A few weeks ago, I (and many of you) had a good chuckle about the Hollywood Reporter’s declaration that Shailene Woodley the new Jennifer Lawrence. Since that time, I’ve realized that Shailene has plenty in common with JLaw. I’m not talking about acting talent or lasting power. It would be unfair to compare their careers at this point. Shailene’s body of work thus far has been limited to indie flicks that a lot of people haven’t watched. She’s attempting to go mainstream with Divergent, and we’ll see how that works out. The reviews for the movie are really dismal, but it could rustle up some young-adult business.
What is clear to me is that Shailene is capable of creating some media frenzy with her interviews. In that way, she’s taking some pressure off of JLaw, who is keen to avoid a lingering backlash. You’ve noticed how Jennifer is a vapor trail now that Oscar season is over, right? We probably won’t hear much from her until May when the next X-Men movie comes out. In JLaw’s absence, we’ve endured some bizarre interviews from Shailene. She’s given her hippie-chick/survivalism strategies a whirl and stomped all over Twilight. She created a real stir yesterday by challenging monogamy as an institution.
Now sh-t is getting real. Shailene has done an interview with Into the Gloss to talk about her health and beauty secrets. I think this is one of my favorite interviews that Shailene has given yet. She raves about swallowing clay. She admits washing her hair only once per month. The best part? She talks about the benefits of spreading one’s legs for the sun. This is classic Shailene:
Rid your body of heavy metals: “Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body. One of my friends was making a clay toothpaste that you swallow instead of spit out. But I first heard about the benefits of eating clay from a taxi driver. He was African and was saying that, where he’s from, the women eat clay when they’re pregnant. Seriously–ask your taxi drivers where they are from and about their customs. You will learn a lot. So, I’ve discovered that clay is great for you because your body doesn’t absorb it, and it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes. And, this is crazy: it also helps clean heavy metals out of your body. My friend starting eating it and the next day she called me and said, ‘Dude, my sh-t smells like metal.’ She was really worried, but we did some research together and everything said that when you first start eating clay, your bowel movements, pee, and even you, yourself, will smell like metal. You should obviously be careful about your source. Bentonite clay is good, but Mountain Rose Herbs has a great clay source.”
Easy and natural teeth whitening: “I love a natural way to heal. You can do something called ‘oil pulling’ where you swish coconut or sesame oil in your mouth when you wake up and spit it out. It’s amazing! It really makes your teeth whiter, because the plaque on your teeth is not water soluble, it’s fat-soluble. So the lipids have to dissolve in fats, which is why oil works in your mouth. I prefer sesame oil, but they’re both good.”
Sunshine is good for the vagina: “Another thing I like to do is give my vagina a little vitamin D. [Laughs] I was reading an article written by an herbalist I studied about yeast infections and other genital issues. She said there’s nothing better than vitamin D. If you’re feeling depleted, go in the sun for an hour and see how much energy you get. Or, if you live in a place that has heavy winters, when the sun finally comes out, spread your legs and get some sunshine.”
Makeup should be natural too: “For makeup, I use products from 100% Pure. RMS products are too oily for me. 100% Pure makes my skin feel better, and it comes off so easily. They have every single makeup product that you could want. Everything is amazing except the mascara, which doesn’t really work. Day-to-day, though, I don’t wear makeup at all.”
She only shampoos once per month: “Hair-wise, I’m very lucky. My mom is 45 and she doesn’t have a single grey hair on her head. It’s the most beautiful, thick, strawberry blond. I basically have horse hair. It’s so low-maintenance. The less I put in it, the better. When it was long, I used shampoo from Living Libations, but now it’s really short. I only shampoo it like once a month–the oilier, the better.”
[From Into the Gloss]
“The oilier, the better“? I think a month without shampooing is a bit excessive. Nikki Reed admitted to a once per week regimen. That freaked me out, but a lot of you agreed with Nikki. How do you feel about Shailene only shampooing on a monthly basis?
The rest of the interview is just amazing. The vitamin D vadge prescription seems a bit batty. I’d think that any depletion could be fed by simply walking around in a swimsuit. The vitamins will go where they need to go. Does one really need to air out the vadge too? That’s so weird. Don’t even get me started on Shailene’s graphic details of clay ingestion. She did some research, y’all.
Here’s some photos of Shailene at Kate Winslet’s Walk of Fame ceremony. She was there along with Kathy Bates to support Kate, who plays the nefarious Janeine in Divergent.
Photos courtesy of Into the Gloss, Fame/Flynet & WENN
i think she needs a good scrub :), that’s what i think
p.s. once a month? ONCE?? wow, just wow
p.p.s. people use to not bathe ever so are we all going to go “au naturel”? ok, i’m little bit rambling now 🙂
If no one bathes, we’re all going to be pretty darn smelly!
Actually your not suppose to shampoo more than 1x for every 2 weeks if you dont use loads of product. I have frizz free natural ringets and dont use products and that’s how often I shampoo. Condition every day though. I love my hair!!!!!
Thank you sammy (hairstylist) for teaching me and giving me awesome hair!!!!
My hair stylist suggested not shampooing at all. True. You rinse, massage and condition (sometimes), but no shampoo. I do it unless I wear it straight again. Your hair does not get smelly and gross. Not even close.
But I have very curly hair dry hair and oil keeps the frizz down. If my hair could look like hers, I’d have that haircut in a nanosecond. Awesome.
I gave up washing my long straight hair everyday in favor of just once a week and it’s never been healthier. If you have to use shampoo, use it only on oily areas of the scalp, never on the strands, and leave conditioner on the ends.
But if you have short hair, screw it, it looks way better damaged because for some people, that’s the only way to achieve any lift. lol
I don’t see how people who go to the gym and sweat profusely like me can get away with washing their hair once a month. Just ew. Maybe she doesn’t work out?..
Jay, yes! I sweat almost every day doing sports and can’t imagine not washing my hair.
Just rinse it and condition it. Shampoo dries out hair.
Me, too. Not impressed. Hair stinks when it’s not washed. Hanging out w/ smelly people not so fun.
That is not true. I do it, and I’ll tell you you would not know. At all. It’s not like you never get it wet and turn into a homeless person. Right now I have not shampooed in two weeks and it looks (and smells) fine.
I used to assume the same, but after some research and experimentation, that’s just not the case. Shampoos really dry out the scalp and force the glands to create more oils in order to compensate for the dehydrating effects of the chemicals in the shampoo. When you stop using shampoo the scalp will continue to over-produce oil until it realizes that it no longer needs to (in the meantime, the oils can and do go rancid quickly). This can take a couple of weeks. But afterwards, things even out and the scalp will start to slow oil production. In the meantime, giving a good scrub with warm water or even a little baking soda often helps the oiliness in the scalp/hair.
I took the same approach with deodorant after learning of its link to breast cancer in men and women. The first week or so was awful and I avoided people. Now, all I do is dust a little baking soda onto my armpits and when I sweat, there is absolutely no odor. But I also noticed that I quit sweating as much, even during an intense workout.
Irishserra is right. (Except for the baking soda part – baking soda will destroy any hair color in your hair and will dry the living hell out of it – I tried this just once and had to grow out the damage, it was so bad on my colored hair, and I use Framesi oil-based color, not cheap box stuff. Trying henna was equally a very bad drying out experience.)
My son is in hairdressing school which he is loving and doing very well at. He says you can tell the clients who subscribe to the ”don’t wash your hair very often/much at all” because the minute the water hits their heads the smell that rises off their hair and scalp is nauseating. He also says these are the people who go on about how their hair never smells. He says “Mum I’m standing directly above their heads. They reek…”
Maybe she meant she washes it with shampoo once a month and uses just water the rest of the time? I feel dirty if I don’t wash my hair for 3 days, I can’t imagine going a full month.
