Celebrity Boob Watch: Andie MacDowell

Holy areola! WHAT is going on there? Um, Andie, you have some problems. One is, everyone you know or saw before this HATES you.

Also, she looks like the devil. Her expression is freaking me out.

Oook. That's SO not a good look. The color suits her, but the nipple display and the "Omen" expression are just not attractive.

She has the delicate and refined nose of a hockey goalie...

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She's paraphasing Carrie from Four Weddings and a Funeral.

"Am I nipping? I hadn't noticed."

Her nipples have nipples! I've never seen that before.

Not to start any rumors, but one of the signs of pregnancy is when the bumps around your areolae become more pronounced. Just sayin'...

Not to start any rumors, but one of the signs of pregnancy is when the bumps on your areolae become more pronounced. Just saying'...

Seriously, who let her leave the house like this? I'm in shock. And I'm young, I go to bars. I have seen plenty of nipples under summer shirts in winter weather. But... areolae? OH MY GOD. Young boys across America just got a free anatomy lesson from a woman at least as old as their mom. That's disturbing.

Seriously, who let her leave the house like this? I'm in shock. And I'm young, I go to bars. I have seen plenty of nipples under summer shirts in winter weather. But... areolae? OH MY GOD. Young boys across America just got a free anatomy lesson from a woman at least as old as their mom. That's disturbing.

I am actually more concerned about the most hideous "cut" of that dress. It makes her look so damned dumpy.

She's so pretty in the hair commercials, and yet...

Bras are your friends, girl!

She just looks so pleased with herself.

Isn't she at least 40? At that age, you need to start wearing a bra regardless of the fabric your shirt is made of.

Those aren't nipples under her dress; they're raised pieces of sandpaper.

Jee-manee. I had a nightgown like that once, except it was of a much more flattering fit. And as for "her nipples have nipples!" that was delightful. My friend Chris used to claim he had a third nipple, but it was really just a huge bump on one of the existing nips. He claimed it gave him special powers. Just saying, maybe she traded her soul to satan for supreme nipple powers. Or she's just a fogie.

Yes, she's at least 40 and she's had 2 or 3 kids. She needs a bra or different fabric and I'd say the bumby look is from extreme cold. I don't like the lipstick shade with the dress shade AND she also appears drunk. Otherwise, great hair!

Don't you love it when people rack their brains to come up with something clever to say but the whole thing ends up looking dumb because they posted double?

I prefer it when people are so pleased with themselves that they are compelled to assert their superiority, rather than writing something on-topic. Brilliant!

Ha ha ha isn't that a case of the pot calling the kettle bitchy!

Well, at 37 weeks pregnant, I feel I simply must speak with authority here, although I do not wish to be labeled as the girl who always makes comments about her pregnancy.

Anyway, that is KINDA what my boobs look like, except not all askew. And mine are bigger, but they are filling up with milk and collostrum. I dunno, the whole body is out of control whack at the moment, but my whole point is that the area around my nips NEVER looked like that before, and now they are a freaking braille handbook or something. So maybe she is breastfeeding or something, but good GOD! I mean, that is FUG to the nth degree right there. Really and truly.

I would also like to say that I am now scared to death my nips will never go back to normal. If that's the case, lightly padded bras from here on out will be the rule.

She's standing in the classic "david" post with her hips askew which throws off her torso. Her breasts are not askew. Idiot.

this is for at home negligee action only

Still looks like spanking material to me

The little bumpies are called Montgomery's Glands, and they're basically modified sweat glands. They exist to provide lubrication and keep the nipples moisturized for breastfeeding, hence the preggo correlation. They can remain more prominent during and after breastfeeding.

There you go. Now you all potentialy have an answer for Final Jeopardy someday.

First of all, nipples come in all different types and bumpy areolae are not at all uncommon.
Yet there is NO REASON we should have the knowledge that Andie has said bumby areolae. Yuck.

"Her breasts are not askew. Idiot."

What's with the name calling?

My nips look like that and now I feel super self-conscious and ugly. I thought mine were normal--guess they're not.

Mine too, anon; I don't think it is that unusual. I prefer fug that sticks to the clothes, not the anatomy.

But [topic], when I look in the mirror and see my apparently repulsive nipples there, I'll be sure to put on a bra. As Andie ought to have done. I think she looks fantastic but bras are our friends ladies.

Is her nose growing a bump on the end? Oh Andy, you wicked witch.

