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'Downton' actress Jessica Brown Findlay regrets topless movie scene

March 27, 2013, 9:00 AM EST

Actress Jessica Brown Findlay regrets going topless in the 2011 movie "Albatross," and concedes she was "naive" for agreeing to strip down.
The "Downton Abbey" star plays a teenager who has an affair with an older man in the film, and one scene shows her flashing her chest to prove her age. Brown Findlay now wishes she had turned down the request to show her breasts, telling British magazine the Radio Times, "To be honest, 'Albatross' was naivety and not knowing that I could say no. I had no idea what was going to happen, and thought I was going to be shot from behind."
The actress also sheds her clothes in the upcoming U.K. TV drama "Labyrinth," an adaptation of Kate Mosse's best-selling novel, but insists she will never strip down on camera again.
She adds, "I think if you're going to do a nude scene, be honest and natural. Otherwise I'd be starving myself for ever, which I just couldn't do! The idea that actresses would work out at the gym for a thousand hours beforehand ... I was drinking pints and eating burgers. But actually, it's not something I would do again."

Ireland Baldwin Can’t Stop Showing Off Model Figure

TumblrIreland Baldwin recently announced she’s signed a modeling contract, but in case anyone missed the news, she’s now proving it through photos.

Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger’s 17-year-old daughter has taken to multiple branches of social media this month to show off her 6’2” fab figure. On Instagram there’s a selfie of the teen standing in her bathroom, donning just a cleavage-baring Nike sports bra and super-short spandex shorts. On Twitter, she’s got a shot of herself standing in her kitchen downing Cheerios while wearing nothing but (a different) sports bra on top. And just this week on her Tumblr account, Baldwin flaunted her toned bod in a super-sexy shot, standing at the ocean’s edge with wet hair in a skimpy bikini.

It’s no surprise the celebrity offspring turned out to be a classic (and tall!) beauty. Mom Basinger rose to fame in the ‘80s playing plenty of the “leggy blonde” roles in films like “9 1Ž2 Weeks,” “Blind Date,” and “The Marrying Man,” which, ironically, introduced her to the man she’d eventually wind up marrying, Alec Baldwin.
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While she takes after her mother in the looks department, she takes after her father when it comes to oversharing on social media. Baldwin keeps his more than 1 million Twitter followers up to date on just about everything, from his confrontations with the paparazzi, to his battle with an American Airlines flight attendant, to the details of his wedding day when he married new wife Hilaria Thomas.
Instagram But we’ve got to wonder what Basinger and Baldwin think of their teen daughter sharing the skimpy shots (not to mention posting pics of herself smooching a gentleman caller)? With a future modeling career ahead, they’re probably going to have to prepare themselves for even more risqué shots … and Ireland, it’s pretty clear, doesn’t seem the least bit concerned.

Boston College orders student groups to stop passing out condoms

On the surface, college students handing out condoms might not seem controversial — unless it happens to take place at a Catholic school. In that case, controversy guaranteed. Officials at Boston College, which is a Jesuit-affiliated school, are demanding that a network of student groups stop distributing condoms (as well as sexual health literature and lubricant) in dorms or face disciplinary action. The letter from administrators says the prophylactic giveaway violates the school’s traditions and values. The students disagree, calling the warning "war-mongering and threatening." So does the ACLU, which says the university’s decree could result in a legal battle. 

Grandparents smoke pot, too

The baby boomer generation changed America, and still likes to alter reality.

If you were around 20 years old in 1967, you were at a prime age to enjoy the Summer of Love and all that came with it: the “free love,” the freed minds, the freely flowing substances. Your age puts you at the front end of the baby boomer generation, that massive population that defined a new America with its anti-establishment principles. Oh, and here’s more good news: You're now eligible for Social Security.

Casual relationships and passionate social activism may be well behind most baby boomers today, but some still are enjoying altering their reality. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the number of adults over age 50 who smoke marijuana has been steadily rising for a decade.

So many older people have come out as pot smokers, The New York Times reports, that one pro-marijuana group has launched Grannies For Grass, an affiliation of happy advocates with chapters in three Midwestern states.

Aging baby boomers helped coin a term and create an age-defying economy around the “midlife crisis,” but that’s not what boomer-toking is about. Quite the contrary, in fact: The crisis for them is over.