I’m sure that’s what it means.
That’s exactly what it means. It doesn’t mean you never get it wet. Bed hair anyone?
I had to talk myself into it, and then work up to it. If you want to try this, start out by just doing it every other day, and then you can get used to the new scalp feeling. It does feel a bit different.
Also, if you have oily hair, rub your fingertips on your scalp and rub the oil in really good – it’ll keep it from looking stringy and will distribute your natural oils.
@theoriginalkitten, since it won’t let me respond to your comment directly, I wanted to say I totally agree with your taxi cab driver comment! I came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed too because that is 100% racist. And everything she said screams privileged American girl, whose only understanding of peoples’ culture is what she recognizes as herbs and voodoo magic. THIS is why I can’t stand her
She didn’t say ask your African cabbie where he gets his clay – she said ask your taxi drivers about their customs – it’s really interesting and you will learn a lot. The opposite of racism – she’s interested in learning about cultural customs from other races. And there is a whole no shampoo movement out there and no, your hair doesn’t stink. I think she’s great and is giving great exposure to natural and homeopathic remedies.
Yeah I get that she’s interested in learning about new cultures and I applaud her for that.
But maybe she should learn about new cultures by traveling, visiting museums or cultural centers, or teaching English at an ESL institute, not by “asking a cabbie”. It would be like if I told people that if they want to learn about the Mexican culture they should talk to a cleaning lady or a gardener.
The implication of her statement was that all cabbies are immigrants –so maybe calling it “vaguely racist” is a stretch but it’s at the very least a generalization that some may find insulting.
As I said below, I don’t mind this girl as much as others, but for someone that espouses the idea of learning about different cultures, that statement really speaks to a level of insularity on her part.
@Pandy : Yeah until you ask your cabbie that and they get offended because they from America and their customs are just the same as yours.
It is sort of racist because of the assumption that all taxi drivers are foreigners.
I don’t think it’s racist. I travel a lot and often strike up conversations with my cab drivers.. I think it’s normal to ask where they’re from, how long they’ve been working as a cab driver, etc. and I’ve learned a lot . In Costa Rica, our driver pointed out his family’s sugar cane farms and we stopped by some road side fruit stands and I got to try some local fruits and herbal teas that aren’t readily available in the states. Here in the US, I’ve had drivers from Ghana and Egypt tell me about their lives in Africa and how and why they immigrated. The same goes for my American cab drivers as well, when I ask about local activities- their favorite things, etc. I’m sure she builds up a rapport before she asks about customs. I can’t fault her for talking to people who she ordinarily wouldn’t have contact with on a daily basis, asking questions and wanting to learn.
You are completely wrong. There’s nothing racist about recognizing a iob that is multicultural and starting conversations with the people in that job. Don’t be ridiculous.
SIGH
Um..please re-read. I didn’t say that asking a cabbie about their background is in and of itself racist–I said that giving the advice to “ask your cabbie about his customs” is an ignorant statement at best.
If she had said “Travel a lot and engage in conversations with people-LEARN about different cultures” then I wouldn’t have a problem with it, but “talk to your cabbies” just sounds like something an insular privileged white chick would say. If she lived in a multi-cultural neighborhood like I do, she could simply say “talk to your neighbors” because you know, the Indian neurosurgeon and his family that live next door to me probably have different customs, not just my effin’ cab driver. Surprise, Shailene–foreign people hold professions outside of just driving your taxi.
It was a poorly worded statement, that’s all. Sorry you guys don’t see that.
I find that a lot of people use the word racist when they really mean stereotyping. There is a difference. Her implication that all cab drivers are foreign is stereotyping cab drivers. It’s not talking about one race being superior to another which is racism.
Someone doesn’t have to be a foreigner to have different customs. I could ask a million white Americans about their traditions and I’d likely get a million answers. Is it racist read her words as racist, because YOU assumed she meant cabbies are all foreigners, when in fact you came to that conclusion yourself? She didn’t say it, you did…
Um yeah no, Wiffie. Actually you just proved my point–why even bring the taxi-driving profession into it at all then?
Why not just say PEOPLE, irrespective of profession or just AMERICANS (as we all have different customs)?
She told us to ask our “cab drivers” specifically-now why’s that?
So please try again.
I agree, totally dumb privileged white girl comment.
I agree with you as well TOK.
There was nothing racist about that comment. She was just saying that she inquires about the customs of people who are from other countries. We really do need to stop looking for racists under
Someone and TOK, I agree. I’m not saying she’s a balls-out racist, but that did sound like a little rich white girl thing to say.
TOK is right on.
it’s totally a clueless, privileged white girl thing to say. (imagine if she’d said, “ask the janitor in your office building where they’re from and what their customs are.”)
if she had said, “ask your cab driver where they’re from, and if they’re from another country, ask what’s different about their culture,” that would be passable.
the fault — the subtle, unintended racism — is in the assumption that any cabbie you have is going to be from a different country and have different customs.
people need to stop getting so defensive when others are called out on their bigotry. calling it out is the only thing that will help change it.
Actually my cousin never shampoos – shampoo itself is a pretty recent thing. It strips your hair, meaning you have to shampoo more often or you have smelly hair (because the natural oils aren’t there to do their job) and your hair looks grody (because the oils are working overtime to try to come back).
She went through about 6 weeks of work, using baking soda to absorb oil away from her scalp, and now her hair is absolutely stunning. And she NEVER shampoos. She will condition, though, about once a month, since she lives in a dry environment, but not her scalp.
I wasn’t brave enough to do it, but I have made a point to only shampoo 2-3 times a week, and never the rinse-and-repeat, and I made a point to get a natural shampoo (since your off-the-shelf stuff tends to be really harsh detergent). Every day is just soooo drying.
I did the faux poo thing for a while. Not fully, but I replaced most of my shampooings with it. I would scrub with the baking soda, and give it a vinegar and water rinse. It felt pretty nice, even as far as clarifying goes. My hair was lighter for sure. I only use salon quality shampoos when I shampoo, but now I’m back to shampooing on the daily. It started lightening my hair a bit, which isn’t good if you want to dye it.
I think the term we are looking for is xenophobic as she’s not singling out a particular race but foreigners in general?
Why do I know anything about this girl’s hoo ha?
It’s not often that I’m truly lost for words. Shailene’s clay eating and lady-garden sunbathing has broken my snarkiness. Help, I think? God, I don’t even know anymore…. :s
I’m with you. She has just beaten me down. I saw the title of this post and I thought “Bedhead is trying to kill me.” I nearly burst into tears.
Right? Now all I think about is how the clay is prepared. Is there a certain consistency it needs to be? I consider the clay because I refuse to consider the vag sunbathing.
I’m about to curl up into full fetal and start whimpering.
I need to finish my coffee before reading these things…ohhhh, she’s something, isn’t she?
I would suggest a double shot espresso to get your mind going fast enough that it doesn’t think about sunbathing today.
I’m sorry to keep going on about it but seriously, what about sun damage?!?
And who doesn’t wash their freaking hair but once a month?!? *sob*
The oil-pulling thing is supposedly amazing. I have several friends that do it…been meaning to try myself.
Did anyone think the ‘ask your taxi drivers where they get their clay’ comment was kinda racist or am I being overly sensitive?
Not all taxi drivers are African or immigrants, Shailene, and not all Africans or immigrants are taxi drivers.
If I had asked the old American-Irish cabbie that drove me home last week what his “customs” are he would have thrown my ass out of the cab.
ME: “Excuse me, sir but can I ask what your cleansing rituals are?”
CABBIE: “My cleansing ritual is washing my undercarriage with a f*cking bar of soap, lady.”
(but you have to say it with a Boston accent)
I’m officially intrigued by the oil pulling thing, I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend! Anyone have recommendations about the best oils to use?
