Oliwia Nosal is a model from Poland.
Pictures of Beautiful Women
Welcome to my Blogger site, a blog devoted to pictures of beautiful women from different walks of life: actresses, singers, dancers, media personalities, models, and others.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Model Oliwia Nosal
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Pictures of Beautiful Women - The End
My beautiful-women picture blog is ending at the end of this month.
Recently, I had begun to be weighed down somewhat by my efforts to keep this blog going, as new subjects were becoming difficult to come up with. Also, women I had already featured long before turned out not to be worthy of my attention. You might recall that I scrubbed Lara Logan from this blog because she turned out to be a far-right South African jerk. Well, I recently remember that in 2015 I once featured Maye Musk, who gave birth to - and defends the actions of - another South African jerk. I deleted my post of her, too. Ditto that of Mika Brzezinski, whom I featured in 2008; even though I had featured her over a decade before she turned out to be someone who would compromise her feminist principles to accommodate a misogynistic white Christian nationalist once that same misogynistic white Christian nationalist regained the Presidency of the United States. I had talked about this at the start of the year; after self-deliberation, I decided that keeping my 2008 post of Mika Brzezinski was a compromise of my own principles.
Having already decided to cut back on news personalities, I thought I could keep this blog going by focusing on actresses and models and not so much on media personalities. Then I got the e-mail I feared I would inevitably receive . . . an e-mail objecting to my use of pictures that are not my own.
Last year I featured four actresses who had one thing in common - they all appeared on RETROcirq, a YouTube channel in which young women in exaggerated face paint played clown-like characters hosting video anthologies of TV commercials from the 1980s and 1990s. Having stumbled on this channel, I thought it was the zaniest thing I'd ever seen on YouTube, and I noticed something else - the actresses, who appeared out of costume and character at the end of these videos, were attractive young ladies who were perfect for my blog. I have featured seven of them. Well, the proprietor of this channel e-mailed me to ask me to remove four of these actresses for reasons that boiled down to intellectual-property issues and the privacy of the women he cited. I promptly removed them. And it was this incident that broke me. Featuring news-media personalities like Mika Brzezinski was already problematic, but now even featuring young actresses whose careers are just starting (a few of the RETROcirq ladies have their own Instagram feeds) is troublesome.
As a result of the RETROcirq retraction, this blog stopped being fun for me, although it was becoming less and less fun for awhile, and as ice-cream moguls Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield once said, if its not fun . . . why do it? So, after April 30, I won't. I'm using April 2025 to post the few remaining completed posts and pictures I had been saving in draft form for future posts.
Another breaking point came this past Sunday when Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," asked Donald Trump a question she shouldn't have asked, else the topic wouldn't have come up - would he try to seek a third presidential term? Trump cited nonexistent polls and fanciful circumventions of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution limiting Presidents to two terms, and Kristen Welker did not call out his lies and did not push back against his novel interpretations of a constitutional amendment that leaves no option to serve no more than two full terms. Kristen Welker caved on national television. And this is nothing new; she's folded like a cheap suit every time she's interviewed Trump. Kristen Welker, of course, is the most popular subject on my blog ever - my 2011 post of her had had 56,436 page views. Note the repeated use of the word "had," suggesting past perfect tense. That's exactly what I'm conveying - I deleted my post of Kristen Welker, along with a follow-up post of her, because while this blog is ending in thirty days, I couldn't, after what happened this past Sunday, keep Kristen Welker on my blog for even thirty minutes. Kristen Welker is no longer on my blog because, sadly, I no longer respect her.
My second most popular subject was 1980s model Sheila Johnson, my initial post of pictures from her modeling portfolio from 2009 having been viewed 29,201 times. Alas, Sheila Johnson - who was one of the models I connected with on Facebook - turned out to be a not-so-nice person, having been annoyed by my adulation for her and deleted numerous pictures of her that I had found online that she likely hadn't seen for over thirty years. As a result, all but two of my posts of Sheila Johnson have been removed - a post of a Bob Krieger photo she posed in with fellow model Carol Perkins and a token solo post - for the same reason I took down my posts of Kristen Welker. Although, to be honest, I'm more ticked off at Kristen Welker for nuzzling Trump and normalizing him.
