Sun salutations with Botox Barbie
Supposedly Nashville is crawling with celebrities. Rob spotted Carrie Underwood at the mall, going into Louis Vuitton. My friend Brad regularly ends up on the treadmill next to Vince Gill at the YMCA. I imagine I’ve seen all kinds of country music stars around town, but I haven’t recognized a single celebrity yet.
Until last Saturday.
I’m sitting on my mat at Sanctuary for Yoga in Green Hills, getting ready to enjoy one of my last classes there. I’m stretching out a bit, doing an Easy Seated Twist, when I look over my right shoulder and see a girl standing in the doorway.
“Huh,” I think to myself. “That girl looks like Nicole Kidman.”
And as I twist again and glance over my left shoulder, it all comes flooding to me … really tall and thin, pregnant, married to Keith Urban, lives in Nashville … light bulb!
“That IS Nicole Kidman!”
My very first celebrity sighting! Or at least, my very first sighting in which the recognition of the celebrity was exciting. I was kind of oblivious when I was in LA.
I have no idea why Nicole Kidman would deign to attend a group yoga class, on a Saturday morning no less. SELF Magazine did a piece last fall about LeAnn Rimes practicing yoga at this studio, but that was private lessons.
But all the yogis in class all handled it pretty well. I caught a few bits of conversation about someone seeing her loading up at the salad bar at Whole Foods last week, but once class started, we were all business. Of course I stared at her during every single Downward Facing Dog, but at least I didn’t start humming “Come What May.”
I do have to say that seeing her up close actually didn’t make me feel like a stubby little troll. In fact, it was her too-yellow frizzy hair that was a little troll-like. She is obviously a very attractive woman, but mostly, she just has a recognizable face. Otherwise she blended right in with all the other wealthy-looking 40-something ladies of leisure in my class, down to the big ring on the gnarled hands that are a good 20 years older than her shiny, taut face.
Let me tell you, that porcelain skin you see on TV? It looks like Saran Wrap in real life.
I’m not gonna lie. I really almost went up to her after class to ask about those rumors that Tom Cruise is really gay and paid her and is now paying Katie Holmes to be part of his entourage and to help both their careers by having highly public romances immediately before the movie in which they co-starred was released. I mean, that has to be true, right? And what about Scientology?
No freaking way. That’s too cool. But you definitely should have asked her about Tom.
Is it normal for women who are 7 months pregnant to be able to go to normal yoga classes? I’ve never seen them in my classes. They usually go to classes where the moves are a bit more tailored for pregnant women.
She’s fake-pregs, in my humble o. I don’t even think she’s a biological female. That said, OMG NIC DOING YOGA W U!!!!!
No offense, but I think this anecdote has a 0.0001% of being true.
Here’s a tip if you want to make up a story: don’t overdo it. The last 3 paragraphs gave you away.
Wow, what happened to that post that mentioned this story has only a 0.0001% probability of being true?
Sorry ladies! Comments from first-time posters go through moderation first, which is why Silvia’s comment didn’t appear immediately.
Silvia, you think I’m making this up?
One bit about Amanda — she’s never making it up. Even when you wish she was. Her life’s really like this.
BUt thanx 4 tip Silvia.
D:)
I just saw her a few days ago. Porcelain skin like “Saran Wrap in real life”? I’d love to have her complexion ANYTIME! And I’m only 32 y/o.
Last Saturday afternoon I, in fact, got a text from Amanda that read: “Holy Sh*t – I just had a yoga class with Nicole Kidman!” She doesn’t make stuff up and if she did don’t you think it would have been with someone more topical like Perez Hilton or Hilary Clinton? Douche…
Honey, its common knowledge that Nicole Kidman is the Botox Queen of Hollywood. Everything on her face is perfectly rigid and shiny except for her eyelids. Its like she’s peeking out from behind a mask. I’m not saying she’s not pretty, or that her complexion isn’t nice. I’m saying she’s HAD A LOT OF BOTOX.
Honey ….
It’s not “common knowledge”. Rather, that’s malicious stories spread by some NK-haters, without true evidence other than comparing a few pictures.
Trust me, if one were to litter the internet with stories that this blog is simply a bunch of lies made up by “you name the buzz words”, does that mean it’s common knowledge that you’re a liar?
It’s getting a little tense in here…It’s kind of cracking me up.
I can also say I received the text message on Saturday confirming this story and let’s be serious…who would WANT to make something like this up? Certainly not Amanda…I think she has plenty of things occupying her time.
It’s not nice to attack people you know nothing about. It also makes people look like and ass when they assume they know everything. It truly is entertaining those of us that acutally know Amanda, so thank you.
How did her belly look?
Small! Though I think its partly because she’s so tall. You pretty much couldn’t tell she was pregnant from behind, though! I should be so lucky.
I’m curious what kind of yoga was this?
It was a vinyasa class, but it was a level 2-3 class, so more advanced. She modified the poses because she’s pregnant, of course.
Thanks for the response and even though I don’t know you I know you are telling the truth because you are not the only blogger who has posted seeing her doing yoga there in the last couple of weeks.
Actually she is definitely telling the truth! I saw her today at Sanctuary! She looked beautiful as always. She was on the yoga mat next to me!