@theoriginalkitten: I have to agree re your cabbie comments!! Although your American-Irish cabbie one is totally off-base. Every third, if not second word, would be “f*cking” 😉
Ha ha..very true Kali!
My friend said to use extra virgin coconut oil. I guess it feels a bit gross on the moment but apparently your teeth feel amazing the next day.
I’ve heard a lot about oil pulling too. My friends have been trying to convince me to try it, but I haven’t gotten up the nerves to swish oil around in my mouth for 20 minutes. I have a bad gag reflex, so I’m not sure I will be able to handle it!
Swishing coconut oil is supposed to be amazing for so much more than just your teeth. It’s great for your skin and metabolism too.
I gotta admit to washing my hair every 1-2 weeks. it gets really dry if I do it more than that.
@audrey – definitely! I use at least two teaspoons of coconut oil in my food each day (not made any other changes to skin care or diet) and my skin is so much better! Let’s see what it does with teeth 😁
As the fiance of a plumber – if you use the coconut oil, please spit it out in the garbage and not the sink. Unless you want to boost the economy within the plumbing community.
@Erinn, Is it worse than other oils? I put olive oil in the kitchen sink when tossing plates there. Wouldn’t it melt in the piping and wash away with hot water? I recently bought coconut oil, so this conversation is timely, for me.
@tOKitten, i think her “talk to cabbie” is perhaps more poorly worded and ignorant rather than outright racist. i get the gist of it though, maybe she meant don’t look down on people and treat them equally?
speaking of talking to people, my primary school teacher has a similar advice: make an effort to engage, talk to people, more importantly listen well because you’d never know, you might be surprised what you can learn from them.
come to think of it, my primary school teacher wasn’t that much older than Shai (but in my one-digited primary school age back then she’s old as hell, thus making the headmistress prehistoric). but she instilled on us not just people from different roots but even from the same roots (even a decade–older or younger–can seem so different).
so i think while Shailene’s heart is in the right place, maybe she will benefit from choosing words carefully now. looking back at her “idol” comments previously, yes some people can’t help idolizing certain artists and perhaps Shailine is on the way to become that artist, perhaps against her will? but what can you do but try to use this burden of power for good.
i think she has a lot of good qualities and like JLaw i think her intentions come from a good place, and not too shrouded in negativity (woe-is-me). now for someone to step in and direct it to a better place. (maybe not the PR whitewash machine). who though?
Slightly. My grandfather always used to ask taxi drivers where they were coming from and I always found that racist.
@lower-case deb-I get it, I really do. I have a friend who runs a non-profit and he always says “Talk. To. Everyone” because you never know what you’ll learn or what kind of connections you’ll make. I wasn’t trying to burn Shailene at the stake for what she said, I just think it was a bit ignorant the way she worded it. The underlying message of opening ourselves up to learning about different cultures is a good one though-can’t fault her for that.
TOK
I agree it was badly worded and made assumptions based on stereotype.
The image that is shown on the home page looks like she’s celebrating being covered on a gossip site.
Over this girl and I don’t even know what she’s been in and all that jazz. Her name is familiar. OH WAIT. She was the girl that was going to play Mary-Jane Watson for the new Spider-Man. But all her scenes were cut. Ah, that makes me giggle.
I agree that you should air out the vag every once in a while though. Maybe not in the sunlight but maybe during bed or with a nice pair of undies. Its good to keep things aired out since there is a delicate balance going on in there. That’s why cotton panties are better than ones that wont breath like rayon or other synthetic fabrics. You get a greater chance of getting yeast infections when your down there doesn’t breath.
Sun your vadge or you know, take a vitamin.. decisions, decisions..
lol, that’s a good one :)!
my grandma and my mother never exposed to sun, and the didn’t have vitamin deficiency soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🙂
i mean they never exposed HER to the sun :), english is not my first language
It is quite all right Nhi, I knew what you meant, your English is fine.
Oh, no, you mean I could have just swallowed a pill instead taking a labia sunbath? Hmm, could have avoided all those stares in the park, and that pesky arrest. Silly me.
ha!
during winter time, it is perhaps a good idea to sun the vadge and take vitamin suppositories. make sure you’re facing the sun while doing it to get the full exposure.
for further health benefits, try it with the special yoga pose: Moon the Sun.
We were talking about this yesterday but this seems crazy to me.
I have my own roof deck where I occasionally sun it up, but living in a dense urban area, I am also surrounded by several other roof decks where potential vadge-peepers are just looking for a damn free show.
In short, I’m not doing that sh*t, Shailene, mmkay?….. so take a lap, sister.
You get vitamin D from being in the sun. You don’t need to have individual parts exposed in order for absorption to occur, and to benefit all of the body. Also, for her issues, yogurt, no sugar and panty-free sleeping. Why are all these celebs talking about their vaginas every five minutes, like they are gynecologists? She should hang out with Cami.
Yeah Goodnames brought up that exact same point yesterday–that it shouldn’t be an issue of individual parts getting exposed as Vit D is absorbed through the skin.
And I completely agree with you about the vadge talk, Kiddo.
It’s oversharing and completely unnecessary.
@GoodNamesAllTaken, A sunburn would be a bitch, I’d imagine.
Ouch! That hurts just to think about!
The sun is actually great for providing vitamins and cleaning
I’ve never sunned my vadge but we use cloth diapers. Drying them in the sun gets rid of any odors and most stains. It’s a great way to kill bacteria and get them in great shape.
I wouldn’t be opposed to sunning my vadge if I had tge private area to do it
Vitamin D is best absorbed through the eyes.
Don’t fall asleep. Sunburn on the lady parts, could you imagine?
I think she took the vitamin D thing too literally. Yeast infections can prosper in a moist, dark environment. Airing that sucker out to dry in the sun would present a big hurdle for yeast and other stuff looking to run amok in the vag.
I remember being her age. I thought I knew everything too.
But thank god you hadn’t had access to the press. Let’s hope she grows up fast!
Exactly. The only difference was when I spouted all my “truths” no magazine was reporting it. Bless her heart.
+1
so is this clay-eating similar to the rock-eating habits of pregnant women in Kenya?
(apparently widespread enough that edible rock sellers are present in most marketplace)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7596067.stm
but according to the article, the rock-eating thing is less about detox and more about getting some needed minerals out of the rocks.
perhaps similar but different, then?
That was my first thought too. Eating clay makes sense when you have a deficiency. But you know clay vs. vitamins – tough decisions 😉
Yeah, I thought it was a disorder called pica. Clay is a very common addiction, in particular in pregnant women though not always. When my sister was pregnant her midwife actually asked her if she had any thoughts about eating dirt, clay or chalk. It can be dangerous!
Yes. A lot of women in the rural south used to crave and eat red clay when pregnant. It was pretty common and there were older women who were often consulted about where to get the best clay and when to eat it. Even today a few women still do it.
My goodness…eating clay is very extreme & unnecessary. All you have to do is drink distilled water — same principle & much better for you. Distilled water is dead water which acts like a magnet to pull debris, heavy metals etc. from your body. Distilled water is pure H2O. You don’t need minerals in your water. You get that from your food.
Cecilia
Some may find it to be extreme and unnecessary. My recollections were based on stories and accounts from a bygone era. Distilled water wasn’t even on the horizon yet and many rural families all over the US suffered from malnutrition. I think it is rather miraculous that the human body is capable of literally making you crave what it needs and I find it comforting to know that their have always been wise, strong, caring women around who are gifted enough to show us how to use nature to our best advantage. There is nothing extreme or unnecessary about that. And if you factor in economic restraints, lack of prenatal education and limited access to healthcare of any kind then we can be grateful organic therapies and remedies have been and are around.
It sounds like pregnancy-induced pica and comes from having inadequate nutrition at your disposal.
