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A reader offers this supplement to yesterday's report about Katie Holmes' Friday visit to Barneys, her venue of choice for when she needs to distract herself from the pressure of being the world's most famous fake expectant mother with some retail therapy:

As she was shopping in the shoe dept, the store manager (who was randomly freaking out, which is totally weird b/c celebs are always in the store) was trying to shout at the paparazzi taking pics through the windows and Katie's boytoy assistant was all, "No, they're just trying to make a living, let them take pictures, it's ok. That's how she wants it." Her Scientology girls (is it a requirement to dress in all white feathers?) were also browsing.

We're not that surprised about Holmes' seeming tolerance of the shutterbug class. It's in the couple's best interest to make sure that the public knows that she's allowed outside once in a while to stretch her legs (though closely monitored by handlers, lest she pull a fire alarm, use the distraction to shed her false stomach, slip into a Clinique labcoat, and escape in the ensuing chaos). Morevoer, we suspect that she empathizes with the paparazzi's plight; when Holmes and the photographers signed up for their respective gigs, they probably never imagined that they'd be wasting their lives holed up in a department store, killing time waiting for a baby that's never going to come.