The higher the heels, the bigger the fall

Tonight's catwalk fashion model video:

Splashed

Tonight's slo-mo paint splash on a model:

And now, for a little hotness: Monica Bellucci

Tonight's dose of hotness:

Italian actress and model, the lovely Monica Bellucci, from a 1998 photoshoot for Max magazine (click on images to enlarge):

IMDB says - Monica Bellucci:

Born in 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. In 1988, she moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, and joined Elite Model Management. Although enjoying great success as a model, she made her acting debut on TV in 1990, and her American film debut in 1992Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Her role in the 1996 French thriller, L'appartement (1996), shot her to stardom as she won the French equivalent of an Oscar nomination. Other credits include Malèna (2000), Under Suspicion (2000) and Le pacte des loups (2001).

Ms. Bellucci was studying to be a lawyer. I think it's fair to say that the legal profession's loss is mankind's gain. :)

And now, for a little hotness: Gisele Bundchen

Financial crisis. Global economic collapse. Socialism. Out of control Washington spending. Fears of a pandemic on our Southern border.

We all need a little diversion in these troubled times, so here's tonight's soothing visual interlude and dose of hotness:

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, from a photoshoot for El Corte Ingles magazine (click on image for high res version. Really):

So that's who New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gets to come home to. Megabuck superstar athletes have a tough life, and don't let them tell you otherwise. :)

Of bellybuttons and supermodels

Tonight's hard-hitting journalism comes to us via the BBC:

Underwear model Karolina Kurkova has no belly button. Is a barely-there navel for cosmetic or medical reasons?

(Photo: BBC)

The newspapers call it the "riddle of the £2.5m beauty". The beauty in question is Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova. The riddle is her non-existent belly button.

Its absence was noticed this week when the 24-year-old graced a US catwalk for lingerie giant Victoria Secret. While most of us have an "outie" or an "innie", Ms Kurkova has a smooth indentation (although sometimes a tummy button is airbrushed onto her photos in post-production).

The UK Daily Mail has more (Photos: Daily Mail):

Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova put her bombshell curves on show during a photo shoot in Miami over the weekend, but it was her peculiar belly button that was attracting all the attention.

The Czech blonde's unusual navel had onlookers perplexed as she frolicked on the beach over the weekend in a tiny white bikini.

It's not the first time her almost non-existent belly button has drawn attention.

A source has revealed magazine and catalogue art directors routinely airbrush one in for in post-production.

'Karolina’s body is amazing, but her belly button is unusual,' a fashion insider told Page Six magazine.

'It disappears in photos, so we keep a collection of belly button shots in different positions, and Photoshop them on to her whenever she’s doing a bikini picture.'

Still, if she was at all self-conscious, she didn't let it show as she posed up on the foreshore.

The following day she was once again strutting her stuff at the lingerie company's catwalk extravaganza.

Scandalous! We can't be having our Supermodel royalty in need of photoshopped body features -- what's the world coming to? I think this calls for an in-depth and close up investigation to get to the, uh, bottom of it all. I for one would be willing to put in the long, grueling hours needed to compile a detailed report on Ms. Kurkova's alleged anatomical anomaly, as well as investigate the possibility of further imperfections in her physique. In person examinations and interviews will no doubt be necessary. It'll be tough work, but hey, someone's got to do it. :)