Retirement has liberated many members of the older generation from concerns about work performance, and as empty-nesters their parenting responsibilities are diminished as well. The easing of legal restrictions around marijuana possession and consumption also contribute to a social environment in which grandparents playing pinochle can spark up a joint nearly as casually as they might crack open a bottle of Pinot Grigio.

One interviewee in the NYT piece had no qualms at all about the possibility of bosses identifying her from the newspaper’s story. Pictured in her Ohio home next to a blanket with a giant pot leaf on it, Cher Neufer proudly proclaims, “I don’t care if they know!” Another couple now in their 80s is named by the grandson who occasionally catches a buzz with them.

Plus, we all know that increasing age can be accompanied by decreasing concern about the judgments of others. Said another way, toking baby boomers probably don’t give a damn what you think about what they smoke. It seems ironic, but the generation who sang along to the Who lyric “Hope I die before I get old” is recovering some of its rebellious spirit with age. 

Marijuana Tax Considered By Cash-Strapped States

A marijuana tax is being considered as a reason to legalize the drug by several cash-strapped states, including New York and Maine.
Advocates of marijuana have said that taxing the drug could help pump cash into states struggling to make ends meet. However, skeptics have disagreed.

But some lawmakers agree with advocates. They assert that legalizing marijuana and taxing it would help put a large amount of money into state budgets still recovering from the recession.
Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) agrees. He added, “I’ve seen some estimates in the high tens of millions, as much as $100 million” for Colorado. The state’s voters legalized recreational marijuana during the last election.
Polis and others are arguing for a federal law that legalizes the drug. He added that, should projections be correct, Colorado would be able to fund struggling programs like education. Schools, especially those in poorer districts, are suffering.
Along with Colorado, Washington State voters also passed a recreational marijuana law. Under the law, marijuana would be taxed at four levels: growing, production, retail, and consumer. Growers, manufacturers, and retailers would also have to apply for an annual license to handle the substance. The license costs $1,000.
Dale Geiringer also supports the idea of a marijuana tax. Gieringer, who is the director of California National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, stated that legalizing the drug would bring in more than $1.2 billion to the state. However, the study assumes a traditional sales tax, along with an additional $50 levy for every ounce of marijuana sold.
Skeptics are also cautioning that there is a lot of exaggeration on the part of activists. Harvard economics professor Jeffrey Miron, a pro-legalization scholar at the Cato Institute, cautioned that a marijuana tax “is not a cash cow that can solve anyone’s fiscal problems.”  Instead, a nationwide legalization that taxes marijuana like alcohol and tobacco would bring in about $6.4 billion. $4.3 billion would be for the government and states would get $2.1 billion.
Do you think a marijuana tax would be a substantial boon for governments?

Yep, more pot just washed up on California's shores, and it's a TON

Can you even imagine what a literal ton of marijuana looks like? Because we can't. But Santa Barbara County officials didn't have to: They found $4 million worth of bundled pot and a 30-foot boat that was presumably used to smuggle it on Arroyo Quemada Beach. This is apparently a "thing" in California now, since $1 million worth of pot was found recently near a boat that washed up next to Vandenberg Air Force Base. So, Golden Staters, abandon your metal detectors and go rent a drug dog. It'll probably be more lucrative.

Another upset: Florida Gulf Coast coach landed supermodel as his wife

Coach Andy Enfield with wife Amanda and their son Marcum. (Courtesy of Florida Gulf Coast University)

PHILADELPHIA – There have been several pressing questions about Florida Gulf Coast University over the last several days. First of all, where is it? (San Diego State's Jamaal Franklin: "It's in Florida.") Second, how did a school without a basketball arena in 2001 become a tournament darling in 2013? (Some of that is covered here). And then there's this question:
How did head coach Andy Enfield get a supermodel to marry him?
On Saturday, a day removed from his team's stunning upset of No. 2-seeded Georgetown, the 43-year-old coach who has been called "the most interesting college coach in the world" told the story to reporters gathered here.
Warning: It will make a lot of readers even more jealous.
Another warning: It involves Taco Bell.
Sadly, Enfield didn't quite recall the year it happened. "St. John's played Virginia [in the NIT]," he said. "Whatever year that was."
(It was 2003.)
[Related: Florida Gulf Coast hands Georgetown the biggest upset of the tournament]
Amanda Marcum, in addition to being a successful model, was a huge Oklahoma State basketball fan. So much so that she would go to bars in New York by herself and watch games. She had tickets to the Cowboys' NCAA tournament appearance in Boston, but she didn't have a ride from New York. Fortunately (for Enfield), she had a friend who knew a guy who had worked for the Celtics and Rick Pitino. The friend asked Enfield if he was going to the tournament. He was, and he offered to drive the friend and his friend, who turned out to be his future wife.
"I pulled up to the Starbucks in Manhattan to pick them up," Enfield said, "and as soon as I saw Amanda get into my car, I knew it would be a good trip."

