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Amber Rose Says Vibe Magazine Printed Lies in Cover Story.

Landing the cover of Vibe Magazine’s Sexy Issue started off as a happy moment for model Amber Rose, until she actually read what the publication printed about her.

Rose, who gained popularity while dating hip-hop star Kanye West, sounded off via Twitter late Saturday evening (May 28), saying the cover story was “untrue and ridiculous.”

“Just read ‘my’ interview in @VibeMagazine half of the story was untrue & ridiculous,” Rose tweeted.

She continues, “F##k that Cover F##K @VibeMagazine yall wrote a bunch of negative bulls—- that I never said or did. Yall don’t give a f**k that I have a Mom & Family that’s gonna read that fake a** s**t I gave yall a truthful interview & Yall f****d me. I’m so sick of keeping my mouth shut I didn’t ask for this life it was handed to me I was nothing but nice to everyone I spoke to @ Vibe.”
In the Vibe story, Rose who is currently dating rapper Wiz Khalifa, revealed details about her life post-Kanye West, her relationship with Reggie Bush, why her story is relatable and being iconic.

In the last two years, Rose has taken her notoriety and attempted to build a brand for herself. She signed with Ford Models in 2009, and has appeared in a host of hip-hop videos. At one point, she was pitching a reality show about her plans to launch her own line of eyewear.

Her recent Twitter rant has stirred up speculation that it may be an attempt to help boost magazine sales. At press time, Vibe had yet to issue a statement regarding Rose’s allegations.

Vibe’s June/July Sexy Issue is a double cover that also features Miami rapper Rick Ross and is scheduled to hit newstands on June 6.

Serena Williams’ Twitter picture causes a stir.

And just like that, Serena Williams’ sex(y) new Twitter avatar is gone. Gone after maybe half a day, with the old picture of her in a tennis outfit back up. Someone must have gotten to her and suggested something about common sense and hypocrisy.

Last week, a man was arrested for allegedly stalking Williams, having gotten too close to her, too many times all over the country, even in her dressing room at Home Shopping Network. On Thursday, she posted a new avatar on her Twitter page, a photo suggestive of us peeping at her through a lace curtain while she unknowingly looks the other way in white bra and panties.

It’s a sexy photo, she looks great and it’s not pornographic. To be honest, I would actually find it to be somewhat artistic if it weren’t for the serious business of stalking women. What was her message anyway? What was she trying to say? Just this: Look at me.

Instead, what she was saying was this: Peep at me, but don’t stalk me.

Huh?

Williams has masterfully branded herself, now as a celebrity tennis player and not a tennis playing celebrity. The brand is to sell sex now, with tennis as an afterthought, if that. And the way she does it is to walk right up to the line and push it a little, take half a step over it. Give her credit: No tennis player can get people talking the way she can.

(If she’s still a tennis player).

Women’s tennis has been selling sex for decades. And this avatar — even just the talk of it –and all of Williams’ other sex(y) photos and videos lately will draw more TV viewers to women’s tennis than Francesca Schiavone emotionally kissing the red clay at Roland Garros. With women’s tennis a little boring now, sex is selling the sport more than the game is selling itself.

Still, Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic photos are never quite as gritty as Serena’s. First, she did the video game commercial in thigh highs and black leotard. Next, the bright pink body suit on the practice court. And now this.

I’m guessing Erin Andrews might be uncomfortable with the Twitter avatar, having had a stalker peep at her in her hotel room. This view of Serena might not be too far off of what he saw of Andrews.

Whatever, Williams is so much bigger than women’s tennis now that she can hijack the game just by producing occasional photos of herself like this. By the way, in secondary Serena news, she also pulled out of the French Open Thursday, as she continues to recover from blood clots found on her lung. So the focus will go to the other players, such as No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.

Hah! The focus will be wherever Serena says. With that power, and over two million Twitter followers, does come some responsibility. Fortunately, someone figured that out, even if it was a little too late.