EDITION: U.S.
cosmopolitan
Shonda Rhimes Distances Herself From the Word "Va-jay-jay"
by Ryan McKee, posted Aug 20th 2010 6:30PM
In 2006, the term "va-jay-jay" became a revelation for women looking for a humorous, slightly-urban way to refer to their downstairs lady-parts. It began during the second season of 'Grey's Anatomy,' when Miranda Bailey went into labor and berated an intern, "Stop looking at my va-jay-jay." Oprah Winfrey caught wind of it and suddenly even Midwestern housewives were whispering "va-jay-jay" to their friends with a smirk.
Shonda Rhimes, creator of 'Grey's Anatomy' and "va-jay-jay," is now trying to curb its usage with her Twitter page. Referring to a headline on the September cover of 'Cosmo,' she tweeted, "Eww. This is taking my word a little 2 far."
Castle: Inventing the Girl
by Kona Gallagher, posted Oct 6th 2009 10:31AM

(S02E03) I don't watch Castle because I really need another New York-based police procedural in my life. I watch it because it's funny, quirky, and because Nathan Fillion is dreamy. So while I would be hard-pressed to ever find a bad episode of Castle, this one wasn't my favorite. It just wasn't fun enough.
I'm not really enthralled with models, so the whole "behind the scenes at Fashion Week" thing really doesn't appeal to me very much. However, I do like how the theme of youth and beauty plays itself out throughout the show; first with the obsession over these qualities inherent in the modeling world, then with Castle's realization that he is at the age in which the beautiful young woman he meets isn't someone he met at a party, but rather the gawky girl who babysat his daughter and watched High School Musical with her. All the while, Castle's mother is dealing with the fact that she is no longer getting the ingenue parts, but is instead being offered that of the the crazy granny who dies offstage.
TV Squad Hot Topics
Most Popular Articles
From Our Partners
- Chris Hayes apologizes for not calling fallen soldiers 'heroes'
- Bethenny Frankel teases 'Bethenny Ever After' Season 3 finale
- 'Hemingway & Gellhorn's' Clive Owen: 'He was in my head every day'
- 'Hatfields & McCoys' Kevin Costner: 'Life is all about whose pig it is'
- Zap2it Awards: Nina Dobrev vs Sarah Michelle Gellar and more for Best Actor Playing Two Characters
- More From Zap2it
- Eye on Emmy: Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam on Jax's Evolution and His Real Stance on Awards
- What to Watch: The TVLine-Up for Monday
- Mad Men Recap: A Woman's Worth
- The Idol (Less) Rich: For Jessica Sanchez, No Guaranteed Album Deal, Likely Smaller Payday
- What to Watch: The TVLine-Up for Sunday
- More From TVLine