Has she discussed that time of the month yet? I haven’t been following her closely but I know she’s into nature and organic stuff. Trust if she hasn’t talked about it yet the topic will be brought up eventually. I’m sure she uses reusable pads, tampons, cups, or sponges. I laughed when I read her comment on sunbathing her vagina. I definitely think in this sense, she is like JLaw. Both are a bit wacky but in different ways.
She probably uses a moon cup. They’re awesome as long as you aren’t squeamish about touching your ladybits.
Agreed! I love my menstrual cup. I haven’t bought tampons in ten years – less waste to the environment, and I only have to change it twice a day. 🙂
Has Divergent’s PR person fallen asleep on the job? Because their stories coming across the something of a wackadoo.
Haha, I wondered about that too! Divergent hasn’t got great reviews so far, has it? And they let her talk all this nonsense. Someone’s not doing his job.
That was supposed to say their STAR is coming across. Iphone typing!
Maybe I’m wrong, but negative charges don’t bond to negative isotopes, do they?
You’re correct. Opposite charges attract and negative charges repel each other. She also means ions (charged particles) not isotopes (atoms with different numbers of neutrons).
Yeah, I know. I know all those terms in Croatian so I though I might got something wrong because it’s in English, so thank you for your explanation 🙂
Why do celebrities always try to sound way smarter than they are?
Ha!
I like this hippie chick sh*t. Although once a month hair washing wouldn’t work for me, even once a week is a day or two to long for me.
“But I first heard about the benefits of eating clay from a taxi driver. He was African and was saying that, where he’s from, the women eat clay when they’re pregnant. Seriously–ask your taxi drivers where they are from and about their customs. You will learn a lot”
OKAY GIRL
Maybe I just read the quote incorrectly but I didn’t really see Shailene criticizing monogamy.. I thought she was saying we weren’t meant to only have one “love” our whole life and were meant to date around and experience new things with different people? It kind of fits the other things she says about relationships more.. But idk I could be wrong..
Once a month seems like it must get pretty greasy. But being a biracial woman with curly hair I don’t wash my hair very often either. If I’m keeping it straight I only do it once every 2 weeks and if it’s curly maybe once every 3 or 4 weeks.. I remember growing up around mainly white girls with straight hair they thought it was extremely dirty of me and I stopped telling people how infrequently I washed it and would like but if I actually washed it once or more a week it would get too dry.. So maybe Shailene is the same way? Her hair gets too dry?
I’m of Mediterranean ancestry and my hair is super curly too, enough so that I’ve had Black and Black Latino friends ask to touch my hair just out of curiosity. When they do, the response is the same–that I have hair a Black woman’s hair. It’s never occurred to me to ask how often women of color wash their hair, but myself– if I wash it more than once every three or four weeks, it gets really dry and breaks off at the roots. I also rub a bit of oil into it to keep my curls looking beautiful and the roots strong….my undergraduate boyfriend was West Indian and I used to use his hair product (Pink’s) but now I just use either a little bit of coconut oil or Aveda product, whatever is on hand.
I love my hair and cannot imagine what would happen to it if I washed it daily or every other day. OMG, I’d go bald.
I think she is speaking bollocks. Only if you have very curly hair, as Frida was saying above, is a problem to wash it very often. I am Mediterranean 100% and even when my hair was longer, beyond my bum, I used to wash it once every five days. It is also wavy and it tends to be greasy easily. The problem was that my hair roots were darn greasy after two days…. Conclusion, after ten years I decided to cut it, too much hassle and I don’t like to be smelly and with greasy hair!
I don’t know what this Shailene is talking about, cuz she has short hair and straight.
Actually, I totally agree with her in questioning if humans are meant to be with one person forever. I mean, I can’t imagine still being with the first guy I fell in love with. I was such a different person then. If I’d married that guy, there’s a good chance we’d have been divorced within a year.
I think people are enjoying misinterpreting that quote, but when you think about it, factoring in everything you know about human nature (the cheating, divorce rates, etc.), isn’t it a reasonable question?
I think it depends on the couple. I have been with my husband since I was 17. Now we are in our 30’s and still deeply in love. I feel like we grew up together and are best friends. Most of the happy marriages I have seen are between couples that met in their teens or early 20’s. I can only speak about my experiences though.
I have an honest question. I understand not washing hair so you shower w a cap on or just rinse with water. I have to shampoo after every workout, hair gets too sweaty. If I don’t workout I could last a week. What about getting rid of sweat? Just rinse and suds only once a month?
I have stringy white girl wavy / curly hair with loads of frizz and a dry scalp so over the past two months ive been trying to wash as little as possible; its softer and I actually have curls, yes real curls rather than rats tails and there is less frizz. Going sulphate and silicon free actually seems to have made a difference.
I tend to have a greasy scalp which becomes sore and scaly if i dont wash often, dont know if thats a result of over washing previously but its something I need to address if I’m to go down the “natural” route. I watched a video where a black women with the most beautiful hair tied it loosely, bundled it into a white sports sock and only washed her scalp. She used very little shampoo and lots of warm, not hot, water to rinse it out and this works for her. Other women use conditioner to shampoo so that theyre not stripping oils from their hair. My daughter uses dry shampoo on the days she doesnt have time to wash and dry her long hair. Natural hair care is a whole other world but it doesnt mean smelly, oily scalps and hair. I’d like to say that my hair has never looked or smelled better with the organic oils, shampoos and conditioners that im using. Hope this answers your question somewhat.
I’m trying to wash my hair less… every other day/ twice a week or so. If I shower after a workout, I will often just rinse it. That does the trick, as far as sweat. I try not to wash my hair with (sulfate/ paraben-free) shampoo until it gets greasy.
I take showers everyday with a shower cap on and then don’t wet it any other time except for when I’m shampooing and conditioning it.
I know some people (like my sister) who will only shampoo and condition twice a month but will condition once a week..
When I workout I don’t sweat very much along the hairline, but evenso I wear a lulu lemon headband so that soaks up a lot of the sweat. and to be honest as gross as this sounds, it’s actually good for my hair.. well maybe not “good” but it’s not bad lol… it doesn’t make my hair look oily or greasy.. I just straighten it if it ruins my edges haha
I think she actually means to let her vagina have some fresh air? Lol…
Same idea also
Either that or she’s risking a sunburn in a really bad place.
She has NO IDEA what she is talking about. Don’t take medical advice from taxi drivers OR celebrities.
Do you suppose her handlers are frantic?
They’re loving this!
America’s favorite farting clay eater – ahhh thanks, Kali. This now completes my YA trifecta: America’s favorite farting Cookie Monster & America’s favorite farting Garbage Pale Kid (JLaw and KStew)
America’s favorite Metal-Sh**ting Clay-Eater.
Jesus, take the wheel!
She must be wonderful to have to deal with on set. P.U!
This actually kinda makes me like her . I’ll have to look into eating clay. No seriously 😉
As for sunning the vadge: don’t knock it til you’ve tried it. Dunno about health benefits, but there’s def something naughty and fun about exposing bits where normally ‘the sun don’t shine’ 😉 hahaha
And taking supplements is not really going to do the same thing as absorbing Vitamin D naturally. Most supplements just pass right on through and don’t really give the benefits of the source! Not going to run out and offer up my cooter to the sun, because skin cancer yo, but I definitely see her point.
This comment actually made me laugh out loud…
Am I the only one who is already sick of her?
^^NOPE^^
No. I barely know who she is, but I’m really tired of her and her words of wisdom already.
This days she washs her hair every day
I just can’t with her. I bet she reeks. Ick.
