Daily Style File: Natalie Portman's Baby Daddy Benjamin Millepied's Sorry Attempt At 'Blue Steel' For YSL Campaign
By now we're all at least vaguely familiar with this lucky Frenchman and his forehead. We've seen him dance in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, impregnate Natalie Portman, and bare his chest for Details. Now we're forced to stare at his overly intense mug while he tries to convince us to buy YSL's latest fragrance for men.
Bio:
- Born in Bordeaux, France on June 10th, 1977
- Raised in Dakar, Senegal
- Began his ballet training at the age of 8
- Recently became a father (of son Aleph Portman-Millepied)
- Is both a dancer and choreographer
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Ballet
- His mother, a former ballet dancer, began training him at age 8
- Studied with Michel Rahn in Lyon, France between the ages of 13 and 16
- Began attending School of American Ballet in 1992
- Became principal dancer within NYC Ballet's corps de ballet in 2002
- Has his own company: Danses Concertantes
- Choreographed for and acted in Black Swan
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Dating Portman
- The two met on the set of Black Swan in 2009
- Shortly thereafter, Millepied left his then live-in girlfriend (dancer Isabella Boylston)
- His and Portman's engagement was revealed on December 27, 2010
- Their first child, Aleph, was born in June of this year
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The Verdict
I'm sure Millepied is a great dancer but, judging by this latest ad, his modeling skills are lacking. And somehow I doubt he'd be gracing the pages of magazines and scoring cologne campaigns if it weren't for his high-profile romance with Portman. I also can't help thinking that he's aware of this and probably suspected as much when he traded up in 2009. Sure, I get it, mere plebs leave their significant others for other people all the time but something tells me Millepied might've seen that shiny YSL ad in his future, if you know what I mean.
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I can't tell if I dislike him because of who he actually is or because of the way Portman breathlessly mentioned him and how much she adored him in every single speech she made for every single award she won for Black Swan that she did not deserve. Do I sound bitter? Looks like, in the end, Millepied might just be guilty by association. In that case, sorry, man.
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Anon
July 19, 2011
8:41pm
You are bitter get a life! These people are actually doing something. You just talk about it. Sit down!
OSOP
July 22, 2011
4:28am
u r right...i despise him too..really!!!I mean, natalie was meant to get knocked up one day..but she wasn't fertile at all so why was she mentioning Millepied like if he was a Saint!!!
OOPS
August 31, 2011
4:22am
Yes, Anon, these people were doing something, but I bet it is a lot LESS now that the baby is here. I bet they never do it enough times now to spell out the rest of the Hebrew alphabet! Having a baby isn't easy as a man either, especially when he doesn't really know the other parent of his child. They will NEVER marry. No more fun break-away vacations with the much-younger woman he walked out on. Now, he has to raise Aleph. That's so nice when you're trying to get to know your date, which happens to be the other parent of your child. She must have lost many of her IQ points when she touched pot for the first time at Harvard! He knew he'd get a hole in one after he researched her recent lovers, Devendra Hippyhead!? Yuck! Natalie is now imitating Brittany Spears! Her glory days are over. It is all down hill now sweetheart!