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These are some new photos of Ashley Judd promoting her book yesterday in New York. As you can see, Ashley’s makeup is all kinds of wrong. Bad makeup situations and not blending is something I excuse in younger ladies, young women who don’t know the basics of makeup application, and perhaps don’t have the best makeup artists on call. But Ashley Judd is an old hand at this junk, the red carpets, being photographed, etc. Surely she would have noticed the makeup disaster? Surely someone would have told her, right? But I’m guessing everybody there was too afraid to say anything.
CB covered parts of the Ashley Judd story here and here. I’m not going to cover my take on this situation because CB says I’m too negative and I’ll alienate people. I suppose that as a group, we’re not all going to come to an agreement on this, and maybe we should applaud Ashley for making us discuss real issues instead of, like, fashion or who is boning what. Ashley too is bewildered by the controversial reactions to her book. I know this because despite Ashley’s best efforts to remain “abstinent” from the press, she’s has given many, many interviews to promote her book. She tells E! News that the response to the book has “been a little bewildering to me… My poor mother, who’s incredibly witty and so quick with a quip, she’s probably regretting she said ‘We put the fun in dysfunctional.’” She also blames the media: “They put disproportionate emphasis on the fact that we had a family system that didn’t work very well and the kinds of the things that happen in those family systems happen to all of us.” You can read more here.
On a more superficial note, CB and I (and all of you) have been debating about what Ashley has done to her face. Some of you think it’s a full facelift, but CB and I are thinking it’s fillers. In these photos especially, her cheeks looks super-jacked.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Ashley Judd, Disasters, Makeup
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Yikes…I’d be more afraid not to tell her.
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It’s that high-definition makeup. It’s happened to a few other celebs since it came out. What I don’t understand is why makeup artists haven’t realized that shit shows up like cake flour in digital high-res photos. In person, you wouldn’t have noticed it at ALL.
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Oh… my…
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how could the person taking the pictures not have mentioned that it looked like she had just had an awkward love fest with a marshmallow? you know, given her the heads up that all was not right.geez!
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Well Naomi and Wynonna appeared on the View today and seemed to support her for coming forward. Both of them said they had sexual abuse in their childhood. I believe Ashley is telling the truth. I still don’t really like her but I do believe her.
My theory is that the makeup is only visible with the bright flash bulbs and doesn’t look as bad in person right?
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I don’t care what anyone says, that HD ‘transparent’ powder is WHITE – as this *clearly* shows. You can’t use it the way people think to catch eye makeup UNLESS you completely remove it after! Ugh!
Wynonna is the only Judd that doesn’t make me want to slap her until her cheeks bleed.
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Maybe the flash was really bright and it’s not noticeable (well not as much) egads!
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Wow, did she not look in a mirror. She looks very pretty on the cover of her book.
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definitely fillers!
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She is wearing a wig!!! Notice the hairline and puffiness of the curls. Her hair is much thinner
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did she powder her face with coke?
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I don’t know what she’s done, but have you seen the promos for her “Who Do You Think You Are?” episode. She looks beat. BAD Bad bad. Even this makeup is flattering in comparison
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Ashley is at least the 3rd celeb this has happened to and been majorly reported, Nicole Kidman was the first I remember and I forget who else.
Maybe it is supposed to be smoothed out at the last moment and it gets forgotten!
oops!
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The first time I saw this make up mistake was on Nicole Kidman who is “older” than Ashley even if it’s only months so no, it it not a “younger woman’s” mistake. It’s a make up artist’s mistake. It may be HD make up like @Anastasia said. If it is, how does it work? Should it look like that on normal film/low fi cameras/the naked eye or should it be more blended? My skin looks hideous with some of the newer digital cameras. so I need to know.
Her face is a lot less jacked up than I expected. Especially, since I read that blind item that everyone guessed was about Ashley. She looks better than Nicole and Renee – although thankfully, Renee’s filler orgy is finally wearing off.
I’d be more concerned that that dress made her look a lot fatter than she does in these photos when she was on film and that the 40s hair is ageing.
@kelbear that photo on the cover is from when she was in her 30s.
