“Modern Family’s” Sofia Vergara is pushing 40 and looks like this, whereas Sarah Jessica Parker is in her early 40s and looks like this. I don’t know how to explain it, but I bet it involves desecrating a sacred Indian burial ground or pissing off an old gypsy woman.

LeAnn Rimes is unattractive and hasn’t had a hit in nearly ten years, so I understand why people were angry about Shape magazine’s decision to put her on their October cover. But oddly enough, her squinty eyes and lack of breasts weren’t the source of the readership’s outrage — it was her home-wrecking whoring ways. And Shape, for one, agrees they made a mistake. Us Magazine says:

Shape editor-in-chief Valerie Latona apologized to readers who felt that Rimes was a poor cover choice.

“Shape has made a terrible mistake in putting LeAnn Rimes on the cover,” Latona explained. “Please know that our putting her on the cover was not meant to put a husband-stealer on a pedestal-but to show how we all are human. And this woman in particular found strength in exercise in what she said was her most difficult personal moment.”

[But] Latona acknowledges that “it did not come across that way… and for that I’m terribly sorry. I hope that we can do better the next time for those of you that will give us another chance.”

Being called “terrible mistake” isn’t really that insulting. I mean, whose mother hasn’t called them a “terrible mistake” on more than one occasion? Or hit them with a curling iron? Or locked them in a broom closet and forgot they were there until the school called to ask where I had been for the last four days? Sticks and stones, Shape magazine. Words can never hurt me!

The Office’s Pam Beasly looks absolutely amazing on the cover of next month’s Shape magazine. And the best part is, she didn’t even use a personal trainer or dietitian to lose all the weight — she’s been completey hands-on, doing it all by herself. Ha ha, that’s what she said! Okay, so maybe it’s funnier when Michael Scott says it.

Showing a little cleave at the “He’s Just Not That Into You” premiere:

PHOTO SOURCE: Bauer-Griffin, Pacific Coast News