Monday, April 30th, 2007...11:19 pm
Alexa Ray Joel fires back at Perez Hilton
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Aspiring singer Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy and Christie Brinkley, has responded to a recent post by Perez Hilton on Alexa, which maligned the 21-year-old’s looks, saying she’s “not bad, actually, just no supermodel.” Alexa addressed the issue in her latest MySpace blog, venting her frustration with Perez, the media perpetuating a “supermodel” appearance and assuring that she’s comfortable with her “exotic” features.
Aspiring singer Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy and Christie Brinkley, has responded to a recent post by Perez Hilton on Alexa, which maligned the 21-year-old’s looks, saying she’s “not bad, actually, just no supermodel.” Alexa addressed the issue in her latest MySpace blog, venting her frustration with Perez, the media perpetuating a “supermodel” appearance and assuring that she’s comfortable with her “exotic” features. I know it’s ridiculous, and I should have a thicker skin by now and just plain NOT CARE, but I can’t help but be a little bummed out because the incredibly cruel, bullying Perez Hilton (this tabloid guy who calls himself the ‘queen of media’) just put up a horrible picture of me on his site and basically in so many words called me ugly, or rather, wrote that I’m ‘not that bad, actually, I’m just no supermodel’…I just feel like saying: ‘YES, my mom and I look completely different, and I’m OK with that. I like that I look unique, or more ‘exotic’–I don’t want to look like everybody else, and I also don’t want to look like a supermodel–I just want to look like ME!’…I’m just so OVER being compared to my mom looks-wise! I’m happy to have a lot of my father’s features (especially his eyes and lips)–I think he’s very handsome, and I’m quite sick of hearing people call HIM ugly–I think he has a very soulful face–the face of someone with character and integrity–who has LIVED, and has something important to say.
What hurt Alexa even more was when she stumbled upon another site dissecting a photo of her sister Sailor Lee Cook, 8, and she hates that it has gradually become more commonplace for the media to “trash public figures (and their children) and call them all sorts of names JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT.”
There was even some blogger on there picking a part the appearance of my 8 year-old sister–it made me sick to my stomach to see that. She’s just a little girl–and she’s my adorable, beautiful little sister! I cried my eyes out when I saw that, I was so disgusted.
Alexa also adds that her boyfriend adores her imperfections and doesn’t understand why they’re not appreciated by the media, especially when her mom doesn’t look like a “supermodel” 24/7.
…So if these imperfections are what our partners end up growing to love so much about us, why isn’t this celebrated as a natural, human truth? Why is it hidden, and replaced with this false truth that everybody’s supposed to aspire to look like a ’supermodel’ (whatever looking like a super-model entails–I have no clue). When my mom saw that Perez Hilton thing, she was like, ‘OK, what’s his point?–I have hundreds of bad pictures taken of me, and I’m a supermodel! Should I release them to the media so everyone can see that NOBODY is perfect?’ (I love her for that).
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