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| Heidi Klum ditches glamour for goofy in new kids show - AZCentral.com Posted: 01 Feb 2011 09:03 AM PST Feb. 1, 2011 08:07 AM LOS ANGELES -- Towering above her pint-sized cohort in blue suede heels, Heidi Klum was doing what she does best: seducing the camera. She wasn't preening sexily in lingerie, as you might expect from a former Victoria's Secret model; nor was she standing in judgment of a couture gown, as befits the host and executive producer of "Project Runway." On this particular day, the TV camera panned in as the German bombshell flailed her arms, stuck out her tongue and, yes, did the Roger Rabbit dance. In one of this year's strangest career transitions, Klum is shifting from glamorous to goofy. Her new Lifetime series "Seriously Funny Kids," which premieres Tuesday night, is the latest program to elicit candid and hilarious remarks from young kids, following in the footsteps of Bill Cosby ("Kids Say the Darndest Things"), Art Linkletter ("House Party") and Allen Funt ("Candid Camera"). Klum silenced doubters and proved her business acumen when she ushered in "Runway" in 2004 (which ran on Bravo before switching to Lifetime in 2009). Now the 37-year-old is trying to further cement her post-modeling persona -- and her relationship with the network -- with this even more unlikely project. The weekly series catches Klum using her maternal appeal to mine the honesty of young children. Also incorporated into the show are hidden camera bits, including one that finds the sexy host sporting an unlikely accessory: "slimy boogers." "We thought it was a no-brainer," said JoAnn Alfano, Lifetime's head of entertainment. "As an ambassador for the network, we love being in business with (Heidi). And it's a side we don't often see. She's someone mostly known as a supermodel. You don't think of her as being silly, and fun, and effervescent." Although she's a mother to four children younger than 6, Klum admitted that her interactions with the kids on the show were more difficult than she expected. "When you deal with grown-ups, they always kind of know where you want to go when you ask a certain question," she said. "When you're talking to Jay Leno or (David) Letterman, there's this kind of routine about it. You're there to tell a funny story as you try to promote something. But when you do it with kids, it doesn't really work the same way. At all." But there are always the adults of her other Lifetime series to balance it all -- even if attempts to reach some of them (Tim Gunn, Michael Kors) to comment on Klum proved unsuccessful. Klum insisted that her involvement in "Seriously Funny Kids" doesn't mean a death knell for "Project Runway," which will shoot its ninth season this summer. "Look, 'Project Runway' isn't going anywhere," she said. "And I don't think if something ends that I have to hurry up and find the next thing. If 'Seriously Funny Kids' would have come to me four years ago, I would have done it then. I just thought it was a good idea." It's an idea that further broadens her reach beyond the supermodel guise, in the vein of fellow-runway trotter Tyra Banks -- who solidifed herself as brand with "America's Next Top Model," ''The Tyra Banks Show," philanthropic foundations and a production company. After more than a decade as a face (and body) of Victoria's Secret, Klum announced last fall that she was parting ways with the lingerie giant to focus on other projects. A surprising move, but she said the decision came with careful consideration. "It wasn't like I'm going to walk down the runway with my G-string and then the next day I wasn't going to do it anymore," Klum said. "You think about it over the years and you think about how at some point it has to end -- I have to do something different; I want to do something different. And the world doesn't end. When someone hangs up their 'wings,' there's always someone new ready to take them. That's just how things are." Klum has a dizzying number of projects in motion. She recently announced plans to partner with fragrance company Coty Inc. to create a perfume called Heidi Klum Shine. She's a clothing designer (recently fashioning maternity clothes for A Pea in the Pod and Motherhood Maternity), a jewelry designer (her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on QVC in 2006), a television host ("Project Runway," ''Germany's Next Top Model") and the face of European cosmetics company Astor. And on top of all of that, now she's extracting comical quips from children for "Seriously Funny Kids" -- and finding that they really do say the darndest things. "Yesterday I was talking with a kid and she was like, 'I know you! My mama told me that you sold panties!' " she recalled. "You can't control what your legacy is." