Rihanna was named Woman of the Year at the annual Glamour magazine awards at Carnegie Hall in New York on Monday night. According to Entertainment Wise

The 21-year-old singer was honored for her courage following her assault by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in February.

Model Iman presented Rihanna with her award, saying she had “impressed with her honesty and courage. She has taken her own scars and used them to create a new story of strength and awareness.”

The singer, who had her blonde hair swept to one side, appeared emotional on stage and joked: “Sorry, I’m PMS-ing.”

Good on Glamour Magazine. Nothing says “empowered female role model” like a chick who reconciles with the guy who beat the living fuck out of her; a chick who doesn’t press charges against him in court despite the DA’s pleas; a chick who only even decides to address the assault a year and a half later because it’s the week that her new album drops and it’s an easy way to get a lot of free press. Maybe next year Glamour can honor Stormy Daniels for her work in “Hickory Dickory Cock” and “Supertits.” She’s almost as inspiring as Rihanna is.

PHOTO SOURCE: Pacific Coast News, Bauer-Griffin

Over a year and a half after it happened, Rihanna is finally opening up about the beating Chris Brown gave her in next month’s issue of Glamour magazine. She says in the interview (via Reuters):

On the ordeal with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown: “I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the
next day.”

On her message to young women: “My story was broadcast all over the world for
people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.”

On how she made it back: “My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be — no one can understand. That’s when you get close to God.”

Another time you get close to God? When you wake up bleeding from the anus in a drainage ditch off I-40 without any pants or memory of the last three days and there’s two men in overalls with shovels standing over you. Let me tell you, Jesus and I were never closer.

Taylor Swift is in the August ‘09 issue of Glamour, and I’m still not fond of how her hair always looks like a wig, but I like her anyway.  She’s cute and seems like a nice person.  Sure, she’s kinda boring, and her songs are insanely catchy and they burrow inside my brain like worms and then camp out there and drive me totally crazy, but I still like her.  Then again, there are things deeply wrong with me.  I’m obsessed with iCarly, for instance, which is a Nickelodeon show for 13-year-olds.  It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen and I can’t stop watching it and I love it so much.  So basically what I’m saying is that no matter what I say, you should keep in mind that I have a minimum of seven undiagnosed mental disabilities.

The hell was I talking about?  Oh yeah.  Taylor Swift.  She’s in Glamour, and she looks super cute, and some of these pictures are really teeny but what do you bitches want from me?  Maybe I would do a better job if you bought me Season 1 of iCarly on DVD.  I need that shit!

Taylor Swift in the August ‘09 issue of Glamour:

“Slumdog Millionaire” star Freida Pinto sexes up the pages of next month’s Maxim magazine, but you wouldn’t know it was her to look at the pictures. I don’t know why Maxim insists on photoshopping the hell out of everything they touch. Just compare the picture above with this picture from next month’s Glamour. I wouldn’t even think the two women were related, much less the same person. Unless it was for her role as Teri Hatcher’s evil Latina twin, I’d say Maxim really fucked this one up big time.

Maxim and Glamour pics, plus a bunch of older ones from various T&A magazines: