Jaime is currently featured in issue #90 of “Flaunt” magazine. The feature is a pictorial with photos that are reminiscent of Jaime’s shoot for “Salon City” last year – but with make-up instead of jewelry. I have picked up a copy of the magazine and I’ll be adding scans to the site soon. Stay tuned!

Between now and March 13, 2008, you can bid on one of Jaime’s personal little black dresses. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to charity. You can check out the auction and bid at Clothes Off Our Back.

Own Jaime Pressly’s Little Black Dress from her closet. Ms. Pressly can currently be seen on NBC’s “My Name is Earl” and donated her LBD to support Clothes Off Our Back.

Proceeds from the auction benefit America’s Second Harvest, The Art of Elysium, World Education and autism research.

Designer: Betsey Johnson

Size: 8

Color: Black

Shipping Instructions: Winning bidder pays for actual cost of shipping–cost depends on shipping address. Item cannot be resold.

The NY Post is reporting that Jaime is going to be attending a party hosted by Black Book Magazine this Tuesday, January 22. Here’s a quote from the website:

WE HEAR… THAT Chloe Sevigny will help BlackBook magazine celebrate its Hollywood issue at the Thompson Beverly Hills Hotel on Tuesday with the likes of Jaime Pressly, Rose McGowan and Janet Jackson.

I have updated the gallery with screen captures from two older talk show appearances (The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 2005 and The Today Show 2004), scans from Salon City magazine, and a capture from the news show “Extra” in 2006. I have a lot more planned for the site, including more updated content (expect a sub-site for My Name Is Earl coming soon), more icons, more videos, and more gallery updates.

As always, check out the thumbnails to view what’s been uploaded.

Jaime Pressly on Motherhood: ‘You Have to Find Balance’

By Kate Klise and Gerri Miller, PEOPLE MAGAZINE, January 2, 2008

Jaime Pressly, whose son Dezi James is now seven months old, has some juggling advice for new moms.

“You have to find balance,” the My Name Is Earl actress tells PEOPLE. “You have to make time for yourself and find ‘me’ time, whether that means taking a 15-minute bath or taking time to work out while someone watches the kids.”

Taking a night off from parenting with fiancé Eric Cubiche – Dezi was with Pressly’s mom in California – the pair stepped out at the Dec. 29 opening of Home St. Louis, a nightclub in St. Charles, Mo., and Pressly raved about her son’s first Christmas.

“It was great. He didn’t care about any of the toys. He only cared about the wrapping it came in-the tissue paper and the boxes.”

Pressly says it took her 12 weeks to shed the 42 lbs. she gained after Dezi’s May 2007 birth. “I did it the old-fashioned way. I worked out with a trainer and resistance weights, and I dieted. I did the cabbage soup diet twice.”

Is she ready for another baby? “We definitely want more children. Just not right now,” says the 30-year-old actress, who hasn’t set a wedding date. “We’re happy with things the way they are. Look at Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. They make it work [without being married].”

As for New Year’s resolutions, Pressly vows “to keep a balance in my life between my son and Eric and work. If you don’t,” she says, “this business can get out of control.”

From People Magazine

Access Hollywood is reporting that the Golden Globe Awards are now canceled. Read the article below:

The writer’s strike takes down yet another Hollywood institution.

Access Hollywood has learned the entire Golden Globe Awards show has been canceled, according to a statement from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

“We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007’s outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television,” said Jorge Camara, President of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year’s Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled.”

There were earlier reports that NBC would go forward with a televised version of the awards show, with or without actors present.

However, now it has been revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press, which presents the awards, will simply announce the winners during an hour long press conference.

My name is Jaime

You know me as Jaime Pressly, the Emmy-winning co-star of Earl. What you don’t know is how my life suddenly changed in Costa Mesa, and why my tattoo tells the whole story.

By Tina Borgatta, ORANGE COAST, January 2008

Jaime Pressly knows a thing or two about karma. For starters, she plays a key part in a show that’s all about righting wrongs. And the idea that what goes around comes around has been a guiding force in just about every big decision the My Name is Earl star has made. At cattle calls—both as a model and as an actress—she says she has always behaved in a kind and friendly manner toward her competition. She has tried to live a clean, spiritual life. (“My home looks like Buddha Central,” she says.) And she has always considered the consequences of her actions—even as a teenager in Costa Mesa.

“My little sister and I are 17 years apart, and the day she was born, I remember holding her for the first time,” says Pressly, who plays the loudmouth, trailer park-dwelling Joy on the award-winning NBC sitcom. “Tears were streaming down my face, and I remember saying to myself, ‘She’s going to need someone to look up to.’ If she needed somebody, I wanted to be there. But if I wasn’t somebody she could be proud of, then she wasn’t going to want to turn to me. And that was all I needed to get me going.”

Like most teens, Pressly was struggling to find her way in life. Sure, she was good-looking, outgoing, and popular, just as she is today. She had no trouble making friends—in fact, she remains close with many of those same pals.

But she was different.

