What Does it Mean to be a Feminist?

Following comments recently made by The Big Bang Theory starlet Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, this week Luxe Models asks; what does it mean to be a feminist?

Rehabilitating the Image of the Word ‘Feminist.’

Ask anyone in the know – like Luxe Models – and they’ll soon tell you that 2014 could very well be labelled as the year the word ‘feminist’ made a comeback.

Long derided as a term reserved for the man-haters of the world, stars such as Beyoncé and Taylor Swift took on the considerable task of rehabilitating the image of this loaded word in 2014. By year’s end, the efforts of these vaunted A-listers saw the word feminist reimagined as a term referring to the equality of the sexes.

Kaley Cuoco Admits to Not Thinking About Feminism

Yet feminism’s stand-out year did not stop Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, the actress who plays Penny on phenomenally popular comedy The Big Bang Theory, from denying that the term applied to her.

According to Digital Spy, Cuoco-Sweeting was asked whether she considered herself as a feminist in a recent interview with Redbook. Her answer? "Is it bad if I say no? It's not really something I think about."

Cuoco-Sweeting “Never Really Faced Inequality.”

Going on to reveal that she’s “never really faced inequality," the actress who rose to fame in 8 Simple Rules went on to talk about her own experiences as a woman.

"Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality."

You Could Face Discrimination at Any Time

In other words, Cuoco-Sweeting seems to be suggesting that in order to be a feminist, you need to be given a reason to take up the cause of women everywhere. At Luxe Models, we’d suggest that this is perhaps just a little short-sighted. Just because you haven’t faced inequality so far, doesn’t mean you won’t as you continue to craft a standout career in what is still sometimes considered a male-dominated world. 

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Oh Dear God No, Lohan to Craft Memoires?

Luxe Models were left in a state of horror last week, when we discovered that celebrity disaster zone Lindsay Lohan is planning to pen her memoires.

The Trend of the Celebrity Tell-All

Can we please start by assuring you that it isn’t Lindsay Lohan we have a specific problem with. Well, not this week anyway. It’s the trend of the celebrity tell-all itself. It’s so annoying!

Every celebrity seems to think we want to read about them. OK, we like taking a few minutes out of our day to check up on their latest ridiculous stunt in the local gossip rag, we’ll give them that. But the vast majority of people honestly aren’t going to spend good time and money buying, and then reading, an entire book about them. How self-indulgent are they?

We really do Love Reading about Your Wild Life Lohan!

Of course, La Lohan gets a special mention. Admittedly, she’s had a more exciting life than most. You’ll actually find that when it comes down to it, most celebrities are more exciting on screen than off.

The tinsel town tearaway has done it all. She’s dabbled with girls, dabbled with booze, dabbled with rehab and has been lucky to have only dabbled with prison.  Plus, love it or hate it, she has a pretty bold fashion sense. Anyone else remember that time she painted a swear word on her nails in court; hardcore!

Writing is Like Therapy for Lindsay Lohan

So we’d actually have more reason to be excited about this latest display of celebrity narcissism than most, except for the fact that apparently, it isn’t going to be that juicy!

Yes indeed, according to Digital Spy, Lohan has gone out on record saying she is planning to write her memoires, but they aren’t going to be too salacious. In her own words, Lohan said to the Mail Online "I would never write to violate someone else or objectify them; that's not my intention. I like to write because it's like therapy for me.”

Luxe Models Wants the Goss Lohan!

OK, we get it. You’re in the West End now and you’re being all nice and ‘rehabilitated.’ That shouldn’t stop you from giving us all the juicy goss! Let Luxe Models tell you something right now, Lindsey Lohan. We don’t want to play the role of your therapist!

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Hollywood’s Five Most Political Celebrities

The #FreePalestine drama last week has prompted Luxe Models to ask, who are Hollywood’s five most political celebrities?

Celebrities, Know Your Role!

We love celebrities here at Luxe Models. Whether they’re getting snapped by the paps in a compromising position, making controversial statements about the difficulties of fame, or making waves with their tediously dramatic love lives, we simply can’t get enough.

Yet for some reason celebrities sometimes come under the delusion that their opinion on current events actually matters. As Rihanna proved with her #FreePalestine tweet last week, it really doesn’t. All it does is create a storm of controversy (which let’s face it, they want) and give us gossip fanatics something to talk about.

These Five Celebrities Just Can’t Shut Up About Politics

Some celebrities have a serious case of verbal diarrhoea when it comes to all things politics, and the following five celebrities just can’t seem to stop sharing their political opinions: 

1)      Madonna: The material girl is no stranger to causing a little controversy (remember the Sex Book?) and in recent years she’s taken to airing a number of divisive political statements, whether it’s calling President Obama a Muslim (Fox News practically salivated at that) or imposing incendiary images onto the faces of far right French politicians!

2)      Angelina Jolie: To be fair, she is a representative of the UN, she kind of has to get political, but does she have to keep doing it looking as though butter wouldn't melt! If she adopts one more baby from one more foreign country, she may just have the whole world metaphorically living under one roof!

3)      George Clooney: As we’ve recently blogged about, George Clooney certainly isn’t afraid to take on the press, and if recent rumours are to be believed, he certainly isn’t afraid of the sharks in Congress either, as he might soon be getting involved in politics himself!

4)      Eva Longoria: She’s come a long way from her days as a desperate housewife, and Longoria has taken to vocally speaking out about immigration on the US; an issue she’s said more than once is close to her heart.

5)      Sean Penn: Penn is as likely to make headlines these days for his political activism as his acting career. A staunch Democrat, Penn has taken to protesting over a number of hot political issues in recent years, including most notably, the Iraq War.

We honestly, don’t care about what any given celebrity actually believes, but we do love it when they take a break from the glittering lights of tinsel town, to make a few headlines with their latest must-read opinion on the politics of the day; if only because it gives us something to talk about around the water cooler!

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