March 14, 2008
Media

LeBron James on the cover of VOGUE: OMG his thighs are so fat


Anna Wintour found out there's another black man besides Andre Leon Talley.

Basketball star LeBron James graces the cover of the April issue of VOGUE, making him the third man in the magazine's history, after Richard Gere and George Clooney, to pander to gays. The Cleveland Cavaliers hotshot is paired, appropriately enough, with the weirdly uncomfortable-looking supermodel/Tom Brady sex tape hotshot Gisele Bundchen.

VOGUE's clearly trying to overhaul its image as a stuffy, prissy, perfume-insert hellhole. But having its first male athlete and black man on the cover may have been too much for horrible bitch editor Anna Wintour's rarefied sensibilities — the cover photo she picked says a lot about the antiquated fears in her subconscious:

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