Oh my. She should chat with Janet about borrowing her pasty.

*Way* more than I ever wanted to know about Andie McDowell. Gah.

Why do we have to hate on the nips? It's this sort of boob-hating mentality that causes wars (see Burkas) and gets Michael Powell's buddies all antsy with their regulation buttons. I'd prefer a bumpy areolae to another bleeped out episode of anything. Get over it you puritans!! And Happy Easter!!

I think everyone is so used to enhanced, faked, and airbrushed jugs that anything not perfectly symmetrical or smooth is considered hideously fugly. It's kind of sad.

I think this post is more about the fact that her nipples are showing so prominently not the fact that they might be considered unattractive to some

I'm sure her nipples look fine in person.

Under that dress, though, they look icky. A bra or slip would have been a good idea. Nipple bumps + red satin = not an attractive look.

Yikes. I pray that if I were ever out in public with nips that prominent someone would tell me. Don't they have people who check for stuff like that?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! BEWARE THE BOOBERELLA!!!!!!

I've got the bumpys too.. not pretty. So, before I leave the house, I triple check myself in the mirrior to make sure I'm 100% covered. I then go to my husband in the best light of the house, and have HIM check for a second opinion. And to think, I do this all without a stylist.

It's just not attractive.

I just exploded.

So did I.

That little blouse could have been lovely on her, which is why it is such a shame that she had the unintelligent idea of leaving her bra in the underwear drawer. Pity.

Oh. Yikes. That's just... Oh.

Dear god, but that's frightening! My mind feels violated for having seen that. WAY TMI here!

(slightly OT) Why is it that any time someone one this board, be it Heather and Jess or a commentor, remarks upon some feature of the anatomy of the celeb being fugged, they get jumped all over by another poster for not being being more appreciative of natural beauty? Now I'm not saying that people should make rude comments regarding a celeb's weight or something, but others who posted here were bitched at for saying that Andie's nips were askew? It was just an observation, not a personal attack, and the subject of this fug posting was, in fact, Andie's high beams! One comment even bitched out one of our Fugmistresses. I think that's a bit much.

Bleech. I think these full-on nipple shots are just fugly...not to mention narcisstic, sloppy and slovenly...Jesus, what does it take to wear a goddamn bra or at least something to cover up the nips???

Don't you remember the horror that was the Tara Reid nip slip? Those bumpy circles are scar tissue.

I'm freaking blind.
Thanks Andie.

That would explain the placement and directional degree of the nips. Which, post multiple childbirths and sans brassiere, should be niether high nor tight.

These have been fixed. More power to her, but please, PLEASE put on a bra.

I'm an idiot because I said her breasts were askew? Nice. I could say something about how you have my undying admiration for avoiding a coathanger so deftly for nine months, but that's the old me, not the soon-to-be-a-mom me (see, I can work the pregnancy issue into EVERY POST!).

I've been checking this place every day, faithfully for almost a year now, and I never see Heather and Jessica, nor have I seen them make malicious comments about a person's physical appearance or attributes. They critique the clothes and have a great eye for fit and cut. Sitting there and being overly sensitive about bumpy nippples is ridiculous. If yours look like that, good for you! Mine look like that! Hell, my nipples seem to be on Viagra since getting pregnant! They stick out like an inch now, even when I am not aroused. But am I going to sit here and take the gals to task for pointing out a fashion faux pas? NO. I'm going to have a sense of humor about the whole thing.

Really people, save yourself the heartache and such for important things.

And to whoever explained the gland thing, thanks, I love Jeopardy and always do bad in science categories, but now maybe there is hope for me.

Maybe she was cold. That can sometimes make the areolae get bumpy and weird.

i've never used the term 'menacing' in conjunction with nipples before, but i will now update my vocabulary.

"the area around my nips NEVER looked like that before, and now they are a freaking braille handbook or something"
it's nature's way of letting the blind and horny know that one is otherwise engaged.

Way too much information, Andie. I hope she did not put anyone in the hospital with those things.

Great. Next we're going to have people bitching at Heather and Jessica because they told Bai Ling to keep her vagina in her pants.

"What, don't you like vaginas? Vaginas are our beautiful flowers of womynliness! How DARE you tell us that we can't flash our vaginas to whomever we please, you misogynistic prudes? FUCK YOUR FASCIST BEAUTY STANDARDS!!!"