I love these interviews. Sometimes, I take her tips (going to look into this clay thing), others I have a giggle at (sunbathing vaginas). It doesn’t bother me at all that she only shampoos monthly, I’m sure she rinses her hair with water when she showers and that mostly does the trick (your scalp/hair adapts if you’ve been doing it long enough). I try to shampoo every other day, as my hair is definitely typical of Andean people (gets oily!!!), and I have no desire to sport several rounds of oily hair before it finally balances itself. I find Shailene to be like the genuinely friendly and open neighborhood hippie. Hell, right now I’m experimenting with ginger root, peppermint essential oil, coconut milk, fenugreek seeds, etc. to deal with hair shedding and promote hair growth. I find this kind of stuff a lot more interesting than the typical star’s soundbites.
Agree, Aysla. I’m amused by her hippie tips. Can you share your experiments on how to deal with hair shedding/promote hair growth? I’m planning to give up on shampooing and go back to how mom used to wash my hair as a kid with acacia concinna.
Ahhh, I wrote up a long response but it didn’t go through. Here’s the gist of it:
I follow a youtuber for her hair care videos, which are excellent and really help: https://www.youtube.com/user/farahdhukai Her staples are almond oil, rosemary essential oil, vitamin e oil, coconut oil, and grapeseed oil. You can sub in peppermint (which is what I have) or lavender essential oil. I recommend occasionally using coconut milk (as a cold or hot oil treatment) and massaging it into your scalp and hair, leaving it for 5 hours or overnight (with a shower cap on, because I believe it can stain). As idk pointed out, mustard seed oil is great too (but it really, really smells!)– leave overnight (again, with towel or shower cap on, so the smell doesn’t transfer).
My hair is very long (just about to my lower back), so I’m supremely lazy about doing treatments. What I do most consistently (and that I find works very well) is doing a 3-minute scalp massage twice a day, and taking a multivitamin along with fish oil pills (focus on high epa/dha). When I do treatments, I like to apply them with my head down (bent over) for the extra blood flow. Before bed every night, I also put my hair into a braid to prevent breakage/tangling/knots since my hair strands are fine. I get my coconut oil and fish oil supplements from Vitacost (the vitacost brand ones).
I’ve never heard of acacia concinna, so thanks for bringing that to my attention. I am going to try that out 🙂
In India they use mustard seed oil. It keeps hair healthy, strong, and helps to slow down premature graying. I haven’t used it but know people who have. It does have a strong smell though. I have also heard of people washing their hair/body with milk or yogurt.
The thing about plaque being oil-soluble is interesting to me. Everything else seems a bit… odd. But hey, as far as Hollyweird goes, she’s harmless. As long as she’s not earth-mothering other people into insanity, I could care less how much clay she eats or how often she suns her vag.
Really – I’ll take hippy-dippy natural health advice from her over offers of auditing sessions ANY day of the week.
There are a few characters in Hollywood of the ‘respectable’ sort who don’t bathe. Hello, Leo? Is that you? I wash my hair once a week myself, but it’s quite short and has been for 15 years. When I had it longer, I would shampoo twice a week. If one has really fine hair, overwashing can make it oilier over time, rather than keep it clean. I use a dry shampoo daily, made with baking soda/cornstarch which I add a little lavender to, and obviously wash it if I’ve actually gotten dirt in it, or have been cooking something overly stinky. I hope she keeps letting her freak flag fly. It’s not like any of us actually WILL have to hang out with her 😛
I have clay in capsules, perhaps I ought to take it. And I wash my hair more often, but, with extremely diluted bubble bath— because, thats a very simple detergent without promises of going into my DNA and rearranging my hair cells. None of that fancy chemistry for me… I just want to help my hair be healthy on its own. Think of it– we used to have an entirely different lifestyle, its only now in “modern” society that we have become so estranged to the earth from which we came and will return. I did oil pulling a few years ago but somehow didnt notice much– or rather, it didnt fix what I wanted it to fix. 🙂
Idk. I don’t shampoo my hair but I do use a cleansing conditioner on it every other day. But, I’m biracial with extremely curly hair. She has straight short hair.
Well, maybe she only washes her hair once a month because that’s the only time she can get fresh spring water from the mountains. I suppose she must go and gather it naked…..So she can sun her snatch at the same time….
Shailene the Splendid Scintillating Sunny Snatch….She’s so special and sassy…Sun your snatch today!
Why do I have the feeling we will soon see a candid pic of Miley or Beyonce sunning theirs?
best comment I’ve ever read!! me and my co worker had the biggest laugh thank you muchly!!
Well, you’re very welcome, and thank YOU for posting that! ♥
Perhaps we should start a Sunny Snatch Society….It would be seriously stupendously sexy and scandalous!
Not to mention silly and senseless.
Somebody stop me….
” it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes.”
I don’t know what, if any, charge clay might have. If clay is negatively charged then wouldn’t it bind to positively charged ions? I don’t know about “isotopes”, they are not necessarily charged since the difference between isotopes is in the number of neutrons they contain and neutrons do not carry a charge.
You know what I take from these interviews? That she is inquisitive, quirky, and kind. How many people do you know who chat up their taxi drivers? I know very few who are open to caring about everyone they meet, and trying to learn from them. I don’t understand the criticism. She comes across as a nice girl.
I feel the same way. I think she’s a kind soul, and very genuine. People shouldn’t be so quick to discredit her just because of her youth and celebrity, she’s never claimed to be an expert… just an enthusiast ;). I wish she would compile a book list, I’d be very interested to see what she reads.
I know right? Seems sweet enough to me.
Agree! Don’t understand the hate for her. I can only think it’s fear? I’d rather read what she says than Goop’s recommendation for $1500 sandals for spring.
Um, fear? Of what? I do not hate her at all.
I’m sorry if I think she made a big mistake by becoming the sun your snatch spokesperson.
I think it’s sad that any jokes made are automatically thought of as hate.
@Pandy
Fear? Hate? It’s called joking. Lighten up.
~Z~
The Sunny Snatch Society is surely sensational!
Bwahahaha! Lighten up indeed! Kinda goes along with the theme!!! 😆
Lighten up your lovely lushious labia! Heeeeeee!
Thanks GoodNames! ♥
Still have no idea what we are in fear of….
I honestly she’s harmless, overenthusiastic, and possibly a bit misguided, but she talks too much and it makes it easy for people to pick on her.
But I kind of find her hippie-ish ways endearing on a certain level, but maybe that’s because most of my friends are hippies 😉
EDIT: lol @ “sun your snatch spokesperson”
Sign up to join the Sunny Snatch Society today! 😆
It’s simply smashing I say!
+1
I am so amused. This put a smile on my face. And it has been so cold and dark this winter I am tempted to let ALL of me get some sun when its warm enough! Have a private backyard and can’t wait for my bfs reaction!i
Really, the human body and every thing/thought/process/metabolic action is a combination of 2 things: elctrical impusles and chemical messages. Everything is a function of those 2 processes. When you trigger an electrical polarity change (such as through Acupuncture, my profession) you trigger the brain to release chemical messages through its various systems, such as endocrine & exocrine. These substances are called neurotransmitters and hormones, which cause specific things to happen inside your body. Clay is a chelating agent that binds with toxic chemicals and removes them from your body through your bowel movement. The herb cilantro is a VERY cheap and effective heavy metal detoxifier for mercury and aluminum, both metals which are present in vaccine preservatives. Coconut oil has amazing properties~it is healthy to cook with (unlike olive oil), easily digested since it is medium chain healthy triglycerides, and has numerous anti-inflammatory properties. It is also great for your hair & skin. We are too caught up on “offending others” through our body odors, so the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries make BILLIONS by first selling us anti-perspirants (that put the metal aluminum DIRECTLY INTO YOUR LYMPHATIC SYSTEM), and then by the chemotherapy necessary to treat the breast cancers that spring up as a result. Shailene is on the right track health wise. I have ZERO information about the beneficial effects of Vadge-tanning, though.
