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WTF? The new body dysmorphia: woman who looks perfectly normal (pretty, even) slags off her own appearance.....and prefers her dentally / surgically enhanced, fake tanned, micro mini skirt "new look"

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Greythorne · 27/06/2011 09:16

And this from an apparently intelligent woman.
Vicky Ward
Is this just a case of writing any old women-hating drivel for the DM for a thousand quid fee or do women actually think like this?
Makes me want to gnash my teeth.

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TryLikingClarity · 27/06/2011 20:20

I also noticed that there was a clear lack of mention of her husband, just me me me. Her children were only mentioned in regard to what having and bfing them did to her body.

Do DM readers really lap this sort of brainrot up? Hmm No idea how.

LRDTheFeministNutcase · 27/06/2011 19:31

dontcall - yeah, that did sound suspiciously like dentist-seeking-money, didn't it?

whyohwine · 27/06/2011 19:22

she is not with her husband. the article was a follow up to one she did a few weeks before about her awful divorce. cant do links but if you go to the DM website and search her naem you will find it.

DontCallMeBaby · 27/06/2011 18:56

Ha - "the New York dentist warned me that if I didn't do something about the criss-crossed teeth then eventually they'd push each other out and I'd have no front teeth at all." My mum has teeth like that, she is 64 and they have yet to fall out. Good job she's never met a New York dentist.

Wonder if she still has the husband? And if so what HE looks like now. He was cute on their wedding day.

msrisotto · 27/06/2011 18:48

What about Harry's package? You know?

msrisotto · 27/06/2011 18:47

What a vacuous article. When did papers get so low brow?

And yeah, the amount of focus on PM's bum is offensive.

MortaIWombat · 27/06/2011 16:30

Why is she wearing huuuuge shoes in the blue dress pic? Think they aren't really hers.

TryLikingClarity · 27/06/2011 16:13

Wow, I almost fell asleep reading that. This woman is a journalist? Really? Hmm

Talk about self-obsessed! My boobs, my teeth, my hair - blah, blah, blah.

The reader comments (for once) weren't too dire, they seemed to mirror some of what we are all saying - ie. she's mad as a box of frogs.

The thing that made my heart ache was the insipid 'articles' listed down the right hand side of the page for other 'news stories'. As well as showing (another) pic of Pippa's pert bum was an article about how maternal Kate Middleton is as she actually looked at and spoke to a child. Wow. Just wow.

DontCallMePeanut · 27/06/2011 14:52

Oh no, my c) was
c) Do you believe families can stay together in England? Here, have a naffing leaflet from the Jehovah's Witnesses telling you how you're failing your son by being a lone parent... (well, I added words, but you get the idea)

LilBB · 27/06/2011 14:20

Although if she still lived in the UK it would be

C) have you had an accident because you could be entitled to compensation?

sakura · 27/06/2011 14:05

c) asked if she has welcomed the Lord Jesus into her heart?

OMG MrsFlittersnoop, I just pissed my pants laughing.
Thank you.

Sourdough · 27/06/2011 13:44

I just love that she's a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Otherwise can't see the point of this article at all (but then this is the same paper that subjects its readers to the navel-gazing bleatings and whingeing of Liz Jones every week).

Biscuit Biscuit Biscuit

Clockface · 27/06/2011 13:18

Actualy, it's not a body stocking, is it? More like a negligee.

Clockface · 27/06/2011 13:14

I didn't read the whole thing (DM has that effect on me) so scrolling down, I thought that the portrait photo of her face 'before' was an 'after' shot, thinking 'wow, she's pretty, and what lovely hair.' Sorry to say, I wouldn't take the woman in the light blue body stocking all that seriously, really.

Yes, it is body dysmorphia. And just such a sad way of viewing oneself. If I were comparing myself on my wedding day (I got married at 23) to me now (aged 37, so similarish time frame) I'd be thinking along the lines of all the stuff dh and I have done together, the dc we have, the difficult times, the triumphs, the career paths we've had so far, the health probs we've dealt with....I don't think I'd even consider 'ooooh am I more attractive now?' Life is about way, way more than appearance!

Ormirian · 27/06/2011 13:12
Shock
caramelwaffle · 27/06/2011 13:10

Am I missing something? Honestly. Apart from a change in hair colour (£7.49 from any High Street chemist) and a - ahem - cheapy looking dress...she looks exactly the same to me.

CocktailQueen · 27/06/2011 13:10

For heaven's sake. This woman looked FINE in her wedding photo - perfectly normal and slim. Pretty too. Are we looking at different photos? But now - she's like an Indentikit Barbie type alien woman. No, no, no. And how shallow!!! Really, who cares how self obsessed she is? Write about something meaningful instead.

Mamaz0n · 27/06/2011 13:10

I think she looks awful "after"

Far prettier at her wedding.

nickelbabe · 27/06/2011 13:07

:(
she was beautiful in that wedding picture.
how on earth could she think she was anything else?
:(

LilBB · 27/06/2011 13:02

I've never heard of someone having that done to their gums. People seem a bit obsessed with teeth at the moment. I had a brace as a teen and that was painful enough. I can't imagine why lots of people have them filed down and fake one stucks over.

HRHMJOFMAGICJAMALAND · 27/06/2011 12:57

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LilBB · 27/06/2011 12:56

She looked better before, now she looks like any number of 40 odd think they look 20 odd women that you see a lot of in American tv shows. What's wrong with getting older? Whats wrong with being yourself? Oh and comparing her Pippa Middleton, what's that about?

I think the fact that she didn't stop after 'fixing' one thing she just found more things to fix shows a real lack of self confidence.

MrsFlittersnoop · 27/06/2011 12:44

" get stopped in the street, in restaurants, in shops."

Grin Grin Grin

OMG this is hilarious! What exactly is happening when she gets stopped? Is she being:

a) propositioned by a drunken tramp;

b) told her skirt is tucked into her pants;

c) asked if she has welcomed the Lord Jesus into her heart?

You can just see it, can't you. 'Only yesterday I was stopped by some lovely smiley people who offered me a free personality test. Lucky me! must be because of all the great dental work I've had done'.

LRDTheFeministNutcase · 27/06/2011 12:19

Grin Crikey, if she thinks that's a chubby wedding pic I feel like a fat cow - and I love my wedding pics.

She'll be getting attention because she thinks she looks great and is confident - which is lovely, but I wish someone had told her how to be confident without spending all that money (and on what sounds like some really shoddy/painful dentistry, too).

TrilllianAstra · 27/06/2011 12:01