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Her hair and dress are the REAL mistakes.
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I am not familiar with plastic surgery, fillers etc. Maybe they do make you look like a stuffed squirrel? For me, Ashley looks like a woman who doesn’t mind few (or more than few) drinks now and then.
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She looks way better on her photoshopped book cover
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This disaster is the result of using Make Up Forever’s HD microfinishing powder.
Check this video evidence
http://www.youtube.com/user/gossmakeupartist#p/u/57/fM4foAf1tHc
Although I read somewhere in comments that this effect only appears if you use it in certain way and it’s not blended properly. And when you photographed with flash this happens.
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botoxed and face filled up the the max…she looks awful. Doesn’t even look like her bookcover either! very sad.
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What kind of powder are the makeup artists using lately? I remember the same thing happened to Nicole Kidman and Zachary Quinto. I supposed is an ugly effect not visible to the naked eye but… only in pictures?
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How absolutely unfortunate. Yikes.
She must’ve crawled under the couch when she saw these.
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i dont thinks shes done anything to her face, i think shes just gain some weight!
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Um… the stuff she’s blaming the media for focusing on, isn’t that pretty much all she’s been talking about while promoting this?
In these photos, it does look like she had something done, I agree maybe fillers.
What on earth is with these makeup problems? You’d think after one celeb was photographed like that, no one would use it anymore or would be really careful to make sure it comes out OK.
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I’m alarmed by her styling — her clothing, hair, and of course, this powder mistake. It all shrieks of…..maybe she isn’t really fully “recovered.”
I admire her courage to tell this story, because it is a shockingly common one in America. The stats claim one in three girls experience this.
But I still find her…..not very warm.
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It’s the Makeup Forever HD powder!
Looks great until you sweat. Then it dries on your skin that way, creating a white powdery filmy look. Happened to me too.
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Wow, looks like she had a run in with a powdered donut.
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LOL
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@wunderkindt you don’t need to sweat, the effect is immediate, but seen only in photographs done with flashlight. (see the video demonstration I’ve posted above)
Weird how those HW make-up artists haven’t learned that yet after so many high profile RC disasters starting with Kidman.
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Somebody lost blood for this. There is some poor makeup assistant in chains somewhere being beaten over the head with an unabridged dictionary.
Gotta do it again.
“Quick with a quip?” yeesh
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why WHY everyone still thinks this is makep?? WHITE makeup? COME ON, it’s coke
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KARMA.
it never fails to find self-important bitches when the time is right.
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and I am not impressed that she claims her “reality ” defines abuse and that she’s just talking about it so people will buy her book. Recovery? Only of her bank account!
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Hahahahhaha, I just can’t stop laughing
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Lainey has a whole thing on this, and apparently the makeup didn’t look like this in person, it’s only in the flash of the cameras. Frankly, there’s still a shit ton of crap on her face, and you would have to be able to feel that, rigth? But the same thing happened to Nicole Kidman, Uma, and Eva Longoria, so apparently it’s easier to have happen than it looks like it would be.
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@N D — Thanks for the video!
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Why is she blaming everyone but herself about all the attention her past history is getting? She is the one who put it in the book. Did she think no one would comment on it or shrug it off as if everyone had that kind of treatment? Weird.
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Honey, that goes UP your nose not ON your nose! Oh, and don’t put it in your shoes either.
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@ND thanks for the link I have a feeling that product is going off the market.
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First Nicole Kidman, then Uma Thurman and now Ashley Judd. This never not be funny LOL!
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It’s high def finishing makeup. It reflects the light back and hides lines and wrinkles, but unfortunately, in bright flash photography and high res stills, it actually reflects too much and shows EXACTLY where it is on the face. I was on a set where the makeup artists were using it and it actually strobed. This has recently happened to Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman as well.
In person, the skin looks great. Even in lower light photography the skin looks nice. It’s just the high powered flashes that kill the effect.
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It’s the powder and also a blending issue. It’s like when drag queens lighten their eyes, it needs time to “cook”. The hd powder refelects flash lighting too. Who the hell is the makeup artist that has not figured this out? Also, the dress looks like something a Palm Beach matron would wear. Awful.