Amanda Marcum was a supermodel when she met Enfield. That it was. The two had basketball in their blood, and most of that drive was spent talking about the game. "It was very natural," Marcum said at halftime last night. "We had so much in common. He had a great sense of humor." It also helped that Oklahoma State won, beating Penn in the first round.

The love and basketball theme continued during their first actual date – the aforementioned NIT game pitting St. John's against Virginia. It was Enfield's idea to go, and he wanted to take his date to a nice restaurant beforehand.
(Sidebar: Enfield, with his Wall Street background, has some upscale tendencies. An unnamed source said he was miffed that his players dumped Gatorade on the designer suit tailored for him by Naples clothier Joe Genta.)
So they went looking for a place. Problem was, Enfield didn't know Queens all that well, and he struggled to find anything he thought worthy of the occasion.
He figured maybe there would be a decent restaurant near the St. John's campus. Perhaps in the student union? "There's got to be a Chili's or something," he said. (Seriously, he said this.)
[Watch: Chase Fielder alley-oop against Georgetown is the play of the first round]
As fate would have it, the only restaurant open was … Taco Bell. So Andy Enfield, New York hotshot, wooed Amanda Marcum, international swimsuit model, by making a run for the border in Queens.
"I got her a nice burrito," Enfield said.
Six months later, they were engaged. At least he popped the question at a fancy Fifth Avenue restaurant, rather than a Sbarro at Terminal 6 at JFK airport.
Marcum gave up modeling and the couple moved to Tallahassee, where Enfield became an assistant to Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton. The couple now has three kids, and Marcum, 34, is a stay-at-home mom. She spent Friday night with 2-year-old Marcum, her only boy, on her hip as she greeted well-wishers and watched the FGCU win. She said all the attention is "surreal," though she wants to make sure the focus is on the players and not on her. (She sounds like a coach herself.)
"What a sacrifice she has made," Enfield said Saturday, "from flying all over the world to do fashion shoots for some of the biggest designers on the planet to moving to Tallahassee, Florida, which is a nice place, but it's not New York and it's not Milan and it's not Sydney and it's not Paris."
No, it's not. (Though it does have a Taco Bell.) Marcum admitted to the Naples News in 2011 that the transition from New York to Tallahassee and then to Ft. Myers wasn't always easy. "I don't want to complain about it," she said, "but at times it has been a struggle. The timing with me having a baby and him getting a new job has been challenging. But we've made it work."
[Photo gallery: Best photos of the NCAA tournament]
Asked on Friday whether she misses modeling, Marcum said, "Sometimes." But she added, "I love being home."
Will there be a different definition of "home" anytime soon? Enfield will surely be a hot candidate for open coaching positions, especially if the Eagles become the first-ever 15 seed to make the Sweet 16.
Asked before he arrived here this week about possible opportunities, Enfield said he wasn't thinking about that. "Our goal is to make this program better than it was before," he said. "I left the NBA and we had three small children. We wanted to be around college campuses, to have our kids grow up in this kind of atmosphere. Florida Gulf Coast provides a chance to win at a high level."
That they've done. And 10 years later, the Enfields are celebrating the way they started: at March Madness. Welcome to happily ever after. 

Former Tennessee Titans cheerleader accused of sexual battery on 12-year-old

Elizabeth Leigh Garner

Elizabeth Leigh Garner, a 42-year-old former Tennessee Titans cheerleader, has been arrested for the alleged sexual battery of a 12-year-old Rutherford County boy.
Garner, of Highland Park Court in Nashville, was arrested in Nashville on March 14 and then booked into a Rutherford County jail. She is charged with aggravated sexual battery and solicitation of a minor for rape of a child.
According to Murfreesboro Police Department records, in February while Garner was staying at the 12-year-old boy’s home, he got up in the night to go to the bathroom, and Garner followed him into the bathroom. Garner allegedly asked the boy if he’d ever been with a woman and grabbed his penis from the outside of his pants, before attempting to take his shorts off and stating that she wanted to perform a sex act on him.
Garner told police that she was drunk that night and got the boy “confused” with a man who was also at the home at that time.
The case was presented before a Rutherford County grand jury earlier this month, and Garner was consequently indicted on the charges.