It's Trump, by the way, who is a big reason for this blog's end. With his denigration of women and his penchant for reducing them to eye candy just there for the grabbing, he's made it virtually impossible for men to publicly display appreciation for feminine beauty, for even complimenting a woman on her looks in the most tasteful way is viewed as passive misogyny. And maybe it is - as formidable as CNN's Abby Phillip and CBS's Cecilia Vega are as journalists, it was their movie-star looks that got them featured in this space as much as their journalistic prowess. But now it's even politically incorrect to value actual movie stars for their looks. As I wrote yesterday on my regular blog, "The days when you could appreciate American actresses like Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor and European actresses like Catherine Deneuve or Sophia Loren for their looks as well as for their acting ability are gone forever . . . over a long time ago."
April 2025 will be a month in which I wind down this blog and publish the last pictures still in my reserves - the post of new subjects ahead were written up and set to publish on future dates befrore I decided to end this blog. It will remain up for the month of May but have no added content. On May 31, it will go offline for good. I had planned to archive my blog by switching it to a private site, but instead I plan to repurpose a good deal of the pictures on it before deleting it altogether.
I will save my goodbyes for the end of this month.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Jennette McCurdy
Friday, March 28, 2025
Model Valeria Mazza
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Model Muriel Letacq
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Model Bridget Hall
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Model Janine Giddings
Friday, March 14, 2025
French actress Adèle Exarchopoulos
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Musical actress Anneka Dacres
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Model Connie Cook
Connie Cook is one of the Halstonettes from the 1970s. A Halstonette, as one can gather, is a model who exclusively or primarily modeled for the designer Halston, several of whom have already appeared on this blog.
In addition, Ms. Cook modeled for Gino sportswear, Adolfo, and Bob Mackie, among others.
Much of her work was in fashion shows.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Sportscaster Bonnie Bernstein
Sunday, March 2, 2025
TV sportscaster Erin Andrews
Erin Andrews is a big star among sports commentators.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
March 2025: Commentary
Some time ago, I decided to stop featuring attractive female politicians on this blog because that would be trivializing them and, besides, all of the attractive female politicians I featured were Democrats and that made the blog partisan. At the beginning of this year I decided to cut back on featuring attractive female journalists after Mika Brzezinski - who once encouraged women to know their value - compromised her own when she and her husband Joe Scarborough went to Berghof-by-the-Sea to kiss Donald Trump's ring.
This meant that my blog going forward would likely focus even more on entertainers and models. But after country singer Carrie Underwood - whom I featured on this blog in October 2009 - performed at Donald Trump's second inaugural gala., it became more than apparent that I have to be even more selective about whom I feature here because it's not just a new year in 2025 - it's a new reality. Donald Trump is forcing us to take on side or the other, and I choose to take a side that recognizes MAGA for the fascist movement that it is, and I don't want to celebrate women here who celebrate Trump. It's as simple as that. It's no longer just about refusing to feature women known for their beauty on this blog because I don't like them. In fact, Carrie Underwood is one of a handful of women I've featured here to turned out much leader to be supporters of right-wing politics, though I won't mention any others by name here. I will say that some of these MAGA ladies are top models, so I won't be featuring them again.
I usually exclude women known for their beauty (sometimes known for beauty in the eyes of beholders other than in my own eyes) from this blog when they completely turn me off. There are some famous women who hate Trump that I refuse to feature here because they repel me for other reasons. A famous female Trump supporter like Megyn Kelly is a lead-pipe cinch for exclusion because I've always disliked Megyn Kelly and, far, far, worse, I hate Trump.
Going forward, I'll be happy to show more female journalists and commentators known for their anti-Trump sympathies even as I make sure to exclude models and entertainers who are pro-Trump. I can no longer endure my sentiments and feature women whose views nauseate me. If I feature any pro-Trump women on this blog in the future, it will only be because I am unaware of their views. And if any MAGA people pout there are unhappy about that, you are free to quit following my blog and go elsewhere.
