Vanity

Prince's first official "protegee/girlfriend". Was supposed to be in "Purple Rain", but jumped ship for a lucrative Motown recording contract and starring role in "The Last Dragon" and many subsequent B-films. Very alluring in her day, but drugs took their toll on her health (during her time as Nikki Sixx's girlfriend, she and Nikki would reportedly get wasted together). She has since become a minister, and has turned her back on her former stage persona and life. She's also written an autobio called "Blame it on Vanity".

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• [quote]All I had become was thus painted on my face-vanity-and what i had thus spoken from my vile tongue spewed forth from my juvenile breast of disdain.But this was just the beginning of my surrealistic journey, my make believe “i am the new hoopla” squeezed appropriately, sufficiently, distended in your black box, televising all my oddities up close and effectual. Hoo boy, that's bad writin.' I wish her well, though. I always liked "If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)."

  http://blameitonvanity.com/index3.php

• I use to love Vanity. Too bad she went koo-koo when she became an evangical Christian. Also, I read her autobiography - it's terrible. It's mostly written like a teenager trying to sound deep while writing poems and there is NO gossip in it at all and NO kiss and tells. It's incredibly boring and preachy. Also, there's several spelling mistakes in the book.

• It was a bit difficult getting through some of the book (particularly with the kind of typeset it was printed in), but it was definately an interesting read. She went through hell and back as a child. If a Girl Answers... is a hilarious track. One of my other faves from that album is Make-Up.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koUa8XZKqF8

• She sent me a copy through the mail, and put an giant inscription in the front of it. It took forever for the book to come out, but it finally did about a year ago, maybe a bit longer.

• She and Carl Weathers set the screen ablaze in "Action Jackson".

  http://www.cinemovies.fr/images/data/photos/6502/action-jackson-1988-6502-122172753.jpg

• I liked her. Don't know a thing about her pre-Prince, and actually, very little of her even from those years. Samuelle was my favorite song from her debut album.

• Pre-Prince, she mostly modeled in Canada and Japan. She also did a couple of B-films, including a bit part in the Canadian Jamie Lee Curtis horror flick "Terror Train", and the Girl-Meets-Gorilla soft core film "Tanya's Island".

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• Didn't Prince originally try to dub her Vagina but she balked and they agreed on Vanity instead?

• I think being around Prince probably fucks up most of the women who have been in his life. While I think he is a genius and puts on a great show, I find him really creepy.

• Yes, R8. Her "group" (I think they were just 2 backup singers) was called Vanity 6, had she agreed to be called Vagina the group would have been Vagina 6. Now you're wondering why a girl group with 3 members would bill themselves as anything "6"? Prince choose 6 to refer to their collective breasts. True story! Not sure what's worse, all this or Prince's original name for his girl group proteges: The Hookers. Of course all of these assholes have since "found God"...

  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_6

• She couldn't sing worth a damn, but "Nasty Girl" is a fun song. I did hear her one solo album "Wild Animal" on Motown (there was a single called "Pretty Mess"), and it wasn't as much fun as the Vanity 6 album. Appolonia Kotero, who took over the "6" briefly had more of a voice. It's odd that neither the Vanity 6 or Appolonia 6 alblums are available on iTunes, at least not the last time I checked. There was another Prince protege group called The Family that released a self-titled album that's got some good cuts on it, including a version of "Nothing Compares 2 U" that I think is better than Prince's version. That was the only record, and it not available via iTunes either.

• Vanity showed her boobies in a forgettable 80s movie called "52 Pick Up" The suggestion to call a girl singing group "The Hookers" cracks me up

• R11, a lot of folks would disagree with you in terms of Apples's and Vanity's singing voices. Neither one of them were Whitney Houston, but Vanity's vocals were much improved by the time her second album for Motown, 1986's "Skin on Skin", dropped. R12, Vanity showed her boobies and more in several films and pictorials. Here's "Under the Influence"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6hF_dCgGU

• Speaking of 52 Pickup, that sleazy little film also starred a young Kelly Preston.

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• They always turn religious once their career crashes and burns. Anyway I used to love "Nasty Girl", it was so dirty.

• This ALWAYS gets the party started

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2Hw9Z_OTc

• LOVE this sleazy little video and song!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-Nic6m-70

• Vanity! John Stamos! Gene Simmons! '80s schlock at its best (worst)!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOvVtE4rgI

• The Pretty Mess video is a classic, I couldn't believe they got away with that - even if it flopped. Some of her other music is seriously ahead of the time. This coked up appearance and coming on to bearded dwarf Noel Edmonds is bizarre and sad.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DudP81kaxjDU

• Speaking of "coked-up", check out this American Bandstand interview. I wonder what ol' Dick was thinking?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al1w0aInmg

• Pretty Mess always grossed me out a little.

• The excellent "Romantic Voyage" from Skin on Skin

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRp2V9Q4DRI

• [quote]Vanity's vocals were much improved by the time her second album for Motown, 1986's "Skin on Skin", dropped. It would be more accurate to say that Skip Drinkwater, the guy who wrote and produced that album, constructed it in such a way as to minimize her considerable vocal weaknesses as much as possible. She was always a lousy singer - even by her own estimation, she wasn't much of a singer. She knew she was getting by on her looks and aura. Motown spent a lot of money to sign her when she split from Prince and it raised eyebrows, because, well, nobody thought she had any kind of musical talent. After the flop of the first album, Motown was determined to get some return on their investment with the second one, and that meant doing all that was possible to make her sound better, in those days before Autotune and ProTools. With that said, I actually prefer the music from Wild Animal. Mechanical Emotional has a great synth riff, and I like the way they used Morris Day on it. Strap On Robbie Baby has a great driving rhythm to it too.

• Her vocal really were thin - most of her "singing" sounded like sexy talking.

• I hate her. Her material was quite spiritual and could've taken on a new depth of meaning with her Christian faith. Instead, she decides not to sing anything at all. She's a loser.

