Saturday, June 11, 2011

An Australian artist wants Oprah to strip down and get painted

Oprah is headed to Australia soon and so some folks there are crawling out of the woodwork to try and get her to help "launch" their careers here in the US. Eva Rhinaldi, an Australian body painter, plans to ask the TV host to strip down to a bikini and get herself painted for charity.

Sydney body painter and make-up artist Eva Rinaldi has started an international campaign to get the huge star to agree to being tastefully painted with Australian icons, such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, while wearing only a bikini.

Oprah is headed to Australia soon and so some folks there are crawling out of the woodwork to try and get her to help "launch" their careers here in the US. Eva Rhinaldi, an Australian body painter, plans to ask the TV host to strip down to a bikini and get herself painted for charity.

Sydney body painter and make-up artist Eva Rinaldi has started an international campaign to get the huge star to agree to being tastefully painted with Australian icons, such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, while wearing only a bikini.

When I first read "icon" I thought maybe she would be posing with some stars of stage and screen from Australia, not really a bridge and a beach. Probably not the best idea to pitch something in those exact words to a woman that has battled weight issues her entire career.

oprah winfrey An Australian artist wants Oprah to strip down and get painted

Rinaldi is also planning to ask Australian celebrities, including Nicole Kidman and good friend Russell Crowe, to be painted. She has already painted US singers Katy Perry and Lady Gaga

There are some not so subtle differences between Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga in this situation. One is that Katy Perry is 25 and Gaga is only 24, meaning that both of their ages combined don't even add up to Oprah's age, which is currently 56. Another is that Katy Perry and Gaga have some, let's say "younger" and more impressive bikini parts–meaning a lot more people would probably be very interested in seeing a painted Katy Perry waltzing around the streets of Sydney, while a painted Oprah maybe wouldn't be met with the same type of enthusiasm.

katy perry bikini An Australian artist wants Oprah to strip down and get painted

And last but not least, Lady Gaga is a dude, so that body painting is an entirely different experience than what this artist probably has in store for Oprah. Either way, there has to be a better way to raise money for charity than this, right? What about a boxing match with Montell or Oprah wrestling crocs in a river? At least then we could gamble on it…

Oprah asked to strip and have her body painted [News Australia]



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