fashioned way (read: for free) because, “There is absolutely no truth to this,” a representative from Weight Watchers told Yahoo! Shine.

While Kardashian has hawked everything from Sketchers sneakers, hair removal products, credit cards, and tooth-whitening pens, the celebrity weight loss deal eludes her.

Although she’s just as famous as Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Hudson, both of whom landed contracts with Weight Watchers, Kirstie Alley, Mariah Carey, and Carey Fisher who all shilled for Jenny Craig, and Janet Jackson and Marie Osmond who repped Nutrisystem, there seems to be an "X-factor"—maybe call it authenticity—that Kardashian doesn’t possess.

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Getty ImagesSupermodel Kate Upton is not happy with Victoria's Secret. The famous lingerie company printed an old photo of Upton in its new catalog after one of its stylists Sophia Neophitou publicly insulted her. Neophitou, who works with Victoria’s Secret on its annual fashion shows, told the New York Times last year that Upton would never walk the runway because her look was “too obvious.”

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“Kate is not contracted to work with Victoria’s Secret and was not notified before the images were used. The images were taken in 2011,” a source close to Upton told Yahoo! Shine. “Kate is not thrilled with Victoria’s Secret using these photos.” A rep for Victoria’s Secret also confirmed to Yahoo! Shine that the photos were from 2011.

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Back in February 2012, when Upton was mostly known for her Guess campaigns, swimsuit modeling, and YouTube videos, Sophia Neophitou, a

Getty ImagesOnly a year after a stylist who works with Victoria's Secret on its annual fashion show deemed supermodel Kate Upton's look "too obvious" for her to walk the runway, Upton appears in the latest Victoria's Secret catalog, according to a recent Buzzfeed story.

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Although it's the second time Upton has modeled for the catalog (her first shoot was in 2011), stylist Sophia Neophitou, a fashion industry veteran worked who has helped cast past Victoria's Secret fashion shows, told The New York Times in February 2012 that Upton's crossover potential from lad mag model to fashion icon was dubious. She said, "We would never use" Upton for a Victoria's Secret show. "She's like a Page 3 girl," said Neophitou, in reference to the  curvy women often featured in The Sun, a British tabloid. “She’s like a footballer’s wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy.”

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Gabi Gregg's sold-out Galaxy bikini. (photo by GabiFresh.com)

Who says you have to be a size 2 to wear a bikini? This summer's wildly popular swimsuit is made specifically for fuller figures. One in particular is such a hot commodity that it's selling out even before the official start of swimsuit season. The highly anticipated launch of the collaboration between plus-size blogger Gabi Gregg and retailer Swimsuits For All went off with a bang last week but sputtered as the company failed to keep up with the unexpected demand for Gregg's galaxy-print bikini, a style dubbed the "fatkini." 

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"I didn't come up with the term 'fatkini' it's been a buzzword in the body-positive community for a while," Gregg told Yahoo! Shine. "There's definitely a momentum building for body acceptance and lots of online support for women of all body types these days."

Gregg, a renowned blogger in the plus-size world, rose to fame after she posted photos of

Caters News AgencyYou won't find them on the cover of Us Weekly but engaged couple and extreme bodybuilders Don Akim and Rosanna Beckett are the "it" couple of the muscle world.

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The couple, who live in Lowestoft, in the English county of Suffolk, have been dating for almost nine years since they met at a nightclub, but they say they have only been seriously body building for four months. In that time, they've won a total of three trophies at the Miami Pro World Championships held in April in Hertfordshire, England, beating out more than 200 other contestants. They're the first couple to win world championship honors at the same bodybuilding event—Akim won two awards for male Muscle Model and male Fitness Model, and Beckett won for Ms. Bikini.

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"Although we've always been into fitness, we didn't look like this when we met," Akim told Yahoo! Shine. "We only started really