• Vanity is NASTY!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOxySHr_Jkg8

• Well I wonder if she gave back all the dirty money she made doing those devilish deeds. Bet not. I hope she can forgive herself for whatever is weighing heavily on her. Obviously she was involved in some situation where she felt debased and used. Welcome to the club girl. You learn and you move on. Or you snap. Sad.

• Christ she was beautiful! And it's not often you get to say that about someone and really mean it.

  I%27d%20do%20her.

• [quote]Her material was quite spiritual and could've taken on a new depth of meaning with her Christian faith. Oooookay.

• Beautiful is putting it mildly, R28. She made Halle Berry look basic. R27, I don't think she has any more of that "dirty money" anymore. In fact, I read that some sitcom wanted to use her likeness from when she was Vanity, and she declined, even though it would have made her some money. Remember that episode of "Friday the 13th: The Series" she did? I used to love that show.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yhHZe0BUbI

• That was a fierce bitch, R26!

• Vanity has the same "voice" as Janet Jackson. Miss Jackson had the family connection and better management ; otherwise, no difference.

• Remember Apollonia's stint as Lance's love interest on [italic]Falcon Crest[/italic]?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYKvvKhysP7A

• Why yes, R33, I totally remember that!

• Think again, R32. Janet Jackson has tone and inflection in her vocals. She may not have uber-range, but she can sing the hell out of a ballad (see video below). She can also be powerful when need be ("Black Cat", "What About", etc.). Vanity could convey sex and get crazy with her voice, but her vocal ability was not as versatile as Janet's is. p.s. There was a rumor back in the mid-80s that Vanity tried to steal James Debarge away from Janet, as she and James were both big time druggies back then, and probably had more in common that James and Janet.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYihBTV1NA

• Vanity was IMO the most gorgeous female celeb ever. It's a shame her career wasn't bigger. She also fucked a lot of famous people-Rick James, Adam Ant, Prince, Miki Free, Nikki Sixx, Billy Idol and she mentioned once in an interview after becoming an evangelist that she "tried women" too. Unfortunately her messed up childhood left her mentally unstable. She was a fun-loving gal who was very headstrong. She knew she didn't have much talent besides the ability to look fucking ridiculously beautiful, so she knew she would have to go the "sex sells" route. She started smoking crack because deep inside she hated being so provocative and it made her more at ease with it. She was Prince's prototype muse-and most of the women he's been with since her look like a lesser version of her in 1 way or another. Prince and Vanity used to fight all the time because unlike the other women, Prince had too much trouble controlling her, and she also didn't want to just be in the background. While she loved Prince, she also used him to jumpstart her career and it worked. Her use of drugs definitely cost her the chance at a better career. There's 1 report online you can read from someone who gave her limo driver directions to an audition, and when he saw her, he noticed she was wasted in the backseat. As far as singing goes, there's no doubt Vanity could have sung at least half of Janet Jackson's hits. THey did have similar voices, but Janet is just a bit better. Janet actually COPIED Vanity's vocal style to become popular. Jimmmy Jam and Terry Lewis had Janet singing the way Vanity did on "Nasty Girl", and the result was Janet became a huge star. If Vanity had had those Janet songs, Vanity would have been much bigger.

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• I heard a rumor the women she "tried" may have been when she was with Prince, since he was fucking a lot of women while they were together. Some thought it could be Susan Moonsie, who was in Vanity 6 with Vanity, and was also Prince's bf a few years before he met Vanity. When Vanity gave an interview on HBO for her playboy spread, she also mentioned that she "always admired a beautiful woman" so it comes as no surprise to me that she was either bisexual or bicurious.

• Vanity was a crazy chick. It was rumored near the end of her career in the early 90s, she had her drug dealer living with her and was sleeping around hollywood to help pay for her crack addiction, since her movie parts and singing career had dried up.

• I loved some of her songs! Not a good singer but she had great beats and I didn't mind her thin voice. Even as a gay I just love looking at her pics and video clips from back then. So beautiful. Yeah I would like to know which women she fucked, as well as any other more famous men. I'm sure there are plenty we don't know about lol.

• I still love Vanity's trashy hits to this day. Nasty Girl, Under the Influence, Make-Up etc. are fantastic 80s pop. You don't hear songs like this anymore. Just great trashy fun. And yes, she was absolutely gorgeous. She made Halle Berry look common.

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• Rick James, Prince, Billy Idol, Nikki Sixx and Adam Ant? damn that's quite a list of the "It" boys of the 80s lol. Vanity really went out and got some haha.

• I would've loved to have fucked Billy Idol in his prime, he was so hot. Lucky bitch.

• As good looking as Billy was, I think he and all those other men were the lucky bitches lol. As a gay even I would have fucked Vanity back then if I could take a time machine lol

• Oh Vanity was a bad bitch. Fuck posers Rihanna, fuck Ke$ha...Vanity lived a brief but crazy hollywood life.

• Vanity was NASTY! These days...not so much.

• I loved Vanity, and still have the autographed photo I got from her in the 80s. A friend of mine became friends because we were both misfits, and for some reason would spend hours driving around town listening to Vanity's "Under the Influence" album. That "Romantic Voyage" song brings me right back to that time, and makes me nostalgic. Samuelle, Nasty Girl, Pretty Mess, Drive Me Wild and Vanity's versions of Manic Monday and Sex Shooter are all great songs.

  Christopher Tracy

• @ Christopher Tracy, can you tell us what meeting Vanity was like? I've heard she was always really sweet to fans and even more beautiful in person. Has anyone heard her "Vibrator" demo that leaked online from when she was recording the 2nd and ultimately unfinished Vanity 6 album with Prince? Lol I love that track.

• For r47: Prince and Jill Jones are doing the spoken bits!!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DG9t-tnegdU0

• Thanks for posting link r26, the vocals were not great, but she had IT. Prince was great at finding talent. The Time killed it also. It's dad that the cheesiest music from the 80's is better than everything out now. I feel old.

• Another huge fan here. I remember when she dropped out of Vanity 6 and Prince is pretending that Appolonia is just as gorgeous and there is no difference. Um, yeah, there was. Next to Vanity, Apple looked matronly. Denise did go to Christ, as did many former girlfriends of his. She is obviously committed to it and doesn't hurt anybody, so why the hate? She needs a kidney transplant and nearly died several years ago, but she appears to be happy. I imagine her book isn't a kiss and tell because she doesn't want to dredge all that up. By her own admission, is was debasing and disgusting.

