Khloe Kardashian gets slim with QuickTrim
By Abbey Khan
We sat down with Khloe Kardashian to talk about her recent with the new diet product QuickTrim, her new show “Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami” and her surprising dream job.
FUSN: There are different QuickTrim products, which one did you choose to lose weight?
KK: Right now I take the Extreme Burn and I’ve been taking it maybe 4-5 weeks. At first I tried the 48 Super Diet Detox. It’s a lemonade based flavored drink which jump started my diet initially. So I’ve done both of those but the Extreme Burn I take every single day and that’s what I’ve been consistent with and that’s what’s been working for me right now.
FUSN: And how much have you lost?
KK: Almost 25 pounds.
FUSN: You look great! Are you done or do you want to lose more?
KK: I’m taking the Extreme Burn still because it’s now helping me tone. It’s not a product you take just to lose weight, it also tones and gives me energy. I take it in the morning before I work out, and it gives me more energy to work out but I don’t feel jittery, I don’t feel like I’ve taken 11 cups of coffee. I gradually increased, I took only in the morning the first week and a half or 2 weeks, and then I started taking 2 in the morning and 2 at night between lunch and dinner because it just maintains me from not overeating. It doesn’t make you not hungry, it’s not a suppressant like that, it just makes you have more portion control. My eyes are bigger than my stomach so if I see food, it all has to go into my mouth, but if I take QuickTrim, it makes me a portion control, which is my biggest problem, I love food. This helps me to not do that. I like the energy I have off it too, but I’m not dependent on it, I’ll take it through the week and sometimes during the weekend I’ll not take it.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen interview
By Abbey Khan
The producers, writers and cast talk about what makes Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen different from the first movie, Shia’s hand injury, Megan’s sexy outfits, and what President Obama has to do with the film.
Megan, it’s been great to see your rise to stardom from the first movie. From your perspective, what’s changed for you since the first Transformers?
Megan Fox: The movie, its success and how well it’s received has opened a lot of doors for me careerwise and I’ve been able to be part of some films that I don’t really feel that I deserve to be a part of and that’s due greatly and solely to the success of Transformers. I just did Jonah Hex with Josh Brolin, Michael Fassbender and John Malkovich and in general actors don’t get those kinds of opportunities and for me to have that is a huge blessing and that’s because of the success of this movie.
Any changes in your daily life?
Megan Fox: Sure, I mean getting photographed at Whole Foods or coming out of Rite Aid with your shampoo bottles and stuff, that’s new for me but that’s not that crazy, you acclimate to that pretty quickly.
My Own Worst Enemy
By Abbey Khan
If you ever thought you were your own worst enemy, well now you can relate to one man. Christian Slater stars in the new NBC show My Own Worst Enemy about a man with two very different lives. We caught up with Slater, his alter egos, and the rest of the cast at the premiere party to find out more!
Congratulations on the show, so tell us a little bit about your character(s)?
Christian Slater: I play two characters and they’re both very fun—Edward Albright and Henry Spivey. Henry is sort of an every man, got an office, two kids and a beautiful wife, and Edward is a highly trained operative.
FUSN: Which character do you prefer to play?
Christian Slater: I think initially I enjoyed the aspects of the espionage qualities of the Edward character but as they cast my family and they put that sort of nucleus together, I’m enjoying being Henry as well.
Saffron Burrows: I play a woman named Dr. Norah Skinner and she is quite something. We are part of a military intelligence unit, a kin to the CIA in certain ways and we (Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell and myself) are all operatives in the system. What you see about me in the first couple of episodes is not at all that is there– definitely the water runs deep. You meet me as Christian’s therapist as the civilian man and then his alter ego Edward has this very big relationship with me that we discover a little later on.
FUSN: Would you say that you’re a good person or a bad person?
Saffron Burrows: I’m a good person but I just do some bad things.
Bella Thorne: She’s Ruthy Spivey—she’s smart, sweet, precocious, she loves spying on her neighbors, she’s probably most like her dad. She loves her dad probably the most, but she loves her family, she’s really sweet.
Michael O’Malley: I play two characters on the show—Tom and Raymond. I’m Christian’s best friend in his suburban life and his partner and somewhat rival at work in his operative life. Tom is a suburban dad, plays fantasy football, the joker in the office and kind of a clown but good at his job. Raymond who works for the government agency is a real by the book soldier, somewhat sinister, has seen real dark things humans have done and has contributed to the dark things that humanity has done to other people.
Alfre Woodard: Her name is Mavis Heller and she is the head of Janis, that’s the covert operation that Christian’s characters Henry and Edward are my operatives for.
Madchen Amick: I play Christian’s wife Angie on the domestic side of his two personalities.
Any similarities between you and your character(s)?
Christian Slater: I think in certain aspects, but for the most part I would say that I’m down the middle between the two.
Saffron Burrows: (mischievous laugh) I’m suitably private and she’s got a lot of secrets which I do enjoy, some of them I have not found out yet.
Men Say No to Looking Older
By Sara Moore
Men may age better than women, but even they need some help. The most common and age-old problem for men is thinning hair. There’s no cure for baldness but surgical hair restoration, which takes donor hair from other areas of the head and moves it to the thinning or balding areas, is the next best thing,” says Dr. Yael Halaas, a New York facial plastic surgeon. According to Halaas, hair loss in men is genetic and they typically thin at the crown, frontal hair line and temples whereas women thin on the entire head which is accelerated by menopause. If surgical hair restoration is too pricey at $4,000 and up, another option is Rogaine. “It really works,” she says “but you don’t start seeing results until 6 months and the results go away if you stop using it.” The best method is to have the hair transplant and use Rogaine.
Dr. Gary Alter, a plastic surgeon who is currently featured on Dr. 90210 with offices in both Beverly Hills and Manhattan says men tend to get their eyelids done. Men develop baggy upper skin on the eyelids as they age but with this procedure, they can look 5-6 years younger. Another popular procedure among older men is removing fat from their chest where extra tissue has developed.
At the famous Skin Haven Spa in West Hollywood, California, owner Sharon Ronen has seen a growth in her male clientele. Since opening almost 3 years ago, her male clients has doubled from 15% to 30%. “People think only women and gay men treat themselves to facials and other spa services, but we have many straight men who are regulars,” she says. “Surprisingly, the men spend more time at the spa than women, and they’re also very loyal.” The most popular anti-aging treatments for men at the Skin Haven Spa are the Genesis Peel and the Enzyme Anti-aging Facial. The Genesis Peel very gently dissolves the top layer of dead skin cells to reveal fresh pristine skin while the Enzyme Anti-aging Facial contains patented proteins and enzymes that stimulate collagen and elastin to firm, plump, and lift the skin.
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