Bolshoi Ballerinas Pimped Out, Ex-Dancer Claims

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MOSCOW – A former top ballerina with the world famous Bolshoi theater has accused the dance company of pimping out its female dancers to wealthy donors.
Former ballet star Anastasia Volochkova made the claim during an appearance on a Russian talk show on Sunday.
She said ballerinas were pressured by the theater’s management to attend parties thrown by its biggest financial backers, often with the expectation that they would then follow the rich businessmen to bed. She said resistance could lead to professional repercussions within the theater.
Volochkova was dismissed by the Bolshoi in 2003, reportedly because they thought she was too fat.
According to RIA Novosti, the Bolshoi said it has not decided yet how to respond to Volochkova’s allegations.
Theater spokesperson Katerina Novikova declined to comment on the specific claims, saying, “I don’t know yet if the [theater's] management has decided on how to react to everything that was said in the show.”
The claims are just the latest black eye for the Bolshoi, which is still reeling from a vicious acid attack on its artistic director in January.
Sergei Filin was doused with sulfuric acid as he walked to his apartment building on Jan. 17. Earlier this month, police arrested Pavel Dmitrichenko, a top Bolshoi dancer, and two other men for allegedly ordering and carrying out the attack.
The attack sent shockwaves through the Bolshoi, with fingers being pointed at other top dancers who some believe may have inspired the attack. Last week, however, several hundred Bolshoi employees signed a letter siding with Dmitrichenko, suggesting he confessed to masterminding the attack only after being pressured to do so.
Filin suffered severe burns on his face and is currently recovering in a German hospital where doctors are scrambling to save his eyesight

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Amanda Marcum.Andy Enfield is a young basketball coach with sterling credentials, having worked under Mike Dunleavy, Rick Pitino and Leonard Hamilton. He's guided the once-unknown Florida Gulf Coast University to a berth in the NCAA tournament, a first-round draw against Georgetown, and ... you're not even reading this anymore, are you?

Meet Amanda Marcum Enfield, wife of Enfield and legit supermodel. You can bet she'll be all over Friday's telecast when GCSU plays, Katherine Webb-style. In addition to that Maxim cover there at right, she's been on the covers of Elle and Vogue, and in ads for Victoria's Secret and more. She and Enfield met when he gave her a ride from New York City to Boston to watch the Oklahoma State Cowboys in — synchronicity alert — the 2003 NCAA Tournament. The ride was apparently pleasant enough that the two were engaged six months later. (Sports Illustrated traces this to a fortuitous sprained ankle; you can decide for yourself if that's the case.)
As our Eric Adelson noted earlier this week, Amanda is quite the understanding wife; you have to be when your spouse is a college basketball coach. To wit:

[Enfield] was hired (at FGCU) on March 31, 2011, a week before the birth of his only son. He admits he recruited via phone from the seat beside his wife's hospital bed, both before and after the delivery. There he was, calling up preps and their families while Amanda had her IVs changed.
"I didn't even know the nurse was in the room," Enfield says. "I'm rolling. And I didn't know anything about FGCU. Then my wife says, 'Can you please be quiet?' "
Amanda, a former swimsuit model, forgave him, and the recruits bought in.

[Related: Life's literally a beach at FGCU]
And here we are, in the NCAA tournament. Anyway, Amanda is as impressive in her field as Andy is in his; you can see a collection of her modeling work here. And if FGCU pulls off a miracle win over Georgetown — Nate Silver gives them a 10.3 percent chance — she'll be a marquee feature throughout the weekend. Enjoy the show, everybody.

Wis. limits use of nude beach to reduce sex, drugs

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin authorities announced Tuesday they will shut down one of nation's most popular nude beaches on weekdays after struggling for years to curtail sex and drugs on the sandbar and surrounding woods.

