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Finish uploading the rest of the 90′s public appereances to the gallery. Now there’s only the early 00′s left to be added. Enjoy!

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Public Appereances: 1995
Public Appereances: 1996
Public Appereances: 1997
Public Appereances: 1998
Public Appereances: 1999

I’ve updated the gallery with a few 2009 magazine scans, thanks to Kyra for the Polish scans.

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2009 Magazine Scans: Misc. Magazine Scans
2009 Magazine Scans: Health & Living [November 2009]
2009 Magazine Scans: Vivmag [March/April 2009]

It will bring comfort to millions of women who are feeling guilty after eating too much turkey and Christmas pudding over the past few days – and resolving to start a punishing gym routine in the New Year.

A survey has found that a fuller, curvy figures such as those belonging to Kate Winslet or Kelly Brook are back in fashion among women.

Meanwhile, skeletal stars such as Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss have fallen out of favour, along with the surgically enhanced figure of Katie Price, aka glamour model Jordan.

Oscar winner Miss Winslet, 34 – who served sausages and mash at her first wedding and has spoken openly of the effects of motherhood on her body – topped the poll of 2,000 woman aged 18 or over, with 16 per cent of the votes.

Miss Brook received 15 per cent, while actress Halle Berry, who has an hour-glass figure, was third with 12 per cent.

Beckham, Moss and Price were in equal last place, having received just one per cent of the votes.
Other women included in the list of ten celebrity figures included X Factor judge Cheryl Cole, actress Megan Fox and singer Lily Allen.

Dr Jacquie Lavin, head of nutrition at Slimming World, which commissioned the YouGov poll, said: ‘It shows a positive shift that women are more likely to see Kate Winslet and Kelly Brook as the ideal body shape rather than Kate Moss or Victoria Beckham.

‘It perhaps suggests that it is not being “skinny” that is most important to them anymore, it is being healthy.

‘However, there still remains a great deal of pressure on women to conform to an unrealistic ideal and our survey showed that a massive 85 per cent of women are at least occasionally unhappy with their weight.’

Former Casualty actress Rebecca Wheatley, who last month won Slimming World’s Woman of the Year award after shedding more than 12 stone, said she also believed the results revealed a change in women’s perception of what is attractive.

‘It’s fantastic to see that finally women seem to be aspiring towards a healthy body shape that is realistic and achievable,’ she added.

‘Kate Winslet has always spoken out about the importance of accepting your body. After all, healthy women come in all sizes.

‘It is definitely a step forward that, rather than persuading women to set their sights on being super thin which can lead to misery when they fail to achieve their target, more celebrities are encouraging inner confidence and a positive body image and showing women how they can be happy with their shape.’

In July, another survey found women shunning the boyish shape of stick-thin celebrities.

Domestic goddess Nigella Lawson’s classic hourglass figure topped the Special K breakfast cereal poll of most inspiring female figures, followed by Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench.

Just over a third of respondents described themselves as ‘apple-shaped’ with an undefined waistline, a quarter said they were pear-shaped with a big bottom, and 13 per cent said they had an hourglass figure.

THE MOST DESIRABLE CELEBRITY BODIES

The percentage of women polled that aspire to each celebrity’s body shape.

1.  Kate Winslet – 16 per cent

2.  Kelly Brook – 15 per cent

3.  Halle Berry – 12 per cent

4.  Cheryl Cole – 10 per cent

5.  Beyonce – six per cent

6.  Megan Fox – Five per cent

7.  Lily Allen – Four per cent

8.  Keeley Hazell – Two per cent

9.  Kate Moss – One per cent

9. Katie Price – One per cent

9. Victoria Beckham – One per cent

Two more names are brought in to the line-up of presenters for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. They are James Bond’s girl in 2002 “Die Another Day” Halle Berry and the “S.W.A.T” actor Colin Farrell.

Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for her role in 1999 TV movie “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”. She was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture in 2001 movie “Monster’s Ball”, and was up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television in 2005 TV movie “Their Eyes Were Watching God”.

As for Colin Farrell, his portrayal as Ray in movie “In Bruges” earned him a trophy at 2008 Golden Globes. At that time, he took home Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) title.

Joining Halle and Colin to hand out awards at the annual event are previously-announced presenters Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Matthew Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. While Leo and Robert are slated to present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to director Martin Scorsese, the other stars will present awards from individual categories.

The next Golden Globe Awards will be held on January 17 at Beverly Hilton and aired live on NBC at 8/7c. Taking the duty as a host will be Ricky Gervais.

Merry Christmas!

We here at Halle Berry Fan wants to wish everybody a merry christmas and I hope you all have a really a festive evening tonight/tomorrow. Updates with return after christmas, I’ll be off the until the 27th so don’t expect any updates the following days.

I’ve added 8 old and really cute photoshoots with Halle to the gallery. Enjoy!

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Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 122
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 123
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 124
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 125
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 126
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 127
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 128
Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 129

New candids of Halle visiting friends in Los Angeles.

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Out & About: December 17, 2009

New candids of Halle looking hot while shopping at West Hollywood paper boutique Soolip on Tuesday (December 15).

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Out & About: December 15, 2009

I have added another 2 hq’s from photoshoot session #100

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Professional Shots: Photoshoot Session – 100 [HQ]

DRESSED in old jeans, wearing little make-up and holding a dripping paint brush, Halle Berry was almost unrecognisable as the luminescent Bond girl who became the first black star to win an Oscar for best actress.

Yet, standing in the hallway at a battered woman’s shelter, cracking jokes with wary children, Berry said this was where she belonged — exorcising the ghosts of violent men who haunt the star of Die Another Day and X-Men.

The 43-year-old actress has been a low-key volunteer on the night shift at the Jenesse centre in Los Angeles for years but has only now chosen to reveal this part of her life, discussing for the first time how her father beat her mother and how she escaped her own abusive relationships.

She hopes the publicity will help the six shelters run by Jenesse overcome the financial stresses of the economic downturn. In the past Berry has refused to talk about the beatings meted out to her mother by her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, who left her family in Cleveland, Ohio, when she was four. But she has said a boyfriend once hit her so hard she is still largely deaf in her left ear.

Last week, accepting a “leadership” award in Hollywood, Berry said she and her elder sister, Heidi, were still recovering from witnessing the violence inflicted on their mother, Judith, a retired nurse who was born in Liverpool.

“I saw my mother battered, and could not do anything to stop it,” she said. “My father was tyrannical, lashing out at her for no reason. I felt the effects that had on our family — I’ve experienced what these women have gone through.”

She said her mother was still working out why she took it for so many years. “That is a deep question, and I am not sure she will ever come up with one answer. I have one answer to anyone in a similar situation — get out.”

Berry never forgave her father, a hospital porter, even as he lay dying with Parkinson’s disease in 2003. He sold his account of their estrangement to a tabloid “for a pack of beer and cigarettes”, Berry said.

She wondered if her parents’ relationship had affected her past romances.

She said: “I never had to run to a shelter, but I did choose the wrong partners. Not always good men. Luckily, in recent years, I have been smart enough to hit the door when violence even becomes a possibility. That is something I will not tolerate.”

After two marriages she feels more settled with her boyfriend, the Versace model Gabriel Aubry, and their 20-month-old baby girl, Nahla.

A former resident of the shelter said she did not realise the woman she called Halle Baby, who told silly jokes to her children, was a film star.