January Jones lands the cover of the new issue of W Magazine, and on it she definitely looks nothing like her ‘Mad Men‘ character Betty Draper!

The actress opens up about her rise from being a model to becoming a movie star. Interestingly, January originally tried out for the role of Peggy on ‘Mad Men’ (the job went to Elisabeth Moss). Series creator Matthew Weiner had bigger plans for the blonde beauty, giving her the role of Betty Draper instead.

“There was no Betty in the pilot when I auditioned. Matthew Weiner, the creator of the show, had no intention of showing Don Draper’s home life,” she revealed. “I read for Peggy two times—it was between me and Elisabeth Moss, who eventually got the part. At the end of the scene, there was a casual mention that Don was married. Matt went home that night and wrote two scenes that featured Betty. I auditioned a couple of days later, and he made me a verbal promise that the character would grow. I took the part on faith—there was no script or fleshed-out character or Betty plotline.”

After a dramatic, public back and forth, Weiner and carrier AMC reached a deal for three more seasons, meaning Jones will once get to play the part for a good while longer. She’s also set to star in this summer’s “X-Men: First Class,” playing the role of Emma Frost.

“I’m a villain. As Emma Frost I’m telepathic, and I can turn into a diamond, which means I’m very, very cold,” Jones said. “I always wear white: lots of iridescent stretch leather, lots of sparkle, and ass-kicking white boots.”

Can you imagine January as Peggy!? What a mess that would have been! Further proof that Matthew is a genius.

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On Sunday, during an episode of ‘Kourtney and Kim Take New York’, Kim Kardashian burst into tears and freaked out over her nude photo shoot for W Magazine. Kim screamed and cried – and complained that she felt misled by the magazine, and the photos were “full-on porn”.

On Tuesday, a rep for the fashion bible told fashion blog The Cut:

“In keeping in line with the theme of W Magazine’s November Art Issue, Kim Kardashian’s cover was conceived as an artistic collaboration with well-known artist Barbara Kruger, and was a meditation on the influence that reality TV has on contemporary culture.”

“The inside portfolio documented the career and power of Kim Kardashian as a work of art, using the language of artists like Jeff Koons … and Gilbert & George.”

So W is basically saying that Kim Kardashian knew exactly what she was getting herself into, which exactly what my take was. The freakout on camera seemed fake.

Here are the unedited pics…if you haven’t seen them.

Rooney Mara is ready for Lisbeth Salander.

The 25-year-old actress is W Magazine’s February issue.

The drastic change is all part of Mara’s next role as the anti-establishment, chain-smoking private investigator in the movie adaption of Stieg Larsson’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

She and Daniel Craig, who plays Mikael Blomkvist, have been filming David Fincher’s American version in Sweden. The movie has a December 2011 release.

Cannot wait!!!

Snippet from the interview: “Simulation of sex is a real workout. We must have done a hundred takes. There was an oxygen tank at one point.”

The shoot was taken before Emma dyed her hair blonde for her upcoming role in Spider-Man 4. She started filming last week, check out those pictures here!

The Victoria’s Secret model continues to show off her impressive baby bump, this time it’s in newly released pages from Australian Vogue.

Just a few weeks after she posed naked for W magazine, and now the super model — who’s expecting her first child with husband, Orlando Bloom, 33 — is gracing the pages of the Australian edition of Vogue in a gorgeous photo shoot, with one of the pictures once again showing off her naked body.

“It’s wonderful that I have this opportunity to do this photo shoot with Australian Vogue,” says Miranda, 27, in the behind-the-scenes video featured below “and record this wonderful moment in time. It’s been a great experience, modeling while pregnant, because I’m really proud of my belly and I’m really happy about this moment in my life. I feel extremely blessed.”

Check out the rest of the pictures here!

PS: If I had her body, I’d be grocery shopping naked.

Katherine Heigl lovingly cradles the gorgeous little girl in her arms, wrapped in some white frilly netting.

Heigl adopted Naleigh, who was born in South korea with congenital heart problems that were later corrected through surgery, just ‘three or four days’ before she started work on Life As we Know It.

‘I was about to play a woman who inherits a baby, and I was experiencing the exact same thing,’ she said in an interview with the magazine.

Inside the issue Heigl also poses with more of her family, including mum Nancy and sister Meg.

‘My sister is Korean,’ Katherine said. ‘I hope one day she and Naleigh will be able to talk about what it’s like to be adopted.’

Heigl has talked extensively about her decision to adopt, claiming that she feels it was her destiny to do so.

She says it’s a subject that she broached with her then boyfriend, who later became her husband, musician Josh Kelley, early on in their relation, even before they got engaged.

Explaining that making her plans really clear was key to deciding if they had a future together. ‘Not everybody is down with that,’ she notes. ‘Not everybody thinks that.

‘I just wanted to make sure that I was marrying a guy who understands that this was going to have to happen.’

The couple finalised the adoption of Naleigh in September 2009

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Yesterday some blurry pictures of Kim Kardashian’s new naked photo shoot were released, and today I have the unedited pictures for you! Here she is in the new W Magazine, in their ‘Art Issue’.

See the pictures after the jump! (more…)