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A bunch of "party girls" went on Tyra to talk about their heavy drinking and late nights out, but Tyra turned it into a therapy session of rehab, with counseling from Dr. Drew and reformed porn star Mary Carey, acting as sponsor. We were supposed to view the three party girls as having serious problems, but one girl, Shay, seemed so upbeat and good natured and young that we're thinking that she's not so much an addict, but just someone who's a lot of fun and making mistakes in her youth. (Or maybe it's just that she particularly spoke to us, because she unapologetically divulged stories about getting totally shit faced, sleeping around, and having period sex but forgetting that a tampon is in there.)
A bunch of "party girls" went on Tyra to talk about their heavy drinking and late nights out, but Tyra turned it into a therapy session of rehab, with counseling from Dr. Drew and reformed porn star Mary Carey, acting as sponsor. We were supposed to view the three party girls as having serious problems, but one girl, Shay, seemed so upbeat and good natured and young that we're thinking that she's not so much an addict, but just someone who's a lot of fun and making mistakes in her youth. (Or maybe it's just that she particularly spoke to us, because she unapologetically divulged stories about getting totally shit faced, sleeping around, and
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Whatever Tyra, at least she didn't bone Chris weber.
Why is this episode not a celbration of Shay? The audience is laughing nervously and Tyra is acting like this situation is unheard of. Who are these people?
@Khrushchev: Celebration, shut up.
Ah, this chick is me!
um, this kind of sounds like summerwheatley circa college years. so what. I grew out of it. I've never had the tampon problem, but have certainly had the lost condom problem no thanks to multiple bottles of MD20/20 (dude, I was in college...I was broke!).
I love Shay! Who hasn't had drunken hook-up period tampon-in sex...with not so sexy results? Plus her shirt is cute! And I thought I was the only one who enjoyed being drunk at work! Yay for Shay!
Hahahaha!
That sounds like something I would potentially do sober.
Shay, let's go do some karaoke together!
Totally my opinion, but I'm guessing she's manic. How else would you keep a life like that up? Even being so young?
@sabbaticalplease: Heh. You know, I always disliked him and thought he was whiny. But a few years back when he was still with the Kings he came into the shop I worked at (shopping for Tyra, actually) and was incredibly nice. And HOT. HOT HOT HOT.
pretty sure there's a section in "our bodies" about having period sex and advocating to just hold on to the tampon if necessary. maybe a little weird for my taste, but come on, if it's in "our bodies, ourselves" it's not exactly radical in 2008.
That is her embarassing moment? Please.
And in NOLA I went out every night of the week.
I wasn't hooking up, but I was out until 8 or 9 in the mornings. I'd shower, work my shift,go home to crash, repeat.
Also, Shay the people at work know you come in drunk now.
@Archetype: Seriously? Wow! I can barely watch him play he looks like a big pouty baby. But that's through the TV so I'll reconsider...
@Khrushchev: I think they find the most easily offended/horrified audience members for the Tyra Show. It is always hilarious and awkward to watch them squirm.
If little Rhody in Boston can relate/is not shocked by these stories than how can Tyra "shares a profession with Kate Moss" Banks be so taken aback by them?
Going out everynight, getting drunk, hooking up, all rites of passage.
A far cry from the girl who burned someone's house to the ground. She shouldn't have been on the same show at all.
@sabbaticalplease: Oh, snap!
Bish plz. She'll have awesome stories to hide from her kids.
@NefariousNewt: My guess is you haven't been to college in a while. At my school, there's kind of a big coke problem (and I go to an Ivy if that means anything). Some kids do it for utter survival because it's known for being a work hard/play hard school. It's class all day and party all night - you take off Sunday and Wednesday.
I personally have never touched the stuff nor do I party nearly as much as other people at my school - but they do it with ease, and I'll never understand it, but it's pretty "normal" as college behavior goes (in my context at the very least).
i used to party like that, and i probs still would if my hangovers didn't get worse and worse every time i drink. i used to be able to wake up, look for my bra, wipe the mascara from under my eyes, pop a peice of gum and work all day. now i wake up and feel like i got punched in the head.
@MinneFilly: "Just hold onto the tampon"? Did they explain what they meant by that? Sounds neither effective nor fun.
Interesting that Tyra is weirded out by Shay's tale, yet she has no problems making women stand around cans of burning garbage in their bras, whispering sweet nothings in Bow Wow's ear, or using a vagina puppet when talking with her audience.
@NefariousNewt: Adderall? Pretty popular when I was in college. Either that or she has the coffee shakes.
shay knows which places have the best drink deals. sounds like a smart girl knowing how to be a party girl on a budget. she sounds like a pal of mine about 4 years ago who knew all the best happy hour drink deals in nyc.
the tampon thing....um...well, can't relate, but we've all been in that "oh shit" moment, haven't we?
@wigglepuppy: Ugh same here...These days, I feel like I ate an ashtray and slept in a dumpster after a night out.