If a man committed a similar faux pas, everyone would agree that he was out of line, but oh, heaven forbid that we criticize a woman -- traitors to the feminist movement, every last one of us.

Amen Sibyl. No excuse me while I pleasure my husband and get this casserole out of the oven.

Jeebus Christ on a cracker. Heather could you at least warn us that this is a scroll down fug!?!?!?!?

"What, don't you like vaginas? Vaginas are our beautiful flowers of womynliness!"

hee!!

andie is seriously freaking me out with how proud she looks.

Bethany, TMI! TMI!
Ewwwwwww! Andie was bad enough!

Hey, at least her hair looks good.

I worked with Andie on a film in Texas, and she struck me as a pretty cool chick. I remember her kids were playing with baby scorpions, and when I mentioned they might get stung, She shrugged and said,"If they get stung enough, they'll stop". A woman with an attitude like that would hardly care that her points are on display, or that one of the Olsen twins is riding higher than the other.Thisalso brings to mind the Seinfeld episode where Elaine sent out her Xmas card with a photo of herself where her nipple showed.They called her "Nip" at her office. I can see Andie turning this photo into her all purpose holiday card-"My Kids were bottle fed-Happy Mother's Day!!"it's obviously cold in here-Happy Winter's solstice!" "I've got change for a dime-two nipples- Remember-April 15th is Tax Return Day"!!

Does anyone remember the Sex & The City episode where Samantha had "fake nipple" pasties for the sole purpose of, ah, attracting an audience? I mean, I guess some people are into the nipple thing. I don't necessarily think these are fakes, but I do think it was intentional.

I saw that SATC episode, RetailHarlot (love that name...)! The one where she got lots of stares and then let Miranda try 'em on to prove the point. But just...yeah, it isn't working on Andie.

All scary nipple-ness aside, she looks gorgeous for her age, and she's becoming lovelier then ever, like a fine wine. Good for her thus. But no excuse for no bra. Ickers.

Gee!!! What was she thinking when she left her house?
Why did she not see herself? I assume you check yourself before going out? ...and if that is not the case, she SHOULD hire someone to be her conscience. She can't do this to women in general!
Last but not least, she should have known that this was going to show like this, being a supermodel for so many years, every little child knows what satin does.....
WHY? She must have done it on purpose.

I WANT TO SUCK ON THEM!!!!!!!!

I've always like A.Macdowell (so little of her these days!!) and she looks fab still; hair, face (probably pulled/botox, but so what) but I think she didn't expect her nips to do an impromptu performance of their pointy-toed dance when she let the girls go commando for the night.

Honestly, maybe there's good money to be made to teach these ladies of Hollywood how to coordinate underwear with clothing (think of past bad cases: brooke shields, bai ling), esp. where one can expect the paparrazzi. I mean, they earn quite a fair bit and if they can afford the Chanel, Prada and et. al Haute Couture, why not proper lingerie?!

According to IMDB Andie is 47 next month.
She doesn't look pregnant to me.
She's had implants, and I bet my last quid that she daubed her nipples with egg white before slipping on the slip.
Her expression says "Look at my breasts, won't you? I don't look my age with my voluptous bosum and perky nipples".
Her lack of wrinkles on her forehead and around her eyes (even my 26 y.o. daughter is developing crow's feet) even though she is smiling, is a telling sign that she's had some facial surgery too.

Her hair does look fabulous. If she'd been wearing a bra, this pic would have got a round of applause from me.

She is almost FIFTY, not forty. She looks a heck of a lot better than Farrah Fawcett. However, I think she should have worn a bra.

ok, anybody who's had a baby is probably familiar with those bumpy aureolae, and sometimes they don't go away once you've stopped nursing (i'm proof). i agree with the poster who said she's quite pleased with how she looks -- and i bet you my last stretched-out double-E nursing bra that dear Ms. McD had quite a lot of work done and wants to get her money's worth by showing off her nips. I'm torn between a 'more power to her' and a kind of revlusion that she doesn't have enough self-esteem to grown older with a bit more grace. And class.

Despite her lack of propriety regarding her perky little nipples, Ah for one can not stand the poor cut around the shoulders. FQ* = 2.

*Fabulosity Quotient

The nips don't bother me at all, but that look on her face is going to give me nightmares.

Her breasts ARE askew. One is higher than the other. Christ. Why can't people grow old gracefully?

