Gawker
Former First Lady and potential POTUS 44 Hillary Clinton backed out of a Vogue photoshoot last minute, reports aging Post doyenne Liz Smith, for fear of appearing "too glamorous" and "too elitist." The photographer was going to be Annie Leibovitz, whose last big project was a series of portraits of Queen Elizabeth II; the writer was slated to be Julia Reed, the "staunchly Southern" author of Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena. Guess it's understandable if La Clinton was leery of being described in Southern terms of endearment: "Hillary Clinton was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it...."
Hillary Clinton Ditches 'Vogue' For Fear of Glamour
10:05 AM on Fri Nov 2 2007
By Joshua Stein
1,883 views
12 comments
