Posted by Pedi Razzi on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 @ 04:12 PM
With only a few days until the Academy Awards, it’s time to start organizing the office pool, ordering Oscar night snacks and refreshing your memory of the best and worst red carpet fashions!
Ah yes, the Red Carpet. A time when bunions must be hidden under floor length dresses, foot pain is ignored in favor of high heels, and even the wackiest dress is paired with a stiletto.
As someone who starts watching Red Carpet coverage in the afternoon and watches until the Best Picture is announced, I am always eager to see what trends surface at the ceremony. And under those floor length gowns there is always the promise of a great shoe and the guarantee that supportive shoes have been left at home.
Like when Cate Blanchett attended the 2008 Academy Award six months pregnant and even that did not stop her from pairing a killer heel with her gown.
…Or last year, when Tilda Swinton (who has a large bunion) stuffed her feet into pointy heels to compliment her beige and black ensemble.
But don’t fret my little bunionettes. Let’s applaud Diablo Cody who in 2008 won best screenplay for Juno. She also turned down the opportunity to wear $1 million Stuart Weitzman and instead took home the Oscar in a pair of sensible gold flats. Bravo!
Posted by Bunion Ella on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 @ 02:03 PM
People watching. I love to watch people - how they walk, what they are wearing, intentions in their faces. What better place than in an airport. So I was amused when I saw images of celebrities walking through the airport in the PeopleStyleWatch magazine and web site.
The printed page featured "Glam" photos along the top showing celebrities dressed to the nines in high heels, dresses, and designer bags. And in fact some of these celebs suffer from bunion pain! Each had their heads tilted in a somewhat downward position focused on walking and with a forced smile. Cramming a bunion into sleek high-heels and having to look fashionable at an airport really hurts!
The second row of images, "Classic," featured celebrities in more relaxed attire, more casual shoes, but some rather high. They walked with more confidence and their heads held high.
The happiest group appeared in the third row which featured celebrities in their "Casual" attire of hoodies, sweats, and flat shoes, sandals, or sneakers. Some carried their loved ones, and others were able to walk, text message, and listen to their MP3 player - all at once. I bet it was the shoes, don't you?
Posted by Pedi Razzi on Mon, Mar 01, 2010 @ 12:40 PM
It's New York Fashion Week so bundle up, grab your front row seat, and look down -- at the shoes of course!
Let's start with the attendees. Leave your bunion shoes at home because this week is all about fashion over function! You wouldn't be caught dead (or photographed at least) in comfy shoes. As the sleet and snow fell during freezing temperatures in NYC, the fashionistas strapped on their platforms and prayed they would make it in one piece.
But, my friends, I know what you really came here for. You want to know what's coming in season. You want to know if you'll be able to hide your orthotic in the season's hippest footware. And based on this Christian Siriano shoe he designed for Payless (now all of us can afford foot pain!) the answer is no:
Posted by Marianne Mullins on Thu, Feb 11, 2010 @ 07:03 PM
The newest gossip mag obsession is isn’t a valley girl on the hills or even a guido from Jersey Shore. It’s little Suri Cruise—three years old, mind you— in high heels. With the paparazzi in overdrive taking photos of Suri and her feet everywhere from Boston to Barcelona, the Cruises finally addressed the issue (sort of) and commented that their daughter is like every other little girl who loves to dress up.
"They are actually ballroom dancing shoes for kids," Katie Holmes told Access Hollywood. "I found them for her and she loves them."
But on a rainy day in Boston Suri stumbled in these heels adding fuel to the fire and proving that even a three-year old has as much trouble walking in heels as I do.
Now, podiatrists who have never met the family are being interviewed left and right warning against bunions, chronic foot pain and hammer toe. You would think that with celebrities around the world finally admitting their love of high heels is destroying their feet and sending them in for bunion surgery, the Cruises would hear the outcry and prevent their daughter from aching feet for a few more years. But Suri is still clicking around town in those kitten heels!
Posted by Marianne Mullins on Sat, Feb 06, 2010 @ 12:55 PM
Victoria Beckham’s bunions have reportedly gotten so bad that she’s getting ready for a bunionectomy. Now, take this with a grain of salt because every time Posh Spice exposes her bunions the gossip magazines start quoting their sources but they’re saying that she’s staying home, icing her feet, and doing foot exercises in a desperate bid to avoid bunion surgery.