Nudists from around the country have been traveling to the public beach on the Wisconsin River near Mazomanie, about 25 miles northwest of Madison, for decades as word spread that prosecutors in ultra-liberal Dane County wouldn't go after anyone for showing skin. But visitors haven't stopped at just stripping down. They've been slipping off into the woods for trysts and drugs.
Authorities say that's crossing the line, but they haven't been able to stop the shenanigans. Their frustration reached a tipping point Tuesday, when the state Department of Natural Resources announced it will close the beach, the islands immediately off it and the surrounding woods to the public on weekdays, when wardens say troublemakers tend to operate unseen. The closures begin immediately. The area will remain open on weekends, though.
Bob Morton, executive director of the Austin, Tex.-based Naturist Action Committee, which lobbies on behalf of nudists, has visited the beach several times. He criticized the DNR for not consulting with beachgoers before closing the area.
"Honestly, we're on their side when it comes to enforcing things that are lewd and lascivious," Morton said. "There's something to be said about consulting the users of the place. There's got to be more to this somewhere."

Nate Kroeplin, who supervises DNR law enforcement in Dane County, said wardens reviewed data on citations and determined most violations happen on weekdays, when fewer people are around to police each other's behavior. Of the 92 citations wardens issued for disorderly conduct or drugs in the beach area between 2008 and 2012, 83 were given on weekdays, he said.

"Obviously we're disappointed when we have to shut any portion of our property down," he said. "But our ultimate goal is to have a safe place anybody can feel comfortable using. And with the current activity going on down there, that's just not the case."
The beach has been a problem for wardens for years. The DNR purchased the area in 1949 in an effort to open up more land for public hunting, fishing and recreation. Droves of nudists claimed the beach as their own, though, emboldened by local prosecutors' indifference. Wisconsin law makes exposing one's genitals a misdemeanor, but a long line of Dane County district attorneys have said naked people must cause some kind of disturbance before they can be prosecuted. The DNR estimates as many as 70,000 people, some from as far away as Florida, have visited the beach some summers.
With all the skin has come sex and drugs. Warden arrest reports tell graphic stories of oral sex and mutual masturbation.
The agency closed the area at night and banned beach camping in the late 1990s. Authorities also installed a gate blocking vehicles in hopes of stopping people from driving down to the beach in search of quick sex.
In 2007, wardens closed off parts of the woods around the beach to discourage sex in the underbrush and cut down brush around the beach to eliminate cover. But arrests for sex and drugs around the beach still hit a five-year high in 2011; wardens arrested 26 people for sex and 16 people for drugs in just nine days of surveillance.
The DNR closed another 70 acres around the beach last spring, but Kroeplin said it hasn't stopped people from cruising the beach parking lot on weekdays, when relatively few people are around to complain. Last summer, wardens issued 19 citations for sex and three for drugs over five or six days of surveillance, Kroeplin said; 16 citations were issued on weekdays compared with six on weekends.
"It's pretty incredible to see the amount of traffic that pulls onto the property," Kroeplin said. "Everything we've done has not made any difference."

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(Getty)During the broadcast of UFC 158, UFC president Dana White announced that women's bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey and the winner of an upcoming bout between Cat Zingano and Miesha Tate will coach on the next season of "The Ultimate Fighter." The new UFC division made its debut just weeks ago at UFC 157, and this will be the first time women act as coaches on the show that helped launch the UFC to the company it is today.

White said the show will feature both male and female bantamweights who are trying to win a UFC contract. They will train together and live together in a house in Las Vegas. Tryouts for bantamweight hopefuls will take place on April 15 in Las Vegas.
The longtime staple of the UFC had faltered in ratings in recent seasons. However, the season currently airing, coached by UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and his upcoming opponent Chael Sonnen, has injected new life into the show.
Adding women to the mix for the first time should continue to boost ratings. If Tate wins her Apr. 13 bout against Zingano, it will add bad blood between the coaches. Tate and Rousey fought for the Strikeforce bantamweight belt last March, and had plenty of animosity with each other before the bout.
But Rousey will be a draw no matter who she coaches against. She is known for her outspoken personality, and drew a ton of interest for her UFC debut in late February.

So, apparently pumping gas naked will get you banned for life

If it's one of your life's goals to have the best picture ever for a Facebook page called "Petrol Pump Stances," know this: Liam Marsh outdid you, but he paid for the bragging rights. Marsh hoped to outdo his competitors by having a pal snap a shot of him pumping gas naked at an Asda in England — but he's now been banned for life from that particular station. Marsh was considerate enough to wait until the station was closed and deserted to make his move, but his "pump stance" was caught on security cameras, and police nabbed him the following day.

