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If you’ve watched a Beyonce interview, you would likely say the seven-time Grammy Award winning singer and Oscar-nominated actress seems grounded and humble, which is startling considering her $100 million bank account and her bold, flashy, sensuous stage persona.
However, the 5-foot-4 starlet can morph into a diva when she slips back into normalcy and continues to walk around in six-inch heels even after shedding her sexy stage clothes and her Sasha Fierce alter ego.

‘B’ made headlines all over the world last week when she took two chauffeured cars full of bodyguards and her assistants across the street to walk around the Harvey Nicholls department store for 20 minutes. She had just wrapped up the Europe/U.K. leg of her 110-city “I am ….Sasha Fierce” tour, and she refused to walk in heels across a London street from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel where she was staying. Instead, she and her entourage hopped into the chauffeured cars to ride slightly up the road and make a u-turn to be dropped off right in front of the designer store. After a brief escorted tour, she and her group rode back across the street to the hotel.
Beyonce, who actually has a song called “Diva” on the Sasha Fierce side of her latest “I am …..Sasha Fierce” album, also made headlines during the presidential inauguration in January. She refused to walk four blocks to her car after rehearsal for her performance because of Washington, D.C.’s chilly temperature and she was wearing high heels. So at her request, President Obama’s Secret Service drove her and her rapper husband Jay-Z to their car.
But ‘B’ wasn’t trying to be a diva. Her feet were killing her.
Any businesswoman can tell you how much her toes, soles and ankles hurt after a 40-hour work week in heels.
So imagine how Beyonce feels after hours upon hours, night after night and city upon city of dancing in high heels.
In fact, Beyonce recently revealed in this month’s issue of Self magazine that her feet “throb” when she goes to bed because she refuses to perform without wearing her trademark designer stilettos.
“When I come home and take them (shoes) off, I’m like, ‘Oh my God! I wish I could just chop my feet off!” Beyonce said. “But while I’m dancing, I’m thinking of the choreography. I don’t think about my feet until I’m trying to go to sleep and they’re throbbing.”
But apparently, ‘B’ prefers wearing high heels off stage as well.
She wised up when she returned to the U.S. from London last Wednesday to rest up before the U.S. leg of her tour kicks off in N.Y. on June 21. She wore black loafers to walk through JFK International to a waiting chauffeured SUV.

So Beyonce’s diva alter ego stayed under the hood she wore to be her normally low-key self.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Elvis has his legions of impersonators.
Michael Jackson has his zipper jacket, glitter-glove wearing moonwalkers and packs of “Thriller” dancers.
And Beyonce has Justin Timberlake, Joe Jonas and droves of women and men, boys and girls singing her songs and copying her moves. Of course, they copied Michael Jackson first and Beyonce gets some of her style from The Gloved One.
When the former Destiny’s Child front woman busted out with her first solo album in 2003, everyone from comedian Monique to future NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp was shaking their rump and singing, “Uh, oh, uh, oh, uh, oh, oh, no, no” to mimic Beyonce’s booty shaking and chorus to her Grammy Award winning song, “Crazy in Love”.
Then in 2006, females all over the world who were angry at their man were singing “to the left, to the left” in reference to the man’s stuff being packed in a box to the left in Beyonce’s “Irreplacable” video. A few months after the release, the band SugarLand countrified the female anthem on their tour with Kenny Chesney, and Beyonce joined them in singing her Grammy Award winning song at the 2007 American Music Awards.
Now, males and females all over the country have been putting on leotards and tights to work it like Beyonce in her aerobics-style “Single Ladies” (Put a Ring on It) video that was released in October 2008.
Justin Timberlake was one of the first to get in on the act when he wore a leotard, tights and heels to audition to be one of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” backup dancers in a Saturday Night Live skit.

Here is a mix of Beyonce’s actual video and Justin’s SNL spoof:

Recently, Joe Jonas put on the leotard and heels to promote the Jonas Brothers’ fourth album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times that comes out June 16.

Do a “Single Ladies” search on YouTube and there are pages and pages of men, women, boys and girls in leotards performing their twist to the song.

But women don’t have to go to extremes to dress like the 27-year-old diva. They can just buy jeans, blouses and other attire from her House of Dereon clothing line.
Beyonce has won seven Grammys and has starred in several movies, including Obsessed, Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records.
She is so influential that Forbes mag recently listed her No. 4 among the world’s 100 Most Powerful Celebrities.
Of course, Beyonce doesn’t need Forbes or Grammys to establish how much the world is crazy in love with her, just as they have been for Elvis and MJ.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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IndyCar Series driver Danica Patrick is contemplating the jump to NASCAR, and she also wants to teach Beyonce how to drive a race car.
But Patrick, the first woman to win an Indy car race, has a better shot at driving in NASCAR’s Daytona 500 than driving around Beyonce, a seven-time Grammy Award winning singer and Oscar-nominated actress.
Lewis Hamilton, boyfriend of Pussycat Doll frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger, gave private driving lessons to the Obsessed movie star and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, a few days before competing in Formula One’s Monaco Grand Prix this weekend.
Patrick thinks she should have been the one teaching Beyonce how to drive a race car after she raced a Pagani Zonda roadster against Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Ferrari F430 Spider with Jay-Z in the passenger seat in Monaco for the rapper’s 2006 Show Me What You Got music video. The video used some of the same turns for the Monaco Grand Prix.
Choosing Hamilton’s instruction was a matter of convenience because Beyonce and Jay-Z left the Cannes Film Festival in France to attend the nearby Monaco Grand Prix on Monte Carlo.
Danica will get her chance behind the wheel with Beyonce. For now, she needs to decide her next career move. Her contract with Andretti Green Racing expires at the end of the IndyCar season, and she said she will listen to offers from NASCAR teams.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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