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I heard someone describe her as looking like Wile E. Coyote after something blew up in his face.


Yep. :D
It's one of the most unnatural looking "tans" I've ever seen. What on earth is she tanning with? A waffle iron?
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When I first saw the story, I saw it in several different places, and not one mentioned the mom's tan. That's what I found weird - it was showing pictures of her with an almost-black face, but no mention of why she looked like that.

Now it seems like most of the stories are focused more on the mom's tan than on the issue of her allegedly taking her daughter into the tanning booth.

Anyhow, she does seem to have some sort of psychological problem, and she did seem drunk in some of the interviews. I suppose there are all kinds of addictions and disorders; I just had never heard of this particular one. I enjoy tanning myself (though preferably floating around in some water), but I can't imagine letting myself get that dark. I didn't even know a white person could get that dark from tanning.

I hope she is able to get some help for whatever problem she may have - for her sake and for her kids.

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Tanorexic! I love that term. :D

44 years old with a 5 year old kid? Kind of late blooming with all that sunshine she's been getting. :P



There's not that many people saying "I'd hit that" about her.
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Am I just crazy or..... I keep seeing this news story about a mom who allegedly took her kid into a tanning booth.... and in all the pictures, the mom looks like she is burnt toast, but this is never mentioned.... I can't even pay attention to whether or not she took her kid into the tanning booth, because I'm just thinking WTF????? looking at her picture. Is it just me?



My impression is that every time I've seen this woman's picture, her skin keeps getting darker and darker, until she almost looks black. Obviously, some shameless photoshopping is going on, to prove a point ?

This leads me to wonder if the entire story isn't being entirely fabricated, or grossly exaggerated, in order to distract our attention from more pressing and relevant issues of the day. It's eerily Orwellian, as in 1984, when the big questions are things like why the unemployment rate doesn't count discouraged people who have given up trying, or why the Federal Tax Code taxes unemployment benefits, while most states don't. Instead, we are asked to recoil in horror at a woman whose very existence, not to mention any "crime" she may have committed, is front page news.

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The old woman



Excuse me. She's 44.

:S
wow that's OOOOLD...
For a woman I mean...

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She kind of reminds of that woman in Something About Mary...

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Hadn't heard of this so I googled it... Sadly, she wouldn't look too out of place next to some of the locals in my neck of the woods!!! :D:D

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You don't really need a news story with that picture, it sells itself. You could put one word next to it "kids", or even "dogs" and people everywhere would be shocked into reading the article.

If that woman went to the beach, the cancer-causing beams of sunlight would screech to a halt, turn around and fly in the other direction.
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I haven't read anything about this. Just know the very basics. Did people see her take the child into the tanning device? The child just being in the room where mom undresses and waiting while mom was in the device is very different from taking the child into the device.

Taking the child into the room is a bit odd, but not outrageous. I would just be concerned about the child staring at the bulbs if it was a bed. If it was one of the enclosed booths...much ado about nothing to me.



Skin cancer is serious stuff. I don't think it is much ado about nothing. I grew up in an environment where men didn't bother with sunscreen and women (teenage girls mainly) coated themselves in cooking oil to get as tanned as possible. I know 2 people who've died from skin cancer and most older relatives have had growths cut out.
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So now there's an action figure of her:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html
And SNL did a skit about her over the weekend.
Something tells me she's going to end up with a reality show from this whole deal.

She'll probably end up doing porn like the octogon mom. Anyone see that story?

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So now there's an action figure of her:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html

And SNL did a skit about her over the weekend.

Something tells me she's going to end up with a reality show from this whole deal.

She'll probably end up doing porn like the octogon mom. Anyone see that story?



The octogon mom?
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So now there's an action figure of her:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html

And SNL did a skit about her over the weekend.

Something tells me she's going to end up with a reality show from this whole deal.

She'll probably end up doing porn like the octogon mom. Anyone see that story?

That wasn't friggin PORN, it's newpaper BS building up a nothing story.
She was wearing a bikini and had spaghetti-Os on her. ALA Ann Margret in TOMMY, with baked beans.
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That wasn't friggin PORN, it's newpaper BS building up a nothing story.
She was wearing a bikini and had spaghetti-Os on her. ALA Ann Margret in TOMMY, with baked beans.



Well, you're a buzz-kill.[:/]

I never heard of this before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChGxwRq3YcI
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