Topless Iranian communists protest hijabs in Stockholm

In Stockholm on Sunday, Iranian female activists took off their tops in protest of the hijab headscarf Islamic women must wear. Members of the Iranian Communist Party and the Organization Against Violence on Women in Iran painted their bodies with slogans like, "My nudity is my protest" and "No to hijab," following the pattern set by the Ukrainian activist group FEMEN. FEMEN has become famous for protesting sex tourism, international marriage agencies and other feminist causes with topless protests.

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Yes founder Peter Banks dead at 65

Former Yes guitarist Peter Banks has died at age 65. The rocker passed away at his home in London on March 8, according to a post on his website.
Former Yes member Billy Sherwood has confirmed the news via Facebook writing, "Peter very recently played on the new prog collective 2 project I'm writing/producing, as well as the days between stations record I worked on. As a Yes fan ... this is sad news indeed. It was an honor to work with Peter on many productions. He will be missed!!!"

Bing: More on Peter Banks

Banks co-founded Yes with his former The Syn bandmate Chris Squire in 1968 and played on the group's self-titled debut album and the follow-up "Time and a Word." The guitarist quit the group in 1970 and formed a new band, Flash. He also performed and recorded with Zox & the Radar Boys, which featured a young Phil Collins.
Banks enjoyed two decades of critical acclaim as a solo artist with albums including "The Two Sides of Peter Banks" and "Instinct." He reunited with Yes in 1991 for a concert in Los Angeles and collaborated with his former bandmates on the 1997 album "Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969-1970." Paying tribute to the late guitarist via Twitter, collaborator and friend Steve Hackett writes, "I'm sorry to hear of Peter Banks' passing ... a great pal and a great guitarist."

Lamborghini Veneno supercar photos leak ahead of Geneva

$4 million Lambo hypercar sold out before its reveal at this week's Geneva Motor Show.

It's not official quite yet, but shots of the Lamborghini Veneno supercar have arrived on the Internet ahead of the car's official Geneva Motor Show debut this week. Here's what we can tell you: At $4 million a copy, the Aventador-based Veneno would seem a tough sell, but exclusivity is worth it for some; all three cars have been spoken for already.

Expect a tuned version of the Aventador 6.5-liter V12, powering the Veneno to a terminal velocity of 220 mph. And expect a whole lot more of this latest Lamborghini when the silk is pulled at the Geneva Motor Show.

The Lamborghini Veneno -- your latest Italian bullet train.

More pictures after the jump.



Like the bones, the powertrain is based on the Aventador, and the Geneva supercar runs a 6.5-liter V12 pushing out 740 hp paired with a seven-speed automated manual transmission.



The Lamborghini Veneno is all fins and vents from the top.



Just three Veneno models were available, and they are already taken; two sold to buyers in the United States. 

Katherine Webb poses in her underwear (and answers some questions, too) for Vanity Fair

(Vanity Fair)Count Vanity Fair among the media outlets that are jumping on the Katherine Webb bandwagon (and yes, we realize the irony in writing that sentence).

Vanity Fair's PR staff sent out a release giving an advance look at a Q&A it did with Webb, with pictures of Webb wearing her intimates. Getting a story in Vanity Fair is a pretty big deal. We're sure that's why you clicked this link.
Vanity Fair referred to Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron who has become famous in the last two months after she was the only interesting part of the BCS Championship Game, as "the modern-day Cindy Crawford." We're not quite ready to go there yet, but college football's belle has certainly maintained her status as a pop culture sensation.
Miss Alabama, an Auburn graduate, explained to Vanity Fair how important football is in the South, especially within the state of Alabama, and told the magazine, "Now you can see why an Auburn grad, who is a beauty queen dating a University of Alabama star quarterback, will make national headlines. People call us the Romeo and Juliet of Alabama."
[Related: The most famous girlfriends in college football]
She also talked about her beauty tips which we figure this audience won't care much about, with discussion of John Frieda no-frizz gel, Urban Decay primers, Dior waterproof mascara and L’Oreal 24-hour gel eyeliners. No, we're not sure what brand of underwear she's wearing in that photo shoot.
She also told Vanity Fair she was an "ugly duckling" through school because she was the tallest girl in her class and she always tried to slouch down to fit in. She has obviously overcome that feeling, and wants to share that tale with young girls who might feel like they don't fit in.

"Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height," Webb said. "For me to go from feeling like I was the ugly duckling to winning Miss Alabama U.S.A., and going on to Miss U.S.A. and taking pictures for Sports Illustrated and being labeled as one of the most beautiful women . . . I love sharing that with girls who are in my position at that age and kind of coaching them."