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| It's not nice when your kids have lice - Raleigh News & Observer Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:07 AM PST DETROIT -- When Sarah Casello-Rees discovered that her kindergarten-age son had head lice, she went into a frenzy - buying every potion and chemical treatment she could find. And then she discovered she had lice, too. "I went into hazmat mode. I just became anxiety-ridden at the thought that things were crawling through my hair," said Casello-Rees, 47. "I would have paid anybody anything to help me." And that's when the longtime Ann Arbor, Mich., personal trainer had an entrepreneurial "a-ha" moment. In August 2008, she opened the Lice Brigade, treating customers with nontoxic products and a manual comb-out to remove lice and nits. Now, she can send any one of eight nitpickers - she calls them practitioners - to homes or schools to take care of an infestation. She also has an Ann Arbor office, known as Rapunzel's Lice Boutique, where she treats customers. And since December, she's acquired the LouseBuster, a device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a nonchemical treatment for getting rid of lice. The LouseBuster is a vacuum-like machine that shoots hot, dry air onto the scalp, which kills the lice and eggs. In the first two weeks of the year, she treated 41 people with the LouseBuster, at $145 each. The traditional treatment, manual combing, is $95. There are additional charges for at-home visits. Her business draws the lice-besieged from near and far. She had a family from Missouri drive 12 hours to her shop so that a single mom and her long-haired teenage daughters could get the treatment. Last week, a Detroit-area Catholic school asked her and her staff to check the scalps of 450 students. Any time school or camp is in session can be the right time for lice to spread. It's spread most directly from head-to-head contact. But it also can be transmitted by sharing combs, headgear and clothing. Lice afflict people regardless of wealth or social status or personal hygiene. Last week, parents at Rosedale Elementary School in Livonia, Mich., received notices that several students had lice. School officials had professionals check the scalps of the 300-plus students in kindergarten through fourth grade. There are no hard numbers on head lice outbreaks. That's, in part, because the state of Michigan does not require the condition to be reported to health officials. Jill Girardot of the Macomb County Health Department said the county's school districts reported 978 head lice cases in 2010. "It's useful when parents call and we tell them the school has reported" the case, said Girardot. In July, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a report that suggested that many cases of head lice are false. The report cited a study of 600 samples taken from children's scalps believed to be infested with lice, and found that two-thirds were dandruff, scabs, dirt, hair spray droplets, or already dead or inactive lice eggs. The Michigan Department of Community Health manual on head lice notes that it "does not pose a significant health hazard and is not known to spread disease. The most common symptom is itching due to sensitization to allergens in lice saliva. Many times there are no symptoms. " But an outbreak requires a good deal of cleaning - vacuuming of upholstery, carpets and mattresses, and hot-water washing of linens and clothes - to ensure there isn't a further spread of the critters. "The largest impact of head lice comes not from the condition itself but from our culturally based reactions and emotions towards the condition," says the Michigan Department of Community Health manual on head lice. Casello-Rees understands the panic. When her son, Donovan Rees, first had lice in 2008, he was one of 18 kids in a kindergarten class of 23 carrying them. "He was one of the 60 percent of cases that had no symptoms. He didn't itch. But he probably had them for months," recalled Casello-Rees. "At the store, I bought everything off the shelf. The check out girl looked at my purchases and said 'Oh, this doesn't look good.'" But she managed to turn her son's bout with head lice into a career. Casello- Rees says she's proud of what she does and how it helps people in obvious distress. And she hascome to terms with dealing withcrawling creepy critters. "I joke that when I tell people what I do they take a couple of steps back," she says.Yet,clientsaregrateful for the service she provides. "Some of them want to hug us," she says. Still, even though she knows that it's difficult to contract lice without head-to-head contact, "we say no thanks." WHAT TO DO The Michigan Department of Community Health and the Michigan Department of Education recommend that a child who has an active case of head lice remain home from school until he or she is treated and are examination finds no live lice on the scalp. Active infestations are defined as the presence of live lice or nits found within a quarter inch of the scalp. Nits that are found beyond a quarter inch of the scalp have more than likely hatched, or are no longer viable. Any student with live lice may remain in school until the end of the school day. Immediately removing the child could provoke embarrassment and ridicule, and the child had probably been infested for weeks, anyway. Any student with nits farther than a quarter inch from the scalp should be allowed in school. Parents should remove nits daily and treat if live lice are observed. Resources: The Michigan Head Lice Manual: www.michigan.gov/documents/Final-Michigan-Head-Lice-Manual-103750-7.pdf The American Academy of Pediatrics report on head lice: www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/126/2/392 Questions and answers about lice and videos on how to detect and treat it: www.headlice.org This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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