Jezebel: true life

At What Point Does A Love Of Shopping Turn Into Full-Blown Addiction?

Slut Machine — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EDT

A recent episode of MTV's documentary series True Life focused on two young women who are such compulsive shoppers that their credit, their relationships, and their lives are at risk. One of the girls featured doesn't pay her bills and instead shops every day, buying lots of cheap crap she doesn't need, just so she can walk out of the store with something. As seen in the clip above, her boyfriend doesn't exactly help matters: not only does he not question her when she gets up in the middle of dinner to go buy something, he actually gives her cash in order to do it. By the end of this episode, Rent-a-Center has repossessed her furniture and she has begun seeing a therapist.

Related: Shopping's Dark Side: The Compulsive Buyer [LA Times]

People Who Pressure You Into Getting Breast Implants Aren't Your Real Friends

Slut Machine — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:40:00 EDT

An episode of MTV's True Life reran today called "I'm Under Peer Pressure" and one of the subjects featured was Nikki, a 23-year-old waitress at Hooters who feels that her flat chest might be holding her back in terms of making tips... and her overall confidence as a woman. Her friends, who happen to be fellow waitresses at Hooters and also happen to have their own sets of fake breasts, seem really invested in the idea of Nikki getting implants, and even have a pow wow with her, to convince her how great it'll be for her. In the end, she caves. Clip above.

What Would You Do If You Were 14 And This Was Your Mom?

Slut Machine — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT

For the second installment of MTV's True Life: I Have Embarrassing Parents, we were introduced to Nikki, an adorable 14-year-old emo girl who is dealing with having a mom who is, in turn, dealing with having some kind of midlife crisis in which she wants to eternally look 18. (To her, "looking 18" translates into looking like Pamela Anderson in her worst costume for the day, replete with giant fuzzy hat.) Nikki's mom doesn't understand why her daughter is so embarrassed by her, because she's just being herself and showing off the body that "God gave [her]". Um, well, if by "God" she means her plastic surgeon. At Nikki's father's birthday party, her mom dances so suggestively with her classmates that Nikki breaks down in tears. Clip above.

This Week We Hung Out With A Lot Of Child Molesters

Jessica — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:00:00 EDT

We were so into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and their Yearning For Zion Ranch, where girls in their early teens get married off to gross molesty old men with multiple other wives, none of whom are allowed to wear red because that's Jesus' color.
Are those teens better, or worse off than the brave 8-year-old Yemeni girl name Nojoud Muhammed Nasser who was married off by her crazy homeless father, but has now successfully filed for divorce.
A study in contrasts: the marriage of Nojoud Muhammed Nasser versus the insane Southern belles of MTV's True Life who call themselves "old maids" at age 24.

OMG I almost forgot about that Australian father and daughter who fuck and have babies. Oh ew.
Can't some people just have a nice, normal wedding that doesn't involve incest, polygamy, statutory rape, fake boobs or Botox?
Mommablogger Dooce appears to be a fairly reasonable person whose wedding probably didn't involve any of those things.
Karl Lagerfeld hates Dooce's kid, though. Actually he hates all children. And also fat people!
You know who probably had kind of shitty moms? Those horrid teenage cheerleader bitches who beat the living hell out of their friend and may now face life in prison.
So make a bonfire out of Cosmo's "Sexy" issue, and rip off that bandanna you've been wearing. Let it all hang out this weekend!

Fashion PR Lady Kelly Cutrone Is So Boss

Slut Machine — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Kelly Cutrone is the owner of fashion PR company People's Revolution, where Whitney from The Hills is now working. This weekend, MTV ran a documentary about Fashion Week following Kelly and her assistant Stefanie as they prepared for the fall shows, and we got a glimpse at how super awesome she is. First of all, our hats are off to anyone who successfully works in fashion, yet cares more about the work than the fashion. Kelly's style is akin to the "blogger's look": No bra, no makeup, baggy shirts, tired face, and hair so dirty it looks wet. She seems like a tough boss, but appreciative just the same. Clip above.

Hell's Belles: MTV Looks At The Lives Of Young Southern Women

Slut Machine — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

This weekend, MTV aired a documentary about "Southern belles" that kind of freaked out this Northeastern Jezebel. It's shocking that, in 2008, educated women feel like old maids at 24 years old, yet refuse to ask men out on dates. Such is the case with Leigh Ann, who says her greatest fear in life is becoming a crazy old cat lady (despite the fact that she already seems to be one). It's also shocking that an 18-year-old girl like Raini could use so much hairspray and wear so much makeup and fuddy duddy outfits that she looks closer to 50 than 20. Clip above.

Gay For Pay: Can A Guy Really Be Straight If He Bones Dudes?

Slut Machine — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EST

A new episode of MTV's True Life aired last night called "I Work in the Sex Industry." While "sex industry" is defined kinda loosely (one of the girls they follow hosts a college radio sex show), the storyline following Aaron, a 23-year-old straight guy who works in gay porn, was pretty interesting. He says he really, truly is straight but that he can't turn the money down, since gay sex scenes offer about five times the cash as straight ones, and he simply relies on Viagra to get him up. The thing is, his family seems to have a hard time believing that he can do that job and be straight, and even his gay male costars tease him about how he just doesn't know he's gay yet. Clip above.