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Gallery: 10 Celebrities Who Shill for Health and Beauty Products


It’s no secret that every time you turn around, another poor, indigent Hollywood celebrity is trying to help sell impressionable consumers another health, beauty, or fitness product in order to pad their already-flush bank accounts. (Movies and TV are for amateurs; they make their real money from endorsements, people!) Can you recall all the celebrity faces of Estée Lauder? (Elizabeth Hurley, Gywneth Paltrow, and Freida Pinto, to name a few.) And what about Cover Girl? (Queen Latifah, Drew Barrymore, and Taylor Swift.) And then there are the perfume ads: Nicole Kidman and her Moulin Rouge-esque mini-films for Chanel No. 5 a few years back; and today Charlize Theron strips down for Dior’s J’Adore fragrance in the name of smelling good. And, of course, cash-strapped professional athletes shill for every kind of energy drink and sports apparel imaginable (David Beckham for Adidas, Michael Jordan for Nike, Derek Jeter for Gilette, Michael Phelps for Speedo). We can only hope that these stars actually use the products they’re hawking (they do get them for free, after all), as they endorse their hefty endorsement checks. Click through our gallery of ten more Hollywood celebs who sell their souls in the name of health and beauty products, and find out just how much some of them make doing it: … More »

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Gallery: 10 Celebrities Who Shill for Health and Beauty Products

We’re as jealous as the next person of the altruistic audience members who recieved iPads, $500 Nordstrom gift cards, and expensive Nikon cameras. (Though we’re perfectly happy not to be stuck with those glittery UGG boots.) But we also think Oprah betrayed her audience a little with these gifts: From beauty products full of chemicals that disrupt the human endocrine system to household items that aren’t their equally elegant and eco-friendly functional alternatives, we think the Queen of Talk could have done better.


Blisstree Deputy Editor Briana Rognlin calls Oprah on her recent (and final) two-part Ultimate Favorite Things episodes, from her post: Oprah’s Ultimate Audience Betrayal: 5 “Favorite Things” We Wish She’d Stop Promoting
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We’re as jealous as the next person of the altruistic audience members who recieved iPads, $500 Nordstrom … More »

Post from: BlissTree

We’re as jealous as the next person of the altruistic audience members who recieved iPads, $500 Nordstrom gift cards, and expensive Nikon cameras. (Though we’re perfectly happy not to be stuck with those glittery UGG boots.) But we also think Oprah betrayed her audience a little with these gifts: From beauty products full of chemicals that disrupt the human endocrine system to household items that aren’t their equally elegant and eco-friendly functional alternatives, we think the Queen of Talk could have done better.