LITTLE ROCK — Queen Latifah said the definition of beauty is changing. "Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades," the 37-year-old rapper-actress told People magazine in its latest issue."It's good for regular girls because the meter [for beauty] has been a slim white girl." "[In Hollywood] we've definitely gotten better with body type," she said. "It used to be just me! Now with Jennifer Hudson's success and America Ferrera, I got some successors to take the reins on this whole bodylicious thing." Latifah described herself as being voluptuous - "definitely curvaceous." "I think I'm normal compared to the statistics," she said. "This is a big country nowadays." The star of Chicago and other films says she had elective breast-reduction surgery in 2003 to alleviate years of back and shoulder pain. "I didn't want to get it. But I had lost 25 pounds and my breasts didn't go anywhere! I was still carrying that load," she told the magazine. However, "I didn't quite want them to be this small," she said with a laugh. Before surgery, Latifah said she was "an E or an F cup. I was pretty big. Now I'm likea DD. I wanted to be a triple. They took one D too many! So that was hard to deal with. ... I missed my old look."
Britney Spears is no longer facing hit-and-run chargessince she paid the damages for the other car's driver in the fender bender, but she still has to deal with one count of driving without a license, a LosAngeles court commissioner ruled Thursday. Spears was not required to attend the hearing on the misdemeanor charges stemming from an Aug. 6 parking lot mishap. Superior Court Commission Susan Speer dismissed the hit-and-run charge after a lawyer for the pop star said his client had paid an undisclosed amount to a woman whose car was hit in a Studio City parking lot. A charge of driving without a license was not dismissed, and a pretrial hearing was scheduled for Nov. 26. The commissioner accepted an innocent plea entered on Spears' behalf by lawyer Michael Flanagan to that charge.
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