Posted Nov. 19, 2008

Taylor Swift seems to have no problem sharing her feelings -- good, bad or mortifying -- with the public. On the heels of telling the world -- repeatedly -- that Joe Jonas dumped her in a 27-second phone call, she's opening up about how unpopular she was in high school ... and beyond. "[Growing up on a Christmas tree farm] was basically a shunning -- and that's never a good thing, you know?" the 18-year-old singer-songwriter tells Women's Health of her evergreen-surrounded formative years. "A lot of girls thought I was weird. Actually, the word they liked to use was 'annoying.' I'd sit at their lunch table and they'd move to a different one." And despite fame and fortune, she claims there hasn't been an appreciable increase in her social status. "It's funny -- I thought my contact list in my phone would grow if I was in the music industry," notes Swift, whose new album, "Fearless," has topped the charts this week. "But I had more people in my phone book when I was in high school!"

Reese hits the CMAs on Nov. 12. (©AP)

The way to Reese Witherspoon's heart this holiday season? Wire, wood and working up a sweat. "Oh, I want someone to build me a good chicken coop ... like a man who can just get down there and build it ... ooh," the Oscar-winning squeeze of Jake Gyllenhaal coos to USA Today. Reese, who's currently stumping for "Four Christmases," says she plans to mark the birth of the baby Jesus by dishing up a home-cooked meal of turnip greens, pecan-coated sweet potatoes and sugar-baked ham for kids Ava, 9, and Deacon, 5, before heading to her country estate outside Los Angeles. "We feed the chickens and the pigs -- I have two pigs, and, boy, are they really pigs. They just get down in that mud and roll around," she laughs. "I like getting down in there and working in the garden."

Alec Baldwin, pre-smooch. (©AP)

"It was painful." That's Alec Baldwin, responding tongue-in-puffy-cheek to a question from New York magazine on what it was like to lock lips with Jennifer Aniston on "30 Rock." "I mean, every man who's had to make out with her in TV and movies -- I don't know how they do it," continues the actor, who wisely tiptoes around the follow-up query on whether, in the words of his alter ego Jack Donaghy, "the emotionally unstable are fantastic in the sack." Says the ex of Kim Basinger, "That's assuming I've been with a crazy woman. If I answer that question in the affirmative, that would type a woman I've been with as being crazy, which I don't really feel like doing. But I hear it's true. I hear from my friends it's true." And does that hypothesis apply to men? "I will say this on the record," he quips, "I've never slept with a crazy man."

Miley inspects Stephen's "Hannah Montana" tat on Nov. 10. (©Retna Ltd.)

Moving on to a lesser Baldwin, Alec's little brother Stephen has bad news for America: He says he wasn't actually serious when he announced on Fox News that he would leave the country if Barack Obama became president. All together: Bummer. "The liberal Democrats who didn't get that I was joking need to lighten up," the born-again actor tells the New York Post. "Obama is obviously talented and intelligent, and I have great respect for the man. He's got my full support, and I'm gonna be praying for him and his administration." Just don't expect him to get down on his knees in support of gay marriage. "If they legalize gay marriage in all 50 states in my lifetime," he bloviates, "I'll get a Billy Ray Cyrus tattoo on my butt to go with the 'Hannah Montana' one."

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