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07 December 2007

I just saw Giada Delaurentis on the Today Show (I'm stuck at a dealership waiting for my alignment to be fixed) and she's looking pretty good.→[More:]I've always thought her head looked too big for the rest of her, sort of like a lot of anorexics look. But she seems to have put on a little weight, and it suits her.

Her many-toothed smile still scares me a little, though.

post by: me3dia at: 10:59 | 43 comments

She had some scary pictures in Esquire a little while ago. She's very attractive, of course, but it seemed like someone went to town with Photoshop. It was kinda disturbing.

posted by mullacc 07 December | 11:16

She always strikes me as a genuinely nice person. I know what you mean about her having "lollipop head," so I'm glad if she's fleshed out a little.

posted by Miko 07 December | 11:17

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posted by mullacc 07 December | 11:19

That's a hot dress.

posted by iconomy 07 December | 11:22

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The net nanny at my office agrees that it must be a hot dress.

posted by birdherder 07 December | 11:25

Jeez, she DOES have a lot of teeth. Or else all her teeth are incisors, and up front.

It's very disturbing.

posted by danf 07 December | 11:26

As a cable-less person, I don't see too much teevee, but I have seen her show a couple times, and I kinda liked her alright. I can totally relate to the whole bobble-head aspect you guys seem to be mentioning though.

posted by richat 07 December | 11:43

She's pregnant.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 07 December | 11:45

That pic creeps me out. It reminds me a lot of the Beatles' "butcher" cover.

posted by Miko 07 December | 11:45

For birdherder:

I had no idea that imageshack has a automatic glitter maker generator thingie. I'm going to be putting tacky application to good use on all kinds of things.

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posted by iconomy 07 December | 11:48

I think the problem (toothwise) is that she has a square smile, so more of her teeth show than most people.

mullacc, that photo is awesome. I sort of want to photoshop in a corpse.

posted by me3dia 07 December | 11:49

A friend of mine says that she has extremely short arms, which makes her look like a T-Rex, what with the short arms and all the teeth.

posted by iconomy 07 December | 11:52

(I don't know who she is)

posted by chuckdarwin 07 December | 11:52

I saw this as "Diamanda Galas" for a second there. Didn't know the Today Show was so hip, in an early 90s sort of way. "And now here's Ann Magnuson with the weather..."

posted by Lentrohamsanin 07 December | 12:04

I don't know who she is, either... but, yeah - now that you mention it, sort of short arms. Aaargh! I do not need to be going about the rest of my life checking out people's arm lengths! Metachat, why do you torture me?????????????

posted by taz 07 December | 12:11

Short arms are one of those things, that once you start noticing, you can't stop. I have a neighbour who has very short arms, and once I mentioned it to another neighbour, and now, it's all we see when we seen the short-armed guy.

Another thing like this? Once you start noticing non-level water in the background of snapshots, you can't stop noticing the "uphill lakes" and so on.

posted by richat 07 December | 12:17

MATTHEW MCCONHAUGHEY HAS SHORT ARMS TOO, TAZ.

posted by iconomy 07 December | 12:22

(I don't know who she is)

I don't think most people do--she's not really a Rachael Ray-level food celebrity. So you don't pick up cool points for not knowing her.

posted by mullacc 07 December | 12:24

OK, that level of photoshopping is ridiculous. She looks like she's made out of plastic. Note to magazine editors: Women are not actually all Barbie dolls in disguise. ARGH. (I like the glitter addition, though. Very nice.)

posted by occhiblu 07 December | 12:43

(Oops, it's actually Giada de Laurentiis.)

posted by me3dia 07 December | 12:44

occhiblu: I think her dress kinda looks like it's made of fondant icing, which is sort of appropriate for a Food Network host.

posted by mullacc 07 December | 12:52

My uncle loves her. In an almost-creepy sort of way.

(Oops, it's actually Giada de Laurentiis.)

Yep, she's related to the producer.
I will say, though, having seen her show and Mario's show, although I prefer him, her food is much more like what I grew up eating in my Italian family. Less fancy resturant stuff, more like what my family thinks of as home cooking.

posted by kellydamnit 07 December | 13:07

She consistently makes stuff I want to eat. I always watch her show when I can catch it -- and that's saying something for me, because beautiful though she may be, something about her on-camera presence (maybe it's the constant full-on smile or the talky hands, I don't know) just frankly annoys the living hell out of me.