• Vanity was high as a kite on Soul Train. Today, she would have on sunglasses so nobody would know.

• Well, if Vanity is not going to dish, then Susan or Brenda need to write a tell-all, then.

• [quote]Her other music is seriously ahead of the time. That means sucky

• [quote]I loved Vanity, and still have the autographed photo I got from her in the 80s So she was working at Musicland and you asked a clerk for her autograph?

• Unfortunately for those of us who LOVE gossip, Denise said that in the early 90s she wrote the early version of her autobiography and even had offers on it to make it a film. It contained a lot of dirt and all the tea about what she did, what others did to her, who she was with etc...but then she reflected and prayed and decided it wouldn't be appropriate to release that book or turn it into a film so in the 2000s she re-wrote it into the version some of you have read today. There's no gossip in it and the only man she talks about is Prince (besides her father). While I'm glad Denise is alive and well, I really miss Vanity. She was so much fun and just fucking gorgeous.

• @ R51 but no one would care about a book by Brenda or Susan lol. Vanity was the only really famous one of that bunch and even then a lot of people these days have forgotten her or are too young to know.

• Yeah damn I wish she would have published that first version 20 years ago haha. A woman with her looks in hollywood? I want to hear all the tea lol. and you know Prince musta done some fucked shit to her. He was pissed when she left him. Vanity even halted production and filming of Purple Rain when she left him lol

• I just want to say that I am high as hell, but I just watched Under The Influence and she is the most amazing woman I have ever seen. She moves like a fucking cat! Words fail me to describe her beauty.

• her own beauty was too much for her, I think. she couldn't handle the power it had over other people.

• Yeah I agree. It's a shame her career wasn't bigger-so what she wasn't the most talented. Half of the most successful singers and actors are not that talented, and Vanity was the most beautiful of them all. Fuck Halle Berry, Rihanna and the others-Vanity's beauty blows them the fuck out. The funny thing is Vanity never thought she was that pretty. In interviews she said that and said she just "was really good at putting on makeup". But if you look online, there's a pic of a young Vanity without makeup and she still looked crazy pretty.

• Ahhh, thanks for affirming me R60! Because I was looking at her (while stoned) and I was BLOWN AWAY. not just by her physical perfection but her sexual charisma was off the charts! I was thinking, this thing she has, has GOT to be so fucking rare.

• I just wanted to add that I don't need to be stoned to notice Vanity's incredible charisma, it just intensified it to surreal proportions.

• I would totally read a tell-all from Susan or Brenda--just imagine the shit about what a control freak Prince is, how much coke the Time were doing, how Lisa and Wendy were lezzing out in front of everyone, and the drama that went DOWN when Vanity gave the stiff middle finger to the midget and split for Motown!

• Go to youtube and look at her interviews to see her charisma and beauty in action lol. The 1984 one with Donnie Simpson was right when she was embarking on her solo career. She had him wrapped around her finger without even trying lol

• Damn, she was drop-dead gorgeous. No young actress or singer today compares to how beautiful Vanity/Denise was in her prime.

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• That's why it's shocking to me that Vanity didn't have a better career. Sharon Stone had a good career just based off her looks, while Vanity had a few hit songs and films here and there, but mostly was a B list star. Everyone in the industry knew of her, and most people knew of her, but she wasn't always talked about. What a lot of people don't know is Vanity was a trendsetter in terms of stlye. A lot of other female celebs copied her outfits or some aspects of them.

• She didn't have a better career because she was already broken. Her absolutely stunning exterior didn't match how she felt about herself inside. She then became a drug addict to cope. Looking at her, I absolutely believe beauty can be a curse.

• Actually, the posters who were comparing Vanity to J***t J*****n were probably not that far off the mark. After all, the Time was the backing band for Vanity 6, so it makes sense that Jam and Lewis would continue in the same vein, albeit with a vocalist who could also dance. It's not that far-fetched to picture Vanity singing J***t's songs--they do have the same thin voice.

• Times were different. Berry broke barriers. Had Vanity arrived post-Berry, things might have been different for her.

• Oh without question, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis used Vanity's vocal style on "Nasty Girl" as the new template for Janet Jackson. If you listen to Janet's music before she met those 2, she had girl-next-door poppy r&b albums with a light sound that led her nowhere. Suddenly she did that talk-sing thing Vanity did, and became a huge hit. It's NO coincidence one of Janet's first big hits was called "Nasty". Janet was a less sexual, more mainstream version of Vanity. Vanity had natural rhythm and did freestyle dancing during her performances, but Janet was a trained dancer. If Vanity had been given Janet's material, she would have been the bigger star.

• All Jackson had was the name and the famous brother. Without that, she'd be working retail.

• Prince dumped her fat ass when he realized it was Sheena Easton that had the look

• I'm sure R72 is just trolling lol but Vanity was the one who left Prince, something he was bitter about for years. Unlike his other women, he couldn't control her free spirit. Anyway, listen to this-I wish Motown had released this track as a single. It's very catchy and I think it could have been a hit on r&b, pop and dance charts. It's also very gay-themed haha "Manhunt" youtube.com/watch?v=Jv3qQTK1K1o

