Imagine you are actress Bridget Moynahan. You're tall. You're beautiful. You date New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, the all-American hero of the NFL. You appear in things like a rather good TV show (Sex and the City) and a rather average movie (I, Robot anyone?)

Then your boyfriend leaves you. If that's not bad enough, his new missus is the world's most successful supermodel. She's leggy. She's gorgeous. She's Brazilian. And she earns $35million a year.

Then not only are you single, you find out you're pregnant. So while your footballer ex and his supermodel girlfriend are spotted making googly-eyes at each other from Paris to Boston, you're knocked up and give birth to his baby.

Then they get married.

Then she gets interviewed and spouts off about your child, big time. That's gotta stick in your claw.

What do you do?

Gisele Bundchen, ubermodel and new wife of Tom Brady, is the May cover girl for Vanity Fair magazine. The mag's writer Leslie Bennetts refers to the 27-year-old Brazilian in almost reverential tones in the article entitled ‘...and God Created Gisele,' writing that ‘you can hardly believe an earthly creature is built this way.'

Okay, okay, she's amazingly hot. We get it.

But it was the supermodel's comments about 20-month-old John Edward Thomas Moynahan, nicknamed Jack, that have raised the ire of his mama - whom Gisele has never met.

Tom and Gisele share custody of Jack when the couple are based at their Los Angeles pad, where Bridget and the toddler live. In LA. Not at their place.

"I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that, but to me it's not like because somebody else delivered him, that's not my child. I feel it is, 100 percent," Gisele told the mag. "I want him to have a great relationship with his mom, because that's important, but I love him the same way as if he were mine. I already feel like he's my son, from the first day."

Seems harmless, right? A kid could do far worse than have a stepmother who loves him as her own. They didn't make up those evil stepmothers for fairytales, people. They can be mean. Remember Cinderella? Non-fiction.

But Camp Bridget doesn't see it that way.

One close pal told the New York Post's Page Six, "If Gisele loved Bridget's child like he was '100 percent her own,' then she would not talk about him in the press. Discretion and respect are not either of Gisele or Tom's virtues, as was evidenced even when the child was still unborn and they publicly flaunted their relationship without any discretion whatsoever."

"Don't you think Jack will grow up and read her comments and find them disrespectful to him and his mother? If Tom is such a great father as everyone likes to say, then you would think that he'd respect the privacy of his young child and would ask his wife not to use his son as a publicity prop and a subject of public discussion. Is she is so desperate for attention that she can't find anything more productive to talk about other than Bridget's child?"

Ouch. And it's not over yet.

"Hey Gisele - real mothers don't call their kids 'it.' "

Moynahan's people refused to comment on the whole business.

Believe me, I feel for Bridget. Being dumped for a supermodel then finding out you're knocked up must suck ass. Then she makes a motherly claim on your kid without having to have gone through the bloat, the stretchmarks, and the birth. But would she rather her son have a stepmother that hates him?

Granted, Gisele could have loved the kid just as much and just not spoken about the whole malarkey.

Coveting the best of British

Kate Moss is in New York at the moment for the launch of iconic UK store Topshop's first flagship store outside the UK. By flagship, read huge. The shop boasts 200 staff, over 30 changing rooms, a DJ booth and lounge. No kitchen sink as yet. Actually, maybe they have one out the back.

Kate, in a cropped leather jacket and green maxi dress, joined boss Sir Phillip Green under a shower of confetti as the store opened its doors. Her new Kate Moss collection, the ninth under the Topshop label, is packed with tea dresses, leather, suede and playsuits, and reportedly was inspired by her mother Linda's clothes from the 70s.

Check it out here

You can look, ladies, but you can't touch. Although Topshop online will deliver goods to Australia; and countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines boast satellite stores, us Kiwis are dead out of luck.

Pause for a minute while I stamp my feet. I Want. Topshop. There's not even one in Sydney? Unfair!!!

And since I can't buy clothes without actually trying them on new Topshop gear will have to remain a beautiful pipe dream for me until I wing my way back to the UK.

The store was a girl's dream come true while living in England and Ireland. Cool clothes, lots to choose from, well-fitting and not outrageously expensive. Swoon! Sorry Glassons, but it's not quite the same.

So what inspires the supermodel well known as the most stylish in the biz? Moss, 35, spilled to style.com about her favourite things. She's got Kings of Leon on her iPod. She loves wearing wellies with hotpants (humph! Okay if you've got those legs). She loves to fly by private jet, adores a sense of humour in a guy, is currently reading Roald Dahl and buys her knickers at Stella McCartney.

No raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but then Maria from The Sound of Music was never known for her style nous. She made clothes out of curtains, for Pete's sake.

G20 plus Russ

My favourite bloke in a pair of ruched leggings, Russell Brand, was snapped this week in the midst of the G20 protests which erupted violently on the streets of London. He would speak to reporters about his political leanings, but did tell Sky News: "I'm very interested. I am interested in learning and interested in why these people have come to this.

"I wonder what alternatives there are and I think it makes people cogent of them. I think it's also very beautiful.'

Rusty, I can think of things considerably more beautiful than an angry mob, but each to his own.

In other Russell Brand-related news I have just started reading his autobiography, My Booky Wook, which has sold over 600,000 copies since its late 2007 release and was named Biography of the Year at the 2008 British book awards.

I'm only a few pages in and I'm already tittering.

The dedication says enough in a nutshell:

For my mum,
the most important woman in my life,
this book is dedicated to you.
Now for God's sake don't read it.

If you've read it, did you enjoy it?

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