She makes damn good food, though. And she's only half as annoying to me as Rachael Ray, whose celebrity I still do not understand.

posted by middleclasstool 07 December | 13:39

Talky hands don't bug me, but I have them myself, so maybe that's why. My whole family does, actually. You'd be amazed how many times group cooking activities have almost ended in accidental stabbings.

posted by kellydamnit 07 December | 13:59

I have never heard of this woman.

posted by essexjan 07 December | 14:12

You'd be amazed how many times group cooking activities have almost ended in accidental stabbings.

Okay, that made me laugh out loud.

posted by elizard 07 December | 14:15

thanks iconomy. i now don't feel left out.

posted by birdherder 07 December | 15:31

SHORT-ARMED MATTHEW MCCONHAUGHEY aiiiiiii!!!!!

posted by taz 07 December | 15:57

See, the thing about Giada is that she is the sex kitten of the food network. Every time she cooks something and then tastes it, she makes this orgasm sounds and gets a look of pure ecstacy on her face.

Rachael Ray is the girl next door (and have you ever notice she has weird pointy boobs?), but she's also a sex kitten of sorts. Like, if you're into short cute girls, her little ecstatic "Mmmm. Now THAT is good," is probably great material for you.

I'm convinced that the Food Network is nothing more than soft porn. Though I don't know how that explains Paula Deen (Dean?), who is only sexy if you're a 70-year-old man with a fixation on Southerners who put BOILED EGGS into gravy.

Even the Barefoot Contessa has a sexy thing going on, in a more mature sort of way.

And of course women are all supposed to adore either (a) the virile Bobby Flay, (b) the nerdy Alton Brown, or (c) that young British dude who seems to have gone away. I can't imagine why anyone would want to have sex with Emeril, but I'm sure there are women who are turned on by his annoying "BAM!" and hoping he'll say it to them in bed.

Mario Battali (Battalli? Batalli? Whatever) is the network's only non-sexualized chef. It's like their attempt to say, "We really are about FOOD, just food, that's all!"

posted by brina 07 December | 17:07

Mario's got all kinds of bear appeal.

posted by box 07 December | 17:23

Gah! brina has ruined Good Eats for me. :)

posted by muddgirl 07 December | 17:28

Mario Battali (Battalli? Batalli? Whatever) is the network's only non-sexualized chef. It's like their attempt to say, "We really are about FOOD, just food, that's all!"

You kidding me? I'd jump on him so fast I might break my pelvis in the process.

posted by kellydamnit 07 December | 17:41

(sorry, I'm betting that is most likely tmi)

posted by kellydamnit 07 December | 17:42

Hypothesis: there's someone on the Food Network for everyone. Sexual-attraction-wise, I mean.

posted by box 07 December | 17:42

Let's not even talk about Nigella Lawson. Rrrowrr!

posted by me3dia 07 December | 17:51

muddgirl, it's okay. I loves me some Alton Brown. He is the nerd of my dreams.

posted by brina 07 December | 17:58

You shut up about Nigella. That's my future dominant wife you're talking about.

posted by middleclasstool 07 December | 18:18

No discussion of Giada is complete without "It's a Giada disaster!", so here it is.
(Previously.)

posted by bmarkey 07 December | 18:50

Whenever I see her name I read it as 'Giardia'.

posted by plinth 07 December | 20:34

Me, too.

posted by ethylene 07 December | 20:41

I'm convinced that the Food Network is nothing more than soft porn.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Paula Deen (Dean?), who is only sexy if you're a 70-year-old man

I'm only 37 and I think Paula's kind of hot.

What?

posted by jonmc 07 December | 20:59

While I don't know if I'd call her sexy or hot, I certanly would not complain if I looked anything like her when I get to Ms. Dean's age. She's a beautiful woman. (I also find it interesting how much more attractive she seems to be compared to the plastic-surgery hollywood crowd of the same age ange, in my eyes. I think the surgery adds a harshness to the face that's off-putting.)

posted by kellydamnit 07 December | 21:01

Okay, fine. ALL programs on the food network are soft porn, apparently.

But ... she puts BOILED EGGS into her GRAVY.

posted by brina 07 December | 22:38

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