In the hyper competitive world of the Hong Kong TV and movie industry, girls often have to work very hard to get noticed and to get ahead. Many of the star performers started out as beauty queens or swim suit models. Katy Kung (full name Katy Kung Ka Yan) is no exception, this cute 22 year old got her start at 16 as a magazine model, her sweet smile and very nice overall look did her very well. She soon signed on with TVB (one of the major channels in Hong Kong) and has since appeared in 5 of their drama series, most recently When Lanes Merge (情越雙白線). She hasn’t been shy about her good looks, posting up some very nice and sexy stuff, including plenty of bikini and beach pictures. She’s not shy to promote herself with her great looks and sweet smile!

Lea Michele is proof that stars often come after years of working it hard on the stage. She did plenty of work on New York on various musicals as she was growing up, and her petite size and looks have allowed this cute star to play roles as a teen well into her twenties (she was born in 1986). In 2009, this musical stage actress got her big break as Rachel Berry in the massive hit show Glee, where she plays the top singer in a high school musical club. She has an impressive voice, but I suspect many guys just tune in to see this sexy star in schoolgirl uniforms and such. Recent stories has her turning into a bit of a diva, including being very upset about a food fight scene for Glee, as there would be meatballs thrown and she is a Vegan. How odd!

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Mila Kunis is one of those sexy stars that has sort of snuck into the big times through the back door. She started acting at 9, and made her TV debut (On the John Laraquette show of all things) at 12. She got incredibly popular as Jackie Burkhart on That 70s Show, which made her a pretty big star. Remarkably, this sexy star is also the voice of the dowdy Meg Griffin on The Family Guy, and did some stuff for Robot Chicken as well. She had moved onto making movies, including a part in the hot Black Swan movie, and now as a co-star with Justin Timberlake in Friends With Benefits. She recently got a true putaface boost by having Timberlake feel up her boobs at the MTV awards, as she grabbed his crotch. This girl works the media, that is for sure!

Blake Lively (born Blake Christina Lively) is a Southern California girl who has started to make it big in Hollywood. Well, actually, we know she has made it big in Hollywood because she appears to be the replacement for Bar Rafelli on the arm of Leonardo DiCaprio, which is a major coup in Hollywood terms. This has taken her from TV scripted Reality show star to mega star in one big step. Suddenly all the media are following this girl as she does the Putaface thing for the camera. She has had an odd career so far, appearing in movies with Justin Long (Apple guy from the commercials, his movies are all the kiss of death it seems), and finally landing a role on the non-reality shows Gossip Girl. She’s a really cute girls too, and gets lot of attention for her sexy good looks, but Blake Lively is all putaface and more than willing to smile for the cameras!

Kiele Sanchez (pronounced Kee-Lee) is an American actress of mixed French and Puerto Rican background. She has sort of been on the edge of fame for nearly 10 years. She first tried out to be an MTV VJ, and actually made it into the final step of the competition. She has appeared in a few TV shows (like Lost, but she was apparently blown out because the fans didn’t like her character much), and pilots that didn’t get picked up. She also did some incredibly hot shots for stuff magazine and appearing in a number of movies, best known for her semi nude scene in The Getaway with Milla Jovich. About a year ago, she got picked up for an A&E original show called The Glades, starring opposite Matt Passmore, and she hasn’t looked back since. She is a very unique looking girl and appeals to many men, and has turned out to be quite popular. With the second season of this show, this sexy Latina actress is making more public appearances and is moving on with other movies as well!

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I think that any politician who wants to get elected has to be a bit of a putaface, they have to want to seduce the camera. Sarah Palin is a masterful putaface, someone who really knows not only how to seduce the camera, but how to weasel her way in front of it at every turn possible. She started out as a small town Alaska mayor, quit that and moved on up to Governor of Alaska, and quit that to try to run for Vice President with John McCain. That didn’t work, but Sarah Palin didn’t shy away, instead she wrote books, hosted a reality show on Discovery, works for Fox News as a “commentator”, has appears on other TV shows, and became the spiritual leader of the Tea Party movement. At this point, the question is Will Sarah Palin Run in 2012? . She keeps trying to putaface for the camera and remain in the public eye. She could be the first woman President of the US.

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I think by definition, any girl who works as a model has either a natural or a learned skill in being a putaface. After all they are selling a look, a style, and more. In the case of Adrianne Curry, she got famous as the winner of America’s Next Top Model, which is certainly a show for being a putaface and selling yourself and your look. She is more than willing it seems to do anything to get attention, one quote from today was “Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) didn’t tweet a picture of his boobs (that’s Adrianne Curry’s job),”, which is sort of a good indication as to what lengths she will go to get attention. She will be starring on Playboy Channel’s Celebrity Sex Tapes program, and spent some time on Howard Stern’s show promoting it and doing what Stern show visitors do. Putaface indeed!

