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Katie Couric Anchors Sexy Photoshoot In Harper’s Bazaar

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by Ruthie Friedlander | 7:35 am, February 4th, 2010

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Only a few days before Diane Sawyer began anchoring ABC’s World News, Harper’s Bazaar’s sat down with Katie Couric. The result: a flawless, sexy looking Couric; refreshingly lighthearted and honest. Mediaite got a first look at the spread.

The four-page spread, featuring images shot by photographer Francois Dischinger, touches the obvious Couric topics: She talks about the assumed “face-off” between her and Sawyer and explains that, with age, “the brouhaha just seems silly,” and that, in fact, she says, “I think we like each other a lot.”

She discusses her youthful “Tinker Bell nose,” which she believes was a roadblock early in her career as well as her personal experience with the Salahis at the White House State Dinner, where she apparently complimented Michaele’s dress.

While she claims her closet is mostly composed of classic MaxMara blacks and grays, the anchor managed to spice things up considerably for the shoot.

In one shot, she stands powerfully planted atop two televisions, sporting a form fitting black Armani skirt suit with sheer black tights and sky high gold Louboutins, looking authoritative.

The second shot shows Couric sitting seductively at a desk, bare-legged, in a beautifully contoured Calvin Klein one-shouldered cappuccino mini dress and a jaw-dropping Ivanka Trump cuff. In both shots, Couric commands the attention of the page – her flirtatious and dominating gaze is absolutely captivating and complimented beautifully by the styling of the shoot.

The March 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar will be on newsstands February 16th.

Photographs courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar, Photographs by Francois Dischinger.

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The Real Royal King

I’m not sure I understand the purpose of this, nor do I dare guess the effect, but I have to say Couric makes other erroneously touted beauties of our day, like Palin-Prejean or the Gretch-Kelly look like cheap and tacky faded floral wall paper.
m

Plus Couric is smart.
Cecelia

She looks terrific!

Former cheerleaders just do not lose their legs!

BUT… I think the “no mini-skirts after 30″ is a rule better kept than not. A strategically slit skirt, a subtle asymmetrical hemline, look alluring and don’t shout “See! See! I’ve still got it going on”!
The Real Royal King

I love a Susie Wong dress on a woman!

I think the “after 30″ rule ought to apply to men in jeans, as well. Sometimes, it works. Most of the time it doesn’t.
Rachel Sklar

@Cecelia No mini-skirts after THIRTY? Please. That would gut my entire closet.
The Real Royal King

There is nothing more attractive to me than a woman’s well-formed calf. A hemline hitting the calf emphasizes it. Many women, however, do not have attractive knees. The Gretch, Carol Costello and Campbell Brown come to mind. Below the knee would work best for them.
Cecelia

Rachel, would there be enough fabric in there to gut? :D

Actually, TRFRK, a hemline right at the calf is very unflattering. At the knee, slightly above it, or below it, is best.

Good advice, TRFRK for your next raid on your wife’s closet.
marigrace

One thing for certain Couric doesn’t look like cheap and tacky faded floral wall paper. She IS the cheap tacky wall paper.

I suppose the “cute and perky one” thinks that slapping on some “cheap” window dressing will improve her network’s rating. (sic).
windupbird

it’s complemented, not complimented.
pyrope

Somehow, the words “Couric” and “sexy” seem mutually exclusive.
sameasiteneverwas

People shouldn’t focus on her doing these shoots, it’s nice.. and her works on The Evening News is the best. CBS has the problem to make their newscast #1 because of weak lead ins