Why can't people grow old gracefully, indeed. And this includes men, too, lest one think this is a slant from a sexist young'un. I've seen far too many retina-scarring pics of "celebrities" whose choice of shorts and/or pants worn commando makes me their unwilling proctologist. When innocent bystanders are thrust into a debate about whether one is pregnant or not due to the visibilty of nipple bumps from across a dark room, one is much too desperate to remain "youthful" and "SEXAY!"

when i was a kid in 70's my cousin used to fake out her dad and go braless by putting those circular band aids on her nipples to give the impression she was indeed wearing a bra, hah!

I think a couple of those or some kind of pasties would have brought this into a more respectable light.

Dang though! What a beautiful woman, in spite of the photographer taking a bad shot. gorgeous hair, gorgeous colouring of the dress to her skin. I agree with an earlier poster that the lip colour is a bit off but other than that and the graphic nips...wow!

Come on, ladies...who doesn't look better with cute little pebbly nips (okay, maybe not quite this pebbly)? The alternative, for many of us, is huge nipples that threaten to take over our torsos if not properly corralled in a brassiere. On display, though? No.
Just, no.

In the latest issue of BUST magazine, Amy Sedaris divulges her penchant for cutting off the tops of lemons and tucking them into her bra for that "I've just dipped my THO's in liquid nitrogen" look. Try it -- it's funny as hell and it looks totally real (albeit gross). As for Andie here, there's something particularly disturbing about this look when worn with satin. Big Nips in a t-shirt? A bit trampy, but okay, whatever. In coral satin? Eeeew.

In Andie's defense, some women just have super . . . visible nipples. When I'm cold you can see mine through my bra and shirt -- sometimes through more than one shirt, no matter how good the bra is, and I'm only 24 and have never had kids. Of course, you can't see my areolas.

Does anyone remember Andie going on a bunch of talk shows years ago when she was more at the height of her career and talking about how she and her family walk around naked at home all the time? This is not a woman who's ashamed of her body.

Why do women appear to think that showing signs of breast cancer and/or bad plastic surgery on your numba-wumbas make them look...hott?

Quickly, hide the picture before Paris gets ahold of it!

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Just chiming in here...I'm in my early twenties, and have never been pregnant or had my rack surgically altered in any way, and my nips have ALWAYS looked like that, especially when cold. Some women just have nipples with bumps on them, without any kind of biological or surgical intervention -- just good ol' genetics.

That said, I prefer to wear a BRA before leaving the house! Andie, what the fuck? I cannot support this fashion decision! (No pun intended.)

God forbid that her breasts don't maintain symmetry (that no woman has, real breasts or not) when she's standing with her own body slightly askew or when she's possibly in motion.

What's wrong with this. She looks great.

In my local parlance, 'I want my mammy!' This dress is far too shiny by half, even without the excessive nippleage. I fear that herds of small deer have run into ravines mistaking the shininess of this outfit for the business end of a mack truck.

However, it's the expression on her face that is going to give me nightmares; I think Andi has been abducted by the same zombie/vampire cult that got Nicole Kidman both have been seen sporting the same, 'I'm-going-to-suck-your-delicious-brains-out-through-your-nose' game face in recent months.

Aye- the expression on her face, as well as how pleased she is to see me, is far more frightening than her performance in Four Weddings and a Fugeral.

I was just remembering my prom. I had a thin spegetti strapped dress and becuase strapless bras always slide down when I take a deep breath, I tried those stick on bra cups. They are padded and are applied under the boob with adhesive that makes it's own supportive bra like devise. Why I was remebering this is becuase I accidently glued one pad on incorrectly and my boob ended up somewhere around my armpit. THey didn't give extra adhesive and so my boobs were "slightly" ashew. Not saying that Andie did that just remebering what my prom photos will never allow me to forget.

My nips have those bumps on em, and I've never been pregnant, so it's definately nothing unusual. It just calls for a bra under material that thin. A second layer of fabric. SOMETHING.

Wow, I'm actually not jumping on the fug train here. Andie looks damn good for her age. If she's had work, at least she's had good work. God, if my twins aren't slapping my knees by then I'd be all about satin sleeveless tops. Maybe not this top (I will agree w/ others, tho, that the cut is doing her no favors).

dandy Andie and her nipple candy!

I still like her.....but when did she have half her nose sliced off? is this a new thing?

as for the nips...maybe her bra was in the hamper...gotta always have a spare ya know?

