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From the Los Angeles Times
ALL THE RAGE
Learn how to walk in high heels at Santa Monica boutique Shoe boutique Il Primo Passo is ready to help steer the way on sky-high stilettos.
By Monica Corcoran
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 1, 2008
"Stop looking down at your feet and stare straight ahead," says Queen Jazzmun, as I skitter across the hardwood floor in 6-inch Barbara Bui platforms like a newborn giraffe. "The heels are the mistress, and you are the slave. Submit."
But who's going to submit my health insurance forms when I am laid up at Cedars, I wonder, during a Sunday afternoon primer on how to walk in high heels. The private instruction came about because Jazzmun -- a transvestite performer and actor/actress -- had recently taught 18 women how to glide atop designer stilts at a course offered by shoe boutique Il Primo Passo in Santa Monica. Owner Beth Whiffen expects to hold another one in a month.
"Women would come in and ask, 'How do I walk in these heels?' " says Whiffen, pointing to a delicate pair of 5-inch satin Christian Lacroix sandals and gold Giuseppe Zanotti wedges that will add a half-foot to your view. "But the trend in the covered platform makes the shoes look even higher than they really are."
Blame Gwyneth Paltrow for further igniting the craze. Recently, the mother of two has been mincing about in stiletto heels that would alarm every TSA agent at LAX. The 7-inch Zanottis she donned for a red carpet in Rome could double as shish kebab skewers. The 6-inch Alexander McQueen Languid pumps she wore in London last month, while promoting "Iron Man," caused a stampede to Selfridges, where the $650 shoes sold out.
"You have to know your limitations in these shoes," says Jazzmun, pivoting as gracefully as Alexander Godunov in 6-inch patent leather Buis. Jazzmun also recommends that you practice walking around the house before you test-pilot ultra-high heels. "If you're walking on a lot of concrete, you need to carry an extra pair of slip-ons."
So true. Even Paltrow doesn't tackle asphalt city streets in heels. Last month in New York, she was spotted in Nike sneakers en route to her David Letterman appearance and wore sky-high Christian Louboutins on-air. I bet she took less than 100 steps in her stilettos.
No doubt, she understands the health risks associated with walking tall. The Mayo Clinic reports that joint pain, nerve tissue growth and stress fractures await high heel addicts. There's even a deformity known as "pump bump" that is, in essence, a growth on the back of the heel caused by straps and the backs of certain stilettos. (Mayo podiatrists advise women to opt for a heel that doesn't exceed an inch and one-half. Tell that to Carrie Bradshaw, doc.)
After just 20 minutes of gentle but firm instruction, Jazzmun has me swanning like a tipsy debutante in my platforms. I could never kick as high as Jean-Claude Van Damme, but my calves aren't throbbing like a neon sign anymore. Jazzmun's tutelage is more about empowerment than step-by-step instruction. You learn to fix your gaze on a point on the horizon to steady your balance and to thrust out your hip to ensure that you look sexy and confident. Oh, and be sure to distribute your weight equally on the toe and heel or you'll fall forward or backward a la Charlie Chaplin. "After some Champagne, you will be twirling," Jazzmun says.
Later, I read online that a Swedish scientist has linked wearing high heels with schizophrenia. He claims that high heels cause us to tense our calves in a way that hampers the release of dopamine, which is essential to mental well-being. Hmm. I click my 6-inch heels and laugh like crazy.
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My Interests

Here I am live on KTLA promoting "Walk Like A Diva" classes!

SCANDAL! Any second now, something shocking will happen. A star will say something racist. A starlet will enter or exit rehab - or jail. A beautiful person will cheat on another beautiful person. Some heartthrob will be caught with a call boy. An over-the-hill actor will be videotaped drunk. An offending body part will be flashed. Arrests will happen. Carreers will be destroyed or resurrected. Outrage will be expressed. GUARANTEED.

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Movies:

Dreamgirls Puff, Puff, Pass The 40 Year-Old Virgin Punks Blast from the Past

Television:

ABC's BIG SHOTS CSI : NY The Closer Half & Half CSI Dr. Vegas 10/8 Lyon's Den Nip/Tuck The Shield N.Y.P.D. Blue E.R. The Division The Wayans Brothers Roseanne The John Laroquette Show

Books:

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain DreamerIt doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

My Blog

March 2008 - Autograph Requests from around the World...

MY DEEPEST HEARTFELT THANKS TO ALL MY FRIENDS,ADMIRERS & FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE THAT HAVE CONTACTEDME THRU MY SITE JAZZMUN.COM AND THRUMYSPACE.COM/QUEENJAZZMUN WHO HAVE REQUESTED SIGNEDPHOTOS OF ME...
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