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Did Jennifer Aniston’s late mother Nancy Dow cut Jen out of her will?

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Jennifer Aniston’s mother Nancy Dow passed away back in May. I actually covered it at the time because Nancy Dow was an actress at one point, and because Aniston and her mom had a very public falling out back in the 1990s. Aniston would occasionally reference her mother in interviews, giving updates about the state of their relationship. From what I remember of Aniston’s interviews over the years, she let Nancy back into her life circa 2005, but there were still significant rifts between mother and daughter. Still, Aniston apparently paid her mom’s bills, especially after Nancy’s health declined over the past five years especially. And after all of that… Nancy Dow didn’t leave her daughter anything in her will, apparently. Not only that, Nancy left her “private writings” about Jennifer to someone else, someone who will likely sell the material.

In its latest issue on newsstands now, an insider tells In Touch magazine that Jennifer Aniston’s late mom Nancy Dow, bequeathed her home, all of her money and other personal items — including scores of personal writings about Jen — to another relative. Nancy, who died at 79, “changed her will about a year ago, and no one in the family knew a thing about it,” the insider tells In Touch exclusively.

“Even though Jen and Nancy had a very strained relationship, Jen still paid almost all of Nancy’s bills in her final years,” says the insider.

Jen famously stopped talking to Nancy in 1996 after she gave an interview about her daughter to the tabloid TV show Hard Copy. Three years later, the rift widened after Nancy wrote — against Jen’s wishes — about their painful falling-out in the tell-all From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir. Instead of paying Jen back after her death, “Nancy left the relative her condo and more than a million dollars that she’d saved. She was a penny-pincher, and the alimony she received from Jen’s dad, John [Aniston], was pretty much never touched.”

Even worse, Nancy left all of her private writings to the relative. “Nancy wrote down everything about Jen, and that material is now in the hands of someone who could profit from it,” the insider tells In Touch.

[From In Touch Weekly]

If this is true – and I think it’s probably true – this should answer all of your questions about Jennifer and Nancy’s estrangement. Even in death, Nancy Dow was trying to stick it to her daughter. It’s so nasty, passive-aggressive and ridiculous, it’s almost funny in a very dark and f—ked up way. I mean, Aniston doesn’t need her mother’s money or her estate, but if Aniston was paying her mother’s bills (which I also think is true), then this is just one final screw-you from mother to daughter. How would you take it if your own mother treated you like that, up until the very end?

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Size 22 Model Tess Holliday: “I want to challenge society’s perception of “beauty””

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Social media personality Tess Holliday (Tess Munster), who describes herself as a ‘body positive activist’ is famous for her pin-up style photos and fir her Instagram movement called #effyourbeautystandards – and recently, Tess (who is a size 22 US at 5’4”) became the largest plus-size model to be signed by a modeling agency (MiLK).

Here are a few quotes from Tess:

On beauty diversity:

‘I think if someone doesn’t look at an image and feel something, you haven’t done your job. Whether it’s a negative or positive, it should evoke something in them. That’s what I’ve always done with my work, I want to challenge society’s perception of “beauty” and what’s acceptable in our industry and the world. There is no one way to be a woman, or to be beautiful. We all deserve a place.’

On becoming a model at her size:

I went to a casting when I was 15 but I was told I was too short and too big. I was a US size 16 (UK 18/20) and I’m 5ft 4in. It was a little discouraging – I stopped trying to pursue modelling and it was only when I retrained as a makeup artist, working at fashion shows, that I started getting interested again. The truth is, I didn’t want to do anything else. I was never tempted to lose weight. Everyone around me was on Weight Watchers, but it never appealed to me. I have never been one for changing yourself to make someone happy. Everyone said I had a pretty face, so it seemed possible. I just didn’t know there was such a thing as a plus-size model. It was only when I saw a picture of Mia Tyler [one of the first plus-size models in the 1990s] that I realized I could. I am lucky that I have a supportive family, partner and friends. That I got signed? Well, the reaction has been overwhelming.

