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Ashley Judd Responds to Nasty ‘Puffy Face’ Comments: It’s ‘Hatred Of Women’

Wes Ferguson — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:19:35 +0000

She just took it there! Ashley Judd says remarks about her “puffy face” were more than personal digs at her appearance, but an attack on lady-kind in general by a society full of haters.

“I think that it’s hatred of women that invites the criticism,” she tells NBC Nightly News in an interview that airs Wednesday night. ”I think it’s the objectification of girls and women and this hyper-sexualization of our society that invites the criticism. It doesn’t have anything to do with me, really, and how I look.”

In a Daily Beast op-ed, she writes:

“I choose to address it because the conversation was pointedly nasty, gendered, and misogynistic and embodies what all girls and women in our culture, to a greater or lesser degree, endure every day, in ways both outrageous and subtle.”

The essay clearly touched Miley Cyrus, who tweeted her support to Ashley.

thank you @AshleyJudd This article was music to my ears. Beautifully said and beyond inspiring. I hope everyone woman reads this.

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) April 10, 2012

For the record, as Celebuzz reported when the plastic surgery rumors began, the 43-year-old Missing star was on a dose of steroids to treat a sinus infection. As often the case, the medication caused a little bloating.

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While Ashley was quick to set the record straight, other stars have done the same by confirming they’ve had a little assistance looking to fantastic. Either way, honesty is always the best policy!

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Ashley Judd Denies Plastic Surgery Rumors Surrounding Puffy Face

Wes Ferguson — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:58:45 +0000

Calm down, everyone! Ashley Judd hasn’t gotten her face stuffed with implants or undergone some other type of plastic surgery.

The rumors started when she began promotion for her new show Missing. Ash looked puffy in the face, which got people guessing she pulled a Lindsay Lohan (our expert says LiLo has gone overboard with fillers). Ashley denied the rumors, saying:

“I know, steroids are dramatic. My clothes don’t fit right, hard on a girl’s self esteem, so lots of positive self talk & love.”

“Ashley has been battling an ongoing, serious sinus infection and flu,” her rep tells E! “Therefore, Ashley has been on a heavy dose of medication to overcome it so she could get on a plane and travel to Toronto and New York to fulfill her commitment of completing four consecutive days of press to promote her new show Missing.”

Feel better soon, Miss Judd!

The Meet & Greet: Cassie Scerbo, ‘I Wanted To Be an Actress Even in My Mom’s Womb!’

Brittany Bradley — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:05:22 +0000

Welcome back to Celebuzz’s Meet & Greet, where we talk with rising actors, musicians and entertainers before they hit it big. Watch out for these future A-listers!

There was never an “ah ha” moment for Cassie Scerbo, because she’s always known acting was her passion — even before she was born! The Make It or Break It star confesses she was quite the ham as a child and was always dancing and singing as she performed for her family.

“I always wanted to perform, I always wanted to make people smile and I always wanted to be able to make a difference in people’s lives,” she tells Celebuzz. “I enjoyed helping people and performing for people. It was something I truly, from the bottom of my heart, always had a desire to do — perform, entertain, and make people happy.”

After constantly begging to become an actress, Cassie attended an acting school where she earned her first Academy Award — well, at least the equivalent to an Academy Award in an eight-year-old’s life!

“I remember I won Best Actress. They had Best Actress at the end of the year and I won it like the third year I was there; I tried so hard every year to win. I would not leave the school until I won it, I was so excited,” says Cassie.

Once she became an “award-winning actress,” she got an agent and began traveling back and forth to L.A. from New York for casting calls. Believe it or not, it wasn’t always Miley Cyrus who was set to play the double life pop star Hannah Montana. Cassie was a front runner for the part during the pre-production stages.

“I had the original screen test contract for Hannah Montana,” she reveals. “It was between me and a totally different girl, then they brought in different producers and writers. The night before I flew out, they wound up saying that they wanted to try something different and wanted younger and went for a little bit of a different look.”

So she didn’t end up getting the part, but that didn’t stop Cassie. The talented actress has landed several roles in the industry. Celebuzz caught up with her to learn about her newest movie, talk about her celebrity crushes and dish on her guilty pleasure!