I'd do her. And she looks damn good for 47 -- or 37 for that matter.

It's all so unflattering. Uneven boobs, lunar surface areolae, slightly demented expression, bless her.

Just a quick comment on the lovely manners of our hostesses, Jessica and Heather. On both this thread and the one with the Star Wars hair/gladiator lady (I could go back and check the name, but prefer not to subject myself to the hair again -- forgive) intra-poster attacks were stopped -- quickly, gently and appropriately. Kudos, ladies. Would that all hostesses had your gifts and willingness to use them -- and I'm not even talking about your fine eye for fug.

Call me crazy, but I think she looks beautiful, especially for 47. Yes, a bra might have been a good idea. However, she's being photographed with a flash extremely close up. I imagine that to most folks walking around, her nips didn't look quite so...aggressive. :-)

Thank goodness I work alone, lest someone heard me on my lunchbreak shouting "Dear god what the fuck is THAT?" as I scrolled down Ms. McDowell's photo.

Andie. Andie. I wouldn't lead you astray here. Do us a favor, will you? Mix in a bra. I swear, underwires won't give you cancer, and they'll make the girls all perky and happy. And just think, wee tots for miles around won't start screaming to be fed when they see you, if you're wearing a bra.

oh it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye

I am a little torn between distaste and envy.

On one hand, this seems a bit trashy and inappropriate for a 47-year old mother of three. On the other hand, Andie looks damn good for a 47-year old mother of three.

Whoa, my journey through these comments has been as bumpy (yet enticing) as Ms. McDowell's satin covered nipples..
"pebbly" says one viewer,
"lunar" declares another.

Now Andie, please:
http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=Nippless1.jpg&category=Toiletries&date=1996-09-27

look into them

OH MY GOD, IT'S A NIPPLE!!!!! CALL THE POLICE, CALL THE MILITARY, COVER THE CHILDREN'S EYES, IT'S A FREAKING NIPPLE!!!!!
Jesus, when are you Americans going to get over seeing breasts without giggling or being insulted? What the hell's wrong with the outline of a breast? I think it's pretty sexy. I'd say the covered outline of a breast is a lot sexier, and less vulgar, than tacky cleavage where you have half the boob hanging out. But I guess as long as you don't see a nipple, that's alright...

Sorry, but I really don't see anything horrible about it. I guess for people who might be embarassed about something like that, they shouldn't wear that outfit. Doesn't seem to be an issue for her. Not sure why it would be anyway.

could those breast be any more spread apart and bumpier aureola?

there was a time when i thought that miss mcdowell had "sexy class" ... my dreams have fallen from a skyscraper!

Could those breast be any more spread apart?

I thought miss mcdowell had "sexy class" - and now my dreams have fallen from a skyscraper!

Just tonight I saw a woman with the same look going, only her nips pointed down a little. Andie's at least are perky. Perky, 47, 3 kids... Is that natural?

So her boobs are askew? Apparently all the ladies on this board were born with the magical gift of boob symmetry. My D cups are lovely and fabulous, but one points up and the other down. I'd say it's just me, but I've been in the Macy's lingerie dressing room and I know I'm not alone.

As for the reference to "FUCK YOUR FASCIST BEAUTY STANDARDS!!!" - Rock on! I always wanted to buy that T-shirt but I don't have any child free places to wear it.

It's just tacky, tacky, tacky. She might look good for her age but her eyes just look plain evil and weird.

It's a pair of breasts. I wil admit that, and there is nothing wrong with a pair of breasts. I have breasts, I have nipples, but I'll be damned if I wear that kind of fabric and make out with someone when I might get photographed.
Askew aside, and pregnancy/breast feeding rumors aside, it looks as if her areola have decided to write in Bralie to help blind people find them. Mine do this sometimes, but I never, never leave the house while aiming the girls at the world.

Not only are the nipples pointing forward, but the breasts themselves still appear to be pretty much where they started out. Well done, Ms MacDowell. On the other hand, unless you're a fetishist, the Montgomery's glands, accented by the shiny fabric, are a tad bit much. I'm a deer caught in those headlights and I wish to look away, but can't make myself do it.

Those may be fake nippples put on to make it look like she was nipping out to get a picture taken ...

montgomery's tubercles are normal on breasts that have breast fed. why is everyone so worried about the fact that a woman has nipples?