In 2003 there were reports that Vicky was hiding an awful secret in her stilettos (dun dun dun!) and in 2007 the story flared up again. She commented, “I hate my feet, they are the most disgusting thing about me. Part of the reason I wear such amazing shoes is to take the eye away from my horrid feet and on to the stunning shoes.” But now the tabloids are saying she’s just putting up with the pain of bunions in order to avoid surgery.
After years of wearing her trademark 6-inch stilettos, Posh now has to tend full time to her aching feet. She notoriously hates ballet slippers and flats (I wouldn’t dare ask her opinion on orthopedic shoes!) but would be ordered to stay off the high heels for a few months if she went through surgery. But Posh Spice just wouldn’t be posh on flats!
Posted by Pedi Razzi on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 @ 03:42 PM
Now, I want you to look very closely at Gaga's shoe and tell me what is missing.....
Girlfriend is walking the red carpet with no heel on her shoes! And I use that term losely: she couldn’t even walk! She had to be escorted from photographer to interviewer by a handler—and who could blame her? Could you walk in such shoes?
And that was only the beginning of what I can only imagine was a night full of foot pain.
Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas danced on stage in backless shoes similar to Gaga’s, P!nk did acrobatics in stilettos, and everyone strutted the red carpet in sky-high heels sans foot support. Well, except for this young lady in flats who I don't recognize but the internet tells me is Olivia Fox.
As I ooh’d and ahh’d the dresses and accessories during the red carpet pre-show, I couldn’t help but wince watching pop music’s top starlets teetering down the carpet. In previous years stars have been known to take their shoes off mid-carpet and announce to the world that they have aching feet. But last night all the ladies balanced on their shoes, stuck out a hip, and smiled like they were wearing custom made orthotics.
Posted by Bunion Ella on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 @ 06:17 PM
Argh!...I'm sitting in my condo in Squaw Valley USA. The snow is already piled three feet high and is still falling. There is no wind and the powder is calling me. It is a perfect Sierra ski day.
Why am I so crabby? I'm crabby because I have pain - bunions are bulging on my used-to-be lovely feet, lately causing foot pain so extreme that I can't wear anything but my moose slippers! (Now, I really like my moose slippers, those antlers are especially good for helping me strike down the bazillions of spider webs this time of year). So, as I excitedly began getting ready to head out to the slopes, I slipped one foot into my boot and #%&$#$^#!!!! ....ski boots and Hallux valgus are not a good marriage. Alas, to my knowledge, no one has designed a ski boot for bunions. They're made for wide feet, narrow feet, ugly feet, hairy feet, stinky feet and high arches, but not for bunions....So, my choices are that I suck it up and wince in pain down the slopes or I go snowshoeing instead. Hum, I can wear any kind of shoe in my snow shoes...even my moose slippers! I'm there.
Posted by Pedi Razzi on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 05:23 PM
I just watched “Leap Year” in the theatre and could not keep my eyes off Amy Adams. No, not because of her jealousy-inducing curls but because while Amy’s character Anna is trekking through Ireland trying to propose to her boyfriend of 4 years (long story) she is doing it in 5 inch stilettos!
Look at this picture of Amy Adams on set and tell me there aren’t bunions popping out of those shoes!
I could understand the distain for orthopedic shoes while Anna is clicking around as a "successful businesswoman" in Boston. And when her traveling woes begun I wondered if she didn’t want to change into something with a little less arch pain. But when she stepped her $600 high heel in cow dung then proceeded to hike up a mountain in her Louboutins I couldn’t take it any more.
Finally, as she scurries down said mountain in the pouring rain watching as the last train to Dublin leaves the station, she kicks off her heels and runs barefoot. Unable to remain silent, I burst out “finally!” and my fellow audience members all laughed in agreement.
So while everything works out perfectly in the end for Anna (spoiler alert, I guess…), I can’t imagine her feet feel the same way.
Posted by Kenneth Nicholson on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 04:34 PM
Lauren is Pedi Razzi
Lauren has an obsession with celebrities. She wants to know who they're dating and where they're vacationing. She wants to know what they're working on and where they're staging paparazzi photo shoots. But mostly, she wants to know what they're wearing. So after years of wondering how celebrities could teeter in such high heels so frequently, she's out to uncover celebrity bunions.
Posted by Marianne Mullins on Tue, Dec 22, 2009 @ 08:10 PM
Sher is Bunion Ella
Sher actively manages her life of going between Lake Tahoe and Marin County, California while trying to make light of her chronic foot pain caused by bunions. You would never know that she suffers from Hallux valgus. Always funny, active and attractively dressed, Sher is coming out of the closet about her bunions! She wants to help others find humor with their bunions while helping them talk about and find solutions for this common foot disorder.