Gwen's bikini waxer to write a book about Brazilians, sexiness

Posted at 3:37 PM Mar 17, 2009

By Sharon Steel

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Yesterday, we told you about The Little Red Book of my-first menses essays. Today, the Observer brings word of another book covering an uncomfortable female ritual -- though, fortunately, this one is optional. Brazilian bikini waxer to the stars Janea Padilha is penning a lifestyle tome titled Brazilian Sexy for Penguin imprint Perigee:

Padilha is one of the J Sisters, the Brazilian doyennes of waxing who run the 57th Street salon where celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker and Uma Thurman have gone to get neat and trimmed. (Like many other celebrity clients, Ms. Paltrow has her headshot up in the waiting room with the note, "You changed my life!!")
Strange. We thought Gwen's bowel cleanse is what brought that about.

Brazilian Sexy will not only include tips on "the clean body," but also Padilha's advice "about beauty, about men, about life," which she often imparts on her celebrity clientele. Come 2010, we'll know exactly what sort of life-coaching Paltrow, Lohan, Diaz, Parker, and Thurman receive while they're lying prostrate on one of Padilha's treatment tables. Lucky us!
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