Back soon with a new A-Z round.
Friday, February 28, 2025
The Beauty of Retrospect: Catherine Deneuve, 1982
Monday, February 24, 2025
Model Patricia Ann Warren
Friday, February 21, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Actress Kiyo Takami
Kiyo Takami is an actress from Japan.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Actress Zizi Strallen
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Model Barbara Stiles
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Model and journalist Kinga Rajzak
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Actress Gabrielle Parker
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Actress Elise Neal
Ms. Neal also received accolades for her role as a teacher in Rosewood, a John Singleton movie about a prosperous all-black town in Florida that was terrorized by whites.
Monday, February 3, 2025
Actress Ginna Claire Mason
Ginna Claire Mason is a fixture on the Hallmark Channel.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Monday, January 27, 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
Actress Renee Jones
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Model Imaan Hammam
Ms. Hammam has appeared on the cover of Vogue in seven different countries - more than once in some of them - and she's the first model of Arab descent to be the spokesmodel for Chanel's beauty products.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Actress Kelli Giddish
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Model/actress Angie Everhart
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Reporter Suri Crowe
Friday, January 10, 2025
Model and educator Debbie Colette
Monday, January 6, 2025
Model/artist Jodye Beard
Friday, January 3, 2025
French actress Axelle Abbadie
This is the first actress I am featuring in the year 2025. In fact, it's the first actress I'm featuring in the nineteenth year of this blog! 😃
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Not Necessarily the News
Before I begin new subjects for the new year, I have to focus my attention to a group of women I will mostly not be featuring from now on - women in the news media.
I'm not going to stop featuring women in the news media completely - in fact, I have one coming up in a few days, and for good reason - but I will be featuring a whole lot less of them than I used to. The reason is quite simple - too many media figures of both sexes have normalized Donald Trump and have laughed off his extreme rhetoric as being bluster that provides harmless entertainment value.
Last week, Trump entertained us with threats to annex Canada and Mexico and acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal. And CNN commentators, who apparently found it amusing, said that this would be the largest land acquisition by the United States since the Louisiana Purchase.
Some of you are probably thinking I'm going too far. "Steve," you say, "why would you cut back so severely on featuring female news personalities because of Trump?" I would posit that the more appropriate question to ask is, "Why wouldn't I?" I can count all of the media personalities - again, men as well as women - who have stood up to Trump on one hand with fingers to spare. Mika Brzezinski - whom I featured here way back in 2008 - is the tip of the iceberg. Because of all the women who have chosen, along with their male counterparts, to accept Trump as a normal evolution of American politics, I could not in good conscience celebrate them as journalists here. Because, ultimately, their outer beauty doesn't matter here. There has to be inner beauty to celebrate . . . and remember, there are actresses and singers who are considered beautiful that I will never feature here because I don't like them.
I might even decide not to post pictures of women who report for local newscasts. Many female TV reporters work for stations owned by the right-wing Sinclair media conglomerate, which has its tentacles spread out across much of the nation. When you see a reporter on a Sinclair-owned station telling you what happened, there is bias in favor of a right-wing, pro-business, pro-Trump perspective in that report. Because that reporter has to worry about offending the boss, just like anyone else.
So, I'll be featuring more actresses, models, and various entertainers. To those of you who complain that I'm getting more insubstantial here, think about it for a moment . . . complaining that a blog celebrating people's looks is insubstantial is like complaining that water is wet.
You know who else is wet? Mika Brzezinski, who apparently does not know her value as a woman, and her husband Joe Scarborough.
And even though my original post of Kristen Welker is my most viewed post ever, I'm not happy that Kristen Welker, as the host of "Meet the Press," folded like a cheap suit when she began her current job with her face-palm-inducing interview with Trump.
Also, at this time, I regret to report the passing of model/actress Dayle Haddon, of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, at the age of 76. My July 2009 post for her will remain online, but I will not post pictures of her going forward. 😭
Back soon with new subjects.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Seohoo Yun, Paris Opera Ballet
I earlier showed in this series a former member of the Paris Opera Ballet. I close the series with a current member.