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I haven’t heard of that HD make up but I don’t wear foundation so I suppose that’s not surprising. I’m guessing it only looks like that in the photos, there’s no way she could have missed that in a mirror right?
on the fillers note, i really really don’t see what people are saying. she looks the same as she always has, only older obviously.
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That must have been a big coke bump.
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OH GOD AT A MIRROR?
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It only shows up in the pics, not in person, it’s that white HD setting powder (I know I’m echoing other people here) That makeup is a nightmare.
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What a joke! Can’t stop laughing
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Besides the bad makeup and possible plastic surgery, can someone please tell me just what is up with that one eyebrow of hers? It has been taunting me for years now with its constant raised above the other eyebrow status. It looks like Ashley Judd is constantly doing the face where one eyebrow is comically raised above the other one.
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i agree that she gives us more diverse topics to talk about,(her and a few others) but in no way do i want to stop the other mindless gossip, in fact, step it up a notch, lol.. hey, i can get down with the best of them, lol especially on my bad days, when i feel like crap, it cheers me right up to bash the more fortunate, that’s why i come here, so feel free to be negative, those that agree, will jump on board, otherwise, they can skip it, their choice, oh, yeah
that broad looks ridiculous.lol
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That was an amazing video. I am sure people really don’t understand the correct application for the HD powder and think it works in all situations. But apparently…..noooooo!
However, I think I am in love with that Super-Matte Loose Powder the guy used! So thanks for that link!
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I guess I’m the only one who thinks she’s beautiful. She’s lovely, and just happened to get into some unfortunale makeup.
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Put the book in front of your face sweet cheeks.
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As others have said, that’s because she is wearing HD powder and the pictures were taken with flash.
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I use the Make Up Forever’s HD powder and I love it. But when I know that probably I’m gonna take pictures I avoid it…
Some people thinks that because the powder is translucent you can use it a lot… actually you have to use just a really small amount and blend it really well…
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I don’t know if it’s a face lift or not but there’s a blind out there with many people guessing Ashley:
http://blindgossip.com/?p=27544#more-27544
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I don’t know if this was mentioned earlier or not but doesn’t anyone look at the photos before they’re released for distribution?
Even if the makeup “doesn’t like flash” wouldn’t someone have to sign off on these as acceptable photos?
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How can a makeup artists and the person themselves not see this? This has happened to several female celebs and i dont get it? HD powder needs to be blended like any other powder and this is obvious to naked eye not just a camera flash???
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I am so thankful for all these women in Hollywood, because they become examples of how plastic surgery and cosmetic surgeries will drastically make you look awkward and unattractive. Judd use to be so pretty, not to mention she had a perfectly a symmetrical face, now she looks wonk eyed and lopsided.
When you look natural, you look your best. Less is more, when are people going to learn?
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So, they put the fillers in their cheeks? I know they do it in the smile lines, but I didn’t know about that.
The hair is very aging, as is the dress. She needs to grow it out a little. The hair looks very out of date too.
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Yeah, this is baaaadaaasssss makeup from the mark. I was trained by Shiseido and did many, many shoots. These photos will live on into eternity, making Ashley Judd a laughingstock. The makeup artists just get to slink away, unnoticed. Effed up, that’s what you guys did.
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Botox and fillers. I know many who use them and while they may eventually settle and (usually) look good, it’s not uncommon to look absolutely ridiculous for the first few months. It’s not worth it. I think users get blind to it and don’t realize how jarringly obvious it is to the observer. This is why I will never travel this slippery slope.
And that MUFE HD is so overrated. Not a fan.
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HD powder needs to be blended like any other powder and this is obvious to naked eye not just a camera flash???
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It’s not obvious to the naked eye at all. To the naked eye, she probably looked refreshed and great. I’m NO fan at all of Ashley Judd (her behavior on set just grates) but her makeup artist screwed up and it’s unfortunate. Unles she did her own makeup, in which case, she probably had no idea.