On being heavily criticized:

I got a lot of comments on Twitter, Instagram, even some letters. Some people were excited, some people called me fat and said I was too big to be a model. I spent a long time fielding through the reactions. Ultimately, in my eyes, my being signed is changing an industry that needed to be changed.

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Chloe Sevigny on sample sizes: ‘I try to squeeze into a 0 & it’s really unfair’

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Chloe Sevigny was papped in NYC yesterday wearing a trash-baggy jacket over one of those tank dresses from the 1990s. On anyone else, this outfit would look ridiculous. The jacket remains hideous, but Chloe somehow pulls it off with her effortless, hipster ways. Chloe is one of those celebrities who disappears for months at a time and only gives interviews when she has a project to promote. She’s currently pushing The Cosmopolitans pilot for Amazon. The satirical show is about a group of expat friends living in Paris. Chloe plays a fashion editor.

The last time I spoke of Chloe, she was lamenting the jock takeover of NYC. Now she’s discussing how much she enjoyed filming on location in France. She also speaks out against the horrors of sample sizes. Playing a fashion editor meant wearing designer duds, and Chloe says her wardrobe was filled with size 0 clothing. Chloe is usually a 4 or 6. Talk about discomfort. I’ve cobbled together two interviews, one from Lucky mag and the other from Radio Times. Some highlights:

Her fave travel item: “Lavender oil. I like to put it on the pillow in the aeroplane or the hotel room. It helps me relax, especially when I’m dealing with jetlag.”

Filming in Paris: “I loved being there, and quasi living there. I really like Père Lachaise. I like cemeteries a lot. I love the gardens. My advice would be to sit down somewhere and people watch. Let yourself go and don’t feel like you have to run around and see everything. Experience it in the non-moving sense.

Her style changed in Paris: “I hear my mother’s voice in my head. She always told me ‘you better dress nicely.’ People treat you better when you’re dressed well. Which is true. I mean, she’s right–it’s really annoying. But if you’re traveling or in a restaurant and you look nice and have a nice bag, you’re treated better than if you look schlubby.”

Sample sizes on set: “It was a bit of a struggle. For me, wardrobe is always a bit of a struggle. They pull samples and then I’m left trying to fit into sample size, which is always a head trip. Instead of going shopping and buying, like, size four or six, I’m trying to squeeze into a zero. And that happens on photo shoots as well and it’s really unfair. I can’t imagine if I were any heavier or a different shape how much more difficult it would be.”

If she was a fashion editor IRL: “Oh, what would my fashion magazine be like?…I think I would have more real girls as models and less of this idea of young and skinny. I think I would have more street style. I always love those pages where they have more girls on the street. I’d have a lot of in-depth articles dealing with women’s heath and women’s issues–a bit like what Sassy magazine did, that kind of trailblazing.”

Her reading material: “I read New York magazine and I read The Atlantic. But I don’t really look at any fashion magazines right now, because as I said before, I’m having a fragile moment. It’s too hard not to compare.”

[From Radio Times & Lucky]

Chloe’s sample-sized clothing dilemma sounds awful. The wardrobe department had no way of making those clothes larger, so I don’t know how Chloe coped. Model Crystal Renn has advocated for sample sizes to be changed to an 8, which is much more reasonable. It’s possible to alter clothing down a few sizes if necessary (not vice versa). I guess fashion thinks it’s a lot easier for all models and actresses to stop eating than to bother with alterations. What’s sad is that sample sizes were usually a 2 a few years ago. Now they’re a 0. We’re moving backwards on progress of size acceptance, right? Ugh.

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Winona Ryder thinks Johnny Depp & Amber’s engagement is ‘inappropriate’

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Last April, we enjoyed a wee bit of tabloid fanfiction about Winona Ryder secretly plotting to get Johnny Depp back. It was probably a made up story, but fans of Wino Forever enjoyed the prospect. Of course the tale popped up before Johnny went public with Amber Heard, and now they are engaged.

Even if Johnny wasn’t with Amber, I doubt a second round would have ever worked out between him and Winona. Back in the 1990s, Johnny was so enigmatic and … throbbing. That sounds dirty, but his energy was almost primal. Now Johnny’s a scarf addict who gets his jollies by cruising Whole Foods and shoving bulk food into his mouth with his bare hands. MUNCHIES.