• [quote]What a lot of people don't know is Vanity was a trendsetter in terms of style Indeed. Even Madonna bit HARD off of Vanity's style (wearing lingerie on-stage/the in-your-face sex kitten persona), and she didn't have one iota of the sexuality and beauty that Vanity did. Vanity had that thing that made other women who co-starred with her pale in comparison. Melanie Griffith, Sharon Stone, Robey, Kelly Preston--all of these women looked like Plain Janes in the films/shows they co-starred with Vanity in. As for Janet, I really don't see the link save for both of them being beautiful black women who worked with The Time. Janet was too much of a tomboy to be as vixenish as Vanity was. Speaking of Janet, it was rumored that Vanity fucked around with James DeBarge when he was still Janet's husband, which made Janet crazy with envy. James and Vanity were both big drug addicts back then, so I can see the plausibility in him hooking up with her. I loved that Vanity knew she wasn't the most talented woman out there, but she exuded confidence with what she did have--personality and looks. There's a Playboy interview that she did where she said that she knew women were jealous of her, but that it didn't bother her because that was their hang-up, not hers. She also talked extensively about Prince and said that he was her first true love. She did have some great tracks. Her "Skin on Skin" album was miles better than "Wild Animal", but even WA had some jams. "Under The Influence" is pure pop/funk perfection, and her ballads "Skin on Skin", "Romantic Voyage" and "Samuelle" deserved to be hits. Here's that Donnie Simpson interview someone upthread brought up. Watch her strut down that hallway. Girlfriend was B.A.D.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9kpswBY0tE

• The seductive "Skin on Skin"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYIK_KXf-pU

• The campy "Manhunt"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv3qQTK1K1o

• Vanity and Apples together (with Brenda on the left)

  http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/21303846/sn/306589225/name/Brenda Vanity & Apollonia.jpg

• Brenda and Susan were reportedly jealous when Prince chose Vanity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone with him.

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• Oh, please. Susan had a mustache and Brenda only got in because she was a hanger-on a married to crew. Catherine Zeta-Jones wouldn't have had such a huge career if there weren't a Vanity void. Same with Leonardo DeCaprio/River Phoenix and Cindy Crawford/Gia.

• In Nikki Sixx's memoir "The Heroin Diaries," he totally degrades Vanity and basically calls her trash and admits he punched in the face one time. That was what she was dealing with, men who treated her as less than garbage.

• That's what she thought she [i]deserved[/i].

• Vanity dated mostly horrible men, and that stems from the issues she had with her physically and sexually abusive father. It's sad.

• oh Vanity is still influential these days, even if the press doesn't mention her name. Beyonce's "Naughty Girl" is basically a fusion of "love To Love You Baby" by Donna Summer and "Nasty Girl". In her live performances of this song, Beyonce usually samples lyrics directly from "Nasty Girl" near the end. Amerie, Lil Kim and others have performed "Nasty Girl". Jazmine Sullivan has a song that has Vanity 6 mentioned. Rihanna, Beyonce and many others have worn outfits that look almost like copies of what Vanity wore in her day.

• Oh for sure Janet Jackson copied a bit from Vanity. Before Vanity 6 came out, Janet had this good girl, cheesy r&b and it didn't do well at all on the charts or in sales. There was an article last year in which Janet said when she was a teen she saw the 1999 tour with Prince, The Time and Vanity 6. She became interested in Vanity 6 because her mother was so shocked by their blatant sexuality. A couple years later, Janet has a song "Nasty" that was created by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Janet started the sing-talking Vanity did. Janet was never as sexy, but she took the badass thing she saw in Vanity and ran with it.

• What's interesting is after being rumored to have messed around, or at least gotten high with James Debarge, Vanity did background guest vocals on El Debarge's song "Secrets of the Night". I wonder if she messed around with El too lol.

• I like the vampire-themed "Flippin' Out":

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DMSA2jLYiKF0

• Nikki Sixx is a piece of shit himself.

• I love a lot of her songs: Pretty Mess (because of the sexual overtones lol), Wild Animal (She's singing about the Gorilla in her softcore "Tanya's Island movie LOL), Samuelle, Under The Influence, Romantic Voyage, Skin On Skin, Confidential, Ouch (um it's crazy lol), Undress and Faraway Eyes. Just wish her career was bigger...

• Vanity was the business! I can't stop looking at her pics and I hear her songs every now and then. Plus, I loved her costars Taimak, Carl Weathers and John Stamos lol

• If you look at Vanity's interviews on youtube, all the male hosts were drooling and falling all over her. From Donnie Simpson to Gary Shandling to Arsenio Hall to Don Cornelius, heck even gay old Merv Griffin got excited over her lol

• Vanity's funkier version of Sex Shooter is more Sheila E than Apollonia.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYXnoR6e9eFs

• [quote}Rihanna, Beyonce and many others have worn outfits that look almost like copies of what Vanity wore in her day Speaking of Rhi-Rhi, a few years ago when a remake of "The Last Dragon" was being tossed around, Rihanna was in talks of taking over Vanity's "Laura Charles" character.

  http://www.thelastdragontribute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Rihanna-The-Last-Dragon-Laura-Vanity-Charles.png

• I LOVE this Arsenio interview. She talks about how she broke into a big old "haunted" house in L.A. and was arrested for tresspassing. Eddie Murphy (whom her sister was dating at the time) bailed her out.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zM0VyFl99o

• The men in the Soul Train audience were puddy in her hands when she performed "Undress" on the show.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNJZcTTMOE

• It's beyond bad, but I loved "Never Too Young To Die". What's not to like? Vanity kicking ass and toting guns, John Stamos in full young, hunky, VPL-in-every-scene mode, and Gene Simmons camping it up as transsexual madman/woman Velvet Von Ragnar. Oh, the '80s...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOvVtE4rgI

• No no no, Rhianna needs to stay far away from anything that references Vanity. They have nothing in common.

• It's funny-in one of her interviews in the mid 2000s, she said that sometimes people would mistake her for Halle Berry and sometimes even Apollonia lol. In the late 90s and early 2000s before her latest health issues, Denise still looked very hot. It's only the last 7 years or so that she looks more her age, although she's still beautiful.

• Im grooving to "Manhunt" right now haha

• Traded one addiction for another

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5rfpt-KK7bg%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

• Yeah she is a crazy bible thumper these days. it's sad. It's great she's off drugs and no longer suicidal but...

• Anyone like her song "Ouch"? haha it's ridiculous I love it. Shitney Spears and Rhianna ain't got shit on Vanity except they were luckier with success.