Co-sign! I came here to say pretty much the same thing, thanks for beating me to it.
Plenty of people avoid shampoo (we DO wash our hair, people – just not with shampoo!) and chelate heavy metals to avoid toxic buildup. Vitamin D IS good for your skin, and since yeast thrives in warm, dark environments, I’m sure nude sunbathing has its benefits.
Most makeup and women’s hygiene products are loaded with nasty chemicals. Good for Shailene. I’m amazed so many people are criticizing her for being open and talkative about her lifestyle and choices.
Here here!
Olive oil isn’t healthy to cook with?
No, it isn’t! At high temperatures it literally “burns” and becomes toxic, oxidizing free radicals. It is perfectly healthy raw~ Coconut oil is stable at high temperatures, and safe to cook with.
I’ve heard about using coconut oil as a deodorant too? I want to try that. I use the Crystal deodorant.
I’ve tried coconut oil, and it isn’t quite enough for me. Actually, I experimented with a combination of anti-bacterial essential oils and baking soda, etc. My skin breaks out with baking soda. I’m back to regular ol’ deodorant now, but I love reading about this crap! I think some of it is bunk, and some if it works for some people but not others, but a lot of it is really helpful! (Does the crystal actually do anything?)
@phlyfiremama
You certainly sound very knowledgable and educated on many topics. I don’t really want to start an argument about this, but I just wanted to mention that there are no conclusive studies linking use of deodorant to breast cancer. Certainly, there are some studies that show a possible connection, but nothing definitive. I had breast cancer, and have done research and talked at length about it to my oncologist, who is one of the leading breast cancer specialists in the world, and I still feel comfortable wearing deodorant. Breast cancer starts in the breast, and spreads to the lymphatic system, not vice versa, as you suggest.
Not deodorant, unless it has aluminum. Aluminum makes your pores shrink, trapping waste substances inside when your sweat glands are trying to push them out (excrete them). That is why you don’t perspire~metabolic wastes and now metals and chemicals from these products are trapped inside your body. Your armpits happen to have the most superficial and easily invaded lymph nodes in your body, very close to the surface of your skin. Antiperspirant and ANY substance containing aluminum triclosan, when placed against your sweat pores (remember, pores are 2 way openings into and out of the skin), especially over time, will lead to disease~disease that spreads by circulating through the lymphatic system ( the major component of your immune system). It isn’t always breast cancer~sometimes its autoimmune disease(s).
as sunbathing a vagina and shampooing hair once a month (it’s science-fiction to me, i have to wash my hair once a day) is a little bit strange, the clay-eating thing is not so dumb as it seems, i’ve been drinking green clay with water for couple of months and it really cleans your guts and skin.
I really want to try this. Where do you get your clay?
She’s actually dead on with the Mountain Rose Herbs comment. That would be my first stop! Look ’em up online.
simply ebay – search for French green clay
She was probably making a joke about sunbathing your vadge. Geez. And yes, she probably rinses her hair with water. After a whole of no shampoo, your hair actually begins to make up for it. And clay is actually good for you. When I’m getting sick, I add some to water and it draws out the toxins. It’s good for stomach aches, cramps, headaches, even as a face mask. It’s sad how much people will put down a person without even attempting to understand where she’s coming from.
Yes, absolutely. Thanks.
But…but…I didn’t see it advertised on TV! How can it be true? *snaaark*
she is soooo annoying and i hope this movie bombs just so she shuts up already.
and I used to like Secret Life of the American Teenager so she’s ruining my past love for that stupid show with her hippie weirdness.
well whatever i found the whole sunbathing your vagina a very funny story.
Where do you get your clay?
Ask your cabbie, girl!
@TOK LMAO! You win! And I totally agree with your comment about the cabbie, I can’t see how some people didn’t see the racial stereotyping in that comment. Smh. Not calling her a racist but that comment was a tad narrow-minded, she’s a complete sweetheart but she isn’t as “wise” as she claims to be. Which is okay, she’s 22, plenty of time to mess up and learn.
Thanks, Dani2 😉
I completely agree-I honestly do like her, regardless of how it may seem.
I defend her a lot around here because I like that she’s different and passionate about her beliefs- I just wasn’t crazy about the way she worded that statement.
That was SERIOUSLY hilarious! You made my work day!
Yes, my job sucks that bad!
My grandmother kept a rain barrel in her garden and always brought in a pitcher of water from it to rinse my hair. That was lovely, and all this has makes me think I should try that again. However, I don’t want to risk flashing the neighbors or frightening the dog by sunning my undercarriage. I can guarantee you that if I tried, I would get caught by the meter reader, my sons, and probably an experimental Google drone.
Okay this comment made my day.
Lol, very funny
From what I know, you only need to have one part of your body in the sun in order to absorb the beneficial amount of vitamin D. It can just be your hand or foot.
Lastly, just wondering does she live in LA? Wonder what her remedy for the smog and horrible air pollution she is surrounded by is.
Look out below: Names are dropping from the sky!
What a dumbass white girl thing to say, ask your taxi driver where he’s from. “No where are you REALLY from?”
I guess she’s trying to say all her friends and those in her circle are all white? I don’t know, it was a weird thing to say, but I don’t really think she meant to say it in a racist sort of way. You can be born in America but still know about your culture and customs from wherever your parents were born. Cab drivers are the most diverse when it comes to occupation. Nothing wrong with her showing interest. I just find it strange that she isn’t able to ask her friends, etc. these types of questions?
She always seems clean to me. The same with her hair: not oily. But her comments are gross.
Sounds like a silly attempt to cultivate an interesting personality.
Also, I hate it when people use the term “vagina” when they really seem to mean “vulva” or “labia” etc. So unless she’s laying about spread-eagled with a speculum inserted, her vagina isn’t getting much Vit. D.
There are a lot of people out there who need an anatomy lesson. If you can see your vagina outside of your body you have a serious problem.
Just because she doesn’t shampoo, doesn’t mean that she doesn’t use anything. A big thing with girls with curly hair is the no-poo method. Basically using conditioner, but not shampoo on a day to day basis.
She doesn’t have curly hair though, so being concerned about frizz isn’t the reason.
If she loved clay so much she should look into Morrocan Method shampoos. It’s all clays, muds, and herbs. I like it but it’s expensive so I switched to SheaMoisture.
How do they get rid of the oil-build up from their scalp?
I use a cleansing conditioner and I have much less oil buildup than when I used shampoo. My hair is growing really fast now too.
I’ve heard of oil pulling before, it’s not really that odd. Coconut oil has a lot of therapeutic benefits and is really tasty, it would be a good choice. But if plaque is a concern- try letting xylitol dissolve in your mouth after eating and drinking. Starves the little microbeasties that generate the plaque and any you have on your teeth will eventually disappear. For various reasons, I hadn’t been to a dentist for about 12 years but had been using xylitol and the rest of Dr. Ellie Phillips’ program (Closys rinse, nonabrasive toothpaste, Listerine, ACT fluoride rinse) for several years. I needed a cap for a broken tooth but he saw no need for even a cleaning first. No tartar, no cavities. None. Only 6 to 10 grams of xylitol (birch sugar) per day is needed, many “candies” and gums are sold now with it as the only sweetener (tastes like cane sugar to me, no aftertaste) which Phillips says is important because the microbeasties can apparently learn how to metabolize other sugar alcohols like sorbitol after enough exposure but seem clueless about how to handle xylitol. Phillips says you also can just put a little granulated xylitol (4 grams per teaspoon) on your tongue or add to water.
I believe in a lot of natural remedies, but pulling seems more snake than coconut oil. I love xylitol mints though!
Thanks for the information girl. Is it OK to just chew the sugar free gums that have xylitol in them? I’m going to get some extra virgin coconut oil to try the oil pulling too.