Anyway, there’s a new wrinkle in this anti-triangle. Radar Online says Winona was going to reuinite for a new movie with Johnny and Tim Burton, but now she’s too disgusted to do the project. Winona believes that 50-year-old Johnny marrying 27-year-old Amber is kinda gross. I find this hilarious:

Winona Ryder refuses to reunite on the big screen with her former co-star and boyfriend Johnny Depp, because she thinks his romance with much younger Amber Heard is “inappropriate,” RadarOnline.com has been told.

Although Ryder, 42, has in the past expressed the desire to reunite with Depp and his favorite director Tim Burton, who all worked together on the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands, an insider said 50-year-old Johnny’s relationship with Heard, 27, has her seeing red.

Ryder, who was Depp’s girlfriend from 1989-1993, “had a respectful relationship with Johnny for years afterward, but she soured on any idea of an acting reunion after Johnny hooked up with Amber.”

According to the source, Ryder was not happy that Depp allegedly left his baby mama, Vanessa Paradis, 41, for his young Rum Diary co-star.

“The way he conducted that affair really upset Winona and turned her off to Johnny,” the insider said.

“The thing she especially can’t stand is how all of Johnny’s middle-aged friends, even Tim Burton, are cheering this relationship on like it’s appropriate, when Winona is telling her own friends that it’s absolutely not.

“She’s pulled a 180 on her opinion of Johnny and his cronies because she thinks it’s a sad cliche that he’d dump his long-term baby mama for a woman in her twenties.”

Meanwhile, the source revealed, “Winona generally has become much more conservative as she hits her forties, but still is making no indication of settling down.

“She loves living alone. That’s her big thing and the reason most of her relationships fall apart after the first year.”

[From Radar Online]

Some people might think Winona is being catty on refusing to reunite for any future acting gigs with Johnny, but I don’t see a bad attitude on Winona’s part at all. I mean, I don’t think she decided not to work with him out of jealousy. As much as the idea of Wino Forever is amazing in a second incarnation, the reality would be a letdown.

What I see here is Winona owning her age. Remember, she talked about how psyched she was to hit 40 and get older. She probably see’s Johnny’s little midlife crisis as a refusal to accept the aging process. I like how the story paints Winona as a fan of Johnny and Vanessa as a couple. I don’t think Winona even dislikes Amber as a person. Winona just doesn’t understand why rebellious Johnny’s turned into a cliché.

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Jennifer Aniston wishes young actresses had sexier style, wore less makeup

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I don’t really care for Jennifer Aniston’s red carpet style these days. Go ahead and yell! Back in the day, though, I think she took more chances that ended up paying off – while her red carpet style default has always been “flat-ironed hair, falling in her face, with a clean, minimalist gown or dress,” that style looked better on her in her 30s. Now that she’s in her 40s… it feels like shtick. Even when she tries to mix it up a little bit, she ends up looking sort of dated, because Jennifer came of age sartorially in the 1990s and she never moved past it. What’s my point? I wouldn’t take Jennifer’s style advice. But that isn’t stopping her from trying to dish it out!

Jennifer Aniston is NOT making friends with today’s young actresses. Jen says they’re ruining Hollywood’s sexy image by dressing like frumpy grandmothers. The 20-somethings should shape up and start showing off their shapes, says the 44-year-old “We’re the Millers” star.

“It pains me to see young beauties like Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley or Emma Stone dress frumpy or in a long gown that looks like their grandmother’s curtains,” Jen told a pal. “Older, piled-high hairstyles and caked-on makeup also gall me. This is the time they should go with as little makeup as possible and dress as edgy and young as they possibly can.”

In a recent interview, Jen didn’t name names, but sources say she was clearly addressing young starlets Lawrence, 23, Johansson, 29, Knightley, 28, and Stone, 25, when she admonished:

“Don’t grow up so fast. When you are in your 20s, look in your 20s…Girls in their 20s now are looking like they’re in their 30s. I would say enjoy your age… It flies by.”

