Thursday, May 29, 2003

It doesn't really matter if you're a young star reaching out for the kids and tweens, if you look like Hillary Duff, you'll have stuff like this written about you and draw a small but considerable "wrong" fan base. I am bit thrown off by the fact that she thinks it's somewhat complimentary that people think she's had a boob job (i.e. facing the same questions as Britney Spears). I wish I could find the article that ripped Disney for casting her in the first place as Lizzie because the character was supposed to be an awkward-looking kid like the cartoon and instead you get a Britney clone.

Speaking of blonde teens (just in time to mess up Google searches, pervs), "American Anna" Ashley Harkleroad finally scored her breakthrough victory by upsetting Daniela Hantuchova, who is similar to Harkleroad in that she wore the same outfit, is in her teens, a rising star and supposedly challenging Kournikova in the looks department.
Trying to find the next Kournikova is starting to get tiresome. The hype over Anna's looks definitely wreaked havoc on her game, and you'd hate to see that happen to some of the rising young stars like Harkleroad or Hantuchova. A couple of years ago at the U.S. Open, Harkleroad turned heads when she wore an outfit obviously a couple of sizes too small for her when she played in the main draw. Yes, she's attractive, but the ploy was a bit over the top. Plus, wearing such small clothes had to be very uncomfortable when you're already nervous playing your first-ever non-juniors match at the U.S. Open.
Hantuchova was part of an ESPN The Magazine spread, and ads based off that feature sorta made her look like Kirsten Dunst (at least that's what I got from the shrunken down photos in the ad). Supposedly, her main draw is the long legs, which if she were a runway model. And unfortunately, she has Kate Moss' build, which can't be good in the long-term. Yet stuff like that probably draws a few more fans.
I hope for both of them that their tennis, not the forced episodes of Are You Hot?, will be the reason for their success. Sure, we can ogle, but wins are what count. To use examples from the past, let's hope both get a Gabriela Sabatini vibe instead of a Carling Bassett vibe.

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