Alex Curran (Gerrard)
By Ines Mendoza
Who would have guessed that a sexy fashion model would end up getting married to some boneheaded sexy sports guy? It's almost unfathomable, right? Yes, just like night will surely turn into day, like minded attractive famous folks tend to find themselves bedding each other - for better or worse.
The latest entrant into this world is English born model and Daily Mirror fashion columnist Alex Gerrad (nee Curran).
For those not in the know (how can you not be, if you're not the type to drool over copies of Famous and New Weekly, what are you even doing reading this?) Curran is married to Liverpool and England soccer captain Steven Gerrard and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading "WAGS" (Wives And Girlfriends) of the England soccer team.
Just to give you a point of reference on how widely regarded that is... her competition is Victoria Beckham and Coleen Rooney. Yeah - big time comp!
Now normally that's not enough to qualify as a fashion icon, but in this day and age of "Kardashian-ism", there really are no rules anymore when it comes to fame and talent ratios. In fact, so fa, Alex Curran's greatest achievement came in 2007 when a newspaper referred to her as an "über-WAG".
I'm not sure if I'm more dumbfounded by the fact such branding exists... or that fact it appeared in an actual newspaper! No wonder those things are going the way of the dinosaurs (real ones, not Jurassic Park ones which have been genetically brought back to life).
Similar to the life of a Kardashian, Alex is quite keen on making sure everyone knows what she smells like. Because if there's one thing people want to do - it's stink like a girl who hooks up with a brainless sports star, right? In the same year as being named "über-WAG", Curran created her own fragrance, simply titled "Alex".
Not willing to be known for simply smelling and fornicating, Curran also managed to bypass the hard working steps journalists take to climb the ladder of a dying empire by scoring herself a weekly column for the Daily Mirror. Not just any column either, but one that really cuts to the centre of humanity... it's titled... "Go Shopping With Alex Curran".
Hey Alex Curran, can we go shop for a gun? If you pay for the bullets I'll happily pull the trigger. Uggg, humanity, am I right folks?!!
It's interesting to note that the major reason Curran became famous in the first place had a lot to do with her innapropriate dealings in love. For example, before she and Steven Gerrard joined in 2002, she was dating businessman Tony Richardson (during this time, Gerrard was dating Jennifer Ellison). However it's been reported that at some point in 2002, Curran and Ellison switched lovers... and the rest is history!
This is a famously similar story to that of George Harrison and Eric Clapton and their wives... and most likely a fair amount of Hollywood. The Guardian was reported as saying "who stole whom off whom is still the subject of some debate".
The important thing to remember here is that Alex Curran is famous for being famous. You can bang on about her achievements SINCE she became famous, but those jobs were little more than a product of the publicity created by her opening her legs for the right man. It's where our world is headed sadly.
Wow, what a depressing end to an article. At least we have some pics for the lads to perve at!