And the actress spelled out to her pal exactly how to stay glam: “Girls like Jennifer and Keira should stay fresh-faced, keep their hemlines high, ditch those clunky outfit-killing shoes and avoid dressing in a famous designer’s clothes just because they are famous designers.

“Young Hollywood is growing up so fast, but they don’t have to rush it with outfits that are way beyond their years. They should revel in their youth – they’ll have plenty of time to rein it in when they’re older.”

[From The National Enquirer]

Jennifer’s one to talk about “caked-on makeup”. She wears a TON of makeup and it often looks very, very cakey. I also think the whole “wear short skirts and look young!” advice is dumb in general – not everyone feels like miniskirts are the height of fashion, after all.

But, all that being said, Jennifer’s not ALL wrong. I’m often disappointed by Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and ScarJo’s style. I get the feeling that J-Law simply doesn’t know what to do with clothes and she just wears whatever her stylist (or Dior) tells her to wear. Emma does try to be edgy and unique, and I think that’s what gets her into trouble, because often those difficult “trends” wear her instead of the other way around. And ScarJo… well, I’m always disappointed that Scarlett can’t figure out a way to get designers to tailor clothes for her body type. More often than not, Scarlett wears stuff that was meant for girls with Keira Knightley’s body type and it doesn’t work.

In other sketchy Aniston news, apparently she doesn’t approve of Justin Theroux’s “dumpster-diving”:

While Justin Theroux thinks one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, his fiancée Jennifer Aniston isn’t buying it. Justin, who loves dumpster diving to furnish their Manhattan apartment, is getting serious static from his future wife.

Jen is “embarrassed by his hobby and “tells him they have more than enough money to decorate,” spills an insider, who adds that Justin’s recent finds include a discarded Darth Vader helmet and a rusted bedpan to use as a planter.

“But it isn’t about money for him,” adds the insider. “He’s always found joy in stumbling upon a piece and then deciding what to do with it.”

No deal breaker here: the couple compromised, opting to hit thrift stores together instead.

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

“Justin Theroux thinks one man’s trash is another man’s treasure…” Must not make joke. Must not make joke. Must not make joke. ARGH. Okay, it’s out of my system. Personally, I would be sketched out if my fiancé (Benedict Cumberbatch!) was literally trawling through dumpsters, but I enjoy some good thrift-shopping. I love looking at old costume jewelry and ceramics and lamps and such. I recently scored a rather beautiful brass pot at my favorite little thrift store!

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Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel End Their 10 Year Marriage

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Well, someone’s not going to be full of the Christmas spirit this year: Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel have announced their decision to split after ten years of marriage. They’ve got a 4-year-old son, Walker, who they’ll continue to focus their energies on parenting, but their relationship has run its course.

Here’s what their reps told People:

“Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs have jointly decided to separate at this time,” reps for the couple tell PEOPLE. “Their primary focus and concern is for their son. We ask that you respect their privacy during this time.”

Diggs and Menzel, both 42, met as costars in the original production of the Broadway musical Rent in the mid-1990s.

Damn, that’s a shame, but it happens. I don’t follow either of their careers too much, to be honest, but I’ve seen both of them in several things (Idina on Broadway, Taye in various and sundry TV things) and think they’re talented. Here’s hoping they keep it mature for the sake of the kid.

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Tom Hiddleston did a NYC charity screening of ‘Thor 2′ for children: adorable?

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This should show you how bad my Cumberbatch Withdrawal Syndrome has gotten – I’m writing about Tom Hiddleston. I do like Tom, even though he’s made of Try-Hard. I would just prefer him with a dash of danger in his English Thunder, and perhaps with some facial hair too. But I will give him this – he did a really, really nice thing last night. In fact, Tommy was so sweet last night that I’m going to give him a week-long freebie pass. If I talk about Tommy in the next week, I will be really nice to him (even if he’s wearing VELVET). This is what Tommy did: he flew into NYC for a special kids’ screening of Thor 2: The Magnificent Loki, all for charity.

