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LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman
02/11/09

In reply to This Week In Tabloids: "Octomom" Vs. Angelina; Jennifer Aniston's Tapes
I'm bursting to share this: Kortnie on ANTM once dated Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (NASCAR driver). She was seen wearing a shirt that said, "Not everything in Kansas is flat!"
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Hiroine Protagonist
02/11/09

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Crap - I just realized I still sleep in two of my ex-boyfriend's old t-shirts. They're huge! Don't tell his new girlfriend!
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lalaland13
02/11/09

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I agree with the Slate ladies who commented that this whole fat controversy is awful convenient for J-Simp. Not saying she wore the pants on purpose (because the pants were the issue, not her weight, which no one in the tabs will admit). But it wouldn't surprise me if a few months from now she's all "HOW I LOST 20 POUNDS: Hotter than Ever! And Madly in Love!"

God I can almost see the US Weekly cover now.
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marshmallory
02/11/09

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And she sometimes wears Brad's old t-shirts to sleep in.

Does this remind anyone else of the scene in Mean Girls where Regina tells Aaron that Cady sleeps with his used Kleenex under her pillow and wears a t-shirt that says "I ♥ Aaron" under all her clothes?

I can't help but think this is completely made up Regina George-style.
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Raspberry Swirly
02/11/09

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Okay, seeing the "octomom" and Angelina side by side is creepy. I knew they were similar, but wow...the nose especially, you can see it.
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BorgQueen
02/11/09

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"...witnessed his rap ability with my own ears..."

Sigh
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
02/11/09

@BorgQueen: Well I heard it with my own eyes.
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Snowbunny
02/11/09

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Why do all the ANTM girls have short hair this season!? I love the fucked up weaves Tyra gives out like Halloween candy!
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yvanehtnioj
02/11/09

@Snowbunny: I think they're all wearing wigs here. No way would Tyra show them post-makeover this early, she knows why we watch!
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Snowbunny
02/11/09

@yvanehtnioj: True talk, I LIVE for makeover night. Last season my cousin's best friend had just gotten broken up with and she called my cousin crying and wanting to come over and we were like "...No...it's makeover night..."

Yes, we are terrible people, but we let her come and cry afterwards during the rerun of gossip girl.
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badmutha
02/11/09

In reply to This Week In Tabloids: "Octomom" Vs. Angelina; Jennifer Aniston's Tapes
I have wondered about the Jolie-Pitt kids as well. How can they form any bonds with other children, or have the structure that so many experts say children need if they are dragged all over the globe? Much less what kind of education are they getting.
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Chuck Basketcase
02/11/09

@badmutha: I said this exact same thing in another post and people jumped all over me. They have no stability. We moved a lot when I was a kid, but we had other types of routines - we took our furniture with us, we went to school, we had bedtimes, etc. And from the interviews and whatnot, it doesn't seem like the Jolie-Pitt clan does any of that kind of (even trivial) stuff. They just sort of up and move on every 6 months or so. Six years in childcare tells me its just not good or healthy for them.

There seem to be a lot of similarities between Nadya Suleman and Angelina Jolie, in the collection of children to "fix" emotional issues. I don't get one mother is vilified while the other becomes Mother Teresa.
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mslewis
02/11/09

@l8rsk8r:This info is from a tabloid and yet you sound as if it comes from a real news source!! You and others seem to quote only what you read in tabloids about this family and not what Angelina or Brad say about their family. I would prefer to believe what the parents say rather than some idiotic tabloid "source." Those children wake up every morning and go to bed every night knowing that the people who love them most in the world will be there for them. What other kind of stability should a child need? A house is just bricks and morter; furniture is just stuff; how can any of that make a child more stable? And, according to Angelina Jolie, a tutor travels with them for Maddox. None of the other children are school age.

I see no similaries between Ms. Suleman and Angelina Jolie. Ms. Suleman is using taxpayer money to support her 14 children. (She is receiving food stamps, along with a monthly check to help with her THREE special needs kids, plus taxpayers will foot the bill for the octos hospital bills, said to be over a million dollars.) That is why she is being vilified.

