Another day, another bit of bizarre Britney behavior.
Britney Spears on the Sep.issue of
Allure magazine. (Photo: chinadaily.com.cn)
The cover of the September issue of Allure magazine features
Britney Spears posed provocatively in jeans and dark brown wig, her
bare breasts covered by her arms. There are two similar shots
inside the mag. She very cooperatively posed for the shots in
April.
When it came to sitting for the interview she had also agreed
to, that became a much different matter.
"Britney showed up for Allure's cover shoot on time and ready to
work," editor-in-chief Linda Wells wrote in an a letter for the
issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
"She was entirely unself-conscious: She took off her wig and
then stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before
sitting for hair and makeup," Wells said. "She was agreeable and
cooperative on the shoot and left at the end of the day, followed
by a trail of paparazzi."
As for the interview that was to follow, the 25-year-old Spears
missed four appointments with Allure interviewer Judith Newman,
Wells said.
At one point, Spears put off the chat because she was "delayed
by important work in the recording studio," Newman wrote. But, she
added, "The paparazzi found her a few hours later at a salon,
getting her nails done." .
What do you do when you have no profile to accompany some
alluring photographs? Newman wrote a first-person essay about her
experience trying to track down Spears.
"Britney has long lost her role-model status," Wells commented.
"That dream of a comeback seems to occupy an ever-more-distant
speck on the horizon."
(Agencies via China Daily August 18, 2007)