Actor Tom Hiddleston flew in from London on Halloween just to trick and treat kids from two charities in a special screening of his latest film, “Thor: The Dark World.”

“I am Loki and I am filled with glorious purpose,” Hiddleston said in the menacing voice of his character as he stepped out to surprise the crowd at the event co-hosted by Disney, Marvel Studios and the Daily News.

He then dropped into a more regular register to thank the charities being honored at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square — Variety the Children’s Charity of New York and The Children’s Aid Society.

“It was amazing,” a beaming Hiddleston, 32, told The News after leaving the theater as the kids watched the movie. Though he had landed at JFK just two hours before the screening, the British thespian said the screening was worth the long journey. “I just landed from London at 4 p.m. and to sort of come through the airport, throw on some clothes and come into that response where there were just 300 kids so excited to be there. To see that enthusiasm, to see them clap and cheer, wearing Loki T-shirts and swinging hammers, that was really gratifying.”

Little did the kids engrossed in “Thor: The Dark World” suspect that [Hiddleston] crept back inside to watch a bit of their reaction to his movie after his interview with The News.

“For charities like Variety of New York and Children’s Aid Society and UNICEF, who I have done some work for, I believe so strongly in their work,” he said. “There are armies of people behind the scenes who do tireless work on behalf of children all over the world. So it’s nothing for me to turn up and introduce a screening for them. I hope it’s a nice reward.”

[From The NYDN]

You can see photos of Tom at the screening at the NYDN. He wore a vest, because brother loves his vests. No! I said I was being nice to him. I’ll be nice. He looks very cute with the kids.

Tommy also has some new interviews out. Nothing groundbreaking, but I thought you’d find some of the quotes interesting:

His fan-girls: “I have been in receipt of mostly nothing but the sweetest, most generous attention and affection. It feels like it diminishes them to call them ‘fans’. They are not just one homogenous lump. Anyway, I Iove their enthusiasm. They are more sophisticated than people realise. They love the complexity of it. But they also love that it is tongue-in-cheek.”

He was asked about Eton & his posh education again: “I don’t know. It’s all about someone else’s interpretation. I would counter you with Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba and Tom Hardy. I don’t know that it is a phenomenon. I would say that my becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group. That was not what people did. So the idea that it’s become ‘a thing’ is very strange to me. I have always felt like I was going off-piste. To be told that I am the one skiing down the main track is so strange to me.”

Filming Only Lovers Left Alive in Detroit: “I really fell in love with that place. It changed my entire perception of America. I had been to New York, Los Angeles, San Diego and all those coastal places. This was something else. In the 1920s, it was the centre of the world. Now there are only 300,000 people and looks like the set for a post-apocalyptic movie. But the people are so incredibly kind.”

He was given a treat by a journalist: “Ohh, oatcakes? How lovely! I’m going to have one right now… Haggis flavoured,” muses Hiddleston, as he checks out the packaging. “And yet ‘vegetarian-friendly’! It’s yummy, but one wonders where the flavours come from.”

The story for Thor 2 was his idea: “I was quite vocal that after seeing Thor and Loki as antagonists in two films, we couldn’t just do that again. And Chris was equally vocal about avoiding identikit scenes. Everybody pitches in ideas, so when I said ‘wouldn’t it be amazing to see them fight side-by-side?’, Kevin Feige of Marvel immediately said ‘yeah, let’s see how that works.’”

On his dancing skills: “It’s organised flailing. I didn’t learn any steps, I didn’t train – that’s my misspent youth in the 1990s, I have always loved dancing. When my sister got married in India, I missed the dinner because I was dancing. And Tilda has a line in Only Lovers that she wrote herself ‘Life is about appreciating nature, nurturing kindness, friendship – and dancing.’”

[From The Scotsman and Irish Times]

I get the feeling that Tom is really trying to repress his upper-crust education, but for the life of me, I don’t understand why. It’s his shtick! He’s a nerdy Shakespeare guy with a great education. Own it, Tommy! And I’m sorry, but the haggis-flavored vegetarian biscuits were the best part of the interview.

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