


Commenters on the post ripped Hagan to shreds. The Washington Post’s “Celebritology” columnist, Jessica Goldstein, recently posed a question to readers about the taste level of the blog and its frequent use of paparazzi-snapped photos. Bad dinner manners ruined Haley Joel Osment’s career.”), praise of Sasha and Malia Obama’s “tweenage couture,” and constant exasperation at Violet Affleck’s “granny” style.īut not everyone sees the humor. Suri’s Burn Book: Well-Dressed Commentary From Hollywood’s Little Sweetheart hits bookstore shelves today, filled with meticulous instructions on “how to be old money” (“Table etiquette is nothing to joke about. Hagan’s humorous take on the lives of celebrity children earned Suri’s Burn Book (named after the pink, havoc-wreaking burn book from the 2004 film Mean Girls) enough buzz in the weeks after its inception in July 2011 to have it named Time magazine’s Tumblr of the Week and, by the following January, a book deal was in the works. She hates when babies go shoeless (“Seeing a wealthy person going barefoot in a Target is as unsettling as that time Vanessa Hudgens got invited to the Oscars,” she writes under a photo of January Jones and her bare-toed baby, Xander) she’s dying to be an Olympic gymnast like the Fierce Five (“I’ve never tried this hard to fit in with a clique before,” reads the caption under a photo of Suri doing a back flip at Chelsea Piers) and she even has an imagined, unrequited love affair with David and Victoria Beckham’s 7-year-old son, Cruz. Hagan’s Suri is a pampered, haughty, and razor-sharp wit who revels in dishing out fashion critiques to her fellow celebrity offspring. Hagan, a 25-year-old policy consultant in Washington, is the author behind Suri’s Burn Book, a blog written in the imagined voice of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s daughter. With Suri Cruise’s kitten-heeled shoes, flair for handbags, and stylish ensembles, it’s easy to imagine the 6-year-old as Hollywood’s littlest fashionista.Īt least, that’s how Allie Hagan sees it.
