Amanda Beard jumped back on the radar with a bang–all of a sudden she’s married and five months pregnant. I know! I can’t believe it, either! *screams like a little girl* From MSNBC, via flubby and Maj:
“It was absolutely perfect,” Beard, 27, says of her May 1 wedding to photographer Sacha Brown, 34, on Wakatobi, an archipelago in the Banda Sea off southeastern Indonesia. “It was stress-free, and super low-key.”
The couple said “I do” in a brief sunset ceremony on a private beach at their resort. “I’m starting to look pregnant,” says the newlywed, who cops to major ice cream and Popsicle cravings and, despite exercise, is feeling “a little softer.” She plans to get back in the water about half a year after she gives birth, and is aiming to compete in the 2012 Olympics.
A 16-month layoff? That’ll be a great head start to a DNQ. Oh, and I couldn’t leave this next part out. It just reeks of a woman dependent on her body for income:
So could a water birth be in her future? Not if Beard has anything to say about it. “I’ve heard wonderful things about it,” she says. “But I want to do it the old-fashioned way — in a hospital, with all the technology!”
That’s exactly how I prefer my pizzas, by the way. Here’s an excerpt of Beard with her new groom from…us. The rest are here, but this should get you started. Whatever that means…
Olympic hero/heroic nude model Amanda Beard got engaged to her boyfriend of three years, photographer Sacha Brown.
“We are thrilled to be starting the next chapter in our lives together,” says Beard. “We are completely in love and to top it off we are best friends. Sacha proposed on Christmas morning in the most perfect way I could imagine. He is truly the man of my dreams and every day I spend with him is a blessing.”
“Basically,” she adds, “it rocks!”
I’ve been sitting here for twenty minutes trying to think of something that might make this remotely interesting, and there’s simply no way that’s happening. And I’m never getting those twenty minutes back. Thanks a lot, Amanda Beard. It’s gonna take another nude photoshoot before you’re forgiven for this one. Nude photos are the best apology. That judge and I are just gonna have to disagree on this one.
(more of Amanda and her “Yes, Dear”-looking fiancé HERE)
Olympic breaststroker and fantasy breaststrokee Amanda Beard has filed a lawsuit against tanning salon company ProSun, alleging that the Florida company illegally used her image for profit. More from TMZ:
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, the multiple Olympic medalist claims a tanning salon company in Florida used her likeness without permission, posting her picture on their website “to create the impression that Beard endorses ProSun products.” Beard is asking for unspecified damages.
A rep for ProSun claims they took the photos in question at a charity event a few years ago — and have the right to use them as they wish. We’ll see who’s right if this thing goes to trial.
I’ll be honest, when I read the TMZ headline that said a “tanning company burned her,” I thought it was gonna involve leather products and a branding iron. I haven’t been this disappointed since I read the story under the headline “High School Dropouts Cut in Half.”
GET YOUR MICHAEL PHELPS TEE-SHIRTS — The Hotness Factory is quickly selling out of tee-shirts that will be relevant for another week or so. Get yours now! It will go so well with your "I got bombed at the Olympics" from the Atlanta Games.
SLATE HATES AMERICA — In a move surprising no one, the people at Slate have taken an idiotic contrarian position, then dressed it up in big words. Troy Patterson has a problem with Phelps wearing flip-flops and not using fancy words like he can: "Elsewhere on NBC, looking like crap opposite Brian Williams—we could see up Phelps' shorts as far as the upper thigh—the well-trained golden boy resisted committing to a presidential candidate: 'Ah, ah, dn, dah—I'm I'm not getting into either side. … Y'know, personally I do, but y'know, I just sort of keep that to myself.' His media-trained mind short-circuited for a second there, but the message was clear: Michael Phelps is selling himself as a superstar so apolitical as to make Tiger Woods look like Cassius Clay." Get fucked, you pretentious piece of shit.
NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO DATE PHELPS — Even though Amanda Beard has always been pretty public about dating this guy, she was included in a story that tried to list all the celebrities wanting to date Phelps. And because bloggers are retards who run with every non-story that has a famous name, Beard had to this guy, she was included in a story that tried to list all the celebrities wanting to date Phelps. And because bloggers are retards who run with every non-story that has a famous name, Beard had to deny the allegations: "Eww, that's nasty… I have never, ever hooked up with Michael Phelps." Well la dee dah, your naked higness. Not all of us can snag a guy with such super-cool tattoos.
Also see: Deadspin, Sports By Brooks
Yesterday we got the news that swimmer Amanda Beard had gotten naked for a PETA ad, and today we have proof Amanda Beard got naked for a PETA ad. That proof being the PETA ad. While Beard unveiled the poster at the Olympic Village, PETA took this sexy opportunity to kill everyone's erection:
Amanda's ad couldn't have come at a better time. An investigation into the fur industry in China—which is where most fur originates—revealed that minks, foxes, dogs, cats, and other animals are kept in tiny wire cages in all weather extremes. In the video footage, animals were strangled or bludgeoned, and they were often still alive and struggling when workers flipped them onto their backs or hung them by their legs or tails to skin them.
The PETA website also has what it claims is behind-the-scenes video footage of the photo shoot. And it's about as sexy as you can possibly imagine. One minute Amanda Beard is getting her makeup and hair done while talking about how she loves her dogs, then the next cut is animals getting their skin ripped off. Damn, PETA knows how to turn me on.
Amanda Beard, the champion breaststroker who maintained her dominance over three Olympic Games, is now better remembered for her Playboy spread. Great job winning seven Olympic medals, let's see the boobs. And now she's going to bare it all again — kinda — for one of those PETA ads where they're all "Blah blah blah naked blah blah fur."
Beard… is to appear naked in an advertising campaign protesting against fashion furs that will be launched at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday…
"Seeing animals slaughtered to be worn as fashion is awful to me, so I'm definitely against wearing fur … I'd much rather go naked than ever put a dead animal on my body," PETA quoted Beard as saying.
I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand, I very much support women getting naked for any reason whatsoever. On the other hand, these steak pants are really comfortable.