Brooke Mueller is a bit of an odd case in the land of Putafaces. She is an actress, yes, although her movie career is spotty as it comes (4 credits in IMDB in 13 years), and honestly, I doubt very many people are huge fans of A Love Song For Bobby Long. She has had a much stronger career in real estate, and has apparently made quite a bit of money in that area. However, Brooke Mueller is best know at this point as one of Charlie Sheen’s ex-wives. Most notably, she is the wife that he apparently got into a big fight at Christmas a couple of years back that got him charges and such. She is the mother of Two of Charlie’s children. She is also a frequent flier on the rehab circuit, recently landing back in rehab after apparently crashing off the wagon, leading to more legal action with the “fast on the draw” Sheen, who appears to have his lawyers on speed dial for things like this. As a result of all of this, Brooke Mueller is often front page gossip paper news, a real putaface without intention.

Selena Goemz is one of the more interesting girls to come out of the House of the Mouse (Disney) because she has managed to keep herself seperate from the various Disney projects, and not get herself too locked up in their way of doing things. This 18 year old is a native of Texas, and is a mixed Mexican latina and Italian background. She has appeared on Disney shows like Wizards of Waverly Place and other cross over shows. She has appeared in a bunch of different movies, including doing voice over work on Horton Hears a Who!. She has also released two albums with her band Selena Gomez and the Scene, A Year Without Rain [Deluxe Edition] has proven to be very popular. Right now she is getting the most attention for being involved with Justin Beiber, with pictures taken of them kissing and being intimate.

Natalie Portman, born נטלי הרשלג (Natalie Hershlag) in Jerusalem, Israel in 1981 is a well known movie star and celebrity. She worked a number of films before being cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star War Prequels. She has gone on to appear in a very wide variety of movies, careful not to get typecast. She was part of the thoughtful V for Vendetta, which featured her shaving her head. Recently, she has starred in Black Swan, a very intense movie about ballerinas, which garnered her a Golden Globe award. Natalie Portman is a very good looking girl who isn’t shy to use her good looks to get attention, but at the same time has been very careful in how she approaches the media. This has kept her from getting over exposed. Natalie Portman Celebrity Pack (Anywhere But Here, Garden State, Where the Heart Is)

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is the proof that instant celebrities really do exist, that a little exposure can turn into a lot of exposure overnight. But Snooki is also proof that well managed exposure can really work out. Snooki was first seen on MTV’s “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”, and then made it onto the cast of “Jersey Shore”, where this 4 foot 9 inch, curvy little guidette was an instant hit, her fist pumping party antics apparently very popular. Her persona has been carefully crafted and has really done well with the public, her famous “poof” of hair becoming almost a parody of itself, being one of the top Halloween costumes a couple of years a back. She has been famous enough to appear on other shows (Such as Cake Boss), and she is relentlessly followed by the media and paparazzi. She is pretty much top page news for anything she does on sites like Perez Hilton or TMZ. She has even been parodied on South Park. Get your copy of Jersey Shore: Season One & Two now!

Shania Twain is a Canadian Singer, born Eilleen Regina Edwards (also known as Eileen Twain). Her music career started very young, but she really broke out when she met music producer Mutt Lange (best known for acts like AC/DC). They co-wrote much of her breakout country pop crossover The Women In Me album, which went multi-platinum in 1995. They were soon married, and her career continued to skyrocket. She made a number of albums after that (including UP!) and is now considered one of the richest female musicians in the world. She has one son, and was divorced from Lange in 2010. She hit the headlines recently because she is likely to join Celine Dion as “musicians in residence” in Las Vegas, putting two of the most powerful women performers in the world both in the same city.

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In the world of Putaface celebs, Heidi Montag is perhaps one of the best examples of pure attention whoring. She is sort of a cross between Tila Tequila and Paris Hilton when it comes to trying to get attention. Essentially, she turned a role on an MTV’s fake reality show The Hills into a sort of fame whoring empire. She even wrote a book called How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture where her and super fame whore husband Spencer Pratt explain how to fame whore and remain in the public eye. They have done an amazing job, coming up with all sorts of fake divorces, crazy stories, and the like. There was even rumors of not one but two sex tapes. Heidi herself went through an amazing plastic surgery transformation, going from girl next door cute to something between hollywood trophy wife and a pornstar, with big fake boobs, fake teeth, new face, and the like. This pretty much sums her up, a girl who is willing to do anything to keep the public’s attention. There have been rumors on various sites online that MTV or Heidi herself has been paying blogger Perez Hilton to keep her in the public eye. Not sure about the truth of that piece of fame whore news!

