Simon Cowell is a regular botox user. He told U.K.'s Glamour magazine that he doesn't think Botox is any more unusual than toothpaste. He's got no qualms about using it, and it works great for him.

He also revealed that he usually wears one-inch lifts in his shoes to make him look taller. Simon Cowell is 48 years old and about 5 feet 8.5 inches tall. He's been working out to get into superb shape over the past year.

Cowell is best known as a judge on American Idol and makes over $100 million a year from all his entertainment related businesses. He's always going to be a bachelor. He says if he got married, his wife would soon hate him.

Pig's feet are being touted as the hot new thing to eat if you want to keep your skin looking young. There's a very marketing savvy restaurant owner in Manhattan who has opened a restaurant serving mostly pig's feet. He's gotten a great deal of publicity that this is the natural way to keep your skin looking radiant and young. See today's article at the Telegraph - Pig's Feet: The New SuperFood?

But it's a far stretch to say that eating pig collagen will convert to collagen in your body. (If anyone has any scientific proof this, please send it in!)

There are foods you can eat that will help promote collagen production. These are foods high in lysine and proline and include lean meats (and maybe pig's feet?), egg whites, wheat germ, fish, legumes and peanuts.

Vitamin C is essential to help lysine and proline convert to collagen. And garlic has been shown to be an outstanding food to help support damaged collagen fibers. Green tea has also been shown to help prevent the breakdown of collagen. And the phytonutrients found in all red and blue berries 'help the collagen fibers link together in a way that strengthens the connective tissue matrix.'

See a great summary of foods that promote collagen production here.

See more about foods that fight wrinkles here.

The pig's foot dish photo above is by berzowska.

Crystal Renn is the world's top plus-size model today. She's a size 12 (size 16 in the UK). She now works for Ford Models and her current contracts include Saks Fifth Avenue, D&G and Nine West. She's done several Vogue spreads as well. The photo on the left is from her new campaign for Evans. The photo on the right is her at a dangerously skinny stage at age 16.

Crystal Renn struggled with anorexia when she was 16 but crossed a turning point before she became really ill by refusing to continue to adhere to the demands of her modeling agency.

See her plus-sized modeling story at the Telegraph.

Below is a video about Crystal Renn as the new face of Evans, a plus sized line geared toward fashion forward women.

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be a celebrity photographer these days, here's a good read about a day in the life of the paparazzi in Los Angeles. These (mostly young men) can make tens of thousands of dollars from the sale of one good photo. Especially if the target is someone like Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan. But from the sounds of it, things are getting out of hand and competition is driving down their income. There are several dozen photographers at any given time, sitting in their cars, waiting for Britney to leave her house.

Here's an excerpt;

Far below, at the foot of the dry hills, the city of Los Angeles glints in the sun. Up here, it's a different world. The air is perfumed with sage, and Ferraris and Lamborghinis glide through the famous Mulholland curves. Sopranos star James Gandolfini drives past, then singing star Lionel Richie and O.C. actress Mischa Barton. None of the photographers bothers to raise a camera. All they care about is Britney.

Right now, they're killing time. It's just over a week since she was quietly released from hospital where she had been undergoing a psychiatric evaluation and they were waiting for Spears to do … anything.

Read about the daily life of LA paparazzi here.

We don't often hear celebrities telling us exactly how much they weigh, but Rihanna was candid with Fabulous Magazine. She recently told them she is 5'8" tall and weighs precisely 133 pounds.

She says she's been working out a lot (mostly on a treadmill) and has lost a lot of weight.

See the Rihanna interview about fitness, body issues and dress sizes at Fabulous magazine.