LeAnn Rimes: ‘People Think That I Serve Coffee In a Bikini’
If a comedy about the life of LeAnn Rimes ends up on the air, expect a bikini to play a prominent part.
The "How Do I Live" singer, who recently revealed that she and hubby Eddie Cibrian
are developing a scripted comedy for TV, tells omg! that the project
will poke fun at the way the two are perceived. And for Rimes, that
means a woman who shows off her beach body - even when she's far from
the beach.
"I mean, people think that I serve coffee in a bikini!" Rimes says
with a laugh. "I might as well serve it in it, just for the hell of it!
To me it's hysterical that people think I walk around in a bikini 24/7."
The 30-year-old even posted a pic of herself clad in a barely-there
bathing suit when she took over omg!’s Instagram account this week. (To
be fair, Rimes
has put photos of herself in beachwear online.)
But a lot of other claims have little basis, Rimes says, and she
doesn't have any reservations about putting a fictionalized version of
her life on TV.
"People are writing such [personal] stories about me, which are
completely not true," she insists. "All of my private life they're
making into something that's not even a part of my life … So to write an
album like I did or to put things out that are positive about my life,
it doesn't seem like there's a risk involved. If my private life was
actually private, maybe there would be a bigger risk in that. But when
you talk about doing a scripted show, it's really taking everything that
everyone thinks they know about us and actually poking fun at it, and
having fun with the things that people have written."
Rimes and Cibrian, whom she married in April 2011, have learned to
take the reports lightly. "It's been quite annoying the things that
people have written for a while, and now we've started to laugh at it,”
explains Rimes, whose latest album comes out on Tuesday. “This way, we
can actually show that we have fun with this stuff, because it's
hysterical and outlandish. It gives us a chance to poke fun at
ourselves, which we do all the time and no one sees."

Besides, the singer says she doesn't really allow the negative
comments to bring her down anymore. She doesn't even see most of them,
even though she uses social media multiple times a day.
"A few negative comments will come in a day, but a lot of the same
people make comments over and over again and the block button gets
pressed, because I choose not to see it," Rimes shares.
"I enjoy being on [social media] with my fans. And it can be a very
positive thing as long as you keep it that way. I bite my tongue a lot
and sometimes I'll even write things that are racy," she admits. "I've
really learned not to let it get to me, and to have a tough skin with
it."
Skin that she's quite comfortable showing.