@searched.and.seized: There's girl who was on my dance team in high school who's motto was "Just push it to the side."
@Miss Pelled: I know, and Tyra supposedly started modeling and living overseas at around 16 years old -- I'm SURE she never saw crazy shit go down in a shared model house with no supervision.
@searched.and.seized: There was a girl who was on my dance team in high school who's motto was "Just push it to the side."
@sabbaticalplease: Pinkie swear. Trust me, I was shocked as well. Especially because I was alone in the store and he caught me trying on clothes and looking at myself in the mirror.
yeah this sounds like me the first couple of months after i entered the real world. then my college-trained tolerance left me. sad hat.
@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: Which is surprising because Tyra is SO OUTRAGEOUS.
I remember being in College and one day my best friend and I counted how many nights in a row we had gotten super drunk, and we were up to 76. Didn't even bother counting how many of those nights we drunkenly hooked up with random guys. How I miss those days!! I'll vicariously live through Shay.
@treschic: And now I have "Push It" in my head. Thanks!!
@gold_gato: Yeah. I was a hermit in college but post college I could go for many days during a bender. But I was usually out of commission for another few days because my body hates coke.
Oops! Sorry about the double post.
@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: For me, it entirely depends on the alcohol I choose and whether or not I mix. The more I mix, the more likely I am to run for cover once going outside.
@wigglepuppy: dont you totally miss the days when hangovers were just like left over highs from the night before and you were just lucid and felt like your head was underwater? I do and I resent that my fuzzy hangovers have been replaced with an inability to speak and vomiting! damn you late 20s!
This adds nothing to the conversation but she's adorable! Yes you cutie party girl you!
@NefariousNewt: How old is she, 23? I could have done that schedule at 23. The secret is to sleep the entire day on Saturday and most of Sunday too (well, that was/is my secret).
@treschic: I always just take mine out, take part in the festivities, and put in a new one when we're done. Is that TMI? Oh, wait, this is Jezebel, the home of the 10 day old tampon story.
@Kaehoku: How can you have done that!? I could never do that! Still can't at 26!
Like, last weekend I went to my friends' house and I drank from 2pm until 2am, then I woke up and started drinking again at 11am until about 7pm that night. Not even heavy drinking, either, just beer out of a keg (they have a kegerator and good beer mmmm), maybe one every hour or hour and a half.
I didn't get hungover 'cuz I was chugging water like crazy and eating plenty of food, but I was sooooooooooooooooooooooo tired and off come Monday.
@treschic: I can have just beer and be perfectly fine, but once any alcohol sneaks its way in, all bets are off. My old college-y self shows up, runs the show, makes me do bad thins and then the next morning I want to curl up and die.
@Kaehoku: My best friend and I in college once sat down and seriously, ernestly tried to remember the last time that we'd gone to bed sober. We were unsuccessful. That's when we decided that it might be time to slow the fuck down. We promptly changed our minds.
@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: *things...sigh. Its been a long day.
I thought the woman who was the 34-year old mother was really fucked up. She said she didn't think her kids knew how much she drank, and said her oldest is 15. 15 is old enough to know if his/her mother is an alcoholic. She also had a story about being drunk and playing around a burning house and nearly having a burning wall fall on her.
I also didn't like the third girl, who said something about getting into a fight with "white bitches" while she was drunk. She just seemed nasty and mean.
Shay seemed OK, but started crying because people called her skinny in high school, and wanted to forget her past. Dr. Drew said he thought she had more deep-set insecurities than that.
I don't like the attitude Tyra gives towards women who have sex with men they met at the bar. It's not always safe, but it's this shame-on-you attitude that irks me.
@Rhody: Tyra said she never knew Kate Moss. I don't know what circles Tyra ran in, or if she ever tried drugs.
This is totally me a few years ago-- she'll be fine Tyra. (insert sarcasm) But thanks so much for your concern
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Wow.
I don't know how I did it, but I used to to get up at 6 a.m., be to work by 7, leave work by 3 (first job was a waitressing job), be at my next job by 4, leave at 9, get SHITFACED, stay up till 2, and do the whole thing the next day. This went on for months. I guess I just had youth on my side because I wasn't taking any sort of uppers or anything. Fer real.
@Khrushchev: I think that even though Tyra has been all over the world modelling for years, she has been terribly sheltered and missed a few life lessons...like going out and partying with your friends college-style and waking up with a super mega hangover and some dude from your dorm. She always looks SHOCKED and appalled during her own talk show, its like, girl get a clue.
@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: I am the complete opposite. Beer is the devil. It might be my favorite to drink, but it dries me out the most. Maybe because I've drunk more beer in my life than hard alcohol it's possible that my body is giving me relative hangovers?
@ceejeemcbeegee (AKA!): What's so shocking?
@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: I just wrote how I don't believe she hasn't seen anything like this. Different form maybe. Didn't she live in a shared model house? I have a friend - I know stories!