L'Oreal Denies Lightening Beyonce's Skin in Ad

Or maybe not? After all, Beyonce does her own makeup

(NEWSER) - What with her $5,200 baby tub , her Swarovski crystal-studded high chair , and her sterling silver Tiffany hair brush , among other things , we all know Blue Ivy Carter is going to grow up to be a terror. Fortunately, Jay-Z knows it too, E! reports. “Everyone imagines they'll be a great dad,” he said last night on Oprah’s Master Class. “I imagine I'll take things I learned from my mom and things I've learned from raising my nephews and apply that.” Even so, “at the end of the day, I just know I'll probably have the worst, spoiled little kid ever." More»

Her favorite word in 'People' interview: 'crazy'

(NEWSER) - Remember all those rumors that Beyonce was faking her baby bump and had actually hired a surrogate to carry Blue Ivy? Well, Beyonce heard them too, and in her Most Beautiful Woman interview, she tells People she found the whole thing "crazy. It wasn't hurtful, it was just crazy," she says. As for the "prosthetic bump," it was "a fabric that folded—does fabric not fold? Oh my gosh, so stupid." Mom Tina Knowles weighs in as well, calling the whole thing "very unfair and very cruel that someone would think that someone would be that diabolical to keep up a charade like that for nine months." More»

Beyonce Knowles, magazine announces

(NEWSER) - She's half of one of Hollywood's power couples, a force to be reckoned with in the music industry, she has a new daughter … and now Beyonce has one more thing to celebrate: She's been crowned People 's 2012 World's Most Beautiful Woman. But apparently all she wanted to talk about during the interview was new baby Blue Ivy. "I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth," she says. "I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this Earth." And does Blue look more like Bey or Jay? "She looks like Blue," the new mom says. "She's just the cutest thing." More»

It's intimate, authentic, and will make you want to be friends with Bey

(NEWSER) - The usually-quite-private Beyonce made a big jump onto the Internet last week, sending out her first tweet and launching a Tumblr . Predictably, the Internet went nuts over her arrival, and even people not typically inclined to obsess over Beyonce found themselves hypnotized by the dozens of personal, candid photos she posted. Why is this so compelling? On Gawker , Anne Helen Petersen explains: It's authentic, meaning you really are privy to moments from Beyonce's family vacations, and it's intimate, showing close-up pictures of Beyonce appearing to look right at you—sometimes sans makeup , sometimes in snorkeling goggles , sometimes with boobs made out of sand , sometimes in a Spider-Man costume . Compare those to intrusive paparazzi snaps taken from a distance, or mannequin-like magazine cover shots. More»

At least, they say they did

(NEWSER) - As kids, even celebrities suffered from insecurities—well, except probably Megan Fox . The Frisky tracks down 11 stars who claim to have been ugly in their youth:

• Salma Hayek: "You want to talk about bad skin? I had acne. And this acne was so bad, it sent me into a severe, severe depression. Like I couldn’t leave the house," she said in a recent interview, adding that the depression led her to eat too much, thus making her "fat and broken out."
• Bradley Cooper: Thanks to a bad bowl cut, people used to mistake him for a girl.