• I still listen to Vanity - her music was just great 80s pop, and "Nasty Girl" is still delightfully filthy even all these years later. And she was ridiculously gorgeous. She makes today's pop tarts look look like plain janes in comparison. "Make Up" is like freestyle poetry to me.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koUa8XZKqF8

• The debut album still gives me titters - and I'm a huge Brenda fan for the record - V's vocals not detracting too much. But how big of a fuck-up do you have to be to be too much for Nikki Sixx? And scour for her Jesse Johnson throwaway, 'Undress'

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• I liked "Undress" too. You can really hear how similar how voice is to Janet's in that track. @ R101 LOL "when you kiss me when you love me you make me wanna cream" outrageous lyrics haha

• I love "Make Up"! Best lines: If I wear a dress, he will never call So I'll wear much less, I guess I'll wear my camisole and Smoke a cigarette, I'm not ready yet! I wanted to post "Bite the Beat" (which is a rap performed by Brenda about eating pussy), but I can't find it on YouTube, goddamn it.

• Here's a streaming version of "Bite the Beat":

  http://grooveshark.com/%23%21/s/Bite+The+Beat/1VRZpe%3Fsrc%3D5

• "Make Up" is a great song to play when you're getting ready to go out. There's a remix on Youtube that is really good.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS639COnKiA

• I was replaying "Faraway Eyes" today for a bit...by far my favorite vocal by her. It's too bad-it seemed like just when she was finally figuring out what kind of vocals suited her voice, her recording career stopped. I bet her third album would have been awesome. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and the late Tony Le Mans were gonna produce it.

• Vanity did a classy cover of "Nature Boy" that was rumored to be on her unreleased third album...it's on youtube if you want to hear her version. I miss the days when it wasn't so "trashy" for top stars to pose naked. In the 70s and 80s the younger hot stars were doing it. By the 90s it was just the B and C listers and hasbeens...

• 109 posts on this trashy no-talent? She can't even sing, if it weren't for the genius Prince, she's be a skid row crack whore.

• R110 you better not be a fan of Madonna, Janet, Paula, Shitney Spears, Rihanna, Katy Perry or Ke$ha if you want to have credibilty lol. Sure, Vanity didn't have much talent but she's for sure on the level of the above lucky bitches, and she was the most beautiful female celeb ever. Also, she would have been successful without Prince, but probably just as a model and actress. Who knows-maybe she wouldn't have gotten into drugs.

• she would have been successful without Prince. Vanity would have made it without Prince she had it factor. Her sexuality was a lot like Gia Carangi you couldn't take your eyes off her she was sexy without trying to be. She should have just stuck to modeling and avoided Prince. She would have made as a model and probably hooked up with a millionaire and had a totally different career. Still surprised someone with her looks didn't do more or be more successful. Prince was her down fall. She got caught up in his ego bullshit it stunted her career to being all about being connected to him.

• but at least some of the above Madonna, Kesha for instance can sing a little and co-write a decent pop tune. This bitch is virtually 100% talent-free and a Xtian to boot. There's nothing worse than a reformed whore!

  must be the lez-lezzes posting on this thread

• lmao Madonna is the biggest fraud ever. Most of the songs that are "written" by her are instead written by someone else that she paid off so she could take the credits. This is where Beyonce got that $ for writing credits idea. None of the women listed are good singers, and Vanity could sing most of their songs just fine. She sounds OK in most of her songs from 1986 onwards. "Faraway Eyes" sounds decent. Besides what has been discussed, another of Vanity's problems was being on Motown. By the 80s Motown was no longer a big music force, and didn't do promotion or single selection well at all. Vanity has a number of hit-worthy songs on her second album but instead they chose the second single to be "Animals" which is a weak song.

• Anyone remember Donna De Lory, who is most known for being one of Madonna's backup (aka carrying Madonna's weak-voiced ass through songs) singer and dancers. She did backup vocals for Vanity on the Skin on Skin album and then for Belinda Carlisle. Madonna then picked up for a longterm deal.

• But Vanity had what? one hit. Madonna has been a star with many hits for decades. This tramp's not even in the same ballpark. Why are you defending this Christian whore?

• Anyone remember Elisa Fiorillo of "Who Found Who?" Jellybean-produced fame? Sounded exactly like a Madonna song. Or Alisha "All Night Passion" - all the gay strippers at Show Palace used to dance to that one, another Madonna ripoff.

• Madonna's fame is more luck than talent. She never had much talent. I don't care how successful she is. I never said Vanity's career was in Madonna's league, but talent-wise there's not much difference. Beauty-wise obviously there is a huge gulf.

• She was great on Falcon Crest though

• Speaking of Alisha, her "Too Turned On" was THE theme song of bridge and tunnel skanks back in the day.

• Elisa Fiorillo performs in Las Vegas - Off the strip, and she sucks!

• R116 you're calling her a Christian whore? While I don't agree with her decision, she is the real deal and practices what she preaches. This is unlike that Kaballah-shit whore Hagdonna, who preaches kindness and all that jazz but still acts like an entitled fucking bitch to anyone she deems beneath her.

• I was always intrigued with the men Vanity chose. She seemed to go for the thin, glam pretty boys. Rick James, Adam Ant, Prince, Nikki Sixx, Billy Idol, Miki Free etc...ironically she ended up marrying a football player (they're divorced now and he's actually on trial for 4 murders but anyway)...

• Did she ever have children??

• No, she never had children.

• didn't Pearl from Prince's Diamonds and Pearls became a born again Christian and Minister too. She speaks in tongues now!

• A lot of people who used to work with Prince became religious in the last 20 years haha. I guess that mean motherfucker can do that to people.

• Co-sign. Prince is a great musician but what a CUNT he was and still is. He really is an asshole. The way he treated people who worked with and for him was pathetic. I'm glad Vanity ruined his plans for once and left him prior to Purple Rain. He didn't see it coming and she's the only woman who really took it to him like that.

• "Let's Have A Kiki" is a total beat ripoff of "If A Girl Answers".

• R127, very interesting trend. Sheila E. is very religious although she's a lesbian. I still don't think she's ever come out. Can you say the same for the men being religious in Prince's circle or is it just the women? I know that Larry Graham converted Prince to being a Jehovah Witness back in the 90's.

• Of course, the Vanity 6 album is not on iTunes.

• Story of my life, r131. Half the music I would like to download is nowhere to be seen on iTunes.

