Girls who are boys, who like boys when they're girls...

Its a girl thing.

In recent times Miss Universe candidate Jenna Talackova was disqualified from competition on the grounds that she was not born a female. Yep Jenna is transgender and underwent hormone therapy at the age of 14 and full gender reassignment at 19 in order to become a woman...

Her story is quite interesting but why on earth should this matter in a beauty pageant? If anything being born a man would be a disadvantage going up against people who were born female!

And to get into the nitty gritty semiotics of it all- technically Jenna was only physically born a man- mentally, emotionally and spiritually she has always been female!

This gets me thinking... how do I know I am female? I was blessed (and cursed at the same time) with a bohemian upbringing (my mother a hippie, my father a hipster) and so was dressed in shorts, played with gender non specific toys and was treated like a baby human not a baby girl by my parents...

So why did I cry and stamp my feet in longing for a barbie to play with? Why did I so desperately want long hair? This was because I knew who I was- I was a girl, I saw a team of 50% of the population and knew it was where I belonged. This was NOT because I was born with certain genitalia- this was NOT because society told me I should like these things, it was simply because that is who I am and who I wanted to be.

I can't imagine how devastating it would be to be born a female mismatched with a male body-feel like a girl but be treated like a boy... So good on Jenna for having the courage to fix the physical mistake mother nature made!

Which brings me back to the pageant- here is a shot of Miss Talackova competing

She looks like a beautiful woman to me! Annnnd to be honest I think I'm a decent looking female (I have managed to bag myself the hottest loveliest boyfriend on earth) but Jenna would whoop me in the beautiful woman stakes anyday!

Donald Trump is the man behind the contest who booted Jenna for being transgender... and just for kicks- does anyone else think Jenna and Trump's daughter Ivanka could be long lost twin sisters?

Trump's daughter Ivanka

Transgender Jenna

Why Celebrities Need Social Workers the Most- #72

Kim Karadashian.

I'm sorry, has everyone forgotten that the woman found infamy by releasing a video of her being urinated on by a B grade rap singer?

The world has gone mad.

Train Like a Monster

Today I signed up to a second 12 week fitness program, it has definitely been the best decision I have made this year!!

Healthier, Happier and Hotter :)

The King of The Jungle

One of the few great men left on this planet is set to hit Australia for his first ever live shows down under.

Sir David Attenborough- the journalist, environmental activist and globe trotting naturalist is 85 years old and is still showcasing the terrifying beauty of the natural world to TV viewers.

It would be such a treat to hear such an inspirational man speak, and I hope I can get my hands on a ticket to a Sydney or Melbourne show :)

Splendour Lineup 2012

The 2012 Splendour in the Grass lineup has just dropped and it is toe wigglingly, jaw droppingly happy pants worthy!!

My top picks are...

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

BLOC PARTY

THE KOOKS

LANA DEL REY

And almost as good as this sick line up is the fact that Splendour has returned home to Byron Bay weeeeeeeee!

Tresses 2.0

After my accidental fashion week hair faux par- I decided to get to get crazy drunk, toddle on home and rip out all of my hair extensions because I thought they would look better on my 9mth old German Shepard puppy...

Exhibit A

(Unfortunately in my drunken haze I did not have the foresight to photograph him in all his lusciously long haired glory..).

After his makeover, my little pup decided to devour my extensions- and as a result I have been rocking mid length chocolate brown hair for a month or two- boring.

In need of a hair change, I am tossing up between two styles:

Ricki Lee Coulter's ombre dark blonde.

OR

Super sexy 90's icy blonde

+Hair Suicide+

A few posts ago I blogged about my love of colour saturated ends of hair and how I was about to take the plunge at the salon the PR agency I worked for managed...

This is what I wanted:

This is what I walked out with:

(Ignore the weird saggy boobs, the photographer tried to be nice and photoshop my boobs bigger and just made them look droopy...)

This hair is cool it looks ok and I could have dealt with it under normal circumstances, but THE NEXT DAY was the start of Fashion Week, aka the biggest sartorial event of my lifetime!!!!

Guess who has the same hairstyle as I did?

The beautiful, but somewhat style-challenged "Snooki" from Jersey Shore :(

None the less I sucked it up and pretended that I loved rocking this look for the first couple of days- until I decided to wash my hair- which resulted in ALL of the colour washing out!

I'll give you one guess which Jersey Shore housemate it looked like I was then style-hijacking...

Yep you guessed it! Snooki's silicon enhanced sidekick- JWOW!!!

I actually really like The Jersey Shore, and don't mean to send out bad vibes about these women... but they just don't have the style I wanted to emulate when interviewing fashion heavy weights like NICOLA FINETTI!!!

In the words of Snooki- Waaaaaaaaah!

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Do something that matters :)

So here comes my hippie rant... it is great and lovely to be passionate about hot topics like the Kony 2012 movement but this passion makes no difference if you are just reposting on social media sites and having a chat to your friends about it.. the whole point of activism is to be ACTIVE so if you think something is shit about the world DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!! Here are two organisations I donate monthly to- WWF (environmental)http://wwf.org.au/ and Amnesty International (humanitarian)https://support.amnesty.org.au/thankyou.php it is so easy to set up and you can choose how much to donate $50, $20, $2... it all helps! If you legit have no room in your budget you can still contribute!! Write letters and emails to politicians, and keep doing it until they take notice! Parents encourage your children to be active- my mum started donating to the wilderness society in my name when I was little and it is a great lesson to teach your kids :) Value your power to vote!!! Take interest in politics because a huge chunk of your income (tax) is being managed by politicians... Greenie rant over.

PEACE & LOVE

Peace and Love- Photo shoot featuring Aleksandra Nilsen from Elle Norway…

Ricki Lee Coulter is amazing!!! Her life, body and soul make-over is so inspirational :)

End shot of my first fashion review- bikinis of course right up my alley :)

What a time to be alive…

Woodstock 1969

MANIA MANIA

Bambi Northwood-Blyth is a sick chick :)

Why Celebrities Need Social Workers The Most- #45

Woody Allen MARRIED his DAUGHTER.

(Soon Yi Priven shown as a child with Allen and pictured as an adult)

So they nitty gritty details are- Woody Allen was married to actress Mia Farrow…

Mia and Allen adopted two children together, and Mia’s adopted daughter Soon, effectively became Woody Allen’s stepdaughter.

Mia and Allen’s relationship ended when Mia discovered naked photos of her daughter Soon Yi Priven in Allen’s possession.

Soon Yi Priven and Woody Allen soon declared their love and got married.

So effectively Allen married the girl he raised as his daughter…

Ew

+Style Stalker+

Style stalkers new collection is AMAZE- ziiiiiiing! Studio 54 hits the half pipe..

This weekend I am starting my 12 week LBT angels program! Hopefully my butt will look like these in a few weeks :)

I love flexing my design muscles at work :)

It is happening! After months of lusting over colour drenched ends, I am getting my ends bleached tomorrow and died light purple! Cannot wait to see how it turns out…