Amy Winehouse is almost the classic story of stardom turned to poison, going from incredible torch singer to drug addled trouble maker in a very short period of time. She started out great with a promising music career and a top selling album called Back to Black, which was a sort of big band, jazz, blues, and soul album that absolutely stunned everyone. Then she started to have trouble, marrying (at the time) drug addicted Blake Civil-Fielder, and getting hooked herself on an amazing assortment of drugs and alcohol. Since then she has turned from a stunning curvy girl into an unfed druggy, all done in front of the press to great effect. She is a well known boozer and trouble maker, often found either passed out or fighting on the streets of London. Her amazing talent is lost as long as she stays like this, and it isn’t clear that her putaface is intentional or just that she no longer gives a crap. A truly odd case!

No matter how many fame whores come and go these days, the model they are all using is the Paris Hilton model. Basically, Paris Hilton is an insanely rich heiress, attached to the Hilton Hotels gold, and pretty much doesn’t really have to do anything in life. But she loves attention, and has done everything to get it, from her Paris Hilton Sex Tape to her reality program The Simple Life (with fellow deb and childhood friend Nicole Richie). Along the way she has had brushes with the law, a string of well known boyfriends, and tons of other ventures – she even made a (horrible) music CD. While she has been quieter the last couple of years, she isn’t always out of trouble. Reportedly, Paris Hilton was arrested in Vegas for cocaine, after being caught in a car pulled over by police. She claims it isn’t hers, either way, it will be news for the celeb shows for a long time to come!

Celebrities get famous for all sorts of reasons, and in all sorts of ways. Jennifer Aniston got incredibly famous playing Rachel in NBC’s Friends tv show for more than 10 years. Part of that fame, at least for some guys, was that she always seemed to have the high beams on (see image). She has moved on and done a number of movies (including the classic Office Space, where she played the ditzy waitress / love interest). She has made many movies, but as often as not keeps her name in the news with her never ending non-relationships, and her on again off again desire to have kids (she is getting to the age where it is more difficult). An interesting star that knows how to putaface well!

Okay, this may go down in Putaface history as one of the weirdest and most blatant attempts for a celebspawn trying to get attention for themselves. When I first heard the story, I laughed. Then I found out it is true. Montana Fishburne is the daughter of Movie and TV star Lawrence Fishburne (currently on CSI). She’s a pretty decent looking girl. Well, apparently, she has a bit of a wild side on her, and she decides that the best way to get some fame and fortune was to make a sex tape. That’s right, her logic is pretty much that Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian got famous from their sex tapes, so why not her? She took the name Chippy D, and along with her aptly named pornstar boyfriend Brian Pumper, they made a sexy home movie. Well, let’s just say that a sex tape isn’t exactly the way to get known, especially when everyone knows you are putting it out just to get famous. One of the more bizarre Putaface moments for sure. You can check out the Chippy D / Montana Fishburne video here (very much NSFW!).

Some girls just know how to get attention, no matter what the situation. Natasha Alam is a Russian born, Russian / American actress and model who has certainly taken steps to be well known. She started out in the early 2000 area with some TV appearances, doing the rounds of famous shows such as CSI and NYPD Blue, doing guest roles that allowed her to get some face time on the air. She also got a 20+ episode run in the long running soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. But it is her recent addition to the cult hit True Blood that has gotten her much attention, as she plays a stripper, allowing her vibrant sexuality to show. She has capped that by now being the cover girl for the July 2010 issue of Playboy, giving her a whole lot of exposure in not quite as many clothes as usual. This girl knows how to putaface with the best of them, and is likely to springboard this exposure into something bigger.

without a doubt, Oksana Grigorieva is not your typical putaface celeb. This Russian born singer, songwriter, and music teacher hasn’t specifically had a very public career of her own, but rather she has been involved in a series of relationships with various well known people, which has put her in the limelight. Since 1989, she has been married to an unknown Russian guy, British artist Nicholas Rowland, actor Timothy Dalton, and then actor Mel Gibson.

It is her relationship with Gibson that has cause the most ruckus. First off, it would appear that she did a bit of a home wrecker job, blowing up Gibson’s long term marriage to Robyn Moore (29 years), and getting pregnant by him with their daughter Lucia. However, not all is well, and they have split up very publically, including wild accusations of abuse by Gibson, recording of his seemingly racist rantings, etc. Some people believe that Oksana may be gold digging, looking for that perfect settlement that will allow her to live her life in luxury. Others think that the accusations against Gibson are true. No matter what, Oksana Grigorieva has become a celeb putaface, always in the media!

Alyson Michalka isn’t your typical putaface celeb, but she is one of the Mouse House’s products. Best know for her roles in Disney series like Phil of the Future, she also made a pretty big impression in the movie Band Slam, where she played Charlotte Banks. She and her sister are a true musical act, originally called Aly and & AJ and now know as 78violet. She was recently the victim of a stalker who wanted to marry her, and seemed to know way too much about her, such as where her late pets were buried. How odd! She recently stepped up her visiblity with a role in the movie Easy A, and will come back in 2011 with roles in The Roommate and possibly other projects. This has of course lead to more media exposure, and more putaface time for her!