Barely Legal Watch: Hayden Panettiere Works Quickly

2007_11_20_hayden.jpgIt was only this past August that superhero cheerleader Hayden Panettiere turned 18, but she’s already become a favorite among celebrity babe watchers and is a regular fixture on gossip blogs. Things move fast in the go-go, always-on interweb world, but this sexy new photo spread in GQ magazine—coming hot on the heels of her first (sorta) upskirt photos—has us worried that maybe she’s moving a bit too fast. Following the pattern of previous It-girls turned wild children, it should really be at least eight or nine months before she starts appearing on covers in her underwear, and another six months-to-a year before she stops wearing underwear, then four-to-six weeks after that before she makes out with a DJ in the back of Paris Hilton’s car. At this rate, she’ll be engaged to a snowboarder she met in rehab by New Year’s.

Now, we hope she’s merely joking about planning to be one of the “boring girls,” because sexy young women are what keep us going each day, but we’d like to see Hayden avoid the burnout, trainwreck syndrome that seems to afflict our young starlets these days. We want fun, not drunkenly insane. Our advice: keep wearing bikinis to the beach and accept any movie role that involves wearing lots of spandex, but stay away from greasy rich boys and snotty heiresses, so that we can all enjoy many years of your fresh faced, good girl antics. Then when you’re 28, you can pose for Playboy the way a former child actress is supposed to!

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· OBSESSION OF THE YEAR (style.com)
· Japanese arrest warrant issued for ‘Heroes’ star Panettiere (nzhearld.co.nz)

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  • Anonymous

    Your right but look at vannessa hudgens, and her sexcapades. years ago her career would have been over but not in this day and age because she gave the public what they wanted. Hayden isnt moving to fast if you judge her by todays stamdards, she is making sure society doesnt forget about her. Kim kardashian got her start by doing what? now you know.

  • Anonymous

    Im only nineteen and i notice this.

  • Anonymous

    If this is what a ‘barely legal’ supermodel looks like, I want my money back from every website that’s been passing off 20-something anorexic, vacant-eyed Eastern European women as American ‘college girls’ — at least little Hayden’s pix seem unambiguously consensual. Hopefully she’ll learn from LiLo’s mistakes.

  • Astrid

    There is a certain question here: are we to present young girls as sexy Lolitas (see hula hoop picture) or in poses beyond their years (see bombshell bikini photo)?

    Is it more appropriate to present them as their actual age or to elevate them beyond what they are actually capable of embodying as people?

    None of these things have easy answers. The easist answer, though, is that if you find something sexy and want to look at it (AND IT’S THERE), then do it.

  • MrFadedGlory

    Dear Fleshbot

    I feel bad…emotionally conflicted. While I am enormously grateful for what are some of the hottest pictures of Hayden to date, I feel bad about the fact that I am contributing to the zeitgeist, the notion that simply getting ones ‘kit’ off is sufficient to ensure continued and growing fame.

    At the moment Hayden is not publicly exhibiting any symptoms of alcohol or substance abuse; bullimia; anorexia; bipolar disorder; narcissism; psychosis or any of the other traditional afflictions of the A list set. While these pathologies / afflictions / disorders seem to be almost required states for the sub 30 stars on today’s papp beat, people like me – who are searching for momentary sexual titilation – seem to feed into the demand that leads to the downfall of the very objects we desire.

    What’s a dude to do? Am I supposed to simply objectify the latest object of lust like Hayden and be content in the knowledge that when she falls, 10 others will spring up in her place? Or should I resist my urges, not view the delectable flesh and hope that I am the decision that tips the field in favour of sanity?

    Help me please…I don’t know what to do.

    ~Faded

  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    But even after Drew Barrymore posed for Playboy & seemed to have her life together, she still ended up engaged (did they actually marry?) to Tom Green, so even if H. Pannettiere ends up in restricted AODA & becomes engaged to a snowboarder she meets therein, I still think she’ll be ahead of the game.

  • I.M.B.Y What’s THIS for…!

    Conflicted to be sure. Beautiful, absolutley. That hula hoop picture serves to remind me of all the chicks in high school I wanted to bone so bad I couldn’t sleep. Now of course I would be run out of town, but serving the fantasy is a still pretty worthwhile.