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Date Posted: 22:14:18 08/28/06 Mon
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In reply to:
from FUNFARE by Ricardo F. Lo
's message, "What’s Pops trying to prove?" on 11:07:37 08/14/06 Mon
>What’s Pops trying to prove?
>from FUNFARE by Ricardo F. Lo
>Philippine Star, Aug. 10, 2006
>
>You have to take a second, hard look at the cover of
>the latest issue of FHM magazine to realize that –
>yes, indeed – it’s Pops Fernandez you’re staring at
>with incredulity. Her face has been so "chiseled"
>(digitally-enhanced?) that Pops didn’t look like the
>Pops that you and I have known all these years. "She’s
>all lips," commented Abante columnist Jojo Gabinete. I
>agree. Pops must have done something to her lips
>(salamat po, Dr. Vicki Belo?) in an effort to look
>like Angelina Jolie, just like what some local
>actresses are also doing.
>
>Turn to the inside pages and your eyes will pop out in
>disbelief. Is this the Pops that we used to know,
>short of baring intimate parts of the body she had
>taken so much care of not to show? What has gotten
>into her pretty head to pose in this manner expected
>only of bold stars starving for public attention? What
>is she trying to prove?
>
>On national television, Pops tried to justify her
>"coming out of the cocoon" by encouraging women like
>her, pushing 40, to show that they have still bodies
>to die for and are still desirable. Could you imagine
>how long the queue of women-pushing-40 would form to
>the FHM office if women her age followed Pops’
>"well-meaning" piece of advice? Have you ever wondered
>how the adolescent children of women-pushing-40 would
>feel seeing their moms in such state of undress in a
>glossy magazine pictorial? Wouldn’t they get into a
>fight being teased in school?
>
>If you ask me, I prefer the old, wholesome Pops
>Fernandez who, even without making a splash on the
>pages of FHM, still attracted guys much younger men,
>including Troy Montero, Piolo Pascual, Brad Turvey,
>Jacques Dupasquier and Jomari Yllana (oops? did I miss
>out a name?), compared to ex-husband Martin Nievera
>who has been linked to only one girl, Katrina Ojeda
>(set to deliver their first child, a boy, in October).
>
>Pops’ FHM derring-do reminds me of Hollywood good girl
>Meg Ryan who self-destructed when she went daring and
>baring in the movie In the Cut after she broke up with
>Russell Crowe. Fans, me included, loved to see Meg
>Ryan with clothes on and not in bed au naturel with a
>man. I’m not saying Pops has gone that far; I just
>feel that the effect on her fans (me included) by her
>FHM (mis)adventure is the same as that of Meg Ryan’s
>drastic change of image.
>
>Oh, well, I guess Pops got the attention that she must
>have (desperately?) wanted. But was it worth it?
>
>http://www.carouselpinoy.com/articles.html#fhm
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