Angelina does not have 14 children, she has six and three of those were adopted. She also has a man helping her with her six children and she does not live in a three bedroom house with her mother!!! She and Brad are also two of the top money earners in Hollywood. They don't need a website for donations. And she does not claim to be Mother Teresa
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julijet
02/11/09

@mslewis: I'm not saying that Angelina and Brad don't have structure for their kids, but children definitely fare better in a *highly* structured environment with *very* predictable routines. Basically kids need to be bored to death. I think moving a lot could in some ways lead to a sort of internal instability in a person. But we all grow up in an unstable environment in one way or another, so I dunno, I don't think speculations about how someone else raises their kids is really for us to judge.
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bananaprincess
02/12/09

@julijet: "Basically kids need to be bored to death"- exactly!
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I, Zombie Normal
02/11/09

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Oh Tara, I know how it is. Last night a DJ saved my life.
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atia of the jewely eye
02/11/09

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Dev and Freida seem so normal and awesome amongst all of the Hollywood crazies. I hope they stay that way!
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poires et poireaux
02/11/09

@atia of the julii: I didn't know they were a real-life real couple. That makes makes my heart go a-flutter.
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Birthday Girl
02/11/09

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She DOES look like her lips are enhanced but how, how, how, HOW could she have afforded it???
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brendastarlet is on it
02/11/09

@MB15213: her workers' comp settlement.
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
02/11/09

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How can there be so much girl on girl hatred of Suleman? Look guys, SHE HAS MENTAL PROBLEMS. She is not fodder for our jokes and puns and anger. Every new fact that comes to light makes it seem more and more likely that she deals with some sort of mental illness. Why is it suddenly ok to mock her? Because she made poor decisions? Because she isn't monetarily able to support her growing family? Because she "seems" to prey on the good will of others? Look there are THOUSANDS of people in my city alone that do this, and because they are successful and male and white they get a free pass. I am really really really uncomfortable with the mounting vitriol.
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Stabby McStabberson
02/11/09

@Vivelafat is the Quizat Haderach: i' really really uncomfortable with the free pass for her pathologically poor decisions.

believe me, i feel sorry for whatever happened to her in childhood that made her so obviously disturbed, but one learns in therapy, no matter the mental illness, that one is responsible for their poor decisions as adults, regardless of their illness or circumstances, especially decisions that affect FOURTEEN children and her parents. her decisions will create hardship for many and a strain on many. sympathy is just allowing her to not feel the consequences of her actions something she obviously has a problem with, and actually feeds her illness.

i'm tired of being begged for sympathy for her. no. save your sympathy for the children. they will surely need it.
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NYGal81
02/11/09

@Stabby McStabberson loves annoying Gawker commenters with h...: Ditto. People with mental health problems--obvious or not--don't get a free pass for their actions. I said it once before today--as someone who works in the mental health field, the worst thing you can do for someone with a problem is feed the delusion that the problem makes him/her "special" and above reproach. There are obvious exceptions, but this doesn't seem to be one of them. If she can legally sign consent forms for medical procedures, she's not so far out there that she can't/shouldn't be held accountable for her actions.
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
02/11/09

@Stabby McStabberson loves annoying Gawker commenters with h...: We have differing views. My mother killed herself due to a long history of mental illness and sexual abuse. I have adult ADD and have suffered serious bouts of depression.

Like it or not a mental illness DOES effect your decision making. IT DOES make it more difficult to make rational and reasonable decisions, and I will NOT except that one is solely responsible for the bad decisions they have made when they are dealing with a chemical imbalance in their brain. That is like saying I am responsible for not winning a marathon when I was trying to run it with two broken legs. TECHNICALLY it is correct. I am the one who has the broken legs. I am the won who is trying to win a marathon. But it is not fair to hold me to the same standards as one who is running on two functioning legs.

When my mother killed herself she left behind a LEGION of people whose entire life was changed because of that one act. But the bottom line is that while she was ultimately the one who made the decision to do what she did, she was not capable of making a rational decision when she did it.

