How is Elisabetta Canalis Supposed to Act?

Elisabetta Canalis

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As we’ve already seen in bits and pieces, Elisabetta Canalis is the September cover girl for Vanity Fair Italy. People Magazine excerpted several of her quotes a few days ago, but I just saw the full piece online, complete with this photo shoot. First, a word about Canalis as a model: she’s not horrible, but she looks so completely different in every photo. She doesn’t have a consistent face, if that’s not too odd a description. In one shot, she looks like Cindy Crawford, in another, I sweat to God she looks like Camilla Belle. It’s so weird. Anyway, the full piece is here - but you’ll have to access it in Chrome to get a translation. Funny side note: Chrome translated everything into “him”. As in, Canalis is a dude. Also: she’s already banking on being with George until the end of this month, because she confirms she’s his Emmy date.

How is she supposed to act? Meek and mild?

This is blogging?

First, a word about Canalis as a model: she’s not horrible, but she looks so completely different in every photo. She doesn’t have a consistent face, if that’s not too odd a description. In one shot, she looks like Cindy Crawford, in another, I sweat to God she looks like Camilla Belle.

If a woman looks completely different in every photo for Vanity Fair, that's entirely the work of the makeup and hair and clothing stylists hired by the magazine to present the subject. That's nothing to do with Miss Canalis. Sheesh.

The woman is appearing in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. Just by reading what she says, she's speaking to the Italian audience and she's not tailoring her comments for any other edition or audience. Hence, she sounds perfectly reasonable to me. How that goes down for an audience completely different than the American version (which version is which anyhow?) is anyone's guess. There are things you can print, say, or do in a European fashion magazine that you would never get away with in the staid, puritanical American version.

How do I know this? Simple. All you have to do in Europe is go to a magazine stand. Women often appear fully nude in magazines here. They're nude in the newspaper, for crying out loud. The interviews are more rambling and starkly honest. In the American versions, the articles are more heavily censored and the photographs feature next to no nudity; the better not to offend the Supermarket blue-hairs.

There's nothing wrong with Elisabetta Canalis that a few years of obscurity wouldn't fix. It's Europe. You can do whatever you want.