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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Sex The New Eve

Posted by on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM

What's missing in this picture?
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Not clothes, sir, but this:
Picture_7.jpgA belly button.

Underwear model Karolina Kurkova has no belly button. Is a barely-there navel for cosmetic or medical reasons?

The newspapers call it the "riddle of the £2.5m beauty". The beauty in question is Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova. The riddle is her non-existent belly button.

Its absence was noticed this week when the 24-year-old graced a US catwalk for lingerie giant Victoria Secret. While most of us have an "outie" or an "innie", Ms Kurkova has a smooth indentation (although sometimes a tummy button is airbrushed onto her photos in post-production).

Yet another sign of our arrival in the post-human age.

 

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1
They can't all be supermodels, can they? This one looks like a regular model to me.
Posted by elenchos on November 20, 2008 at 3:20 PM
2
Happy world philosophy day!
Posted by Edward on November 20, 2008 at 3:22 PM
3
A clone!
Posted by demo kid on November 20, 2008 at 3:24 PM
4
No thank you. Didn't Victoria's Secret models used to be hot? cf. Laetitia Casta.
Posted by Greg on November 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM
5
The alien invasion has begun...

and they are HOT.
Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on November 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM
6
Is that where she keeps her chewing gum?
Posted by D on November 20, 2008 at 3:31 PM
7
Yeah, but she does have a BMI that's way too low.
Posted by Will in Seattle on November 20, 2008 at 3:37 PM
8
Context is everything. I thought "post-human" was a joke, until I saw Charles's name, and realized it was serious.

Posted by Your Name Here on November 20, 2008 at 3:38 PM
9
Demo Kid beat me to it.
Posted by j.lee on November 20, 2008 at 3:40 PM
10
cylon.
Posted by spoiler alert on November 20, 2008 at 3:45 PM
11
Ugh! man, I just ate!
Posted by knobtheunicorn on November 20, 2008 at 3:47 PM
12
EWGROSSY!
Posted by Queen of Sleaze on November 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM
13
Kyle XY doesn't have a belly button, either. Aliens are among us!!
Posted by sorryroger on November 20, 2008 at 4:00 PM
14
Not attractive.
Posted by Bellevue Ave on November 20, 2008 at 4:03 PM
15
Somehow I'm finding this more visualy disturbing than that tree guy from Indonesia.
A visit to the Medical Oddities Museum in Philly didn't have me cringing as much as this does.
Posted by knobtheunicorn on November 20, 2008 at 4:06 PM
16
Not attractive.
Posted by Fnarf on November 20, 2008 at 4:23 PM
17
i always thought actresses playing aliens, as depicted on the scifi channel, wore too little clothing. i thought, surely real aliens wouldn't be so immodest. i see now that i was completely wrong, and scifi was right.
Posted by infrequent on November 20, 2008 at 4:37 PM
18
There must be some logical explanation, probably a botched surgery. Or maybe she had it removed on purpose, because she's insane.

Or maybe a bunch of impressionable young women will go out and have their belly buttons removed...in Mudede's future, perhaps the clones will be the envied ones, and the organics will aspire to copy the copies.
Posted by schmacky on November 20, 2008 at 4:44 PM
19
aside the breeder hips

who cares

charles in rut twice a week
Posted by Adam on November 20, 2008 at 4:47 PM
20
Big deal. My mom didn't have a belly button - the doctor cut her umbilical cord weird and it didn't leave a scar.
Posted by Soupytwist on November 20, 2008 at 5:05 PM
21
@20 - Which begs the question, how much can final navel shape be determined by the doctor? I mean, could special umbilical cutters make for sexier navels?
Posted by wench on November 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM
22
I have honestly never heard of someone not having a belly button. This is the most interesting thing I've learned all day. Sad, but true.
Posted by Julie in Chicago on November 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM
23
What's missing in this picture?


I was going to say, "her upper lip", but I guess your point was more interesting.
Posted by Judah on November 20, 2008 at 5:45 PM
24
I think it has to do with her being immaculately conceived.
Posted by Ariel on November 20, 2008 at 5:48 PM
25
maybe she was just adopted.
Posted by camhead on November 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM
26
she's the whore of babylon.
Posted by reverend dr dj riz on November 20, 2008 at 7:10 PM
27
Seriously: Her smile says, "I know you're looking at the area where my belly button isn't."

Deny it.
Posted by tabletop_joe on November 20, 2008 at 7:43 PM
28
She's a femme-bot!!!

Posted by Mr. Powers on November 20, 2008 at 8:46 PM
29
It's a beta version. I hope they're working the bugs out (and the kinks in).
Posted by drewl on November 20, 2008 at 8:55 PM
30
Charles reads Fleshbot, as do I.
Posted by eric on November 20, 2008 at 9:19 PM
31
Yes, #4, Laetitia Casta (I'm trusting your spelling). Laetitia Casta, indeed.
Posted by California on November 20, 2008 at 9:32 PM
32
@14 BA and 16 Fnarf: eHarmony! Jinx!
Posted by rob on November 20, 2008 at 9:59 PM
33
Ah Crap! was I in the middle of a Slog love-wich? EEEEWWWWW!
Posted by knobtheunicorn on November 20, 2008 at 11:57 PM
34
#31: Seriously. For example:

http://www.fondosescritorio.net/wallpape…
Posted by Greg on November 21, 2008 at 12:20 AM
35
The most disturbing thing about this item is definitely the word "tummy-button".

Because as everyone knows, models don't have BELLIES!
Posted by raisedbywolves on November 21, 2008 at 3:49 AM
36
Another thing missing is any sense of fashion, artistry, or good design in what she's almost wearing....
Posted by it'smark mitchell on November 21, 2008 at 8:09 AM
37
You should see mine after a "procedure" to rectify a ruptured appendix.
Posted by Maineiac on November 21, 2008 at 8:11 AM
38
What the enquiring mind really wants to know, though, is whether or not this model is anatomically correct, or does she have Barbie-doll underparts?
Posted by Geni on November 21, 2008 at 11:45 AM
39
Am i being catty in thinking this woman is hardly the world's most beautiful? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081121/lf_n…
Posted by e on November 21, 2008 at 12:21 PM
40
Patricia Heaton doesn't have one either.
http://defamer.com/366521/missing-one-ce…

They often disappear after liposuction and tummy lifts.

http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/belly_bu…
Posted by inkweary on November 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM

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