Rihanna Covers Elle Magazine's May Issue

This must be purchase worthy cover week...I plan on buying every magazine that I posted this week simply off the cover shoot alone. Just because I tell you guys to go out and cop a copy of the Anyember issue of Yo Mama magazine doesn't mean I plan on buying a copy...it just sounds good!!

Anywho, I think we have a YAY with this cover shot of of Rih Rih doused in Versace...although I hate the Storm look with the dirty blonde thinning wig and the contacts this look is so hott I won't even deduct points.

In the article Rihanna directly addresses her still being in contact with Chris Brown:

"I respect what other people have to say. The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently," cover girl Rihanna tells ELLE of the furious reactions from fans and critics about reconnecting with Brown, 22, despite their brutal past. "It's very hard for me to accept, but I get it," she says of the criticism. "People end up wasting their time on the blogs or whatever, ranting away, and that's all right. I don't hate them for it."

Still, Brown's February 2009 attack was a turning point for the star, who is now more popular and successful than ever. "It gave me guns," she says of the trauma. "I was like, well, f***. They know more about me than I want them to know. It's embarrassing. But that was my opening. That was my liberation, my moment of bring it. I wanted people to know who I am. Whatever they take that to be, good or bad, I just want them to know the truth."

Source: Elle, US Weekly