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dude! fillers fo sheez! her cheeks are so puffed her eyes cant open.
was she really walking around like that? this lady always looks so polished when did she become the crazy lady?
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Maybe someone did it on purpose to change the talking point from her jacked face to her jacked makeup. Her face is very different now than it was when photographed for the cover of that book.
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Wow.
I wore that EXACT top with pink stirrup pants in 1993.
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Her eyes are all squinty.
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@curmudgeon – LMFAO! “..beaten over the head with an unabridged dictionary.”
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Grade A narcissist with all this deflection and flinging blame on anything that passes her by.
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If you have something with sunscreen in it, it can reflect flash and give you a white cast… otherwise looking normal to the naked eye… so that might be why she looks so odd.
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Hi-def makeup? What is that? If it’s anything like tv, doesn’t it highlight facial weirdness?
I say fillers and the bo-bo. The effect is called pillow face and it’s meant to mimic the fattiness of face that you have when you’re younger. I don’t even know why people do it, it’s never convincing. Young women’s don’t have big fat deposits right under their eyes, the middle of their forheads or around the mounth only. It makes them look like imprudently-stuffed puppets.
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How embarrassing. It’s a little sad seeng her face all puffy like this, she used to be *so* pretty. I really does look like she’s been messing around with some kind of cosmetic procedure.
What’s wrong with these celebrities these days?
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MAX-I-MUS!!!
for the love of ROME!!!
for the love of your FEMALE FANS!!!
please hit the treadmill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are you not MER-CI-FUL????!!!!???!!
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Haha, it’s that makeup that shows up white or pink in those HD camera shots. Nicole Kidman had the same happen to her at the Grammys or Oscars or something like that. The makeup doesn’t look like that in daytime or regular lighting, but those HD cameras really pick it up especially with the flash because the makeup cover reflects the light. Collossal failure to the makeupa artist for not telling Ashley what would happen if she went to a camera lightbulb flashing event.
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I always wonder why people don’t look in a mirror before they leave. Like you had to know, you were so powdery right?
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eye-lift?
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Has she mentioned her terribly hot husband in any of this?
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I didn’t recognize her. Why did she mess it up, she was perdy….
Celebs if you disappear of the radar for a while, don’t go overboard on the works. We won’t recognize you and 20 other new ‘it’ people would have come along in the meantime making it harder to put names to faces.
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Wow, what has happened to her face? Definitely had some kind of eye lift and maybe gained some weight. She was so pretty before…
And yes, awful makeup.
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All I could think of was what must she be on to not even look into a mirror and see this??? I feel sorry for her and wish that someone would have told her.
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She’s kind-of wonk eyed, no?
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I’ve seen this before……She just buried her face in a mound of cocaine.
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I read your article and saw her in a tv interview. Poor thing. She is over educated uses 18 letter words and talks in circles.
I’m not sure why she is looking so bad? She needs a stylist..pronto.
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Cocaine is a helluva drug….and highlighter.
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Sunburn cream maybe? She looks abit red and puffy under the white stuff.
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I don’t get face fillers. They always just look like some weird bloat or swelling, never like natural fullness. Besides, when I gain weight in my face it makes me look decidedly older/more mature and surely I can’t be the only person this happens to. Look at Heidi Montag how much older she looked with all those fillers. So idk why they think fuller face automatically = looks younger.
Unfortunantly that really looks like fillers on Ash since she doesn’t seem to have gained elsewhere yet has that weird face bloat thing going on. The white stuff is that shimmery highlighing powder to make the eye area look smoother – she just needs to blend better.
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#18 Thanks – that was a really interesting video! I never would have known about special HD makeup creating such problems
She looks dreadful in every way, which is actually kindof difficult for a basically pretty girl
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Well, well. It makes me glad I’m allergic to all make up that I have ever tried. All day, every day I look like the 55 year old, tired grandma that I am. I don’t change from hour to hour and no one can say I look better (or worse) than Nicole Kidman.
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I hate digital pictures for this reason – if you wear any powder – even blended – it can look really jacked in a photo. I have regular, everyday pictures of me and the kids and it looks like I have a second skin hovering half and inch over the real thing. Not every time – just certain lighting. It’s weird.
