Doesn’t Britney look like her old self on December’s cover of Australian Cosmo? The reason why she does is because the pictures are 5 years old! The photos were taken for an article that was done in Esquire Magazine in 2003. The lovely photography was done by James White.

I’m thinking that the Aussies saw the photo-shoot fiasco that happened with OKAY magazine - the one where she showed up with a posse of her people, ordered greasy take-out fried chicken, wiped the grease on the clothes she was set to use. Remember it now? She refused to use their makeup artist, took off before the shoot was finished and helped herself to the clothes and the jewelry!

OKAY ended up with nothing but aggravation. I believe they ended up using older photos also. The Aussies must have decided that it was easier to just to use some previously taken pictures and voila… this is the result.