I am not asking you for sympathy. I am asking you not to fucking mock the poor woman every fucking chance you get and save your fucking ire for someone more fucking deserving of it.
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Cerridwen
02/11/09

@Stabby McStabberson loves annoying Gawker commenters with h...: I gotta agree with you here. She doesn't deserve open mockery or contempt, but she also should not be coddled or given a free pass because she is mentally unstable. Having compassion for someone with mental illness does not necessarily negate calling them on their shit. My sympathies are absolutely with the children, who are the ones who will really suffer from her irresponsibility.
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ritualtheory
02/11/09

@Vivelafat is the Quizat Haderach: I am right there with you, and VERY glad you're saying it as resoundingly as you are.

@Stabby McStabberson loves annoying Gawker commenters with her sentence-long username: Whether her childhood, her biochemical makeup, or both (probably the latter) have caused her emotional disturbances, there's a hell of a lot of difference between taking responsibility for your actions and not understanding the ramifications of said actions the way other people might. The woman didn't get too drunk and make an ass of herself at the office party. Her decisions bespeak a level of illness that bootstrap talk won't quick-fix and derision *will* certainly compound. And I've said it before, I'm saying it again: Why on earth is it so hard to have sympathy for her AND her children? Is there a compassion shortage? Since when does sympathy feed mental illness? Yeah, hate is a MUCH more effective tactic.
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
02/11/09

@Cerridwen: Since when is asking that someone not be publicly mocked coddling them or giving them a free pass? You know, I also think we shouldn't coddle people in wheelchairs. No more handicap ramps, no more handicap parking. You say you are compassionate with one breath and then attribute her actions to irresponsibilty with the next.

I have been a flake my entire life. I could not keep an appointment, I couldn't remember to do the simplest of tasks and I have spent the last 27 years of my life beating myself up every step of the way. If you asked my father to describe me in one word it would have been "irresponsible". Last month I was diagnosed with ADD. I was started on medication and lo and behold suddenly I am able to do things I couldn't do my entire life. I am a changed woman, because I took a medication that normalized my FUCKING BRAIN CHEMISTRY.

Mental illnesses are real illnesses. This woman and her children deserve our sympathy.
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
02/11/09

@NYGal81: So I'm hanging out with my friends playing football and one of them starts to wheeze and get out of breath. It also happens that her team is loosing. My fellow players make fun of her, saying "What a baby" or "She is so out of shape" Suddenly we notice her go to the sidelines and use an inhaler. It just so happens that she is asthmatic. As such, we no longer mock her for being out of breath.

Is this considered giving her "special" treatment. Is she "beyond reproach" are we treating her like a special snowflake? NO we are taking into account the disabilities she might have before we make fun of her. It really really saddens me that a person in the mental health field thinks taking ones mental illness into effect before judging them is akin to giving them special treatment.
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Cerridwen
02/11/09

@Vivelafat is the Quizat Haderach: I am in NO WAY saying that people with mental illnesses don't deserve compassion. That is exactly what I am NOT saying. I don't think she deserves open mockery or disrespect or much of the useless vitriol that has been spewed her way (and am frankly getting tired of it). But I do think people can firmly disagree with and call out her actions, given that she has put herself in such a public position willingly on more than one occasion. Compassion and firm disagreement with ethically terrible choices are NOT mutually exclusive. I know this because I have been in a five year long relationship with someone who has battled mental illness. He suffers from clinical depression because of his brain chemistry but he would agree that sometimes he was willingly made bad choices and done things that were not healthy and hurt other people. He would not expect me or anyone else to absolve him of all responsibility, despite the fact that I know his illness is a real illness. Believe me, I respect that and KNOW the reality of mental ilness. Also, being flaky is not the same as being criminally negligent, which is what this woman has been. You don't need to beat yourself up because you are late to things; Nadya Suleman, however, should take a good hard look at the consequences of her actions. There is nothing overly harsh about expecting that. The ONLY point I was making was that expecting her to have no responsibility for choices she made is not really fair, ESPECIALLY given that she now has 14 lives to care for. No one should hate or mock or shame her and I never suggested they should.
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Cerridwen
02/11/09

@Cerridwen: To further clarify....I'm not expecting Nadya Suleman to feel guilty for her actions, either. Just to accept responsibility and understand how completely divorced from reality she has become (otherwise those poor kids will continue to suffer). And if she is to ever get therapy for her alleged illness, she will surely have to undergo this process then.
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
02/12/09

@Cerridwen: I apologize for my anger. I agree with what you are saying and think it would be healthy for her to take a good long look at the realities of her mental state and the care which she plans to give to these children.

