KIWI SKATER UNCOVERS BODY TO GAIN MEDIA COVERAGE: A news outlet in New Zealand reports that “International speedskating star Nicole Begg is hoping to lift her international profile and that of her sport by undressing.”

The 19-year-old blonde Begg’s “motivation is to raise her profile in the hope of attracting a sponsor and also to promote inline skating.”

Her dad reminds us a little of Jessica Simpson’s father (Joe “my daughter has double-d cups” Simpson) with his creepy comments: “Begg’s father Bill, a coach, said his daughter had also posed for the photographs because the official World Inline Cup magazine wanted a sexier image. ‘It got beach volleyball in the Olympics and that’s where we would love to be.’“