Whatever Shailene is doing to her hair and skin is working. I just can ‘t go three days without shampoo.
Oh, Shailene. You crazy kook. I love it.
I wonder if that shampoo she mentions is any good. I need a new shampoo desperately. My hair is somewhat long and fairly straight, so I need something that keeps it smooth but that doesn’t make it too flat. Any suggestions?
She’s just gross.
“when the sun finally comes out, spread your legs and get some sunshine”
This might be my new favorite quote ever, to be used in all contexts and as any type of reference! It’s just pure comedy gold.
Also, shampooing once a month?? My bullshi* detector has just broken from overload. Judging by those pics alone she has more product in her hair on a daily promo basis than I put on in a month.
Not using shampoo on a regular basis doesn’t necessarily imply not using other hair products. Perhaps she removes the product used for red carpet or publicity events with a vinegar rinse.
Pica eating is something quite a few pregnant women did — and still do — in poor areas with poverty-level standard of living and little or no medical care. Including the US. Their bodies crave certain minerals and nutrients the clay often carries, and over the years, the women have learned the clay does carry these nutrients.
She is wack-a-doodle and I kinda like it. *snorts*
Oh, please.
Racist?
I as an immigrant, really don’t understand what is racist about talking to a cabbie while sitting in his cab, just making conversation.
It certainly wouldn’t be my first question, but I love finding out where people are from, why they immigrated, what their life was like in their home country and what customs and holidays they observed.
I’m very curious about other peoples lives and I wish I could travel the world, visit every country, meet people, ordinary people and learn about them and about their lives, but that is not possible for me.
I don’t see why people are so often outraged by other peoples different lives, she is not talking about anything dangerous here, my family and myself have used organic virgin coconut oil by DME for many years, cooking, baking, massaging my gums and teeth, putting on my skin after shower, massaging a bit into the ends of my hair and on and on.
Let’s be honest we made the sun the enemy, so many things have sunscreen now and so many people have severe vitamin D deficiency.
Few minutes of sun exposure without sunscreen on daily bases in the morning before the sun is too strong is a a good way to get some vitamin D.
Modern medicine has saved countless lives, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use simple home remedies sometimes.
Why not practice integrated medicine?
Well, you can wash your hair without any shampoo, so I don’t understand what the big deal here is. Many people use only water to wash their hair and scalp. It is not that uncommon. Shampooing is a pretty modern phenomenon after all.
This is for Kali, who asked for tips. Make sure you don’t swallow it while pulling it, not even a bit, it’s full of bacteria
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I can NOT believe the histrionics and namecalling her as a racist because she suggests asking your cab driver about his/her customs. WTF? Screaming and stamping and calling EVERYTHING racist, completly minimizes the response when someone really IS being racist.
Does Shailene ever think anything she doesn’t say?
She went from irritating to boring in one week for me
Basically what I’m getting from these comments is: actresses should stick to talking about dieting, eating (or lack of it), bodily functions (but in a cool way, like JLAW, duh!), babies, relationships, losing weight, fashion, etc.
If you try to be yourself (like Shailene) or even different (she is a fan of natural living and preserving the environment?! THE HORROR!) and veer away from that script, prepare to be mocked viciously.
EXACTLY,
if someone is different in this narrow minded world, they are mocked, trashed and vilified.
Because, if someone is not white bread eating person and junk food eating person or not eating a steak a size of your head, something must be terribly wrong.
Do not dare to avoid dairy or gluten that causes you acne, eat organic, because you are concerned about the environment or be vegan, because you love animals and do not even mention anything about being bi or gay.
And North America is the land of the immigrants for goodness sake.
So why so much intolerance for different lifestyles, it’s a choice not a MUST!
Mocked, trashed and villified? Where?
Please don’t choke on the pearls you are obviously clutching.
WHAT exactly do you expect to find on the internet on a gossip site called Celebitchy?
I bet you have a great sense of humor….
@ Sunny : I completely agree with you. Different from the mainstream is often harshly criticized by way too many people. I don’t understand why people need to all act and live the same like robots.
@ Z-Right?LOL! The only histrionics are from those of you freaking out over nothing.
If you can’t handle celebs being criticized then perhaps a celeb gossip blog isn’t the right forum for you.
The thing that bothers me about her is that she is very young, not very experienced in life but she goes on about her own life and lifestyle like it is the only acceptable way to live. I’m fine with her being all artsy and granola eating but she seems smug about it IMO. That’s what grates on my nerves.
I like the idea of giving some sunshine to your Vagina! Living by the ocean makes it easy – going to the beach this weekend and definitely spreading my legs!
I can’t help it, I kinda like this kid, no matter how uber crunchy-flaky she is.
To Z : yes, mocked trashed and vilified.
People are very mean when someone is different from the mainstream and not just on the internet.
The kid is carrying a little pony lunchbox and is being bullied for it.
Someone is not hetero and it’s bad and against nature, some women come from cultures that don’t use epidural before giving birth and they are mocked for being so called warriors for doing the so called natural labour.
Basically, if someone is not white, hetero, swinging beer or coca cola around, munching on chips and steak, being religious and not fitting in to that square box some moron decided on than you will be judged.
Rachael Ray has recipes for middle class ladies and or maybe lower class families and that’s great.
Gwyneth Paltrow has recipes for the wealthy and for people with gluten issues and she gets ripped on most websites.
Yes, I have a great sense of humour otherwise I wouldn’t survive in this world.
Sorry, I don’t own any pearls, it’s not my style.
Nope sorry don’t see it. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t get ripped a new one for her “rich people” recipes, she got ripped a new one for her arrogant comments.
I don’t think you’re around here often enough to get how it works-celebs are pretty much picked apart for what they say-no celeb is immune from that.
I mean, are we seriously now claiming that tree-huggers are being discriminated against?
lol…come on now. Some of us here ARE tree-huggers, doesn’t mean that we can’t have an opinion about Shailene’s comments or any other celebrity’s comments around here.
It’s not a fansite, guys, it’s a GOSSIP BLOG. You will find varied and strong opinions around here and if you can’t handle the diversity, then you should probably go elsewhere.
To theoriginalkitten : I immigrated to Canada a few years ago and I can tell you that I often am made fun of, because I’m vegan ( I love animals and don’t want to eat them ). I break out from dairy and gluten, so avoid them and I get a lot grief for that. The reality is the people are often not very nice to those that are different from the mainstream. I don’t care for Paltrows acting, but some of her recipes in her two cookbooks really helped to improve my food choices. I would never dare tell someone what to eat or what kind of lifestyle they should lead. Frankly it’s none of my business, it’s not hurting me or causing me any grief.
I’m not discriminated against, because I’m a tree huger, but I’m definitely treated like I’m weird, because I don’t BBQ steak or drink beer or eat cheese. I was stupid to be honest at work about avoiding dairy, gluten, sugar and alcohol, because of break outs and lets just say that people are not kind about it. If you are not mainstream, some people look at you in a strange way.
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You probably won’t see this Sunny but I hope you do. I get it, I do.
I have a huge group of vegan friends and one of my best friends is an herbalist, a shaman (yes a REAL one) and runs a school called The Gaia School of Healing (google it, it’s amazing!), another good friend runs a company called Stay Vocal, based on recycling and reusing. He’s vegan and lives almost off-the-grid trying to create the smallest carbon footprint on earth. These people are as authentic as you can get and I consider them mentors in addition to close friends. Be proud of your beliefs and don’t let people make you feel inferior or strange for being true to yourself.
If people look at you weird the problem is more with them and their own insecurity or feeling left out (“how come she’s found something meaningful to her and I don’t have that?”) than it is about you.