• Brenda

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dem7euQ62VOY

• R130 not all of them but there are plenty of examples. I'm pretty sure Jesse Johnson, formerly of the Time is into religion now too. There was someone else too but I forget. Denise (formerly Vanity) mentioned it in one of her recent interviews.

• R131 yeah Prince controls that. He put out his music, but not any of the groups whose music he produced. I'm sure Denise would probably request that her Vanity 6 and Vanity music be kept off itunes anyway, although the say is not hers as she doesn't own any of her old music.

• That's awesome, R133! Now if we could only find Susan...

• [quote]She was great on Falcon Crest though That was Apollonia on "Falcon Crest", not Vanity.

  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KFclS9PzLK4/Tjg4CL7m4XI/AAAAAAAAJXA/BIXZNOT8DtQ/s1600/Apollonia-lead-untitled.png

• [quote]Vanity did a classy cover of "Nature Boy" that was rumored to be on her unreleased third album... She sang it when she guest-starred on "Friday the 13th: The Series". It had a Phyllis Hyman-like quality to it.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk5tBIk9ng4

• R138 yup. That episode came out in 1989, and it's believed that song was going to appear on her 1988 album that never materialized for 1 reason or another. There's a site called AllisVanity or something that has loads of pics and magazine/newspaper clippings of her. Really cool stuff there.

• Vanity was a such a style trend setter in the 80s. She went to Trashy Lingerie in LA before more people like Madonna started going there. Vanity used to also shop at antique shops and would find out prints, fabrics, leather, fur and lace and would have a tailor make an original outfit for her-none of this designer, personality-less shit the stars do these days. When other female celebs saw Vanity, she just looked so hot they started to jack her style.

• Yes, r126. Her name is Robia Le Morte.

• I love "Wet Dream" haha. It's cool to hear a female singing about it

• lol R142 it's a fun song. What's interesting is all the Vanity 6 songs except "He's So Dull" were written by Prince, who was trying to do it from an aggressive female's POV.

• [quote]When other female celebs saw Vanity, she just looked so hot they started to jack her style SO true

• She and Melanie Griffith had some chemistry in their scene from this episode of Miami Vice (it's toward the middle of this video). I wonder if they "partied" together.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERCC-U_KCoU

• awww Vanity and Melanie (with her original face) looked pretty together. Too bad Vanity's character was killed off in 1 episode-it would have been cool if they had given her a recurring role. I realize hookers usually die or go to jail in shows/movies though lol

• We all know that Vanity partied HARD, and Melanie too (it's been said that she wrote the book on slutdom), so can you imagine what it was like for both of them to be on that set?

• R147 don't forget Don Johnson lol He did drugs, alcohol and Melanie.

• Right! I'm sure any partying they did involved Donnie!

• To me Vanity is alot like Britney Spears. I question her talent and do not like her music, but there's just something so engaging about her. And Vanity is more beautiful than Britney.

• [quote]Vanity is more beautiful than Britney. That's putting it mildly. Britney Spears is hardly engaging, and shouldn't even be put into the same sentence as Vanity as far as beauty is concerned. She's but a little girl.

• OMG please don't compare Vanity to Shitney Spears. The only thing they have in common is you can question how much talent they have. It stops there. Vanity in addition to being ridiculously gorgeous, had great stage presence and a wonderful personality. Shitney is not all that pretty, has no personality and is almost robotic. I don't find Shitney engaging or interesting at all.

• lol don't fuck up this thread by mentioning Shitney.

• Has anyone heard this worship song about her from some obscure 80s group? listen to the lyrics lol youtube.com/watch?v=PZYSOyeYA4o

• I think I heard this a couple of times. Takes me back.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYSOyeYA4o

• Vanity!

  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pmO1iVeeWt0/SoiEmfgT7mI/AAAAAAAAB-g/sZn2g1D7fQo/s400/vanity in the last dragon.jpg

• I worked on 52 Pickup. Vanity would arrive four hours late in a limo in a fur coat with nothing underneath. Tons of coke to even coax her out of the limo. When she was out, it was more "Let's party" than "Let's work." She was obsessed with sex and fucked almost every guy on the set, obviously not me. She loved to guess guy's dick sizes by looking at their noses and said she could tell if a guy was uncircumsized by looking at the bulge in their pants. Highlight or lowlight, depending on your thinking, was when she fucked the Domino's pizza delivery guy as his tip.

• I can't picture Vanity just fucking every guy haha I would hope she'd be attracted to them at least lol. Although I did get the impression she got some of her jobs by having sex with someone in charge lol. That woulda been hot to see her naked except a fur coat! almost enough to turn me straight

• If you've heard The Time's song "Wild & Loose", it was a tribute to the Vanity 6 image. Prince wrote a song called "Wonderful Ass" about Vanity and Billy Idol even named a song after her "Vanity". Men were obsessed with her and we can all see why.

• Here you go, Vanity 6 live:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DJOsZS7JRi34%26feature%3Dplcp

• [quote]Prince wrote a song called "Wonderful Ass" about Vanity Yep, and it's a JAM--one of his funkier unreleased gems...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86mb-BhbyrM

• [quote]I worked on 52 Pickup. Vanity would arrive four hours late in a limo in a fur coat with nothing underneath. Tons of coke to even coax her out of the limo. When she was out, it was more "Let's party" than "Let's work." She was obsessed with sex and fucked almost every guy on the set, obviously not me. She loved to guess guy's dick sizes by looking at their noses and said she could tell if a guy was uncircumsized by looking at the bulge in their pants. Highlight or lowlight, depending on your thinking, was when she fucked the Domino's pizza delivery guy as his tip. I read an interview with actor Robert Trebor, who played "Leo" in "52 Pick-up", and he kind of said the opposite of what you said. He said that Vanity was pretty much a cocktease, and that during the shoot for the porn party scene in the film, he, Vanity and some of the adult film actresses who were extras hung out in a hot tub in the house they filmed at. He said she kind of rubbed up against him, but not much more than that. Speaking of working on that film, what was it like? I'm a fan of the movie, and thought that all of the performances were great. What was Kelly Preston like? Did she and Vanity hang out a lot? Kelly was pretty wild back then too, from what I've read.

