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Old 26 March 2010, 07:53 PM
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Default Tila Tequila's skinny pregnancy

Comment: I saw this picture on the internet and I want to know if it is real.
If it is real something should have been done about this as “Tila Tequila” is
clearly putting the unborn fetus at serious risk of malnourishment and under
development. When I see stuff like this it sickens me.

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Old 26 March 2010, 07:57 PM
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When I see stuff like this it sickens me.
Indeed, bad photoshops should be banned!
It's not a pregnancy belly, its merely her left boob rotated, enlarged and blended on. Easy to spot being a bad fake.
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Old 26 March 2010, 08:08 PM
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Indeed, bad photoshops should be banned!
It's not a pregnancy belly, its merely her left boob rotated, enlarged and blended on. Easy to spot being a bad fake.
Agreed. And next time the photoshopper should at least use a picture that doesn't have a pattern that's easy to match up.
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Old 26 March 2010, 08:26 PM
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Her boobs also look insanely Photoshopped to me as well. I think she has implants,* but those look faker than fake.

*I actually know very little about Tila Tequila other than she has a reality show and some people think she's a slut. I don't have any opinion about her one way or the other.
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Old 26 March 2010, 08:40 PM
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Thats a really disturbing picture.
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Old 26 March 2010, 09:04 PM
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Her boobs also look insanely Photoshopped to me as well. I think she has implants,* but those look faker than fake.
I actually thought they looked better in this picture than in many I've seen of her. She has some pretty bad ones.

I'm confused about how FAS entered this conversation. Unless I'm totally missing it, she's not holding a drink here (I see what appears to be a clutch purse but nothing else), and I think the source of outrage in the OP was her supposedly being very thin whilst pregnant, thereby possibly malnourishing the fetus.

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Old 26 March 2010, 09:09 PM
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I actually thought they looked better in this picture than in many I've seen of her. She has some pretty bad ones.
Geez, really? Those are awful, then. I would have Googled but I didn't think it would be safe to search for "Tila Tequila's boobs" at work.
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Old 26 March 2010, 09:18 PM
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Beachlife apparently feels that my concern about the policing of pregnant (and even potentially pregnant) bodies is equivalent to celebrating and heartily condoning FAS.
Yeah, I saw he was the one who introduced the topic, I just didn't get why he did so.

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Geez, really? Those are awful, then.
Yep. The first time I saw a picture of her my immediate involuntary response was pity and concern. She seems to be happy with them and profiting from them though, so...good for her I guess?

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I would have Googled but I didn't think it would be safe to search for "Tila Tequila's boobs" at work.
I think you could just google her name, since she's pretty much always dressed that way so they're visible in most pictures of her. The pics would probably still be NSFW though.
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Old 26 March 2010, 09:23 PM
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It's freaking Tila Tequila. Last I heard, nobody was even sure if she actually was pregnant. She's claimed via Twitter that she is a surrogate for her brother and that rapper The Game is the father. She's a total whackjob to the point of appearing to be a pathological liar.
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Old 27 March 2010, 01:48 AM
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Say, didn't Tila Tequila used to be a guy? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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Old 28 March 2010, 12:46 AM
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Say, didn't Tila Tequila used to be a guy? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Someone else. No idea who though.

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Old 28 March 2010, 05:02 AM
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Say, didn't Tila Tequila used to be a guy? Or am I thinking of someone else?
I think you mean Lady Gaga, who wasn't.
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Old 30 March 2010, 04:35 AM
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I got a kick out of seeing bthyb post the picture followed immediately by "Are you kidding me? That thing looks nothing like a Gremlin."
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Old 30 March 2010, 04:54 AM
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Say, didn't Tila Tequila used to be a guy? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Perhaps someone got bisexual (which she is, according to the reality show she was in anyway) with transsexual somewhere along the line?

TMZ or someone, I wasn't paying attention when I saw the link elsewhere, posted pictures of her within the past couple of days shopping in a grocery store in a practically non-existent dress, shoving a watermelon under the skirt like she was pregnant (is, was, whatever in this case). Eeew.
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Old 31 March 2010, 04:05 AM
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Didn't she recently lose her fiancee? Regardless of her possible sluttiness, Jesus show some respect for the mourning.
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Old 31 March 2010, 10:38 PM
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Didn't she recently lose her fiancee? Regardless of her possible sluttiness, Jesus show some respect for the mourning.
Yea because she's done such a respectable job of not capitalizing on the death of her "fiancee."
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Old 31 March 2010, 10:54 PM
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Please tell me someone pulled a post, because I'm totally confused about who introduced the topic of FAS. Whomever it was, I can understand the confusion, since her freaking name is an alcoholic beverage.

I continue to be confused, because if she's a surrogate for her brother, but her brother isn't the father, someone else is...? Whatever-- if she is that thin, she probably isn't a good candidate for IUI, or any kind of facilitated conception, which is to say, a doctor at a clinic would tell her to get to a healthy BMI before he'd attempt implantation. If she's going to try to get pregnant turkey-baster fashion (what a Lesbian couple I know refers to as "the old-fashioned way"), good luck, because women with very low body fat are often infertile, temporarily, at any rate.

So, a pregnant woman couldn't look like that. Your hormones make you put on a fat layer, and retain water. I would think someone who went to extreme measures not to, like diet pills, vomiting, I shudder just thinking-- would almost certainly have a miscarriage.

Am I taking a bad photoshop way to seriously? I'd never heard of Tila Tequila before this. Are celebrities more stupid than they used to be? I think my blood sugar is low. Darned matzah.
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Old 31 March 2010, 11:00 PM
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Please tell me someone pulled a post, because I'm totally confused about who introduced the topic of FAS. Whomever it was, I can understand the confusion, since her freaking name is an alcoholic beverage.
Another thread was split off from this one.
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Old 01 April 2010, 01:41 PM
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Please tell me someone pulled a post, because I'm totally confused about who introduced the topic of FAS. Whomever it was, I can understand the confusion, since her freaking name is an alcoholic beverage.
And ironically Tila Tequila doesn't drink at all. She has alcohol intolerance; and acquired the nickname Tila Tequila from her friends after getting very sick after trying tequila for the first time.
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Old 01 April 2010, 02:21 PM
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I think the point of the OP comment was that she appears to be malnourished (she doesn't to me but...) and that will harm her foetus.

FAS, tobacco alcohol and drug abuse during pregnancy were raised somehow as a side issue, which very quickly became a little polarised and the main talking point, which is when the threads got split into two. Possibly because those issues deserve a different level of debate than discussing the veracity of the OP photo. I don't know for sure I don't run this site. See htonl's link in #18.

Obviously I guess it's hard to split a thread without leaving some artefacts of posts behind.
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