Reflections of a stormy petrel

And I hope I'm not shallow or obsessed. I can and do admire women of all shapes and sizes. Greatness and goodness are greatness and goodness under whatever shell. But when it turns out that the great swimming champion, world record breaker, gold and silver Olympic medallist, natural star with the crowd in the palm of her hald, full holder of that mysterious quality that you are either born with or not, that I call the "look-at-me", in short, that our Federica Pellegrini, is, on top of all these things, also a natural blonde and a complete babe....



...well, I'm hardly going to complain about it, am I?