• [quote]That woulda been hot to see her naked except a fur coat! almost enough to turn me straight Here ya go...

  http://oi47.tinypic.com/2choydg.jpg

• Vanity was screen tested for Purple Rain, but she couldn't act. The whole crew threw her a going away party, but Prince didn't come. It's said she broke his heart

• She wasn't screen tested, she was set to be the female lead. She even helped write a draft of the script. She decided she wasn't getting paid enough and left the production.

• who cares about this former cokewhore now a talentless dried up Bible thumper?

• Ewww, R166 is FULL of nastiness and hate.

• R161 it is! I love the lyrics. Prince lists all the problems of the relationship but implies he accepts them because of Vanity's wonderful ass lmao Vanity was a very cheeky (pun intended) gal. In Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries book, he said her license plate on her car was "ho ho ho" because she told him Prince one time told her she "ain't nothing but a ho ho ho".

• Even Mark Fuhrman, the would-be racist detective in the OJ case, hit on Vanity years ago. He supposedly pulled her over for speeding. I remember during OJ's trial, they brought it up how Fuhrman couldn't possibly be a racist because he hit on a black woman. They were even talking about putting Vanity on the stand at one point!

  http://panachereport.com/channels/hip hop gallery/images/mark_fuhrman.jpg

• too bad he's so racist. When he was younger you know he was a good looking guy with a hot body. I'm sure he wanted Vanity but I'm also sure he didn't think she was black. Vanity said a lot of people thought she was Puerto Rican back then because she was light skinned.

• Vanity is such a cool mix-her mom is of Polish/Jewish background and comes from Germany while her father was a mix of Africa American, American Indian and Hawaiian.

• Vanity and John Stamos in the back of a limo at the "Never Too Young To Die" premiere

  http://oi47.tinypic.com/mud1s.jpg

• This thread has one more post than the Lizzie Borden thread Now it has 2 more

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• Now it has three

• R172 they look good together. Their scene in "Never Too Young To Die" was hot! Both have such beautiful faces...

• I'm shocked Vanity never did an action film with Schwarzenegger or Stallone. She would have been great with either.

• She did one with Carl Weathers, and it was great.

  http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/211233.1020.A.jpg

• I loved her hair in Action Jackson! Vanity was one of the few women who made Sharon Stone's beauty take a backseat lol That was a fun movie and too bad the idea for it to be a 3-part movie never happened...

• That coral dress they gave Vanity in Action Jackson was awesome too! It was form-fitting and she looked amazing.

• I don't believe that Vanity was a compulsive slut on 52 pick up because if she was a slut in general Nikki Sixx would have said so. He trashed her in his book.

• The impression I had is Vanity did sleep around, but it was only with guys she thought were hot or ones who were higher ups/could get her jobs. I don't think she fucked most of the crew on 52 Pickup but I can totally see her being a cocktease and getting their attention. Nikki Sixx did trash her in his book and it was tasteless but we have to keep in mind a couple things: 1) during their relationship Vanity was on crack and Nikki was on heroin, crack, alcohol and evertying so it's hard to believe everything either would say or "remember" is the whole truth 2) they didn't see each other all that much because of their schedules. We know he fucked around on her all the time but I'm sure she had a few flings of her own too. Vanity was one of the most desired women in hollywood by both fans, other entertainers and head honchos alike.

• I was probably one of Vanity's biggest fans, and still listen to her music. I wrote her an email a few years ago, telling her how much I liked her music and videos back in the day. She wrote me back and said thank you, and glad that I liked her work. Considering the crowds she ran with, and her serious addiction to cocaine, it's great that she's still around, living and surviving.

  Romantic Voyage

• I hope she has some peace. I think she deserves it.

• R182 really? I've read on other forums that when people praise her about her old music, she doesn't like it and then starts preaching to them because her music was "sinful". She even walked out of a mall once because they were playing "Nasty Girl" in the background (obviously they didn't know who she was etc).

• Bananarama briefly tried to go the Vanity 6 route after Siobhan left the group. It didn't last long.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFIG2cgiykLk

• I wrote a couple things like how I bonded with friends over her music, and knew that she had moved on from those days. I also thought she might not want a "fan email" regarding that time, but she responded within a week or so, and was appreciative. *I posted 182

  Still love Vanity

• She once said that if she married Nikki Six, she'd be Vanity Six again, LOL. Vanity was IT in terms of beauty and sex appeal. The light cocoa skin, the long black hair, the Coke-bottle figure...she truly made every other woman that they rave about in Hollywood look like 12 year-old boys.

• Vanity said the Nikki Sixx joke when she was interviewed by Arsenio Hall. She always had a cheeky sense of humor to match her stunning looks.

• bump

• I don't know how to link on this site, but if you want to see just an example of a stunning Vanity pic, go to flickr and search "Vanity Playboy". 1 of the pics that comes up is RARE. It's a pic of Vanity nude and seemingly washing herself while standing in front of a graffiti covered shower curtain. It wasn't for 1 of her layouts-this was a single shot taken in 1987. She looks amazing.

• Vampish. Vanity. I AM VAMP!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAZ73kiRku1M

• R190 wow! It is a hot pic! Almost enough to turn me straight lol

• I can't find the Playboy pic in question.

• Bump for the poster in the "Hottest Chick In Music" thread.

• thanks R194. R193 and R190 here...I know what the pic is. She looks amazing in it of course. and yes, it was after her boob job lol. It's from 1987 I believe.

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/spadefoxesp/2034488595/

• Wow, that's her R195? Never saw that pic.

• R196 yes it's her! :) She was a Playboy fixture lol. She first appeared in a brief feature in 1979 as D.D. Winters. Then for a spread as Vanity in 1985 and her bigger spread in 1988 but she also made cameos here and there throughout the 80s. This pic is rare and 1 of her lesser known pics. People think Rihanna is edgy and sexy? or Halle Berry is a knockout? They got nothing on Vanity. She was more daring with her outfits and photoshoots (especially for her time) and more beautiful. I'll post some others tomorrow or soon.

