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Thursday February 7th, 2013

Gabby Douglas on Nail Art, Her Olympic Hair Controversy, and That Time She Met Ben Affleck
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Gabby Douglas on Nail Art, Her Olympic Hair Controversy, and That Time She Met Ben Affleck

Her four inch Louboutins prevented her from doing any tumbling passes down the runway, but Gabby Douglas still drew the biggest cheers at last night’s Heart Truth Red Dress runway show.

I spied Douglas’s megawatt smile in the backstage pre-show chaos and grabbed a few minutes with her while she getting her nails painted. Punctuating her speech with “Oh my gosh”-es and excited giggles, she told me her thoughts on nail art, Ben Affleck, and dismissing that whole Olympics hair controversy once and for all.

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Published at 11:41 AM
Jenners and Gymnasts Take the Runway at the Heart Truth Red Dress Fashion Show
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Jenners and Gymnasts Take the Runway at the Heart Truth Red Dress Fashion Show

At this season’s Heart Truth Red Dress show, the celeb-filled fashion show to raise awareness about heart disease, the catwalk strutters skewed a little younger than usual. Gymnasts Gabby Douglas and Nastia Liukin walked (they didn’t handspring, sadly), as did Kendall and Kyle Jenner (preceded on the runway by mom Kris), and gorgeous Aussie snowboarder Torah Bright. Minka Kelly and Jamie Chung represented the stunning starlet set, and Soledad O’Brien and Savannah Guthrie brought a little TV journalist gravitas to the proceedings. Kelly Osbourne was on the red carpet, rather than judging it. Toni Braxton and Wendy Williams provided a few goddess moments. Exercise guru Jillian Michaels was there, too, and easily had the best triceps of the whole bunch.

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Published at 10:25 AM

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Fashionista Week In Review: Gabby Douglas’ Hair Controversy, Remembering Anna Piaggi, and Is Ryan Lochte Stylish?
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Fashionista Week In Review: Gabby Douglas’ Hair Controversy, Remembering Anna Piaggi, and Is Ryan Lochte Stylish?

Gabby Douglas’ Gymnastics Hairgate: Some mean people lashed out at gold medal winning and history-making gymnast Gabby Douglas over social media because of perceived problems with her hair. We chatted with Gabby’s mom, who had a thing or two to say to Gabby’s detractors. Then we took a look at why black athletes–and their hair–just Read more →

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Published at 6:00 PM

Wednesday August 8th, 2012

Why Black Female Athletes Just Can’t Win When It Comes To Their Hair… Even When They’re Winning Golds
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Why Black Female Athletes Just Can’t Win When It Comes To Their Hair… Even When They’re Winning Golds

Ten years ago, when Gabrielle (Gabby) Douglas started training to realize her dream of becoming an Olympic gold medalist, chances are she was focusing more on nailing her gymnastics floor routine than conjuring up a beauty routine that would earn her a perfect ten (yeah, yeah, we know the scoring is different now–you get the Read more →

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Published at 5:35 PM

Monday August 6th, 2012

Gabby Douglas’s Mom Takes on Her Daughter’s Hair Haters: ‘If She Feels Good About Herself, Who Are You To Criticize Her?’
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Gabby Douglas’s Mom Takes on Her Daughter’s Hair Haters: ‘If She Feels Good About Herself, Who Are You To Criticize Her?’

LONDON–Gabby Douglas, our new gymnastics golden girl, is arguably the biggest star in town right now (yeah, even bigger than you, Ryan Lochte). After helping Team USA handily win gold at the women’s team finals, she went on to become the first African American woman in history to win a gold medal in the women’s Read more →

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Published at 1:57 PM

Tuesday July 31st, 2012