I realized last night that I was taking this matter very personally and getting more angry than was appropriate for the situation. I have a personal stake in this argument and was getting angry and my own demons and not necessarily what you were typing. I still hold true to what I said, but I'm sorry I said it so irrationally.
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Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC
02/11/09

In reply to This Week In Tabloids: "Octomom" Vs. Angelina; Jennifer Aniston's Tapes
I think we're ignoring the obvious question with the whole Brad and Jen thing:

Why in the hell does she still have a phone messaging system that requires cassette tapes?

Is she a throwback junkie or did she not know that the voicemail lady now lives in your phone?
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
02/11/09

@Ulookinatmyjunk: Diary of a Mad Black Blogger: Your attention to detail: strangely important to the validity of this story.
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ritualtheory
02/11/09

@Ulookinatmyjunk: Diary of a Mad Black Blogger: Whew! I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that.
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apocalypse-nowish
02/11/09

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Someone please inform this sad pathetic white girl - what is the difference between and pimp slap and a regular slap? I'm slow and uncultured, help me out!
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Cafezinha
02/11/09

@apocalypse-nowish: According to Urban Dictionary, it's a back-handed slap given whilst walking away from the target.
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andheartss haz it
02/11/09

@apocalypse-nowish: I'd like to think that a pimp slap is a back handed slap.

Or a slap that comes after the slapper covers his/her hand in baby powder.

But I am a sad pathetic black girl from the suburbs and I think I pulled both references from Chris Rock/Wayans Bros. movies.
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badmutha
02/11/09

@andheartss haz it: Baby powder?!? That is something I had never heard before.
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Saltine
02/11/09

@badmutha: There is a guy who does it in the movie How High? though Ive never seen any other references to it... But Im guessing they didnt pull it out of thin air, seems to weird to just completely make up.
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Eeva
02/11/09

@apocalypse-nowish: One term is incredibly racist, the other isn't.
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Cafezinha
02/11/09

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1. All I can ever think of when I see Tara's face is "Bunny".

2. The Chris Brown/Rihanna thing apparently brings out the worst in some people. I mentioned it to a girlfriend of mine yesterday in casual conversation (because I'd read something on here) and her snap reaction was that she'd "heard that Rihanna was a bitch" and wondered what Ri did to "make" him do that. I was bug-eyed after that. NOBODY deserves to get hit by a loved one, regardless of gender...but even taking it back to the idea that men shouldn't ever hit women, who says, basically, that the bitch was asking for it?
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Trashtastic
02/11/09

@Cafezinha: Well, depends on what she was wearing, or if he was "disrespected", obvsly.

/sarcasm
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vamusical
02/11/09

@Cafezinha: It is kind of a litmus test for people's character. I was listening to a radio show i generally hate during my commute where one guy was spreading the herpes rumor, while the other 2 DJs basically told him to STFU. If they hadn't i don't think i could ever bring myself to press the button for that station on my car radio ever again.
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pandorasmittens
02/11/09

@Cafezinha: Exactly. No one "makes" a partner abuse them, or "invites it", just like no one "deserves" to be murdered, mugged, kidnapped, or beaten. Because it is a relationship does NOT mean that it should be ignored, or that it's some kind of private fight. People do things that incite anger, not violence, and there is a difference.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
02/11/09

@Cafezinha: Hope you calmly explained to said girlfriend the essence of abuse and how she's bought into a school of misogyny that is abjectly mind-blowing. Personally, I might have actually bitten her head off.

Also, I routinely want to count Tara Reid's toes for that very reason.
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Cafezinha
02/11/09

@AtomiClash: We were in the checkout lane at Target and I was in such shock I said NOTHING. I'm quite ashamed of that. I plan to write her a note and let her know--not as confrontational as face-to-face, but not letting it just drop like it's okay.

I'm glad you knew what I was talking about. AtomiClash abides, I see. :)
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