You have a new movie coming out this weekend called Teen Spirit, what’s it all about?
It’s an ABC Family original airing this Sunday. Its basically about this popular, pretentious, snobby girl. Her name is Amber and I play her. She winds up having her life cut short and getting electrocuted right before she goes to grab her crown. In her afterlife [she discovers] that if she wants to get to heaven, she has to turn the least popular girl in school into prom queen in seven days. In doing so, she starts to realize how snobby she was in her human life and starts to make a few changes. It’s a really cool dynamic and it’s going to be really funny. It has cute little morals, it’s something for everybody and it’s honestly really funny.

What intrigued you about Amber’s character in Teen Spirit?
I always play the mean girl and it’s so fun. Acting is all about stepping out of the box. I don’t want to go to work everyday and play myself, just a boring nice girl. It was so cool that there was a twist and she was dead on top of it. You don’t realize how much physical contact you have with people. I couldn’t touch anybody because I was a ghost … it was actually a bit of a challenge for me.

What were some of the other challenges you had while filming?
When it came to the green screen stuff, there are a lot of specifics and certain marks you have to hit exactly. If you are off your mark by a millimeter you have to do it again. It was a little bit of a challenge, but it was a lot of fun.

Who are some of your idols in the industry, anyone particularly you would love to work with?
Obviously everyone has to say Meryl Streep. She’s brilliant, she’s genius, and I love her to death. I also love Ashley Judd. I think she’s beautiful and a wonderful actress. I’m a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio. He has the actor swag and he is so talented, mysterious, unique and artsy. I would freaking kill to work with him! There are so many I am obviously found of, I love Ben Affleck too. I saw The Town literally seven times in two days.

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Would you say he is your celebrity crush?
I have a few. Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCapro, definitely. Alex Skarsgard, I love to death from True Blood. Michael Pitt, I would die to work with too. I cannot wait for “Boardwalk Empire” to come back – that would be the guys I would say for now.

In Bring It On: In It to Win It you play a cheerleader, and in your series Make It or Break It you’re a gymnast. Are you athletic off screen as well?
I work out six to seven times a week. Sometimes I have a personal trainer … sometimes I go to a gym. I like to take hikes, I like to do runs, ride my bike, I surf now. If I don’t get my work outs in, I don’t like the way I feel, especially in a leotard. I can’t play the popular, mean girl and not be looking right, so I have to always try to keep myself in shape.

With all that working out you have to splurge at some point. What is your guilty pleasure?
Pizza! I could literally order a pie and eat the whole thing…I’m obsessed…Papa Johns all day. The garlic sauce, I can’t even handle it. When I’m not in my leotard on set and we aren’t shooting, I definitely order a pie to myself and eat the whole thing!

In honor of Cassie, order a pizza this Sunday August, 7th and cozy up on the couch to see her star in her new movie Teen Spirit at 7 PM on ABC Family!

Leann Rimes Reveals Shockingly Skinny Body (BUZZINGS)

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Celebs Who Dropped Everything For School

Celebuzz — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:30:17 +0000

Summer is ending and that means that it is back to school for many young readers across America. Take comfort in the fact that quite a few famous young stars are heading back to school this time of year and many celebs have dropped everything to go off to college.

Many see going to school as a bad career move for an emerging celebrity, but these smart beauties and studs prove that you can be famous and a bookworm all at the same time.

What do you think of celebs who return to school? Click through the gallery to see our list and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Ashley Judd Throws Sarah Palin to the Wolves

Betsy Waldman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:47:30 +0000

Failed Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, 44, has one very vocal opponent when it comes to her much-talked-about aerial hunting of Alaska wolves.

Palin has made no secret that she supports hunting wolves from the sky in the name of predator control, and now Kiss the Girls actress Ashley Judd is making her disgust public, narrating a video for the Washington-based Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.

“It is time to stop Sarah Palin,” she says in the video, which denounces Palin’s expanded program for the aerial hunting of wolves.

In the video, Judd claims that Palin offers a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of each dead wolf that’s collected. If true, that’s not very hockey-mom of her.

Check out the video below:

Palin says that Judd’s video was created to “deceive Americans into parting with their hard-earned money.”

“The ad campaign by this extreme fringe group, as Alaskans have witnessed over the last several years, distorts the facts about Alaska’s wildlife management programs,” Palin said in a statement. “Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations. Our predator control programs are scientific and successful at protecting vulnerable wildlife.”

Whatever Palin’s reasoning, hopefully this will result in another stellar Tina Fey impression. You betcha!