Pressly was blessed with knockout looks. Her big blue eyes, high cheekbones, brilliant smile, and lean, athletic build have won her high marks as the kind of blond that gentlemen prefer. She’s graced the pages of magazines such as Playboy, Esquire, and Maxim—which named her among its list of “9 Hottest Pregnant Women, Ever,” picturing her with a swollen belly shortly before her son with disc jockey Eric Calvo was born in May. In 2002, Stuff magazine ranked her eighth among its “102 Sexiest Women in the World,” and AskMen.com says she has the kind of strong presence that “is hard to find in a woman, and when we find it, we instantly become fans.”

Then there’s her comedic talent manifested in the role of Joy—the fast-talking, smartass, and trashy ex-wife of the namesake character in My Name is Earl. She created a unique dialect of four Southern accents for that part, and her talent earned her two Emmy nominations. She took home the golden figurine for the first time in September.

“Everyone who watches the show can see how talented she is,” says the sitcom’s creator, Greg Garcia. “She can play the comedy, and then we’ll throw her something that requires some emotion or drama, and she can do it. … She can play everything we give her, and then she’ll do something more—she’ll throw in a facial expression or she’ll come up with a different way to say a line, and it comes out 10 times better.”

That doesn’t mean her many successes came easily. Earl followed a short-lived television series, Jack & Jill, and a string of roles in B movies: Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997), Trash (1999), Poor White Trash (2000), Tomcats (2001), Demon Island (2002)—the list goes on.

Never one to settle, Pressly decided to try her hand at business while juggling her acting career, and in 2003 she launched a clothing line called J’aime (which means “I love” in French). She started with a lingerie collection—funded with her own money. It has grown in the years since, and in October she introduced a new, high-end collection to the line.

Pressly is determined— and always has been. By the time her younger sister was born, she already had been on her own for two years.

At 15, during her sophomore year at Costa Mesa High School, she became an emancipated minor—the result of a modeling contract that required her to move to Japan for three months. Neither of her parents could afford to go. Her father was still living in her native North Carolina. Pressly had persuaded her mom to move West during her parents’ divorce; she was drawn to the glamour of Southern California and the opportunities it presented. Those were lean times, so her parents supported the move to emancipation—mainly because, as Pressly puts it, she didn’t give them a choice.

“They would have gotten in trouble if they hadn’t,” she says. “And I was going to go with or without them. I was 15 going on 30. I was very headstrong and independent, and I thought, ‘OK, I don’t need anybody to go to Japan with me just to help me get on and off the train.’”

She arrived in Japan with $500 in her pocket. The agency put her up in an apartment with a few other models, then deducted her rent and other related expenses from her paycheck—which took a huge chunk out of her net profits. And then, of course, the high cost of living took another big bite. A Big Mac, she remembers, cost a whopping $7.

“It was a crazy experience,” Pressly recalls. “I was getting up at 5 a.m., and getting on a train, and then boarding a trolley to get to my shoots—and I was only 15.”

Homesickness was inevitable. To a 15-year-old girl, three months seemed like a lifetime.

“I had one tape and one video—I couldn’t afford to buy anything over there,” she says. “So all I had to listen to was Journey, and that alone was enough to make you want to slit your wrists. And I watched the same Kids in the Hall tape over and over again.”

When her three months were up, she returned to Costa Mesa a much different person. Though very bright, she was disinterested in the typical high school curriculum. She enrolled at Monte Vista High School, an alternative education center in Newport Beach, which she found even less stimulating.

But it was her sister’s birth that set Pressly on the right path. Holding that baby in her arms, she had an epiphany.

“I just remember asking myself, ‘What are you doing? You came [to California] for a reason, and you settled for less. You need to do something with your life.”

So with a little prodding from one of her teachers, Pressly bypassed her senior year and jumped to the next step. She set her sights on Orange Coast College.

“They allowed me to take an exam to see if I qualified, and if I passed the test, they would let me go to OCC,” she says. “And I actually did really well. So when I was 17, I started going to OCC instead of [finishing] my senior year.”

She studied sports medicine, psychology, and dance—her mother, a former classical dancer, had introduced her to the art, and Pressly had been a gymnast since childhood. Still, her goal was to break into acting. She just wanted a backup, in case things didn’t work out.

A few more modeling gigs followed— including one that took her to Italy. Then in 1997, at the age of 19 (the same age she got her first tattoo—the words “healthy, strong, and brave” in Japanese script), Pressly landed her first movie role, playing Sally the Waitress in the action thriller Against the Law.

Healthy. Strong. Brave. Pressly had the words inked on her lower back on what she calls “a rebellious day.”

“I never believed in tattoos,” she says. “I always thought you’d never want to put graffiti on the Mona Lisa, so why would you want to put it on your body? Then I went ahead and did it anyway. But I wanted to make sure that whatever I put on my body would not be something that I’d ever get tired of, so ‘healthy, strong, and brave’ is what I came up with.”

There’s hardly a more fitting description of her.

She certainly looks healthy—her gymnastics and dance background are evident in her physique. And seeking independence as a 15-year-old—and eventually succeeding—takes a lot of pluck.

