A quick online search can demonstrate that they happen to female celebrities all the time. They’re either swimming and their top slips down or they’re wearing a low cut dress at some red carpet event and a nipple pops out.
Now my question is how much of this is real and how much of it is staged? Do non-famous women in swimsuits or low cut dresses have their nipples falling out but we just don’t know it because there’s no paparazzi snapping pictures of it? Or do famous women arrange for these “accidents” in order to get paparazzi to take their picture and get them some publicity?
First of all, I would have to say that with nipple slips, intent is hard to assess because one must consider a number of factors. First, what actions are being performed? Second, how large are the breasts in question? Third, how well or not well does the attire fit? Fourth, are there decorative pasties on the nipple suggesting it was begging to be shown (ahem, Janet)?
I have a fairly large chest, and I have experienced purely accidental and humiliating nipple slips. It is easy for a large chest to pop out if the outfit doesn’t fit just right, and if the bra doesn’t fit just right (this is more common with large chests) then it is not going to help any. However, most of the time, this has happened when doing activities that were conducive to nipple slips. One does not always know that they will be performing such activities when planning their wardrobe. For example, when one goes to Rocky Horror expecting to just be in the audience, they do not imagine they will end up being onstage as Janet and popping out of their bra a couple times during the more ridiculous shaking moments…
Well, I think quite a bit of it is staged; however, I’ve actually bounced right out of a demi-bra before while running somewhere. At the friggin’ office, no less. So it does happen by accident.
Not that there was any actual boobage showing as I did have a top on, being at the office and all, but if I’d been in a lower cut top there would have been a whole boob showing, I’m sure.
Welcome to the boards, kirch! You seem to be an expert on bosom dynamics, and that will certainly be appreciated here! I have to agree with other posters, however, on the dire need for pictures in this thread.
A few years back Tara Reid had a dress strap break and she had her whole boob visible at a red carpet event. She did not realize it at first and then got ticked off that none of the photogs told her right away.
I’m a 30-something guy and have seen only one real nipple slip in my life. (Beach, woman distracted by looking for keys she lost in the sand). There was another theoretical one, but nothing really visible. (Water slides, she stayed under water until she could get her top back on).
I have to think the stars do at least some of their slips on purpose. However, they do tend to wear outfits that are less practical than what most women wear most of the time, and they have twenty cameras on them from every angle. The combination is going to make slip-ups both more likely to happen and more likely to be noticed.
That’s the kind of thing I’m wondering about. Did she really not realize her top had fallen open? Or did she claim not to have realized it with full knowledge that hundreds of pictures of her would be published as a result of the slip?
I’m reminded of something a paparazzi once said in defense of his business when complaints about harassment were getting really loud. He said that their business is a two-way street despite all the public protests celebrities make. Paparazzi aren’t psychic - they don’t have some special power that enables them to be waiting outside a restaurant or a nightclub when some celebrity arrives there. He says they get calls from the celebrity’s publicist telling them where the celebrity is going to be that night. When a celebrity is photographed getting out of a limo, the presense of a dozen paparazzi is no more accidental than her lack of underwear.
Yeah, and today isn’t really Barack Obama’s birthday because you can’t believe his birth certificate.
Paparazzi don’t have to be psychic. They’re stalkers. They stake out all the hip places that celebrities are known to be see at. And they probably get more calls from bartenders, parking valets, waiters, and bouncers than they do from PR people. Just like the National Enquirer and Star and all the other places do.
Sure, PR people sometimes make calls. When their clients are dressed perfectly and have a project to promote and can control the situation. Very few paparazzi scrums (perhaps scums would be a better term) are controlled, and they work hard to put the celebrity in the worst possible light. What PR person would want that? Was the paparazzi lying? Yes. They flat-out lie about how sleazy they are. What a surprise.
Paparazzi are pimp scum. They make money off the bodies of others. There is no defending them, and certainly no reason to take their side of any situation. (Not that celebrities are wonderful or always believable. But they are miles above paparazzi.)
As for nipple slips, the vast majority of the ones I’ve heard about take place at one of two settings. Many are at the beach. If you kept a telephoto lens on 100 women in bikinis at a beach every minute of every day, I bet you’d find a nipple showing on at least 50 by the end of the week.
Most of the rest happen for the reasons given above. Celebrities in special outfits are less likely to wear bras than ordinary mortals. They wear loose fitting blouses that move around or extremely tight-fitting strapless outfits that slip. And the difference between them and you is that hundreds of cameras are trying to catch every slip from angles that nobody foresees.
As for not knowing if you slip: how many men have walked around with a zipper down at some time in their life? Almost every single one, I bet. So what if there were a camera following you around every moment of your life waiting for that to happen?
And whose careers have been enhanced or improved by nipple slips? Why would they do them deliberately when they can show more skin under better controlled conditions that would make them look far better? Where’s the logic behind that?
I’ve seen two in the past year. One was a formal dress at a wedding sans anything under it, not so much a slip as when she leaned forward an unobstructed view. The other was a really short girl standing next to me in a loose v-neck shirt, again less of a popping out than a just being on view.
It is so easy to not know you have slipped out. If you’re already showing cleavage or your shirt is already loose, it’s often a difference of an inch if that between nipple in and nipple out.
Paparazzi stalk people. I agree with that. The only people whose publicist is going to make that call are people who’s nipple slips aren’t going to make the news because they’re not big enough stars or their stars have faded. Pretty sure Princess Di’s publicist didn’t call that shit in, you know?
I don’t count sneak peaks as slips, more of a benefit tall people get. As a short girl, it’s not something I consider with an outfit, though it’s something I probably should. We don’t really think about bird’s eye view scenarios, for whatever reason.
I don’t think these are real incidents at all. The photos all look retouched. Women shouldn’t worry about going bra-less or wearing low cut or loose tops. Those see through photos are phony too. Even the shearest fabric doesn’t let anything show. And obviously, panties are uneccesary as well.
I’m pretty sure that it was the costume designer for Star Trek that claimed that the sexiness of a womans outfit was directly proportional to the apparent likelihood of said garment revealing something it shouldn’t. Thats fine on a set, where tape and fastenings can be hidden by camera angles and makeup, but it does not work so well in the real world of red carpets, premiers and interviews. So with designers pushing the limits in terms of the clothes they design (conforming to the above theory), and celebrities seeking to raise their profiles by wearing these outfits, and the presence of many photographers, a few accidental exposures are likely. Also, the fact that certain sheer materials are basically transparent when photographed with an intense flash/high shutter combo hasn’t quite sunk in.
No doubt there are some deliberate exposures, by individuals trying to increase their media exposure. But most are accidents.
You seem to be an expert on bosom dynamics, and that will certainly be appreciated here! I have to agree with other posters, however, on the dire need for pictures in this thread.