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Poor, crazy thing. It’s all very Norma Desmond mixed with some Britney and a side of pathetic.
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Mortifying. Thanks to those who explained it was hi-def makeup – this could happen to any of us getting our pic taken.
Shame on the makeup artist who did this, seriously.
I think you guys laughing at it are kind of harsh. If your makeup looked normal, but you found AFTER you had your pic taken that you could see the powder and everything, would it be so hilarious?
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@Debra I don’t think it’s possible to be over-educated but it is possible to be horribly insecure about your rural roots. She sounds like my worse college papers. The ones where I didn’t care enough about the topic to do proper research on so I BSed and used a lot of edumecated words that I hoped to distract from the lack of substance of the paper.
Every time I hear her, I want to scream “Ashley, honey, you are not the only one who went to college! Ashley, you poor misguided soul, I have a Masters in Communication and sound like the fluffy suburban California girl that I always was. There’s no shame in rocking the roots!”
Oh and one more piece of advice to Ashley – gaining weight and using cheek filler on top of it (why? how old can she look?) makes your face look fat like you weigh 250 fat vs. you gained 15lbs soft.
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omg! Blend, blend, blend is your friend, girlfriend …
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Poor thing! Well, she’ll certainly learn her lesson. And she’s a sweetpea. I forgive her.
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BTW, all that AA speak from the “Today” interview (previously)-Ashley does have a Master’s in Social Work, so I was disappointed to see her revert to the AA way. With AA there is all this emphasis on a “higher power”, and little emphasis on the kind of clinical knowledge that social workers have and other counselors (who are quite scarce in AA, I might mention) should have. Also, the God-speak is so inappropriate if she is working with people from different cultures and religions.
I agree with Thruthzbetta-she is a poor, crazy thing, and unlike Kaiser’s view that she was arrogant and superior on the Today show, I think the language she uses is just a self defense mechanism to protect her from all the vicious and snarky of the world.
Yes, she is on a book tour, just like Elizabeth Edwards was on a book tour about 9 months before she died of breast cancer. Elizabeth had some legitimate things to say (and likely wanted to rip John a new one before she died); Ashley has some legitimate things to say, although she will have to put up with swimming through sharks to say it just as Elizabeth, who was dying, did.
Drug addicts-not my concern-but I am amazed how people who are known to have diagnosed mental illness are still ripped to shreds on this site. With a few exceptions, no compassion is shown to their condition whatsoever.
C/B isn’t escapism-for me, it’s something to escape from. I took a break and came back, and confirmed that my time is better spent elsewhere. I guess that makes me “arrogant”, too, but I have my own mental illness to contend with and need to steer clear as much as possible of the world I know is out there.
I feel no shame in being “crazy”, as long as the person who says it shows compassion and a willingness to provide help and support.
Look in the mirror or close by to a family member or friend, and you are likely to find someone in need of the same kind of compassion and support.
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Just for clarification, I want to say that I am addressing Ashley’s severe bout of depression she came forward with a few years ago. I haven’t read the book yet, but I believe her approach to AA was as an adult child and as someone who has either had drinking issues at sometime in her life or was concerned that her exposure to the alcoholism of others was the reason she was so depressed.
Been there, done that. Alcoholic mother, alcoholic stepfather. I was recently diagnosed as bipolar-II and am trying to wrestle down a Master’s degree myself. I give Ashley credit for trying so hard to do the right thing-I know what that feels like.
CORRECTION: Ashley’s Master’s was in Public Administration from Harvard (!). I have a BS Pharmacy undergrad, and I’m still not sure what that is. Probably in the realm of “Human Resources”-ambiguity at its best. Despite the gaffe, I stand by what I say above.
I did check Wikipedia for her degree info, so the mistake as to her exact degree may actually be theirs, not mine.
Sooo, Realist has stepped off her soapbox-look for my book in about five years or so.
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@Realist
“I feel no shame in being “crazy”, as long as the person who says it shows compassion and a willingness to provide help and support.”
Well said, Realist. I’m with you there.
(Child abuse survivor here)
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