But if you think Pressly feels she’s at the peak of her life, better think again. She’s got a lot more she wants to accomplish—dramatic roles, growing a family. That’s not to say she’s ready to leave the cast of Earl, however: “It’s been the greatest turning point in my career,” she says. “It’s just been amazing being able to work with such incredible cast members.”

While she fears being typecast, she doesn’t dwell on that. She has overcome such obstacles before—with those B-movie, sex kitten roles, for example.

“She’s fearless, which is great, and she’ll try anything—she’s willing to take a big swing, and she always delivers,” Garcia says. “There’s no doubt she could do any form of the medium she put her mind to or got the opportunity to do.”

But acting is only one of the things she has going for her.

“I turned 30 on July 30, I had my son in May, I won my Emmy in September, and I launched my new [fashion] collection in October—it’s been the most incredible time,” she says.

She loves being a mom and looks forward to having more children—which might just take her down another path.

“I don’t see that happening until I’m 35 or 36, though,” she says. “I’ll have another kid if not two by then, and I’ll probably want to take a step back to enjoy motherhood. It’s just the greatest thing that’s ever happened.”

And few jobs impact the world more than parenting—the act of spawning new life and helping shape the character of a child who will, with any luck, become a positive force in society. Now that makes for some good karma.

This isn’t directly related to Jaime, but I wanted to post about what’s going on with the Golden Globe awards and how the writer’s strike is affecting them… Variety is reporting the following:

SAG president Alan Rosenberg has announced that not one of the more than 70 actors nominated for a Golden Globe will attend the Jan. 13 ceremonies because of the WGA’s plans to picket the event.

The Globes have been thrown into turmoil and uncertainty due to the WGA’s refusal to grant a strike waiver to struck Globes producer Dick Clark Prods., which offered to accept the same terms as David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants banner. Instead, the guild has said it will picket the Globes, skedded to air on NBC, which has become a prime target of the WGA’s strike campaign in the past few weeks.

Rosenberg, who made the announcement Friday afternoon, has been a staunch supporter of the two-month strike.

“After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters,” he said. “We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers.”

In response, Dick Clark Prods. issued this statement: “Dick Clark Productions has reached out to the WGA on numerous occasions, from the very beginning of the WGA strike, and offered to enter into an interim agreement similar to the agreement reached by Worldwide Pants on behalf of the “Late Show with David Letterman” for the “Golden Globe Awards” — as well as all of our other programs. We are disappointed that the WGA has refused to bargain with us in good faith. It is apparent that we are being treated differently from similarly situated production companies.

“Dick Clark Productions is an independent production company that is not a member of the AMPTP and which has not authorized the AMPTP to represent it in the 2007 WGA negotiations. We support the WGA in their efforts on behalf of writers and hope that they will reconsider their position with regard to negotiating an interim agreement with us.”

On Friday, at a Los Angeles meeting with actors’ reps, Rosenberg passed along the WGA’s wish that actors also not attend the Broadcast Film Critics’ Critics Choice Awards Monday night, even though the event will not be picketed and will be broadcast by VH1. The event is not under a union contract, so the WGA cannot officially call for a boycott.

Earlier Friday, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Jorge Camara issued this statement: “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been placed in an extremely difficult position with the ongoing Writers Guild strike. We are making every effort to work out a solution that will permit the Golden Globes to take place with the creative community present to participate. We hope to announce a resolution to this unfortunate predicament on Monday.”

WGA West president Patric Verrone also issued a response praising SAG and blaming the mega-congloms for throwing the kudos season into confusion.

“We are grateful to our brothers and sisters in SAG for their continued solidarity and support,” Verrone said. “The entire awards show season is being put in jeopardy by the intransigence of a few big media corporations. We urge the conglomerates to return to the bargaining table they abandoned and negotiate a fair and reasonable deal with writers to put this town back to work.”

A group of top publicity firms echoed SAG’s concerns in a letter to NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker sent Friday afternoon.

“After much discussion with our clients, we have concluded the vast majority of the talent we represent are not comfortable crossing a picket line. Our clients are extremely grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and would love the opportunity to be recognized for their work, but will only do so in the event NBC/Dick Clark Productions reaches an interim agreement with the WGA for the Golden Globes.”

Talks between the WGA and the AMPTP collapsed on Dec. 7 after the majors insisted the guild remove six proposals from the table as a condition of continued bargaining. No new talks have been set; the Directors Guild of America may start their talks with the AMPTP soon.

Rosenberg also announced SAG is urging its members to appear on the two Worldwide Pants shows that have waiver deals with the WGA — “Late Show with David Letterman” and “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” — but indicated they should avoid other shows. That would include “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” although Rosenberg did not specify any other show by name.

“Actors who are asked to appear on the struck network talk shows will have to cross WGA picket lines, creating the same situation that has led to the consensus among actors to skip the golden Globes,” Rosenberg said. “As I have said since this strike began on November 5th, we must stand united with our brothers and sisters at the WGA.”