Jezebel: christine coppa

Would You Be Faithful If Your Partner Became Paralyzed?

Jessica — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:00:00 EST

When Phil Taylor met his wife, Linda (pictured here), he was a "respected dog handler" and she was a fetching army caterer. Fifteen years after they married, Phil came down with a rare neurological disorder that left him paralyzed. And although Phil tells the Daily Mail that Linda "never left my side and would patiently sit and feed me and even take me to the loo," over a year after he was hospitalized, Linda took up with two different men — one them a friend of Phil's. Although it was shitty of her to sleep with her husband's good friend, we wondered: was it so wrong that Linda wanted her sexual needs fulfilled? We asked Christine Coppa*, Glamour blogger and new mom, who went through the heartbreaking experience of dating someone who suffered an accident and became quadriplegic.

Ms. Coppa had this to say: "People who aren't in the situation can say they'll stay and love is enough, but until you're in the situation (living in a hospital, giving catheters, pouring food down a G-tube, hearing a doctor say you might never be able to have kids) you have no fucking clue what you would do. I don't condone cheating (I sure didn't cheat), but I also don't condone people that think a wheelchair or a disability is some sort of life-long binding agreement. Big deal, she took vows. Last time I checked 50% of marriages end in divorce." Uh, our sentiments exactly! What's more, a survey just came out in which half of married Brits are unhappy, and would consider getting a divorce if financial stability were not a problem. Reading that Daily Mail article again, it seems that maybe Linda's only real crime was wearing that awful blue eyeshadow on her wedding day.

*Full disclosure: Christine and I worked together for a brief, shining moment at the doomed Cocktail Magazine.

How My Wife's Affairs Saved My Life [Daily Mail]
Report: Half Of Married Brits Are Unhappy [UPI]

Where Have All The Pregnant 'Glamour' Girls Gone?

Jennifer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:30:00 EDT

First, the good news: Glamour editor and leukemia survivor Erin Zammett Ruddy, who pens the magazine's "Life With Cancer" blog, just got her latest tests back and is reporting she has made it through her nine months of pregnancy cancer-free, sans drugs. Mazel tov! We are all very, very happy for her. But we're worried too. Because not only is Erin due any day now, the magazine's other knocked-up vagina monoblogger, Storked!'s Christine Coppa, is about to pop out a wee one as well. And if 2 out of 2 the magazine's pregnancy bloggers are no longer pregnant, what will all the Glamour-reading bump-fetishists do with their energies now? Read Suze On Style? Maybe Glamour will just hire new bloggers who are in the family way. (Perhaps they can outsource the job to poor Indian women!) Or maybe editorial assistants will clamor to see who can get knocked up "by accident" first, since, clearly, it seems like the fastest way to a promotion around there!

Storked! [Glamour]
Life With Cancer [Glamour]

'Glamour' Pregger Blogger Has A History Of TMI

Moe — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:32:47 EDT

There's a new Glamour blogger angling for your ridicule, and she's single, 26, and preggers because that's what's hot right now. But already she's making the Alyssa-esque excuses about how she can't be too TMI about, you know, why her inseminator left her:

At first my boyfriend of three months was into the idea. And now, for reasons that I would love to get into but can't legally (yes, legally—ladies, use a condom), he is officially and permanently off of Team Baby.

Legally? What kind of jerkoff would involve a lawyer in making sure his babymomma never mentioned him ever again? Uh, maybe a jerkoff who'd impregnanted a girl who once left the quadriplegic boyfriend who landed her an appearance on Murderball only to write an epic 5,000-word story about it. Anyway, she calls herself "pretty tough," which is good because life as a single twentysomething parent in New York has got to suck.

But we bet the shower will be amazing!

Storked! [Glamour]