As far as Shailene, I honestly don’t think people are being any harsher on her than they are on other celebs, I truly don’t. I think this forum has some of the fairest (albeit snarkiest) commenters around and honestly, most of it is just in good fun. None of us wish any harm on Shailene or hate her in any capacity. We just like to goof 😉
My advice to you: community, community, community. That’s where you will find a place to belong. You have to seek it out, it won’t fall into your lap but it is THERE, I promise you.
Well, I am sorry that you have a hard time personally. I couldn’t agree more that people are aholes. Especially on the internet. But that is just the way it is, and nobody can change it.
That does not excuse it, but it is the truth.
If you have a legitimate reason to avoid dairy and other things, then obviously you are not doing it to be cool or “in”. I don’t think they should say a word about it. I have zero problem with anyone’s decisions to do what they think is best. But if you talk about in a condescending way and act like you are superior because of it, then it is a problem. (I am not saying that is what you do ~ I have no idea.) In other words, I don’t have a problem unless someone is pushing it in my face or acting like I am a criminal against the planet. Some things work really well for some people, and truly help them with legitimate health problems, but then you have the ones who do it so they can act like superior crusaders trying to save the planet.
But I do NOT see how making jokes about an absurd comment like sunning your vagina is bullying. Seriously, did you think she didn’t know she would get LOTS of attention for that comment? Of course she knew. It’s most likely why she said it.
I’m just sick of people acting like a joke = hate.
The truth is that she doesn’t talk mainstream like many actors do to please the majority of the demographics. It’s her life, her choices and as long as she is not hurting anybody, I wish her the best. As soon as she starts to drink and drive, I will have a problem with that. Otherwise, to each is own.
My grandma often says to me that our world would be a lot more boring, if people wouldn’t be so different from each other in every way. Sort of like gardens are prettier with all kinds different flowers and bushes compared to gardens with just one kind of flower. She is not hurting anybody.
I like her. We have a similar view on life.
All I can think of is sunburn. Very painful sunburn.
I like this chick, from her days in Secret Life of An American Teenager series to now. She’s quite unique compared to a lot of starlets around the same age demographic.
Oh I learned a lot about the clay. I kinda want to try it lol.
Shailene, it’s best to be quiet, if you are different from others. Learn from Paltrow, she has been crucified over and over again, because she doesn’t hide her privileged lifestyle from the public.
She is not the average middle class woman and gets huge amount of critics. Just hide your true self, if you want to have a long, productive career.
Big deal, I have a few coworkers that wash their once a week only, after cleaning their houses.
By the way, I love organic coconut oil and not just in the kitchen. I have a glass jar of it in my bathroom to apply after my showers and it’s also great for my cuticles and it makes excellent hair mask once a month. Sun is great for vitamin D, many of us are deficient.
No, no no no no Shailene, don’t be an individual, just go with the wishes of the masses or otherwise the internet will eat you alive.
She is full of non-scientific, waste of time BS! Clay bonding to metals?! My god. I normally all celebs but I *hate* her.
I think she’s trying to distinguish herself from Jennifer Lawrence. Is she going about it in an odd way? Yes. But she’s establishing herself as a different kind of young actress. Perhaps she’s not as outgoing, sunny and insanely likeable as J-Law, but she’s not trying to be her clone either. This could benefit her in the long run.
I think she’s going to get ripped apart on everything and anything she says regardless, b/c she’s already being compared to someone else (especially being compared to someone who’s absolutely adored by the public). It’s like when Britney Spears first came on to the scene… everyone compared Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson to her, and no matter what they did, they were scrutinized harder b/c they were following in her footsteps, so to speak. And no matter what they did, they couldn’t win.
Even though Divergent won’t be the next Hunger Games (I think the public is suffering from YA oversaturation at this point), I’m sure Shailene will be just fine. I do think that she should tone down the hippie talk a little. She doesn’t need everyone thinking that’s she’s cuckoo.
I don’t know who this superior acting twerp is but I keep hearing about her too much and everything I hear is overtly weird shizzz so I officially am turned off to her and do not care about her movies or songs or whatever the F it is she’s pimping. I know no one cares but there it is.
I don’t think the sunshine solution is such a big controversy. My doctor told me to do “cartwheels in the sunshine” after I had some lady issues.
I like that Shailene has something different to say. She’s quirky and I like quirky.
What a whackadoodle!
My mum always made us put out pyjamas on without underwear so everything down there can air out. I’m 30 now & still do this!
Ummm ok then…. I’m a vegan and somewhat into the natural living thing, but some of this is way out there even for me.
The oil pulling really does work. But I prefer coconut oil. Not only will it make your teeth whiter but it also fights germs. I only wash my hair once a week too. The rest of the time I use dry shampoo if necessary. But I’m really lucky that I don’t have oily hair. I think once a month is a bit extreme. And the sunshine thing is a bit much. A) TMI!!! and B) The sun may be natural but hello skin cancer. It’s fine to just go commando while at home and get some fresh air. She’s a bit off the wall but seems harmless.
@tealily Finding a good natural deodorant is hard! I’ve never tried baking soda because I have a feeling it’d break me out, too. One of the stick deodorants I tried had corn starch in it, and my skin turned red after a few days. I use the roll on crystal. It’s okay… some days I wish I had something scented, because I just sweat too much and smell gross. But for the most part, it does the trick.
I only use 100% Pure makeup too. The mascara DOES work, you just have to apply a couple of coats. And the cocoa brown mascara smells like chocolate. All the makeup is fruit and/or veggie pigmented.
I also do oil pulling and use coconut oil. The trick is swishing the oil in your mouth as long as you can and making sure to spit it all out.
As for hair, I use a sea salt shampoo by Lush once a week and Biolage bamboo fiber conditioner twice a week (I condition on Tuesdays and Fridays and shampoo on Sundays.) My hair is clean, healthy, and not smelly in the least. If it feels or looks a little oily, I just give it a quick wash.
@tealily and Lisa: Lush has a good natural deodorant called Aromaco, It smells like patchouli.
She is honestly so obnoxious to me.
I like her ok I like tmi but too much tmi no thanks… do you think she was having people on Though? Clay I have heard of chalk not clay is it not mud like??
I still remember her as Amy from the secret life of the American teenager on abc family. Crazy! She was terrible and cringeworthy. Physically and emotionally I swear she is morphing into semi Clooney and Jennifer Lawrence the hair and tmi and Clooney like views on monogamy, romance they worked together on descendants and she said she and Jen have been talking particularly before she took the role on divergent..
I hope some people make it this far in the comments … what she’s talking about is chelation, and it’s extremely harmful if not medically supervised. Medical professionals use specific chemical chelation therapy to combat things like heavy metal *poisoning*, not to simply rid the body of heavy metals. YOU NEED a certain amount of metals in your body like, I don’t know, *iron*? Yeesh.
Please don’t follow celebrity “medical” advice that they get from taxi drivers. This is beyond stupid.
There’s no way I’m lying outside with my vagina, to get endless amounts of sun. I can’t go put in the sun here in OZ, without getting sunburnt as it is.
I’ve decided that my ladybits do not like the sun.
This kid totally cracks me up. I love it. She reminds me of being a kid growing up in the 70’s and my hippie parents and all of their friends’ loco ideas. If she’d showered, she’d be a breath of fresh air, IMO.
LOL!!!
I’ve been no-poo for over a year, and it’s really helped rebalance my hair. After the detox period, your hair becomes less oily without shampoo. It’s cured my dandruff. I still do baking soda or a rosemary decoction every few days, but water-only doesn’t work with my hair. It depends on the hairtype. I’m not grossed out by her schedule since it seems to be working for her. I do wonder if her hair & makeup people are using other products on it when she’s shooting, though.
She said she didnt shampoo, she never said she didnt wash herself you drama queens. Shampooing is bad for your hair anyway, I say good on her.