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- ↑ "Your Inner Pinup" "NBC News" Archived 2010-07-25 at the Wayback Machine 05 July 2009. Retrieved on 2010-08-10
- ↑ "So You Want Va-Va-Voom?" "The New York Times" Retrieved on 2010-08-10