The Guiness book of world records 2003 is out, and the editors have decided to leave unchanged the one category that could interest me - Who is the world's most successful supermodel.
So Elle Macpherson is there again, although her appearance is more carefully worded than before: Although she no longer appears regularly on the catwalk, Elle MacPherson 'The Body', is said to be worth £23 millon (US$38.12 million).
Although this choice is certainly better than Forbes' decision to nominate Giselle Bundchen, this humble weblog stands by its position - the richest supermodel on earth was and is Claudia Schiffer (alas).

Brides-to-Be Turn the Tables With Racier Last Nights Out
By NICHOLAS KULISH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A lot has changed since Tom Hanks's classic comedy "Bachelor Party" set the standard for all-boys fun in 1984. Now, it's the "Sex and the City" era, and prospective brides and their friends have claimed the rights to the wildest behavior in the nights leading up to the nuptials.
Many men have toned down the randy side of their last nights of freedom, forgoing exotic dancers in favor of golf, baseball games, fishing or even cooking school. Women, meanwhile, have developed a whole new set of rituals that are bawdy enough to make men blush.
"I guess girls maybe feel like they should even the score a little bit and do something as outrageous as the guys do," says Christina Hartman, a 25-year-old living in New York who organized a bash in June.
It featured a popular fixture of modern bachelorette parties: a racy scavenger hunt. First the bride had to ask half a dozen men for condoms they might have in their wallets. She came up empty-handed. But she had more success getting the next item on her list: a pair of men's underwear. The gentleman she chose simply removed his trousers and his undershorts in the middle of the bar, according to Ms. Hartman, who took possession of the shorts. "I carried them around in my back pocket for the rest of the night as incentive to get other guys to do things on our list," she says.
Bride Chrissy Lieberman's night out in Phoenix featured a 3-foot-tall erotic "monument" made of Rice Krispies Treats. After noshing on that for a while at a friend's apartment, the 16 women piled into a shuttle bus, where they watched pornographic videos on the monitors while they were whisked away to a strip club.
As the roles of men and women in the work force and everyday life become more similar, the traditions that sent a man out for an evening of bacchanalia and left his soon-to-be wife at a dainty bridal shower have crumbled. "Women in the last couple years have come up in the world in a lot of other parts of their lives, especially economically," says Melinda Gallagher, president and founder of Cake LLC, a New York company that creates erotic entertainment for women. Ms. Gallagher, who studied human sexuality at New York University, calls sexual assertiveness a lagging indicator of success in other realms.
"The craziness of today's bachelorette parties is indicative of the fact that women are more secure with their sexuality than ever before," says Julie Blair Riekse, who made a man drink out of his shoe at the party before her marriage.
Women celebrating pending nuptials "are more active in game playing and getting wild, and have caught up with guys in hiring exotic dancers," says Alan Lasky, a vice president at I-Volution Inc. in Los Angeles. The company runs the Web sites Bachelorpartyfun.com and Bachelorettepartyfun.com, which are paraphernalia stores for such parties. He says women purchase four times as many naughty novelty items as men do.
Among the products: the Deluxe Condom Veil, a veil decorated with colored condoms and other lewd items; the Erotic Bachelorette Lei, which is strung with condoms, mints, lubricants and an unusually shaped pacifier; and Stud Playing Cards. I-Volution employees track the movements of the sites' 12,000 visitors each day and find the interest in male-revue dancers and erotic gadgetry running extremely high among female event planners. Bachelors, on the other hand, are more interested in party information like the top 20 drinks and jokes for the occasion, the company says.