  R195

• Yeah, I know how hot she was back then. I've been a fan of hers since the '80s. She first did some modeling at the start of her career under the name DD Winters, and appeared in some Canadian films under that moniker (Terror Train, Tanya's Island). We all know, Prince dubbed her "Vanity", and that's the persona everyone knows her as. She was really a better actress than people gave her credit for, and she had presence to burn. Her second album for Motown was better than her first, and her film career could have been really big too. I'd seen many of the Playboy pics, but that one you posted was new to me, LOL.

  R196

• Her real name is Denise Mathews and I am linking to her official web site. She was a stunner back in the day! My God!

  http://www.denisematthews.com/

• "Romantic Voyage" is an amazing song. Wish she released more ballads like this. The subtle vocoder in the chorus is quite beautiful.

• Denise's posts on her facebook are so unintentionally hilarious. She is a sweet woman but is clearly a bit crazy.

• She does dialysis three times a week? Damn. That must have been some heavy-duty smack she was doing.

• Here she is doing some evangelizing. Completely different person.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEiNAkYRIlWw

• R203 she is still beautiful. To have that kind of good skin in her early 50s WITHOUT any plastic surgery or fillers/botox? Amazing and especially given her health problems over the last 18 years. Anyway here is a pic of when Vanity first went solo and joined Motown...I love her outfit and her hair.

  http://oi45.tinypic.com/jkdp37.jpg

• LOVE this pic. Rihanna edgy? try this, cunt. Vanity was so daring in her photoshoots and a lot of girls throughout the 80s, 90s and even today have copied her style.

  http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbbpvzbEF91rfiqtbo1_1280.jpg

• Vanity dated Billy Idol for a while in the 80s. Too bad it didn't last, they would have had some gorgeous kids.

• She had sexiness and personality to burn back then.

• LOVE this look she started-sexy lingerie with knee high boots, gloves and a men's jacket. That is edgy. Fuck Madonna.

  http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltrtn2joYu1qlmakwo1_500.jpg

• Have they ever done an Unsung on Vanity? I would be shocked if Prince would authorize the use of his music, but she has had such an interesting life.

• R209 they have not...and I'm shocked in the mid 90s when E! started doing those true hollywood stories that they never did Vanity either. I'm not sure Denise would agree to an Unsung now, since typically they praise someone's career. Denise only says good things about "The Last Dragon" in her interviews these days and wouldn't want to talk about her music.

• This is one of my favorite Vanity pics...it's from 1984 when she just went solo. It was taken in her apartment. Notice the lingerie thing which Madonna and other 80s ladies would copy and the hat that Janet would copy, all in just a couple years. No doubt the other female celebs at the time were threatened by Vanity's beauty and style. Sure, her songs apart from Nasty Girl didn't make much of an impact (Under The Influence did decently though) but a lot of that was due to Motown not promoting the album well enough. The other female celebs definitely saw her pics in magazines and picked up style tips from her.

  http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lun0ctLpZn1qh5mm2o1_500.png

• love this candid of her performing as part of Vanity 6 during the 1999 tour. Just so gorgeous! and love the nipple showing through haha

  http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6aawV7Zd1qlmakwo1_500.jpg

• That's a gorgeous pic, r212, but I think you mean 1989 tour.

• Nikki Sixx in his book made it seem like he never really like Vanity and it was an one way relationship but if you read articles from the 80's he was the one who chase her. Denise could really blow the lid if she really wanted to and write a true tell all. But I guess she's past that time in her life.

  PeaceLove

• R212 no it was called the "1999 tour". That was Prince's album and he toured with Vanity 6 and The Time in 1982 and 1983. They began touring soon after "Nasty Girl" was released and Vanity became a rising star for her beauty and style and of course those raunchy lyrics/dance moves. Look up the live clips online if you haven't-Vanity 6 danced in that sexy way that girl groups hadn't done before. Now every female star who is sexy dances that way but it was fresh at the time. R214 Nikki Sixx is such a liar but you have to remember his "Heroin Diaries" book had excerpts from his personal diaries and he was on so many drugs then that of course the real story is not always being told. He was the one who chased her-in 1986 he was watching MTV and they were still showing "Nasty Girl" video. He saw it for the first time and was taken by Vanity, so he had his people set up a date with her people. They really had nothing in common except drugs. Of course they had sex a lot because what man wouldn't with her? They were engaged and planned on getting married in 1987 in Egypt but then he broke it off. Tommy Lee even mentioned a fight 1 time that ended with Nikki flushing Vanity's ring down the toilet. Their fights got physical too which is a shock for addicts. Vanity rebounded by hooking up with Billy Idol for a short time lol

• enough to make a gay man straight:

  http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcxe5u3FAa1rfiqtbo1_1280.jpg

• That pic is really sexy and erotic...Prince even wrote a song about Vanity called "Wonderful Ass". Her ass was great but I can't believe Prince didn't write something about her ridiculously gorgeous face too.

• Other Prince songs supposedly about Vanity are "Little Red Corvette" and "Pop Life". On another subject, I remember during the OJ trial they were going to bring Vanity onto the stand to prove that Mark Fuhrman wasn't a racist, because he supposedly hit on her back in the '80s.

• They interviewed Vanity for Jet or something during the trial and she said "back then" in the 80s a lot of people didn't know she part black. Her father's side is a mix of african american, native american and hawaiian while her mother's side is polish but from germany. A lot of people thought she was latina or had no idea what she was lol so Mark really couldn't use her as an example.

• You can really see her bone structure in this pic. Her face looked so delicate.

  http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm9yonAKHe1qd9egho1_500.jpg

• R74. Excuse me but don't get it twisted.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DcBDMthZ0c80

  Cherie

• r195 I have an original oil named Vanity by artist Steven Wardlow. It was purchased in Kona,HI. in 1988. Very large painting 36" wide by 48" tall. The artist used a photo from the 1988 Playboy photo shoot as the subject. IMHO the artist creates something even more beautiful and stunning. His use of shadow and detail is amazing. vanity is an artists dream model.

  smooty